WONDER BOX

Artist: Matthew Palladino
Gallery: Baer Ridgeway Gallery
Exhibition Dates: May 8 - June 12, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 8, 4-7pm

Live with Art

20x200's THIRD annual Bay Area Collectors' Confab is this coming Tuesday, May 4th, from 6-9PM -- once again generously hosted by our friends @ Chronicle Books.

We Ride At Night

We Ride At Night

My friend Jason is one of the founders of the We Ride At Night collective and co-curated this exhibit with two other dudes. It was a rad show, check it out online if you missed it in person.

“Group Show”

Artforum Pick
JACK HANLEY GALLERY
395/389 Valencia Street
April 3–April 28

For the past two decades, dealer Jack Hanley has perhaps been the Bay Area’s unofficial goodwill art emissary. He has not only brought important contemporary artists to San Francisco—back in the early 1990s he introduced Jack Pierson, Karen Kilimnik, Zoe Leonard, and others––but he has also done much to activate and to popularize, particularly at art fairs, a funky brand of Conceptualism emerging from the studios near his Mission District gallery. The fact that Hanley is shuttering his West Coast operations to focus on his Watts Street space in New York is cause for reflection. Fittingly, the final exhibition in the San Francisco gallery focuses on recent works by nine artists who currently live and work in the neighborhood, or got their start in Hanley’s northern-California outpost.

The group show is a modest but aesthetically cohesive expression of Hanley’s adventuresome inclinations and hippie-utopian roots, which add a hearty rock-’n’-roll spirit and penchant for easily obtainable materials. Highlights include pleasing geometric abstractions on found wood by Alicia McCarthy; a robotic tree sculpture by Kal Spelletich; an earthy, rust-hued Tauba Auerbach painting; and a collage depicting stalactites by Leslie Shows. Other standouts include digital prints by Shaun O’Dell and the palimpsest of a magazine-appropriated home interior by Carter.

Chris Johanson, though, sums up the show’s spirit best in one half of a diptych that includes a circular cutout, within which he has scrawled the title: Focus Your Energy Away from There to Here Where It Is Better, 2010. Possibly made for the show, the piece, which also includes a second panel with an exploding burst of color, makes a fitting sendoff to a city witnessing the departure of a dealer with similarly youthful verve.

— Glen Helfan
via Artforum

Reflections Adrift

Artist: Martin Machado
Space: Heart
Curated by: Jillian Mackintosh
Opening Reception: April 9th, 2010 from 7-10pm


"Martin Machado's paints by working from photographs taken during his travels at sea and to various coastal areas. He recently spent six months working as a deckhand on a container ship traveling around the globe, painting in a small cabin space in what little spare time he could find. He often found solace in retreating to his small room and recreating his surrounding environment through paintings done on fiberglass cloth and panel. By merging numerous layers with epoxy, it allows the scenes to blend into one homogenious image. His tendency to experiment with photography, paint, and film is fused with material commonly found on ships. Like a memory, the result is blurred between fact and creation. "
Jillian Mackintosh

OKTOGON

Artist: Gwenaël Rattke
Gallery: Ping Pong Gallery
Opening Reception: Friday evening, April 16, 6-9PM.
Exhibition Dates: April 16 -May 14, 2010

"Although drawing from a collection of references, preoccupations, thoughts, inspirations and art [German history, Kosmische Musik, Utopian collective communities, political photomontage, Art Brut, Art Nouveau and Surrealism, the “happy apocalypse,” the connection between modernity and the birth of psycho-analysis, to name a few], deeply central to the artist’s work is a longing for communal aspirations. In search of this collective spirit, Rattke works through expressions of solitude, sexuality, and mystical quests. The artist says of his work: "the collages are an amalgamation of things that I see, feel, dream, and possibly long for. They are fragments of subjective experiences, which get translated into images, adjusted through the infinite mechanical possibilities of the Xerox machine, then cut up and reconfigured into new images. Or rather a kaleidoscope of images somewhere between reality and the subconscious."

