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Ongoing to April 5, 2014 – Approaching Zero – At the Frontier of Contemporary Printmaking at Kala Art Institute: Curated by Mayumi Hamanaka, Approaching Zero celebrates artists who are each uniquely utilizing print-making in new and exciting ways. The show features work by artists Miguel A. Aragón, Stella Ebner, Zarina Hashmi, Walter Jule, Koseki Ono and Katsutoshi Yuasa. The gallery is open Tuesday – Friday, 12:00 – 5:00 PM; Sat, 12:00 – 4:30 PM, admission is free. Kala Art Institute is located at 2990 San Pablo Avenue Berkeley, CA.

Works from Approaching Zero

Thursday, March 13 – Above and Below the Surface Panel Discussion at John Berggruen Gallery 6:00PM: McArthur Binion, Thomas Eggerer, and Josh Tonsfeldt will be discussing their work featured in the gallery’s group show. Above and Beyond the Surface explores varying techniques and approaches to the painted surface. In addition to the three panel artists, the show features work by Tauba Auerbach, Troy Brauntuch, Charline von Heyl, Suzanne McClelland, and Sarah Morris. Please RSVP by March 10th by emailing becky@berggruen.com. John Berggruen Gallery is located at 228 Grant Ave.

McArthur Binion does beautiful cross-hatched, multi-media surfaces that read as paintings. Decidedly minimal, Binion’s work embodies a strong intellect rooted in the expressive capabilities of color and abstraction. He cites his work’s narrative in the use of his hands to make his paintings, and his choice of child-like materials – wax crayons – which he presses onto shaped panels. The use of the crayon as medium renders a critique to the history of painting the ability to transform the ordinary “child’s medium” into a tool that can render complex studies of color and light.

Thomas Eggerer blends abstract and figurative imagery in vivid, dreamlike fields of color. His new canvases, all of them large-scale, build on his signature approach with figures rendered within otherworldly realms, absorbed in their actions that remain rather mysterious. His figures, with undefined faces and broadly applied forms, are more anonymous than individual, cast in candied colored planes of abstraction.

Josh Tonsfeldt has a storyteller- meets- archeologist’s sensibility. They are part of a series that relate to his visiting his Grandparents farm as the family ceased to own it, and then collecting fragments and notes and photos that are then incorporated into beautiful crusty “paintings” on paper with these remnants, bits of memory and sometimes script, included in, or hidden below, the surface. He has also cast partial architectural elements of the now deserted buildings.

Left to right: Sketch XIII (Looking for Grey): For: Three Movements for Sunlight (2013) by McArthur Binion, Giro (2013) by Thomas Eggerer and Untitled, 2013 by Josh Tonsfeldt. Images courtesy of John Berggruen Gallery.

Saturday, March 22 – Annual Fundraiser and Art Auction Smoke and Mirrors at Southern Exposure: Southern Exposure’s annual event features both live and silent auctions of work by over 100 artists and a variety of artist-led experiences. The annual fundraiser provides support for Southern Exposure’s programs and enables SoEx to continue supporting artists, presenting groundbreaking programs and serving as a center of visual arts activity in the Bay Area. Southern Exposure is located at 3030 20th Street.

Event Schedule:

VIP Reception 6:00 – 7:30 PM

Main Event 7:30 – 11:00 PM

Live Auction 8:30 – 9:30 PM

Silent Auction Lots begin to close at 10:00 PM

Pictures from 2013 Southern Exposure Auction. Images courtesy of Southern Exposure.

Ongoing to March 23 – ArtComplex Pop up Exhibition in Oakland: Twelve East Bay artists are making site-specific work in twelve rooms of a two-story former medical office including video, installation, 2D and 3D art. Artists include Nyame O. Brown, Lisa Carroll, Modesto Covarrubias, Amy M. Ho, Amanda Klimek, Chelsea Pegram, Matthew Scheatzle, Karen Seneferu, Malik Seneferu, Brett Snyder, and Tiulescu & Neyman. Works are on view on Saturdays and Sundays from 12:00 – 4:00 PM. Artcomplex is located at 560 29th Street (between Telegraph Avenue and the 29th Street freeway underpass).

