Where I'm Calling From

is pleased to present Where I'm Calling From featuring videos by Dale Hoyt, Jan Peacock,  Anna Shteynshleyger, and Regina Clarkinia and photography by Justine Reyes Reception for the artists, Friday, November 5th, 5-9 exhibition on view October 29th-November 27th "I won't raise my voice. Not even if she starts something. She'll ask me where I'm calling from, and I'll have to tell her. I won't say anything about New Year's resolutions. There's no way to make a joke out of this."                   -Raymond Carver, "Where I'm Calling From" "Where I'm calling from" until relatively recently was a static notion; the phone you were using was stationary, and more often than not you were phoning from home to someone else in their home. Now, the cell phone's mobility, and our general mobility as a society, has shifted that reality and the question of where you are calling from becomes more literal, just as it obscures the surety of notions of "home." Each of the video works in this exhibition employs the phone as the potent, elliptical tool that it is and explores its simultaneous relationship to both place and placelessness, home and distance from home. The photography by Reyes makes palpable the honest yearning of place through her revelatory portraits of her mother and uncle in their home and in hotel rooms in various locales from her series "Home, Away From Home." www.krowswork.com/calling.html Krowswork Gallery 480 23rd St. Oakland, CA 94612