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To Do List: May

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May is filled with MFA exhibits, art fairs and the 75th Anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge, don’t miss out on these great opportunities to see a wide range of art.

4/21 – 5/11:  San Francisco State University MFA Thesis Exhibition, Fine Arts Building, Fine Arts Gallery, 1600 Holloway Avenue:  Nine emerging artists present new work in ceramics, painting, photography, textiles, printmaking and multimedia.  Showcasing the creativity and diversity in the Art Department’s 3-year MFA program.  Gallery open Wednesday – Saturdays 11am – 4pm.

4/28 – 5/27:  The Last Show on Earth, Mills College MFA Thesis Exhibition, Mills College Art Museum, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland:   The culmination of 2 years of study by a promising group of emerging artists, The Last Show on Earth alludes to both predictions of an imminent global apocalypse and the smaller cataclysm of the completion of graduate school. Museum open Tues – Sunday 11 am – 4pm.

5/10 – 5/19:  California College of Arts MFA Exhibition, 1111 Eight Street at 16th:  The exhibition features works by nearly 50 artists graduating this spring.  The MFA exhibition is part of a larger year-end celebration that includes thesis exhibitions by all seven CCA graduate programs.  Exhibition open 10 am – 7:30 pm daily.

5/11 – 5/13:  San Francisco Art Institute MFA Graduate Exhibition at The Phoenix Hotel, 601 Eddy Street:  The exhibition showcases student work that continues the school’s legacy of innovative thinking and experimentation.  Nearly 100 graduating MFA students working in painting, photography, printmaking, film, sculpture, installation, digital media, performance and across disciplines will transform the iconic Phoenix Hotel for a limited-engagement exhibition.  Exhibition open Noon – 10pm daily.

5/15 – 6/17:  Never Odd or Even, Stanford University MFA Thesis exhibition, Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery, 419 Lausen Mall, Stanford Campus:  Never Odd or Even is a n exhibition of artwork created by 5 graduating artists for their final MFA Thesis.  This exhibit will have a second installation and viewing at Root Division 3175 17th Street, May 23 – June 1, open Wednesday through Saturday 2-6pm.

MFA artists Jordan Perkins-Lewis (SFSU), Melissa Dickenson (CCA), Camilla Newhagan (Mills College), Adam Katseff (Stanford), Laura Hyunjhee Kim (SFAI).

 

5/17 – 5/20  Over these 4 days San Francisco will host 3 different art fairs with a variety of events and performances.  Here are the two fairs we recommend:  ArtPadSF at the iconic Phoenix Hotel is a boutique art fair that focuses on emerging and contemporary art from the Bay Area and beyond.  ArtMRKT at the Concourse Exhibition Center is a contemporary and modern art fair featuring 70 galleries from around the globe.  

The 2011 opening night party for ArtPadSF at the Phoenix Hotel

 

In Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge there are two International Orange exhibits that are a must see:  May 14th – August 4th, International Orange: The Bridge Re-Imagined at the Mills Building, 200 Montgomery Street.  Presented by the San Francisco Arts Education Project, students from participating elementary, middle and high schools around the city will display paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, and mixed media creations honoring the bridge.  May 25th – October 28th, International Orange a FOR-SITE Foundation project at historic Fort Point features work by 16 contemporary artists presenting new work responding to the bridge as icon, historic structure, and conceptual inspiration.

Collaboration #1, acrylic on canvas, Artist Teacher: Richard Olsen, Gateway High School and McKinley Elementary 12th Grade and 1st Grade

 

To Do List: April

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Take some time in April to visit art South and North of San Francisco:

Through May 12, 2012:  Younhee Paik:  Ascending River, San Jose ICA, 560 South First Street, San Jose:    Take a trip to San Jose to see the California premier of Younhee Paik’s large-scale, immersive installation Ascending River.  “Paik’s dynamic, unframed paintings are hung from the ceiling like sails and laid out under a plexiglass-covered floor, enveloping the viewer in an immersive other-worldly environment.  The works are complex in color and texture and filled with motifs of light that seem to radiate from the canvases.  Celestial and water imagery abound, as do recurring imagery of ships and architectural drawings of cathedral floor plans. Through the use of these images, Paik makes a connection between the world of experience and the world of the unknown while challenging our conventional notions of space and time.  The installation also includes a place for the viewer to lie down, relax, and listen to music with headphones. ” – SJICA

