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To Do List: December

Nov 30, 2017 In: To Do List Tags: Adobe Books & Arts, Creative Growth, Creative Growth Art Center, De Young Museum, Debra Bloomfield, EUQINOMprojects, Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, Isaac Julien, KALA Art Institute, Klea McKenna, Lena Wolff, Minnesota Street Project, Rachelle Bussieres, Rebecca Norris Webb, Robert Koch Gallery By: Kerri Hurtado, Curator

Alice Wong, “Untitled”, acrylic on vintage album. Image courtesy of Creative Growth Art Center.

December 1st- January 11th- Holiday Show: MORE IS MORE at Creative Growth Art Center: Creative Growth celebrates the holidays with all that is excessive, luxurious, and bold in their annual Holiday Exhibition and Studio Sale. In the exhibition More is More, ogle the opulent layers of beads, jewelry, and trinkets in Juan Aguilera‘s sculptural creations; gratify the desire for more in Paul Field‘s scenes, where sundry characters fill every inch of his drawn tableaux, or with the densely packed repetition of forms covering Ricardo Gaitan‘s work; and push the limits of what’s naughty and nice with nude punk angels crafted of wood by Casey Byrnes and Kim Clark‘s drawn celebrations of bawdy celebrity culture. At Creative Growth’s annual Studio Sale, find the studio brimming with one-of-a-kind textiles, furniture, ceramics, rugs, mosaics, wood, drawings and paintings, prints, and much, much more. Each purchase made gives back to Creative Growth and the artists who call our Oakland-based studio home. Creative Growth Art Center is located at 355 24th Street in Oakland.

Exhibition Opening Party and Studio Sale: Friday, December 1st, 5:30- 9:00pm
Live Music by: JimBo Trout & the FishPeople
Pizza Pop- up by: Fist of Flour Pizza Co.
Beer generously donated by: Temescal Brewing

Klea McKenna, “Automatic Earth”, 2016. Photographic rubbings. Image courtesy of EUQINOMprojects.

Ongoing to January 2nd- Klea McKenna, Witness Mark at EUQINOMprojects: EUQINOMprojects presents Witness Mark. McKenna continues to push the boundaries of photography by subverting the traditional use of her medium. Witness Mark will feature new “photographic rubbings” of the textures of concentric tree-rings and a large installation of hand-embossed imprints of earth and concrete depicting a fractured imaginary landscape. The exhibition also debuts new work that reveals intricate photographic reliefs of textiles. Fraying fibers and unraveling embroidery imprint their flaws onto the photographic paper in crystalline detail. These threadbare fabrics act as surrogates for the very bodies that made and wore them. McKenna’s incisive explorations of broken patterns record the story of each subject through its imperfections. She depicts these ruptures in the landscape and material culture as allegories for human emotional experience. In addition to the gallery exhibition, we will be debuting McKenna’s short film, ALMA, across the atrium in the Media Room. The non-narrative film tracks the movement of a flock of women through a megalithic landscape. EUQINOMprojects is located at 1275 Minnesota Street.

Opening Reception: Saturday, December 2nd, 5- 8pm

Store front. Image courtesy of Adobe Books & Arts.

December 1st to December 22nd- Art Shop (exhibit/ pop- up/ raffle) at Adobe Books & Arts: Art Shop is an Exhibition and Pop-up shop sharing/selling art and handmade goods created by artists working in the Bay Area. This is a wonderful opportunity to buy gifts this holiday while supporting local artists and arts organizations. Paintings, prints, books, zines, t-shirts, hats, pottery, plants, stickers, pins, and more, will all be for sale!

RAFFLE: Spend $25 during Dec 1st-17th and your name will be placed into a raffle to win some great prizes including Alicia McCarthy artwork, Adobe Books merchandise, art books, and more! There will also be a special door prize on opening night! Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative is located at 3130 24th Street.

Opening Reception: Saturday, December 2nd, 6- 9pm
Pop- up shop: December 1st- 17th
Exhibition: December 1st- 22nd

Lena Wolff, “Spell”, 2017. Collage with hand-cut and painted papers, acrylic, watercolor, gouache. Image courtesy of the de Young Museum.

December 2nd, 2- 2:30pm- The Song is Love: FUTURE CHORUS Performance at the de Young Museum: November artist-in-residence Lena Wolff has assembled a chorus of over 25 members who are writing songs in response to the current political climate. Taking a cue from the title of an album by the Quails, The Song Is Love, Lena Wolff looks at the power of art and collaboration to generate empathy and sublime experiences in times of political and ecological unrest. FUTURE CHORUS will rehearse each Sunday afternoon in the Kimball Education Gallery, culminating in this performance. The de Young Museum is located at 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive in Golden Gate Park.

