dear little sista

Susanne Winterling: Pattern Recognition of a Collar to Idealism
From 6-part series "dear little sista (chere petite soeur M.B.)"

2008

Digital C-Print

8 x 12 inches


from Silverman Gallery archives

JIGSAWMENTALLAMA

Gallery: David Cunningham Projects


JIGSAWMENTALLAMA a group exhibition and weekly film and video screening series. A full schedule for the weekly screenings will be posted on the DCP website.

Nosebleeds. Confessions. Glitter. Melodrama. Reversals. Puzzles. Opera. Science. Heartbreak. Lemons. Role-play. Dream Tunnels. Monkeys. Denouements. Wigs. Turntables. Effusions. Kaleidoscopes. Pirates. Feathers. Gloves. Entheogens. Cameos. Body Doubles. Magic. Horror. Intrigue. Inaugurations. Catharsis. Glamour. Wastrels. Soap. Stilettos. Sublimations. Invocations. Vikings. Cheese. Conversations. Channeling. Comedy. Fireworks. Projections. Pink Noise. Hexagons. Stalkers. Seizures. Tele-novellas. Strain. Smiles. Drag. Monsters. Sadness. Madness. Poetry. Music. Disaster. Masks. Flour. Milk. Caulk. Plaster. Deconstructions. Reconstructions. Abductions. Feints. Nostalgia. Manipulations. Data-bending. Tragedy. Mirror-balls. Joan Collins. Buffalo Bill. Powder Puffs. Demons. Pleasure. Puce Moments. Flesh. Aliens. Alien Flesh. Flashbulbs. Dry Ice. Joy…….
Virgin Prunes.

Anthony Huberman on Robert Filliou

I would normally link you to Art Forum's page where this is written but for some exclusive reason they dont offer this particular article online. Read on and feel enlightened.

"Filliou's work is still largely unfamiliar to American audiences, but his well-known maxim "Art is what makes life more interesting than art" is a useful summary of what he stood for. Before beginning to write poetry and make art, he trained as an economist at UCLA and became interested in Charles Fourier, the nineteenth-century utopian-socialist philosopher who, in opposition to Smith and well before Marx and Freud, imagined radically new socioeconomic structures in his search for universal harmony. Fourier's guiding and operative priniciple was "passionate attraction" (l'attraction passionee), those primordial desires that precede self-consciousness and survive the rational binaries that reasonable minds invoke; he introduced life, intuition, joy, and conviviality into sociological analysis and economic equations. When Filliou entered the art world, in the early 1960s, he sought to insert those very same values into a community he saw as weighed down by self-conscious critical distance, careerism, money, expertise, and, worst of all, talent, which, to Filliou, was merely the ability to use an acquired skill to execute a task. he viewed most protagonists of the avant-garde as no more than talented inventors. What really counts in a work of art, he insisted, is a quality that grows out of intuition and play- genie sans talent, or genius without talent- a quality he felt all human beings possess in abundance. "

and there's much more in the print version of November's Art Forum. page 109-110

EVERYTHING MUST GO

Artist: Joshua Pieper
Gallery: Ping Pong Gallery
Opening Reception: Friday, November 13th, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Exhibition Dates: November 13 - December 11, 2009


"Threshold resistance, the evocative expression and life’s work of Alfred Taubman, is about understanding and defeating the force, the physical and psychological barriers between art and commerce, between shoppers and merchandise, between high culture and popular taste. While Pieper may not be familiar with Taubman or his philosophy on the palace of commerce, Pieper’s exhibition is a uniquely humorous and witty exploration of the very nature of this commerce. "

The VIntage Man

The
Difference
Between a good artist
And a great one

Is:

The novice
Will often lay down his tool
Or brush

Then pick up an invisible club
On the mind's table

And helplessly smash the easels and
Jade.

Whereas the vintage man
No longer hurts himself or anyone

And keeps on
Sculpting

Light.

