PARTISAN - BELLJAR - MISSION CULTURAL CENTER
1AM - 666 - LOWER HATERS - LUSH LIFE
08.14.09
(with assistance from RWM, Sandra Silvoy
and Pakayla Biehn
)
Partisan Gallery : New Work by Nate Boyce.
Comment by AB: Nate Boyce tells me his videos incorporate copious complicated concepts, many of which he enumerates, pretty much all of which exceed my cognitive capabilities (except for his use of old skool technologies). Calculated methodologies clearly control the outcomes of his videos, though, and that makes it all worthwhile.
Nate Boyce video installation art.
Another view.
Projected video by Nate Boyce.
Nate Boyce.
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BellJar : Micro-Habitat, New work by Micke Tong.
Review by RWM: Great statement about being an animal and all that entails. Presented here are lots of animals, i.e. our extended natural family. But at the same time Micke Tong conveys that we have our animal ways as well, successfully demonstrating how we have affected the city, impacted the skyline, and designed the buildings, neighborhoods, and open spaces. The city is our habitat; the wilds are theirs.
Review by Sandra Silvoy: In our constant determination to evolve and expand, the weight of the human world rests heavily upon our animal counterparts as depicted in the sculptural installations of Micke Tong. Architectural cityscapes of detailed wooden models span one wall only to perch atop the futuristic animal folk that look to us with widened bejeweled eyes in disbelief. Your personal investigation is absolutely suggested.
Hybrid San Francisco creature by Micke Tong (photo c/o Sandra Silvoy).
More creature art by Micke Tong (photo c/o Sandra Silvoy).
Mobile creature art by Micke Tong (photo c/o Sandra Silvoy).
Intricate wood SF street scene installation by Micke Tong (like it).
Stoopin' it (pinkie cam detail of art in above image).
Art finished in high gloss acrylic (kinda like 'em).
Sculptural art by Micke Tong.
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Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts : 3 Worlds - Myths, Bricks, Prints.
Artists: Luis Arias Vera, Juan R. Fuentes, Casper Banjo. Curated by Rene Yanez and Art Hazelwood.
Comment by AB: Trifecta features the intense expresssive portraiture and modernist abstractions of African American artist Casper Banjo (the Bricks part of the exhibition), cosmic kaleidoscopic fantasies of Luis Arias Vera (the Myths part), and powerful activist imagery of Juan R. Fuentes (the Prints part).
What it is - art by Luis Arias Vera, Juan R. Fuentes, Casper Banjo.
Art by Casper Banjo.
Art by Casper Banjo.
Art by Luis Arias Vera (singing - Roberto Zamora).
Art by Luis Arias Vera plus flamenco performance by La Tania.
Art by Luis Arias Vera (I think).
Prints by Juan R. Fuentes.
Prints by Juan R. Fuentes.
Prints by Juan R. Fuentes.
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1AM Gallery : Attaboy (aka Daniel Seifert) - Antidote.
Review by RWM: What an excellent venue to show all the drama, personal and impersonal, of our heroine displayed. We find our darling subject in all sorts of predicaments and scenes. Through it all, she and her friends are cool in visage and up to the challenges of modern life. The work is dramatic, but also a celebration of sorts.
Pieces on plexi - art by Attaboy aka Daniel Seifert.
Alien installation by Attaboy.
Attaboy and his creations.
Checkin' it out - art by Attaboy aka Daniel Seifert.
Statistical sample.
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666 Gallery : Local Love Group Show.
Artists: Pakayla Biehn, Alberto Vargas, Adam Flores, Christopher Blackstock, Jeff Enlow, Rob Williamson, Ryan De La Hoz, Rex Waters, Sean Summers, Jennie Smith.
Comment by AB: Peppy big town brew packs 'em in.
Ryan De La Hoz window installation.
Art by Alberto Vargas (left) and Ryan De La Hoz (right).
Kinetic assemblage art.
Chris Blackstock monster art.
pinkie cam detail of monster face in above image (Chris Blackstock).
Adam Flores art.
Rex Waters & ceramic sculptures (nicely done - only $600 each. Yo!).
Pinkie cam zoom of cermaic face in above image (Rex Waters).
Sean Summers graffiti-mobile sculpture (nicely done).
Artist/curator Pakayla Biehn + her art.
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Lower Haters : Ronnie Buders and Ed UFO - Headless Body in Topless Bar.
Review by Sandra Silvoy: Concerns of the inexplicable curiosities of our world, from Stonehenge to the Bermuda Triangle, are referenced through the visible notes and dates scrawled amongst the paint. The lone owl of a cartoonish nature seems a bit out of context. Otherwise the series of panels keeps an organic feel and a fluid motion enhanced by occasional energized eruptions of detail work.
Collaborative art by Ronnie Buders and Ed UFO.
Art by Ronnie Buders and Ed UFO.
Art by Ronnie Buders.
Detail of art by Ronnie Buders and Ed UFO (photo c/o Sandra Silvoy).
Detail of art by Ronnie Buders and Ed UFO (photo c/o Sandra Silvoy).
Ronnie Buders - art.
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Lush Life Gallery at the Jazz Heritage Center: Reflections of Jazz History and Heritage.
Artists: Frank Koci, Jeremy Sutton, Valeriy Kagounkin Wosene Kosrof, many more.
Comment by AB: Get your jazz art here at Lush LIfe, part of the Jazz Heritage Center located at Yoshi's in The Fillmore. Plenitudinous selection-- overflowing with art. Stop by; you'll be impressed. And for live jazz, Yoshi's is as good as it gets. But you already know that.
Art by Frank Koci.
Peter Fitzsimmons, Executive Director, Jazz Heritage Center
(art by Jeremy Sutton).
Photography.
Art.
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