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Gigi Conot

The Arts Center Exhibit(s):

• 'Finger Licking Good: Art About Food,' April/May 2012
• '9th Around Oregon Annual Exhibition,' October, 2011

Statement:

I think the most concise statement that I can make about my photography resides in a book, “Letters to a Young Poet” by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by M.D. Herter Norton. In it, Rilke, a poet born in Prague in 1875, dispenses advice to an aspiring poet.

“If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become big and beyond measuring; if you have this love of inconsiderable things and seek quite simply, as one who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier, more coherent and somehow more conciliatory for you, not in your intellect, perhaps…but in your inmost consciousness, waking and cognizance.”
Rainer Maria Rilke, July 16, 1903

Resume:

Exhibitions

• 2007 Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, Oregon. “Tendrils and Boughs” – group show. Pigment Prints.
• 2005 Maitri Benefit Group Art Exhibition, Hayes Valley, San Francisco, California. Pigment Prints.
• 2003 Melting Point Gallery, San Francisco, California. “Still Here” – solo show of mixed media work.
• 2002 SOMARTS. San Francisco, California. ARTSPAN group show, mixed media.
  La Casa de las Madres (The Women’s Building, San Francisco, California, Mission District), “The Story of Us” Group Art Exhibition. Mixed Media.
• 2001 Maitri Benefit Group Art Exhibition, One Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, California. Mixed media drawings.
  Junius Productions, www.juniusgallery.org, “Brady Street” – part of online group exhibition of mixed media drawings.
• 2000 Junius Productions, www.juniusgallery.org, “Once Removed” – part of online group exhibition of mixed media drawings.
• 1999 AWD Studio Gallery. San Francisco, California. “The Kept Review” – two person show, mixed media drawings and sculpture installation.
  SOMARTS. San Francisco, California. ARTSPAN group show, sculpture.
  H.A.N.G. Gallery. San Francisco, California. ARTSPAN group show and auction, mixed media drawings.
  Kris Keyes Salon. San Francisco, California. Solo show, mixed media drawings.
• 1998 Brady Street Dance Theater. San Francisco, California. Solo show, mixed media drawings from the “Sweet Jane” series.
  San Francisco Open Studios/ARTSPAN. San Francisco, California. Mixed media drawings, paintings, and sculpture installation from the “Kept” installation.
  Jill Ruskusky Private Residence/Collector/Dealer. San Francisco, California. “Sweet Jane” drawing installation.
• 1993 Boulder Art Center. Boulder, Colorado. Juried group painting/sculpture exhibition.

Related Publications/Projects

• 2001 – Present Artbureau.org online artist/photographer and “Typographical Errors” publication editor.
• 2001 BANG! Magazine, February 2001 issue of San Francisco-based arts & culture magazine, featured artist on p. 25 “Art Attack” column.
• 2000 Online publication of artist commentary, “How to Talk to an Artist” at www.artistresource.org

Education:

• San Francisco Photography Center – ongoing classes and darkroom membership, 2002/2003.
• Painting/Drawing studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, 1994/1995.
• B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz, 1991.
• Independent Studies – painting/drawing, 1991-1994.
• Private Studio work on mixed media drawing series, 1994-2005.
• Private Studio work on the “Kept” installation sculptures, 1997-1999.