Rail

FRIDAY JANUARY 18 2008 : A RAIL ACTION : ARTWALK

2008-01-16T12:31:00.000-08:00

Rail stands as an open invitation to the neighborhood, the San Francisco arts community and beyond.

ampersand intl arts
Opening : Friday, January 18, - From 6:00 - 8: 30PM
Nick Graham Popoganda
Albert Reyes something wicked

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Ping Pong Gallery
Reception: Friday, January 18, - From 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Kirk Stoller between dimensions

THE VISIONS COME: Lee Ranaldo (USA,) Leah Singer (CA,) and Philippe Vandenberg (BE.)

2007-12-03T20:57:00.000-08:00

THE VISIONS COME
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Lee Ranaldo (USA,) Leah Singer (CA,) and Philippe Vandenberg (BE.)

Curated by Jan Van Woensel

Whitehot Magazine of contemporary art Booth
NADA Art Fair at Art Basel | Miami Beach, Florida, USA
December 5th – 9th, 2007

The Visions Come contextualizes the artist as an unconventional, independent observer and messenger of his surroundings. The artists of this exhibition edit, transcribe, dissect, repeat and erase imagery from popular culture, news, and history.

Lee Ranaldo's drawings and paintings on paper are based on photographs from newspapers and postcards. By divorcing them from their original context, these artworks become loose elements of time, culture and memory. Ranaldo paints an endless sequence of adopted images that visually and symbolically inspire the artist. This process is a human attempt to subjectively capture and de-contextualize the daily flow of visual information. Leah Singer's images seek a balance between the figurative and the abstract. The artist creates elaborate silhouettes from human figures, and complex layers from drawings on transparent sheets; new compositions and unexpected narratives are seamlessly created. The artist leaves these images open to our interpretation, their sources becoming untraceable and often no longer relevant to the reading of the work. They result in sensitive collages that tempt us to look at the abstract space between the images. The insinuative and suggestive paintings, drawings and texts by Philippe Vandenberg are the result of an intense thinking process in which the artist filters the world to its essence. While embracing the coincidental, the accident or the imperfect, Vandenberg’s paintings, freeze the agonizing moment of writers block or artistic discontinuation. Elements of world history, religion, and literature are fused into a mantra of ambiguous reflective statements that potentially disturb our social context. [JVW]

Lee Ranaldo is a contemporary artist, musician and writer based in New York. Known as a co-founder of the legendary experimental rock band Sonic Youth in 1981, Lee has worked on an impressive body of artworks independently over the years. His work includes sound installations, paintings, drawings, prints, videos, literature and spoken words. Inspired by a wide array of American and European artists like Robert Smithson, Henri Matisse, Jack Kerouac, Stan Brakhage, and Jean-Luc Goddard, his work is characterized by an interdisciplinary journey through sound, images and texts. http://sonicyouth.com/dotsonics/lee

Originally from Canada, Leah Singer is an experimental filmmaker and visual artist based in New York. She has worked with film in live settings in areas as diverse as opera, music videos, rock shows and street performance. Ongoing since 1991, DRIFT is her audiovisual collaboration with partner Lee Ranaldo in which spoken words, soundscapes, and live manipulated 16mm film projections are blended. Her drawings and prints evoke a residue of the anonymous stream of images encountered in daily urban life; images that are immediately forgotten but are always vaguely familiar when one sees them again. http://leahsinger.uing.net

Based in Brussels, Philippe Vandenberg is one of Belgium’s most prominent contemporary painters. At the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, he encounters the work by Bosch and Van de Woestijne. He reads Literature and History of Art at the University of Ghent from 1970 till 1972, when he decides to devote himself full-time to the study of painting. Vandenberg remains fascinated by literature and makes a series of drawings specifically made to put between book covers. In 1994 he lives through the Book of Job and the Apocalypse, Augustine, Sophocles, Heiner Müller, St John of the Cross and Cioran. A year later he writes The State of Things and The Lamentation of the ship. Between 1996 and 1999 he frequently visits Marseille, where Rimbaud died and Artaud was born. He creates The Notebooks, a diary made of drawings, watercolors and handwritten notes. He becomes interested in George Trakl and Paul Celan and paints the portraits of Artaud and Ulrike Meinhof. In 1999, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp (MuHKA,) organized his retrospective exhibition. Jan Van Woensel is the New York based manager of Philippe Vandenberg www.philippevandenberg.com

Jan Van Woensel is an independent curator, writer, lecturer, art dealer, and a Professor at NYU’s Department of Art and Art Professions, based in Brooklyn, New York. janvanwoensel@gmail.com

IF YOU COULD SUBMISSION!

