Thomas Bayrle

Totally got this from Frieze's online magazine.

Daniel Egneus

Daniel Egneus


His blog.
Find him mostly in Europe.

Lafe Eaves

Lafe's next exhibit opens July 11th at Gallery Three.

Jon Casey Clary & Bruce Wilhelm

Artists: Jon Casey Clary & Bruce Wlhelm
Gallery: Eleanor Harwood
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 20, 2009
Exhibition Dates: June 20, 2009 through August 1, 2009
Address: 1295 Alabama St.

Jennifer West

Jennifer West, Rainbow Party on 70 mm Film (70MM film leader kissed with lipstick & impressed with teeth marks by Jwest and her former students: Mariah Csepanyi, Maggie Romano & Roxana Eslemiah), 2008, 39 seconds. Courtesy Marc Foxx, Los Angeles and Vilma Gold, London. More on Artforum

GUTS

AJ Fosik

Dan Flavin

When I was in Miami for Art Basel last year my friend Megan and I started planning one of our future houses together. We decided it will be in the Caribbean at a location only our private jet can reach. Each floor will have different themes for the art work and decor. One floor's theme will be Neon. On that floor Dan Flavin will be king!

Something Beautiful

More here.

Carlos Marulanda

At the closing reception for Million Fishes last exhibit I got a chance to see Carlos' lastest film installation. So rad.

AJ's Install: Almost Complete

More install pics here.

Bill Samios

Bill Samios

Catpower's "Maybe Not"

There’s a dream that I see, I pray it can be
Look cross the land, shake this land
A wish or a command
I Dream that I see, don’t kill it, it’s free
You’re just a man, you get what you can

We all do what we can
So we can do just one more thing
We can all be free
Maybe not in words
Maybe not with a look
But with your mind

Listen to me, don’t walk that street
There’s always an end to it
Come and be free, you know who I am
We’re just living people

We won’t have a thing
So we’ve got nothing to lose
We can all be free
Maybe not with words
Maybe not with a look
But with your mind

You’ve got to choose a wish or command
At the turn of the tide, is withering thee
Remember one thing, the dream you can see
Pray to be, shake this land

We all do what we can
So we can do just one more thing
We won’t have a thing
So we’ve got nothing to lose
We can all be free
Maybe not with words
Maybe not with a look
But with your mind

But with your mind

AJ Fosik Arrived

As we unpacked the crates of AJ and Greg's work yesterday, it was like a surprise package Mary Poppins or the Nutcracker. I'm so excited for this exhibit to open.

Artist: AJ Fosik
Gallery: White Walls Gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 13, 2009 from 7-9 p.m.
Exhibition Dates: June 13, 2009 -July 10, 2009
Address: 835 Larkin St. San Francsico

Indie Cute

Laura Redburn

Veronica Blejman

Veronica Blejman
A Buenos Aires based artist whose been living in Barcelona for the past six years.

Ping Pong Gallery

La Biennale di Venezia

The Venice Biennale opened today.


Making Worlds
53rd International Art Exhibition
7th June to 22nd November 2009



"Fare Mondi // Making Worlds is an exhibition driven by the aspiration to explore worlds around us as well as worlds ahead. It is about possible new beginnings."

says Director Daniel Birnbaum

Daniel Reich Gallery

I went through a phase of liking galleries that I thought I was supposed to like. Now past that, I'm trying to refine my list of preferred galleries around the world. I've been using links from various blogs and art sites to narrow or expand my list. Searching through the gallery links on VASILI KALIMAN'S ART PATROL blog I came across Daniel Reich Gallery. I don't know how else to tell you how it's rad, other than by listing some works I liked most on their site.



Past exhibit announcements















Works by Sean Dack, who went to school at Columbia University School of the Arts. His digital prints catch me mid view. ahhhhh



"Los Angeles Helicopter"
2007
Unique digital c-print
30 x 44 inches






"Girl Next Door"
2008
Unique digital C-print
45 x 30 inches





Christian Holstad, went to school at Kansas City Art Institute. His works can be off centering a bit initially but ask for more attention to be understood. "Pulling in the Reigns" and "Memorial" have a subtle eerie feel with a dream like quality and some connection to past historical events.



