HACKETT MILL - VORRES - YBCA
ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE - RVCA
01.30.15
(with assistance from RWM)
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Hackett Mill Gallery : Interiors and Places - David Park, Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff.
Comment by AB: Fine vintage examples of Bay Area Figurative painting mainly dating from the 1950s by three of its most famous proponents. Outside of a museum, you won't likely see another show of this caliber anytime soon. Definitely worth seeing.
Best of show - art by David Park at Hackett Mill Gallery.
Richard Diebenkorn art.
Art by Elmer Bischoff.
L-R, art by David Park & Elmer Bischoff.
David Park art.
Art by Richard Diebenkorn.
Attendance figures - Bay Area Figurative Painting at Hackett Mill Gallery.
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Vorres Gallery : Fictional Histories - Zachary Roberts.
Review by RWM: Great remembrances of World War II. Interesting fascination with a time when technology changed the world for probably the far worse. One can remember a time here when the very fabric of matter was examined and discovered to be more dangerous than we could ever imagine. Much of the research happened out here in The West. Science, history and art collide for work about the explosive times at the beginning of The Atomic Age. The truth here more strange than fiction.
Installation in the front room by Zachary Roberts at Vorres Gallery (like it).
Art by Zachary Roberts.
Zachary Roberts discusses his art at Vorres Gallery.
Large sculpture by Zachary Roberts.
Zachary Roberts art.
Sculpture by Zachary Roberts.
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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts , Room for Big Ideas: Transflux.
Artists: Gene A. Felice II, Kate Spacek, Nathaniel Ober, Eve Warnock.
Comment by AB: Four artists engage technology to transform the front room gallery into a "living breathing organism." Diversions include a computer programmed "harp", lapping waves projected from a ceiling installation, interactive installations, and a conceptual ecosystem.
Orrery Harp by Nathaniel Ober at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Detail of art/instrument in above image.
Organismic installation by Coaction Lab.
Installation in above image closer.
Interactive art by Eve Earnock and Pelham Johnson.
Video floor projection by Coaction Lab collective.
Ceiling projection installation used to produce above video.
Performance in the main lobby.
Performance art continued.
Performance art up close and personal at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
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Italian Cultural Institute : We Are All Made of Stardust - Penelope Chiara Cocchi.
Comment by AB: Penelope Chiara Cocchi aka Penelope glues what look like printouts of vintage and contemporary views of San Francisco and Rome onto surfaces like vinyl record albums, a weather-worn piece of scrap wood, a log, a mirror and palm fronds, and then haphazardly slops on some paint. Eminently forgettable. Next.
Painted over print on wood by Penelope at Italian Cultural Institute.
Painted over prints on record albums by Penelope Chiara Cocchi.
Painted over print art in above image closer.
Slapdash rainbow paint art on record albums by Penelope Chiara Cocchi.
Painted over print on a mirror by Penelope.
Painted over print on a palm frond by Penelope Chiara Cocchi.
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RVCA : Hannah Stouffer - Omens and Offerings; Window Installation by Bahama Kangaroo.
Comment by AB: Altars, talismans, spells, curses, charms, past lives and future gazes are bestowed upon us in stencils, drawings, sculpture and installations. Let the spirits permeate your personage here.
Art by Hannah Stouffer at RVCA.
Hannah Stouffer stencil art.
Stenciled glitter sheet art by Hannah Stouffer.
Hannah Stouffer art.
Wall of art by Hannah Stouffer.
Art in above image closer.
Window installation by Bahama Kangaroo at RVCA.
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