Youngsuk Suh
Maude Léonard-Contant
Genevieve Quick
Frances Young
Not only is Kala Art Institute walking distance from my house, they also have a killer residency program and are currently exhibiting work by four of the nine artists selected as their 2010-11 Fellows. I fell hard for Davis photographer Youngsuk Suh's wildfire images when I first saw them out at Headlands earlier this year, and his latest images in that same serious are absolute revelations, the barest flickers of fire visible through vast obfuscating screens of smoke. The other artwork in the show is equally mesmerizing, from Maude Léonard-Contant's palm tree shrines to Genevieve Quick's stop-motion Mars lander to Frances Young's collage of local imagery recorded on film and video. Try to make it to Kala before this half of the show comes down this weekend, but also visit again in September for part two with work by remaining residency artists Elisheva Biernoff, Jennie Ottinger, Renee Gertler, Jessica Ingram, and Zachary Royer Scholz.
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