FIRST SATURDAY; 03.05.05
General comment: First I was here. Then I was there. I took some pictures. Wanna see?
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Studio Gallery : Delicious, A Show of Culinary Art.
Artists: Susan Adame, Carol Aust, Anita Brey, Kara Burke, Anna Conti, Steve Dehlinger, Bill Dunlap, Sue Everitt, Eric Fidjeland, James Garcia, Chris Grassano, Ian Hart, Michelle Mendoza, Margo Rivera-Weiss, Brandon Smith, Nobuhito Tanaka, Rab Terry, Audrey Welch, Laura Williams, Jan Wurm, Laurie Wyman-Heron, Angela Baker, Lola, Estelle Akamine, Joanna Mendicino, Taz Soejima, Peggy Snider, Ayu Tomikawa, Bill Baker, David Booth, Mark Dong, Nabil Khatib, Maya Kini, Chris Wilson, Barbara Wyeth, Brian Behnke, Maya Kini, Monique Tse, Rab Terry, Rae Trujillo.
Comment: Food art-- glass, painting, collage, sculpture, photography, encaustic, jewelry, ceramics, more. The walls were packed, the gallery was packed, I took a couple of pictures, and then I packed.
In.
Out.
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Super 7 Gallery : Fragments.
Artists: Ronnie del Carmen, Enrico Casarosa.
Comment: Art by two Pixar Animation Studios story artists. In and out.
In.
Out.
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Jack Hanley Gallery : Dealing Kindly With Insects in the Home.
Artists: Saskia Leek, Thomas Ravens, Sue Tompkins.
Comment: Ran into inveterate collector Robert Shimshak on the way to Jack Hanley. Fresh art acquisitions in tow, he stuffed them into the trunk of his car while telling me the show had been cancelled; the artists couldn't make it or something like that. But we head over anyway. The door's closed, but ajar, and that can be liberally interpreted as a welcome. So in we go. It's pretty much us and the art.
Saskia Leek makes the kind of art that needs someone explaining it to you while you look at it. That's the only way you're ever gonna get it. Thomas Ravens paints architectural science fiction fantasies in watercolor. This I don't need anyone telling me why I should appreciate it or what it means. I can conjure up my own meaning as well as my own enjoyment.
Robert Shimshak and wallables.
Art (Thomas Ravens).
Art (Thomas Ravens).
Art (Thomas Ravens).
Art (Saskia Leek).
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Needles & Pens Gallery : Dreamhome; Treehouse Installation and Paintings by Jay Nelson.
Comment: Jay Nelson creates a sculpture you can hang out in-- an old fashioned kiddie-style treehouse on a platform above the desk in the Needles & Pens main room. Then he loads it up with art. He built his first treehouse in Hawaii, he tells me. He likes building them and wants to build more, particularly indoor models. So if you know anyone who likes art and wants an indoor treehouse, I recommend Jay Nelson.
It's up there.
It's covered with art.
Jay Nelson (right).
Through the window.
Inside wall.
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Move on Art : The Red Ball, to benefit Apathy is Lethal .
Artists: 7 local artists.
Comment: This is another one of these art events that are popping up all over the place in long-vacant storefronts and office buildings on Market Street between about Fifth and Ninth Streets. There's monster amounts of available space for rent along this corridor; artists already live and work in studios here. Moves are afoot to art this part of town up, and transform it from dump to trump. At first I thought this show was affiliated with MoveOn.org, but no, it's not.
This must be it.
Here's the stairs.
Up we go.
I see some art... and a head.
Hi - art.
Art.
Art.
Layout.
A hall.
OK. That's enough. I'm outta here.
Bye.
