Tag: Fraenkel Gallery

Stas Orlovski, “Teardrop with Mountain”, 2017. Image courtesy of Traywick Contemporary.

Ongoing to May 25– Stas Orlovski: обjект at Traywick Contemporary: Los Angeles-based artist, Stas Orlovski incorporates a variety of imagery from diverse sources such as Japanese woodblock prints, Victorian era journals, and Russian modernism into his collage-based practice. His works also involve a variety of media including printmaking, drawing, transfer, and painting. The body of work in the exhibition is autobiographical, referencing memories and dreams from Orlovski’s childhood, and also art historical movements such as Russian Suprematism, European Surrealism, and Soviet experimental animation. Throughout the exhibition, similar themes of migration and loss are expressed with a sense of absurdity and humor. Orlovski’s work acknowledges the powerful experience of a collective history, and the ephemeral nature of personal memory. Traywick Contemporary is located at 895 Colusa Avenue in Berkeley.

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 30, 3- 5pm

Alec Soth, “Nick, Los Angeles”, 2019. Image courtesy of the artist and Fraenkel Gallery.

Ongoing to May 11– Alec Soth: I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating at Fraenkel Gallery: Taking its name from a line in Wallace Stevens’ poem “The Gray Room,” the works in the show investigate the possibilities and limitations of what photographs can convey about the inner lives of their subjects. Often the result of extended engagements with the people Soth photographs, the large-scale portraits and interiors were made in the U.S. and Europe. The subjects are artists, writers and choreographers, among others. Intimate and quiet, the images reveal something otherwise unknowable about both the sitter and the photographer. Fraenkel Gallery is located at 49 Geary Street, 4th Floor.

Todd Hido, “Untitled #176”, 1994. Image courtesy of Casemore Kirkeby.

April 2, 7 to 8pm– Todd Hido Lecture at Minnesota Street Project: As part of the Larry Sultan Visiting Artist Program, Bay Area photographer Todd Hido will give an artist talk referencing his three decades of work. Hido photographs around North America creating haunting narratives through images of suburban scenes, desolate landscapes, and stylized portraits. His work has a cinematic aesthetic that communicates to viewers in a distinct visual language full of psychological tension and emotion. Minnesota Street Project is located at 1275 Minnesota Street.

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Tom Burckhardt, “Psychodiagnostik”. 2018. Image courtesy of Gregory Lind Gallery.

April 4 to May 18– Tom Burckhardt: Psychodiagnostik at Gregory Lind Gallery: Burckhardt’s recent works explore the line between figuration and abstraction, with an emphasis on how our perceptual biases impact us. The concept of pareidolia, in which figuration or faces are read in abstract visual phenomena, is key to his works. Imperfection is built into Burckhardt’s process, as he always starts with a single panel, painted intuitively, which he completes before moving on to the next panel, where he works to create the same image in reverse. One side reveals an improvisational process, while the other is executed in an analytical fashion. By working on two panels at different times, and then adjoining the original and its mirror image, Burckhardt emphasizes the paradox of a symmetrical image that is literally split down the middle, revealing both its wholeness and its inherent sense of division. Gregory Lind Gallery is located at 49 Geary Street, 5th Floor.

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 4, 5- 7:30pm

(left) Josephine Taylor, “Darrow”, 2018. (middle) Libby Black, “Some Women”, 2017. (right) Taravat Talepasand, “Customs and the Manners of the Women of Persia, and their Domestic Superstitions I (detail)”, 2019. Images courtesy of Gallery 16.

April 5 to May 31– Epoch: Libby Black, Taravat Talepasand, Josephine Taylor at Gallery 16: The definition of epoch is a period of time in history or a person’s life typically marked by notable events or particular characteristics. The long-standing friendship between Libby Black, Taravat Talepasand, and Josephine Taylor, has woven it’s way through many spheres of life: love, home, motherhood, work, culture, community, history, politics. What began two years ago as a correspondence via email between the artists evolved into a greater dialogue about what it means to be an artist, a feminist, a teacher and a mother. Inspired by a mutual love and respect for each other’s work, practice and careers, the exhibition presents the work of these artists in dialogue together for the first time. Through various methods of appropriation, re-authoring and the shifting of perspectives, Black, Talepasand and Taylor explore ideas of domesticity and the presence of women in their work. Gallery 16 is located at 501 3rd Street.

