Artist: Mary Conrad
Title of Piece: "Array"
10x5"
Mixed Media
Gallery: Rosenthal Gallery
Address: 365 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA
Monday, November 30, 2009
Mary Conrad at Rosenthal Gallery
Maria Forde
via mariaforde.net
Been missing me some Maria Forde
check out her site for modest simplicities!
http://www.mariaforde.net/news.htm
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Mike Giant at Medicine Agency
via fecalface.com
Artist: Mike Giant
Space: Medicine Agency
Event: Book Signing & games
Date: Tuesday, Decemeber 1st at 8pm
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Tips for Early Career Artists
When showing your art with a gallery, you are going into business with the gallery. While this is an obvious statement, as an artist one is often emotionally attached to their art work and forgets the concrete facts of business. When starting one's career, an artist may be immature in artist gallery relations, leading them to form relationships with galleries that in hindsight one may not gravitate towards as strongly. As an emerging artist how do you avoid this and still get gallery shows? I’ve put some questions you may way to consider before submitting work to a gallery. I recommend writing out your answers as a way to thoroughly reflect on your answers & thoughts they lead to.
How do I describe my art?
What direction do I ultimately want to move towards?
What other artists do I see myself showing next to?
What types of establishments do I want to see my art in?
What types of print do I want my work in?
Who (publications/news) would I want covering/writing about my work?
How much time am I willing to put into a show?
How many pieces do I have currently that are cohesive together?
Am I willing to frame my work?
What new element does my art bring to the art world?
Why is my work so unique? (if you don’t think it is, brainstorm ways to make it so)
Is my art something people want to hang in their house? Sellable?
Is my art more museum-compelling?
Why do I want to show my work?
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Fuse Gallery
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Kris Kuksi | Beast Anthology
Gallery: Joshua Liner
Opening Reception: Saturday November 21st
Exhibition Dates: November 21 to December 19, 2009 | Exhibitions
Kris Kuksi | Beast Anthology
Gallery: Joshua Liner
Opening Reception: Saturday November 21st
Exhibition Dates: November 21 to December 19, 2009 | Exhibitions
Friday, November 20, 2009
Nikki Lau’s “My 5th Birthday” Pinata Living Room
Artist: Nikki Lau
Gallery: MEDICINE AGENCY
Opening Reception: November 20th 8 p.m.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Monica Canilao & others
Monica Canilao & Kyle Ranson
Monica & CQ
More of Monica's work & other collaborations here.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
David Maisel
There's something about the circle that my eye can't look away from and my brain loves.
"In Maisel’s recent project, Library of Dust, he continues to investigate a zone bordered by aesthetics and ethics. The series depicts individual copper canisters, each containing the cremated remains of patients from a state-run psychiatric hospital, whose bodies have been unclaimed by their families. The canisters are now blooming with colorful secondary minerals as the copper undergoes physical and chemical transformations. Sublimely beautiful, yet disquieting, the enigmatic photographs are meditations on issues of matter and spirit."
David Maisel's site.
Nancy White
Artist: Nancy White
Attended Tufts University & School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Press Release for March 2009 Exhibit at Jancar Jones.
Friday, November 13, 2009
dear little sista
Susanne Winterling: Pattern Recognition of a Collar to Idealism
From 6-part series "dear little sista (chere petite soeur M.B.)"
2008
Digital C-Print
8 x 12 inches
from Silverman Gallery archives
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
JIGSAWMENTALLAMA
Gallery: David Cunningham Projects
JIGSAWMENTALLAMA a group exhibition and weekly film and video screening series. A full schedule for the weekly screenings will be posted on the DCP website.
Nosebleeds. Confessions. Glitter. Melodrama. Reversals. Puzzles. Opera. Science. Heartbreak. Lemons. Role-play. Dream Tunnels. Monkeys. Denouements. Wigs. Turntables. Effusions. Kaleidoscopes. Pirates. Feathers. Gloves. Entheogens. Cameos. Body Doubles. Magic. Horror. Intrigue. Inaugurations. Catharsis. Glamour. Wastrels. Soap. Stilettos. Sublimations. Invocations. Vikings. Cheese. Conversations. Channeling. Comedy. Fireworks. Projections. Pink Noise. Hexagons. Stalkers. Seizures. Tele-novellas. Strain. Smiles. Drag. Monsters. Sadness. Madness. Poetry. Music. Disaster. Masks. Flour. Milk. Caulk. Plaster. Deconstructions. Reconstructions. Abductions. Feints. Nostalgia. Manipulations. Data-bending. Tragedy. Mirror-balls. Joan Collins. Buffalo Bill. Powder Puffs. Demons. Pleasure. Puce Moments. Flesh. Aliens. Alien Flesh. Flashbulbs. Dry Ice. Joy…….