Debra Bloomfield, “Pacific Sea Wall” 2016, pigment ink print (left). Rachelle Bussières, “Eclipse IV” 2017, lumen print on gelatin silver paper (middle). Rebecca Norris Webb, “Badlands” 2010, chromogenic print (right). Images courtesy of Robert Koch Gallery.

Ongoing to December 30th- BLOOMFIELD | BUSSIÈRES | WEBB at Robert Koch Gallery: Debra Bloomfield’s newest large-scale photograph series, Seas, embodies the subtle variations of tones, the brilliant gradations of the sky, and the muted turbulence of the surface of the sea. Rachelle Bussières continues her darkroom exploration and experimentation by cutting, layering and manipulating photographic materials. Influenced by geological strata and astral movements and their transformative properties, her work eschews conventional darkroom techniques. Originally a poet, Rebecca Norris Webb has published six photography books that incorporate both photographs and text. She unearths the elegiac qualities and forgotten narratives tied to specific locations, pointing her lens at seemingly unremarkable sights from unusual vantage points. Robert Koch Gallery is located at 49 Geary Street.

Reception: Thursday, December 7, 5:30 – 7:30pm

Seiko Tachibana, “Connection Blossom F- 2”, 2015. Acrylic and ink on canvas. Image courtesy of KALA Art Institute.

December 10th, 12- 5pm- Pop Up Art Sale at KALA Art Institute Gallery: KALA’s one day pop up sale has arrived! This is a great opportunity to buy gifts by one of KALA’s Resident Artists. Participating artists include: Dan McClain, Deborah Sibony, Donna Westerman, Elizabeth Sher, Helene Cote, Holly Downing, Jamie Brunson, Janine Brown, Ewa Gavrielov, Julia Lucey, Kate Klingbeil, Kerry Vandermeer, Louise Leong, Mary V. Marsh, Carissa Potter, Seiko Tachibana, Sylvia Solochek Walters, Veronica Graham and more! KALA Gallery is located at 2990 San Pablo Ave in Berkeley.

Isaac Julien, still from “KAPITAL”, 2013. Video installation. Image courtesy of Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture.

December 1st to February 11th- Isaac Julien, Playtime at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture: Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture (FMCAC) announces Playtime, an exhibition of three recent video installations by award-winning British artist Isaac Julien. Each film installation explores the wide-ranging effects of how information, labor, and capital circulate in global, networked societies. The exhibition presents the U.S. premiere of Julien’s seven-screen installation, Playtime (2014), featuring a cast of international film stars, including James Franco, Maggie Cheung, and Mercedes Cabral. The exhibition also presents KAPITAL (2013), a two-screen companion piece to Playtime, documents the public discussion “Choreographing Capital”. In addition to Playtime and KAPITAL, a third artwork by Julien will inaugurate the San Francisco Art Institute’s newly constructed Gray Box media gallery at FMCAC—Better Life (Ten Thousand Waves) (2010)—the cinematic cut of Julien’s monumental installation Ten Thousand Waves, filmed on location in mainland China. Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture is located at 2 Marina Boulevard.

To Do List: April

Apr 4, 2016 In: To Do List Tags: Art Market San Francisco, Chad Hasegawa, De Young Museum, Headlands Center for the Arts, Hosfelt Gallery, KALA Art Institute, Laura Owens, Parking Lot Art Fair, Southern Exposure, The Wattis Institute, Tim Hawkinson By: Kerri Hurtado, Curator

Tim Hawkinson “Thumbsucker” 2015, plaster and urethane. Image courtesy of Hosfelt Gallery.

Ongoing through May 7th – Tim Hawkinson: Garden Variety at Hosfelt Gallery: Tim Hawkinson’s idiosyncratic creations are meditations on nature, machines, mortality, the body and human consciousness. Since the 1980s, the artist has used common found and store-bought materials, handcrafted objects, and machines to shift similar subject matter off-kilter, creating visual conundrums and conceits imbued with deeper meaning. In this exhibition, many of the objects use Hawkinson’s own body as source material. One highlight of the show is Thumbsucker (2015), a two-part hanging sculpture of a moon and astronaut entirely made of casts of the artist’s lips and fingers. Hosfelt Gallery is located at 260 Utah Street in San Francisco.

Chad Hasegawa “Keith Haring” 2015, latex on canvas. Image courtesy of the de Young Museum.