---Hafiz

Bjorn Copeland at Jack Hanley

Artist: Bjorn Copeland
Exhibition Title: Hope It Works
Gallery: Jack Hanley
Opening Reception: November 7, 2009 from 6-9pm
Exhibition Dates: November 7 - December 5, 2009

The sculptures and works on paper included in the exhibit are the products of accumulated, found detritus and debris, collected over the last few years along the artist’s route to his studio. By surrounding himself with large amounts of stimuli (trash), Copeland creates a studio environment for filtering and soaking up information. Decisions that were made by the original designer of the, now discarded, products or product packaging that he collects, become the starting point for Copeland’s assemblages and collages. These works, in turn, begin to inform and dictate the outcome of the next pieces he produces. With one idea based on the last, an alternate version of the environment that the work was drawn from is presented.

I Want to be Adored

Artist: Serena Cole
Gallery: Triple Base
Opening Reception: November 6, from 7-10pm
Exhibition Dates: November 6 - December 20, 2009

Cole conceived of I Wanna be Adored eight months ago and has spent the time leading up to the show creating her most large-scale work to date. The artist’s iconic figures are exquisitely rendered yet often dark and haunting, leaving the viewer to question what is missing or wrong. Lurking below the eloquent exterior of her sacred women is often a sense of desperation - revealed through dark sunken eyes, parched lips, an empty gaze or posture.

Maxwell Loren Holyoke-Hirsch

Artist: Maxwell Loren Holyoke-Hirsch
Exhibition Dates: Nov 5 - Nov 28, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday Nov 5th from 6-9pm
Gallery: Fecal Face

Balancing forces of chaos, inclinations toward order, and the freedom to play, Megarealms is a dynamic equilibrium between tangibles and impossibilities. Operating in the space between principle fundamentals and measured restraint, Megarealms is at once architectural, sculptural, designed, and painterly. The interplay of color, form, scale, dimension, media and theme activates connections that redefine relationships and forge cohesion among seemingly disparate elements. Teetering on the edge of infinity, Megarealms bends the boundaries of perception, challenging supposed tensions between the everyday and the fantastical, the concrete and the abstract, function and form, restraint and inhibition.

Tara Foley at Adobe Books Tonight

Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
3166 16th Street San Francisco, CA 94103
Reception: Tuesday, November 3rd, 6-9pm

Its hard to find beautiful Maps

Charmaine Olivia's Urban Menagerie

Gallery: Gallery Six
Artist: Charmaine Olivia
Curator: Jillian Mackintosh
Exhibition Dates: October 16th, 2009 through: November 6th 2009


So excited for this exhibit to come down. I bought three pieces, including the one above. Daydreaming about being one of the girls in her drawings. mmmm

GAFFTA: Projecting Crystal Growth

Gray Area Foundation in the TL hosted their open studios last weekend. With their new funding, the bar for arts spaces in the city has been raised. Their interior lends itself to a very desirable art / human interaction.



These images are all stills from wall projections or floor light boxes. I sat on a bench and watched in complete concentration the crystal formations grow before me. Ah, Superb.




GAFFTA does projections in vacant store buildings around the TL. Through city grants and other solid funding, they make sure the city gets its dose of quality progressive art content.

A Means To An End

A friend told me about Robert's opening at Eleanor Harwood's gallery Saturday. I love the paintings rich yet muted colors and the play with urban architectural landscapes.





Exhibition Dates: October 24th 2009 till December 5th
Gallery Address: 1295 Alabama Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

Our Best Machines are Made of Sunshine

Queens Nails Projects: "Our Best Machines are Made of Sunshine," a solo exhibition of Jacqueline Gordon's work.

The work references a gap between the lived experience of barebones environments such as sensory deprivation tanks and geodesic domes, as well as Brutalist architecture and the aspirational rhetoric that surround its production.

Jacqueline Gordon received her BFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute (2004) and is currently attending the Stanford MFA program. Jacqueline has participated in artist residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art and the New York Studio Program. In 2008 she was awarded a San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grant. Jacqueline is also a member of the female experimental music group 0th, this is her first gallery solo exhibition.

Stephanie Daoud draws Dash & Secret

- from purple DIARY