RX Gallery San Francisco presents


SEISMIC MEMORY
recent work by Christina McPhee
On view through May 12-Jun 12, 2005



Reception for the artist
THURSDAY, MAY 12 2005
6-9 pm

132 Eddy Street @ Mason
1 block west of Powell Street BART

phone 415-474-7973 or by appointment 415-756-8890
Gallery hours: Wednesday to Saturday 12 pm to 5 pm, evening hours after 5 pm Thursday-Saturday


Rx is very pleased to present its next exhibition " Seismic Memory: Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries" featuring recent work by Christina McPhee, with video by Terry Hargrave

Online live seismic data diaries with music/animations by Christina McPhee, text by Jeremy Hight and programming by Sindee Nakatani at
 
Christina McPhee builds very large digital chromogenic prints from medium format documentary photography, digital video, digital photography and field drawings, from the Carrizo Plain, called the "Cadillac" of San Andreas Fault geomorphology, north to Parkfield, site of the most thoroughly studied recent quake in California (September 28, 2004). In architectonic vertical stacks of images, the artist conflates field observation within a dream-like sequence of painterly shadow and illumination. Carrizo's stark terrain, littered with debris from abandoned homes and cars, is the site of McPhee's field notes and landscape performance, shot in documentary video over a period of four years with Terry Hargrave. Stills from the video work infiltrate the architecturally scaled prints, where, layering her onsite drawings with traces from geomorphologic maps, the artist shape-shifts visual narratives that put the intangible, intimate and local sense of place, up against the reality of continuous seismic activity in California. Online at http://carrizoparkfielddiaries.net, animations based on the video documentation and the chromogenic prints, flash across the screen in fleeting layers, that trigger from a "crash" of near-live ground motion data compilations into archived seismic data from the recent Parkfield quake. Conceptually, the current data's reach into the past changes the archive from a static resource to an uncanny future array.

fmi: William Linn, curator will@blasthaus.com