Evah Fan and Florencio Zavala :: Go Lov Me Face Btr - C Roof Btw Leg Ave
July 16 - August 13, 2005
Reception: Saturday, July 16 from 7-10pm
Summer Gallery hours: Wednesday - Saturday from 12-5pm
sixspace is proud to host its last exhibition in our downtown location with Go Lov Me Face Btr - C Roof Btw Leg Ave, a two-person show featuring new works by Evah Fan (Berkeley, CA) and Florencio Zavala (Los Angeles, CA). The title, derived from an original artwork mail exchange project between the artists, involved the notion of chance and provides an interesting merger between two stylistically different artists. And though they are aesthetically opposite in their illustration-based styles, with Fan’s preciseness and Zavala’s rawness, they are both are exploring similar opposing themes such as reality vs. altered reality, invention vs. non-fiction, truth vs. constructed myths.
 Utilizing
gouache and ink as her primary mediums, Evah Fan’s
works on paper compose main characters (which can alternate
between realistic humans or fictionalized creatures) in absurdly
constructed landscapes in Go Lov Me Face Btr - C Roof Btw
Leg Ave, Fan continues on this theme by specifically exploring
“non-fiction vs. invention.” Her depictions explore puns,
clichés, linguistic puzzles, humorous narratives, and the
occasional pathos that create frozen moments or “still scenes.”
Fan says, “A lot of inspirations comes from films…things appear
at time without validated reasons. I hope to capture reactions
and trigger nostalgic moments from the viewers.”
Evah Fan (born 1980) received her BFA from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn with an emphasis on Illustration/Communications design in 2004. She has shown her gouache on paper pieces in cities such as Chicago (IL), Los Angeles (CA), San Francisco (CA) Portland (OR), Hamtramck (MI), Boston (MA), Brooklyn (NY), and Bristol (United Kingdom). Her work has been featured in publications such as American Illustration, Art Prostitute (upcoming featurette), Bust Magazine, Drama Magazine, Flaunt, Selected Magazine, and Tokion. She currently lives and works in Berkeley, California.
 For
Go Lov Me Face Btr - C Roof Btw Leg Ave, Florencio
Zavala presents his most personal body of work to
date with a collection of artifacts, loose narratives, portraiture
and iconography heavily influenced by good parenting, real
and imagined experiences, mind altering substances, loss,
and sports. He is concerned with creating work that is as
real as experience but driven through a variety of alter egos
and oral histories with reinterpretation and loss of information
being both conceptual and aesthetic motivations. Aesthetically,
his work is diverse installation, film, painting, drawing,
and collage - all of which function well with his raw visuals.
Zavala says, “The reason the visuals look handmade is because
they are. Imperfections give the work a temporary quality.
Everything [I do] is a visual sketch—it can influence new
ideas or be a means to a much larger concept. Perfection has
a finite end and ironically makes me feel incomplete.”
Florencio Zavala (born 1979) received his BFA in Design at the University of Florida, Gainesville in 2001. As Senior Art Director at Studio Number One, he has worked with such clients as G4 Television, American Greetings, Hawaiian Punch, Red Bull, Interscope, Toyota, Hewlett Packard, and Nike. He has created artist editions for 2K, Instant Winner Skateboards and Nieves Publications. Zavala’s work has been exhibited in Chicago, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and New York with solo exhibitions at Red Five (San Francisco) and The Reed Space (New York). He has been featured in numerous art and design publications including Arkitip, Art Prostitute, The Drama, Flaunt, Swindle, and Athem Magazine. Additionally, he is co-partner in the LA-based project Big Skills with Stephanie Hutin. In an effort to further his explorations of Design as a Fine Art, Zavala will begin work this fall on his M.F.A. at California Institute of the Arts.
Fan's Website: www.potatohavetoes.com
Zavala's Website: www.bigskills.com
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