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	Exhibitions Crochet Reef Showing in Los Angeles Jan 10 - Feb 21, 2009 New York and Chicago Reefs in Staten Island Sept 27 - Dec 20, 2008 UK Reef Tour Autumn 2008 Plastic Exploding Inevitable Reef Showing in San Francisco Sept 7 - Oct 3, 2008 Report On The Crochet Reef Exhibition At The Hayward Gallery June 11-August 17, 2008 Crochet Reef Symposium at Southbank Center Friday June 13, 2008 Crochet Reef Showing in London June 11-August 17, 2008 Crochet Reef Showing in New York April 6 - May 18, 2008 The Hyperbolic Crochet Cactus Garden at the Wignall Museum - Chaffey College January 29 - March 1, 2008 The Hyperbolic Crochet Cactus Garden at the David Weinberg Collection October 26 - December 29, 2007 The Crochet Coral Reef At The Chicago Cultural Center October 13 - December 16, 2007 The Crochet Coral Reef At The Andy Warhol Museum 6 Billion Perps Held Hostage! Artists Address Global Warming March 11 – June 17, 2007 The Logic Alphabet of Shea Zellweger The Museum of Jurassic Technology Opening reception March 3 2007 Inventing Kindergarten Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery At Art Center College of Design October 13, 2006 – January 7, 2007 Hyperbolic Cactus Garden + Hyperbolic Kelps At Fair Exhange during the LA County Fair Pomona Fairgrounds September 8- October 1st 2006 The Business Card Menger Sponge An exhibition at Machine Project gallery Los Angeles – August 26-September 24 2006 Crocheting the Hyperbolic Plane An exhibition at Machine Project gallery Los Angeles – July 2005 Philosophical Toys An exhibition at Apex Art New York – June/July 2005 Lithium Legs and Apocalyptic Photons An exhibition at the Santa Monica Museum of Art April 20 - June 9 2002	plastic exploding inevitable reef
		is showing in San Francisco at Right Window at ATA 992 Valencia at 21st Street, San Francisco Exhibition Dates: Sept 7 - Oct 3, 2008 Opening Reception: September 7, 5-8 p.m. Project Talk at 6pm by IFF co-director Christine Wertheim.

		Plastic rubbish anemone tree form by Barbara Wertheim, with surrounding sea-creatures by Nadia Severns made from discarded plastic water bottles embellished with crochet flanges. Photos © The Institute For Figuring, by Vincent Dachy.
		During September 2008, the IFF's Plastic Exploding Inevitable Reef will be showing at Right Window at ATA in San Francisco, an exhibition organized by famed Bay Area experimental writer Dodie Bellamy. This amazing all-plastic installation is the latest spawn of the IFF's Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef project. Curated and designed by Christine Wertheim (the IFF's reigning queen of plastic) this delicate, psychedelic installation features electric-pink Jelly-Yarn "sand" by Kathleen Greco; a clutch of craft-lace anemones adorned with plastic beads by Evelyn Hardin; a grove of bottle tree forms by Nadia Severs and Barbara Wertheim; and a tiny exquisite sea-scape painted on the inside of a plastic take-out food container by Alicia Escott. In the decades since Andy Warhol created his "Exploding Plastic Inevitable", the original multimedia component of his now-infamous Factory, the words he strung together have taken on a more sinister edge. In the hands of the IFF and a subset of our most irrepressible contributors the name has been morphed to inspire an installation that calls attention to the alarming problem of plastic trash that is inundating our oceans. Contributors to the Plastic Exploding Inevitable: Kathleen Greco (pink plastic Jelly-Yarn sand); Evelyn Hardin (craft-lace anemones and white spires); Nadia Severns and Barbara Wertheim (bottle trees); Sarah Simons, Margaret Wertheim and Christine Wertheim (anemones); Arlene Mintzer (black craft-lace jelly-fish); Ildiko Szabo (flourescent coral forms); Alicia Escott (painted take-out box seascape). More information about this exhibition can be seen at http://rightwindow.blogspot.com/ More information about the issue of plastic trash in our ocean can be see here: http://www.theiff.org/reef/reef4.html

		The Plastic Exploding Inevitable Reef at ATA in San Francisco (September 2008). Photos by Christine Wertheim.

		Barbara Wertheim's bottle trees at center, with EmergenC rubbish coral by Christine in front and bottle tree corals by Nadia Severns at right.

		Jelly yarn sand by Kathleen Greco and white spires by Eveyln Hardin.

		Miniature coral-reef painting on plastic take-out food box by Alicia Escott.

		Crocheted video tape kelp form by Christine, with black hanging jelly-fish by Arlene Mintzer, white plastic tube-worms by Margaret, and craft-lace corals by Evelyn Hardin.

		Front window at ATA in downtown San Francisco.
© 2008 The Institute for Figuring