CANESSA - PASQUALE IANNETTI GALLERY
LOST ART SALON - BALAZO GALLERY
AR+SPACE - SOUTHERN EXPOSURE - SPACE GALLERY
CALIFORNIA MODERN GALLERY - FRANKEE UNO
02.22-24.07
Canessa Gallery : John Mattos - A Show of 52 New Prints.
Comment: Artist and graphic designer John Mattos conjures up a kicky deck of playing cards that appears traditional at first glance, but then you start to notice the departures. Highlights include a king who's trying to get toast out of a toaster with a fork, a queen without a face looking at her face in a mirror, a jack on a cell phone, and more. I don't know whether you can actually play cards with them, especially gamble, 'cuz there's no way you can keep a straight face. Signed limited edition prints of the cards are $195 or you can buy the actual deck for only $15. Sales appear brisk.
Card art.
John Mattos - card art.
Back of the card art.
Card art.
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Pasquale Iannetti Art Galleries : Maximilien Luce - The Calm of Nature and Gentleness of Things; A Selection of Oil Paintings.
Comment: Respectable show of landscape and figure paintings by this significant French neo-impressionist born in 1858. Prices range $40K-$125K. You don't often see this much of this kind of art all at once in SF, so if it's your cup of tea, now would be a good time to sip.
Art.
Art (Pasquale Iannetti, left).
Art.
Art.
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Lost Art Salon : Alexandra Docili - Paintings and Drawings, 1965-67.
Comment: San Francisco artist Alexandra Docili's drawings fuse aspects of macrobiology, microbiology, and anatomy into airy fantasy abstracts. Always an upbeat occasion here at Lost Art Salon, tonight's fare additionally incorporating wall-to-wall art by a variety of artists, gourmet licorice tasting, live tunes, and a peppy vodka concoction, all in an easy conversational setting.
Art (Alexandra Docili).
Art.
Art.
Art.
Driftwood sea life collage (like it - $525).
Tunes.
Demeanor.
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Balazo 18 Art Gallery : Velocity.
Artists: Becca Cain, Shane Cantrell, Laura Downey, Tony "Calzone" Garay, Manuel Jimenez, Stephen MacMurray, Russ McCabe, America Meredith, Yoshifumi Nomura, Louis Seastres, Svet, Damon Votour, others.
Comment: SF bike messengers and co-workers display a range of creative product including paintings, drawings, collage, jewelry, cartoon art, beadwork, photography, and more.
Art.
Art.
Art.
Art.
Art.
Dick Cheney in the house.
Art.
Ancillary options.
Art.
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California Modern Art Gallery : Barry Mann and Susan Berkowitz - Uncovering the Essence.
Comment: Barry Mann photographs textured multicolor surfaces up close like walls or fences, then prints 'em up big, effectively rendering them abstract. Competently and appealingly done. He also zooms in on plants, distilling out their artistic essence. Susan Berkowitz's grainy unanticipated object combinations work too with their antique attributes. For you youngsters, Barry Mann is one of America's most successful and prolific songwriters, beginning his career in the late 1950's, meeting and marrying co-writer Cynthia Weil in the early 1960's, then came dozens of awards and distinctions including multiple Grammys, and they're still going strong today. (Check out their website and see.) For a talent of his stature and accomplishments, Mann could not have been more delightful to speak with. And everybody lived happily ever after.
Photography (Barry Mann).
Photographs (Susan Berkowitz).
Barry Mann - photography.
Images (Barry Mann).
Photographs (Susan Berkowitz).
Photography (Barry Mann).
Photos (Barry Mann).
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Ar+Space Gallery : Beryl Fine Photography.
Comment: Beryl Fine tells me her gritty streetstyle portraiture is intended to remind us that nobody gets left out and that everybody has merit. She hangs the show on flattened cardboard boxes, a fundamental element of homeless living.
Photos.
Beryl Fine - photography.
Photographs.
Arena (I'm early).
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Southern Exposure : 7th Annual Monster Drawing Rally.
