Triple Base at NADA

NADA Art Fair
December 3-7, 2008
Opening Night Preview: December 2nd

The Ice Palace, Booth H2
1400 North Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33136

Triple Base Featured Artists:

Michelle Blade
Todd Bura
Serena Cole
Bryson Gill
Rachel Kaye
Kyle Mock
Jay Nelson
Hilary Pecis

Art Fair Banners Miami 2008

Miami Day 2

Visual Arts Gallery SVA, New York










Seminal Projects, San Diego


First look at Aqua Wynwood exhibitor's booths. Most people weren't setting up today but it was good to get a feel for the space and see some of the last minute things taking place behind the scenes.


I don't want to start using flash but it seems my camera might produce better photographs if I do

Dorothy's Shoes

Hanging from the power lines on N Miami Avenue near 25th St.

Art Observed

I came across Art Observed in search for news on Miami 2008. It's really thorough with links to at least 5 other blogs/sites at the end of each post. That's what I like.

They describe themselves...
"Global contemporary art events and news observed from New York City.
Please note that for the time being, ArtObserved is pre-launch and under construction."

Miami Day 1

A variety of great characters here in Miami.

I caught these two guys just before we entered our apartment last night. They were taking pictures of each other walking down the sidewalk. I tried to get one of them in action but couldn't manage. When I asked a posed shot and they were totally in.

Mary Boone

Mary Boone, a woman I take insight from.
She'll also be at Miami Basel next week.

Michelle Pred: Sculpture

13 hours more till super shuttle arrives = packing begins now.
Gate security shouldn't be too time consuming, for a 6am flight. But you never know with the holidays and overprotective measures they put people through. I'm wondering if the security color denoting the height of caution will be closer to red, since the attacks in India.

With all this in mind, a video of Michele Pred, at SCOPE New York in 2006 caught my attention. She's been granted access to the numerous items the airport collects from travelers as they make their way through security to the flight gate. She lives in Berkeley, CA and only works with collected materials from SFO. It took her 5 months to convince SFO to give her the material for sculpture. Otherwise, they would be melting them down for the landfill or putting them up on ebay auctions.

Jonathan LeVine Gallery at Aqua Wynwood

Ray Caesar
"Descent"
Digital Ultrachrome on Paper, 72 x 48 inches





WK
"Interact"






Xiaoqing Ding
"Give It Up"
Pastel on Paper, 40 x 32 inches

You can find them at Booth: 7 and 8 at Wynwood.

Hosfelt at Aqua Art Miami

Seonna Hong
"Our Folded Feathered Friend"
2008
mixed media on paper
11 x 16 inches








Rachell Sumpter
"The Gleaners"
2008
gouache and pastel on paper
12 x 18 inches


Through the next week I'm going to be listing other galleries from San Francisco who are taking noteable artists with them to Miami.

Aqua Art Miami Preview

I just released the preview page for The Shooting Gallery's Aqua Art Miami booth. You can check it out here.

Greg Gossel is the main focus of our exhibit at Aqua but we'll also have works by Travis Louie, Shawn Barber, Shepard Fairey, Yumiko Kayukawa, Kevin E. Taylor, Kris Lewis, Skot Olsen, Van Arno, Mike Maxwell, Erik Foss, Joshua Petker, and Ron English.

Adam 5100 at Stumbleupon

Adam5100 is StumbleUpon's "featured artist."

He hung his show in the the StumbeUpon offices in San Francisco, earlier this week.

Pictures from NaturalSynthetics

Big thanks to everyone who came out to the NaturalSynthetics opening weeks back. Especially Rachel, Ryan, Henning. and Jamie, it wouldn't have been possible without you four. I had a rad time and am looking forward to the next show at Adaptive Path.

Mark Ryden & Marion Peck

Calendar by Camilla Engman

It's getting to be holiday gifting time. Camilla's calendar is an excellent gift for an arty/quasi-arty friend.



You can buy it on her site.

Guillermina Baiguera at Triple Base

Dream With Everything That Fades Away

Artists: Guillermina Baiguera, Chris Duncan, Linda Geary & Scott Oliver
Curated by: Dina Pugh
Gallery: Triple Base
Opening Reception: November 21, 7-10pm
Exhibition Dates: November 21 - December 20, 2008
Address: 3041 24th Street

“I move along in the tender intent of finding myself. It’s where I discover well-being in simplicity and can dream with everything that fades away while taking my time to observe the beauty of things.” - Guillermina Baiguera

Triple Base is pleased to present Dream With Everything That Fades Away, a group exhibition featuring the San Francisco premiere of Buenos Aires-based artist Guillermina Baiguera, alongside established Bay Area-based artists Chris Duncan, Linda Geary and Scott Oliver, from November 21 – December 20, 2008.

Erik Foss at Gallery Three Tonight

"An intrepid scavenger of visual artifacts in which memory, melancholia and madness invoke a visionary topography where the mortality of dreams engender germinal quotients of relativist understanding, Erik Foss locates the fearful symmetries lurking within the miasma of pop culture at the nexus where representation and witness converge. "

Kevin Scott Hailey

I like the lose quality of Kevin's mixed media works. His main focus is his clothing line, Coma and Cotton, but he's definitely not limited to textiles. You can find his studio at Million Fishes art collective in the Mission.

