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DESCRIPTION:Exhibition now through August 31, 2011, gallery hours Wed - Friday, 2-6pm 
 or by appointment\n\n...there's a thin line between the inside and the 
 outside, a thin line between thought and action and that line is simply 
 made up of blood and muscle and bone..., wrote David Wojnarowicz, the late 
 artist/activist/writer. Curated by Julie Blankenship, the works exhibited 
 in A Thin Line are reminders of the American experience of this thin line 
 in the early years of AIDS. \n\nWojnarowicz, who died of AIDS in 1992, is 
 represented by his famous photograph of three buffalo stampeding over a 
 cliff. Actually an image of a diorama, the toy-like quality of the piece 
 mingles aspects of horror and intimacy. Rise and fall and impending 
 disaster find expression in other works. \n\nDavid King's collages composed 
 of cutouts of gems are assembled into a mysterious triptych. The title 
 Elysium invites us to ask who is a hero? What does it mean to die 
 heroically? The intricate chains of rubies and pearls, the diaphanous folds 
 of white dots create the sensation of having entered another dimension 
 where we consider death on other levels- the molecular, or the imaginary 
 architectures of heaven.\n\nJames Baldwin Lecture, Philip Zimmerman's 
 assemblage, functions as both archive and memorial. Encased in plexiglass, 
 a book filled with gold-hued Polaroids, love letters and other ephemera 
 relating to his late partner, this work resembles something found in a 
 magician's cabinet. His work is a widower's constellation of reveries and 
 memories- an eerie homage to "The One" first found and finally lost. 
 \n\nFinally Daniel Goldstein is represented by sculptures that are 
 coverings of workout equipment from the old SF Muscle System, a gay male 
 gym. Mysterious, figurative shapes were worn into the leather from the 
 friction and sweat of anonymous bodies. Invisible Man is a mobile made of 
 800 hypodermic syringes, tipped with red crystals. The steel wire from 
 which the cascades of needles hang reminds the viewer of how fragile, 
 indeed how thin are the lines of life that hold the human being in place.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/07/12/18684568.php
SUMMARY:A Thin Line: Extinction, Survival, Transformation
LOCATION:Visual Aid Gallery\n57 Post Street, Suite 905\nSan Francisco, CA 
 94104\n415-777-8242\nhttp://www.visualaid.org
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/07/12/18684568.php
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