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containment and escape
by Leslie Allen Spillane
Alice Channer, Aaron Flint Jamison, Anicka Yi at Altman Siegel Gallery
April 18th - June 1st
Posted
4/23/13
O the sleeping bag contains the body but not the dreaming head on show at the Altman Siegel Gallery from April 18th to June 1st, features work by three artists; Alice Channer, Aaron Flint Jamison and Anicke Yi. The title is taken from a poem by Matthea Harvey, a dark meditation on containment, or it’s failure. This is the theme that unites the three artists, whose work at first seems unconnected in medium and subject.
Alice Channer’s Body Fluids is the first to confront me as I enter the gallery- a large digital print that is draped over a steel bar hung n... [more]
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Barbara Bartos: Catalogue Edition
by Abhilasha Singh
Posted
4/3/13
Barbara BartosMixed MediaLives and works in : San FranciscoWebsite: www.barbarabartos.comTo Purchase Contact: Barbara Bartos
Barbara Bartos is a San Francisco-based, Romanian-born artist. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BFA from the University of Art and Design in Cluj, Romania.
Barbara’s work ranges from installation, environmental intervention, and sound to drawing and printmaking. Her work has been exhibited in international galleries and museums including Southern Exposure, San Francisco; GenArt, San Fr... [more]
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Jonah Ward: Catalogue Edition
by Abhilasha Singh
Posted
8/7/12
Jonah Ward
Mixed Media and Textured Painting
Lives & Works in: Oakland
Website: www.jonahward.com
For Purchase: Contact Jonah Ward
Jonah Ward, Textured 'Painting' Bark No. 5, 2012, Madrone Tree Bark, 48" x 48"; Courtesy of the artist.
Jonah Ward, Textured 'Painting' Nest No. 4, 2012, Bald Faced Hornet Nest, 30" x 30" x 4"; Courtesy of the artist.
Jonah Ward, Burning Water No. 2, 2009, Burnt Paper with Oil Pastel, 30" x 83" x 7"; Courtesy of the artist. [more]
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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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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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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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Island Arts: Feng Jin at the Alameda Museum
by Feng Jin
Feng Jin at Alameda Museum
March 5th, 2011 - March 30th, 2011
Posted
5/15/11
Submitted by Michael Singman-Aste on 1, March 17, 2011
Feng Jin with Romancing the Metal, 2011. Copper and wood boards.*
By Michael Singman-Aste
Having studied Japanese for two years at the University at California, Berkeley, there was a time when I knew several hundred Chinese characters. I know I’m rusty, but I can’t make heads or tails of Feng Jin’s characters. That’s just fine.
Although inspired by Chinese calligraphy, his work is not in fact a reproduction of Chinese verse in meta... [more]
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Karen Seneferu
by clarkinia
Ron Moultrie Saunders, karen seneferu at Krowswork
January 29th, 2011 - March 11th, 2011
Posted
3/1/11
Karen Seneferu transformed a small room for "Passage" at Krowswork in Oakland (Jan. 29 - March 11). Carefully-placed handmade sculptures and relics stand on the ground and are arrayed on the partially exposed wooden walls. White drawings made directly on the bare floor seem to be remnants from a ritual. Video of large round rising suns and moons projects on the largest wall. This space feels charged.
Three sculptures resembling human figures (approx. 4' - 5... [more]
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Looking forward to taking a walk on the Morgan Side....
by Jennifer Jastrab
ERIC MORGAN at Arts & Consciousness Gallery
February 17th, 2011 - March 12th, 2011
Posted
2/7/11
I have really enjoyed seeing pieces of Eric's work over the last two years - drawings, paintings and
videos. I can't wait to see an installation of his work in one room! [more]
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Eva Hesse and James Abbott McNeill Whistler in Berkeley Art Museum
by Matthew Felix Sun
Eva Hesse at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
March 13th, 2011 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Posted
1/28/11
Originally postd on matthewfelixsun.blogspot.com
Berkeley Art Museum is exhibiting two small but fascinating shows - Eva Hesse's Studiowork and James McNeill Whistler's graphic works. Though I am not a sculptor and have no affinity to conceptual art, I cannot deny that installations usually hold public's attention better than others nowadays, for better or for worse. Eva Hesse's work falls into that category. The two room exhibit Eva Hesse: Studiowork, which runs from January 26 through Ap... [more]
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John Yoyogi Fortes @ Jack Fischer
by John Yoyogi Fortes
John Yoyogi Fortes at Jack Fischer Gallery
October 28th, 2010 - December 4th, 2010
Posted
11/28/10
Review taken from http://www.squarecylinder.com/2010/11/john-yoyogi-fortes-jack-fischer/
John Yoyogi Fortes @ Jack Fischer
Posted on 16 November 2010
Tags: David M. Roth, Jack Fischer Gallery, John Yoyogi Fortes
"Runt", 2010, mixed media on canvas, 120" x 84" (diptych)
John Yoyogi Fortes isn’t a street artist but he paints like one – one who’s especially well-versed in American and European Expressionism. His specialty is the urban fever dream, a realm in which subconscious fears an... [more]
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Ending Saturday, quiet subversion: Victoria May at Don Soker
by the exhibitionist
Victoria May at Don Soker Contemporary Art
August 17th, 2010 - September 25th, 2010
Posted
9/22/10
NOTE: This review was first printed yesterday on my blog at KUSP.org/exhibitionist...
