LUGGAGE STORE - 1AM - ALTER SPACE
LAB - INCLINE - PARK LIFE
SF FINE PRINT FAIR
01.18.13
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The Luggage Store Gallery : Resistance - Taraneh Hemami.
Comment by AB: Taraneh Hemami examines the broad consequences of activism, resistance, cultural and political shifts, and their effects on people and populations, particularly with respect to the past fifty years or so of upheaval and revolution in Iran. Much of her art is sourced from archives of the era. Make sure you see each piece close up as well as from a distance; lots of difficult painstaking detailed work... and all very well done. Compelling show; go see.
Art by Taraneh Hemami at The Luggage Store Gallery.
Pinkie cam detail of Taraneh Hemami art in above image closer.
Printed fabric art by Taraneh Hemami at The Luggage Store Gallery.
Detail of Taraneh Hemami in above image.
Intense art by Taraneh Hemami at The Luggage Store Gallery.
Taraneh Hemami art in above image closer.
Art by Taraneh Hemami at The Luggage Store Gallery.
Art by Taraneh Hemami.
Detail of Taraneh Hemami art above at The Luggage Store Gallery.
Demographics - Taraneh Hemami art show at The Luggage Store Gallery.
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1AM Gallery : Rednecks & Aztecs - Hydro74 and Jesse Hernandez.
Comment by AB: Prints and graphics, mainly in black and white, by Hydro74 contrast nicely with colorful contemporary expressions of traditional indigenous themes by Jesse Hernandez.
Art by Jesse Hernandez at 1AM Gallery.
Art by Hydro74.
Hydro74 art at 1AM Gallery.
Art by Hydro74 in above image closer.
Jesse Hernandez and Hydro74 art at 1AM Gallery.
Art by Hydro74 and Jesse Hernandez.
Art by Jesse Hernandez and Hydro74 at 1AM Gallery.
Statistical sample - Jesse Hernandez and Hydro74 art show at 1AM Gallery.
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Alter Space : Remembering is Everything - A Group Show. Curated by Bean Gilsdorf and A. Will Brown.
Artists: Yayoi Asoma, David Kasprzak, Kate Nartker, Nancy Nowacek, Melody Owen, Steven Slappe.
Comment by AB: Six American artists are selected to watch a video provided by the show's curators, and are commissioned to make works based on their memories of that video.
Art by David Kasprzak at Alter Space.
Kate Nartker video art.
Art by Nancy Nowacek at Alter Space.
Nancy Nowacek art in above image closer.
Art by Yayoi Asoma at Alter Space.
Melody Owen collage art.
Video art by Steven Slappe at Alter Space.
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The LAB : Identical Operations - Doron Fishman; Film and Video Selections by Alexis Courtney, Peter Max Lawrence, Linsey Wallace, Doug Garth Williams, Gordon Winiekemko.
Comment by AB: Doron Fishman takes groups of identical pieces of paper, performs precise identical operations on each them involving ink, bending and dipping, and then allows the randomness of chance determine the results from from there.
Art by Doron Fishman at The LAB.
Doron Fishman and his art at The LAB.
Art by Doron Fishman.
In the video annex at The LAB.
Ambiance - Doron Fishman art show at The LAB.
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Incline Gallery : Two Years Here - 2nd Anniversary Group Show.
Artists: Alan Miknis, Alfredo Saenz, Alicia Escott, Beloved, Brian Perrin, C3, Carolynn Haydu, Christo Oropeza, Claire Jackel, Dana Cohen, David Fiveash, Eli Lippert, Fred Alvarado, Gina M. Contreras, Hannah Stouffer, Homero Hidalgo, Jason M. Aumann, Jeff Rahuba, Jin Chon, Noah Ptolemy, John Felix Arnold III, Joe Melamed, Johnny Richardson, Josh Powell, Leah Dai Brawley, Leanne Miller, Marissa Rittismit, Ras Terms, Matt Chen, Matt Gonzales, Max Allbee, Nicholas Torres, Nim Nora Aoyagi, Paul Clipson, Paul Jimenez, Randy Colosky, Sandra Yagi, San Francisco Art Beat, Travis Kerkela, Vanessa Varella, Walter Logue, Willy McGhee, Wythe Bowart.
Comment by AB: Very well attended 2-year anniversary group show debuts new work by artists that the gallery has been following since they opened.
Art at Incline Gallery 2-year anniversary group show.
Carved painted art in above image closer (nicely done).
Art by Ras Terms at Incline Gallery.
Art by Joe Melamed.
Joe Melamed and his art at Incline Gallery (sculpture of his grandmother).
Art by Walter Logue.
Art at Incline Gallery 2-year anniversary group show.
Art at Incline Gallery group show.
Noah Ptolemy and his art.
Art at Incline Gallery 2-year anniversary group show.
Relative density - Incline Gallery 2-year anniversary group show.
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The San Francisco Fine Print Fair at Fort Mason Center: The San Francisco Fine Art Print Fair 2013
Participating Galleries: The Annex Galleries, Joel R. Bergquist Fine Arts, Catherine E. Burns Fine Prints, William P. Carl Fine Prints, Davidson Galleries, Egenolf Gallery, Japanese Prints and Drawings, Pia Gallo, Roger Genser, Conrad R. Graeber Fine Art, kleinprint, R. E. Lewis & Daughter, M Lee Stone Fine Prints, Allison Tolman/The Tolman Collection, Warnock Fine Arts, Verne Collection.
Comment by AB: This annual event brings prominent fine print dealers from across the country to San Francisco to exhibit an international selection of everything from Old Master to contemporary etchings, engravings, lithographs, woodcuts, screenprints and more.
Contemporary Japanese prints at Verne Collection, The SF Fine Print Fair.
Jan Lewis Slavid of R.E. Lewis & Daughter, art by Albrecht Durer ($65K).
Dan Lienau of The Annex Galleries at The SF Fine Print Fair.
Art by Frances H Gearhart art at Roger Genser, The Prints & The Pauper.
Brush drawing by Chiura Obata at Egenolf Gallery, The SF Fine Print Fair.
Contemporary Japanese prints at The Tolman Collection.
Ambience - San Francisco Fine Print Fair (that's Larry Warnock, left).
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Park Life : Bad Company - Christopher Baird.
Comment by AB: Christopher Baird's art is inspired by covers of found discarded books, aspects of which he reconfigures and reincarnates as large scale paintings.
Art by Christopher Baird at Park Life.
Christopher Baird art.
Christopher Baird art at Park Life.
Art by Christopher Baird.
Art by Christopher Baird + tunes (they're good).
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