CALDWELL SNYDER - SILVERMAN - THE LAB
NEEDLES & PENS - 60SIX - SF DESIGN CENTER
1AM - CASSEL
12.09.11
(with assistance from Neal Strickberger and Clare Coppel
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Caldwell Snyder Gallery : Fate, Choice & Desire - Douglas Schneider.
Review by Neal Strickberger: Sophisticated works by Douglas Schneider combine iconic Americana, painterly details, drawing and "what-if" propositions to create visual timelines.
Comment by AB: Douglas Schneider weaves a lifetime of personal recollections and memories into his ethereal dreamscape paintings.
Art by Douglas Schneider at Caldwell Snyder Gallery.
Douglas Schneider art.
Douglas Schneider explains his art at Caldwell Snyder Gallery.
The Douglas Schneider show continues (image c/o Neal Strickberger).
Douglas Schneider art closer (image c/o Neal Strickberger).
Art by Douglas Schneider at Caldwell Snyder Gallery.
Population sample - Douglas Schneider art at Caldwell Snyder Gallery.
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Silverman Gallery : Hugh Scott-Douglas - A Cashed Cheque, a Canceled Stamp.
Review by Neal Strickberger: Alternating interplay between peaceful flowing shades of blue and pieces with regularly patterned cuts in the canvas.
Comment by AB: Nice work. Stop on by.
Here we are. Art by Hugh Scott-Douglas at Silverman Gallery.
Hugh Scott-Douglas and his art (image c/o Neal Strickberger).
Another view of Hugh Scott-Douglas art in above image.
Detail of cut canvas art above by Hugh Scott-Douglas (kinda like it).
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The Lab : Winter Wunderkammer Holiday Art Sale - The Lab's 15th Annual Small Format Art Sale (formerly the Post-Postcard Show).
Artists: Lots.
Review by Clare Coppel: Boxes and tables of mixed media works and a blend of small art objects for sale including pictures of kitties pasted into seashells and liberally glittered.
Comment by AB: Super affordable options here.
Group affordable Holiday art show at The Lab.
Fashion art by Randy Colosky at The Lab ($10-$15).
Art by Meredith French closer (image c/o Clare Coppel).
Scott Blake art closer at The Lab (image c/o Clare Coppel).
Art by Danielle Benson closer (image c/o Clare Coppel).
Tables of arts, crafts, soaps, balms.
Group affordable Holiday art show at The Lab.
Art closer - group affordable art show at The Lab.
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Needles & Pens : Kyle Ranson & Monica Canilao - The More We Wander.
Comment by AB: I completely blow it and show up the night before the opening (I gotta get my synapses retooled), but fortunately most of the art is already hung. Looks good to me. Check it out.
Collaborative art by Kyle Ranson & Monica Canilao at Needles & Pens.
Art by Monica Canilao & Kyle Ranson.
Kyle Ranson & Monica Canilao collaborative art at Needles & Pens.
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Gallery 60SIX : Leigh Barbier - Biospheres.
Comment by AB: Leigh Barbier whips up a batch of genuinely curious realities in both two and three dimensions. With a mind that gives birth to scenarios like this, I'm thinking she's probably pretty kicky at dinner parties.
Art by Leigh Barbier at Gallery 60SIX.
Leigh Barbier in above image closer.
Art by Leigh Barbier at Gallery 60SIX.
Leigh Barbier art closer.
Art by Leigh Barbier.
Art & ambience - Leigh Barbier art show at Gallery 60SIX.
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Showplace Lobby, San Francisco Design Center, 2 and 101 Henry Adams Street, San Francisco, CA 94103: Outliers.
Artists: Victoria Vonderheyden, Dan Tu, Suzanne Taylor, Hyun Jai Shin, Hiroshi Sato, Jeane Salas, Alexander Philippe, Dan Luo, Morgana Jane, Jennifer Ewing, Daniel Chen, Kevin Moore.
Comment by AB: This show is notable for uniqueness of concept. Normally I don't cover student shows, but here at the Design Center, Kevin Moore's soon-to-be-graduating painting class from Academy of Art University puts their art up for sale in an auction setting with no minimum asking price, highest bid gets it (subject to the artist's approval). The artists organize and produce the entire show and now they get a chance let go of their art, perhaps at prices lower than they're comfortable with, but it's a great opportunity for them to contemplate and consider the true significance and value of art.
Group art show at San Francisco Design Center.
Art at San Francisco Design Center.
Art.
Outliers art show at San Francisco Design Center.
Group art show.
Statistical sample - group show at San Francisco Design Center.
Good music here - Outliers group art show.
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1 AM Gallery : Print Show - 2011.
Artists: Jurne, Zoltron, 123KLAN, Yarbrough, Vogue, Mark Bode, HYDRO74, Mars-1, Poesia, Robert Bowen, Rime, God Machine, more.
Comment by AB: Affordable limited edition prints and posters make perfect gifts for the holidays.
Limited edition print art at 1 AM Gallery.
Limited edition bud art.
Print and poster art show at 1 AM Gallery.
Limited edition prints and posters.
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Cassel Gallery : American Made.
Artists: Prairie Prince, Richard Colman, Reyes, Steel, Amandalynn, Jurne, Andy Stattmiller, Chez, Chris Edmunds, Margaretta, Lucien Shapiro, Magdalena Gross, Luke Stewart and Tyler Maither.
Comment by AB: Combination art show and hat release party for the 1333 Minna Winter 2011 Collection. For a very reasonable $275, you get a designer chapeau in a limited edition all-wood silkscreened box plus a limited edition print-- an art & fashion three-fer that's hard to beat. The best news? Every bit of it is 100% made in America.
The stars of the show - limited edition art and box plus hat for $275.
Limited edition art plus box plus hat closer (like 'em).
Art by Victor Reyes (right) - Steel burger art (left).
Art by Victor Reyes above closer at Cassel Gallery.
Art by Lucien Shapiro (left) - Amandalynn (right).
Prairie Prince art at Cassel gallery.
Performance c/o Parie Prince (on drums) and friends.
Audience at Cassel Gallery.
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