Opening Shots from Chris Ritson

Thanks to everyone that made it out - there were a lo of you.

More photos of the work on the way

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Show runs until Feb 26th

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Artist Chris Ritson talking with SFAI professor and painter Jeremy Morgan

Chris Ritson Solo Show

Ever Gold Gallery Is please to announce their first biyearly residency program. With our growing desire to work with artists who create full scale mixed media installations we have decided to help aid this process by allowing two, three week installation periods in January and August. This will allow our artists to transform the viewer's perception of the gallery space and create a site-specific work, thus pushing the traditional ideas of a commercial gallery show by allowing emerging artists to work in a museum like environment.

Chris Ritson

In the Kingdom of Charisma

…depicting the innate power of circumstance…

Opening reception: Thursday, February 3^rd.

Show runs until Saturday, February 26^th.

A celebration of our anxieties pertaining to the body, identity, and nature: "In the Kingdom of Charisma" is a multi-media exhibit created during a three weeklong residency at Ever Gold Gallery. Through installation, video and images created by growing crystals, organisms and media collages, Chris Ritson represents the nuances of how we construct an individual identity distinct from the vast cosmology that animates our lives.

In the presence of an expansive and seemingly divine gift, our opinions become entranced. The power of charisma can be traced like a current through the annals of history, possessing kings and criminals alike. Charisma is an esoteric science; existing, by definition, as a gift from beyond the human realm, and accessible to a select few. It emanates from those who are set apart by a persuasive, interpersonal power; those who we reference through shared narrative, the archetypes and gods, dictators and celebrities.

Chris Ritson has a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and is one of the 2011 Headlands Center for the Arts Residency finalists. Ritson has shown in two group shows at Ever Gold in 2009 and 2010, this will be his first solo show with the gallery.

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Ever Gold Gallery has been open since January 2009 and is dedicated to showing emerging and mid career artists in all mediums. Ever Gold is proudly supported by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation.

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Chris Ritson Solo Show

For the first show of our third year, Ever Gold Gallery is pleased to announce the start of our biyearly residence program. We will be closed from January 8th- February 2nd for a site specific solo installation by SFAI alumni and 2011 Headlands Center for the Arts Residency winner, Chris Ritson.

In the Kingdom of Charisma

Opening reception, Thursday February 3rd

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A celebration of our anxieties pertaining to the body, identity, and nature: "In the Kingdom of Charisma" is a multimedia exhibit created during a three week long residency at Ever Gold Gallery.

By growing crystals and organisms alongside intricate media collages, the resulting installation, video, images and sculptures of Chris Ritson embody the nuances of how we construct an individual identity, distinct from the vast cosmology that animates our lives.

More info to come...