Saved! March 3rd — 23rd, 2007.

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About The Show

Saved! — Oakland's Jake Watling and Bill Dunlap join to visually fine-tune and enhance our collective sense our understanding of salvation in Receiver's latest colorful, visionary two-man exhibition.

Exploring the meaning behind the word “Saved!“, each artist briefly describes his works below.

Jake Watling: Led by his desire to reconcile the two contrasting characterizations of the term “salvation”—one version depicted to him throughout his childhood, the other, based on his own quest for spiritual salvation as an adult—Jake Watling has created a series of paintings that explore what it really means to be “saved”. Combining childhood memories, the streetscape of his current environment, and religious imagery from a variety of faiths, these paintings utilize a graphic style, with a bright color palette that is formed by simplifying the given imagery and extracting colors used within the urban environment.

Bill Dunlap: For me, saved is simply a word used to identify those things we choose not to discard for one reason or another. The word has no religious overtones for me. Anyone claiming to be saved (in the religious sense of the word) invariably strikes me as being hopelessly lost. I am adamantly non-religious and am generally disgusted by all forms of religion and ritual. I save my time for quiet, art, and nature. My pieces in this show are the products of that saved time.

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Artist Biographies

 

Bill Dunlap

Bill Dunlap is an artist who splits his time between San Francisco, CA and Cumberland, MD. His art has been shown in over 50 group and solo shows in museums, art centers, and galleries across the country. His drawings and illustrations have appeared in and on the covers of magazines and newspapers nationwide. He was a Spring 2006 Fellow and Artist-in-Residence at The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His work is influenced in part by the rich Appalachian folk art traditions of rural Western Maryland and West Virginia where he grew up, as well as folk, primitive, and outsider art worldwide.

Bill Dunlap has a master’s degree from the Design and Industry department of the College of Creative Arts at San Francisco State University, and a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from the University of Maryland.

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Jake Watling

Jake Watling ’s work was most recently displayed at Geographic Premonitions, the Richmond Art Center & 70th anniversary show; and at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts ’ Sampling Oakland. Watling has exhibited his artwork in Minneapolis, New York City, Oakland, San Francisco, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. He received his BFA from the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota and now lives in Berkeley, California with his wife and dog.

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Opening Photos

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