Maria Forde @ little tree gallery

Maria Forde
The Fetching Veggie Etchings
December 1st - December 22nd, 2007
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 1st 6pm - 9pm
Little Tree Gallery
3412 22nd st.(@ Guerrero)

No, the art above isn't part of this show, but aren't they hot fantastic! Forde uses silly playful titles for each group of work she puts out.

Check out her t-shirt news...it involves Wener Herzog (yeah that's right, the amazing film man)! Being able to post her here makes me extremely excited!
Go check her out kids!

"I Do Adore" @ Receiver Gallery

I Do Adore.

December 8th — January 25th, 2008
Receiver Gallery

» Angela Boatwright
» Abbey Drucker
» Cheryl Dunn
» Helena Kvarnstrom
» Ye Rin Mok
» Chrissy Piper
» Zen Sekizawa
» Emily Shur
» Deanna Templeton
» Claire Weiss (also curator of show)
» Andrea Longacre-White

Kelly Ording @ EDO Gallery & Hair Salon

Kelly Ording
601 Haight Street
Voted Best Salon, 2007 in SF Weekly

I found this exhibit late, so there are only a couple of days left to view. But no worries, Ording has work up online and will have future shows in the area. The unique part of her art is the mural aspect. Many artists are adding temporary extensions to their pieces done on canvas, onto the wall behind them (making them similar to an installation piece). Ording does this beautifully, which is why you will enjoy her art more in person.

Expansion on Previous Doodle & Some Stitchin'

The stitchin' is my attempt to take the ink drawings to another medium. It takes a great amount more patience, but it's a fun brain stretching experience. I am not sure what to do with the stretch of fabric once I'm finished. One idea is to frame it and hang it like other art....but something a bit more functional is what I have in mind.

SF Camerawork's 2007 Benefit Auction Of Photographic Prints

SF Camerawork
657 Mission Street
Second Floor

There are so many more where these came from! The auction is Saturday December 1, 2007 ($25 for the general public). The preview is Wednesday, November 28, 2007, from 5-7pm, FREE. You can view all the photographs online and even bid on some. For beginning photographers, this is a great show to get some ideas on photographic perspectives.

An Alphabet of Famous Mountains @ The Lab

Claire Nereim
A bay area artist, who concentrates on screen printing.

Friday November 30 – Saturday December 15, 2007
Closing Reception: Saturday, December 15, 6-8 PM

These drawings are being published in the Nov/Dec Believer

THE THERE, THERE. @ Esteban Sabahttp

Esteban Sabar Gallery
480 23rd Street, Oakland, CA

"A benefits show featuring some fine, talented folks from Oakland and parts nearby. Proceeds from this show will help pay the medical bills of local writer and curator Theo Konrad Auer."

Artists Include:

Josh Keyes – Painting
John Casey – Drawing
Casey Jex Smith - Drawing
Percy Feils - Mixed Media
Derek Weisberg - Sculpture
Obi Kaufmann - Mixed Media
Crystal Morey - Sculpture
Lexa Walsh - Mixed Media- Painting
Pete Glover - Painting

BioAesthetics @ CCA

BioAesthetics
Monday, November 26, 7–9 pm

Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
Admission is free.

"How do biological entities serve as potent allegories for ideas of origination, purification, and the affirmation of a human role in the order of nature? The Graduate Program in Fine Arts hosts a panel presentation and discussion on the aesthetic language and landscapes of complexly regulated biological systems."

Links:

YBCA
Flavor Pill

BERKELEY ARTISANS HOLIDAY OPEN STUDIOS

Beginning this weekend and lasting through the 16th of December, you can find personalized holiday gifts for your loved people in the East Bay.

Saturdays and Sundays 11–6 p.m.
November 24–25, December 1–2, 8–9, 15–16, 2007

Link List of all galleries and stores included

Recommended:

Shaya
Deb Sibony
Bruno Kark
Terry Furry
Jenny Hurth

David Ellis @Fifty24SF

David Ellis coming December to the Upper Playground. I mention him here not only for his art but also since he did some creations in my home town.(2006 The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, Charlottesville, Virginia, “We People”) Not sure what will be included in this show but you can glimpse some art here.

