October/November 2005

 

Gallery Shows

 

 

"Mission Gringo / Smurf Murder "

@66balmy Gallery

A solo show of new works by DAVe Warnke

October 20th thru October 23rd, 2005

Opening Reception Friday, October 21st, 2005, 7-10pm

Meet the Artist Saturday, October 22nd, 12-5pm

591 Guerrero St.
San Francisco, CA 94110

 

 

HELLO

group show @ ATA

October 8, 2005 - October 30, 2005.

Featuring new work by artists who focus on the dynamics of the space and its surroundings. The works will consume the space yet highlight what it is. Work will be included in the front window as well as the gallery. Please join us for this unique show.

Artists: Sara Baylock, Chris Cobb, Krishna Khalsa, Emily Sevier and Charlene Tan

Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 824-3890
ata@atasite.org

 

 

WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE?
A Tribute to the Wicked Satire of Latino Arte

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 8, 7p.m.
Exhibition Dates: October 8 - November 5
Galería is open Wednesday - Saturday, 12pm to 6pm
Admission: Free and Open to the Public

Ms. Lady Luck Enlightened, Isis Rodriguez, 2004.

What's Not To Love? From October 8 to November, Galería de la Raza will present the last of its 35 th anniversary visual arts exhibitions, What’s Not to Love? . Galería’s 35 th anniversary exhibitions have focused on those practices and concepts that have been central to Chicano/Latino art-making across generations. The first exhibit, Weedee Peepo, showcased artworks that honored individuals in the context of community life —from cultural and political leaders to everyday folks whose very existence inspire the evolving process of cultural affirmation and survival. The second exhibition, Trazos: Myth and Memory, delved into the repertoire of images in Chicano/Latino art that reassert the historical past while persistently endowing them with new cultural meaning. What’s Not to Love? completes the series with fresh expressions of humor. The works encompass a wide range of practices spanning the whimsy of images created by free-association and incongruous analogy as well as the wry humor of political satire, irony and parody.

Leading Chicano/Latino artists, such as Lalo Alcaraz, the creator of La Cucaracha, the first nationally syndicated politically themed Latino daily comic strip, Enrique Chagoya, Culture Clash, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Isis Rodriguez, and members of the legendary Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF) are among the twenty-four artists included in the show.

The title, What’s Not To Love?, is itself a play on the themes that make their entry into the doorsteps of 2857 almost every day. Themes range from the parodying of media misrepresentations of Latino culture, to the distortion and appropriation of stereotypes; from the cannibalization of culture, politics, religion, gender and sexuality, to the humor of self-deprecation rooted in the permanent cultural identity crisis experienced by individuals caught in the cracks of the American melting pot.

Visual humor serves both as diversion and device to spark consciousness. T.S. Eliot describes it as a “way of saying something serious.” In this vein, many of the visual humorists participating in What’s Not to Love?offer sweet and sour witticisms to deal with cultural, social and political issues, while others simply subvert the seriousness of daily life. Ultimately, humor is never as complete as when it engages a viewer’s active imagination and What’s Not to Love? is an invitation to Latino art’s relentless use of humor as divine device. As the pinto motto goes “Smile now, cry later”. Orale!

Participating Artists: Lalo Alcaraz, Roberto Buitron, Enrique Chagoya, Culture Clash, Jaime Cortez, Rudy Cuellar, Fulana, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Keep on Crossin', John Leaños, Liz Lerma, Noelia Mendoza, José Montoya, Victor Payan, Gerardo Perez, Praba Pilar, Seline Szkupinski Quiroga, Isis Rodriguez, Jos Sances, Gustavo Vazquez, Esteban Villa, Conchita Villalba, and René Yañez.

Curated by: Carolina Ponce de León with the assistance of Raquel de Anda.

 

 

 

 

Perpetual Motion/Movimiento Perpetuo
by Victor Cartagena & Elisabeth Oppenheimer

October 5 - December 3, 2005 @ Intersection for the Arts

Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 5, 6 to 9pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesdays by appointment
Wednesdays through Saturdays, 12 to 5pm, FREE

A new collaborative sculptural and video installation by two local award-winning artists commenting upon the human aspiration and propensity for transit and migration. In a time when many are questioning what it means to live in this country, when immigrants are turned away, detained, and viewed suspiciously, a re-examination and re-discovery of the voices, hopes, and dreams of those who make their homes here, either out of desire or necessity, provides a powerful opportunity to see those around us in a new light and re-define notions of community.

Artists' Talk with Victor Cartagena &
Elisabeth Oppenheimer
Tuesday October 11, 2005 at 7 PM, FREE
Join the artists of the exhibition for a conversation about the development of their current and past work.

The Hybrid Project: Perpetual Motion
Tuesday October 18, 2005 at 7:30 PM
$5 - $15 sliding scale (18 & under FREE)
Investigating immigration, migration, and notions of travel and journey through hybridized forms of performance, this evening fuses beats, dance, poetry, live music, and more in a search for new ways to use performance to communicate. Presented in conjunction with Perpetual Motion/Movimiento Perpetuo, this evening investigates the movement and migration of culture as we blend our present direction with visions, stories, and sounds of our past. The evening includes new interpretations through spoken word by WritersCorps, Mixtiso Latin hip-hop directed by Vanessa Mosqueda, and live animation\by Iranian-American visual artist Ala Ebtekar.

