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The Art Assemblage Traditions carried forward
by sspe6372
Chris Bales, Spencer Brewer, Hans Bruhner, Leslie Caldera, Victoria Roberts, Susan Spencer, Michael Wilson at The Beat Art Gallery
May 1st, 2012 - May 31st, 2012
Posted
4/13/12
West Coast Art Assemblage Show,
May 1-31
Ukiah, CA
As the art form of assemblage continues to captivate viewers and allure perspective designers, the discussion of art and meaning is alive and well under this seemingly random collection of parts and objects.
During the month of May, seven influential artists, both established and newly discovered, will be represented at Ukiah’s innovative and alluring Beat Gallery on Perkins Street.
This collection of recent works by Chris Bales... [more]
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DiviNation: Superpowers, the physical form and the process of forging national identity
by Patricia Miye Wakida
Jaime Cortez at Martina }{ Johnston
February 18th, 2012 - April 22nd, 2012
Posted
3/28/12
Jaime Cortez's solo exhibition, "DiviNation" is comprised of a series of charcoal drawings that adroitly merge imagery from two disparate sources —anatomical scanning electron photographs and iconic, nationalistic paintings. Through the drawings, we examine the historic relationship between artist, patron, and propaganda; a familiar artistic practice in which painters and sculptors immortalize fallen soldiers and other epic conquests, thereby aiding empires, churches, and nations in memoriali... [more]
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Molotov Cocktails and Fuck-ups.
by sticks and stones
Sean Dietrich at Sticks + Stones Gallery
February 10th, 2012 - March 1st, 2012
Posted
2/14/12
Overcoming a potential disaster, the team at Sticks+Stones Gallery did a superb job taking the paint destroyed and bare walls and turning them into an integral part of the show. At the last minute the walls were splattered with brown and grey paint (the rest of the white paint had been peeled back and streamed down the walls), wooden crates were used as podiums for selct pieces, industrial size nails bulged out of the wall below the work creating crooked shelving, and Jack Daniels bottle molotov co... [more]
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Immersion Therapy
by Rene Kindinger
Joaquin Jutt at Sticks + Stones Gallery
February 2nd, 2012 - February 8th, 2012
Posted
2/3/12
Having been to many an opening at the Sticks+Stones Gallery, I assumed tat Joaquin Jutt's show would progress in the normal fashion that all shows start: the space slowly fills while guests trickle in and push to the back area where the alcohol is kept; they then wander around for a fair bit while attempting to make small talk with eachother reguarding the quality and/or pricing of the pieces shown or what the possible message behind the pieces could be. Last night, however, was quite different. ... [more]
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Chaos or Order
by Michael Singman-Aste
Susan Parish at Autobody Fine Art Gallery
January 22nd, 2012 - March 11th, 2012
Posted
2/1/12
Susan Parish’s sentry watches over the treasures within Autobody Fine Art’s gallery. Like the guards at Buckingham Palace there is no chance of getting a smile out of him. He is constructed of wood, part of her solo exhibit “Chaos or Order.” But at six feet tall, spiked hair parted like Kokopelli, “The Sentry” is nonetheless quite imposing.
Parish, who resides in the artsy Jingletown neighborhood of Oakland, assembles her abstract wooden sculptures from “this and that I have layi... [more]
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Huffington Post - January 30, 2012 by Robin Wilkey
by Joe Ramos
Joe Ramos at Jewett Gallery - San Francisco Main Branch Library
January 28th, 2012 - March 24th, 2012
Posted
2/1/12
'Acknowledged': San Francisco Photographer Captures The Faces Of Homelessness (PHOTOS)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/acknowledged-san-francisco-homelessness_n_1242193.html
By Robin Wilkey
robin.wilkey@huffingtonpost.com
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"Not all homeless people are addicts," said Garry to photographer Joe Ramos. "Some people try to better themselves."
Garry has been living with his high school sw... [more]
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SF Bay Guardian review - Jan. 27, 2012
by Joe Ramos
Joe Ramos at Jewett Gallery - San Francisco Main Branch Library
January 28th, 2012 - March 24th, 2012
Posted
1/27/12
Headshots for the homeless?
Photographer Joe Ramos connects art and social work
By Ali Lane – San Francisco Bay Guardian- Jan. 27, 2012
http://www.sfbg.com/pixel_vision/2012/01/27/headshots-homeless-photographer-joe-ramos-connects-art-and-social-work
Images of homelessness are not hard to come by. These scenes are often pathetic, clichéd. In the worst cases, the homeless are portrayed as inhuman heaps of blanket and facial disfigurement, people reduced to their time spent sleeping on the street... [more]
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To show or not to show
by Rene Kindinger
Ernest Doty at Sticks + Stones Gallery
December 2nd, 2011 - December 2nd, 2011
Posted
1/13/12
Though the recent showing of Ernest Doty seemed to correlate with the end of the occupy movement here in Oakland, I, like my fellow art patrons, was kind of hoping that Doty's art would stand on it's own-without the need to justify the art with the movement. It seemed, however, that because Doty was so involved and distracted with the movement that it inhibited the material he showed. That is not to say that the pieces he selected were half-assed, they were simply lacking: lacking in the quantity... [more]
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Santa Rosa Junior College Holiday Pottery Sale
by John Kam
at Santa Rosa Junior College, Ceramics Studio (Room 718), Analy or Art Bldg, Santa Rosa, CA
December 7th, 2011 - December 8th, 2011
Posted
10/13/11
This is a great opportunity to see and buy fantastic functional potteries and ceramic sculptures made by ceramic students and help to support the Visiting Artist program at SRJC. [more]
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Why you should go to this holiday pottery sale at SRJC?
