CATHARINE CLARK - LOT 21 - ROOT DIVISION
GALERIA DE LA RAZA - CHROME
WHITE WALLS & SHOOTING GALLERY - MARKET STREET
04.12.14
(with assistance from RWM)
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Catharine Clark Gallery : Deborah Oropallo - Milk Made; Fallen Fruit - Fruit Machine (David Burns, Austin Young & Matias Viegener).
Comment by AB: Deborah Oropallo lives on a farm and raises her own animals. In her digital imagery, she reflects on the ramifications of that, here getting to know her animals in the abstract in addition to already knowing them firsthand. Talking to Oropallo is preferred to reading the show statement and gives you a hands-on feeling of what it's like to live with and around animals. In the project room, contemplate "the video Fruit Machine, an on-going project in which the artists capture teenagers (between the ages of 12-17) eating a variety of fruit." Worth a visit on both counts.
Digital art by Deborah Oropallo at Catharine Clark Gallery.
Farm animal imagery by Deborah Oropallo.
Deborah Oropallo and her art at Catharine Clark Gallery.
Art by Deborah Oropallo.
Digital art by Deborah Oropallo closer.
Art by Deborah Oropallo.
Deborah Oropallo art.
Austin Young of Fruit Machine and a still from his video.
Video by Fruit Machine (David Burns, Austin Young & Matias Viegener).
Ambiance - Deborah Oropallo & Fruit Machine at Catharine Clark Gallery.
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Lot 21 Gallery : Joshua Dudley Greer.
Comment by AB: Tennessee photographer Joshua Dudley Greer documents the current environmental state of a former explosives manufacturing company (The West Virginia Ordnance Works) located in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. The property is now a wildlife management area and through Greer's images, we can see the progress of returning the land to the state from whence it came.
Joshua Dudley Greer and his photography at Lot 21 Gallery.
West Virginia Ordnance Works photograph by Joshua Dudley Greer.
Joshua Dudley Greer photographs.
Photograph in above image closer.
West Virginia photography by Joshua Dudley Greer.
West Virginia Ordnance Works photograph by Joshua Dudley Greer.
Venue - Joshua Dudley Greer photography show at Lot 21 Gallery.
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Root Division : Kitsch-in; Presented in conjunction with TASTE 2014. Curated by: Amy Cancelmo, Richard Rinehart, & Julie Sutherland.
Artists: Alexis Arnold, Jeremy Brooks, Ryan Carrington, Elizabeth Cayne, Shenny Cruces, Andi Fink, Emily Franklin, Jenne Giles, Darlene Kaczmarczyk, Kirstin Lamb, Jennie Lennick, Lee Materazzi, Pallavi Sharma, Lindsay Stripling, Montana Torrey, Kirsten Tradowsky, Sanh Tran.
Comment by AB: Art themed on food heralds Root Division's annual fundraiser, TASTE 2014.
Best of Show - porcelain assemblage installation by Shenny Cruces.
Porcelain art by Shenny Cruces in above image closer.
Oversized popsicle art by Jenne Giles.
Photography by Sanh Tran.
Weird kitchen photography by Lee Materazzi.
Ceramic dessert art by Jennie Lennick.
Intricate elaborate still-life art by Kirstin Lamb (nicely done).
Pinkie cam detail of Kirstin Lamb art in above image.
Hair as edibles - photography by Andi Fink.
Emily Franklin photography.
Just before the opening - group art show at Root Division.
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Galeria de la Raza : Paper and Blade - Storytelling Under the Knife.
Artists: Mayumi Hamanaka, Adrienne Heloise, Ian Kuali'i, Kai Margarida-Ramírez.
Comment by AB: Four artists work their magic in the medium of cut paper. Their art demonstrates the "fragility that paper represents, much like the transient quality of the human experience, memory and our collective stories."
Cut paper & collage art by Ian Kuali'i at Galeria de la Raza.
