Feb/March 2006

 

Gallery Shows

 

Nicholas Coley at 66balmy

591 Guerrero St.
San Francisco, CA 94110

 

ArtistsXchange

March ART EXHIBIT – NEW WORKS
FRI, March 3rd, 7PM-10PM    EXHIBITING ARTISTS:Tori Kayal, Jamie Dorfman, Taiko Fujimura, Diane Julia Flick, Shanna Lopresti, Gretchen Walker, Ruth Jacobson, Charles Drees, Pat Markle, Chiao Mei Lin, Hiroko Sakai, Michael Barbee, Hang Nguyen, Georgianne Fastaia, Mary Tivadar, Ludmila Peliouchenko-Leverd, PopJunkie Design, Kim Weinberg, Joshua Ellingson, Johnny Siu, Niana Liu, Karen Man, Armani Walker-Birnes, Joy o Designs, Robin Grotch, So Koala, Roger Licot.

 

 

Center of Europe

photographs and text by Michael Zheng @ ATA

More than one geographical center of Europe has been declared in different countries, most notably in Lithuania, Ukraine and Slovakia. Several monuments have been dedicated to each of these locations.
On July 27, 2004, the artist did a performance at the Geographic Center of Europe in Lithuania. Standing between the two official monuments that mark the Center(s) of Europe, the artist whistled out the phrase CENTER OF EUROPE repeatedly in Morse Code, turning slightly to the left after each iteration. The performance took place between 9:00am and 6:00pm. Documentation of the performance was broadcast on Lithuanian National Public TV Nightly news.
The artist will show photographic documentation of the performance, including explanatory text in the ATA gallery.
More about the artist: http://michaelzheng.org

February 6, 2006 - February 28, 2006.

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

Rudy VanderLans
13 Big Western Landscapes

@ Gallery16

January 13 - February 17, 2006

Opening Reception: Friday, January 13, 6 - 9pm

Gallery 16 is honored to present its second solo exhibition with the internationally acclaimed Rudy VanderLans. Rudy's creative output over the past twenty five years is as varied as it is influential. He is the co-founder of Emigre, a world-renowned designer, a magazine and music publisher, as well as a photographer and author.

For this exhibition, "13 Big Western Landscapes," Rudy has extended his interest in wrestling with the form of landscape photography. This body of work stems from VanderLans's book "Pages from an Imaginary Book," in which crude halftone reproductions of his photographs are used in rendering his shots of the California desert. This rudimentary form of printing became a vehicle for Rudy in considering the very nature of how art is represented and consumed in printed form and how the landscape is photographically glamorized and fetishized.

For additional information and images, please do not hesitate to contact Vanessa Blaikie at 415.626.7495 or vanessa@urbandigitalcolor.com

Gallery 16 || 1616 16th Street 3rd floor || San Francisco, CA 94103 || [415] 626-7495
Hours: Monday - Friday 9AM - 5PM and by appointment

 

 

Battle Emblems @ Intersection
February 1 - March 25, 2006

Wednesdays through Saturdays, 12-5pm, FREE

OPENING RECEPTION-Wednesday, Feb 1, 6pm-FREE
This new exhibition takes a look back to a thrust in the history of graphic arts that envisioned and generated symbols to encapsulate the ideas, beliefs, and goals of various social movements of the last century, with a focus on the past forty years. By juxtaposing a historical survey of some of the most enduring and important symbols of these movements, as well as some lesser known graphics from labor and union movements with new work created by local artists and designers, our hope is to educate and inspire conversation about the role that art can play in helping to define and mobilize action and change today. Featuring new work by Choppy Oshiro, Mark Pearsall, Favianna Rodriguez, Yaeger Moravia Rosenberg, Jessica Tully, and Marcelo Viana with material from the AOUON Archives

"Intersection is not only a physical space but also one held open by a community's commitment to a common project over the course of four decades." - Clark Buckner, SF Bay Guardian

Upcoming
Peripheral Vision by Binh Danh & Elizabeth Moy
May 3 - June 17, 2006

Intersection @ 446 Valencia Street

 

Cronyism @ Mission 17

January 20th – February 25th, 2006

Opening reception:  Friday, January 20th, 6 – 9pm

Gallery Hours: Tuesday 3 – 6, Saturday 2 – 5, or by appointment: 415.336.2349

2111 Mission St., suite 401

SF, CA 94110

 

 

EMERGING ARGENTINE PAINTERS

@ Red Poppy Art House

OPENING RECEPTION

Wednesday, February 15: 7PM-9PM

Buenas Artes presents a new exhibit of young emerging Argentine painters; Bettina Rojas, Rosalba Mirabella, and Raúl Gómez. Curated by Paula Blocona. Image: Untitled 2005 by Bettina Roja, acrylic on paper.

RED POPPY ART HOUSE
2698 Folsom St.
SF, CA 94110

 

Sarah Smith  @ SOEX

Exhibition Dates: January 13 – February 18, 2006

Sarah Smith combines elements of sculpture, painting, and drawing to create three-dimensional immersive environments that address our relationship to nature. Influenced by over 10 years experience as a scenic and decorative painter, her work resembles the set of an allegorical theater, composed of false architecture and pastoral landscape. Her installation Permanently Temporary will incorporate a sawdust drawing of a treescape and cut-wood silhouettes of cliff edges. Many of these visual features symbolize the passage of time and ultimately, death. The components of her stage setting are pieced together and propped up, inherently revealing their artifice, temporality, and reliance on illusion. Smith endeavors to conjure a sense of loss and longing, and convey nature’s ability to endure and transcend utter devastation.