April 6th – May 1st – Chad Hasegawa: Self Portrait, de Young Artist Studio artist in residence: Each month the de Young Artist Studio Program enables visitors to meet artists and gives artists an opportunity to work with the public. Featured artists work in the Kimball Gallery at the de Young Museum and create a studio environment in the space, speak with museum visitors about their work, exhibit works of art and engage in hands-on art activities with the public. This month painter Chad Hasegawa will be showing a series of large-scale portraits of artists–including Keith Haring, Chuck Close, Joan Mitchell, Ai Weiwei, amongst others– alongside a series of minimal abstract work. Museum visitors will have the opportunity to work directly with Hasegawa on a large collaborative painting, working with the same brushes and paints he typically uses, and learning his technique of applying paint onto a canvas with oversize brushes. de Young Artist Studio hours are Wednesday – Sundays 1-5 pm, Fridays April 15, 22, 29 until 8:45pm. The artist reception will be Friday, April 29th, 6-8:30pm.

ART AUCTIONS

Guests enjoy a previous live auction at Southern Exposure. Image courtesy of Southern Exposure.

Saturday, April 9th 7:00 -11:00pm – Southern Exposure: Avant Garden: Southern Exposure’s Annual Fundraiser and Art Auction, Avant Garden, is a celebration of their dedication to cultivating artists’ practices within the cultural ecosystem of the San Francisco Bay Area. The gallery will be transformed into a fecund garden of earthly delights, featuring an abundance of artworks in the live and silent auctions, delicious food and drinks, and artist-led experiences. This event provides direct and critical support for Southern Exposure’s programs. The auction preview exhibition is on view this week from 12 – 6 pm M-TH. Purchase event tickets here.

Artworks by Amanda Marchand, Kota Ezawa and Jenny Ottinger available at the auction. Images courtesy of Kala Art Institute.

Saturday, April 23rd 6:30 – 10:00pm – Kala Art Institute: Art|Kala 2016 Gala and Auction: Kala Art Institute announces Art|Kala 2016, its annual gala benefit auction to be held at the Kala Gallery, 2990 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley. The auction — featuring over 100 works by Bay Area artists along with art-related treasures offered by local donors — provides vital support for Kala’s extensive array of artistic, cultural, and educational programs serving the East Bay community and beyond. The exhibition opens Thursday April 7th from 6-9 pm and will be on view for two weeks before the auction event. Purchase event tickets here.

Top: Visitors enjoy a previous open house. Bottom: Sarah Rara. Images courtesy Headlands Center for the Arts.

Sunday, April 17th – Spring Open House and Project Space Exhibitions opening at Headlands Center for the Arts: Twice a year the Headlands Center for the Arts opens up their campus allowing visitors to roam the various buildings. Engage with artists in their studios, experience new work and works in progress, see performances, hear readings and stay for housemade lunch in the Mess Hall. Also don’t miss the two exhibitions opening in the Project Space on the same day. Adventures in Solitude: Cybele Lyle and Broken Solar: Sarah Rara. Both events are from 12 – 5pm and located at Headlands Center for the Arts, 944 Simmonds Road, Sausalito.

ART FAIRS

Interior image of Art Market San Francisco, 2014. Images courtesy of Art Market Productions.

April 27th – May 1st – Art Market San Francisco: Celebrating its sixth year, this fair will return to the Festival Pavilion at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center. A contemporary and modern art fair, Art Market San Francisco will feature established galleries from around the globe bringing a diverse group of artists and galleries to San Francisco. Click here for tickets and more info.

Scenes from last year’s Parking Lot Art Fair. Images courtesy of Parking Lot Art Fair.

Saturday, April 30th from 8am – 12noon – Parking Lot Art Fair at Fort Mason Center: Founded and led by artist Jenny Sharaf, the Parking Lot Art Fair aims to champion the Bay Area’s community of independent artists and artist-run gallery spaces in a fun-spirited and surprising way. Spanning across the Fort Mason Center’s parking lot and into the Marina Green public lot, each unique exhibition space will feature site-specific installations, performances, nomadic galleries, and an array of pop-up projects illustrative of San Francisco’s burgeoning local art scene. Over one hundred artists will use cars, rental trucks, the space around the vehicles, and temporary pseudo-parklets to transform the concrete lot into an art fair that is both curated and improvised at once.

During the same weekend, in the neighborhood of the Fort Mason Center is the stARTup Art Fair. In it’s second year at Hotel del Sol the stARTup Art Fair will present over 40 vetted, solo exhibitions over the weekend.

Laura Owens “Untitled” 2015, acrylic, oil, flashe, silkscreen ink, charcoal on linen. Image courtesy of The Wattis Institute.

April 28th – July 23rd – Laura Owens at The Wattis Institute: Los Angeles based artist Laura Owens opens an exhibition of new work that includes paintings, books, sounds as well as an immersive installation of silkscreened,wood–blocked, flocked, painted, and hand–printed wallpaper. The opening reception is Thursday April 28th from 6-10 pm. The Wattis Institute is located at 360 Kansas Street in San Francisco.

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