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Richard T. Walker : 'I want to want you like I wanted to want you'
September 20 - October 25, 2008
Opening Reception September 20, 6-9 pm

DCP Project Space, 1928 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Open Thursday - Saturday Noon - 6pm (and by appointment)


'hesitant due to repeated achievement', 2008 - C-type print, mounted 40" x 60" © Richard T. Walker
DCP (David Cunningham Projects) is pleased to announce "I want to want you like I wanted to want you" - a solo exhibition of new and recent work by Bay Area based artist Richard T. Walker. The exhibition includes video installation, digital prints, collage, text, and live performance.

Richard T. Walker's new works in this exhibition are the continuation of an evolving investigation into the natural landscape and its use as a contextual tool to mobilize thoughts and self-reflection. With strong nods towards the European and American Romantic periods, Walker uses spoken dialogue, music and performance to facilitate engagement and analysis that is both contemplative and active. The work questions how we perceive nature as well as how we imagine nature perceiving us. This creates a continual dialogue that challenges our personal and general perceived notions of Landscape and Nature encouraging us to ask questions about how we belong within the contemporary environment and subsequently within our selves and our society.

The central piece in the exhibition "what am we/you/I waiting for?" finds artist and singer/songwriter Will Oldham singing to the landscape in a lament devoted to intense Sublime experiences promised in the 18th century by writers such as Emmanuelle Kant and Edmund Burke but yet to be delivered. As in most of Walker's work there is continual paralleling between an attempt to attain an understanding of (and the consequential unity with) nature and a forever quest for the 'perfect' relationship, (be this to ourselves, a lover or a friend), both of which are rarely achieved.

Richard T. Walker lives and works in San Francisco. He earned his MA from Goldsmiths College, London. His work has been presented in numerous exhibitions, screenings and performances Europe, Japan, China and the USA. He is the recipient of a fellowship from Kala Art Institute in Berkeley California and is currently an affiliate artist at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito California. He is represented by Galeria dels Angels in Barcelona and Elisa Platteau in Brussels. This is his first exhibition with DCP. For more information please visit
www.davidcunninghamprojects.com


additional events


the seed
a proposal for a new branch of the san francisco public library
August 29th - October 18, 2008
special event: September 17, 2008, 12-1 pm, free
Join artists Jesse Schlesinger and Jerome Waag for a lively discussion about the intersection of art and food.
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery - window installation site
155 Grove Street, San Francisco, CA
sfacgallery.org

Art of Democracy: War and Empire
over 40 artists including:
Fernando Botero, Sandow Birk, Hung Liu, Enrique Chagoya, William T. Wiley, Bella Feldman, and Pat Oliphant
Curated by Anne Trueblood Brodzky, DeWitt Cheng, and Art Hazelwood
September 4 - November 4, 2008
closing party: Election Night, November 4, 2008, 7 pm
Meridian Gallery
535 Powell Street, San Francisco, CA
meridiangallery.org

Chad Moore
Oh Bringer of Things!
September 6 - October 4, 2008
opening reception: September 6, 6-9 pm
little tree gallery
3412 22nd Street, San Francisco, CA
littletreegallery.com

Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition
September 6 - October 25, 2008
reception: September 5, 2008, 6-8 pm
Limn Gallery
292 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA
limnartgallery.com

Irreplaceable: Wildlife in a Warming World
Cristina Mittermeier, Paul Nicklen, Norbet Rosing, Staffan Widstrand
Michele Westmorland, Art Wolfe, Tim Laman, Frans Lanting
September 8 - December 31, 2008
Wallace Stegner Environmental Center
San Francisco Main Library, 5th Floor
100 Larkin Street (at Grove), San Francisco, CA
sfpl.org

Reflections of the Bay
First Annual Juried Competition and Art Show to Benefit
The Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco Tenderloin Clubhouse
September 25 - December 2, 2008
opening reception: September 25, 2008, 6-8:30 pm
California Modern Art Gallery
1035 Market Street, San Francisco, CA
mesart.com

Evan Bissell
somewhere in advance of nowhere: youth, imagination and transformation
September 26 - November 22, 2008
opening reception: Friday, September 26, 2008, 6-9 pm, free
Intersection for the Arts
446 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA
theintersection.org


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