By way of his dreaming, longing, and imagining, the artist also alludes to (and perhaps undergoes) a symbolic baptism of sorts. The title of the show, Oktogon, referring directly to an intersection in Budapest also loosely refers to the Budapest "Kiraly" baths, 16th century Ottoman baths built during the Turkish occupation of the area. Strange and special, everything in the architecture of the baths is based on the eight-sided shape of the octagon. Credited throughout the ages as a powerful symbol, the octagon represents spiritual rebirth, renewal, regeneration, totality, infinity, transition and eternal life. In these baths the artist discovers a structure both physical and spiritual that gives shape to his ideas in both form and content. For Rattke, the octagon becomes metaphor for the inter-connectedness of all things: real or imagined, past, present and future, and for the overlapping, kaleidoscopic nature of his own streaming thought patterns."
via Ping Pong Gallery

Guerrero Gallery Exhibition 2

Artist: Adam Wallacavage, Albert Reyes, Alexis Mackenzie, Andy Diaz Hope, Brian Cooper, Chris Yormick, Cody Hoyt, Cody Hudson, Frohawk Two-Feathers, Greg Lamarche, Jacob Whibley, James Hopkins, James Marshall, Jay Howell, Jon Bocksel, KC Ortiz, Kelsey Brookes, Michael Rea, Michael Swaney, Mike Davis, Ryan Jaenke, Scott Anderson and Ted Pushinsky

Gallery: Guerrero Gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 10, 2010 from 7-11pm
Exhibition Dates: April 10 - May 1, 2010

New Territory

Artist: Mark Warren Jacques (and more)
Gallery: White Walls Gallery
Exhibition Dates: April 3 - April 25, 2010

Last Gasp 40th Anniversary Art Show

"The Last Gasp 40th Anniversary Art Show assembles a top-drawer lineup of artists – the haut monde of lowbrow. Over the past four decades, Last Gasp has published hundreds of artists in the underground comix and kustom kulture, to pop surrealism and street art movements."
via 111Minna

Artists in the show include: Gary Baseman, Tim Biskup Glenn Barr, Robert Crumb, Richard Corben, Guy Colwell, Ron English, Tony Fitzpatrick, Christopher Felver, Camille Rose Garcia, Justin Green, Bill Griffith, Rick Griffin, Ed Hardy, Frank Kozik, Joe Ledbetter, Carol Lay, Adrian Lee, Michael Manning, Chris Mars, Scott Musgrove, Junko Mizuno, Liz McGrath, Laurenn McCubbin, Mitch O’Connell, Annie Owens, The Pizz, Mark Ryden, Michael Rosen, Trina Robbins, Spain Rodriguez, Dori Seda, Winston Smith, Eric White, Robert Williams, Attaboy, Aye Jay, and many more to be announced.

Matthew Picton

Artist: Matthew Picton
Gallery: Toomey Tourell
Exhibition Dates: April 1 - April 30, 2010

YAR

Artist: Thomas Campbell
Gallery: Gregory Lind
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 1, 2010
Exhibition Dates: April 1, 2010 to May 15, 2010

Is Silverman Gallery the new Jack Hanley of San Francisco?

Artists: Tauba Auerbach, Carter, Ajit Chauhan, Chris Johanson, Ed Loftus,
Alicia Mccarthy, Shaun O’Dell, Leslie Shows, Kal Spelletich
Gallery: Jack Hanley
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 3rd, 6-9pm
Exhibition Dates: April 3 - 28, 2010

The Jack Hanley Gallery will mount its final show in the gallery’s San Francisco location, April 3 - 28, 2010. The show will include new work from a selection of gallery artists.

The Jack Hanley Gallery opened in downtown San Francisco in 1990 showing emerging international artists. After closing for two years, from 1996 - 1998, the gallery reopened in a new location in the Mission District of San Francisco. Continuing to focus on working with emerging international artists, the new incarnation of the gallery helped to establish the careers of a number of emerging San Francisco artists, as well. In December 2007 Jack Hanley Gallery opened a location in New York. At the end of April 2010, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco will close thus allowing for the further growth of an innovative and focused program at the New York location.

QNTV

Introducing QNTV: the first in a series of video screenings at Queen's Nails Projects that showcase work blending performance, music, video and song writing. Join us this Friday, March 26th for a fantastic line up of local, national and international artists whose practices range from conceptual/ performance bands, to straight-up music promos, to videos that feature music as the inspiration for the artist's work.