Opening Reception: Friday, April 5, 6- 9pm

Gerald Wiggins, “Untitled (The Supremes)”, 2018. Image courtesy of Creativity Explored.

April 5, 5 to 9:30pm– Art Changes Lives Auction and Gala Hosted by Creativity Explored at City View at METREON: Creativity Explored gives artists with developmental disabilities the means to create and share their work with the community. Creativity Explored’s annual auction and gala celebrates the power of art to change lives with dinner, drinks, and the exclusive opportunity to bid on some of the best works of art created by the talented artists working in their studios. City View at METREON is located at 135 Fourth Street, 4th Floor.

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Sally Scopa, “All the Oceans”, 2018. Image courtesy of Embark Gallery.

April 13 to May 18– Out of Line at Embark Gallery: The exhibition features eight Bay Area artists who create drawings made with anything but pen or pencil: light, fabric, seeds, architectural drafting software and even heavy metal particles from air pollution. Like ghostly memories of the actions of the artist, the artworks in this show capture the immediacy and intimacy we recognize in traditional drawing. Through their use of innovative materials and techniques, they add layers of complexity to the act of mark making, while still doing the essential work of drawing. The artists detect and highlight the shape of the world in new and interesting ways. Embark Gallery is located at 2 Marina Blvd, Building B (3rd Floor), Suite 330.

Opening Reception: Friday, April 12, 6- 9pm

Natani Notah (left) “Red (Blood), White (Gold), and Blue (Ocean), Bolo (2/7)”, 2017. (right) “I Dreamt an Asteroid Came, Bolo (3/7)”, 2017. Image courtesy of the artist.

April 4 to 28– Divinely Diné at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery: Through mixed media sculptures and detailed works on paper, the exhibition explores the connections between culture, politics, and survival. For Natani Notah, bringing disparate entities together to coexist serves as a generative act of healing from intergenerational trauma. Part prayer and part declaration, Divinely Diné disrupts our conceptions of what we think it means to be a Native American woman living in the present-day U.S. Adobe Books Backroom Gallery is located at 3130 24th Street.

View of a past open house event. Image courtesy of Headlands Center for the Arts.

April 14, 12 to 5pm– Spring Open House at Headlands Center for the Arts: The Open House is free and open to the public. It provides a once-a-season opportunity to roam the various buildings of the Headlands Center for the Arts campus, meet the current artists in residence, view works in progress, and attend screenings, performances, and readings. You will also have the opportunity to engage in a hands on, creative reuse art activity and enjoy a house-made lunch. Headlands Center for the Arts is located at 944 Simmonds Road in Sausalito.

Installation view of Davina Semo’s “Precarious Hardware” exhibition. Image courtesy of Jessica Silverman Gallery.

Ongoing to May 4– Precarious Hardware: Davina Semo at Jessica Silverman Gallery: San Francisco based artist, Davina Semo creates rough and glossy sculptures. Combining works from four diverse series, the work explores the tension between nature, society and the self, as well as the philosophical troika of liberty, beauty and power. The exhibition is taut with contradiction, riffing on the relationships between strength and vulnerability as well as natural growth and destruction. Jessica Silverman Gallery is located at 488 Ellis Street.

View from last years event. Image courtesy of Art Market San Francisco.

April 25 to 28– Art Market San Francisco at Fort Mason Festival Pavilion: Art Market San Francisco is an art fair that is now going into its ninth edition. The fair will feature seventy-five modern and contemporary art galleries from around the world bringing some of the world’s most intriguing artists and galleries to San Francisco. In showcasing historically important work alongside relevant contemporary pieces and projects, Art Market San Francisco creates an ideal context for the discovery, exploration, and acquisition of art. Fort Mason Festival Pavilion is located at 2 Marina Blvd.

