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June 6, 2009 6:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Southern Exposure’s Annual Fundraiser and Art Auction, POP NOIR, features a live and silent art auction, creative projects, delicious food and beverages, and music. This famously fun event provides direct and critical support for Southern Exposure’s Exhibition, Artists in Education and Artists Resource Programs. Please join us!
Schedule
Preview Event: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Main Event: 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Live Auction: 8:30 pm – 9:15 pm
Silent Auction: Lots begin to close at 9:30 pm
Shadow, Cut, Drawn Portraits: 6:00 - 10:30 pm
Event Location
Electric Works
130 8th Street
San Francisco, CA
Ticket Levels
Main Event/Mise-en-scène: $35
Preview Event/First on the Scene: $100
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“Language, Literature and Music = Nourishment for the SOUL “that which is full of structure and repetition is predictably boring.” “that is which is full of accident and chance is randomly boring”… In Between Lies…”ART!”
Saturday, June 6, 2009
POP NOIR, Southern Exposures Annual Fundraiser + Art Auction
Thursday, June 4, 2009
YBCA "Big Idea" Night: Ritual & Redemption
What’s the Big Idea?
LATE NIGHT PARTY
Sat, Jun 6, 2009, 9 pm—3 am
YBCA Grand Lobby and Galleries
FREE • RSVP RECOMMENDED
This Saturday, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will hold its final free "What's the Big Idea?" late night party of the season, ending on the theme "Ritual & Redemption." The party starts at 9 pm, and while they're no longer accepting RSVPs for preferred admission, everyone is welcome to show up and wait in line. With the Mission Street Foodtruck (yes, they're back in a truck!) arriving outside the museum on 3rd Street at 7:30 p.m., you have incentive to get there early. The lineup includes music from local bands Pansy Division and Ex-Boyfriends, "Project Nunway" from the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and free tattoos from local tattoo artists. If you really love YBCA, getting a YBCA logo tattoo and filling out some paperwork will get you a free lifetime membership. Cheap cash bar too, of course.
Attendees will also have access to the three current YBCA exhibitions—Nick Cave: Meet Me At the Center of the Earth (dancer and artist Nick Cave, not the Bad Seeds frontman); Under A Full Moon: 30 Years of Perpetual Indulgence, including art, photos, and artifacts from San Francisco's outragous drag nuns; and Through Future Eyes: The Endurance of Humanity, a collection of 11 pieces by artists like Shepard Fairey and Melissa Day, curated by six teens from YBCA's Young Artists at Work program.
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Anno Domini presents...INSTALLATION FIVE: Scion Art Tour
For this year's tour SCION asked each artist to create his or her literal, or non-literal interpretation of the theme 'Self-Portraits'. Video art will be included for the first time in the tour's five-year history, alongside painting and photography. Artists on the tour will include: AJ Fosik (3-D painting), Alex Hornest (painting), Andrew Schoultz (painting), Andy Howell (painting), Angela Boatwright (photography), Asylm (painting),Blek le Rat (painting), Christina M. Felice (photography), Codak(painting), David Choe (video art), Edwin Ushiro (painting), El Yem(video art), Eriberto Oriol (photography), Eye One (photography),Francesco LoCastro (painting), French (painting), Geoff Oki (video art), Ian Lynam (video art), J. Shea (painting), Jamel Shabazz(photography), Jeff Soto (painting), Kelsey Brookes (painting), Kofie(painting), Lisa Alisa (painting), Logan Hicks (photography), Mark Mothersbaugh (rug), Nicholas Harper (painting), Patrick Martinez(painting), Peter Beste (photography), RETNA (painting), Rick Rodney(photography), Rob Abeyta Jr. (painting), Ron English (painting),Saber (photography), Sage Vaughn (painting), Skypage (painting),Stormie Mills (painting), Tessar Lo (painting), Too Tall Jahmal(photography), Usugrow (painting), Will Barras (painting), Yoskay Yamamoto (painting) and more. The final tour stop will be at Scion's own 4,200 square foot Installation L.A. gallery space where all artwork will be auctioned off to the public, and 100 percent of the proceeds will go toward art-related charities and non-profits. SCION | Installation Five | Self Portraits Opening Reception: First Friday, June 5, 2009 Exhibit on view thru June 20, 2009 A.D. LOCATION & HOURS
8pm til late, free and open to the public
Attending Artists: Peter Glover, Ian Lynam and David O'Brien
Music by DJ Basura (san jose)
Tuesday through Friday, noon - 7 p.m.
Saturday, noon - 5 p.m.
Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design
366 So. First Street map
San Jose, CA 95113
408.271.5155
www.galleryAD.com
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Chocolate and Chalk Festival, Berkeley, CA
The sidewalks along North Shattuck Ave. in the Gourmet Ghetto in Berkeley are the target of artists young and old, professional and greenhorn during the 13th annual CHOCOLATE & CHALK ART FESTIVAL on Saturday, May 30.
With no fees to artists, areas of sidewalk will be assigned to participants to create their own fanciful chalk drawings. A CHALK ART CONTEST for the best drawing will be judged after 4 p.m. Winners will be notified the following day. First prize is $250 with $50 gift certificates awarded for runners up. Same-day registration takes place 10AM-5PM in event booths located along North Shattuck Ave. Artist's chalk is available for a fee.