Younhee Paik, "Ascending River". Image courtesy of Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

Also don’t miss the window installation Everything is in Motion by San Jose artist Emanuela Harris-Sintamarian:

Emanuela Harris-Sintamarian, "Everything is in Motion". Image courtesy SJICA

 

March 30 – September 23, 2012  Mexicanisimo Through Artists’ Eyes at the San Jose Museum of Art, 110 South Market Street, San Jose.  This exhibition features works by a new generation of Mexican and Mexican-American artists who are fascinated by traditional techniques, yet they create cutting-edge conceptual artwork.  Mexico City-based artist Betsabee Romero carves tires with pre-Columbian icons and symbols in order to satirize Mexico’s machismo car culture.  Margarita Cabrera’s series Arbol de la Vida  combines issues of contemporary art practices, indigenous Mexican folk art and craft traditions and US-Mexico relations.  The sculptures depict actual tools used on small farms in the agricultural communites throughout the United States.  Dating back to the Olmec times, the traditional Mexican craft theme of Tree of Life embodies the tools with an assortment of ceramic birds, butterflies, flowers and leaves.

Betsabee Romero, "Espiral Sin Fin", 5 carved tires. Image courtesy SJMA

Margarita Cabrera, "Cerrucho (Saw)" and "Pala (shovel)", ceramic, slip paint, and hardware. Images courtesy of Walter Maciel Gallery

 

April 15th, 27th, 29th and on-going, Oliver Ranch Tours, Geyserville.  Located in the heart of Sonoma County, 70 miles north of San Francisco, the Oliver Ranch is home to 18 remarkable site-specific installations.  The picturesque 100-acre property was originally bought by Steve and Nancy Oliver in 1981 to graze a few extra sheep from, as Steve says, “My daughter’s 4-H project gone bad.” The ranch’s evolution from exiled sheep quarters to world-renowned sculpture ranch was gradual and organic, a natural convergence of the Olivers’ longstanding passion for art and deep connection to the land.  The Oliver Ranch Foundation now make tours available to non-profit organizations who can then offer the tour as an auction item or on a cost-per-ticket basis.  You must purchase a ticket (from $75-$150) from one of the scheduled non-profit organizations listed on their tours page.  The best part of the tour is that Steve Oliver leads it himself, describing the artist’s process as they respond to the land and create their site-specific piece.

Richard Serra, "Snake Eyes and Boxcars" (Six pairs of forged hyper-dense corten steel blocks)

Ann Hamilton's cast concrete tower performance space. Walking down Bruce Nauman's cast concrete staircase.

 

Ongoing through June 10th, Color Theory:  The Use of Color in Contemporary Art, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, 551 Broadway, Sonoma.  This exhibit, guest curated by Katrina Traywick of Traywick Contemporary, celebrates and explores the meaning, usage and significance of color within the context of contemporary art. Employing non-traditional materials and processes, nine artists engage the foundations of color theory in ways that are entirely contemporary. The exhibition ultimately illustrates that color is not only to be seen, but also experienced.

Charles LaBelle, "Driftworks - Miami (colors)", compound photograph. Image courtesy of Traywick Contemporary

 

Lucrecia Troncoso, "Not MY Tongue Tied", plastic latex, cardboard, thumbtacks. Chris Duncan, "Cornered", string, wood and mirror. Images courtesy Traywick Contemporary.

 

 

 

 

To Do List: March

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San Francisco has a long standing history of artist-run non-profit art spaces.  This month we recommend checking out a few of the most established ones that foster the emerging art scene.   