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To- Do List November

Nov 1, 2018 In: To Do List Tags: 500 Capp Street Foundation, Bieke Depoorter, C Project, California College of the Arts, CCA, Chelsea Wong, Claudia La Rocco, di Rosa, Fort Mason Center, Fraenkel Gallery, Headlands Center for the Arts, Henna Vainio, Interface Gallery, Jenine Marsh, KALA Art Institute, Lava Thomas, Magnum Photos, Mike Kelley, Mildred Howard, Ragnar Kjartansson, Ratio 3, Richard Learoyd, SFAI, Women's Building By: Kerri Hurtado, Curator

Lava Thomas, “Resistance Reverb”, 2018. Image courtesy of di Rosa.

November 3, 3 to 5pm– Artist Talk and Solidarity Button Making with Lava Thomas and Mildred Howard at di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art: In conjunction with Be Not Still: Living in Uncertain Times exhibition, artist Lava Thomas will join di Rosa collection artist Mildred Howard to discuss Thomas’s current project. Thomas’ dynamic installation explores the topic of solidarity. Comprised of hundreds of suspended pink tambourines covered with various media, the installation serves as a metaphor for praise and protest, and the power of collective resilience and hope. After the talk, guests are invited to hand press buttons inspired by the theme of solidarity. di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art is located at 5200 Sonoma Highway in Napa.

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Mike Kelley, “Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #9 (Farm Girl)”, 2005. Image courtesy of Gagosian.

November 3 to February 16– Mike Kelley: Pushing and pulling, pulling and pushing at The 500 Capp Street Foundation: Mike Kelley (1954-2012) was one of the most influential artists of our time. With a wide range of media, his work explores themes as varied as punk politics, religious rituals, social class, and repressed memory. This exhibition brings together artworks from Mike Kelley’s Educational Complex (1995) and Day Is Done (2004–2005) in conjunction with four iconic David Ireland artworks. All four sculptures were made during a specific time period when both Ireland and Kelley shared an exhibition experience in Madrid, Spain, titled The Savage Garden, curated by Dan Cameron. These artworks have not been displayed in 500 Capp Street in over twenty years. In expanding and reconstructing the physical infrastructure of Ireland’s home, a negotiation between Ireland and Kelley is made. The 500 Capp Street Foundation is located at 500 Capp Street.

Henna Vainio, “Legs (grey)”, 2017. Image courtesy of Ratio 3 Gallery.

November 9 to December 21– Henna Vainio at Ratio 3 Gallery: Henna Vainio uses sculptural casting as a method to reproduce everyday objects that result in human- like form. Her methods invoke the sense of casting in the theatrical sense of the word, as through the act of reproduction, the objects are assigned new roles or cast into performative functions. Using plaster, pigment, fiberglass, and steel, her work originates with an interest in the opposing qualities between flatness and depth, surface and structure, translucency and opacity. Ratio 3 Gallery is located at 2831A Mission Street.

Opening Reception: Friday, November 9, 6– 8pm

Bieke Depoorter, “Egypt”, 2013. Image courtesy of Magnum Photos.

November 8, 7pm– Larry Sultan Photography Award Lecture: Bieke Depoorter at California College of the Arts’ Timken Lecture Hall: This award is granted through a partnership of California College of the Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, Pier 24 Photography, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and awards the artist with a residency at Headlands Center for the Arts. The 2018 winner, Bieke Depoorter makes photographic portraits and captures intimate moments as she visits people in diverse places including Siberia, Egypt, and the southern United States. Upon arrival at a new location, she approaches locals and asks to share their home for an evening. From these chance encounters and overnight stays, Depoorter develops trust with her hosts, eventually allowing her to capture the mundane moments of their lives in extraordinarily intimate photographs. Depoorter will engage with the Bay Area photography community by giving a free, public lecture. California College of the Arts’ Timken Lecture Hall is located at 1111 Eighth Street.

