Celestial Trajectories (meteorites and souls)

Mari Andrews, Paul Kos, Isabelle Sorrell, Will Rogan 

Curated by Isabelle Sorrell

09.08.2020 - 10.30. 2020 

“Oh Brother: Where art thou?”

The Odyssey, Homer

“He was well aware that according to theoretical models of stellar evolution, the core collapse at the end of a massive star’s life should result in a copious burst of neutrinos, which flee the detonation site deep inside the Star with little impediment.”

                                                                                                                     Ray Jayawardhana

“Antares is a red supergiant star that is nearing the end of its life. Once there is no more fuel left to burn, the star will collapse and explode into a supernova…” 

Paul Butterworth and Mike Avida for Nasa

In the floods of late January 2018, a full blood moon eclipsed by the shadow of the earth.

“… They are so old, so new, we are not to them

we look at them or don’t from within the milky gauze 

of our tilted gazing

but they don’t look back and we cannot hurt them…”

Adrienne Rich

“The nitrogen in our DNA,

The calcium in our teeth,

The iron in our blood,

The carbon in our apple pies was made of collapsing stars. 

We are made of star stuff.”

Carl Sagan

Off the Golden Gate bridge on June 21 2019, day of the Summer Solstice

Same day in 1876, Willem Hendrik Keesom was born. He invented a means of freezing liquid helium.

“The Saviksue are three meteorites that penetrated the earth atmosphere landing on the ice pack of Greenland. The Inuit called them: Dog, Woman and Tent. “ 

Paul Kos

On March 11, 2009, during the full moon the comet Lulin was moving away from the Earth and thus contending with moonlight, passing from Leo into Cancer.

“The Very Small Array is based on the Very Large Array, a field of 27 giant radio telescope dishes in the New Mexico desert. They are 82 feet in diameter! These dishes are arranged to listen for sounds in outer space. (ie; looking for signs of other life!)”

                                                                                                                                 Mari Andrews

At the end of August 1997, Will Rogan secured a video camera to a helium balloon and launched it over Lake Van Norden.”

In 2005 he culled from an incident in Alabama which occurred 50 years ago when a woman, Ann Hodges was hit by a meteorite.

“I am the great silent space between worlds.”

Pascal

- Isabelle Sorrell

Mari Andrews 

Mari Andrews is a sculptor and installation artist. Her work is a continuation of her drawing practice and employs such varied materials as wire, lead, seeds, stones, mica, gold, soil, salt, pods and thorns. Many of these are found materials collected during her travels. Drawing upon her fascination with nature, science, and the environment, she has incorporated both Nature’s systems and Nature’s randomness into her work. She earned her BFA from the University of Dayton, Ohio, where she studied art and sociology. She completed her MFA at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. She has been awarded an NEA Fellowship and several residencies including Djerassi Resident Artist Program in Woodside CA, and at the Cold Press north of London. Her work can be found in the collections of the de Young Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, the de Saisset Museum in Santa Clara, CA and the Eli Broad Foundation, and in private and corporate collections in the US and abroad. Andrews has exhibited extensively throughout California and the US, including the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, The Bolinas Museum, The Los Gatos Museum, the De Saisset Museum, The Monterey Museum of Art, Southern Exposure in San Francisco, and the Tucson Museum of Art. Internationally, she has exhibited in Japan, Israel and England.

Paul Kos 

Paul Kos received a BFA and an MFA in painting from the San Francisco Arts Institute. He was one of the founders of West Coast conceptual art with Tom Marioni, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, and Bonnie Sherk. Paul Kos has been featured in numerous one person shows in the United States and in France and groups shows around the world. In 2003, “Everything Matters:Paul Kos, a Retrospective” was organized by Connie Lewallen and BAM/PFA and travelled to the Grey Art gallery, New York University, the San Diego Museum, and the Contemporary Art Gallery in Cincinnati. A publication accompanied the exhibition. In 2016, di Rosa Art Preserve exhibited Equilibrium,  a survey of his work from 1968 to 2016. Paul Kos has received 5 NEAs, a Tiffany, a Guggenheim, a Rockefeller, a Flintridge, a Eureka, and an AVA award. His work is in the collections of various museums and foundations, including the Guggenheim museum, MoMA New York, The Whitney Museum,SFMOMA, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, the Louis Vuitton Foundation and the Kadist Foundation in Paris. He is represented by Anglim Gilbert Gallery in San Francisco and by Gallerie Georges-Phillipe and Nathalie Vallois in Paris, France.

Will Rogan

Will Rogan is a sculptor, father, husband, teacher, former editor of THE THING Quarterly, materialist, skateboarder, timekeeper, temporal body, and a small part of a larger force. He makes clocks and mobiles and photographs and other dynamic objects. He is not attached to a specific medium but is highly concerned with materiality. He shows with Altman Siegel Gallery in San Francisco and Misako and Rosen Gallery in Tokyo and has exhibited his work internationally in museums and galleries. 

Isabelle Sorrell

Isabelle Sorrell holds an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute, a certificate in painting and Graphic Design from Ecole de Sevres, Academie de Versailles, France; a certificate in Graphic Design, Ecole Corvisart, Academy de Paris, France; and a certificate in Literature from Trinity College, Cambridge University. She studied printmaking at NYU with Krishna Reddy. She taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, and at Universitee de Lausanne, at the American College of Leysin, and at Art Center School of Design Annex, La Tour de Peilz, Switzerland. In 1995 she founded Frontier Press, which has produced artists books in with intaglio and letterpress. In 2010, she had a solo exhibition Latitudes and Longitudes at the Meridian Gallery in San Francisco. In 2017, she instigated and participated in Sweet Water / Bitter Creek, an exhibition about the American West, at Jules Maeght Gallery, San Francisco. In 2019 she curated and participated in MOTHER NATURE (Elements and Archetypes), at Fused Space, San Francisco. Her work is in the collection of BAM/PFA and in private collections.