Peter Paul Rubens

"Tiger and Lion Hunt"
Something from the past. Flemish circa 1617

Joshua Petker at Corey Hellford

Artist: Joshua Petker
Gallery: Corey Hellford Gallery
Opening Reception: Ocotober 4, 2008 from 7-10 p.m.
Exhibition Dates: October 4 - October 22, 2008
Address: 8522 Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA

His work is getting stronger since his show at Shooting Gallery earlier this year.
(Images shown here are all sold. )

Jacob Magraw-Mickelson

Jacob's paintings remind me of skin tissue diagrams or pieces of the earth after it exploded, or close ups of microbacteria.

You can find more here.

Hugh Leeman Around San Francisco

Hugh Leeman came in the gallery today and I found out he's also gonna be traveling with us all to Red Dot in London this October. Good Stuff.




Check out the walls he's done in San Francisco, maybe you've seen them in person before.












You can find paintings from his exhibit "On Condition of Anonymity", over at the Shooting Gallery.

Jenna Gribbon

Introducing Jenna.

Jenna Gribbon was born and raised in Knoxville Tennessee. She lived very near to mountains and rivers and streams in a suburb named after a very famous admiral, and at the age of five she won a blue ribbon in the county fair for a painting of her family.





At eighteen she moved to Athens Georgia where she went to college and lived happily for five years. However because Athens Georgia is a much better place for music than painting, after completing her studies, Jenna spent a year and half making experimental films.





These films, particularly the short silent ones in Super 8, were continually making her think of paintings she wanted to make, so she moved to New York City during a blizzard in February 2003 to find other painters and an audience.





It was here that she began making these paintings which concern her displacement from these aforementioned places, and the placing of fragments of personal experience into new frames of reference.











I found Jenna's work throughPrisca C. Juscka Fina Art. I love it. It's motivating to see that she is producing what she talks about in her bio.

Ian Scalzo at Frabic8 tonight

Artist: IAN SCALZO
Gallery: Fabric8
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 27, 2008 from 7-10 p.m.
Address: 3318 22nd Street

I'm interested. Maybe I'll see you there.

Camilla Engman

Her website.

Craig Atkinson

Find more of Craig here:

Flickr
Blog
Website
Store

How Excellent is Marci Washington?

I'm curating a space in SoMa and was looking through the CCA site for artists I want to include.




I love Marci's work, but sadly can only show her here. So, let's enjoy and keep our eye out for her in a San Francisco gallery.

Closing Reception for Olivia Song Park

Artist: Olivia Song Park
Gallery: Mina Dresden Gallery
Closing Reception: Friday September 26, 2008 from 6-8 PM
Address: 312 Valencia St (at 14th street)

Olivia has her closing reception tonight for "White Lies" and you should all come out. Including a grand installation similar to this:

Jeremy Fish

Like what he says about his audience.

Lincart Opening Tonight

Artist: Franklin Williams and Brian Chippendale, Ajit Chauhan, Dieter Roth
Gallery: Lincart
Curated By: Lawrence Rinder
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 25, 2008 from 6 - 8 PM
Exhibition Dates: September 25 - October 25, 2008
Address: 1632 C Market Street.

Each of these artists have elaborate profiles on the Lincart site. Here's a taste.

Franklin Williams (b. 1940) has spent his entire artistic life in the Bay Area. His art is characterized by a tension between classical harmonies of proportion, composition, and scale and a tendency toward bacchanalian excess, eroticism, and—at times—ugliness.

Dieter Roth (1930-1998) was a Swiss artist who spent much of his life in Iceland. His work displayed a remarkable capacity to balance between the most refined and classical sensibility and an utterly chaotic, even antagonistic approach. After moving to Iceland in 1957, Roth’s art became increasingly eccentric, incorporating, for example, various foodstuffs, which he would allow to rot and decompose over time.

Ajit Chauhan (b. 1981) works primarily in film and drawing. “Drawing is kind of like sleeping with your eyes open,” says Chauhan. “In the best of times things materialize without choice.”

Brian Chippendale (b. 1973) was a founding member of the legendary Fort Thunder collective in Providence, Rhode Island. Chippendale’s art is comprised of both abstract passages and figurative images which, in the comic format, are arrayed in narrative or quasi-narrative progressions.

Ky Anderson Interview on Emerson

There's an interview with Ky Anderson from February that I just found.
Read it on Emerson.

I especially liked the second question where she talks about inspiration:

I do think that artists constantly remake other pieces of art. But it is rare to find an artist who admits this. Thinking about it simply, there are two sides to it. One side is that inspiration can come from a similar place, and the other side is that people can be inspired by each other. Both are very different, I find that most artists are very protective about where their inspiration comes from.