2007-11-19T08:46:00.000-08:00

Good Morning Everyone,

Hope all's well with you. Firstly, apologies if you've had this message before...

Next month 'If you could' are taking part in a special christmas fete at Somerset house,
and unsurprisingly will be asking members of the public 'If you could get anything for christmas,
what would it be?'

To set the scene we're going to be building a grotto in the Navy room of Somerset house
and are going to have people drawing all over the walls. They'll then take home a present tag
with their choice of gift on it to hint to friends and family before the big day...

We're hoping to fill the space with some drawings before everyone arrives and would love it if
you had a spare 2 minutes to do a black and white line drawing of what you'd like to receive, or
even just use something relevant you've already drawn that can be printed and pasted on the
wall to get the ball rolling.

Any help would be hugely appreciated, and it should be a really lovely event so it'd be good to
get as many good drawings on the wall before the public get let loose!

Please send all artwork to:
will@ifyoucould.co.uk

The fair will take place on the evening of Saturday the 15th and during the day of Sunday 16th of
December and it'd be great to see as many of you there as possible, more details nearer the time...

All the best,
Alex and Will

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If You Could
Creative Projects

T: +44 (0)7709105590
E: info@ifyoucould.co.uk
W: www.ifyoucould.co.uk

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 16 2007 : A RAIL ACTION

2007-11-09T16:10:00.000-08:00

ampersand international arts + Ping Pong
Gallery + Silverman Gallery + TART = Rail

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 16 2007 : A RAIL ACTION : ARTWALK

Rail stands as an open invitation to the neighborhood, the San Francisco arts community and beyond.

ampersand intl arts
Cannelle Tanc CITIES + Frédéric Vincent SEASON 1
Opening : Friday, November 16, 6:00 - 8: 30PM

Ping Pong Gallery
come play ping pong, drink beer and make friends
Ping Pong Happy Hour: Friday, November 16, 6:00 - 9:00 pm

Silverman Gallery
Nothing Moments : a collaborative project in art, literature and design
Opening : Friday November 16, 7:00 -10:00 pm

TART
So It Goes
Tony Wilson Tribute Fac51 : Friday November 16, 7:00 - 09:00 pm

“Rail‘s ‘artwalk’was a trip! -- a journey of discovery, sociability, and unexpected aesthetic delights. It’s a perfect opportunity to explore what’s germinating in the San Francisco art scene
and to tour this developing area of the city.”
MARCIA TANNER curator / writer

Rail is an innovative alliance of San Francisco based project spaces and galleries: ampersand international arts, Ping Pong Gallery, Silverman Gallery and TART. As seen on the map, Rail’s project spaces and galleries are located in the path of the new MUNI T train that connects the Third Street, DogPatch, South Beach and Mission Bay neighborhoods.

The Rail galleries are diverse in their programming, but share an understanding of what constitutes an art experience, informed by the intimate nature of their spaces. Through their
collective experiences, Rail spaces ensure the growing arts presence on Third Street. Rail’s actions include monthly coordinated openings, projects across all Rail venues, an online
resource, hosting of national and international visiting artists, curators and critics.

