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

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.

]]> http://www.artsourceinc.com/to-do-list/to-do-list-april/feed/ 0 http://www.artsourceinc.com/art-fairs/highlights-from-new-york/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=highlights-from-new-york http://www.artsourceinc.com/art-fairs/highlights-from-new-york/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:32:23 +0000 Jody http://www.artsourceinc.com/?p=2551 A full week of art fairs, galleries, and exhibitions in New York turned up all kinds of interesting work.  Following are a few highlights…

Mitch Epstein American Elm, Central Park, New York 2011, 2011 Gelatin silver print, selenium toned. Courtesy: Sikkema Jenkins Gallery

Yuh-Shioh Wong Tree Shadows, 2011. Acrylic and aqua oil on canvas. Courtesy: Thomas Erben

Not Vital Piz Nair, 2011 coal, stainless steel. Courtesy: Sperone Westwater

Allison Gildersleeve, The Day Needs Fixing, 2012, oil and alkyd on canvas. Courtesy: Asya Geisberg Gallery

Piet van den Boog. Mike Weiss Gallery

Joshua Neustein, Untitled, 2006. Carbon paper. Courtesy: Untitled Gallery

Whiting Tennis Hybrid, 2011 acrylic and collage on canvas. Courtesy: Derek Eller Gallery

Tomory Dodge, Deep Math, 2012. oil on canvas. Courtesy: CRG Gallery

James Busby, Side Car 2003 - 2012 Gesso, graphite & oil on canvas & cedar. Stefan Stux Gallery

Haegue Yang, Trustworthy..., 2012. collage, security envelopes. installation at Green Naftali.

Liz Deschenes, Untitled, 2012. silver toned photogram mounted on Dibond. Courtesy Miguel Abreu Gallery

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.

Mark Bradford in conversation with Christopher Bedford of the Wexner Center and Betti-Sue Hertz of YBCA

It’s both entertaining and eye opening to listen to Mark Bradford talk about his life and work.  At a small gathering at the home of a San Francisco collector, Mark Bradford talked about this experience as an artist, what shapes his thinking, and  how he works. Having grown up in South Central LA, the son of a hair salon owner, at nearly seven feet tall, this MacArthur Genius Award winning artist, is in so many ways, not what society tells us to expect.  To experience his work is to understand his voice.

Mark Bradford, Mithra, 2008 (Image: huffingtonpost.com)

“The memory is in the material“, Bradford said specifically referencing his monumental work, Mithra, 2008, often referred to as The Ark, on view now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.  Made from found and rotting plywood covered with layers of posters, fliers and other remnants of destroyed businesses left in the Lower Ninth Ward in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Bradford’s monumental work has a moving and powerful presence.  I highly recommend a visit.  You can learn more about Mithra and its origins here at Prospect 1.

Mark Bradford, discussing his painting Scorched Earth at the Wexner Center press preview, Scorched Earth: Collection of Dennis and Debra Scholl, (image: museumpublicity.com)

“My art practice goes back to my childhood, but it’s not an art background.  It’s a making background.  I’ve always been a creator.  My mother was a creator; my grandmother was a creator”. – (Art 21 Politics, Process & Postmodernism.  Interview with Mark Bradford).  Bradford completed his BFA and MFA at California Institute of the Arts, one of the most conceptual art schools in the country.  I asked him about his experience as a student there, and he responded this way… “I just wanted to get out and make something“.

Mark Bradford, Strawberry, 2002 (Image: Sikkema Jenkins)

And across the street  at SFMOMA is Bradford’s first major museum survey – a thought provoking installation of paintings, sculpture, and multi-media work. One of the most compelling for me was the multi-media installation, Pinocchio Is on Fire – as I sat in the room, walls collaged with darkly colored and rhythmically patterned paper, and the soulful voice of Nancy Wilson singing “Telling the Truth”, I felt as if I was at once in Mark Bradford’s brain and inside his painting.  I began to understand Mark Bradford’s truth.

No photos, sorry…you have experience it in person.

Bradford talks about it here: “Pinocchio Is on Fire is a mythological character that I created to talk about black culture in South LA at a time of flux and fluidity in the late 1980s when it was changing from an older narrative of family toward a “Boyz in the Hood” hip hop moment. And now the ground is shaking again, hip hop is receding and immigration has changed the landscape. The work is a sound piece using my voice and music. It came very naturally to me.”

