June/July 2006
TANYA HASTINGS GILL : UNDER SKIN
paper, paper cut-outs
ampersand
international arts
May 18- June 18, 2006
Artist Statement:
Tanya Hastings Gill : Under Skin
The Under Skin series was born out of a year of extensive international travel,
which included six weeks in Cape Town, South Africa, and several months in
Mumbai, India. The year highlighted and re-enforced how interconnected,
interdependent and alike we all are. We all have impressions and memories we
house under our skin and these influence how we react and function in the
world. These impressions and memories shape us. Patterns, both conscious and
unconscious, are created. These patterns affect our individual relations with
the world and how we negotiate our internal and external lives.
What would it mean to try and capture some of these moments in children - at
the time in which the patterns are being created? The notion of the innocence
of children is largely constructed by adults. I have not selected to work with
children because of this illusion. Children know what is happening around them;
they are very aware of their surroundings and station in life. Between child
soldiers, street children, poverty, and crimes against children, I know that
there are many children wiser to human natures, and human failings, than I.
Despite the fact that many children's lives are far from innocent, I believe
that the values of childhood innocence must be preserved and fought for as a
natural right. I have chosen to work with the subject matter of children due to
their impressionability and to highlight the moment of the creation of a
pattern. Under Skin is a collection of various children's impressions. Rohit is
running through a flock of pigeons. He is completely engaged in the activity.
Nothing else is on his mind. He is enjoying his effect on the birds and their
flight. I imagine this moment of engagement will stay with him and he will seek
it out again and again. A pattern is being formed.
ampersand international arts
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JUNE ART EXHIBIT – NEW WORKS
FRI, JUNE 2nd, 7PM-10PM
Exhibiting
Artists:
Dana
Robson, Mario J. Giordano, Rui Ogura, Andre, Hilary Williams, Yoskay Yamamoto,
Shirley Lee, Susan Peterson, Maya Delano, Kevin Earl Taylor, Seema Hamid, Lisa
La Rocca, Darwin Bell, Chuck Drees, Mary Tivadar, Roger Licot, Georgianne
Fastaia, Michael Barbee, Hiroko Sakai, Joanna Mendicino, Cheng Ke Zhang, Joso
Vidal, Michael Barbee, Nanamation, Tori Kayal, Jamie Rogers, Alice Gibbons
Music
by: DJ Ewan Dowpin
Ewan
Dowpin has been DJing for 5 years and has been a performing musician since age
9. Behind the decks he is best known for his selection of relaxed groovy
Neapolitan techno and progressive tribal house. Ewan has performed at events
designed by Moksha Tribe and Egregious Records. In addition to his passion for
DJing, Ewan is an active and experienced classical trombonist, minimalist
composer, and music theorist.
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Gallery
3169 16th Street
San Francisco
CA 94103
(415)-864-1490
Mon-Fri: 12pm - 9pm
Sat: 10am - 9pm
Sun: 10am - 8pm
The
Art Explosion Studios & Gallery
“Sneak Peek”
The Art Explosion Studios, home to 200 talented local
artists, is having a “Sneak Peek” at the art being created in the studios. On the 2nd Saturday of each
month, they open the studio gallery to the public for a couple of hours. This is a chance to view high quality
original art where it is made. If you missed their open studios show this is a
chance to see some great art in a gallery setting. If you did catch the open studios show you know that this is a
unique opportunity to view and purchase high quality original art.
The Mission Arts Gallery hosts the exhibit at 744 Alabama St
@ 19th St. The Art Explosion Studios hosts the exhibit at 2425 17th
St @ Potrero. Both locations will have exceptional art on display and are just
a few blocks from each other. Many
artists will have their work on display, and there will be different artists
highlighted each month. Don’t miss this
chance to add to your Mission arts collection!
When: the second
Saturday of each month
June 10th 2-5pm
Featured Artist: Ivy Jacobsen,
Priscilla Otani, Godfrey Lim
July 8th
2-5pm Featured Artist: Michael McNamara
August
12th 2-5pm Featured
Artist: Catherine Reed, Margo Majewska
2 Locations in San Francisco!
744 Alabama St (at 19th) and 2425 17th
St (at Potrero)
LIVE PLAY
Soundwave>Series
((2)): Surround>Sound
Friday, June 9, 2006. 8PM $6-$10 @ ATA
Guest Curated by Matt Davignon (Found Objects Festival,
Sound/Shift)
Video by Sarah Lockhart (21 Grand)
Myrmyr (Laptop/violin/cello duo of Marielle Jakobsons & Agnes Szelag)
Luz Alibi/Mr. Maurader (trumpet/electronics duo)
Quartet (Moe! Staiano/Percussion, Kanoko Nishi/Koto, Lance
Grabmiller/Laptop, Matt Davignon/Turntable)
Project>Soundwave proudly presents the first show of the Soundwave>Series
2nd Season. "LIVE PLAY" is a different sort of audio-visual feast.
Guest curator Matt Davignon assembles three groups of prominent electronic and
acoustic musicians from Bay Area’s experimental music scene to improvise scores
for an unusual array of films selected and gathered by 21 Grand's Sarah
Lockhart. Like the audience, the musicians will be seeing the films for the
first time as they perform, and must respond to elements of the videos.
The Soundwave>Series is an innovative Bay Area event series dedicated to the
exploration of the nature of sound. The 2nd Season, with the theme of
Surround>Sound, runs from June through July with performances at ATA, The
LAB, Luggage Store Gallery and a special live session on KPFA radio. More info:
www.projectsoundwave.com.