The 14th floor windows on three sides of the huge, nearly achromatic Don Soker Contemporary Art bring the fog-licked architecture of San Francisco into the gallery space. The space itself is so enchantingly full of itself that at first it seems otherwise empty, though the art of Victoria May hugs the walls, as if camouflaged, or occupies the vast open floor with whispery transparency. Hers is a quiet su... [more]
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Pablo Cristi and Josué Rojas: explorers and satirists of modern life.
by Isabel Rojas-Williams
Pablo Cristi, Josué Rojas at Galeria de la Raza
August 7th, 2010 - August 28th, 2010
Posted
9/1/10
Pablo Cristi’s and Josué Rojas’
Incidents of Travel in Chucolandia & Xingatumá
Galeria de la Raza-Studio 24, San Francisco
8/7/2010-8/28/10
curated by Raquel de Anda
Entering into the Incidents of Travel in Chucolandia & Xingatumá exhibition is an amazing trip that connects the past with the future as seen through the lens of two contemporary explorers of today’s culture that presents the viewer a glimpse of the Latino characterization in the modern world. Artists Pablo Cristi’s and Jo... [more]
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World of Hennagami
by kkalyia
Kyle Kim and Kali Snowden at Basement Gallery Oakland
August 6th, 2010 - August 6th, 2010
Posted
8/11/10
Do you remember that feeling of being five years old and your mom told you to go play so you’re running around in the backyard and to the adults drinking brandy in the kitchen it just looks like What is that kid DOING?, but in your world you’re hunting dragons and wresting jungle cats and having tea with a T-Rex?
Or that time in high school you dropped acid and saw some of the coolest shit you’ve ever seen?
Well combine those two and it might come close to the feeling of walking into World... [more]
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Black Dot Cafe Gallery
by Sir Pool Guilfort
Duane Deterville, Marcel Diallo, Lorrie Fink, Carla Herzenberg, Nancy Holliday, Letitia Ntofon, Eesuu Orundide, Dolores Vitero Presley, Malik Seneferu, Githinji Wa Mbire at Black Dot Cafe Gallery
May 14th, 2010 - June 18th, 2010
Posted
6/4/10
OPENING RECEPTIONFriday, May 14th, 6:30-9:00PMVisual Art Exhibit May 14th-June 18th 2010
Featured Artists
DUANE DETERVILLE • MARCEL DIALLO • LORRIE FINK
CARLA HERZENBERG • NANCY HOLLIDAY • GITHINJI WA MBIRE
LETITIA NTOFON • EESUU ORUNDIDE • DOLORES VITERO PRESLEY
KAREN SENEFERU • MALIK SENEFERU
Black Dot Cafe Gallery • 1195 Pine Street • oakland, CA
Press Release:
Join us Friday, May 14th at Black Dot Cafe Gallery for the opening reception of The Color Is RED, a... [more]
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Mirror Image
by Michael Singman-Aste
Myles Boisen, Bruce Temuchin Brown, Mercy Calman, G.M.M. Coghlan, Carrel Crawford, Lauren Davis, Deanne Emmons, jj fryzel, Evert Grobbelaar, CJ Grossman, Maia Huang, Becky Jaffe, Frank King, Abby Kojola, Matthew Kowalski, Linda Shanti McCabe, Courtney McCutcheon, Elisa Salasin, Michael Slack, Molly Kate Taylor, Mollee Weaver, Gary Wilson, Scott D.S. Young at Frisbie St. Art
May 21st, 2010 - May 23rd, 2010
Posted
5/20/10
This article originally appeared on May 20, 2010 in The Island. Michele Ellson, editor.
Alameda Artists offer “Mirror Image”
Frisbie St. curators Becky Jaffe, Lanell Dike, and Carrie-Andrea Kaye have put together a show with remarkable depth and breadth, including the work of two dozen artists. I had the opportunity to preview it, and be forewarned: “Mirror Image” – which features two artists with Alameda connections – is crazy intense. Demons are not willingly exorcised, and whether you... [more]
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