[Announce] CELLspace Project 2048 welcomes Norah and Sherry

[Russell H]

CELLspace welcomes Norah Hoover and Sherry Wong to San Francisco, and  
to Project 2048! They are the first two artists of what CELL hopes  
will be a long list of ongiong arts residency rotations.

For more information about our grassroots arts residency program,  
please go to: http://www.cellspace.org/new/node/104

To see some photos of the artists past work, please hit the link below  
their names.

Norah Hoover
http://www.cellspace.org/new/node/133

My work mixes costume design, performance and photography. I collect  
found materials to make costumes and installations to be worn and  
inhabited - tents and dresses - and photograph them in action. I  
explore the way girl, animal, ornament, and image interact. My thesis  
work was based on the idea of wearable explosions, and my current work  
is a series of ghost dresses; I am moving from recycled synthetics to  
found organic materials. Photography is the center of all the work I  
do. My motifs, colors, and process are all anchored in the history of  
vernacular photography, its idiosyncratic rendering of containment and  
desire. I make "instant" images around my textiles using expired film,  
disposable cameras and Polaroids. I also document artists, musicians,  
and performers, and take "half candid" portraits: people interacting  
with each other and camera. I plan to document many of the diverse and  
vibrant performances going on at Cellspace, as well as the day-to-day  
of the residency at Project 2048.

www.norahhoover.com

Sherry Wong
http://www.cellspace.org/new/node/134

Sherry Wong paints portraits of herself and friends on traditional  
wood panels. She often portrays herself as the hero in a confessional  
narrative where the occurrences in her life are sublimated into an  
epic story. For 2048 she will be painting group portraits of the  
various creative communities in San Francisco. In conjunction with the  
presentation of this body of work, the artists and musicians depicted  
in the paintings will be invited to show and perform spotlighting the  
unique communal spirit of the bay area.

Sherry Wong was born in 1978, and raised in Turkey and England. She  
received a BA in Studio Art at Smith College, and lives and works in  
Brooklyn and San Francisco. She has had two solo shows with I-20  
gallery in New York, as well as solo shows at Galeria 13 in Mexico  
City, Vienna Fair in Austria and Akus Gallery in Connecticut. She has  
also shown in Athens, Berlin, Paris, Cologne, Moscow, Shanghai, Tokyo  
and Turin.