SFMOMA ARTISTS GALLERY - BRAUNSTEIN/QUAY - HOSFELT
TOGONON - JACK FISCHER - FREY NORRIS
ELI RIDGWAY - CHANDLER - CATHARINE CLARK
09.10.11 Part I
(with assistance from DeWitt Cheng and RWM)
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SFMOMA Artists Gallery : Heather Wilcoxon, Kirk Crippens.
Comment by AB: Kirk Crippens documents decline, malaise and alienation in "the greatest nation on earth" in his photographs of abandoned retail store buildings, forlorn landscapes, out-of-business car dealerships, empty parking lots, and other formerly vibrant concerns. Heather Wilcoxon paints like Basquiat might have painted if he had done a stint mellow laid-back California. You gotta admit-- no better way to take the edge off of existence than to hang your hat here.
Photography by Kirk Crippens at SFMOMA Artists Gallery.
Kirk Crippens photograph closer (image c/o DeWitt Cheng).
Kirk Crippens photographs at SFMOMA Artists Gallery.
Photographs by Kirk Crippens.
Art by Heather Wilcoxon (left) - Kirk Crippens photograph (right).
Heather Wilcoxon art at SFMOMA Artists Gallery.
Heather Wilcoxon and her art (image c/o DeWitt Cheng).
Art/installation by Heather Wilcoxon.
Detail of Heather Wilcoxon art above (image c/o DeWitt Cheng).
Heather Wilcoxon art at SFMOMA Artists Gallery.
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Braunstein/Quay Gallery : Robilee Frederick - Falling/Rising.
Comment by AB: The works in this show abstractly emblematize sixteen of Robilee Frederick's dearest friends. Among the ingredients in these "representations for the circle of life" are gunpowder, incense, candles, ash and burns.
Art by Robilee Frederick at Braunstein/Quay Gallery.
Backlit art by Robilee Frederick in honor of dear friends.
Art by Robilee Frederick.
Robilee Frederick and her art at Braunstein/Quay Gallery.
Backlit art by Robilee Frederick.
Robilee Frederick art commemorating dear friendships.
Demographics - Robilee Frederick art show at Braunstein/Quay Gallery.
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Hosefelt Gallery : DEFEO.
Comment by AB: Experience these dark mesmerizing expressionist abstractions by San Francisco artist Jay DeFeo (1929-1989) whose most famous painting, The Rose (which took eight years to paint and weighs over 3000 pounds), is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum. Her mysterious context-less photographs will fascinate as well. DeFeo was a genuine iconoclast's iconoclast. Worth a visit.
Art by Jay DeFeo at Hosfelt Gallery.
Jay DeFeo art at Hosfelt Gallery.
Photographs & cut-outs by Jay DeFeo.
Jay DeFeo photographic cut-out in above image closer (like it).
Art by Jay DeFeo at Hosfelt Gallery.
Jay DeFeo art.
Art by Jay DeFeo.
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Togonon Gallery : Shifting Layers of Consistency - Fan Lee Warren.
Review by DeWitt Cheng: Fan Lee Warren is back at Togonon Gallery with a new show of social-realist drawings and paintings that examine black life, history and culture-- but that also reflect current ideas about pictorial structure and image layering.
Review by RWM: Interesting narratives, off-the-beaten-track tales captured with style.
Art by Fan Lee Warren at Togonon Gallery.
Fan Lee Warren art in above image closer.
Art by Fan Lee Warren.
Artist Fan Lee Warren, center (image c/o DeWitt Cheng).
Fan Lee Warren art at Togonon Gallery.
Art by Fan Lee Warren in above image closer (photo c/o DeWitt Cheng).
Fan Lee Warren art show at Togonon Gallery.
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Jack Fischer Gallery : Michele Pred - Confiscated.
Review by DeWitt Cheng: Michele Pred is showing conceptual assemblages made from items confiscated by airport security since 9/11. The forms that her pieces take-- the American flag, the Red Cross of international health relief-- comment on the danger from terrorism that survives Osama bin Laden. Possibly, now that the country is in a retrospective analytical mood, they also reflect on the mistakes that we made over the past decade in neglecting the larger social and economic problems confronting us, in favor of a capitalist crusade to make Iraq into New Texas.
Art by Michele Pred at Jack Fischer Gallery.
Michele Pred installation art from confiscated items.
Michele Pred, right (image c/o DeWitt Cheng).
Art by Michele Pred at Jack Fischer Gallery (image c/o DeWitt Cheng).
Razor blade art by Michele Pred in above image closer.
Art by Michele Pred (image c/o DeWitt Cheng).
Michele Pred art at Jack Fischer Gallery.
Overview - art by Michele Pred at Jack Fischer Gallery.
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Frey Norris Contemporary & Modern : Keegan McHargue - Natural.
Review by RWM: Strange nature, without landscape, as muse. Interesting to revel in these inspirations nonetheless.
Comment by AB: Somebody's sure having a good time here, frolicking through the land of paint. Join on in; looks like fun.
Art by Keegan McHargue at Frey Norris Contemporary & Modern.
Keegan McHargue and his art.
Art by Keegan McHargue.
Keegan McHargue art at Frey Norris Contemporary & Modern.
Keegan McHargue art.
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Eli Ridgway Gallery (formerly Baer Ridgway Exhibitions) : Brion Nuda Rosch - New Works; Lindsey White - Trip; Kent Roberts - Bernoulli.
Review by RWM: Interesting blends of blocked abstraction and outdoor photographs. The art seems to be either about the inability to accurately capture representational images, or the choice not to. The contrasts in these artworks are bold regardless.
Comment by AB: Stop on by to see the latest chapter in the conceptualist odyssey of self-taught phenom, Brion Nuda Rosch.
Art by Brion Nuda Rosch at Eli Ridgway Gallery.
Brion Nuda Rosch art closer.
Brion Nuda Rosch + art + progeny at Eli Ridgway Gallery.
Art & installation by Brion Nuda Rosch.
Brion Nuda Rosch art at Eli Ridgway Gallery.
Art by Brion Nuda Rosch.
Kent Roberts hallway art installation - Bernoulli.
Trippy video by Lindsey White at Eli Ridgway Gallery.
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Chandler Fine Art : Percy Cannon - Las Nubes.
Review by RWM: Beautiful colors mix and match, ebb and flow. High gloss collages please and soothe.
Art by Percy Cannon at Chandler Fine Art.
Percy Cannon art.
Art by Percy Cannon.
Percy Cannon art show at Chandler Fine Art.
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Catharine Clark Gallery : Julie Heffernan - Boy, O Boy II; Ed Osborn - Kingdom (in the media room).
Review by RWM: Amazing detail and imagination. Nice to see the love and the fun. Easy to get lost here in the wonder and creation.
Comment by AB: Julie Heffernan tells me her magnificent fantastic allegories reference the current spate of turmoil that's infecting the planet. Ever the optimist, she believes deep down that the ending will be a happy one. You can hardly afford to look at it any other way, she adds, or else life can get pretty dismal pretty fast. Highly recommended.
Art by Julie Heffernan at Catharine Clark Gallery (like it).
Art by Julie Heffernan.
Julie Heffernan and her art at Catharine Clark Gallery.
Art by Julie Heffernan.
Julie Heffernan art at Catharine Clark Gallery.
Art by Julie Heffernan.
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