CLIFF HENGST and WAYNE SMITH TWO SOLO EXHIBITIONS

September 10 - October 29, 2010

Opening reception on Friday September 10 from 6 - 9pm

CLIFF HENGST: NEW WORK

Gallery 16 is pleased to welcome back to the gallery CLIFF HENGST for a solo exhibition of new work. CLIFF HENGST is an artist based in San Francisco, California. His wall drawings, paintings and performances have been included in numerous exhibition including Marella Arte (Milan, Italy) and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA). He has worked collaboratively with Larry Rinder at Testsite in Austin Texas and with Scott Hewicker on Good Times: Bad Trips, a book dedicated to the phenomena of the bad drug trip. Over 50 contributor —including noted artists Devendra Banhart, Tony Labat and Chris Johanson—recount their bad trips, and their stories are paired with photographs, paintings and collages by Hewicker and Hengst.





WAYNE SMITH: NEW WORK

WAYNE SMITH is a visual and sound artist. His work has been shown nationally and internationally, most recently at ATA's Right Window, and 2nd Floor Projects in San Francisco; Exile, Berlin and Derek Eller Gallery, New York. Recording as Aero-Mic’d, Smith has released several cds, employing combinations of field recordings, improvisation, and digital manipulation. Smith was the recipient of a residency fellowship at Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, California, in summer 2009. He currently lives in San Francisco.