Baer Ridgway Exhibitions at Seattle Ambach & Rice
January 21st - February 5th, 2011

Baer Ridgway Exhibitions is pleased to announce an upcoming group show of gallery artists titled
"Beneath The Picture" in Seattle, Washington. This satellite exhibition has been made possible by the
generous collaboration of Ambach & Rice, who have offered their exhibition space to Baer Ridgway
Exhibitions while they simultaneously exhibit a solo show of new work by Eric Yahnker in Los Angeles.
"Beneath The Picture" addresses the varied practice of appropriation as seen among the artists of Baer
Ridgway Exhibitions. Whether culling images from disparate online sources and situating them in new
contextual archives, imbuing photographs with alternative significance by transposing them across
mediums, or troubling the physicality of the image surface by marking, obscuring and manipulating, the
works included in this exhibition highlight the mutability of the viewer's experience of a picture and present
opportunities for reinterpretation and re-inscription of pictures that have already lived.
"We are not in search of sources or origins, but of structures of signification: beneath the picture there is
always another picture."
-Douglas Crimp "Pictures", October, no. 8, Spring 1979

We now take this condition to be the rule rather than the exception. Each image encountered today is
projected into a spiraling frenzy of multiplication and (re)presentation across the collective global screen.
Images are summoned and dismissed, they float before us and disappear. They are divorced from place
and time, leaving only the chain of signifiers composed by these viewings. This exhibition presents works
from a group of artists engaged in the "stratigraphic activity" of plying the links and connections that lie
beneath the surface of the appropriated image.

Exhibiting artists:
castaneda/reiman, San Francisco, CA
Tyler Cufley: Seattle, WA
Brendan Lott: Los Angeles, CA
Sean McFarland: San Francisco, CA
Cassandra C. Jones: New York, NY
TV Moore: Sydney, Australia
Wolfgang Ganter: Berlin, Germany
Brion Nuda Rosch, San Francisco, CA