Screening at 8pm and 10pm, with a performance by Wanda and Wonder between the screenings, around 9pm. Hope to see you there!

Queen's Nails Projects is located at 3191 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

Here's the line up!

Austin Young/ Jackie Beat, Baby Got Front, 2007
Andrew Steinmetz/ Jennifer Sullivan, Sexual Healing, 2010
Japeth Mennes/ Judson Claiborne, Moonraker, 2009
Mark Locke/ Jeffrey Lewis, Willamsburg Will Oldham Horror, 2005
My Barbarian, The Night Epi$ode, 2009
Sofia Córdova, Dip Si Dai Ver, 2010
Ely Kim, Boom Box, 2009
Lew Baldwin/Juiceboxxx, Thunder Jam III, 2005
Cody Critcheloe/ Ssion, Bullshit, 2009

Gamekeepers without Game

Artist: Emily Wardill
Gallery: Altman Siegel
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 1st, 2010 5:30-7:30pm
Exhibition Dates: April 1st - May 15th, 2010

"Gamekeepers without Game, a new film by British artist Emily Wardill. The show will include her feature length film Gamekeepers Without Game projected in 5.1 stereo surround sound, with the corresponding film stills.

Emily Wardill (b.1977) is a London-based filmmaker. She has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, including an upcoming exhibition at De Appel, Amsterdam (2010), and past projects at MOCA Miami (2009); Spacex, Exeter (2009); ICA, London (2008); Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner, London (2005 and 2006); and STANDARD (OSLO) (2008). Her work has been screened at the Art Now Lightbox, Tate Britain; the International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Witte de With, Rotterdam; and the London Film Festival. In 2008, Wardill was nominated for the Jarman Award and performed Life is a Dream at the Serpentine Gallery, London in 2007

The film will screen six times a day. An exact schedule of screening times will be available online and at the front desk of the gallery. For more information, please contact the gallery at 415-576-9300 or info@altmansiegel.com."
via Altman Siegel

Rain Shadow Cross Section

Artist: Christopher Badger
Gallery: Silverman Gallery
Opening Reception: Friday, March 19, 2010 from 6-9pm
Exhibition Dates: March 19 - April 24, 2010

The artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery began with a trip to a small sub-section of Death Valley, which features the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere (Badwater Basin) as well at the highest point in the continental U.S. (the peak of mount Whitney). Fascinated by this dramatic modulation in the natural landscape, Badger mapped the points between these two extremes, resulting in a series of discrete measurements that initially provided the basis for a musical score. The project ultimately occasioned a broader meditation on land, travel and systems of measurement, which yielded a range of works, including digital C-prints, a large-scale floor sculpture, silk-screens, paintings as well as a sound installation.
via Silverman Gallery

IMPLIED

Artist: REBECCA GOLDFARB
Gallery: Baer Ridgeway Gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 3rd, 4-7 PM
Exhibition Dates: April 3rd - May 1st, 2010


In viewing Goldfarb's exhibition, one is presented with a perceptual experience, creating an opportunity to give further consideration to, in the artist's own words: "the infinite and in-between space where language, thought, memory, and sense interact as ways to investigate the act of thinking and seeing."
via Baer Ridgeway

Serena Mitnik-Miller

Artist: Serena Mitnik-Miller
Space: Four Barrel Coffee
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 27, 2010 from 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: March 5, 2010 - May 5, 2010


Her paintings (in this series):

Quilt like.
Tranquil.
Fitting for a Spring exhibition.
Well framed.
Complementary to the interior of Four Barrel.

Cupcakes & Creatures

Artists: John Casey / Alexis Mackenzie / Jon Carling / Jen Siska / Lisa Congdon / Kevin E. Taylor / Kylea Borges / Ryan Coffee / Jessica Niello / Kristine Reano
Gallery: Bell Jar
Opening Reception: Friday, March 12, 2010 from 6-9 PM


Why you are attending this opening v. just going to view the show.

All of these artists are lovely people
Bell Jar serves complimentary sparkling wine
The store in front has several beautiful objects for your fancy.
It's an early start to your inevitably adventurous Friday evening.