Marcin Łukasiewicz

Marcin Łukasiewicz, Oczyszczenie, 2008, olej, płótno, 135x115 cm

Artist: Marcin Lukasiewicz
Exhibition Title: Medicine
Gallery: Leto
Exhibition Dates: November 15 - December 9, 2008
Opening Reception: November 14, 7.00-9.00, P.M.
Address: ul. Hoza 9c, Warsaw

"The eruption of themes, drastic motives, the easiness in treating form and composition prove that the artist works beyond aesthetic and customary limitations. Lukasiewicz often shows human figures in rather unusual poses: huddled as if in fear of something (and coming from something), tied with 'ropes of their instilled knowledge'. The painter fashions their bodies according to the subconsciously established canon. He 'abuses' the protagonists of his paintings, deforms sadistically their bodies, giving them a new identity, though not always in agreement with our categories of memory and perception."

MICROBIA III, CRUSTACEAPODS

MICROBIA #3, subtitled; "CRUSTACEAPODS"
by Rsconnett on Flickr

24" x 24" (61 cm x 61 cm) Acrylic on Canvas, Completed Oct. 2008

"This is third in a series which includes MICROBIA #1 (BLUE) www.vomitus.com/museum/NewVmmPages/BlueMicrobia_vmm.html ... and MICROBIA #2, (RED) www.vomitus.com/museum/NewVmmPages/RedMicrobia_vmm.html

This painting is a good example of my fascination with tiny primitive sea forms. (Real and imaginary)

With each painting I get a little closer to feeling satisfied with my work. After many experiments, and many derivatively influenced works, (influenced by the artists I admire) I have come to two (2) distinct styles that most dominate my paintings.

This painting is the type "A" painting I "escape" into. Thus, I suppose it is "escapist art", at least for me it is. I find the subjects challenging mostly in technical ways. The color, the placement of forms, the illusion of depth and transparency. These challenges keep my mind engaged during the process. There are a few references to things "unrelaxing", such as the machine fetuses in the spheres, and the food chain scenarios. However, the subject matter of the piece is purposely not provocative.

My other painting style, (I'll call it type "B") acts as a catharsis for my feelings of anxiety, fear, anger, etc. Usually these paintings concern the state of the world, and more particularly the state of my world. The cruelty, ignorance, foolishness and evil that obsesses and plagues me. Also, my dread of death and growing anxiety over life's briefness.

When I'm not escaping into my personal dream world, I'm thinking of the huge evil that shrouds our existence. War, crime, hunger, hate, violence and death. These things should not be ignored, but more than not, they are. Who's responsibility is it, if not an artists, to portray these in the unique venue available to him?

At this point in the evolution of my painting, I wonder what road I will take. Will my escapist fascinations take over? If so, will I always feel that I have betrayed my true perceptiveness, to feel safe with my "pretty pictures"? Or will my more substantive style take over, allowing me to express important feelings and ideas, yet salving me not?

Must I have only one focus for my work? I will try to allow my work to find it's own level."

Thoughts on Conceptualism

From Conceptual Art by Tony Godfry

From the first chapter, discussing the rejection of Duchamp's "Fountain" in the Society of Independent Artists 1916 non-juried and uncensored exhibit.

"Authority was not just a political matter: it was also religious, sexual (patriarchal) and cultural. Academies and groups such as the Society of Independent Artists represented authority just as much as any parliament or king. Art, even Modernist art, it was believed, stood for certain things: culture, decency and high aspirations - hence Glacken's refusal to see something indecent as art. It was indecent to him not only in breaking the decorum of the academy, but in raising issues of sexuality and the unidealized body. It was a low-life object. Above all it was an anti-authoritarian object, because it questioned the definition of art. By what authority could the directors of the Society say it could not be defined as art? And, contrariwise, if they could not define what art was, what authority did they have?"

Started reading this book today. The ideas in the first few pages reminded me of what I saw while unpacking Erik Foss' work at Gallery Three. I'm excited to read more.

Timothy Cummings

Timothy Cummings

Timothy Cummings was raised in Albuquerque, NM and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1993. A self-taught painter, Cummings renders exquisitely crafted narrative and portrait paintings on panel that defy his lack of formal training. The subjects in his work are often children and adolescents trapped in adult worlds and struggling with issues of sexuality and sexual orientation. Cummings’ work has been included in exhibitions throughout the United States, including San Francisco State University, CA; The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; LACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA. His work has been reviewed in Artweek, Art Papers, Flash Art, Details, and Juxtapoz. In recent years he has had been invited to work at Trillium Press in Brisbane, CA and the Hui Noe’au in Makawao, HI. His work has been represented by Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco since 1994. In 2004 he also began exhibiting with Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York. For his most recent show in San Francisco, he collaborated with Aaron Plant and Shane Francis on a video project, Iodine—his first foray into this medium.

Images and text c/o Catherine Clark Gallery Website

Shepard Fairey on CBS

Stencil in the TL

Caught this beauty on the corner of Larkin and Post.

NaturalSynthetics Opens Tonight

Lindsay Jesse


Artist: Group Show
Gallery: Adaptive Path
Opening Reception: November 6, 2008 from 7-9 p.m.
Exhibition Dates: November 6 - February 6, 2008
Address:363 Brannan St




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