Opening reception with artists - January 18, 2008 at 5 pm.
 

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - 01.17.08 - Mica�la Gallery announces the opening of "Compass!" a group exhibition referencing new directions in artwork by emerging artists at Mica�la Gallery.  Featured artists include recent MFA graduates from the San Francisco Art Institute offering a collection of work that reference landscape and the effect of place.  "Compass!" is a body of classically rendered drawings, photographs, and paintings, and modern glass, mixed media and video sculpture.  Additionally, the sculptural work of David Ruth, an established and respected San Francisco Bay Area artist, is included for his recent travel and specific reference to the Antarctic landscape.

Geraldine Lozano's installation will be presented in Micaela Gallery 2.  Lozano is a newly minted MFA graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute whose work is based in the mediums of photography, video and installation.  Lozano's work addresses issues of displacement and personal documentary.  Because Lozano left her birthplace in Peru early in her adolescence, her work focuses on the temporality and fragility of place.