JEWISH MUSEUM - HERITAGE AUCTIONS - FIVE SENSES PROJECTS
CHATTERBOX ART - DRYANSKY
10.23.14
(with assistance from RWM)
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Contemporary Jewish Museum : Arnold Newman - Masterclass; In That Case, Havruta in Contemporary Art - Lindsey White and Ron Lynch.
Comment by AB: In the main gallery is an awesome retrospective of 200 vintage photographs by Arnold Newman (1918-2006), mainly portraits of famous people, and of those, mainly artists and other creative greats. Sitters include Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Max Ernst, Igor Stravinsky, Martha Graham, Grandma Moses, Jean Arp, Isamu Noguchi and many more in a show that just keeps on going. Highly recommended.
Downstairs is a show themed around the tradition where pairs of people study religious texts.
Photographer Max Yavno by Arnold Newman at the Contemporary Jewish Museum.
Jean Dubuffet photographed by Arnold Newman.
Portrait of Raphael Soyer by Arnold Newman.
Arnold Newman photography retrospective at the Contemporary Jewish Museum.
George Grosz portrait photograph by Arnold Newman.
Igor Stravinsky by Arnold Newman.
Photographic architectural collage by Arnold Newman.
L-R, portrait photos of Jean Arp and Isamu Noguchi by Arnold Newman.
Long view - photographs by Arnold Newman at the Contemporary Jewish Museum.
Lindsey White photograph of Ron Lynch.
Havruta - Lindsey White and Ron Lynch at the Contemporary Jewish Museum.
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Heritage Auctions : Fall Auction Preview.
Artists: Quite a few.
Comment by AB: Preview of highlights of two upcoming auctions in New York featuring early modernist American art, California paintings, American Western art, Illustration art, and more.
Art by John Calvin Perry, top (sold for $3000) and
Percy Gray, bottom (sold for $20000).
Art by Georgia O'Keeffe sold for $461,000.
Alissa Ford, Director of California paintings for Heritage Auctions.
L-R, art by Will Sparks (sold for $4687.50) and
Eanger Irving Couse (presale estimate $60-$80K, didn't sell).
Art by Oscar Bleumner (presale estimate $600-$800K, didn't sell).
Antique & period art aficionados at Heritage Auctions fall sales preview.
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Five Senses Projects : The "Electric Paintings" of Clive McCarthy.
Comment by AB: Clive McCarthy's art looks like representational paintings, but it's actually digital works on monitors that continually materialize and de-materialize right before your eyes, essentially painting and un-painting themselves, and doing so in perpetuity. A computer programmer by trade, he tells me no image is ever duplicated and none exist in real life. Not your same old art show.
Computer-generated art by Clive McCarthy at Five Senses Projects.
Digital portrait in progress (left) by Clive McCarthy.
Portrait art above near completion (before it begins un-painting itself again).
Clive McCarthy and his computerized kinetic rendition of the United States.
Continuously generating and regenerating computer art by Clive McCarthy.
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ChatterBox Arts at Shotwell 50 Studio: The 2014 San Francisco Altered Barbie Exhibition.
Artists: About 50.
Comment by AB: One of the wackiest wiggiest San Francisco art events of the year, the annual Altered Barbie Exhibition is where artists slice, dice, rework, revamp, transform, mutate, doctor, recycle, reprocess, regenerate, reincarnate and reconfigure the iconic American fashion doll in pretty much every way imaginable. No limits here.
Alien Barbie art by LaVonne Sallee at Shotwell 50 Studio.
Doll altar art at Altered Barbie 2014 exhibition.
Caged Barbie art by Leslie Frierman Grunditz.
All kinds of dolls art.
Barbie's up to something here, but I have no idea what.
Setting - 2014 San Francisco Altered Barbie Exhibition at Shotwell 50 Studio.
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The Dryansky Gallery : Grand Opening - American Dreams by Geoffrey Dryan.
Review by RWM: Down to earth depictions of The American Dream for some. They are not so grandiose here and one might find these dreams not fully rewarding. Great images of our significant others, but there is also scenery, cars and houses instead of riches. Some objects seem well worn, not that fantastic, but fulfilling in other ways. Wonderful show and great encounters for those who seek value.
Geoffrey Dryan photographs at The Dryansky Gallery.
Photograph by Geoffrey Dryan.
Geoffrey Dryan photography.
Demographics - Geoffrey Dryan photography show at The Dryansky Gallery.
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