Gipe + Tell
Some Men
October 29 – December 9, 2016
Opening Reception: October 29, 2016 2-5pm
Gipe+Tell is a collaboration of Oakland-based artists Lawrence Gipe and Sarah Tell. Since 2013, G+T have maintained a joint studio practice, exhibiting as an art team and curating group exhibitions in the Bay Area.
In 2013, they organized and curated the exhibition MASAttack:LAX/SFO, which combined 30 San Francisco artists and 30 Los Angeles-based artists in a single-night, “relational aesthetic” group show. In 2014, as part of the same series, G+T curated the San Francisco contingent of a 100-artist group show at the Torrance Art Museum. In 2015, they won Root Division’s Curatorial Proposal Grant to organize an exhibition called The Known Universe, an 8-artist show that addressed relationships between art, science and technology (opened March, 2016). Upcoming shows include FaultLine, an exhibition curated by Gipe+Tell for the Open Studio Tour at the Brewery Arts Complex in Los Angeles.
G+T’s collaborative artwork is prompted by a mutual interest in ideological and authoritarian sites, along with shared experiences and narratives that inspire them to combine aesthetic forces. In 2015, Gipe+Tell exhibited together in an installation called Is This Normal? at InSpace Curatorial in the Felt Factory, San Francisco (curated by Hanna Regev). The piece contained images and work completed during a three-month stay in Leipzig, Germany, where they resided at the Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei arts complex. G+T’s second exhibition, Some Men, will open October 29, 2016 at tmoro projects in Santa Clara, CA, and will include a large drawing by Gipe and sculptures by Tell.
