Suite Five Salon announces an exhibition of work by San Francisco artist Emily Sevier, October 4 – December 1, 2007. A reception for the artist will be held on Thursday, October 4, from 6:00 to 7:30pm.

Emily Sevier is a San Francisco-based artist whose work explores and questions contemporary concepts of beauty. Working in both two- and three-dimensional formats and employing a deliberately childlike aesthetic, Sevier examines the normative social values that underlie our assumptions about what is good and what is bad.

Sevier draws on fables and fairy tales to create sculptures, paintings, and drawings whose simplicity of form and playful, lighthearted references to romantic ideals belie the sincerity of its critical subject, which is, in Sevier’s words, “a sugarcoated grotesque of the human quest for perfection and attempt to improve upon nature.”

Emily Sevier is an artist, arts administrator and independent curator. She has exhibited in the Bay Area and abroad, and has curated shows for organizations including Southern Exposure and Mission 17. In her life as an arts administrator Emily has worked with Southern Exposure, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the James Irvine Foundation, and the Center for Cultural Innovation. Emily received her BFA in 1999 from Washington University in St. Louis with an emphasis on painting and minor in art history. For more information about Emily Sevier and her work, contact emilyseviergirl@yahoo.com.

Suite Five Salon features bimonthly, rotating art installations highlighting contemporary artists from San Francisco. The salon holds free bimonthly openings in conjunction with downtown’s First Thursdays. Please contact 415-362-5005 for more information.