HOSFELT - 871 FINE ARTS
CARTOON ART MUSEUM - ART PEOPLE
10.13.12 Part I
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Hosfelt Gallery : Jay DeFeo - Mechanics; Jim Campbell - Screen Obscura.
Comment by AB: Abstractions from the 1970s by Jay DeFeo are showing in conjunction with the retrospective at SFMOMA. With minimal pixels, Jim Campbell transforms the most ordinary video snippets, such as waves crashing or people walking, into mysterious indeterminate journeys where the viewer assumes responsibility for first resolving and then completing the narratives. Certainly worth a visit.
Video art by Jim Campbell at Hosfelt Gallery (size it down to identify the scene).
Jim Campbell video art above closer and from the side.
Video art by Jim Campbell at Hosfelt Gallery.
Video art by Jim Campbell in above image closer and from the side.
Jim Campbell video art at Hosfelt Gallery.
Art by Jay DeFeo at Hosfelt Gallery.
Jay DeFeo seventies art.
Photography by Jay DeFeo at Hosfelt Gallery.
Art by Jay DeFeo.
Jay DeFeo drawing at Hosfelt Gallery.
Long view - Jim Campbell & Jay DeFeo art show at Hosfelt Gallery.
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871 Fine Arts : Action Painting of the West Coast.
Artists: Roy DeForest, Deborah Remington, Sonia Getchoff, James Budd Dixon, Adelie Landis, Hassel Smith, Craig Kauffman, Jay DeFeo, Ed Corbett, James Kelly, Julius Wasserstein, Wally Hedrick, many more.
Comment by AB: This exhibit commemorates the legendary Action Painting of the West Coast show, also known as the Merry-Go-Round Show, curated by Walter Hopps in May of 1955, where art was hung in and round the Merry-Go-Round Building on the Santa Monica Pier. Works by many of the original participating artists are included here. Required viewing for connoisseurs of California postwar art history.
Art by Wally Hedrick (left) at 871 Fine Arts.
Large painting, left - Roy DeForest; large painting, right - Deborah Remington.
Art by James Kelly at 871 Fine Arts.
Vintage gallery show announcements of the era.
Drawing by Hassel Smith, upper right, at 871 Fine Arts.
871 Fine Arts bookstore - stop on by... you might learn something.
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Cartoon Art Museum : Love and Rockets - A 30th Anniversary Celebration.
Comment by AB: "In the fall of 1982, Fantagraphics published its first issue of Love and Rockets, a black-and-white magazine featuring stories and art by the brothers Jaime, Gilbert and Mario Hernandez, a.k.a. Los Bros. Hernandez. These early comics, informed by the brothers' love of Archie comics, science fiction, punk rock and their own SoCal Latino heritage, laid the foundation for one of the most ambitious, influential and acclaimed indie comic series of all time." This show is all about that. One of San Francisco's most consistently interesting, active and unsung museums.
Love and Rockets comic art show at Cartoon Art Museum.
Love and Rockets comic art.
Love and Rockets art in above image closer at Cartoon Art Museum.
Love and Rockets comic art memorabilia.
Love and Rockets comic art closer at Cartoon Art Museum.
Love and Rockets comic art closer.
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Art People Gallery : Air Play - Susan Z. Breyer.
Comment by AB: Of note among these Susan Z. Breyer skyscapes are zany paintings on steel, each of which come with sets of smaller magnetized paintings. The smaller paintings can be positioned on the surface of the larger painting according to the whims of whoever's doing the decor.
Art by Susan Z. Breyer at Art People Gallery.
Magnetic paintings by Susan Z. Breyer.
How the magnetic paintings work - art by Susan Z. Breyer.
Susan Z. Breyer and her art at Art People Gallery.
Art by Susan Z. Breyer at Art People Gallery.
Demographics x 2 (there's a mirror along the back wall) - Susan Z. Breyer art.
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