For CHOCOLATE SAMPLING start by purchasing a packet of tickets (10 for $10) at any of the registration sites. The to-go menu features organic café mocha, chocolate mochi ice cream, and spicy chocolate tandori chicken, as well as the weirder chocolate goat cheese truffles, chocolate garlic clusters, and chocolate soap! Spend your tickets on these delights in the businesses flying festival balloons.
Vendors with chocolate-related items and hand made arts & crafts fill the Farmer’s Market area, music fills the air, clown’s laughter fills your heart, and many more surprises fill your senses as you stroll along the sidewalks viewing the artwork that remains in place for the next two weeks. See last year’s winners at www.chocolateandchalkart.com.
Produced by Another Bullwinkel Show 510.548.5335 www.anotherbullwinkelshow.com and sponsored by the North Shattuck Association www.northshattuck.org. Take BART to downtown Berkeley and walk north six blocks.
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Friday, May 22, 2009
SF International Arts Festival 2009
San Francisco. With their work visas secured and their airline tickets in hand, performing arts groups from ten countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America are heading to San Francisco for the Sixth Annual San Francisco International Arts Festival, which will run from May 20-May 31. The individual artists and ensembles will join a global celebration with 14 Bay Area based companies for the 11 day Festival that will take place at venues throughout the city.
As a result, San Francisco will be the only U.S. city this year to see performances by high caliber international companies Sasha Waltz & Guests (Germany), the Akhe Group (Russia) and Ranferi Aguilar & Los Hacedores de Lluvia (The Rain Makers, Guatemala). San Francisco will also host the US debuts of the remarkable Cho-In San Francisco International Arts Festival Artists from Ten Countries Converge on the City Page 2 of 4 Theatre (South Korea) and rising sitar star Smita Nagdev (India).
Heading up the local companies are Gamelan Sekar Jaya who are celebrating their 30th anniversary and ROVA Saxophone Quartet who will convene their international Rovate guests, The Festival will also feature Bond Street Theatre from New York in collaboration with Exile Theatre of Kabul (Afghanistan), Jess Curtis/Gravity, Scott Wells & Dancers, the Earplay Ensemble, Ana Nitmar with marimba ensemble Ixim Tinamit, Liss Fain & Dancers, NexMap Production and the Berkeley High School Jazz Orchestra.
SFIAF is also pleased to be able to announce a new pilot program for younger artists to participate in the Festival. Titled MASH, it will take place at Union Square as part of the Festival’s Jewels in the Square lunch time concert series co-presented with MJM Management. The first participants are The Riley Dance Project, Shah and Blah Productions and Gretchen Garnett & Dancers.
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Gold Rush: Artist as Prospector @ The Lab
Featuring Patricia Diart, Felipe Dulzaides, Packard Jennings, Pang Hui Lim, Ben Needham, Kate Pocrass, Marija Mojca Pungercar, Alice Shaw, and Lee Walton
Curated by Sonja Hinrichsen & Genevieve Quick
Exhibition runs: May 13 – June 6, 2009
Opening reception: Friday, May 15, 6-9 PM
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays – Saturdays, 1-6 PM
This event takes place at The LAB, 2948 16th Street @ Capp, San Francisco
The Gold Rush and dot-com boom urged many opportunistic, desperate, and hopeful Americans to take a gamble and venture west to try their hands at prospecting and entrepreneurship. While some '49ers and dot-commers did accumulate vast amounts of wealth, most did not. These eras live on in our collective memories as Americans hoping to strike it big as a result of luck, perseverance, or gall. The legacies of the Gold Rush and dot-com boom have shaped the general character of the West Coast and informed the practice and strategies of many artists.
While the nine artists in Gold Rush embody the audacity, inventiveness, fortitude, and at times recalcitrance that are part of the Western ethos, our current economic crisis has created a new context that challenges optimism and industriousness. Our current economic crisis, like those of past (e.g., the Dutch Tulip Bubble, the US Great Depression, and the South Sea Bubble) has created a malaise, anxiety, and scrutiny about our expectations, desires, and priorities. In a moment when we are less confident, and some may say less egotistical, the art world is responding in ever more inventive ways.
Gold Rush: Artist as Prospector seeks to address the pioneering spirit and moxie that is mythologized in the American West. This show examines how contemporary artists find, organize, and select materials and experiences to intervene in, or disrupt the banal to mine moments and transform the everyday.
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Controlling the Sublime Featuring Sherri Martin in the Front Gallery
Exhibition runs: May 13 – June 6, 2009
Opening reception: Friday, May 15, 6-9 PM
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays – Saturdays, 1-6 PM
This event takes place at The LAB, 2948 16th Street @ Capp, San Francisco
Sherri Martin creates vivid miniatures depicting the junction of arctic wilderness and human intervention. Polar bears and seals confront buoys and canoes in scenes referencing natural history dioramas, carefully crafted from found materials such as styrofoam and paper. Martin gently reminds us that conceivably these landscapes will one day become only nostalgic souvenirs. While Martin hints at the potential destruction wrought by global warming and human encroachment, the intimate scale of the pieces, and the accessible, comforting way in which these monumental scenes are rendered creates an engrossing, complicated warning. In this work, Martin draws on personal experiences of growing up in a paper mill town in the forests of Ontario, and her understanding of the delicate balance struck by a community enriched by natural beauty, but economically reliant on natural resources.
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