Through March 10th, Adriane Colburn’s Of Darkness at The Luggage Store Gallery, 1007 Market Street.    Twenty-five years ago The Luggage Store, also known as the 509 Cultural Center, started as a volunteer collective.  Today they continue to organize exhibitions, performing arts events, arts education and public art programs.  For their current media installation, artist Adriane Colburn uses her travels with scientists who study climate change in remote terrains to create elaborate cut-paper pieces, wood sculpture, digital images and video. The works in Of Darkness are part map, part science fiction and part psychedelic jungle.  Adriane’s video piece can been seen March 1 – 8th as part of the Luggage Store Projection Space:  International Women’s Day along with videos by artists Fatemah Abdoolcarim, Taraneh Hemami and Mail Order Brides/M.O.B.

part of Adriane Colburn's "Of Darkness" installation. source: www.luggagestoregallery.org

views of Adriane Colburn's paper cut pieces. source: www.artbusiness.com

 

Saturday March 31st, Silver Era, Southern Exposure’s Annual Art Auction, 6-11pm, 3030 20th Street.  Southern Exposure is a non profit visual arts organization that supports emerging artists and youth in a dynamic environment in which they can develop and present new work and ideas.  For almost 40 years this organization has been exhibiting emerging artists, and their annual art auction is a great way to support their programming.

Ongoing to October 2012, Manifest Destiny!, Hotel Des Arts, 447 Bush Street.  Next time you’re walking down Bush Street by Le Central, be sure to look 40 feet up in the air to see a new public art project sponsored by Southern Exposure’s Off-Site program.  The project is a temporary rustic cabin that has been attached to the side of Hotel Des Arts, directly above the restaurant Le Central.  Built in a 19th Century architectural style with reclaimed 100 year-old barn boards, the dwelling is meant to be an homage to the romantic spirit of the western myth.  For more photos of the construction and installation of the piece visit www.designboom.com.

SoEx Off-Site public art project Manifest Destiny! by Mark Reigelman and Jenny Chapman. Photo by Cesar Rubio Photography

Evening view of Manifest Destiny! Photo by Cesar Rubio Photography

 

Ongoing to March 24, In Other Words exhibition at Intersection for the Arts, 925 Mission Street.  For almost 50 years, Intersection for the Arts has initiated ground-breaking programming by presenting new work in the performing, literary, visual and interdisciplinary arts in the Bay Area.  This group exhibition looks at language and its capacity to clarify and confuse, convene and separate, inspire and discourage.  In conjunction with the exhibit they are sponsoring a word game night In Other Words:  Balderdash on March 21st and they will close the exhibit with an Artist Talk on March 24th at 2pm.

Meryl Pataky's shadow instalation. Photo source: www.artbusiness.com

 

Annie Vought's cut paper piece. Photo source: www.artbusiness.com

 

Pieces by Emanuela Harris-Sintamarian. Photo source: www.artbusiness.com

 

New York Art Fairs, March 7 -11.  Next week will be the opening of several art fairs in New York.  If you plan to be there visit The Armory Show, ADAA: The Art Show, Scope Art Show, and Volta Art Fair among others.  Artsource will be there all week, so let us know if you need more information or passes.

 

To Do List: February

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Since the New York Times recently listed Oakland as number 5 on their list of 45 places to go in 2012, we thought we’d highlight art to see in the town across the Bay.

Friday 2/3, 6-9 pm Oakland Art Murmur First Friday Telegraph between 22 – 25th Street: Every First Friday of the month about 20 galleries located within a few blocks of each other in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood stay open late.  The galleries overflow with people onto the Street to watch performers, and to eat from the many food carts that also set up in the area.  Less crowded is the Saturday Stroll when the same galleries are also open every Saturday from 1-5pm and often have the artists present to speak about the work or offer tours of the exhibits.

people in the streets at Art Murmur

Friday 2/3, 7-11pm, The Great Wall film screenings, West Grand Avenue between Broadway and Valley Street:  Every First Friday during the Oakland Art Murmur, the Great Wall of Oakland, a 100′ x 100′ projection installation illuminates the Uptown District with cutting-edge motion art from around the world.  For February the theme is All About Love.

Great Wall of Oakland source:  Alva Films

Friday 2/8 & 2/25, 7:00 pm Mills College Art Museum Lecture Series, Danforth Lecture Hall, 5000 MacArthur Blvd.:  Los Angeles based artist Jennifer Steinkamp uses computer animation and new media to create projection installations that explore architectural space, motion and phenomenological perception.  On February 8th she will give a lecture about her work.  Then on Thursday 2/25, Apsara Diquinzio, assistant curator of painting and sculpture at SFMOMA will be featured in the Mills College Art Museum lecture series.

