shaun o’dell/ doubled
We are excited to welcome back artist Shaun O’Dell for his second solo exhibition at Gallery 16, on view May 21st to July 10th. Opening reception will be held Thursday, May 21st from 6pm-9pm. Doubled will be an exhibition of recent mixed media paintings, sculpture, video and a pair of wall drawings by Emily Prince. In Doubled, O’Dell started with an old portico in Golden Gate Park called The Portals of the Past. His interest in the site comes from its reference in Hitchcock’s Vertigo and his own experience of it on daily bike rides. In both the film and San Francisco folklore the Portals of the Past are associated with the supernatural and a disruption in our understanding of the physical world. O’Dell uses the Portals as a catalyst to make an associative journey through autobiographical, historical and fictional narratives that contribute to an impossible mapping of his position in space and time. Recently, O’Dell has been influenced by Franco Berardi’s book, The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance. In the book Berardi describes the conjunctive and the connective modes of thinking. The conjunctive is an associative kind of thinking. The connective is a reduction of everything to straight lines and points (digitization comes to mind) everything becomes standardized. O’Dell’s recent work is a reaction to connective thinking becoming the dominant way in which society operates. Shaun O'Dell was born in 1968 in Beeville, Texas. He is a graduate of Stanford University’s MFA Program and has exhibited both nationally and internationally appearing recently at Susan Inglett Gallery, New York; Inman Gallery, Houston; Jack Hanley, New York; dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel; The A Foundation, Liverpool; Berkley Art Museum, Berkley; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco and San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco. His work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art and the de Young Museum.
portal.2.past.carls, 2015 newsprint 31” x 36” $3,000
1. PAINTING, 2015 gouache and acrylic ink on paper, mounted to canvas on panel. 30 x 20 in. $5,200
a.series.ofdesert.problems, 2013 Gouache and archival glue on paper mounted on canvas mounted on panel 28 1/2 x 22 in. $5,200
3. PAINTING, 2015 gouache and acrylic ink on paper, mounted to canvas on panel. 30 x 20 in. $5,200
4. PAINTING, 2015 gouache and acrylic ink on paper, mounted to canvas on panel. 30 x 20 in. $5,200
silver.BLK.ultra2, 2013 Gouache and archival glue on paper mounted on canvas mounted on panel 19 x 13 1/2 in. each $4,400
2. PAINTING, 2015 gouache and acrylic ink on paper, mounted to canvas on panel. 30 x 20 in. $5,200
pyrocumulus.Spring, 2014 Gouache, acrylic ink and archival glue on paper mounted on canvas mounted on panel 44 x 30 1/4 in. $6,500
fromTHEdesert.problems, 2014 Gouache and acrylic ink on paper mounted on canvas mounted on panel 40 x 30 in. $6,500
othersideIS.fuckedToo, 2014 Gouache, acrylic ink and archival glue on paper mounted on canvas mounted on panel 30 1/4 x 34 in. $6,500
floatABOVEhorizontals, 2013 Gouache on paper mounted on canvas mounted on panel 28 3/4 x 22 in. $5,200
mudVISION, 2013 Gouache on paper mounted on canvas mounted on panel 30 1/4 x 22 1/4 in. $5,200
old.collection, 2014 Gouache on paper mounted on canvas mounted on panel 40 x 29 3/4 in. $6,500
rain.fragments, 2014 Gouache on paper mounted on canvas mounted on panel 30 1/4 x 22 1/4 in. $5,200
rain.FIGURES.2, 2014 Gouache on paper mounted on canvas mounted on panel 30 x 22 in. $5,200
silverSTRAWBERRYgrid, 2013 Gouache on paper mounted on canvas mounted on panel 25 x 20 in. $4,400
ultra.2, 2014 Gouache on paper mounted on canvas mounted on panel 30 x 22 in. $5,200
z.analytics, 2014 Gouache on paper mounted on canvas mounted on panel 30 1/2 x 22 3/4 in. $5,200
5. PAINTING, 2015 gouache and acrylic ink on paper, mounted to canvas on panel. 30 x 20 in. $5,200
6. PAINTING, 2015 gouache and acrylic ink on paper, mounted to canvas on panel. 30 x 20 in. $5,200
7. PAINTING, 2015 gouache and acrylic ink on paper, mounted to canvas on panel. 30 x 20 in. $5,200
8. PAINTING, 2015 gouache and acrylic ink on paper, mounted to canvas on panel. 30 x 20 in. $5,200
10. PAINTING, 2015 gouache and acrylic ink on paper, mounted to canvas on panel. 30 x 20 in. $5,200
9. PAINTING, 2015 gouache and acrylic ink on paper, mounted to canvas on panel. 30 x 20 in. $5,200
11. PAINTING, 2015 gouache and acrylic ink on paper, mounted to canvas on panel. 30 x 20 in. $5,200
plato.dbl.SUNS.marble, 2015 Ink on marble 14 1/2” x 17 1/2” $4,400
Dionysus 3, 2015 Ink on marble 14 1/2” x 17 1/2” $4,400
VALS.survivor, 2015 Ink on canvas 19” x 28 1/2” $4,200
chaplin.scanned, 2015 Ink on canvas 19” x 28 1/2” $4,200
4004.5x.difference, 2015 Acrylic airbrush on paper mounted to canvas mounted to panel 43 1/2� x 60�
s.park.2, 2015 Acrylic airbrush on paper mounted to canvas mounted to panel 43 1/2� x 60�
untitled, 2015 mixed media in paper mĂĽchĂŠ, pigment, methyl celulose various dimensions $2,500
untitled, 2015 mixed media in paper mĂĽchĂŠ, pigment, methyl celulose various dimensions $1,400
Gallery 16 was founded by artist Griff Williams in 1994. Since then, Gallery 16 and its fine art imprint Gallery 16 Editions has produced exhibitions with over 250 artstis and published over 800 prints, artist books, and multiples with artists including Michelle Grabner, Ari Marcopoulos, Jim Goldberg, Colter Jacobsen, Bill Berkson, Harrell Fletcher, Lynn Hershman, Amy Franceschini, William Kentridge, Tucker Nichols, Libby Black, Deborah Oropallo, Jim Isermann, Graham Gillmore, Mark Grotjahn, Rebeca Bollinger, Rex Ray, Margaret Kilgallen.
Shaun O’Dell’s artwork is available through Gallery 16. Gallery 16 is located at 501 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94107. Inquiries may contact Griff Williams at 415-626-7495. All images © Shaun O’Dell’ gallery16.com