by John Kam
SRJC ceramic students at Santa Rosa Junior College, Ceramics Studio, Analy or Art Bldg, Santa Rosa, CA
November 30th, 2011 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Posted
10/9/11
Santa Rosa Junior College's Ceramics Program offers wheel throwing and handbuilding classes in Spring and Fall semesters. Students in these classes learn to throw functional potteries on the potter's wheel, handbuild figurative, realistic, and abstract ceramic sculptures, mix glazes from recipes in books and from their own recipes, decorate pieces with engobes, slips, and glazes, and fire their pieces in low, medium, and high firing temperatures (cone 05, 5, and 10). Students in these ceramic cl... [more]
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Parable through parabola: other sides of postmodern design
by Alex Cruse
at SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
February 25th, 2011 - July 24th, 2011
Posted
10/7/11
An explanatory placard before the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s “ParaDesign” exhibition, penned by curator Henry Urbach, decodes “para” using the terms “beyond” and “abnormal” to describe pieces which fall outside the scope of conventional design. But while Urbach alludes to the prefix’s multiple significations, he does not name them: alternate meanings include “at or to one side of, beside, side by side.” These are arguably more relevant interpretations... [more]
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August Art
by d'Arci Bruno (Rhine)
d'Arci Bruno (Rhine), Pons Maar, Marc Ribaud at K Gallery @ Rhythmix Cultural Works
August 1st, 2011 - August 31st, 2011
Posted
7/30/11
Alameda artists d’Arci Bruno, Pons Maar, and Marc Ribaud present the spoils of their quixotic expedition to the former Naval Air Station in “Tommy’s Point” at Rhythmix Cultural Center. Collages made of such treasures as a comb, spark plug, and bits of rusted metal are exhibited along with an elaborate display of beautifully backlit sea glass and more driftwood than you can shake a stick at. These found objects are supported by photographs, meticulously crafted, authentic-looking, pseudo... [more]
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DeWitt Cheng in East Bay Express
by Kathleen M King
Julianne Wallace Sterling at Mercury 20 Gallery
June 3rd, 2011 - June 25th, 2011
Posted
6/18/11
Julianne Wallace Sterling follows last year's mommy-themed domestic-goddess show with Pushing Fairy Tales, two rooms of mixed-media works depicting: solitary women in slips and panties, enacting dramas combining preteen Disney cartoon fantasy (chirping bluebird attendants in "little glass houses," skirts brimming with wildflowers in "Madonna of the lipgloss"); the real-life roles of woman, wife, and mother; and (quoting the artist's statement) the "little secrets women keep to themselves. As Corne... [more]
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Re-invent your life the easy way
by Cynthia Tom
Cynthia Tom at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
June 7th, 2011 2:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Posted
6/4/11
Cynthia Tom has a way of getting you to see your world upside down, left and sideways and somehow it begins to make sense. Besides that you leave her workshops with a beautiful object you she helped you to rethink and at a minimum, some kind of hopeful resolution of the next step you want to take in your life. Ambitious, but true. Don't miss this chance to visit with Cynthia, you can stay all afternoon. Bring little treasures, notions, scraps you've been saving as precious and let Cynthia take yo... [more]
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Article on Fecal Face
by HungryManSF
Russell Leng at HungryMan Gallery - San Francisco
June 11th, 2011 - July 24th, 2011
Posted
5/31/11
Please find a review and interview of Russell Leng's work on Fecal Face:
http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php/good-stuff/2901-russell-leng-paintings [more]
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UC BERKELEY EXTENSION - ART WORKS DOWNTOWN
by Tony Maridakis
Tony Maridakis at UC Berkeley Extension—Art and Design Center
May 2nd, 2011 - May 18th, 2011
Posted
6/13/11
http://www.artbusiness.com/1open/051511.html
UC Berkeley Extension Gallery: Tony Maridakis, Nocturnal Kosmos
Review by DeWitt Cheng: A dozen medium-format (by today's colossal standards, anyway) photos of the Cliff House by night comprise Tony Maridakis's Nocturnal Kosmos show, featuring his Modern Ruins series. (Nice oxymoron in the title; if clowns and cartoon characters were Photoshopped in, they'd be postmodern ruins, no?) Lighting conditions in the glass-box UCBX gallery made decent... [more]
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