Krowswork Residency 2016: The Elements: Air - Minnette Lehmann, Zina al-Shukri, Sarah Biscarra Dilley, Eddy Falconer

Please join us for First Friday and a look at the first "Elements" residency in progress, featuring work by Minnette Lehmann, Zina al-Shukri, Sarah Biscarra Dilley, and Eddy Falconer. The 2016 Krowswork Residency program presents four month-long cycles of three artists in the space at a time, plus a video by a fourth artist shown in the gallery as well as streamed online. The residency cycle follows the elements: AIR, EARTH, FIRE, WATER, and focuses on four concepts: BODY, ALTAR, SANCTUARY, TRANSMISSION. Minnette Lehmann, born in Sacramento, got out as soon as she could and attended UC Berkeley in the late 1940’s. Fueled by Marx & Freud, she helped establish Pete Martin’s City Lights Books. She became a wife/mother and later re-entered the art world by way of the SF Art Institute, where she earned an MFA in Photography. After receiving a NEA grant for photos that questioned the institution of marriage, she taught History of Photography and studio work throughout the Bay Area. Major shows were Thin Skin at New York's Grey Gallery and Naked Portraits at San Francisco’s Camerawork. She did Performance by way of Linda Montano and finally realized she is a painter. Zina Al-Shukri, born in Baghdad in 1978, holds an MFA from California College of the Arts and a BA in Painting and Drawing from University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Her work has been included in national exhibitions at the Berkeley Art Museum, Patricia Sweetow and Jack Hanley galleries in San Francisco, and international shows in Turkey, London and Austria. Her process takes into consideration the notions of transition, conflicts/hybridity between culture/religion, individuality and shared experience, psychology and social determination. Sarah Biscarra Dilley is a multi-disciplinary artist, ‘axi and co-conjurer in Black Salt Collective. Her work explores the spaces between the worlds; between blood sickness and bloodlines, between grief and joy, between body and land, between the spatial and the temporal. Using found footage, cut paper, archival material, handwork, language and thread, she traces a landscape of indigenous resilience and shifting relationships of belonging, displacement, and home. She is full of birds. A 1968 transplant to San Francisco from Cambridge, MA, Eddy Falconer designs and documents worlds and their characters in a variety of idioms. Starting out artistically in New York as a writer of sci-fi and a comics artist, Eddy moved to Berlin with a Hi-8 squatter documentary in hand on the cusp of German Reunification and stayed 6-7 years. While shooting epic length Super-8 movies and painting, Eddy invented multiple artistic personae for photographed performance. After a volatile stint at the HdK, in 1997 Eddy began work with George Coates Performance Works, doing spoken word on the side. Then came digital retooling for personal ends and in 2007 a series of live action and experimental videos began. Eddy was also an original, founding member of the mutual aid organization, The Icarus Project.