Bonus Map Installation May 1 to 25

"Bonus Map"
Opens May 1, with a Reception to Follow on May 8

A new installation by Veronica Graham is to be housed in the CELLspace Crucible Steel Gallery at 2050 Bryant Street (between 18th and 19th) from May 1 through May 25. A reception will be held on May 8 at 8pm, during which the artist will be on hand to answer questions and to bask in the reassuring evidence of her labors. Several musical acts will also help enliven the mood.

The planned work involves a laborious tiling process requiring the production of over 2000 hand printed cloth swatches. Each one of these will be painstakingly arranged within the framework of a room-encompassing landscape mosaic. The tiles will be on sale for 1$ each.

"Bonus Map" is grounded in an appreciation of golden era video game pattern mapping, though many additional influences are readily apparent. Japanese woodblock prints strongly inform the graphical style of the work and set a precedent for the environmental subject matter. Ms. Graham also pays a lot of attention to Exploration Age cartography, particularly the fictional embellishments often found flattened against the dark geography of unknown territories, intriguingly not to scale.

 About Veronica Graham

Born and raised in the Bay Area, she now resides in San Francisco. "Bonus Map" is a continuation and refinement of two of Ms. Graham's previous projects: an installation entitled 6000 Pins, completed in 2006, and a book of woodblock stamps she calls "The Map of Neighboring Territories".  Both of these can be viewed on her website.