San Francisco-based Maggie Preston's practice represents an exploration of the basic concepts of the photographic medium and engages the complexities of its representational value. The technical strategies and critical approaches employed by Preston at once explore the process and materiality (or aesthetic translation) of photographic objects, as well as their presentation and social reception.

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Friday, March 2 — Saturday, April 21, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, March 9, 5-8 pm

Support for this exhibition has been provided by: Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund; the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Jesse Drew, on Winter in America: 1974-1975:

"Gil Scott Heron’s song 'Winter in America' became a theme for me in 1974-75 and crystallized what America meant for many in the years when the euphoria of the 1960s lay crashed and burned, as the U.S. lost its supremacy in the world and the nation was wracked by unemployment, an oil and gas shortage, urban decay, and defeat in Vietnam. In the mid-1970s, I set out to see if there was still a utopian pulse to be found in America. The resulting photographs resonate eerily with our current time in many ways."

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Friday, March 9 — Saturday, April 21, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, March 9, 5-8 pm