ARTISSIMA 14: Silverman Gallery and Patricia Esquivias

2007-10-30T17:10:00.001-07:00

ARTISSIMA 14
		ARTISSIMA 14 9 - 11 November 2007 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. Lingotto Fiere, Turin Vernissage November 8, 2007 http://www.artissima.it

ARTISSIMA 14: A NEW TYPE OF CULTURAL EVENT Artissima takes place in Turin, Italy, from the 8th to 10th of November, 2007. A project by Andrea Bellini, director of the Fair from 2007, Artissima 14 is a window on emerging art worldwide. 131 galleries from 17 countries: a launch-pad for the best research in the field of visual arts on an international scale. The galleries will be showing outstanding works by both renowned established artists and cutting-edge newcomers. The New Artissima is a marketplace of the highest quality, but it is also a flexible tool, a container of art exhibitions, parties and crossover events. At the Fair, together with the traditional booths, there will also be two sections -- Constellations and Present Future -- designed as authentic exhibitions. PRESENT FUTURE is a special section of the Fair in collaboration with illycaffè, which will include this year 15 projects by artists emerging on the national and international art scene, selected by a team of three curators: Cecilia Alemani, art critic and independent curator, New York; Luca Cerizza, curator BSI Collection and art critic, Berlin; Raimundas Malasauskas, curator Artists Space, New York / Advisor, California College of Arts, San Francisco. Present Future will introduce an exciting new feature for Artissima 14: the artists have been invited to display their works in a separate and independent area devoted exclusively to this section, designed like a real exhibition, enhancing the dialogue between the works whilst creating an itinerary with constant and stimulating surprises. During the Fair, a jury composed by Corinne Diserens, Director, MUSEION, Bolzano, Francesco Manacorda, Curator, Barbican Art Gallery, London, and Susan Pfeffer, Curator, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin will meet to assign the illy Present Future Award to the most significant work. The winning artist will receive a 10,000-euro prize from the event partner, illy, and will have the opportunity to present a design for the “illy Art Collection” of auteur coffee cups CONSTELLATIONS is devoted to large museum-quality works, exhibited for the first time at Artissima in a museum-style exhibition. 10 artworks from more than 90 projects submitted by the galleries taking part in the Fair have been selected by Daniel Birnbaum, Director of Portikus, Frankfurt, and Marc-Olivier Wahler, Director of of Palais de Tokyo, Paris. NEW ENTRIES will present 17 emerging avant-garde galleries from 8 countries at the Fair for the first time, selected by the Board of Directors and Consulting Committee of Artissima. The Guido Carbone Award, devoted to the galleries taking part in this section, will be assigned by an international Jury that will consider, as a primary selection criterion, the work of research and promotion of young artists carried on by galleries. The jury is composed by Fabio Cavallucci, Director, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento / Coordinator, Manifesta 7, Vasif Kortun, Director, Platform Garanti, Istanbul / Founding director Project Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art, Anton Vidokle, Artist, curator, founder and director of e-flux, New York, and Laura Viale, jury’s permanent member on behalf of the Award Promoting Committee. The VIDEO LOUNGE, curated by Cecilia Alemani, is devoted to the latest trends and the most recent creations of artists who work with film, video and animation. Mixing together documentaries, visions and digital perceptions of about sixty international artists, the Video Lounge opens a window onto the world of contemporary art, guiding the audience on a journey through possible worlds and new landscapes of imagination. The program revolves around the themes of “War, Peace, and Ecstasy” which have been chosen as the key concepts for an exploration of today’s art. The artists have been selected among those working the galleries taking part in Artissima. The SEMINAR ON CURATORIAL PRACTICE, curated by Måns Wrange (CuratorLab, Konstfack, Stockholm) consists in two days of intense debate and dialogue, with the participation of twelve leading international curators and artists: Ute Meta Bauer, Luca Cerizza, Caroline Corbetta, Meg Cranston, Joshua Decter, Ronald Jones, Yu Yeon Kim, Vasif Kortun, Marysia Lewandowska, Francesco Manacorda, Chus Martinez, Anton Vidokle. Three emerging curators from Colombia, Ethiopia and India will be guest speakers at the seminar, in cooperation with illycaffé, thus offering evidence of the new frontiers of contemporary art: Meskerem Assegued, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Mariangela Mendez Prencke, Bogotà, Colombia, Suman Gopinath, Bangalore, India. Artissima will also extend beyond the borders of the fair, exploring the city and its most significant centers of artistic and cultural production. ARTISSIMA CINEMA will present “Shanghype!”, a video program featuring the new chinese art scene, curated by Davide Quadrio, BizArt/Arthub, Shanghai. ARTISSIMA VOLUME is a high-impact performances and events with the participation of some of the greatest names in neo-avantgarde music, curated by Nero magazine, Roma. ARTISSIMA COMICS is an anthological exhibition of GIPI, one of the most notorious Italian cartoonists within the international art scene, curated by Daniele Ratti and Sergio Pignatone, Torino. NIGHT OF CONTEMPORARY ART - As part of the project “Contemporary Arts Torino Piemonte”, and on the occasion of Artissima, museums, foundations, and art institutions will propose openings and exhibitions of international appeal whilst the streets of Turin will be illuminated by Luci d’artista, light installations designed by artists. The “night of contemporary art” on Saturday the 10th will feature special openings of galleries, museums and other art spaces, concerts and performances throughout the city, followed by a closing party in collaboration with Club to Club, The International Festival of Electronic Music and Arts. For additional information and the complete list of galleries, please visit our website http://www.artissima.it

