Artist: Daniel Tierney
Location: Oakland, CA
My favorite Q&A from the interview.
If you had to explain your work to a stranger, how would you do it?
It's something you didn't know you already knew until you saw it: familiar and strange. It's how you would tie your shoes if you melted your hands to a plastic truck. It's where you would go if you could be everywhere at once. It's a dark place where neon fires light the walls.
Artist: Seth Koen
Gallery: Gregory Lind Gallery
Exhibit Dates: January 24, 2008- March 1, 2008
Address: 49 Geary St, Fifth Floor
Seth's pieces from 2005 are most interesting to me. When I saw the second image I have posted here, my immediate thought was that he should be showing his work in broken decrepit warehouse buildings. 
The intense colors of his thread sculptures take on a whole other creative life when placed next to the unfinished ceiling below.
When I see them, I think wormy insect meets cell-like life form.
The white walls in the gallery for this exhibit work well; as his sculptures, here, resemble more fragile bones and 3D outlines of what may come or has been.
TONY LABAT: BULK
6pm - 12am, Thursdays - Saturdays
Oct 19 - Dec 22, 2007
You might have walked into this gallery one evening expecting a party or walled and framed up art pieces...but you were confused, might have been too early for the rest of the crowd, and trying to act like you knew what you were doing promptly thanked the gal/guy behind the bar and walked out. Well, you totally missed the incredibleness of Tony Labat.
What is it all about:
An interactive installation, a make believe replica of a typical daily environment, and a stage for your next social experience. It shows, that the essence of a room depends on the people present and the energy they bring. So, if you walk in and think, "uhhhh what is this?" At that moment you are creating your own experience and where it goes from there is your choice.
From his bio page:
Tony Labat was born in Cuba and came to the United Stated at the age of 15 in 1966. He received his BFA (1978) and his MFA (1980) from the San Francisco Art Institute where he’s being teaching since 1985 and is currently Chair of the New Genres Department. He has exhibited internationally over the last 25 years. Mr. Labat has received numerous awards and grants and his work is in many private and public collections. Labat has developed a body of work in Performance, Video, Sculpture and Installation. His work has dealt with and continues his investigations with the body, popular culture, identity, urban relations, politics, and the media. In 2005 Labat had a survey exhibition of his work in conjunction with the publication of "Trust Me."
Fortunately this exhibit has been extended until December 22, 2007. Check Queens Nails Annex' site to see what the next event is...will be sure to rock your socks!
Choi Jeong-Hwa
Monday, 10 December at 7:30pm
Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut Street campus
Free and open to the public
Playing off the role of South Korea and its neighbors as the origin of the production of disposable consumer goods, Choi’s work interrogates the preciousness of unique objects in a time of mass consumption and reproduction.
Adel Abidin
November 17, 2007 - January 5, 2008
Triple Base Gallery
3041 24th Street
Simulation art. Installation art. Interactive art.
If you made it to the Lab exhibit "Corporate Art Expo '07" you will have a better sense of how to view this show. You experience the art, which is the experience the artist had or observed. It is similar to a 3D movie, a T.V. show where the audience is asked to participate. In turn, the exhibit pulls the viewer from whatever level of passive viewing they are doing and asks them to experience the art in a new way. The issues and culture within Iraq, that Abidin is processing in this show, gives us a new experience beyond interaction.