Large cut paper & collage art by Ian Kuali'i.
Cut paper collage by Adrienne Heloise.
Pinkie cam detail of Adrienne Heloise art in above image.
Cut paper art by Adrienne Heloise.
Small art by Adrienne Heloise.
Topographical cut paper art by Mayumi Hamanaka.
Layered cut paper art by Mayumi Hamanaka in above image closer.
Cut patterned photograph by Kai Margarida-Ramírez.
Pinkie cam detail of cut patterned photograph by Kai Margarida-Ramírez.
Just before the opening - group cut paper art show at Galeria de la Raza.
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Chrome Industries San Francisco Mission : Travis Jensen - Mission District, Feet on the Street.
Comment by AB: In these rapidly changing times, Travis Jensen captures the spirit of the Mission District through a series of romantic black & white portraits of its longtime residents. How long the neighborhood will continue to exist in this incarnation is anybody's guess.
Photography by Travis Jensen at Chrome Industries.
Travis Jensen Mission District photographs.
Life in the Mission District - photography by Travis Jensen.
Travis Jensen photograph.
Along Mission Street - photography by Travis Jensen.
Relative density - Travis Jensen photography show at Chrome Industries.
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White Walls & Shooting Gallery : Infinite Chapters - Sergio Garcia; Make Stuff - Peter Gronquist; This Side Up - David Soukup; Snake in the Eagle's Shadow - Morgan Slade.
Comment by AB: In the front gallery, Sergio Garcia presents his fantastic twisted trikes along with several unsettling headless sculptures and an inventive assemblage of welded school desks surrounding a looped video of a vintage schoolroom movie. In the rear gallery, Peter Gronquist's life and death blends consisting of weapons, skeletons, butterflies and wildlife get us thinking about the continuum of destruction and preservation. He's also showing an assortment of paintings, a petrified dress light fixture, sculptures and more. In the left Project Room, David Soukup demonstrates why he won the 2013 Stencil Art Prize with his intricate inner city fire escape scenes. In the right Project Room, Morgan Slade essays on the pleasures of perversity. Stop on by; plenty to peruse.
Tricycle sculptures by Sergio Garcia at White Walls & Shooting Gallery.
Sculpture by Sergio Garcia.
School desk with video mixed media art by Sergio Garcia (like it).
Tricycle sculpture in top image closer.
Sergio Garcia and his sculpture at White Walls & Shooting Gallery.
Sculpture by Sergio Garcia closer.
Art by Peter Gronquist.
Peter Gronquist and his art above closer at Shooting Gallery & White Walls.
Sculptures by Peter Gronquist.
Art in above image closer.
Peter Gronquist petrified dress chandelier with gold painted interior (nice).
Art by Peter Gronquist.
David Soukup and his stencil art at White Walls & Shooting Gallery.
Stencil art by David Soukup.
Art in above image closer.
David Soukup stencil art.
Photography by Morgan Slade.
Morgan Slade photography show.
Photograph in above image closer.
Morgan Slade photography.
Long view - four artists show at White Walls & Shooting Gallery.
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Market Street Gallery : Bottoms Up - Ronald Newman.
Review by RWM: They are often fun to look at, but I would not want to have one myself, i.e. exposed on my body for others to see. They might be a gift of sorts for some, but others may think their's have turned into a curse. Fascinating subject to many though. As shown here they range from realistic to avantgarde. They have changed the world, but remind us of our animal nature. Fascinating variety, with some depicted more inspirationally than others. Great, but in a strange examined way.
Comment by AB: All butts and nothing but butts (except for a pair of clothespinned nipples), mainly bedecked in fetish wear.
Derriere photographs by Ronald Newman.
Ronald Newman butt with fetish wear photograph closer.
Photography by Ronald Newman.
Spandex covered butt photograph by Ronald Newman.
More you-know-whats - photography by Ronald Newman.
Gallery view - photographs of rear ends by Ronald Newman.
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