Don’t Mess With Texas @ Nathan Larramendy

2007-10-30T17:10:00.000-07:00

Please join us Saturday, November 3^rd, 5 -7 PM for the opening reception of

Don’t Mess With Texas

Artists: Libby Black, Amy Blakemore, Zoe Carlton, Kelli Connell, Virginia Fleck, Francesca Fuchs, Laura Lark

Anne Colvin, The Consequence Screenings.

2007-10-17T10:19:00.000-07:00

The Consequence
Curated by Alex Hetherington and Janie Nicoll

ALEXIA De Ville De Goyet, ANDERS Weberg, ANN Vance, ANNE Colvin, ANTONIO Contador, BALDVIN Ringsted, BEN Fallon, CAROLYN KANE, DANA Cooley, HAKEEM B., ISABELLE Prim, JOHANNA Reich, JONATHAN Franco, KATHLEEN Herbert, LAURE Forét, LUCY Keany, MATHIEU Rouget, MELISSA Day, NATHALIE De Briey, PENELOPE Reichley, PETER S. Amantea, POPUP FILMS, STEPHEN Palmer.

LowSalt Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, 19-21 October 2007
265 Renfrew Street, Glasgow
12-5pm, opening Friday 19 October 7-9pm

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh, Scotland, 16 November 2007
25 Hawthornvale, Edinburgh
Event, 16 November 6-10pm

The Consequence features a cast of emerging and established international visual artists curated by Alex Hetherington and Janie Nicoll in association with LowSalt Gallery, Glasgow and the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. These video screening events represent the third project in a series which has included an installation The Consequence devised by Hetherington and Nicoll at Intermedia in May 2007 and House/Lights a performance by Alex Hetherington at ESW in July. The themes of these works include the interrogation of gender and its repetitious repertoire; performance and technology; multiplication of and cross-referencing pre-existing material; the constructions of meaning and the nature of image with allusions to social outcasts, social constructs and scenarios whereupon image (cinema, art, theatre) and social phenomenon interchange. In turn The Consequence sets up a scenario where Hetherington and Nicoll scrutinize through these themes the work of the artists on show in relationship to their own practice.

Following on from a call out seeking video works that mirror these central themes, Hetherington and Nicoll have devised two distinct events that correspond to the spaces these videos will be presented at. LowSalt Gallery will present a selection of raw, disturbing, disconcerting, experimental works that connect the material of the body to modes of technological manipulation, recognizable cultural images to notions of instability and demise, cinema and found film footage to experiences of violent disruption. ESW will re-present this screening in friction and tension with more reflective, durational and performance-based pieces of film and video in a night time event, which will also feature site-specific work and responses from artists who work regularly at the Sculpture Workshop. Linking these works will be an “interlude” devised by the Belgian born Glasgow-based artist Nathalie de Briey.

Essays by Alex Hetherington and Michelle Kasprzak, Director New Media Scotland accompany the events.

For further information please contact Alex Hetherington at Alexander.hetherington@virgin.net or Janie Nicoll at janienicoll@yahoo.co.uk

TART Artist Shows in Europe

2007-10-10T10:30:00.000-07:00

Graham Fagen solo show, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin.
Anne Colvin, The Consequence, Lowsalt Gallery, Glasgow, The Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop.
Nico Ihlein/Honey Suckle Company, Montgomery, Berlin.
Daryl Waller, Move, Goldfish Contemporary Arts at Lime Wharf, Vyner St. London.