Artists: Brad K. Adler, Ulrika Andersson, Kathy Aoki, Mike Arcega, Linda Arnejo, Kelly Ball, Steven Barich, Todd Berman, Robert Bilensky, Eric Bodine, Chase Bowman, Jonathan Burstein, Joe Byrne, John Casey, Michael Campbell, Karen Carver, Victor Chan, Susan Chen, Regina Clarkinia, Jaime Cortez, Ilana Crispi, Phil Crumar, Gibson Cuyler, Tara Daly, Joe Di Stefano, Tia Factor, Jane Fisher, Marcela Florez, Rhea Fontaine, Amy Franceschini, Terance Graven, Michael Hall, Martha Sue Harris, Chelsea Heikes, John Herschend, Amanda Hughen, Suzanne Husky, Misa Inaoka, Lance Jackson, Packard Jennings, Veronica de Jesus, Hellen Jo, Patrick Kavanagh, Josh Keyes, Tae Kitakata, Sarah Klein, Matt Leunig, Poopy Lickles, Ken Lo, Sam Lopez, Fred Loomis, Juan Luna-Avin, Nathan Lynch, Hector Maga?a, Kara Maria, Corrine Matesich, Mike McDonnell, Benjamin Minter,Kyle Mock, Elise Morris, Hayden Nichol, Cynthia Ona Innis, Jennie Ottinger, Stephanie Peek, Daniel Pelt,Yuriy Pestov, George Pfau, Ferris Plock, Corinna Press, Kate Randall, Kyle Ranson, Juan Reyes, Lisa Ricci, Lordy Rodriguez, Lamberto Roque, Brion Rosch, Anthony Ryan, Michael Ryan, Kirk Stoller, Tucker Schwartz, Andrew Schoultz, Emily Shepard, Jovi Schnell, Emily Sevier, Sarah Smith, Paul Solis, Heather Sparks, Rebecca Szeto, Jennie Smith, Gerone Spruill, Kelly Tunstall, Hadi Tabatabai,Charlene Tan, Dan Tierney, Jess Trepper, Adrian Van Allen, Jamie Venci, Katie Vida, Andy Vogt, Jerad Walker, Eland Ward, Jenifer Wofford, Anthony Wu, Derek Yu, Paul Zografakis.
Comment: Oceans of local artists ply their trade right before our eyes and then instantly donate the results to Southern Exposure. Southern Exposure in turn prices 'em at $50 each, no exceptions, and the trampling begins-- civilized trampling, that is. Such a deal! The Monster Drawing Rally has inexorably ascended to legendary status within its brief 7 year stint, ratcheting itself into one of San Francisco's premier be-there art events. Since So-Ex is currently undergoing an earthquake retrofit, it's off the the Verdi Club (Mariposa near Potrero) for the 2007 installment. Surprise-- I like the venue even more than So-Ex as it enhances the social component with its congenial vintage atmosphere (especially the lounge).
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Artist - art.
Paul Solis - art.
Artist - art.
Artist - art.
Jovi Schnell - art.
Artist - art.
Brion Nuda Rosch - Kyle Ranson.
Media frenzy.
Artist - art.
The basic idea.
Vying for product.
Steve MacDonald sports portable pub.
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Space Gallery : Collector.
Comment: Collector and publisher of Bomb Magazine, David Paul, shares over 350 vintage hip-hop album covers, CD booklets, 12 inch covers, photographs (by Timi D. Paul), and related musicabilia in this one-night spectacle. Plus the dj's are primo, there's continuous vintage hip-hop video and film footage, and so on and so forth ad infinitum. (I miss those album days... except for the sound quality; it was like everytime you bought an album, you got a free work of art to go with it.) Excellent show.
Album art.
Album art.
CD art.
Album art.
CD art.
Album art.
Album art.
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Frankee Uno : Peter Foucault - Draw! - New Multimedia Works.
Comment: Frankee Uno's a hair salon that puts on some pretty decent art shows. This time around, it's abstract drawings and witty videos by Peter Foucault.
Art.
Art.
Tunes - art.
Monthly schedules transformed into art.
Art.
Art.
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