Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art is pleased to present Controlled Environments, a winter group exhibition featuring Kim Keever, Davida Nemeroff, Christine Nguyen, Heidi Norton, and Wintergarten, Ltd.

The artists of Controlled Environments explore the ties between nature and artifice, and the interplay of environments natural and built, interior and exterior, physical and psychological. Their approaches range from an observational sense of remove from the objects and places portrayed, to a surreal reverence and near-immersion into them, while their methods draw upon juxtaposition, context, and a heightened scrutiny of objects and their given surroundings.

About the Artists

All five artists have exhibited extensively in museums and galleries across the U.S. and abroad. With the exceptions of Kim Keever and Heidi Norton, this will be the artists' first exhibition in San Francisco.  

Kim Keever, increasingly recognized for his unusual aquatic diorama-based photographs, lives and works in NYC.  In 2011 he exhibited at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York and the Contemporary Arts Center of Virginia.  He is profiled in the current edition of Art Ltd.  

Davida Nemeroff is a Canadian multimedia artist currently based in Los Angeles, where she is the director of the Night Gallery; she received her MFA from Columbia University.  

Christine Nguyen's works are part of the Armand Hammer Museum and Getty Research Institute collections, among others; she recently mounted a solo exhibition in Hong Kong.  She is based in Los Angeles.  

Heidi Norton was recently reviewed in Frieze Magazine.  Her works reside in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Art Institute of Chicago.