Hallway Bathroom Gallery Exhibit

I missed this fabulous opening. Don't know how that happened.

Pretty much a large majority of my favorite SF artists are represented in this exhibit. I've picked a few images I like the best but you need to check it out yourself.











From the top:
Paul Wackers
Rebecca Greenberg
Ky Anderson
Sean Bayliss
Tara Foley



Address: 391A South Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, California, 94103


Congratulations to Brion Nuda Rosch for a great selection.

Guerilla Galleries SF

Check out "Underground Art Galleries Serve A Special Niche" in SF Gate






People like Chris McCaw, Chris Sollars, Christian L. Frock, and Chris Fallon are maintaining a true representation of SF art through guerilla galleries. Good ole art for art's sake.

Some people are working hard over at Southern Exposure to raise incredible grant funds. Couple of the spaces these guys run received $50,000 from SoEx.

Pecha Kucha Tueesday

If you aren't going to see Jose Gonzalez, like me, head to Temple SF for Pecha Kucha.

Tour of Mike Maxwell's Collection

from Zack Nielsen


Mike's show went by too fast at Gallery Three. I caught the interview on Sezio but missed this tour of his house. He's got a great collection.
I can't wait till my walls represent many talented people.

Headlands Mystery Ball 2008

Where: Headlands Center for The Arts
When: Saturday October 25, 2008
Time: 7:30 p.m. to Midnight
Address: Building 944 Fort Barry (15 minutes north of San Francisco)



"Mystery Ball is in its 13th year and is Headlands Center for the Arts’ biggest fundraiser, not to mention one of the most popular and talked about art events of the season. With music, performances, art installations, costumes, food and drinks, this party is sure to thrill. "

I'm making plans to be there.

Interview with Will Yackulic

I look at Will's work and see the beauty of taking your time and the importance of giving great value to all that you do or create. Sometimes with an artists work, you need to read about how it was created and where the idea originated. While I do find history and technique strikingly significant those aspects only made Will's work better for me. When I look at his work, I'm captivated, not after reading about it but before I even get to that point. For me, it's a soul connection. Good art pushes me over and leaves nothing but my soul.

Enjoy!






Your work engages in a visual and intellectual conversation. What is your relationship with science?

Well, for one, my brother is a scientist. Which may or may not indicate a predisposition to scientific methodology. You know I used to make work that lacked a sort of "structured" approach, and for awhile that was great but eventually I found that I repeated myself.


I've been working with different sorts of structured approaches (I had a show last year at Jeff Bailey Gallery titled "Focused Aggregate Intensity", this is a rough umbrella term for what I've been up to for the past five years or so), and I've found that I surprise myself despite what someone might describe as "restrictions". So things have reversed, which doesn't mean they won't change again.





Living in New York... What is your favorite lunch spot? Place to go relax outdoors? Place to meet friends for a drink? Venue for music?

I love the food at Souen, but sometimes the service is dreadful. I'm not very good at relaxing outdoors, if I'm outdoors there's usually an activity involved. Is that still relaxing? Daddy's, by default (it's down the block). The music is good there but sometimes the dj's get a little too excited about what they're doing and then it gets way loud, particularly later.


If I'm meeting my friends I want to talk to them, you know? I've seen the greatest shows mostly at unsanctioned spots, rooftops etc., otherwise I've seen good shows at Silent Barn and Market Hotel. Truthfully, I don't go to shows that much, anymore.





The geodesic domes remind me of souls or human cores. What do the spheres represent to you? Why that shape as the central object in your art?

I call them "outposts", but they don't signify anything specifically. They are contradictory, though, and that is psychologically significant. Triangles in a sphere shape is contradictory, and I find that mysterious. A lot of these choices, though, are intuitive.


I don't spend a lot of time thinking about what to do, I just do them and they evolve. Spheres, dot patterns, waves, triangles, grids are all different "phosphene" phenomena that appear in all different cultures' art, particularly what people call "primitive" art. There are some obvious symbolic reasons some of these tropes exist, but I feel I get more out of my time by painting more and not going down the theory wormhole.





Why did you start using typewriters in your art? Have you messed around with other technical devices? (photoshop ?)

I was typing text on drawings, and all of a sudden I realised that I could do a lot more with it. I like the tactile aspect of it. People have said it reminds them of textiles, weavings, etc. I like the process. I've messed around with some other techinical devices, particularly letter-press. I used pinking shears for awhile. Friends of mine make fantastic work that uses photoshop somewhere along the way in the process, I just never have. My work would be different, though.





How would you begin your ideal day?

If I get up at a reasonable time, have energy to work, and my back doesn't bother me, then I've begun an ideal day. This day happens frequently enough that I feel lucky. I had one today, in fact.





Other talk online about Will.
Tumblr
Artforum.
Jeff Bailey Gallery