Silverman Gallery//Artist Updates and News

2007-10-03T09:27:00.003-07:00

Artist Updates:

Silverman Gallery is very pleased to announce the representation of San Francisco based artist, Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough. Her first solo exhibition will take place in February.

Job Piston is invited to Littlest Sister 07 which will be held at Spinello Gallery, Miami, (November 10, 2007 - January 5, 2008). The Group Art Fair is by invitation only - narrowed down from an extensive list of artists both local and abroad, selected and curated by Claire Breukel (Independent Curator & Executive Director of Locust Projects, Miami) and Art Fair Organizer, Anthony Spinello.

Desiree Holman will take part in Independent Exposure Halloweird Edition, October 25th @ the Red Vic Movie House.

Tris Vonna-Michell's new solo show just opened at Milliken Gallery, Stockholm. Tris can also be seen performing at Serpentine Gallery, London on October 13. He will have his next solo exhibition at Cubitt Gallery, London this November.

Ben Shaffer has a new work in a group exhibition at TELIC ARTS EXCHANGE, Chinatown, CA on October 27.

How many more curators will join the trade?

2007-10-03T09:27:00.001-07:00

From Art Market:
How many more curators will join the trade?

By Jane Morris | Posted 13 September 2007

LONDON. The move from the public to private sector of Guggenheim director Lisa Dennison might be the most visible, but she is not the only curator to cross what used to be an unscalable wall. Curator Jonathan Binstock left the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC last month to join Citibank (p12) as an art advisor, while curators Ingrid Dudek and Anne de Pietra both left museums to join Christie’s and the Spanierman Gallery, respectively, last year. At least four UK curators have also moved to the trade in the past year. These include Amin Jaffer who moved from the V&A to Christie’s in June; Emma Dexter from the Tate to Timothy Taylor Gallery in February; Ben Tufnell from the Tate and Nina Miall from the Royal Academy, both to Haunch of Venison late last year.

Directors on both sides of the Atlantic believe that these career changes, although still uncommon, represent acceptance of what was once unthinkable. Maxwell Anderson, director of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, says: “There is a blurring of what used to be clear boundaries between the museum and the trade. What has been surprising with Lisa Dennison is that the museum world is saying ‘how interesting’, not that it traduces the values of the museum.”

Why it is happening is another matter. One US director said: “Museum jobs are getting harder, with greater requirements to raise money, but salaries and professional opportunities are static.”

Not everyone says they left because of dissatisfaction. According to Ben Tufnell, 37, now a curator at Haunch of Venison in London, opportunities to develop his career—and to work with artists such as Richard Long—were major inducements. He says: “I’d been at the Tate for almost nine years, and it was time for a change. In many ways my job is very similar to my job at the Tate. The difference is that the turnaround here is much shorter and there are far fewer people involved in decision-making.”

Amin Jaffer, 38, a former curator and fundraiser at the V&A and now Christie’s international director of Asian art, says that his unusual museum role made the move to the commercial sector easier. “I was responsible for developing the museum’s strategy in India, and I found myself involved in fundraising alongside curating exhibitions. Of course, the people I worked with then are Christie’s clients now.”

Dr Jaffer says that while it would be “hypocritical” to deny that salaries are a factor, it is job satisfaction that was his main motivation. But for some curators at least, pay is an issue.

The Museums Association launched a campaign to tackle low pay for curators in 2004, and as The Art Newspaper went to press, National Museums Liverpool staff were about to strike over pay.

Stephen Snoddy, director at Walsall Art Gallery, says that the numbers of curators leaving public museums in the UK may well increase. “A lot of curators are finding their work increasingly bureaucratic. There are lots of government targets,” he says. “And if you make it to somewhere like the Tate you tend to find that people rarely leave, so progression is slow. You can quite understand people thinking that it might be exciting to try the commercial sector.”

TART Artist Talks at Whitney

2007-09-26T10:49:00.000-07:00

Eric Doeringer, Julian Opie, from the Bootlegs project, 2007. Inkjet print with synthetic polymer on canvas, 10 x 8 in. Collection of the artist.

