PHOTO EPICENTER
26 LILAC ST.
SAN FRANCISCO CA 94110
people@photoepicenter.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

SAN FRANCISCO - As of January 1 2009 PHOTO EPICENTER will be changing its format from an hourly based darkroom rental facility to a membership based darkroom rental facility.

Members will pay a monthly fee ranging from $150 - $350 depending on their own space requirements and darkroom usage. Offices and workspace and storage for supplies will be available for members.

Members will have full access to the entire facility. That includes b/w darkrooms, color darkrooms, wireless internet, scanners, printers, microwave, fridge, etc. The PHOTO EPICENTER will be available to members 24/7*. And to make sure you have your darkroom available we are limiting the number of members. At this time we are taking 13 members and space is already filling up. Once all spots are reserved, we will have a wait list for following months. Become a member TODAY!

Candidates will be screened, must have some darkroom experience, be required to sign a contract, and depending on space agreement will have to pay a deposit. Multiple month discounts will be available.

*24/7 availability depends on the number of members signed up. Costs must be covered for us to print around the clock.

**If you are a current customer and have purchased a block of hours, you have the next 30 days to use up those hours. Otherwise they will expire.

Contact us to reserve your membership today: people@photoepicenter.com

ALOHA

ENJOY YOUR SELF HOLIDAY SEASON. TAKE A BREAK.

THE PHOTO EPICENTER WILL BE CLOSED
DEC 22 2008 - JAN 4 2009.

THANKS.

AS ABOVE SO BELOW CLOSES THIS FRIDAY WITH PERFORMANCES, CATALOG RELEASE, AND MORE

CLOSING RECEPTION: December 12, 2008 from 6 – 9pm
PRESS CONTACT: Chris Fitzpatrick - lightning@chrisfitzpatrick.net

Can an exhibition generate a film in the minds of its viewers?

For the past month, Photo Epicenter in San Francisco has presented AS ABOVE SO BELOW, an interdisciplinary group exhibition featuring work by local and international artists. The gallery has survived the aftershock of photography, installation, sound, painting, video, the gallery’s answering machine (415-550-0701), and a green screen sculpture for psychic activation with a large selection of scripts, stories, visual publications and other texts commissioned from writers.

The closing reception is free and open to the public on Friday, December 12, from 6-9 p.m. Two performances of Van Halen’s “Eruption” on the electric guitar will occur simultaneously from 8:50pm – 9:00pm.

AS ABOVE SO BELOW features an active papier mâché volcano by the collective Anonymous Orphan, vinyl wall text and thousands of matchbooks by Francesca Bennett & Nicholas Matranga, a left-handed painting by James Bradley, video by Aleksandra Domanović, a reappearing photographic composite by Gerald Edwards III, retroactive computer-generations of Carlos Gutierrez’s photographs of the Chaiten eruption, photography and mushrooms picked by Uri Korn, a light box by Bessie Kunath, a quantic experiment by Raimundas Malašauskas, video by Daniel Oates-Kuhn, an immaterial evacuation by Post Brothers, a message smoked on the gallery ceiling and an installation outside its window by Rick Predovic, as well as a video by Brad Troemel created to induce seizures. Alternate scripts and other texts written by Francesca Bennett & Nicholas Matranga, Jon Frechette, Israel Posinov/Geoffrey Post/Post Brothers, Ray Potes, Sally Szwed, and many more will be displayed on a large table with Mandarin subtitles to a non-existent film by Xiaoyu Weng and a reader-illustrated children’s coloring book by Michelle Y. Hyun.

AS ABOVE SO BELOW
Curated by Chris Fitzpatrick

OPENING RECEPTION: November 14, 2008 from 6 – 9pm
EXHIBITION DATES: November 14 – December 12, 2008
GALLERY HOURS: Monday – Saturday, 10am – 8pm
PRESS CONTACT: Chris Fitzpatrick - lightning@chrisfitzpatrick.net

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Can an exhibition generate a film in the minds of its viewers?

Photo Epicenter in San Francisco will present AS ABOVE SO BELOW, an interdisciplinary group exhibition, from November 14 through December 12, 2008. It will feature work by local and international artists in photography, installation, sound, painting, video, the gallery’s answering machine (415-550-0701), and a green screen sculpture for psychic activation. A large selection of scripts, stories, visual publications and other texts commissioned from writers will also be on display. The exhibition is free and open to the public, with an opening reception on Friday, November 14, from 6-9 p.m.

Curated by Chris Fitzpatrick, AS ABOVE SO BELOW takes its title from the Emerald Tablet and has been organized in response to a series of photographs that document the Chaitén volcano as it erupted during a lightning storm last May. Diverse themes—from the fungal Nordic roots of Christmas to claims over Nikolai Tesla—will emerge in each artwork and text, presenting a seemingly disparate series of triggers that will elicit an infinite combination of subjective narratives.

AS ABOVE SO BELOW features an active papier mâché volcano by the collective Anonymous Orphan, vinyl wall text and thousands of matchbooks by Francesca Bennett & Nicholas Matranga, a left-handed painting by James Bradley, video by Aleksandra Domanović, a reappearing photographic composite by Gerald Edwards III, retroactive computer-generations of Carlos Gutierrez’s photographs of the Chaiten eruption, photography and mushrooms picked by Uri Korn, a light box by Bessie Kunath, a quantic experiment by Raimundas Malašauskas, video by Daniel Oates-Kuhn, an immaterial evacuation by Post Brothers, a message smoked on the gallery ceiling and an installation outside its window by Rick Predovic, as well as a video by Brad Troemel created to induce seizures. Alternate scripts and other texts written by Francesca Bennett & Nicholas Matranga, Jon Frechette, Israel Posinov/Geoffrey Post/Post Brothers, Ray Potes, Sally Szwed, and many more will be displayed on a large table with Mandarin subtitles to a non-existent film by Xiaoyu Weng, a children’s coloring book by Michelle Y. Hyun, and new visual publications by Anonymous Orphan.

During the opening reception on November 14th from 6pm – 9pm, Popcorn modified with colors and flavors inspired by the Chaitén eruption will be served, Post Brothers will stage a reading enacting a scene from grandpa Posinov’s The Capsule. At the closing reception on December 12th from 6pm-9pm, two performances of Van Halen’s “Eruption” on the electric guitar will occur simultaneously.

marco was in town, get a tattoo!

ped was in town too, get some tees printed!

emily has been processing super 8 film here!