Curator, Love & Longing, Root Division, San Francisco

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"Now that my ladder’s gone / I must lie down where all the ladders start / In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.” —W. B. YeatsNov. 4 - Dec. 2 | Root Division, San FranciscoOpening Reception: Nov. 11, 2017, 7-10pm Gallery Hours (or by appointment): Wednesday-Saturday, 2-6pm

Love & Longing shares descents into the unknown, artistic responses that perpetuate their own kind of fulfillment—“when the dark becomes another kind of lover” (John Tarrant). Through trying circumstances, a multiplicity of entanglements, and cascading heartbreaks, the works in Love & Longing share a sensibility fraught with loss, and reactions layered over time.The exhibition includes works that chip—or pound—away at the wall separating art and life—that challenge, complicate, intensify, confront, and grapple with engagement and connection. Drawing upon a wide range of media and conceptual strategies—from the unflinchingly serious to the deadpan, from one-on-one to participatory encounters—the art works selected visually and aurally engage with unlikely, ungraspable hope, and a call for radical empathy and deepening relationships, in our own dark time.VIEW LOVE AND LONGING LEAFLET & LONGER STATEMENT HEREList of Artists:

Moir Clements (1924-2015) with Mel Day and Laurence UptonMark ClintbergMiriam DymCarissa Potter CarlsonJonn HerschendMark Stock (1951-2014) in collaboration with Gary JanisChris KomaterKija LucasLinda Mary MontanoJillian McDonaldEfrenAve in collaboration with Pedro Alvarez PerezJoel Daniel PhillipsPeggy PhelanDario RobletoWelcome Project

and a curated video sampler by in collaboration withJaime Cortez, Michelle Wilson, Christopher Scott, Nadav Assor and other guest artists TBA.

Here are a few installation shots from the show: