PAST EXHIBITIONS:

CHRIS SOLLARS

Opening Reception Friday, March 12, 6-8 PM

Come Walk With Me: A love street flock down 3-D total environment "Happening" with SF sound explosions from the love generation, Clothing Swap, and Homemade Food and Brew for the bi-coastal American feel good machine.

SUITE 106 Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Chris Sollars. Come Walk With Me is part 2 of a trilogy based on the rise, fall, and rebirth of three pop culture icons of Sports, Religion, and Rock: Bjorn Borg, Jesus Christ, and Kurt Cobain.

Come Walk With Me, is a free historical walking tour of San Francisco, lead by J.C. a pseudo Jesus Hippie Guy, that starts in the Haight/Ashbury, winds its way through historical downtown San Francisco, and ends on a magic carpet ride over the city. The Tour is edited in a multi-cam perspective, pans from tourist to tourist as they capture the history of San Franciso and J.C.'s message. Featured in the Sunday September 29, 2002 Denver Post travel section article Flower Power Tours Revisit Haight Ashbury - J.C. is bringing back the love.

The Come Walk With Me Tour and Magic Carpet Ride videos play on television set in a recreated late 60's- early 70's era hangout. Viewers are invited to immerse themselves in the environment by crashing on pillows and rugs to watch the videos, spin San Francisco vinyl, read books and periodicals of the era, and flip though photo albums of the tour. A wall size God's Eye, posters, and other memorabilia hang in the room beside "adolescent" drawings on old notebook paper that blur fantasies of an idealized era with westernized Christian iconography.

Bjorn Again is the first part of the trilogy consisting of a video recreation of the 1980 U.S. Open Final between Bjorn Borg and Chris in a skirt as his female alter ego. It was first shown at SUITE 106 Gallery's booth in NADA and is currently showing in Mulitplex at Smack Mellon, curated by Eve Sussman and Kathleen Gilrain though March 7.

All Sisters and Brothers are asked to bring items of clothing and good vibes for the free clothes swap experience. Homemade food and brew complements of J.C. will be provided for the people on the night of the opening. PEACE & LOVE

Chris Sollars is a San Francisco based artist born in Indiana and raised both there and in Maine. He graduated in 1998 with a BFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and held residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He is also the director, and curator of 667Shotwell, a project space for artists in his home since 2001. Sollars's work is in the collections of the Berkeley Art Museum and the Miami Art Museum.

For further information, please contact Irena Popiashvili or Marisa Newman.