Friday, September 28 at 7 pm
Initial Public Offerings (I.P.O.): New Objects, New Audiences, Eric Doeringer

Artist Eric Doeringer mimics the stylistic elements of major contemporary artists from Dana Schutz to Matthew Barney to craft his own series of "bootlegs," near-dead ringers for the original artworks. Distinctly not forgeries, his works comment on long traditions of connoisseurship as they straddle the licit and illicit art markets that surround every transaction, between private collectors as well as public institutions.

With special guests Lisa Levy, Carrie McLaren, Filip Noterdaeme, and William Powhida.

Free with Museum admission, which is pay-what-you-wish on Fridays, 6-9pm. Please register by visiting http://www.whitney.org/ or the Museum Admissions Desk. Seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Silverman Gallery updates and news!

2007-09-24T13:00:00.000-07:00

Artissima is pleased to announce the names of 15 artists selected for Present Future, the special section of the Fair devoted to international emerging artists.

The team of curators, consisting of Cecilia Alemani, Luca Cerizza and Raimundas Malasauskas, has focused the attention on original and ambitious projects by young artists, conceived specifically for Artissima.

The artists will display their works in a specially designed space. Present Future will be an exhibition in its own right, where the works will be installed following a curatorial path that highlights the dialogue among the works while respecting their own individual nature.

The artists and galleries selected for Present Future 2007 are:

Julieta Aranda, Michael Janssen, Berlin
Rosa Barba, Vera Gliem, Cologne
Becky Beasley, Laura Bartlett, London
Rä di Martino, Monitor, Rome
Haris Epaminonda, Domobaal, London
Patricia Esquivias, Silverman, San Francisco, CA
Anne Hardy, Bellwether, New York, N.Y.
Helen Johnson, Sutton, Melbourne
David Maljkovic, Annet Gelink, Amsterdam
Michael Riedel, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Johann König, Berlin
Jamie Shovlin, 1/9 Unosunove, Rome
Ryan Trecartin, Elizabeth Dee, New York, N.Y.
Luca Trevisani, Pinksummer /Giò Marconi, Genoa / Milan
Donelle Woolford, Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp

During the Fair, a jury of international critics and curators will meet to assign the illy Present Future Award to the most significant work. The winning artist will receive a 10,000-euro prize from the event partner, illy, and will have the opportunity to present a design for the “illy Art Collection” of auteur coffee cups.

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Limited Edition print by Christopher Badger available.

What a steal!

Christopher Badger
Wind is blowing down the mountain. Wind is blowing the mountain down.
Silkscreen on newsprint
24 x 36 inches each
2007
Edition of 17
$250 per pair (Unframed)

TART news!

2007-09-24T12:59:00.003-07:00

We are excited to share with you recent TART press:

Artweek September issue, Omega Man, Jordan Essoe.
and
Shotgun Review and an Reviews, Three Years and Counting by Alex Hetherington.

http://www.shotgun-review.com/archives/tart/three_years_and_counting.html

http://www.a-nunedited.co.uk/reviews/reviews.php?form=details&r=341&dir=desc&pg=1

Watch this space for WPS1 radio interview; upcoming project So It Goes which includes a Tony Wilson tribute and Julian Myers, Riot Show; and TART artist Eric Doeringer's bootleg in The New Langton Arts Auction.

All best
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TART
47 Lusk Alley
SF CA 94107
415 203 5865
tartsf.com
tartalks.blogspot.com

Apply now for this year's Szpilman Award.

2007-09-24T12:59:00.001-07:00

Dear friends:

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Now is Now!
Closing date is September 30! (postmark)

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Apply now for this year's Szpilman Award.
http://www.award.szpilman.de/total.html

5 years Szpilman Award:
Zloty Zloty Zloty!
Trip to Poland for 10 Days!
Challenge Cup for one year!
Exhibition in Istanbul!

Go for all!