Jennifer Steinkamp, Madame Curie, 2011 installation at the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art.

Source: www.jsteinkamp.com

Ongoing to July 8th, Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak Street, Question Bridge: Black Males:  This innovative video installation was created by artists Hank Willis Thomas and Chris Johnson in collaboration with Bayete Ross Smith and Kamal Sinclair after traveling around the country interviewing 150 Black men in eleven cities.  They created 1,500 videos of conversations with men representing a range of geographic, generational, economic and educational levels.  Then wove the conversations together to simulate a stream-of-consciousness dialogue, allowing important themes and issues to emerge, including family, love, interracial relationships, community, education, violence and the past, present and future of Black men in American society.

still from Question Bridge: Black Males source: www.museumca.org

Spotlight on Los Angeles Jan 12-29

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If you find yourself in Los Angeles in the next couple weeks there’s a lot going on, here are a few things to check out:

Photo L.A., January 12 – 16, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.  This is the 21st edition of this fair that features fine art photography from around the globe.  The fair includes vintage masterworks and contemporary photography, as well as video and multimedia installations.

Anthony Friedkin, Woman by the Pool, Beverly Hills Hotel, 1975 source: www.photola.com

 

Art Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair, January 19-22 at the Barker Hangar, 3021 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica.  Next week is the opening of the Art Los Angeles Contemporary art fair that presents established blue-chip and top emerging galleries from the US and abroad.

A.L.A.C. in the Barker Hangar

 

 

The Affordable Art Fair Los Angeles, at the Event Deck at L.A. LIVE, 1005 West Chick Hearn Court in downtown Los Angeles.  The Affordable Art Fair presents contemporary art priced from $100 – $10,000 with half of the work under $5,000.

Event Deck at L.A. Live

 

Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival, January 19-29   In conjunction with the current Pacific Standard Time initiative, LAXART and the Getty Research Institute have organized a performance and public art festival.  Throughout the 11-day festival, a group of new public artworks will be on view throughout the city.  On Sunday, January 22nd 11:00 am – 1:00pm Lita Albuquerque’s Spine of the Earth 2012 will be performed in the hills above Culver City at the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook.  This is just one of the many performances of the festival.

Lita Albuquerque's earthwork "Spine of the Earth", 1980

 

Santa Monica Museum of Art, Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Ave, Santa Monica.   Adam Berg: Endangered Spaces, January 14 – February 25th.  “Santa Monica Museum of Art presents Adam Berg: Endangered Spaces, a new, multi-dimensional video, sculpture, and photo installation created for SMMoA that explores the relationship between man-made environments and displaced wildlife. In this work, Berg identifies a parallel future between endangered animals and threatened architectural spaces; he also investigates the impact historical architectural designs have on popular perceptions of primitive and domestic identities.”  – SMMoA

Adam Berg, Endangered Space: Beyer House, 2011

 

Definitely a must see is Chris Burden’s Metropolis II at LACMA, opening January 14th.  Metropolis II is an intense and complex kinetic sculpture, modeled after a fast paced, frenetic modern city.  According to Burden, “The noise, the continuous flow of the trains, and the speeding toy cars, produces in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st Century city.” – LACMA

-KCH

 

 

 

 

To Do List: January

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This month we are highlighting exhibits where artists create work from discarded or everyday and industrial materials.  Then,  if you’re feeling inspired we’ve listed a couple ways you can get creative too.

January 20 & 21st  San Francisco Dump, 503 Tunnel Ave, Artist in Residence Exhibition opening. Did you know that the SF Dump has an art program?  The Artist in Residence Program at Recology SF is a one-of-a-kind program where artists work for four months in studio space on site, use materials recovered from the Public Disposal and Recycling Area, and speak to students and the general public.  The program at Recology SF will host an exhibition and reception for current artists-in-residence Terry Berlier, Donna Anderson Kam, and Ethan Estess on Friday, January 20, from 5-9pm and Saturday, January 21, from 1-5pm.

top: Terry Berlier's work and studio bottom: Donna Anderson Kam's studio and work at the Recology Artist in Residence Program

 

Ongoing until March 10, 2012 Museum of Craft and Folk Art, 51 Yerba Buena Lane.  Visit Randy Colosky’s exhibit Fiat Lux of newly commissioned work.  Trained in traditional ceramics and building construction, Colosky freely incorporates anything within his intellectual and physical reach to make his art.  His practice is both conceptual and material-driven, and the artist works with exacting physicality using commonplace and industrial materials.

