The recent exhibition of work by artists Kate Gilmore and Josephine Taylor at Catherine Clark Gallery capitalizes on the overt narratives of risk and survival with which the artists engage. However, more nuanced themes emerge with the pairing as well. Taken together, their drawings or videos depict female characters somehow indifferent towards themselves, but nevertheless facing down the world in defiant stances. These characters inhabit bodies that are truncated, distorted, and subjected to precarious settings that overshadow any erotic elements at play. Love is unbearable, they suggest, rendering possible extreme states of self-protection or selflessness. There is need to deflect... Read More

Situated round the corner from SFMOMA and down the block from the St. Regis Hotel is the unveiling of the newly re-located Catharine Clark Gallery with its opening show entitled "Breaking Ground, Ground Breaking". Free from the confines of 49 Geary, Catharine Clark ambitiously stakes her claim as a forward thinking gallerist, albeit using carefully pre-conceived identifiers of contemporary gallery hotness. With its concrete floors, white painted walls and industrial vents, windowed garage door front and perfectly hip street nestled in the shadow of SFMOMA and Yerba Buena, one might think they've stumbled upon a missing block in that larger... Read More

The concurrent solo exhibitions at Catharine Clark Gallery presenting Packard Jennings and Felipe Dulzaides made use of the unexamined life under scrutiny tying in several cases of suspect: suggestive advertising, target marketing, rediscovered perspective of the everyday, and the challenge of office culture on the human instinct.... Read More