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Apply now!
www.award.szpilman.de

Let's be friends!
www.myspace.com/szpilman_award

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2007-09-16T22:06:00.000-07:00



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Three Years and Counting at TART opens Friday 14th, 6-8pm

2007-09-09T12:20:00.000-07:00

TODAY !! Rail Action: ARTWALK: Friday, September 7

2007-09-07T08:49:00.000-07:00

A Rail Action
ARTWALK
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7TH, 2007
DOGPATCH, SAN FRANCISCO

ampersand, Pingpong and Jessica Silverman galleries
of the Rail alliance :
are happy to announce a Rail Artwalk :
3 coordinated openings TODAY
Friday, September 7th
--see details for hours below--
--CLICK on MAP for directions--

These Rail’s project spaces and galleries are located in the path of the new MUNI T train that connects the Third Street, DogPatch, South Beach and Mission Bay neighborhoods.

The current line up for this September shows of Rail ACTION is as follows:
TART 's opening is on September 14th as Anne Colvin is included in show "It can't happen here" Worksound, Portland.

ampersand international arts: September 7th - 24th, 2007 (R3)
Opening Reception:
Friday, September 7th, 6-8.30pm
David Fought: "3 (5)wires and 5 (3)sides", Sculptures, Wall Installation,
James Sansing :"Seeing Darkly", Mixed Media Paintings
Gallery Hours:
Thursday & Friday : noon-5pm and appointment.

Ping Pong Gallery: September 7th - October 12th, 2007 (R4)
Opening Reception:
Friday, September 7th, 6-9pm.
Amanda Curreri: "Make New Friends" Multi-media Installation.
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday 6 -9pm, Thursday 6-9pm and Friday 11-5pm and appointment.

Silverman Gallery: September 7th - October 6th , 2007 (R2)
Opening reception:
September 7th 7-10pm.
Christopher Badger with Robert Smithson and La MonteYoung, Static Equilibrium.
a two part Exhibition:
Part I Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
Gallery Hours:
Thursday and Friday : noon - 5 pm and by appointment
(Part II Silverman Gallery,Los Angeles, September 7 - October 6, 2017)

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"No self-respecting art community is ever complete without a small,informal gallery run by the artists themselves and dedicated to emerging talents and experimental ideas. These galleries seldom last forever but the idea behind them never dies. Many of the things they display are half baked and scarcely survive their initial exposure; on the other hand, some of the most important people in the history of art have been introduced to the public by ventures of this kind"
Alfred Frankenstein, San Francisco
Chronicle, November 17, 1954.

Mr. Frankenstein's statement couldn't be more true today as it was then.
With the upcoming art season upon us, galleries are preparing to present to the public their latest and greatest.
Here in San Francisco, the focus tends to turn toward the downtown art scene, home of the "dentist-like-office-gallery-towers." While these spaces offer a spectrum of intriguing work, the other end of the City is bursting at the seams with a revival of innovative and exciting new gallery spaces far from the Geary "epicenter."

One such scene is Rail. Rail is an innovative alliance of San Francisco based project spaces and galleries located in the path of the new MUNI T train that connects the Third Street, DogPatch, South Beach and Mission Bay neighborhoods.
These project spaces and galleries include: ampersand international arts, Ping Pong Gallery, Silverman Gallery and TART. The Rail's galleries are diverse in their programming, but share an understanding of what constitutes an art experience, informed by the intimate nature of their spaces. Through their collective experiences, Rail spaces ensure the growing arts presence on Third Street.

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A Psychic Vacuum

2007-09-06T09:58:00.000-07:00

CREATIVE TIME

NELSON, A PSYCHIC VACUUM, OPENS THIS SATURDAY, NOON - 7PM 117 Delancey @ Essex (then every Friday, Saturday, Sunday, noon - 6pm through Oct. 28)
6,500 square feet, 60 tons of sand, 3 months of meticulous construction - Nelson has transformed the old Essex Street Market (closed for over a decade) into the most amazing installation – a suprising journey through an immersive parallel universe. Don’t miss the first NYC installation by the internationally acclaimed Turner Prize nominee.

SATURDAY, SEP 8
MIKE NELSON and THE ART PARADE

ARTIST TALKMONDAY, SEP 10, 6:30 - 7:30PM Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street (under KBG Bar – and yes, you can bring in drinks!) FREE. No reservations required. Hear more about the making of the project when co-curators Peter Eleey and Nato Thompson talk with Nelson just before he heads back to London. (An edited transcript will be available on the website following the talk.)