Two newly commissioned works by Randy Colosky. Source: MOCFA

Two newly commissioned works by Randy Colosky. Source: MOCFA

 

 

Take an Art class at Root Division, 3175 17th Street.  From drawing and painting to sewing and t-shirt screen printing, Root Division’s Art Education Program offers highly innovative and affordable art classes.  Root Division’s Studio Artists, as well as other Bay Area professional artists, guide students through a variety of art processes, and it all happens in a friendly & engaging environment.  The classes & workshops are the perfect length for the busy and non-committal, while allowing enough time for students to leave with a handmade masterpiece and sense of accomplishment!

 

 

Make it at MOCFA, Saturday, January 14th, 51 Yerba Buena Lane, 2-4pm with artist Stan Peterson.  Come get your hands dirty at this family friendly event.  “Construction is collaboration” is a quote from Randy Colosky, the artist featured in the current exhibition.  Guest folk artist Stan Peterson will lead this workshop.

 

 

Miami Highlights

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This year marked the 10th Anniversary of Art Basel Miami Beach, one of the most important art fairs in the United States.  Along with Art Basel, there are about 16 other art fairs that happen at the same time.  Artsource Consulting was in Miami for the fairs and found promising work at the NADA, Pulse, Aqua and Art Basel fairs. Here are some highlights:

Views of Art Basel Miami

 

Sculptural works at Art Basel

Sarah Braman’s formalist assemblages combine sections of a scavenged materials with tinted Plexiglas, to make work that is not only formalist but contains a social element.

Sarah Braman sculpture at Mitchell-Innes & Nash

 

Conrad Shawcross seeks to visually represent the mathematics of sound.  The artist devised a machine, adapted from the harmonograph: an instrument popularised in Victorian times consisting of two adjustable pendulums swinging at right angles to one another. Rather than using a fixed drawing surface, he pulls a scroll of paper across the swinging plate to create a long oscillation that tapers away as the motion of the pendulums decreases.  The bronze sculptures take this same principle into three dimensions, rendering sound in sculptural form.

Conrad Shawcross sculptures and drawings

 

Peter Liversidge typed and framed the description of his piece that hangs below the sculpture in the gallery booth:  “I propose to install a single sign within booth A17 at Art Basel Miami Beach.  The sign would be installed above head height.  The sign would have the ability to be on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.  The letters would be formed by lines of bulbs, which would be no more than 25 watt, the bulbs would read:  ABRACADABRA.  Abracadabra in it’s dictionary definition is given as:  a spoken formula, used esp. by conjurors.  Latin/Aramaic;  Abra – ‘to create’  Cadabra – ‘as I say.  Trans/:  Abracadabra; ‘create as I say’.”

Peter Liversidge at Sean Kelly Gallery

 

Whale & Star

During the fairs, artists open their studios for visitors.  Whale & Star, the studio of Enrique Martinez Celaya, seems more like a small museum than a typical artist studio.  The cuban born artist was first a scientist, completing his Ph.D. in Quantum Electronics at the University of California, Berkeley, before his decision to leave a career in science for art.  For Celaya it was important that Whale & Star was more than just his private studio and to participate in something broader than the artworld.  At present, Whale & Star has an internationally recognized imprint, maintains a project of public lectures by art historians and philosophers, hosts several working visits each year for poor and at-risk children, and offers a few scholarships to important educational institutions.

Views of Enrique Martinez Celaya's Miami studio Whale & Star

large scale paintings in Celaya's studio Whale & Star

 

The Rubell Family Collection

Unique to Miami are the large private collection museums.  During the fairs they have special exhibitions and performances for visitors.  We visited the Rubell Family Collection and participated in Jennifer Rubell’s breakfast installation “Incubation”.  Trained as a chef the artist is renowned for investigating the creative process via audience participation.  The performance/installation offers visitors a morning jar of yogurt made on-site from a lab-born “culture”:  inside a fabricated lab, two nurses oversee the process and slowly pass the results through a slot to spectators, who then hold up their jar to a ceiling pedestal dripping golden local honey.

