SAN FRANCISCO ART GALLERIES OPENINGS
FIRST THURSDAY - 06.05.14 - Part II
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Stephen Wirtz Gallery : Angels' Share - Paintings by Marc Katano; Ulrike Palmbach - Wilderness.
Comment by AB: In the main gallery, you might call Marc Katano's ink and acrylic works on paper abstract expressionist calligraphy. In the side gallery, Ulrike Palmbach conjoins lengths of a fast growing South East Asian vine into a circuitous cable-like installation meant to symbolize the inaccessibility of the wilderness. In the hallway, she drapes carved oval wood sculptures over a rail, mimicking the appearance of a hose. Stop on by.
Art by Marc Katano at Stephen Wirtz Gallery.
Marc Katano art.
Art by Marc Katano.
Wood sculpture by Ulrike Palmbach (like it).
Installation by Ulrike Palmbach.
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The McLoughlin Gallery : Guillermo Bert - Incubator.
Comment by AB: Los Angeles artist Guillermo Bert incorporates barcodes and qr codes into his textiles, sculptures and mixed media artworks. Scanning the codes allows you see or hear poems, quotations, language, and symbols from different endangered cultures. Bert tells me that he periodically changes the content that he pairs with various codes, lending a dynamic evolving component to the art, so that each time you scan them, you see or hear something different. Check it out.
Textile art by Guillermo Bert at The McLoughlin Gallery.
Pinkie can detail of art in above image.
Sculpture by Guillermo Bert.
Art by Guillermo Bert.
Guillermo Bert and his art in above image closer at The McLoughlin Gallery.
Barcode art by Guillermo Bert.
Guillermo Bert art.
Sculptures by Guillermo Bert.
Installation view - Guillermo Bert art show at The McLoughlin Gallery.
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Gallery Paule Anglim : Summer in Black & White ...And Color.
Artists: Robert Bechtle, Bruce Conner, Joan Brown, Jess, Lynn Hershman, John Priola, Canan Tolon, Anne Appleby, David Ireland, Paul Kos, Tom Marioni, Gay Outlaw, Dean Smith, Frances Stark, Tony Oursler, David Ireland, Dean Byington, Barry McGee, Andrew Masullo, Katherine Sherwood.
Comment by AB: Two summer group shows feature black & white art in the main gallery and color works in the side gallery. It's that simple and no more complicated.
Photograph by Bruce Conner at Gallery Paule Anglim.
Bruce Conner photographs.
Sculpture by Gay Outlaw (I think).
Robert Bechtle graphite drawing (like it).
Installation view - black & white summer group show at Gallery Paule Anglim.
Anne Appleby art.
Sculpture/video by Tony Oursler (center) - 3 by Andrew Masullo (right).
Andrew Masullo art in above image closer.
Color art summer group show at Gallery Paule Anglim.
Color art closer.
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Gallery Wendi Norris : Val Britton - Passage; Christine Elfman - Fix & Fade.
Comment by AB: Suspended cut paper sculpture and mixed media works on paper by Val Britton symbolize maps, geographies, and routes between various locations and destinations. Specifically, they represent memories and recollections of her father, a long-distance truck driver, and in their own ways serve to deepen her connectedness with this aspect of her past. In the rear gallery, Christine Elfman uses photosensitive materials extracted from plants to create her photographs (technically referred to as anthotypes). The subject matters have to do with constancy, change and freezing moments forever in mediums such as photography and film. Good show on both counts. Worth a visit.
Cartographic art by Val Britton at Gallery Wendi Norris.
Pinkie cam detail of art in above image.
Val Britton and her art at Gallery Wendi Norris.
Paper sculpture by Val Britton.
Art by Val Britton.
Val Britton art.
Pinkie cam detail of art in above image.
Photography by Christine Elfman.
Christine Elfman with collector/patron Robert Shimshak at Gallery Wendi Norris.
Anthotype photography by Christine Elfman.
Christine Elfman photograph closer.
Photography by Christine Elfman.
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Roll Up Gallery : Silvia Poloto, Terry Hoff, Juan Reyes.
Comment by AB: Three artists; three perspectives.
Art by Juan Reyes.
Juan Reyes and his art at Roll Up Gallery.
Art by Terry Hoff.
Terry Hoff art.
Art by Silvia Poloto.
Silvia Poloto art.
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Addendum:
First Exposures
group photography show in the dramatic Adolph Gasser parking lot.
Photographs by Jacob Weber at First Exposures group show.
Photography at First Exposures group show.
One more from First Exposures group show.
Paintings of explosions by Rachel Sager at Hang Art Gallery
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Rachel Sager explosion art at Hang Art Gallery.
One more from Rachel Sager paintings at Hang Art Gallery.
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