San Francisco, February 23, 2016– Bass & Reiner Gallery is pleased to present Hunker Down, featuring new works by Mie Hørlyck Mogensen and May Wilson for the inaugural exhibition at 1275 Minnesota Street. Responding to the untouched gallery space, Mogensen and Wilson have been enlisted to prepare the gallery for its future inhabitants–art viewers, art workers, and art objects–through a temporary installation.

In art spaces, such as the white cube galleries we’ve grown accustomed to, it's imperative to exercise the utmost standards of safety. All too often, art patrons are caught in unsafe conditions such as anxiety due to overcrowding, headaches caused by odd lighting, mishaps with small objects on the floor, concern about “you break it you buy it” policies, or feeling terrorized by the aggressive intent of the artist. Mogensen and Wilson promise no such harms in this gallery space. The artists will create a safe, comfortable, sheltered space in gallery 207 of Minnesota Street Project. After spending months in hard hats embracing the practicalities of physical safety, we’ll now inhabit the protective interiors of a contemporary art gallery. One can never be too safe.

Mie Hørlyck Mogensen (b. November 29) is based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Investigating how function determines form, Mogensen creates new and never before seen objects and their functions, her work is an invitation to a game where everything can happen at her say. Her practice moves seamlessly between sculpture, drawing, and video. After receiving her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2013, she returned to Denmark and was awarded the 2014 KE-Prize from Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling . Her work has also been exhibited extensively throughout California including shows at Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, Los Angeles; City Limits Gallery, Oakland; Root Division, San Francisco; and The Torrance Museum of Art, Torrance.

May Wilson (b. November 29) is based in San Francisco, and is currently an affiliate artist at Headlands Center for the Arts. Wilson typically works within a set of self-imposed limitations: economy of means, finite time, and flimsy fabric reacting to immense weight. The result of these time based, three-dimensional sketches, are abstracted figural constructions composed of concrete, vinyl, nylon, and other materials. They are bounded by the personal scale of their maker, and ask their audience to anthropomorphize them into characters with strong human traits. Wilson received her MFA from University of California, Davis in 2013 and was a graduate fellow at Headlands Center for the Arts in 2013-14. Her work has been exhibited at the di Rosa Foundation, Napa; Interface Gallery, Oakland; Aggregate Space, Oakland; and Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin; among others.