WOLFE CONTEMPORARY - MISSION COMICS AND ART
TRIPLE BASE - PARK LIFE - LEBASSE PROJECTS
04.02.10
(with assistance from Liesa Lietzke
and RWM)
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Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art : Living Shrouds - Davide Coltro.
Comment by AB: Milan, Italy artist Davide Coltro shows a line of rather somber and heavily muted black and white portraits, 100 in all, combined with a video monitor that morphs one portrait into the next. The show is called "Living Shrouds," I feel like I'm in a mortuary, and that, as they say, is that.
Photography by Davide Coltro.
Davide Coltro photographs.
Photos by Davide Coltro.
Davide Coltro photography and video installation.
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Mission Comics and Art : Escape From Dullesville - Andy Ristaino.
Review by RWM: Amazing fantastical landscapes depicted imaginatively with style and detail. One cannot help but be intrigued by the odd locals, and can escape here to a different realm. Beware of the horrific, but there is also magic and beauty.
Art by Andy Ristaino.
Andy Ristaino art.
Andy Ristaino art in above image closer.
Art by Andy Ristaino.
Andy Ristaino art.
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Triple Base Gallery : J.B. Blunk Residency Group Show.
Artists: Lynne Riding, Alicia Escott, Julia Goodman, Max Lamb, Gemma Holt.
Comment by AB: So the deal is that there's this place way out in the wilds of Inverness, somewhere near the middle of the Bishop Pine Nature Preserve-- a serene sustainable independent off-the-grid-style environment-- where artists can go to live, work, create and perhaps figure out how to make things just an itsy bitsy bit better for the rest of us.
Chain saw furniture by Max Lamb (like it).
Video of Max Lamb at work on furniture with the chain saw.
Max Lamb (center).
Ceramic art by Max Lamb.
Cast paper art by Julia Goodman.
Photograph of the J.B. Blunk property by Alicia Escott.
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Park Life : Ian Johnson - Of The Living Sky.
Comment by AB: No one venerates Jazz Greats like Ian Johnson.
Art by Ian Johnson.
Ian Johnson art.
Art by Ian Johnson in above image closer.
Jazz art by Ian Johnson.
Jazz portraits by Ian Johnson.
Ian Johnson wine specially fermented for the occasion.
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LeBasse Projects at 1746 Post Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94115: Showcase SF.
Artists: Seonna Hong, Herakut, Yoskay Yamamoto, Edwin Ushiro, Alexandros Vasmoulakis, Andrew Hem, Melissa Haslam, Nate Frizzell.
Comment by AB: Culver City's LeBasse Projects ambles on up from The Southland to showcase a selection of their brassiest talent.
Art (nicely painted).
Installation art.
Art.
Art.
Art.
The venue - 1746 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94115 (like it).
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