Enrique Chagoya Margaret Crane| Jon Winet October 6 - 30, 2004 Gallery Paule Anglim announces a new exhibition of works by ENRIQUE CHAGOYA. In this, the artist's sixth solo show at the gallery,Chagoya returns to charcoal drawing in a cartoonish style he masterfully practiced early in his career. Enrique Chagoya has made a place for himself as an artistic and alternative historian. His visual interpretations of current events can involve comparisons of recent and ancient history, or of political icons with Disney icons. Chagoya's artworks provide a chronicle of cultural change with imagery pulled from both art history and cartoons: "My artwork is a conceptual fusion of opposite cultural realities that I have experienced in my lifetime. I integrate diverse elements: from pre-Columbian mythology, western religious iconography and American popular culture." The artist will present large drawings on paper interpreting the President's inner circle in the fantasy language of Disney, and a series of small drawings borrowing from Philip Guston's series of parodies of Nixon as "Tricky Dick". Chagoya updates the satirical suite in Guston's style, replacing Nixon with George W. Bush. The artist explains: "...my (work) is based on the idea that history is told by those who win wars. Previous historic accounts are erased, destroyed or buried in oblivion. A new official story is invented in order to justify the new reality of events....The world is endlessly re-mapped and re-named, with new rules and rulers... Since from this perspective,history is an ideological construction, I decided to invent my own account of the many possible stories--from Cortez to the border patrol..." Enrique Chagoya is currently Professor of Art at Stanford University. His work has been shown internationally and is represented in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the De Young Museum, the LA County Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the New York Public Library. Gallery Paule Anglim announces a new exhibition by MARGARET CRANE | JON WINET . The presentation by collaborators Margaret Crane and Jon Winet will focus on one aspect of their ongoing artistic study of the world of elections. Using new technology to track, document and showcase the images, voices and writing of election culture, the artists are building a web-based portrait of the country in the throws of deciding on its next leader. Over the past fifteen years, the collaboration Margaret Crane|Jon Winet has produced work that revolves around the language and images of the information age, focusing on the psycho-social dynamics of contemporary urban life. They recently launched The Street, a public art project for the San Francisco Arts Commission Art on Market Street Program. They are now engaged in 2004 - America & The Globe, a multi-site, multimedia project that explores the culture surrounding the presidential elections and the current state of democratic practice in America. The public and journalists are encouraged to visit their web-site with a myriad of links. Included in the project is The Houston Chronicles, which will be presented at DiverseWorks in Houston, Texas. Click here for further information on the activities of Margaret Crane and Jon Winet. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, October 7th from 5:30 to 7:30pm.