Al Farrow: Solo 2022

AL FARROW: NEW SCULPTURES April 23 - May 28, 2022 Catharine Clark Gallery 248 Utah St, SF, CA 94103 415-399-1439

Al Farrow ABANDONED SOUTHWEST CHURCH, 2021/2022 Guns, gun parts, mixed shot, gear, steel, bullets, cartridge shells, antique brass bell 19 3/4 x 20 1/2 x 5 inches $35,000 Note: All photos are by Jock McDonald.

Details of ABANDONED SOUTHWEST CHURCH, 2021/2022.

Al Farrow BLUE HELMET, 2021/2022 Gun parts, military helmet, cartridge shells, child’s gas mask, hand grenade, gears, steel.

22 1/2 x 16 x 16 inches $35,000

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Al Farrow CASKET RELIQUARY, SKULL FRAGMENT OF SANTO GUERRO, 2021/2022 Guns, gun parts, bullets, religious artifacts, steel, glass, bone, antique textile (16th C. Genoa) 7 x 13 x 8 inches $30,000

Details of CASKET RELIQUARY, SKULL FRAGMENT OF SANTO GUERRO, 2021/2022.

Al Farrow LEGACY, 2021/2022 Guns, military helmet, artillery projectile, gear, steel 24 3/4 x 20 x 20 inches $35,000

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Al Farrow THE LUCKY RABBIT’S FOOT OF SANTO GUERRO, 2021/2022 Guns, bullets, steel, glass, steel shot, gear, bone, crucifix 16 x 10 x 10 inches $25,000

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Al Farrow THE MIDDLE FINGER OF SANTO GUERRO, 2021/2022 Gun parts, bullets, cartridge shells, gears, steel, glass, bone, crucifix 25 3/4 x 16 x 16 inches $45,000

Details of THE MIDDLE FINGER OF SANTO GUERRO, 2021/2022.

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Al Farrow THE TWO THUMBS OF SANTO GUERRO, 2021/2022 guns, gun parts, bullets, cartridge shells, glass, bone, crucifix, antique textile (15th c. Florence) 44 x 12 x 12 inches $55,000

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Al Farrow BUDDHIST RELIQUARY (AFTER 13TH c. KADAM STUPA), 2021/2022 Artillery shell, mortar bomb, cluster bomb, bullets, shell cartridges, steel, brass, bronze, gold leaf (23k) 17 x 8 x 8 inches NFS

Details of BUDDHIST RELIQUARY (AFTER 13TH c. KADAM STUPA), 2021/2022.

Al Farrow VANDALIZED SYNAGOGUE DOOR (III), 2020 Gun barrels, steel, glass, cartridge shells, bullets, paint 51 1/2 x 44 x 12 inches $58,000

Details of VANDALIZED SYNAGOGUE DOOR (III), 2020.

Al Farrow BURNT CHURCH, 2014 Three rifles from Verdun battlefield, revolvers, bullets, steel 38 ½ x 14 ¾ x 15 inches $40,000

Details of BURNT CHURCH, 2014.

Al Farrow GOTHIC MAUSOLEUM, 2019 Guns, gun parts, bullets, shell cartridges, steel, lead and steel shot, glass, bone 44 x 26 x 42 inches $225,000

Details of GOTHIC MAUSOLEUM, 2019.

AL FARROW Born in Brooklyn, New York, Al Farrow has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than fifty years. An accomplished sculptor in a wide variety of media, Farrow generally adopts the language of a particular historical period for his work, updating the imagery or material to make cogent observations about contemporary society.

One particularly notable project was a set of bowls created in the style and method of the Mimbres people, an indigenous culture in what is now Northern and Southwestern Mexico. For this body of work Farrow meticulously painted in their traditional style, using a single reed brush to render images of B-1 bombers, tanks, radiation symbols, and other military imagery. In recent years he has used munitions—bullets, guns, hand grenades, bombs—to make three-dimensional projects that resemble Christian reliquaries, Islamic mosques, and Jewish synagogues.

Farrow’s travelling exhibition, Al Farrow: Wrath and Reverence, debuted at The Forum Gallery, New York in 2015, subsequently traveling to the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; 21c, Louisville, KY; Bellevue Arts Museum, Washington; the Art Museum at University of Wyoming, Laramie; Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA; the McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX; and the Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, UT. Fall 2019. A monograph, published by the Crocker Art Museum, accompanied the exhibition.

In 2008, Farrow’s work was the subject of a solo exhibition at the de Young Museum, San Francisco Fine Arts Museum, which was curated by Timothy Anglin Burgard, and accompanied by a monograph also published by the museum. Farrow’s work is included in the public collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA: the San Jose Museum of Art, CA; 21c, Louisville, KY; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA; the Crocker Art Museum, CA. Farrow lives and works in Marin County, CA and has been represented by Catharine Clark Gallery since 1994.