Interview with the director of ada Gallery, John Pollard. At Scope London 2006 the gallery exhibited work by Kate Woodliff, Spahr Brothers, Daniel Davidson, Eric Sall, A.J. Liberto, Bruce Wilhelm, Casey Jex Smith, Charles Yuen, Tricia Keightley and others. Ada is a small artist run gallery exhibiting contemporary fine art in Richmond Virginia since June of 2003. Specializing in emerging and mid career artists, ada exhibits national and international artists each month. Many of the artists are from Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic region. Scope London International Contemporary Art Fair, October 14, 2006.
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00:00 Hi, I'm John Pollard from ADA Gallery in Richmond, Virginia.
00:05 So we've come a long way to London to be here to take part in this fair.
00:09 I represent a wide range of artists, mostly emerging, some mid-career artists.
00:15 And we're kind of the little guy at this fair, so we couldn't afford a lot of shipping.
00:19 So I brought small works that would fit in a suitcase.
00:23 I show a lot of artists from California, from Richmond, Virginia as well, and a lot of New Yorkers.
00:29 Though most artists from New York aren't really from New York, so that's kind of all over the world, actually.
00:35 So I got my Master's in Painting at the San Francisco Art Institute in the early '90s.
00:41 So I keep in touch with a lot of the artists out there.
00:46 There's a lot of San Franciscans, a lot of Los Angeles artists, and that's kind of the range of my art.
00:52 Well, this girl here, Kate Woodliffe, she used to do these large paper installations.
00:57 And then she had to move to a small studio, so necessity was the mother of invention, so it made her shrink her work down.
01:06 And so she cut up fabric from couches and shirts and all sorts of things, as well as appliqués.
01:13 And it's been making these pieces, these kind of collage pieces.
01:17 And then these two--these three are by two brothers from--they're actually born in Alaska.
01:25 And then they moved to Los Angeles, Huntington Beach, California, where they became surfers.
01:31 So it's kind of a mix between imagery you'd find in Alaska with imagery of the surf culture of L.A.
01:38 And they worked on this together, so they thought--a lot of it's about their childhood.
01:43 This is an artist who lives in Sacramento, and she does large kinetic sculptures.
01:49 So now she's doing these studies for her sculptures.
01:56 This is the work of Daniel Davidson.
01:58 He's an artist who was born in San Francisco and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
02:03 He was one of the precursors to what they call the Mission School now in California.
02:09 He was at school with me in '89 through about '92 out there at the San Francisco Art Institute.
02:15 He creates these with watercolor pencil.
02:18 So the right half he draws, and then he folds the paper in half, soaks the paper.
02:23 So this is a mirror image of the right half.
02:26 So you can see that's a little darker, that's a little lighter.
02:29 So these he calls his mirror images of his friends.
02:32 And obviously this is not a friend with his diamond tooth here.
02:35 This is a lot of it from his imagination.
02:37 That's his friend Bijan right there.
02:41 And he's a real facile drawer.
02:43 He's a real amazing artist, very funny guy.
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