A preview of her show which opens this Saturday at Receiver Gallery. Steven Weinberg and Jay Hakkinen of Receiver Gallery take a visit to her studio.
'Soft Core'
new haptic works by Sarah Applebaum
Opening Reception: Saturday May 23, 6-10 pm
Show Runs: May 23rd – June 26th, 2009
Receiver Gallery
1415 Valencia St.
San Francisco, CA 94110
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Just a week ago Jafon Hakkinen of Receiver Gallery and I (Steven Weinberg/intern of Receiver) went over to Sarah Applebaum's studio in Lower Haight to see what she was up to for her upcoming show with us Soft Core. (Show runs May 23rd to June 26th. Opening May 23rd 6-10 pm.) No, that is not Sarah, but one of her two dogs. Behind, some of her new knitted works.
Standing up, brushing dogs aside, you can see into her living room/cave she's created.
Here's a better view of her cave, and Sarah (and Jay) too. Sarah said she wants to create a waking dream space with all these works where, as she put it, "everything has meaning and yet meaning escapes definition." These shapes are all bits of painted cardboard painted suspended from the walls with string.
Here's a better view of the shapes, giving a sense of how they hang off the walls, with some of that classic SF moulding behind it.
The cardboard is then held up with a pulley array which connects to...
...this lovely set of T-Cleats. Quite nautical. Wait, are we on the Trippe's boat or in Sarah's studio?
Arrg, no. The studio. Sarah explained the pulley array was the work of her boyfriend, Shannon, seen here taking apart a MacBook Pro (shit--by showing this did we just void his warranty?), who seems very mechanically minded.
Sarah's also been working on this sort of hairy looking paper surface.
It's pretty incredible and drapes to the floor on one wall of the studio, part red, part green, part pink.
Here's another view.
Sarah explained that whole form is made from individual tiles. Each is an 8.5" x 11" sheet of colored paper printed with a pattern she then cuts.
Seen individually, the sheets make great beards.
The pattern for the sheets comes from a drawing Sarah completed a little while ago. She unrolled it for us to se
Here's another view from inside the cave with those two knitted figures.
And another looking over their shoulders.
Sarah's also working on a much more elegant version of the tin can-string telephone. She's using a vacuum tube for which she knit a sock. (Really excited to see where she is going to put that in Receiver.)
Vacuum tube telephones and... guns. Jay should watch where he points that thing.
Oh. And that thing, too.
Well that's about it. Sarah will be installing this at Receiver for the next few days until the show. The opening is on May 23rd, 6-10 pm. See you there!
Bye Sarah (and company)! Thanks for letting us into your studio.
'Soft Core'
new haptic works by Sarah Applebaum
Opening Reception: Saturday May 23, 6-10 pm
Show Runs: May 23rd – June 26th, 2009
Receiver Gallery
1415 Valencia St.
San Francisco, CA 94110
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