A Doodle for Thanksgiving

The Haystack Cactus

John Casey @ Receiver Gallery

John Casey
Strange Fruit - Bad Seeds
November 3rd – 30th, 2007
Receiver Gallery
1415 Valencia Street

You can only make it to so many openings. You pick the ones with art or artists who blow your mind. You take the following weeks to catch up on all the other exhibits till the month's end.
Well, now the month is near end! YIKES! Have you seen everything you want and need to see! UUgghhhh Sighhhhh.
Maybe you haven't been to receiver gallery yet?

Casey's use of line and inventive creatures combined with his persona, enable his art to challenge the viewer's conditioned mind. A fabulous description of his work is found under the "excuses" section of his site. Not to mention the art photos posted on his blog.

Brendan Monroe

Berkeley based artist, Brendan Monroe, just finished his second solo show at the Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica. He has a great sense for different shades of red and orange. His creatures are reminiscent of bed bugs, cave creatures, microbes and bodily insides (YEA!). All of which are smile worthy and expand your perceptions of life forms.

Currently, the second image included in this post is on sale. (Only 150 copies printed!)
He is heading to Miami with art next and hopefully will be sharing with us in the bay area soon!

Edward Gorey's Dracula @ The Cartoon Museum

Edward St. John Gorey (1925-2000)
August 11, 2007 - January 20, 2008
Cartoon Museum
655 Mission Street


Yeah, we don't have the Edward Gorey House like they do in Massachusetts, but we can catch some of his work at the Cartoon Museum until late January. His Gothic style and great line work is not to be missed!

Big Ideas @ Sculpturesite

Sculpturesite is on to their next exhibit. I will miss KATHY VENTER, but we must go forward! Grab some wine and delicious crackers at the opening next Thursday.

Artists Included:

Noa Bornstein
Terry Kreiter
Duane Loppnow
Frank Morbillo
Jenny Read
Dan Romo (This guy will rock your socks!)
Joseph Slusky
William Wareham
Matthew Zupnick (I like what he does with perspective on portraits.)


BIG IDEAS, SMALL WORKS: Miniature Sculptures and Maquettes
November 29 - January 25, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 29th, 5:30 to 7:30 pm
201 Third Street, Suite 102

Emergence @ Mission 17

David Kwan
Video and Sound Installations

October 19th - December 1st, 2007
Closing Reception: Saturday, December 1st, 3 - 6pm

An interesting build and breakdown of the living and non-living through visual and audio creations.

Links:
Artifact
Meridian Gallery
Disquiet

ABIDIN TRAVELS @ Triple Base

Adel Abidin
November 17, 2007 - January 5, 2008
Triple Base Gallery
3041 24th Street

Simulation art. Installation art. Interactive art.

If you made it to the Lab exhibit "Corporate Art Expo '07" you will have a better sense of how to view this show. You experience the art, which is the experience the artist had or observed. It is similar to a 3D movie, a T.V. show where the audience is asked to participate. In turn, the exhibit pulls the viewer from whatever level of passive viewing they are doing and asks them to experience the art in a new way. The issues and culture within Iraq, that Abidin is processing in this show, gives us a new experience beyond interaction.

A Rail Action Tonight

Cannelle Tanc (above "Plan Berlin")
“Cities”
mixed media, photographs
OPENING reception : Friday, November 16th, 2007 6.00 - 8.30pm
Ampersand International Arts



While checking on the action at Ampersand, I discovered this great beginning for my Friday night. Ampersand is only open Fridays and by appointment. Tonight you can get some ping pong on, consume some wine & cheese, fashionably check out new exhibits , and explore the DogPatch, South Beach and Mission Bay neighborhoods.

Other Galleries Included:

Ping Pong Gallery
Silverman Gallery
Tart

Exhibit 17: Attention to Detail @ Triple L Photo

Maybe the fact that this exhibit takes place in a gallery that also functions as a floatation therapy spa, causes more fascination. I don't know. The photography is an entertaining and thought engaging juxtaposition of the fake and real.



