Rich Nyhagen – Deja View, a second look at SF

SEPTEMBER 23 – OCTOBER 9, 2011

ARTIST RECEPTION:  FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 / 6-8 PM

 

Bernal Heights resident, Rich Nyhagen has successfully shown a number of photographic, screen-printed, assemblages at Inclusions Gallery. The assemblages are  based on an  image series of San Francisco’s urban landscape.  Nyhagen’s process involves screen-printing photographic images directly onto thick plexiglass, which can be one large sheet or several smaller sections pieced together.  The printed plexi is then riveted onto a wooden base that is often layered with colored under painting, screen printing and drawing.  The result is graphic, smooth and clean, while maintaining a sense of urban grit.  Nyhagen will be introducing a new group of larger scaled works as well as revisiting some familiar themes for his first solo exhibit at Inclusions Gallery.

Richard Nyhagen has been living and working in San Francisco since 1987.  He received his MFA in Printmaking from San Francisco State University in May, 1995.  He currently teaches screen-printing at City College of San Francisco, Ft. Mason Campus, and at the Mission Cultural Center located in the Mission District of San Francisco.

“The urban landscape is a vast, shifting plane of rapidly changing images, events, and ideas.  The mind takes in what it can and attempts to piece together a coherent narrative.   My work is about perception, and construction of the stories we tell ourselves and others in an attempt to define and know our experience.  But the map is never the territory and the illusion of something solid and real, sooner or later gives way to something more transparent and changing.”     -Rich Nyhagen