MARX & ZAVATTERO - ARTZONE 461 - SOAP GALLERY
ROOT DIVISION - FEMINA POTENS
SHOOTING GALLERY - WHITE WALLS - GALLERY THREE
07.11.09
(with assistance from Pakayla Biehn
)
Marx & Zavattero : Stephen Giannetti - Sextuple.
Comment by AB: The amazing thing about Stephen Giannetti's circular celebrations is that he paints, draws and applies each and every circle entirely by hand. That's one boatload of steady handed work, and it's all perfect. So there you go.
Art by Stephen Giannetti.
Art.
Stephen Giannetti discourses on his art.
Art.
Art.
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ArtZone 461 Gallery : Jeong Im Yi - Reverent Memories.
Comment by AB: Jeong Im Yi elevates the quintessentially banal to the rarified realm of high art via the trompe l'oeil ploy by painting the likes of smooth rounded creek bed stones, empty drawers, lone apples, masking tape on dinged up sheetrock walls, and even the back side of a stretched canvas. You gotta look twice sometimes 'cuz they can get seriously subtle, but in the end you like 'em. And lastly, she throws in a set of primary color-field squares to pep it all up.
Art by Jeong Im Yi.
Art.
Art.
Art closer by Jeong Im Yi - a painting of holes in a wall - nice.
Art by Jeong Im Yi.
Art in above image closer - a painting of the back of a painting.
Yo! Jello shots! Gimme some o' them dudes.
Slurp. Tasty. Now back to the art by Jeong Im Yi.
Painting of masking tape on a wall by Jeong Im Yi (nice).
Pinkie cam zoom on painting in above image (yep, it's a painting).
Group show in the side gallery.
Art in the alley behind the gallery.
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Soap Gallery : Jan Blythe - Smoke and Mirrors.
Comment by AB: It's art made with smoke and mirrors, just like the show title says. Plus special added bonus-- the shortest synopsis ever in the history of synopsiseseses. And I quote...
"MEMORY
Layered. Reflective. Tarnished. Stained. Faded. Fragmented. Broken. Torn apart. Diluted. Contemplative.
WORK PROCESS
As above."
Got that? You do? Email me.
Art by Jan Blythe.
Jan Blythe - smoked coffee cup art (kinda like it).
Back side of smoked coffee cup art by Jan Blythe.
Rigor mortis doily art by Jan Blythe.
Expandable half of a chair art.
Demographics.
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Root Division : Family Pictures. Curated by Michelle Townsend, new mother of Nolan William Balocki, born May 25, 2009.
Artists: Laura Ball, Elizabeth Bernstein, Jan Blythe, Colby Claycomb, Adele Crawford, Melissa Day, Chris Fraser, Michael Hession, Rachael Jablo, Audrey Jones, Heike Liss, Jessamyn Lovell, Cathy Lu, Dan Lydersen, Carolyn Mason & Susannah Slocum, Masako Miki, Shelley Monahan, Camilla Newhagen, Mary Parisi, S. Patricia Patterson, Jana Rumberger, Julie Shustack, Jim Sienkiewicz, Andrea Slattery, Marta Spurgeon, Kirk Stoller, Lien Troung, Marie Van Elder, Naomi Vanderkindren, Serena Wellen, Carmen Winant, David Yun.
Comment by AB: So there's the traditional view of family and there's this show, circumscribing the impending evolving paradigms of what it means to be really closely related. The traditional view is terrific for traditionalists of course, but you know, things change (like from Morse Code to smart phones, for example). And if we can be equally generous about embracing our fellow human beings and their familial proclivities as we are about our technological advances, the world will be a far finer place for all concerned.
Art, photography & installation about family at Root Division.
Photography.
Art.
Curator Michelle Townsend.
Art.
Instant family fashion art.
Bad day in dwarfland art.
Photography.
Art.
Tintype art - nicely done.
Pinkie cam zoom of tintype art.
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Rare summer San Francisco Rainbow out front of Root Division.
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Femina Potens Gallery : Show Me Your Fantasy.
Artists: Malia Schlaefer, Karen Marisa, Nicoz Balboa, Amandalynn, Morgan Weinert.
Comment by AB: I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours. Oh... you don't want to show me yours? Fine. I'll show you mine anyway. Deep down inside, we all know what we like, but sometimes we're a mite hesitant to share.
On a serious note, the recent progression of shows at Femina Potens exemplifies a palpable flowering of a new erotica. Yesterday's verboten becomes tomorrow's delight and Femina Potens breaks the news first.
Photography.
Paintings by Amandalynn.
Art by Amandalynn.
Paint and pyrography by Nicoz Balboa.
Love those edges on art by Nicoz Balboa.
Photographic erotica.
Out front.
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The Shooting Gallery : Mike Maxwell & Paul Chatem - Until the Whistle Blows.
Comment by AB: When was the last time you went to an opening where you were encouraged to please touch the art? Well you're encouaged to here. Enjoy Paul Chatem's outrageous kinetic paintings (that's what I said-- kinetic paintings). Just turn the knob and watch the gears spin. Excellent. And rounding out the affair, Mike Maxwell journeys us back to our past, materializing our ancestors in mystic apparational blue-toned deference.
Kinetic painting by Paul Chatem (like it).
Art (Paul Chatem).
Art (Paul Chatem).
Art by Paul Chatem.
Mike Maxwell - Paul Chatem.
Art by Mike Maxwell.
Art closer (Mike Maxwell - nice).
Art closer (Mike Maxwell).
Art closer (Mike Maxwell).
Art closer (Mike Maxwell).
Winston Smith & Van Arno in da house.
Overview.
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White Walls Gallery : Becca - True Colors.
Comment by AB: Becca transits a certain romantic exuberance in her paintings, sourced from 1950s and 60s fashion drawings and illustration. But to make sure we don't get too lost in the past and deluded about the future, she shrouds it all in what's left of the American flag. Happy days are here again... of that we can only hope.
Art by Becca.
Art by Becca.
Becca - art.
Art.
Art.
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Gallery Three : Lafe Eaves - And a Wolf Shall Devour the Sun.
Comment by AB: Witness visionary spiritual cosmicity in the intricate exacting paintings and drawings of Lafe Eaves.
Art by Lafe Eaves.
Lafe Eaves art.
Lafe Eaves.
Art closer.
Pinkie cam detail of above image.
Art by Lafe Eaves.
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