Maya Hayuk and Lowell Darling

February 5 - March 31, 2010

Opening reception on Friday February 5 from 6 - 9pm

MAYA HAYUK: "Feeling Space"

Gallery 16 is pleased to welcome Brooklyn based artist Maya Hayuk to her first solo show with the gallery. Hayuk is a prolific muralist, photographer, printmaker, painter, illustrator, and documentarian. Her fearless attraction to wild color, a genre-bending mix of graphic design, graffiti, illustration, and abstraction has earned her a wide international audience. Hayuk’s work overflows with a uniquely cultivated handmade aesthetic . Part punk, part psychedelic explosion, her paintings, prints and murals display unbridled enthusiasm. Her monograph “Just Good Vibes” describes the work “Multicolored diamonds morph into rainbows on public walls, day glow birds and flowers sprout extra appendages appearing both beautiful and menacing, and everything eschews logic while making perfect aesthetic sense. Hayuk’s bold images of colorful beauty are at once visceral, ethereal, humorous and political.”

LOWELL DARLING: "Full Disclosure"

Gallery 16 is pleased to present its third solo exhibition with the legendary California conceptual artist Lowell Darling. Darling, who has spent years living in Europe, has returned to California to announce his candidacy for yet another run for California Governor, once again facing Jerry Brown. This exhibition entitled “Full Disclosure” will contain all of Darling’s personal possessions in the United States. Boxes of personal items, artwork, and ephemera were removed from storage and brought to Gallery 16. Everything he owns. Some material, artwork and rare items will be present on the walls, others will remain in boxes. Included in the show are items ranging from his first drawing as a child to documents from Darlings original bid for Governor, mail art collaborations with Ray Johnson, and IRS documents proving Darling is NOT an artist. Lowell will conduct weekly performances at the gallery where he will inventory the items from the boxes, discuss his art, life and candidacy with visitors.