ALWAYS IS ALWAYS FOREVER
Nancy Chan, Matt Momchilov & Jesse Schlesinger
September 11th - October 17th 2009

Recent Work

ALWAYS IS ALWAYS FOREVER work

ARTIST STATEMENT

Jesse Schlesinger is a visual and social practice artist residing in San Francisco. He works in a variety of media, including sculptural installation, photography, and drawing.  His interdisciplinary work touches on but is not limited to: the handmade aesthetic, the private and the public, and the concept of (co)habitation.  Drawing is an element of his art practice that explores craft and spatial conceptions, working directly and indirectly with experiences of dwelling.  The drawings are created with natural materials exploring both the ephemeral and the infinite in understanding the idea and emotion of home.  Schlesinger's practice reveals a conversation between culture, agriculture, and the natural world. His work is a direct synthesis of his personal history with carpentry, eight years of experience farming with Dirty Girl Produce and a dream of Black Mountain and the "back-to-the-land movement."

Schlesinger received a painting/drawing BFA with high distinction from the California College of the Arts in 2008.  He has shown at Triple Base Gallery, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and Lobot.  Recently, he took a position as a co-curator at 18 Reasons, the Bi-Rite space for art, food, and community.

CV

Jesse Schlesinger

born:  Kentucky, 1979

lives/works in San Francisco

Education

BFA in Painting and Drawing at CCA, 2008.

Solo Exhibitions

2008

Make of Yourself a Light, Milk and Honey Art Gallery, Mill Valley, CA.

2007

Combination Woodworker, Bruce Gallery and Nave, San Francisco, CA.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009

Forever is Always Forever, Eleanor Harwood, San Francisco, CA.

10x10x10, San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco, CA.

Open Endless Day to Explore, Headlands, Marin, CA.

Out of the Flat Files II, Triple Base, San Francisco, CA.

2008

Proposal for a Seed Library, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA.

Open for Business, Triple Base, San Francisco, CA.

Trigger, 111 Minna, San Francisco, CA.

Outerlands, Mollusk Surfshop, San Francisco, CA.

One Hundred Ton Line, Pro Arts, San Francisco, CA.

Senior Painting and Drawing exhibition, Oliver Arts Center Oakland, CA.

Reconstruction, Bruce Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

One Hundred Ton Line, North Gallery, Oakland, CA.

2007

We Look Heroic, alpha/beta gallery, San Francisco, CA.

Mystical Enchanted Forest, Lobot, Oakland, CA.

2006

Kinetic, Magnolia Gallery, Oakland, CA.

Community Virology, Lobot, Oakland, CA.

B & W, South Gallery, Oakland, CA.

2005

Makers, Isabelle Percy West Gallery, Oakland, CA.

Curatorial Experience

2009

forthcoming, Co-curator , 18 reasons, San Francisco, CA.

2007

We Look Heroic, alpha/beta gallery, San Francisco, CA.

2006

B & W, South Gallery, Oakland, CA.

2005

Makers, Isabelle Percy West Gallery, Oakland, CA.

Collections

Lawrence Rinder.

Bibliography

2009

Ari Messer, the Photo Issue, San Francisco Bay Guardian, August 5.

2008

Carly Berwick, Bump On a Log, NY Times Style Magazine, November 9.

Larry Rinder, Ukiah Utopia.

2007

Readymade Magazine, October.

Guest Lecturer

2008

Painting Workshop, CCA, San Francisco, CA.