Virgin Prunes.
Monday, November 09, 2009
Anthony Huberman on Robert Filliou
"Filliou's work is still largely unfamiliar to American audiences, but his well-known maxim "Art is what makes life more interesting than art" is a useful summary of what he stood for. Before beginning to write poetry and make art, he trained as an economist at UCLA and became interested in Charles Fourier, the nineteenth-century utopian-socialist philosopher who, in opposition to Smith and well before Marx and Freud, imagined radically new socioeconomic structures in his search for universal harmony. Fourier's guiding and operative priniciple was "passionate attraction" (l'attraction passionee), those primordial desires that precede self-consciousness and survive the rational binaries that reasonable minds invoke; he introduced life, intuition, joy, and conviviality into sociological analysis and economic equations. When Filliou entered the art world, in the early 1960s, he sought to insert those very same values into a community he saw as weighed down by self-conscious critical distance, careerism, money, expertise, and, worst of all, talent, which, to Filliou, was merely the ability to use an acquired skill to execute a task. he viewed most protagonists of the avant-garde as no more than talented inventors. What really counts in a work of art, he insisted, is a quality that grows out of intuition and play- genie sans talent, or genius without talent- a quality he felt all human beings possess in abundance. "
and there's much more in the print version of November's Art Forum. page 109-110
EVERYTHING MUST GO
Artist: Joshua Pieper
Gallery: Ping Pong Gallery
Opening Reception: Friday, November 13th, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Exhibition Dates: November 13 - December 11, 2009
"Threshold resistance, the evocative expression and life’s work of Alfred Taubman, is about understanding and defeating the force, the physical and psychological barriers between art and commerce, between shoppers and merchandise, between high culture and popular taste. While Pieper may not be familiar with Taubman or his philosophy on the palace of commerce, Pieper’s exhibition is a uniquely humorous and witty exploration of the very nature of this commerce. "
Friday, November 06, 2009
The VIntage Man
The
Difference
Between a good artist
And a great one
Is:
The novice
Will often lay down his tool
Or brush
Then pick up an invisible club
On the mind's table
And helplessly smash the easels and
Jade.
Whereas the vintage man
No longer hurts himself or anyone
And keeps on
Sculpting
Light.
---Hafiz
Thursday, November 05, 2009
Bjorn Copeland at Jack Hanley
Artist: Bjorn Copeland
Exhibition Title: Hope It Works
Gallery: Jack Hanley
Opening Reception: November 7, 2009 from 6-9pm
Exhibition Dates: November 7 - December 5, 2009
The sculptures and works on paper included in the exhibit are the products of accumulated, found detritus and debris, collected over the last few years along the artist’s route to his studio. By surrounding himself with large amounts of stimuli (trash), Copeland creates a studio environment for filtering and soaking up information. Decisions that were made by the original designer of the, now discarded, products or product packaging that he collects, become the starting point for Copeland’s assemblages and collages. These works, in turn, begin to inform and dictate the outcome of the next pieces he produces. With one idea based on the last, an alternate version of the environment that the work was drawn from is presented.
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
I Want to be Adored
Artist: Serena Cole
Gallery: Triple Base
Opening Reception: November 6, from 7-10pm
Exhibition Dates: November 6 - December 20, 2009
Cole conceived of I Wanna be Adored eight months ago and has spent the time leading up to the show creating her most large-scale work to date. The artist’s iconic figures are exquisitely rendered yet often dark and haunting, leaving the viewer to question what is missing or wrong. Lurking below the eloquent exterior of her sacred women is often a sense of desperation - revealed through dark sunken eyes, parched lips, an empty gaze or posture.
Maxwell Loren Holyoke-Hirsch
Artist: Maxwell Loren Holyoke-Hirsch
Exhibition Dates: Nov 5 - Nov 28, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday Nov 5th from 6-9pm
Gallery: Fecal Face
Balancing forces of chaos, inclinations toward order, and the freedom to play, Megarealms is a dynamic equilibrium between tangibles and impossibilities. Operating in the space between principle fundamentals and measured restraint, Megarealms is at once architectural, sculptural, designed, and painterly. The interplay of color, form, scale, dimension, media and theme activates connections that redefine relationships and forge cohesion among seemingly disparate elements. Teetering on the edge of infinity, Megarealms bends the boundaries of perception, challenging supposed tensions between the everyday and the fantastical, the concrete and the abstract, function and form, restraint and inhibition.
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Tara Foley at Adobe Books Tonight
Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
3166 16th Street San Francisco, CA 94103
Reception: Tuesday, November 3rd, 6-9pm
Monday, November 02, 2009
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