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 SECURITY
Security means simply, the provision of safety. Se-curity is related to the oldest meaning of curate: to care for souls. Today, the business of security is a global and corporate phenomenon. Its primary agenda is the production of fear; its ideal consumer is immobilized by dread. Security (the exhibition) seeks to address this pivot between asylum and alarm. We are painfully aware of the brutality that so-called professional security may engender. Unspeakable ugliness appears when protector and protected warp into perpetrator and victim, but the curators of the exhibition seek to upturn rather than reproduce the fear, uncertainty, and mistrust already so pervasive in our everyday. To that end, they looked for humor, gentleness, and a light touch as well as acuity, provocation, and gravity in the works selected.
The artists chosen for the exhibition touch on the care or solicitude necessary for collective wellbeing as well as artists who tackle the charms or fetishes necessary for security's sell. How we define security for our communities and our world will determine how we get there and where we arrive.
Curated by Stephanie Ellis and Serena Wellen
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 13, 7 to 10 pm Exhibition Dates: March 10th- 27th, 2010 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays - Saturdays, 2-6 pm (or by appointment)
 Marisa Aragona Andrea Chung Gary Duehr Oasa duVerney Benjamin Echeverria Stephanie Ellis Pete Hickok Glenn Hirsch Yu-Hang Huang iiiahh Collective Jeremiah Jenkins Suzanne Kehr JP Kelly Lee Lee Alma Leiva Paula Levine Lesley Louden Lisa Martin Masako Miki Randall Miller* Robert Minervini* Nancy Popp Renée Rhodes Paulina Velazquez Serena Wellen Doug Williams Kathryn Williamson *Root Division Resident Artist
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ROOT DIVISION GALLERY ABOUT ROOT DIVISION: Root Division is an arts and arts education non-profit located in the Mission District of San Francisco. Root Division's mission is to improve appreciation and access to the visual arts by connecting personal inspiration and community participation. We provide subsidized studio space to working artists in exchange for their service in creating shared learning opportunities for the community. Artists develop creatively and professionally by teaching art to underserved youth, leading adult education classes, and producing exhibitions that showcase local emerging artwork. By combining multiple opportunities for creative exchange, Root Division cultivates an artistic ecosystem that enriches life throughout the Bay Area. Root Division is supported in part by grants from Grants for the Arts: SF Hotel Tax Fund & Voluntary Arts Contribution Fund, The San Francisco Foundation, and the Walter & Elise Haas Fund. The Second Saturday Exhibition Series is sponsored by the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, the San Francisco Arts Commission through a Cultural Equity Grant/Organizational Project Grant, and the Zellerbach Family Foundation. For further information regarding events and/or press materials, please do not hesitate to contact Selene Foster at 415.863.7668 or events@rootdivision.org.
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