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

Stephanie Syjuco - anti-factory redux

Went through flickr looking for images from yesterday's Fall Open House at the Headlands Center for the Arts. Guess no one has posted images from the day. Instead I found Stephanie's work. She covers a wide range of mediums with intent behind each piece of work. This is likely to be one the more minimal projects she's done. Here's her artist statement ->

STEPHANIE SYJUCO is a visual artist who’s recent work uses the tactics of bootlegging, reappropriation, and fictional fabrications to address issues of cultural biography, labor, and economic globalization.





Working primarily in sculpture and installation, her objects mistranslate and misappropriate iconic symbols, creating frictions between high ideals and everyday materials.





This has included re-creating several 1950s Modernist furniture pieces by French designer Charlotte Perriand but using cast-off material and rubbish in Beijing, China; starting a global collaborative project with crochet crafters to counterfeit high-end consumer goods; photographing models of Stonehenge made from cheap Asian imported food products; and searching for fragments of the Berlin Wall in her immediate surroundings in an attempt to revisit the moment of capitalism's supposed global triumph.