Overlap by Beth Goolsby and Anna vanAstro

On view from April 6, 2012 to May 2, 2012.

Reception date is during the Divisadero Art Walk on April 12, 2012

You can purchase works from Overlap here.

Overlap As longtime friends living through mid-thirties transitions, our experiences seemed to converge more intensely than ever. This show is an attempt to find the meaning in that chaos that neither of us, in our separate solitary pursuits, could. Each piece is the product of the hopes, fears and delusions of the days, weeks and months of work that go into it. Sharing our work, as with sharing our paths, we find patterns, overlap.

About the artists:
Beth Goolsby is a painter currently located in Oakland, CA. In April she leaves her home by the bay to relocate to Los Angeles. Born in Texas in 1975, she moved all around the country until finally settling in San Francisco twelve years ago. As a kid Beth was exposed to art through her mother, a painter and sculptor and her grandfather, a photographer. Finding inspiration through the art and design of the Bauhaus, mid-century graphic and product design, as well as the pop culture of the US and Japan, Beth absorbs and assimilates such concepts into a body of work that is uniquely her own.
Her first solo show was at Jellyfish gallery in San Francisco last year. Since then she has consistently shown her work throughout the bay area.

Anna vanAstro was born under the shadow of the Hanford Nuclear Reactor in Washington State in the mid-1970s. Trained in classical ballet, she danced professionally before moving on to teaching and choreography. A degree in Costume Design fused that performing arts background with a childhood spent watching her mother’s whirring hands creating both practical and artistic textile projects--with skills learned, as a matter of necessity, from her own mother and grandmother in a small Korean farming village. Anna tended to her first cross-stitch at age six, and still approaches textiles less an object that covers the body, but more as a fiber with endless opportunities. This is her first foray into what she calls freestyle embroidery.

About Rare Device:
Rare Device is a store and gallery that features functional experiments and original ideas in art, design, craft and fabrication. Owner Giselle Gyalzen constantly seeks out objects that are beautiful, evocative, well constructed and thoughtful. We are pleased to bring to our San Francisco store an ever-growing roster of local, national and international artists and designers for a truly "rare" experience.

Rare Device (raredevice.net) is located at 600 Divisadero Street, at the corner of Hayes. Store/gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday noon to 8pm, Saturday 11am to 7pm and Sunday 11am to 6 pm.

For more information contact: Giselle Gyalzen at info@raredevice.net or 415-863-3969