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SF Weekly
Keith Bowers • July 7, 2011
Photos and Video from Ruin Me, Where Patrons Made an Exhibit Look Like a Crime Scene
"Catharsis." That's one way to look at this exhibit. The opening for Erin Gallup and Scott Weiser's "Ruin Me" at Fivepoints Arthouse on Friday was exactly what it sounds like. Gallup prepared four walls of artwork and suspended implements of destruction from the ceiling, including a hammer, a mitre saw, a corkscrew, a knife, and numerous heavy ink pens. Weiser provided the electronic score and set up a mixing board through which the music could be abruptly and randomly rearranged by anyone who cared to do so.
"Ruin Me" was a perfect setup for catharsis. Just that day, Gallup had resigned from a corporate tech job in Sunnyvale that she described as soul-sucking. Her most recent exhibits had left her exhausted and disillusioned. Gallup put the artwork up for sale -- pricing it at less than what she'd paid for the material. It had all the makings of a soul-destroying ritual, in which one would expect Gallup and Weiser to scream, orchestrate the destruction, shed tears, and fall to the floor, beating it like a jilted lover pounding on a locked door.
Yet Gallup was calm, level-headed, disciplined, pleasant. Her cool demeanor was not creepy or eerie, which sort of made it more creepy and eerie. Weiser was unassuming to the point that if you didn't know he was the sound artist, you wouldn't have suspected him. Our guess? They let the show's visitors channel their rage and frustration. And, God almighty, those visitors had their way with this exhibit. Keep reading to see what it looked like. MORE...
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SF Weekly
Keith Bowers • June 30, 2011
'Ruin Me' Is an Art Exhibit that Dares You to Wreck It -- Er, Alter It
This exhibit is a wreck. Which is to say, you, the visitors, get to wreck works of art. Or, to use a term chosen by the artists, "alter" them. And if you want to keep what you've wrecked -- er, altered -- you can buy it. Or someone else can. The artists also wreck (not alter) some things, channeling collective rage and frustration in doing so. It's called "Ruin Me," and it happens Friday night at Fivepoints Arthouse.
The works to be altered are by Erin Gallup -- and you can see in the video clip above that she's done numerous experimental shows in the past where viewers help create the exhibit. This time around, her works include framed photos, prints, and paintings. Various implements -- scissors, markers, fabric cutters, and hammers -- are suspended from the ceiling near each work.
Gallup and sound artist Scott Weiser collaborate on a performance that has them shredding "artifacts" from previous exhibitions. They say they aim to embody the frustration of many people who are "out of work and out of options." MORE...
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EcoSalon
Rowena Ritchie • January 6, 2011
Be a Fashion Locavore
We’ve been scratching our heads wondering why the “slow fashion” movement is, well, slower to catch on than its widely embraced cousin, “slow food.”
A new shopping website aims to usher in a change of pace by offering the chance to buy your clothes just like you do your dinner – hand picked for quality, locally grown and providing that feel good buzz you get for supporting local business.
Recently launched in the Bay Area, EkoTable is giving style-loving shoppers an online resource for finding locally designed fashion and accessories. Sure to become a trend in communities throughout the U.S. concerned with boosting their local economy, EkoTable also provides customers an opportunity to meet up-and-coming designers and help designers to show their work to a wider audience.
EkoTable founder Erin Gallup answers a couple of questions and shows us how simple it is to keep both our waistlines and our closets lean in 2011. Because lets face it, all that fast fashion is just as ultimately unsatisfying as easy but greasy takeout, isn’t it? MORE...
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Art Business (bottom of page)
Alan Bamberger • August 28, 2010
EkoTable at 5 Claude: Introducing EkoTable.
I'm told that this is the debut of EkoTable, a website designed to match creative talent with producers all here in the Bay Region, the endgame being to take back our economy, to manufacture and shop locally, and in so doing, to stop sending our hard-earned dollars to foreign countries like China and Los Angeles (kidding... I actually love LA). As for the show, I'm partial to the furniture and wall works of John Whitmarsh. Coffee tables made from used pallet wood-- impressive.
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Alan Bamberger • March 7, 2009
Fivepoints Arthouse: Erin Gallup - The Usa Family Estate.
And tonight's winner is Erin Gallup for "The Usa Family Estate" (with musical accompaniment by Scott Weiser). So here's the deal-- Gallup strafes local secondhand stores to acquire select personal effects like clothes, reading matter, old photos, eyeglasses, exercise equipment, jewelry, toys, and more, and uses it all to concoct a fictitious family-- the Usa's-- "patriarch Donald, his wife Thelma, their children Donald, Richard, Judith and William, grandchildren Jennifer, Brian, Michael and Emily, and great-grandchild Matthew." How does she do it? By sagely sorting, organizing, and arranging her purchases in such a way that each resulting group of belongings comes to represent one member of the Usa family. You peruse her various arrangements and kinda feel like you know the personalities of the so-called owners. Admirably convincing. Plus there's a performance culminating in a mock auction of the Usa family belongings (which I sadly can't stay for). Well done; go see.
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San Franicsco Magazine
The It List • July 7, 2008
Three female artists, 48 hours, and one canvas: It's going to get interesting when Erin Gallup, Betty Blake, and Kristie Rolke Smith take part in a live art installation, "The Sentient Painting." The artists will interact with viewers as they work for two days straight and let the creativity fly. July 12, 12 PM through July 14, 12 PM. Live Worms Gallery, 1345 Grant Ave., North Beach.
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San Franicsco Bay Guardian
Johnny Ray Huston • July 25, 2007
Visual Art / Performance "Justification for Grooming"
Does beauty lie in the eye of the beholder or, as Kim Gordon once droned, does beauty lie? Erin Gallup's "Justification for Grooming" might not set out to definitively answer those questions, but — in using an actual hair salon as a setting to examine the habits humans fall into while attempting to look good — it's likely to brush up against them. Gallup will present a one-time-only six-hour music score that she put together with Scott Weiser that makes use of samples from beauty product commercials on radio and television. At 7:29 p.m., she'll allow members of the audience to "take a cut" of her hair, a ritual that suggests a more directly physical update of Yoko Ono's Cut Piece.
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The Daily Candy
The Weekend Guide • July 26, 2007
SEE Justification for Grooming
What: Artist Erin Gallup’s multimedia installation explores the psychology of beauty rituals.
Why: High-minded maintenance.
When: Sun., 6 p.m.-midnight; ceremony starts at 7:29 p.m.
Where: Moxie Parlour, 1920 Market St., at Laguna St.
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The Weekend Guide • November 2, 2006
SEE : Smells like teen spirit this weekend. 16
What: Multimedia project from two up-and-comers featuring repurposed artwork created during their teenage years.
Why: Portrait of the artists as young girls.
When: Sat., 5-9 p.m.
Where: A. Muse Gallery, 614 Alabama St., at 18th St.
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