Artists:
Jill Thomas
Lori Nunokawa

Reception: Saturday, November 17, 6 - 9 pm
November 15th - December 13th, 2007
1091 Calcot Place, Unit #116
Oakland, CA 94606

Anatomy of Folklore @ The Johansson Projects

Evan B. Harris

His drawings remind me of Mariee Sioux' songs. They are intricate, delicate, in a time of their own, and in a land of their own. The little stories in each piece are fun for your imagination. On a more technique side, his use of lines provides complexity in texture and movement around the surface.


Lawrence LaBianca

His attention to human relationship with nature through the use physical objects, re-orients your mind to the original functionality of forms. He shows regularly with Sculpturesite Gallery downtown.

The title for this show is embodied well by the combination of magical 2D drawings and functional tool based sculptures.

Johansson Projects
2300 Telegraph Ave Oakland, CA 94612
Opening Reception: November 15, 2007 6-9pm

Recap on Recent Events

Kevin Earl Taylor

The artist I enjoyed talking with the most at the Gun Show Saturday night. While in his studio space, he shared with me how he feels humans often forget they too are animals, therefore having animal-like natures and tendencies. His recent work is on display at Gallery A.D. in San Jose through November 30, 2007.




Daniel Grant

He has been sharing this section of photographs with people for a year now. The one I chose for this post in particular struck me, when he explained that it came from a studio class with a model. It amazed me how much the Holga camera altered the sense of place in which the image exists. And I love it!




Mike and Maaike
Pecha Kucha presenters

It is exciting to me when life partners are also creative partners! This husband and wife take architecture, the liberal arts, athletics, home life, etc and find great ways to enjoy those parts of life more bountifully.

Terry Baker
Pecha Kucha presenter

He shared interesting layouts of the development of cities in Arizona. Their objectives are sustainability, physical construction in relation to the part of earth they are established on, and suitability for expected population. Being one who never works with urban development, those mentioned characteristics could very well be standard but the city shown in his slid looked nothing like any American city I've visited.

More to come later!

Lincoln Schatz @ Catherine Clark Gallery

Lincoln Schatz: Cube
Catherine Clark Gallery
150 Mina St, Ground Floor
October 27, 2007- November 24, 2007

His work falls into categories of: installation art, social & psychological awareness, and technology. Viewing his work appeals to many intelligences.

"Since 2000, Lincoln Schatz has focused on the experience of place and the meanings produced by the collisions of nonlinear sections of time.

Through his custom software, Schatz selectively records and displays video images culled from specific environments to create generative portraits.

Most recently Schatz has created video works that collect, store and display more than eight years of video memory. From its start date, each piece collects video from its environment daily, amassing thin slices of video/time. On-screen those slices overlap and juxtapose with images from current time. Like the human mind, past and present events wash over one another resulting in new possibilities and impossibilities."

Ellen Kooi @ Catherine Clark Gallery

Ellen Kooi
October 27, 2007 - November 24, 2007
Catherine Clark Gallery
150 Minna St, Ground Floor

From the Netherlands, where she is currently teaching, she brings us magical portraits in photography.

Remembering Jack

Post a comment about Jack Davis on the SomArts 3d bulletin board.

Intersection for The Arts, where he was the Executive Director from 1977-84, has a tribute to him on their homepage.

There will be an all day Memorial Service at SomArts Cultural Center
Sunday
November 18, 2007
2-6pm

Links:

BoingBoing
Laughing Squid

Design Event: Pecha Kucha SF

November 13th
Doors open at 7pm
Sharing begins at 8pm
Yerba Buena Center for The Arts
Co-hosted with Oracle
701 Mission St. @ 3rd
Between 3rd and 4th streets (SOMA)

When you go to the site check out previous designers' work. We have geniuses in San Francisco!

Rex Ray @ Gallery16

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Rex Ray
New Work"
Mixed Media Solo Exhibit
Gallery16
501 Third St

I missed his opening, which was a huge success. He sold half of his resin panels, leaving the least desired for the rest of us to purchase... On the flip side, they are all on exhibit for a month downtown...AND his website has plenty to view, for those moments online when you need a distraction!