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The Bio Arts Gallery is proud to present "LET IT BREED, C.A.L.F.'s Fifth Anniversary Exhibition"  Monday, May 13th through Saturday, June 28th, with an opening reception Saturday May 11, 6-9

For the past five years C.A.L.F., the Coalition of Artists and Life Forms, has led a dialog between the art world, the public and the biotechnology industry through a series of screenings, symposiums, pranks and informal conversations that sought to educate the art community on issues of bio-tech. These discussions and investigations have led to a substantial body of work that both reflect an  informed and enlightened vision of artists concerned with the most important issues of the day.

"LET IT BREED , C.A.L.F. 's Fifth Anniversary Exhibition" brings together the work of many of C.A.L.F's original and most devoted members including Marilyn Donahue, Linda Ford, Amy Hicks, Jo Jackson, David Lawrence, Malka Lehmann, Scott MacLeod, Chicory Miles, Eva Strohmeier, Gabrielle Thormann, Steve Thurston, and C.A.L.F. 's founder and Executive Director Dale Hoyt.

The exhibition features artists working in a wide range of mediums and materials. Partner's in crime Steve Thurston and Dale Hoyt's "Kitten Kollaboration" drawing series envisions feline babies in various satirical jeopardy and now includes several unauthorized portraits of CC, the world's first cloned cat. Chicory Miles' epic fountainary piece "Eternal Generation" addresses in ambitious scale the objectification of progeny, David Lawrence lovingly dwells on pet fetishism in his digital print work, while Malka Lehmann's paintings call into question the public fight between mortality and vanity. The show will also showcase the fleshy and minimalist  sculptures of Linda Ford that pay homage to biological chaos  as well as the storyboards of Amy Hicks' internationally screened video "Hatching Beauty" and Gabrielle Thormann's canvases pictorializing/romanticizing cell division.

The BioArts Gallery is 80 LibertyShip Way, suite 22 in Sausalito(see directions below). 10-5  weekdays by appointment only(415)621-4527.

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Directions to the Bio Arts Gallery :
Take GG Bridge across to Marin and take the Alexander Ave. Exit and follow coast road into downtown Sausalito by South Street right onto Second St., right onto Richardson St., left onto Bridgeway and after about three miles look for Marinship. Turn right onto Marinship and make another immediate right onto LibertyShip Way. We're at #80, one of the white buildings with red trim, Suite 22, second floor.
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