Produced by ME'D1.ATE Network (www.me-di-ate.net)
Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 824-3890
ata@atasite.org
CARTER @ Jack Hanley Gallery
June 2 - 30, 2006
Opening Saturday,
June 3rd, 6-9pm
The Jack Hanley
Gallery, San Francisco is pleased to present a solo exhibition of the
works of New York-based artist Carter, which will include his
characteristic collaged drawings on hand marbleized paper, as well as
photographs.
As Matthew
Higgs notes, Carter's works are “…a form of deflected (or defective)
self-portraiture...assembled - in a manner akin to a police
"Identikit" image, or a "Mr. Potato Head" figure - from pre-
drawn fragments that depict bodily parts and facial characteristics (profiles,
hair styles, moustaches, beards, noses, ears, mouths, eyes, etc.), and
invariably make reference to the artist's own physiognomy.”
Carter's work was
included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial: Day for Night and recently was
shown in solo exhibitions at White Columns, New York and Hotel Gallery, London.
Previous solo exhibitions include: Richard Dadd Gallery in St. Paul, MN; The
Bulletin Board, CCA Wattis Institute, Conversation Piece, Southern
Exposure, and Four Walls Gallery in San Francisco, CA. His work has been
included in numerous group shows, most recently in USA Today (work from
the Saatchi Collection) at the Royal Academy of Art, London, as well as at
D'Amelio Terras, Perry Rubenstein, and Derek Eller Gallery in New York; Gallery
Paule Anglim in San Francisco; and Midway Contemporary Art in Minnesota.
Carter received
an MFA from the University of California, Davis, CA in 1997.
Saints and Sinners:
Queer Chicano/Latinos Re-defining Spirituality
Curated
by award-winning poet Meliza Bañales
Friday,
June 23 8pm
Admission $7 - (No one turned away for lack of
funds.)
Where: Galeria de la Raza, 2857 24th
St. Call 415-826-8009 for more information.
Are
we saints or sinners, a bit of both, or neither? Chicano/Latino culture
is embedded with religious icons, traditions, and expectations. Though
many of us experience spirituality differently, common threads are woven and a
new community emerges. Living as Queer and Chicano/Latino how do we
reclaim, redefine, or follow tradition? How do we see our spiritual
selves, especially in the 21st century? How does the internet,
traditional icons such as Guadalupe, and our own histories influence us?
And how do we build and maintain spiritual communities that honor our
diversity? These questions and many more will be approached by some of
the most talented and visible writers and performers in the Bay Area through
spoken-word, storytelling, and performance! All saints, sinners, angels,
outlaws and everyone in-between are welcome. Featuring the talents of: Tina
D’Elia, Prado Gomez, Samuel Gonzalez, Mario Balcita, and many more!
photos: Meliza Bañales (top), Tina D' Elia (bottom)
Illusion 4 @ MCCLA
WHO You and 40 Artists
WHAT A free space for an evening of a
collective creation.
WHEN June 30th, 2006
TIME 6 pm – 10
pm
WHERE MCCLA Gallery
THEME
La Conquista/ The Conquest
REQUIRED ATTIRE
Guest come dressed in BLACK or RED. Artists are dressed in all white.
The Event
Illusion is a one-night event, developing over the course of 4 hours, where 40
artists engage in making, with other artists, and the public to share the space
of the Mission Cultural Center’s two galleries. All surfaces are wrapped
in white paper: walls, floors, columns. Artists come dressed in white for
the making and the public dressed completely in BLACK or RED, -not mix, just
one color- for the viewing--what takes place over the course of an evening is the
optical illusion of vibration.
Illusion
is a moment of energetic, public happening. This is an opportunity to
discover self among others and to create in a shared space for all ages,
children and adults.
The Theme
This year’s them of “la conquista,” the conquest, is open to
interpretation and is offered as a design parameter to those artists interested
in commenting upon and creating around this theme. The idea can be simple
and transformed into its own making, with the conquest of land, color, words,
an ocean crossing, crossing fingers, crossing territories.
The 10th Annual
Urban Youth Arts Festival
Saturday, July 22,
2006
Youth and family are invited to come and be a part of positive and creative
expression with San Francisco/ Bay Area artists at the Annual Urban Youth Arts
Festival in Precita Park, San Francisco. Participate in traditional as well as
aerosol mural painting. Last years performances included music from up and
coming bay area acts, Jendor, Colored Ink, Hip-Hop Theater,
Sterega, Art B4 Money, & Trondokulous Records. Featured artists
included Crayone, Sirron Norris, Dave Wright, Gideon Chase and Steve Wong. This
event is sponsored by Precita Eyes Muralists, a San Francisco based non-profit
community mural arts organization.
All are welcome to spend the day enjoying mural performances, music, and
breakdancing @ Precita Park from 12:00 to 6:00
Admission is FREE.
For more information please contact Joshua Stevenson or Fred Alvarado at:
Precita Eyes Mural Art Center
(415) 285-2287
or by email: publicity@precitaeyes.org
Kicking off ten days of
festival activities on June 1 is the exhibit, REWIND: A Retrospective of Black
cast movie posters (1920-2005) at the African American Art and Culture Complex,
762 Fulton Street. The reception starts at 6:30 p.m.
Stop by for light refreshments, entertainment, film and a fabulous collection
of posters, lobby cards and Black memorabilia from the collection of Alden and
Mary Kimbrough.
Southern Exposure is Moving!
Southern Exposure is excited to announce our new location at 2901 Mission
Street (@ 25th Street). After 32 extraordinary years at our home at Project
Artaud, we are temporarily moving to a wonderful storefront location in the Mission
District while our space undergoes a seismic retrofit and renovation. We will
be leaving our current space in late June 2006 and opening the doors at our new
space in late July 2006.
New Contact Information:
2901 Mission Street (@ 25th Street)
San Francisco, CA 94110
t- 415/863-2141
f- 415/863-1841
e- soex@soex.org
w- www.soex.org