“Pulling in the Reigns”
2003
Charcoal on erased newsprint
5.25 x 6.5 inches





"Memorial"
2009
Graphite on Newsprint
11.25 x 23.75 inches




The idea of going to the YBCA's party last night where they were showing shorts in honor of Fellini, has me in a film noir mood. These film stills and photo collages by Susanne M. Winterling are part of that.





"Eileen Gray; The jewel and troubled water "
2008
Photocollage
15.5 x 19.5 inches






“Untitled” (As to Muybridge (Film still C. Bonstein “A Swiss Rebel”
(set of six black and white digital prints)
2007
8.5 x 11 inches each
Edition of 3

Renegade Craft Fair

Renegade Craft Fair
Brooklyn NY
June 6th and 7th 2009!
Booth#220 by Lorimer street
Forward Roll

Kevin E. Taylor is visitin pals in Brooklyn and sent me a link to the Renegade Craft Fair he's part of.

Can't say that I put patches on my clothes or bags but seeing these made me consider changing my mind.

Eminent Domain Awareness at Varnish Tonight

Varnish Fine Art
77 Natoma Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 222-6131


The Eminent Domain Awareness Group Show features some of the 200+ artists whom Varnish Fine Art has been proud to exhibit since opening in April 2003, including Stanislav Szukalski, Jose Fernandez, Carlos Huante, Beth Bojarski, Michael Page, Lex Lucius, Jennybird Alcantara, Ron English and more. In May of 2003, co-owners Jen Rogers and Kerri Stephens first learned about a Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) neighborhood-devastating project in an SF Business Times article titled, “The Wrecking Ball is Swinging.” Few people know that this San Francisco agency is eliminating 33 small, local businesses, including Varnish Fine Art, and numerous residences in order to demolish all properties and later resell the land.

Eminent domain is the tool this government agency is using to accomplish the land-grab and tenant evictions. The TJPA is forcing Varnish, among the first tenants and years before the end of the lease, to vacate this September for an October 2009 demolition of its nearly 100 year old building. The gallery and wine bar will have to vacate 77 Natoma Street, but the owners hope that by raising awareness about the eminent domain threat they can stop its abuses on this and future San Francisco projects. The Eminent Domain Awareness exhibit is the final group show, but two solo exhibitions by painters Kevin Peterson and Michael Page will be displayed before the current location of Varnish is demolished.

Yuval Pudik

Enduring Patiently 6
Graphite on paper and collage
22 × 30 inches
2009


Yuval Pudik
"Enduring Patiently"
June 5 - July 30, 2009
Opening reception June 5, 7-10pm
Silverman Gallery


A reference to the Book of Revelations, “Enduring Patiently” speaks to the Judeo-Christian tradition of suffering and martyrdom, an idea Pudik utilizes to interrogate archetypes of masculine authority. This body of work draws from the rich pageantry of European courtly dress, developing the artist’s meditation on the body, social costuming, and the shifting of identity. Delving into a darker topography, Pudik engages questions of confinement and restriction through his detailed renderings of monarchs—male figures laden with historically charged accoutrements of mastery. Armor, lavish capes, furs, and gauntlets are meshed with jet engines, megaphones and guns to create fantastical bodily assemblages that are as radiant as they are grotesque. Through these almost obscenely excessive figures, Pudik creates a visual archeology that ultimately exposes the ways in which power ossifies into the momentous, yet fragile surfaces that constitute the social realm.

Let It Lead You Somewhere

I stumbled across Ashkahn Shahparina's website through Theme's blog, which I recommend visiting. These are from the "inspiration" page.

Veronica Blejman

Veronica sent me a link to her site with a few illustrations. The illustrations drew me and I found this beautiful painting in the mix. Check out her site for more.