Beyond Lands Far From Here: Film & video screening guest curated by Elizebeth Chavez
Tuesday November 22, 2005 at 7 PM
$5 - $15 sliding scale
Beyond Lands Far From Here explores the disparate stories of migration told through accounts of immigrants who cross various landscapes and borders to find freedom. A discussion with the filmmakers will follow.

 

 

irreconcilable differences

@ Mission 17 gallery

New Work by

leonardogillesfleur

September 9th - October 15th

For Irreconcilable Differences, the two person art-collective leonardogillesfleur has constructed a bicycle with handlebards pointing in opposite directions, and documented their attempt to put it to use.  The bicycle is the first in a series of planned objects, based on their work together as collaborators.  Along with an eccentric approach to self-portraiture and a study in space, movement, and transportation; the installation explores the conflicts implicit in social relations, coupling, and self-identity.  In its absurdity, the piece also examines the nature of art as work performed for no (utilitarian) reason.

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS:

E Pluribus Unam - social research / installation by John Tellier

(October 21st - November 25th)

Mission 17's Second Annual Juried Exhibition

(December 2nd - January 7th)

 

 

 

Mayhem Southern Exposure’s 15th Annual Entry-fee Free Juried Exhibition Exhibition Dates: November 4 – December 10, 2005 Opening reception: Friday, November 4, 7 pm - 9 pm Free admission Film/Video Screening: Mayhem Southern Exposure’s 6th Annual Film/Video Screening Tuesday, December 13, 7:15 pm and 9:15 pm Admission: $8 Screening Location: Red Vic Movie House 1727 Haight Street between Cole & Shrader San Francisco, CA 94117 Artwork Drop-Off Dates: Friday, October 21, 12 pm – 7 pm Saturday, October 22, 10 am – 2 pm at Southern Exposure, 401 Alabama St. (at 17th St), San Francisco Artwork Pick-Up Date: Tuesday, October 25, 12 pm - 8 pm For Mayhem juried exhibition and film/video submissions guidelines and more information, click here For Mayhem FAQ click here   Southern Exposure announces Mayhem, the 15th Annual Entry-Fee Free Juried Exhibition of work by Northern California Artists. The annual juried exhibition has become the premiere showcase of cutting-edge contemporary artwork by promising local talent. Unlike many open calls for work that charge a submission fee, Southern Exposure’s juried exhibition does not require artists to pay to enter their work. The exhibition is open to any artist living in Northern California north of King City and south of the Oregon border. In past years, over 700 artworks have been hand-delivered to the gallery for jurying, attesting to the extreme popularity of the show. For many of the artists selected, this is their first major exhibition and an important step in advancing their career. A different theme is selected every year to inspire and encourage a broad level of artistic expression.  By leaving the theme and media open to the artists’ interpretation, the work is conceptually and aesthetically diverse, drawing from as many insights and forms of expression as possible. Southern Exposure's 2005 theme, Mayhem, was conceived as a response to the current political and cultural climate. Every year, a prestigious curator is chosen to select work for the exhibition. Southern Exposure is proud to announce Julie Joyce as the juror for Mayhem. Joyce is Gallery Director of the Luckman Fine Arts Complex at the California State University, Los Angeles. She has worked at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation. She has curated numerous exhibitions in the Los Angeles area, as well as five nationally traveling exhibitions including Post Millennial Fizzy-Addressing the Possibility of the Future and Jessica Bronson-Panamint Tilt. Joyce regularly publishes reviews and articles in magazine such as Art issues and Artext magazines. In conjunction with Mayhem, Southern Exposure presents our 6th Annual Film/Video Screening, an evening of short films and videos by local artists juried by Valerie Soe on Tuesday, December 13th at the Red Vic Movie House.  Like Southern Exposure’s annual juried exhibition, this screening offers film/video makers the same opportunity to submit work without paying an entry fee and have their work viewed and selected by a well-known film/video curator. Soe is a San Francisco based writer, curator and experimental videomaker whose productions include Mixed Blood, Picturing Oriental Girls: A (Re) Educational Videotape, and "ALL ORIENTALS LOOK THE SAME.” Soe has written for Afterimage, High Performance, Cinematograph and sfgate.com, among others, and curated exhibitions at the University of California, Irvine's Fine Arts Gallery, Artists' Television Access, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She is a founding member of X-Factor, an experimental film and videomaker coalition, and a faculty member at San Francisco State University's Asian American Studies Department.   For more information and images, contact Courtney Fink or Kristen Evangelista at 415/863-2141 or email director@soex.org or programs@soex.org. Southern Exposure is located at 401 Alabama at 17th Street in San Francisco. Gallery hours are 11 AM to 5 PM, Tuesday through Saturday.  Gallery admission is FREE.