Campfire Gallery – 11/8/14

CALIBRATE / LUCKY RAPP AND RACHEL MEGINNES

Exhibition
November 5th – December 7th, 2014

Reception
Saturday, November 8th (7pm – 10pm)

Location
Campfire Gallery
3344 24th St
San Francisco, CA 94110

LUCKY RAPP / BANG!

Bang!, a large-scale series comprised of 23 interrelated individuals pieces, references a collective of independents coming together to achieve mutual goals. An extension of my series Paint Politics (2012), Bang! (2014) was conceptualized by my discovery of C2 Paints, at a local San Francisco paint shop. I felt an easy affinity with their line of colors and was instantly drawn to their rich quality, as well as to the humor in their names – ‘Lavish’, ‘Cognac’, ‘Major Tom’ and ‘Ping Pong’. The super-sized works created for Bang! represent both an extreme in size and a direct reference to C2’s color palette and coding system. In accentuating the magnitude of the depth of these colors and ‘buttery’ tactile nature, Bang! brings a seemingly inconsequential color swatch into a larger-then-life context.