Portentology
With collaborations by Sarah Cathers, Anna Nearburg, and John Zane Zappas
2017
Exhibited at:
Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA
Press Coverage:
Divination of meaning through drugs + religion in Nando Alvarez-Perez’s Portentology at Interface Gallery, AQNB
Portentology at Interface Gallery, VSCO Community Spotlight
Existential Coping Complex I (The Pastel City)
Amethyst sourced by Anna Nearburg
Ash tray by John Zane Zappas
Dye-sublimation print on aluminum, tempered glass, chrome brackets, amethyst geode, Up the Walls of the World by James Tiptree Jr., Shikasta by Doris Lessing, The Cat: a Tale of Feminine Redemption by Marie-Louise von Franz, Flesh and Gold by Phyllis Gottlieb, Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson, ceramic vase, Dark Heart Dream Queen marijuana clone, soil, wooden ash tray, indica ash, ceramic tile, found images, Polaroid
Dowsing Unit I (Pantaliamon)
Pendulum Dowser by Sarah Cathers
Dye-sublimation print on aluminum, pendulum dowser (silicon carbide, plastidip, sterling silver)
Dowsing Unit II (Wild Seed)
Pendulum Dowser by Sarah Cathers
Dye-sublimation print on aluminum, pendulum dowser (black tourmaline, plastidip, sterling silver)
Existential Coping Complex II (City of Illusions)
Chalcedony sourced by Anna Nearburg
Ash tray by John Zane Zappas
Dye-sublimation print on aluminum, tempered glass, chrome brackets, blue chalcedony, The Snail on the Slope by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Nebula Maker and Four Encounters by Olaf Stapledon, The Centauri Device by M. John Harrison, The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe, The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester, ceramic vase, Purple City Shapeshifter marijuana clone, soil, wooden ash tray, sativa ash, ceramic tile, found images, Polaroid
Oracle Table
Coins designed by Emily Ebba Reynolds
Extruded aluminum table, glass, nanopigment print on silk charmeuse, coins, I Ching: the Book of Changes trans. by Wilhelm and Baynes, notebook, faux-Eames rocking chairs