 

 

 

SomArts Main Gallery

SomArts Main Gallery will be presenting Chance: An Installation from Guatemala during the month of February 2006. The exhibition will feature works by fourteen Guatemalan artists, working mostly in conceptual ideas, and differing visual attitudes toward the act of perception. Their installations will be as diverse as kites hanging from the gallery ceiling, artists books displayed on a great table, digital photos and performance pieces. Curated by Veronique Simar of Guatemala City, this exhibition comes as a great vantage point for what young contemporary artists are thinking and making.

Artists:

Rudolfo Abularach
Mario Permuth
Alejandra Mastro
Jose Osorio
Cesar Silva
Igal Permuth
Jorge DeLeon
Denise Quinonez
Alejandro Marre
Regina Jose Galindo
Leslie von Sechel
Veronique Simar
Carlos Loarca
Deborah Duflon

 

 

 

National Psyche: The Exhibition @ The LAB
Featuring Jane Benson, Maria Bustnes, Carole Caroompas, Caroline Cox, Alyse Emdur, Oriana Fox, Linda Ganjian, Jean Lowe, Jyung Mee Park, Sabrina Raaf, Paige Sarlin, Nicole Tschampel, and Saya Woolfalk
Curated by Elliot Lessing
February 24 - March 11, 2006
Opening Reception: Friday, February 24th, 2006, 6-9 PM
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays-Saturdays, 1-6 PM

The LAB presents this centerpiece of the multi-faceted National Psyche project, featuring a selection of new works from thirteen national and international contemporary artists. Din Din Party: Exploring the Judy Chicago Legacy will also be on view--San Francisco-based artist Matt Gerring presents this piece extending dialogue and concepts sparked by Judy Chicago's 1979 signature installation. Join the party! The public is invited to contribute to its design. Artists respond to various evils associated with the Pandora Myth in Pandora's Box: A DVD Collection, co-curated by Ellen Lake and Heike Liss.

 

 

 

 

ampersand international arts

January 13 - February 17, 2006
Albert Reyes: Wonderland
Megan Wilson: Spring

Los Angeles based , and San Francisco Art Institute educated , artist Albert Reyes has a profound passion and respect for conceptual as well as graffiti art . Renowned for his ubiquitous "GIVE" tag, Albert Reyes has a distinctive artistic approach inspired not only by street art, comic books, and contemporary American pop culture but also by contemporary and classical "high art". Icons of corporate America and Hollywood , mass media, politics, and consumerism are often drawn into his work with an insolent and even subversive verve ; a deliberate and secure hand guides the exquisite execution of his drawings. Reyes has exhibited successfully at the Tree House Gallery, JUNC Gallery, Giant Robot, New Image Art Gallery , and Black Market in Los Angeles; at the Upper Playground, Low , Balazo , and Ampersand galleries in San Francisco as well as the StayGold Gallery in NYC, and ampersand:paris in Paris, France.

Megan Wilson grew up in Montana. She received her BFA from the University of Oregon in 1992 and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1997.Her work has been exhibited in San Francisco at Southern Exposure, the San Francisco Art Commission, Clarion Alley, ampersand international arts, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, gallery 3, ATA, The Lab, and in public spaces throughout San Francisco; in Los Angeles at the Richard Heller Gallery; and internationally in Tokyo, Japan;Yogyakarta, Indonesia; and Jaipur, India and Paris, France. Wilson is a recipient of a 2000 grant award from the Gunk Foundation and a 2001 grant award from the Art Council/Artadia. In 2002, she was selected to design posters for the San Francisco Art Commission's Market Street Art in Transitposter series. She is also a freelance writer and art critic. In 2000-2001 she was a weekly contributing arts writer for the SF BayGuardian. She co-founded the San Francisco based arts website www.stretcher.org. Her writings have appeared in afterimage, Digitalcity,and Public Art Review. From 2000 - 2004, she was the co-director of the Clarion Alley Mural Project. In 2002-03 she curated, co-directed and participated in Sama-sama/Together, an international exchange project between artists from San Francisco and Apotik Komik of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. In spring 2006 her site-specific installation Forever Summer will be on view in San Francisco. Additionally, the Sama-sama/Together catalogue will be published in March 2006.

Albert Reyes
Artist Statement:
My passion has always been images and making images. Making art is definitely the way I choose to communicate, the reflections of society that I see everyday.All kinds of relationships interest me : those between people, but also of people to their environment, and the resulting relationship that forms between the viewer and the person(s) portrayed.
"He who works with his hands is a laborer
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist"
Saint Francis of Assisi

Megan Wilson
Artist Statement:
Time for play
Growth
Renewal
Laying in bed sipping tea, reading and listening to the rain
The smell of earthworms and oak
Streets covered with earthworms after a big storm
Flowers starting to bloom
Longer days
Return of the sun
Baby animals
Celebrating May Day by lying in bed and fucking your lover all day,
while also fucking capitalism
The sound of birds chirping
Strappy sandals and slinky dresses
Transition
Listening to the river crackle as it melts
Armyworms falling from the trees
The smell of lilacs
New sheer panties
Slipping out of new sheer panties
More people on the streets
Return of snakes
The cat going outside more
Good Housekeeping
Hiking through forests
Barbeques with Mojitos
Looking forward to summer
New leaves
Allergies
Sunlight glittering and bouncing off the leaves
Smell of cut grass
Tulips and daffodils
Patios
Green

 

ampersand international arts
1001 Tennessee Street (at 20th. st.)
San Francisco, California 94107

Open Fridays 11 AM - 5 PM & always by appointment

For more information or to schedule an appointment
call : 415-285-0170
e-mail : bruno@ampersandintlarts.com