(left) The Musicians. (right) Ragnar Kjartansson in front of the Women’s Building. Images courtesy of C Project.

November 9 to 11– Ragnar Kjartansson: Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy at the Women’s Building: Sponsored by the C Project, Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy is a three-day durational musical performance that will be staged throughout the public and private spaces of the Women’s Building in the Mission District. The audience will encounter musicians performing familiar and what at first appears to be sweet love songs but, when listened to more carefully, reveal more complex and often more disturbing attitudes towards women. Ragnar Kjartansson’s work often draws on repetition to tease out the complexity of an idea or emotion, resulting in works that are often at once joyful, funny, sorrowful, and deeply moving. Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy will continue his interest in using a durational performance to explore a complicated and challenging social issue, one that has become increasingly complex in the wake of the current cultural climate. The Women’s Building is located at 3543 18th Street #8.

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Image from last years event. Image courtesy of SFAI.

November 10 and 11, 11 to 5pm– SFAI Concentrate: Student Art Sale + Open Studios at SFAI’s Fort Mason Campus: In this once a year event that celebrates emerging artists, SFAI is transformed into a diverse salon-style art sale by current undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty. There will also be an opportunity for studio tours and film screenings. Local food and drinks will also be available. SFAI’s Fort Mason Campus is located at 2 Marina Blvd.

View of Headlands Center for the Arts. Image courtesy of Tom Ide.

November 16, 6:30 to 9pm– Under the Stars at Headlands Center for the Arts: Headlands will close the year with an evening of art by their 2018 artists. Participating artists include Mark Allen, Tavarus Blackmonster, Sofía Córdova, Chris Fraser, Future Chorus, Fiamma Montezemolo, Jeff Parker, and Yaloo. The event will include live music, performance, storytelling, cinema, and installation. The Project Space exhibitions will be open, along with other installations inside the Main Building. Performances and screenings take place outside in The Commons— bring warm clothes and blankets. Food and drinks will be available for purchase. Headlands Center for the Arts is located at 944 Simmonds Road in Sausalito.

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Jenine Marsh, “Untitled (sentiment of value)”, 2018. Image courtesy of Interface Gallery.

Ongoing to December 2– Jenine Marsh and Claudia La Rocco: a room at the center of the world surrounded by the noise of men at Interface Gallery: Jenine Marsh’s work will be accompanied by a newly commissioned composition by Bay Area author, Claudia La Rocco. Marsh’s sculptural installation continues her recent explorations with train-pressed coins. Marsh considers the flattening and destruction of coins as not only an anti-capitalist sculptural act, but also as a potentially feminist, transformative gesture, producing alternative modes of value and exchange which are tactile, embodied and personal. La Rocco works with found language and collage. Exploring genres, she often recycles and misuses her own writings, playing with juxtaposition and accident. She is interested in edges and textures: the materiality of words and grammar. Interface gallery is located at 486 49th Street in Oakland.

Richard Learoyd, “Untitled (poppies)”, 2018. Image courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery.

Ongoing to December 22– Richard Learoyd: Work from Two Rooms at Fraenkel Gallery: Richard Learoyd’s new large-scale landscapes were photographed this past summer in Yosemite and Big Sur. To achieve an exceptional level of detail, the black-and-white contact prints of the California landscape were made in a giant, tent-like camera of the artist’s own design. The show will also include intimate portraits, as well as new still life photographs of flowers in various states of decay; both series are one-of-kind color prints made in the artist’s studio using a room-sized camera obscura. Fraenkel Gallery is located at 49 Geary Street, 4th Floor.

Chelsea Wong, “Post Election Blues, Chinese Media, Rising Star”, 2017. Image courtesy of KALA Art Institute.

December 8, 12 to 5pm– KALA Holiday Pop- Up Sale at KALA Art Institute: KALA’s highly anticipated holiday sale features mark-downs of up to 50% on framed and unframed works on paper and printed goods by Kala resident artists. Proceeds support the artists and non-profit programming. KALA Art Institute is located at 2990 San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley.

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