SAN FRANCISCO HAPPENINGS
by Brian Andrews
"...For last month’s "Albedo," Sept. 29-Oct. 26, 2007, a group show considering global warming, the Eleanor Harwood Gallery invited a diverse group of artists to respond to the looming crisis. While some artists simply presented landscapes -- a rather lazy take on the issue -- several others offered insight into what is arguably one of the more challenging political, economic and environmental issues of this century. Tracy Timmins Charms to Ward off Global Warming ($350) binds various knobs and thermostats to a wire charm reminiscent of bones on a shaman’s fetish. The necklace is presented in a vitrine, as if it were to be studied as anthropological evidence of a culture past."
photo from Artnet.com
