Fecal Face Dot Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Echo Test, a solo exhibition of new pen-and-ink drawings by Los Angeles based artist Mel Kadel.

Thursday, September 10, 2009, 7:00-10:00pm
Fecal Face Dot Gallery 66 Gough Street @ Market St., San Francisco

www.fecalface.com/gallery

Kadel is widely recognized for her lively patterned, often humorous scenes depicting tiny people, pushing, pulling, and climbing across the page. Using earth-toned inks on coffee-stained paper, Kadel’s figures twist, tug and float in a fictional world governed by its own gravitational rules. Limbs, hair and faces merge to create rich patterns in shades of washed-out blue, gold, brown and red.

Echo Test marks Kadel’s first solo show in San Francisco and will include both large and small scale drawings in combination with wall painting, extending the world she depicts on paper onto the gallery walls. Arranged in non-traditional clusters, her drawings will display as a quilt of images, playing off each other to transform the gallery into a quasi- psychedelic mélange of color and pattern.

Works as small as 6”x9” and up to 44”x44” will be available, as well a specially recorded four song EP entitled, ‘Stop That Dreaming’, by Los Angeles band ((sounder)) with original cover-art by Mel Kadel. The limited edition of 100 physical copies (signed and numbered by Kadel) will be available at the reception and an electronic version will be available for download on Fecalface.com. Kadel, along with artists Travis Millard and Michael Sieben can be heard singing on the track ‘Oh Darkness Looming.’ ((sounder)) is the music project of artist/video director Mike Aho.