Work by Modesto Covarrubias. Image courtesy of East Bay Express.

To Do List: June

May 30, 2013 In: To Do List Tags: 101 California Street, Art Auctions, Headlands Center for the Arts, Hosfelt Gallery, Lordy Rodriguez, Monster Drawing Rally, Randy Colosky, Rina Banerjee, Southern Exposure By: ArtSource Inc.

Ongoing until July 13th Rina Banerjee and Lordy Rodriguez at Hosfelt Gallery: For her first project at Hosfelt Gallery Tender Mahal – Lifted, Rina Banerjee brings together a monumental, pink, Mughal-inspired sculpture and a group of her delicate and sensuous paintings on paper, in a paean to the potential of 21st century love. Concurrently in the gallery, Lordy Rodriguez presents Code Switch, new works on paper that utilize the map as a framework in which to experiment with unorthodox combinations of familiar visual languages from a variety of sources, including advertising, reality TV, fashion, gift-wrapping, and signature images associated with celebrity artists. With humor, craft, and adept analysis of popular culture, Rodriguez shrewdly subverts the fundamental purpose of design – to create something in the most beautiful and functional way – and the fundamental purpose of maps – to locate and transport ourselves in the world. The opening reception for both exhibits is June 8th, 4-6 pm, 260 Utah Street.

Rina Banerjee, “Take me, take me… to the Palace of love” plastic steel copper, antique Anglo-Indian chair, shells and found objects. Source www.hosfeltgallery.com

Lordy Rodriguez “Untitled 809 (Murakami/Kors)” ink on paper. Source: www.hosfeltgallery.com

Ongoing until July 12th, Randy Colosky installation at 101 California Street, open M-F, 8am to 6pm: Conceptual artist Randy Colosky recently created new site-specific work for his exhibition at 101 California Street. When developing ideas for his installation, Colosky spent many hours in the lobby of the Philip Johnson designed 101 California Street contemplating how visitors were traveling through the space. The resulting large-scale photographs are loosley based on the concept in quantum physics that all realities exist until a specific reality is observed.

Randy Colosky source: Francis Baker Photography

Using the building itself as the subject in Hansei Triptych, Colosky depicts that there are always alternatives and choices unfolding before us, and that we are not necessarily fixed points in one dimension. In the second gallery of the 101 California Street lobby, Colosky continues his practice of using industrial materials, transforming them into beautiful sculptures. Using engineered ceramic blocks to create his sculpture Karesansui, he presents a contemporary interpretation of the contemplative nature of Asian rock gardens. The piece appears solid like a stone, but upon further investigation and interaction is actually full of empty space, to the point that from certain vantage points, parts of the piece disappear into the colorful backdrop behind it. It is truly a mesmerizing and must-see experience.

Randy Colosky. source: Francis Baker Photography

Wednesday, June 5th, Headland’s Center for the Arts Benefit Auction at Herbst Exhibition Hall, The Presidio: Headlands Center for the Arts provides an unparalleled environment for the creative process and the development of new work and ideas. Through a range of programs for artists and the public, they offer opportunities for reflection, dialogue, and exchange that build understanding and appreciation for the role of art in society. Support their programs by attending their benefit auction featuring works by over 100 artists in a live and silent auction. Purchase advance tickets here.

Visitors preview auction art at the Headlands Center for the Arts. Source: www.headlands.org

Friday, June 14th, Southern Exposure’s Monster Drawing Rally at THE NWBLK 1999 Bryant Street, Tickets are $15, 6 – 11 pm: Southern Exposure’s very popular annual Monster Drawing Rally is a live drawing and fundraising event with 120 artists working side by side. The event lets spectators observe artists in the act of creation, providing the opportunity to watch a drawing come to life, and to purchase a work of art minutes after its completion. All of the completed drawings are available for purchase for $60 each, and all proceeds provide direct support to Southern Exposure’s programs and mission of supporting visual artists.

Spectators watch artists working at the 2012 Monster Drawing Rally. Source: www.SoEx.org

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