Jennifer Rubell's breakfast installation "Incubation"

Watch a video of visitors interacting with Jennifer Rubell’s “Incubation”.

Art Public

Also part of Art Basel, Art Public presents outdoor sculptures, interactive performances, site-specific installations, and public artworks within an open and public exhibition format.  We enjoyed Jen DeNike’s performance “Lemanja” on the beach.  The center of the performance forms a star-shaped sandcastle on the beach, around which seven women worship the Brazilian sea goddess lemanja, with dance and song.  DeNike’s performance piece celebrates the ritual life that formed the basis of most ancient cultures that few people today understand.

Jen DeNike's performance Lemanja at Art Public

-KCH

 

To Do List: December

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For our December To Do List, we have something for everyone.  Are you looking to give the gift of art?  Both the Creativity Explored Holiday Art Sale and the SF Camerawork Benefit Auction are great opportunities.  If you need to escape the holiday bustle, take in the artist talk at Haines Gallery or see the More American Photographs show at the CCA Wattis Institute.  Finally, if you have out of town guests, make sure to stop at SFMOMA to dazzle them with Jim Campbell’s site specific piece Exploded Views.  Enjoy!

 

December 2-22nd – Holiday Art Sale at Creativity Explored, 3245 16th Street: Creativity Explored is a nonprofit visual arts center where over 130 artists with developmental disabilities create, exhibit and sell art. For the sale the studio will be filled with original prints, paintings, drawings, ceramics, sculptures and textiles, as well as seasonal items like note-cards and artist made wrapping paper.  Opening weekend hours are Friday 12/2 6:00 – 9:00pm, Saturday-Sunday 12/3rd-4th 12noon – 5:00pm.

The studio at Creativity Explored

 

December 3rd – SF Camerawork Auction, 657 Mission Street, 2nd floor, Live Auction at 1pm:  If you’re looking for photography there are many pieces to choose from while supporting SF Camerawork.  SF Camerawork is a non-profit artists organization whose purpose is to stimulate dialogue, encourage inquiry and communicate ideas about contemporary photography.  SF Camerawork’s Benefit Auction of vintage and contemporary prints is on view now, culminating in a live auction at 1pm on December 3rd.  Doors open at 11 am.  View the auction catalog here.

Artists in the Auction: Anne Collier, Reid Yalom and Todd Hido

 

December 14th – 5:30 – 7:30, Haines Gallery, 49 Geary Street 5th Floor:  See Leslie Shows’ current exhibit Split Array at Haines Gallery and stay for the conversation between the artist and Lawrence Rinder, Director of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.  Learn how she photo realistically constructs her mixed media paintings based on pyrite rocks – more commonly known as fool’s gold.  The results are beautifully luminous paintings on aluminum panels that use sheets of plexiglass, inks, mylar, crushed glass, metal dust and engraving.

Leslie Shows, Face M, ink, acrylic, paper, aluminum leaf, and engraving on aluminum

 

On view until December 17th –, More American Photographs, at CCA Wattis Institute, 1111 Eighth Street:  This exhibit features historical photographs from the Depression-era Farm Security Administration’s photography program, which commissioned photographers to document the rural poor of America.  Curators Jens Hoffmann and Jana Blankenship commissioned 12 contemporary artists to travel the U.S. for a year and document the impact of today’s “great recession”.   Installed together along with FSA photography program objects and documents, this project aims to update the FSA file, showing how some parts of America have floundered while others have flourished.  Special talk with photographer William E. Jones on Wednesday 12/7 at 7:00pm.

Photographs by: John Vachon, Sharon Lockhart, William E. Jones and Hank Willis Thomas

 

Ongoing at SFMOMA – Jim Campbell’s Exploded Views, 151 3rd Street:  “This new installation by acclaimed San Francisco-based artist Jim Campbell explodes the moving image into three dimensions, illuminating the Haas Atrium with a flickering grid of light that is part sculpture, part cinematic screen.  Thousands of computer-controlled LED sphere create the illusion of fleeting shadow like figures that dissolve and resolve as one moves around and beneath the suspended, chandelier like matrix.  Exploded Views investigates the nuances of perception through a series of four different films, changing every two months, the first of which is a collaboration with Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet.” – SFMOMA

Watch the video of Jim Campbell describing the process of creating this piece by clicking here.

