Elizabeth Dorbad, Courtney Johnson & Eric Martin
Wild Thing
July 4 - August 15, 2010

Four wild things captured by three un-tamed San Francisco artists. The roundest earth! The wiliest coyote! The most perfect teeth! And some close encounters with creatures large and small!

Elizabeth Dorbad
Elizabeth Dorbad is a sculptor and installation artist living in Oakland, California. Dorbad has exhibited and served as an artist-in-residence nationally and internationally. In 2008, she was the curator for Are You Building an Ark? which featured the film, video, assemblage, painting and sculpture of eight California artists. She is the recent recipient of Art Interview Magazine's first prize and will be participating in its upcoming international exhibition in Berlin, Germany. Currently, she is showing in Some Assembly Required: Race, Gender and Globalization, which originated at the Sesnon Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz and travels to the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum, May-September, 2010. The pieces in this exhibition are from Stay Away, Come Closer, an ongoing installation series that explores contemporary human relationships to the wild and includes video works, mixed media, bronze castings and junkyard scores.

"Bronze Coyote" by Elizabeth Dorbad

Courtney Johnson
Courtney Johnson was born and raised in Virginia. She lived in Arizona for some time and now lives in San Francisco. She is getting her MFA at California College of the Arts. She loves watching movies and listening to music.

"Campfire" by Courtney Johnson

Eric Martin
Eric Martin's experimentation-based practice investigates the relationship of abstract systems of thought to experience and the role of computation in framing our perceptions of the natural environment. He was born in Toronto, Canada in 1971. He received an SB and an SM in Civil and Environmental Engineering and an SM in Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994, 1997, and 1997 respectively. Martin is a 2009 recipient of the San Francisco Foundation's Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship in the Fine Arts, and is a recent graduate of the MFA program at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. At CCA, Eric curated the experimental film program Indeterminate Landscapes in conjunction with the CCA-Stanford conference Rising Tide: Art and Ecological Ethics. Prior to enrolling at CCA, Eric helped to commercialize two successful computer software startup companies, one of which made a public stock offering on NASDAQ during his tenure as Vice President, Sales.

"Spherical Agglomeration" by Eric Martin