At Artsource, we always talk about how contemporary artists show us a different way of looking at ourselves. Bradford’s unique voice communicates a complex and deeply layered view of our shared culture. This is a show not to miss.

Learn more about Mark Bradford at Pinnochioisonfire.org

JBK

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry  TEASER from Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry on Vimeo.

The screening of Eve Sussman’s whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir in a film festival setting as opposed to a gallery clearly highlighted the difference between art and film. whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir is an algorithmically generated edit of a complex and futuristic story set in Kazakhstan. Because each screening of the film relies on combinations of image, voice over and music as selected by the algorithm, no viewing is the ever same…at times the edits are clumsy and others, poetic.

The audience seemed uncomfortable with this concept; most viewers couldn’t understand why the artist wouldn’t take the best edit possible and fix it there.  My favorite moment in the Q & A was when Sussman explained that she was inspired by the possibility of the ‘random’ edits…further explaining that the algorithm made edits she could never have thought of herself; is about discovery for her.  How brave is that?

source: http://www.rufuscorporation.com photo: Eve Sussman

From the Sundance Film Guide:  …Eve Sussman/Rufus Corporation… designed a kind of filmmaking robot—a custom, programmed computer dubbed the “Serendipity Machine” that uses key words to select seamlessly from 3,000 film clips shot in central Asia, 80 voice-overs, and 150 pieces of music to create an ethereal narrative that follows a geophysicist named Holz (Jeff Wood). Holz is stuck in a 1970s-looking metropolis called City-A, whose citizenry are subject to various unusual restrictions. Through voice-over dialogues, wire-tapped telephone conversations, and snippets of Holz’s job interview with his employer, a mysterious woman referred to simply as Dispatch, it becomes evident that Holz is controlled by the factory and city where he works, just as his fate is dictated by the machine editing the film.

In the New Frontier exhibtion space…

Marco Brambilla
Evolution (Megaplex), 2010
3-D High Definition disc
Color, sound
03:04 min., loop

Still from Evolution (Megaplex) source: marcobrambilla.com

Brambilla’s first work to be executed in stereoscopic 3D Evolution (Megaplex) is a 3 minute side-scrolling video collage that tells the story of human history – yes, for real… through Hollywood blockbuster clips.  Through some technological feat, Brambilla weaves moments from films such as “Ghandi”, “The Ten Commandments”, “A Clockwork Orange” and “King Kong” into one seamless and apocalyptic moving, mural-like image…in 3D to boot.  Fantastic!

Hank Willis Thomas and Chris Johnson in collaboration with Bayeté Ross Smith and Kamal Sinclair
Question Bridge: Black Males
An innovative video installation created by artists Hank Willis Thomas and Chris Johnson in collaboration with Bayeté 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. They 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. – Oakland Museum of California

Trailer 2 from Question Bridge on Vimeo.

From the Sundance Film Guide:

Dissolving the distinction among subject, audience, and author, the visionary transmedia project, Question Bridge: Black Males, creates a uniquely vulnerable and intimate dialogue among black men nationwide, initiating a new kind of social network. In Question Bridge: Black Males, black men go to a safe space and record their questions, which are then answered by other men who may live miles away. The footage is evocatively presented in various ways, ranging from beautiful sculptural environments to Web forums and geolocative hotspots across the country.

Also on view at Oakland Museum, Brooklyn Museum and Salt Lake City Arts Center.

- JBK

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

Douglas Wheeler, 1968/2011 white UV neon light, Source: SDMCA

The opportunity to see an Irwin acrylic disk, not lit by the 4 lights that are normally used, but rather simply and perfectly solely by natural light from the skylight above is memorable.

Robert Irwin, 1969, Acrylic lacquer on formed acrylic plastic, 53 in. diameter x 3 in. deep, Source: SDMCA

Coming up in San Diego, again in all 3 of the buildings is Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves, an exhibition we saw and thought was great when it was in Miami.

Isaac Julien 2010 Installation view, The Hayward Gallery, London Nine screen installation, 35mm film, transferred to High Definition 9.2 surround sound, 49' 41" Courtesy of the artist, Metro Pictures, New York and Victoria Miro Gallery, London, Source: SDMCA

February 25 – December 1, 2012

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 21^st Century city.” – LACMA

-KCH

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.