View of Exploded Views from SFMOMA's 2nd floor landing source: SFMOMA/Ayesha Ghosh

To Do List: November

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People often ask us, “what should I go see/do/check out this month?”  So we decided to create a monthly “To Do List” with a few select art exhibits or events happening in the Bay Area.  Don’t worry, we won’t overwhelm you, but if you find yourself with some free time, check these things out!

 

November 3 – November 6, 2990 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley:  “Kalassal” Art Sale at the Kala Art Institute & Gallery.  Half-off art by past and present artists affiliated with Kala.  A great opportunity to get original artwork for low prices while supporting an important Berkeley art organization.

 

 

November 12th, 3:00-5:00pm, Electric Works 130 8th Street, San Francisco:  75 years ago on November 12th, the Bay Bridge opened to traffic.   Sip champagne while artists Amanda Hughen and Jennifer Starkweather talk about riding to the top of the new Bay Bridge tower to create work for their exhibit  Approach, Transition, Touchdown:  The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge Project.    If you can’t make the talk, the exhibit is up through November 23rd.

Hughen/Starkweather, Original Bridge, 2011 archival pigment print. Source: Electric Works

 

 

Ongoing to December 8th Sun-Thurs, noon to 5pm, Headlands Center for the Arts, Fort Barry Marin Headlands:  The Project Space at the Headlands Center for the Arts featuring Katherine McLeod and Paul Santoleri is open to the public Sun – Thurs noon to 5pm.  This is a unique part of the Artist in Residence program at Headlands, wherein two 180 sq ft studios are open to the public.  Visitors are encouraged to interact with the artists, ask questions, explore their studios and get an insider’s view into the artistic process.  Visit towards the end of the month to see more art produced.

Paul Santoleri installation in Philadelphia, PA. Source: www.headlands.org

 

 

November 11 to April 8, 2012, Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin Street & YBCA 701 Mission Street, San Francisco:  Three perspectives on Indian Art, one old world Maharaja: The Splendor of India’s Royal Courts, one new world Deities, Demons and Dudes with ‘Staches: Indian Avatars by Sanjay Patel.  Then, for even more Indian Art go to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to see The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India.

(L)Portrait of Amar Singh II, 1700-1750 (R)Sanjay Patel Majaraja illustration Source: www.asianart.org

Installation view of The Matter Within at YBCA Source: www.artbusiness.com

- KCH

 

September Gallery Shows In New York

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Some highlights for me were:

 

Cave bases these “soundsuits” on his body, each suit is so imaginative and exuberant,
but is also embedded with social relevance and a kind of poignancy.
There is a concurrent show at Jack Shainman Gallery.

Nick Cave at Mary Boone

Nick Cave at Mary Boone

Tabaimo at James Cohen is a great show.
From Cohen’s press release:
 ”Tabaimo’s work offers an unblinking look at contemporary Japanese society as a mirror in which to view herself and other members of her generation caught in the crossfire of these societal shifts. Her works capture the anxiety that is a constant reality in a land whose terra firma is less than stable, while their tone remains abstract and detached. Recurring motifs, including cityscapes, interior spaces, hands, brains, hair, insects, plants and water, hover between the elegantly rendered and the disturbingly surreal.”

Tabaimo, danDAN (video Still), 2009

TABAIMO, BLOW, (Video Still), 2009

 

Very nice works on paper.  She works by layering pigment on a light colored ground,
the subjects of the work are contained in the unpainted portions.

Jutta Haeckel, Altitude, 2011, oil on paper

 

 

Really nice painting and works on paper, well worth the trip uptown.

Eva Lundsager, The Orange Line Stays, 2011, oil on linen

 

 

Karl Handel’s show at Harris Lieberman, entitled “Questions for My Father”  is
both moving and interesting.  David Byrne’s “Tight Spot”, a globe wedged under the High Line at
25th street, is compelling.                                                                                      tw