“Not as bad as all that,” the doctor said easily. “Actually, the ground floor is laid out in what I might almost call concentric circles of rooms; at the center is the little parlor where we sat last night; around it, roughly, are a series of rooms—the billiard room, for instance, and a dismal little den entirely furnished in rose-colored satin—“

“Where Eleanor and I will go each morning with our needlework.”

“—and surrounding these—I call them the inside rooms because they are the ones with no direct way to the outside; they have no windows, you remember- surrounding these are the ring of outside rooms, the drawing room, the library, the conservatory, the—“

“No,” Theodora said, shaking her head. “I am still lost back in the rose-colored satin.”   - Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House 

Et al. etc. is pleased to present Den, featuring new work by Johnny Bicos, Tyler Cross and Justine Rivas. 

Johnny Bicos (b. 1993, Arcadia, CA) lives and works in San Francisco, CA. Recent exhibitions include Imagine, Brand New Gallery (Milan), Let's Get Figurative, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery (New York), Naucht und Träume, Altman Siegel (San Francisco), as well as a solo exhibition, Dead Sea Mud Mask, at 1038 (San Francisco). 

Tyler R. Cross (b. 1992, Lancaster CA) Lives in Oakland  works in San Francisco and Sebastopol. Recent exhibition includes a group show at Forthrite in Oakland. Past exhibitions include a group show at Will Brown gallery. 

Justine Rivas (b. 1991, Scottsdale, AZ) lives and works in San Francisco, CA. She was a recent resident of the Jail Cell Residency Program at Alter Space (San Francisco). Group exhibitions include Do Job, at Ladybug House (San Francisco), Silken Fiction, at Hi-lo Press (Atlanta), Chinese Mermaid, at Dancer IV (San Francisco). She has also participated in the lecture series at Mission comics and has curated several shows at her home in the Mission.