THINGS TO DO ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE Go to http://www.icebase.com/go.shtml?20070906091055898798&m6971&http://www.creativetime.org/nelson for Creative Time's Culture Map of more excellent things to do on the Lower East Side, plus more info. on the project and The New York Times article.

PUT YOUR LOVE OF ART TO WORK - VOLUNTEER
Mike Nelson
Work weekends this fall at Creative Time's installation A Psychic Vacuum - meet new people, get insider tours and become a certified fireguard.

There is Always a Machine Between Us

2007-09-04T09:38:00.000-07:00

Curated by Kate Fowle, Karla Milosevich, Chuck Mobley, and Danny Orendorff. Opening Reception Thursday 6 September, 5 - 8 pm

SF Camerawork's galleries become a global gathering place, a research lab, and an ongoing experiment in visual communication with this interactive exhibit of work sourced from and inspired by the Internet.

On view now:

Flat Land by Jeanne C. Finley & John Muse (4-channel video installation)

Lick by Mary Magsamen & Stephan Hillerbrand (1:40 mins)

Morrissey Foretelling the Death of Diana by Lars Laumann (16:00 mins)

Matthias Geiger: Tide. Using a computer-based technique of layering the still images he shoots, Geiger erases the physical presence of the figures in his work, leaving just a trace of their forms in the landscape. These almost metaphysical presences haunt places of transit and places of momentary rest.

A show to see!

2007-09-02T18:35:00.001-07:00

FROM CYBER SPACE TO STREET SCENE: WHITEHOT MAGAZINE OF CONTEMPORARY ART

2007-08-31T22:21:00.001-07:00

FROM CYBER SPACE TO STREET SCENE: WHITEHOT MAGAZINE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
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Contact: Jan Van Woensel
janvanwoensel@gmail.com

973-901-8208

http://whitehotmagazine.com/

Noah Becker's
WHITEHOT MAGAZINE: FESTIVAL Curated by Jan Van Woensel & Tracy Candido

Print media is fast losing ground to up-to-the-second information on
the web and art magazines are no exception. Web based Whitehot
Magazine of Contemporary Art first came on line in March and was
embraced by a growing international community of artists who sought
immediacy for art news, reviews and informal dialogue.

Whitehot has attracted international writers, artists, curators and
college professors as contributors to review art and interview artists
and is hailed as one of the largest existing art communities covering
art from New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Montreal, Toronto,
Vancouver, London, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Dublin, Zurich, and
Tokyo.

WHAT: After five successful months the monthly cyber mag is leaping
out of the click-n-scroll world to New York City's lower east side art
scene. Celebrating with live music performances, cinema and an office
on wheels, the event is tapped as the Whitehot Magazine Festival, a
three-days event coinciding with the season's opening of many art
galleries. Seven contemporary art galleries are participating in the
festival which will also include live interviews with artists, live
music, film, and printouts of selective editions of the magazine.

WHEN & WHERE? Thursday, September 6 to Saturday September 8, 2007.

Whitehot Trucks will be in two different locations on the Lower East
Side in New York: The corner of Eldridge and Stanton, and in front of
Envoy, 131 Chrystie St.

WHO: Whitehot staff will be interviewing the following artists:
Paul Laster, Carlo McCormick, Brent Green, Dana Schutz, Chico, Timothy
Greenfield-Sanders, Jim Powers, Noah Becker and Jan Van Woensel,
Robert C. Morgan.

Galleries that are involved are: Smith-Stewart, Envoy, Thierry
Goldberg, Little Cakes, Sunday, Rivington Arms, 31 Grand.

Music bands that are performing live and all acoustic are: The
Quavers, Brent Green, Huff This!, Forest Fire, Noah Becker Jazz
Ensemble & Guests, Cassanova Brown.

Whitehot Magazine Festival partners are: ArtKrush, Flavorpil, Club
Midway, Bushwick Film Festival, The Cascade High-school – Center for
Multimedia and Communications.

janvanwoensel@gmail.com>

Double Resonator: Silverman Gallery, September 7, 7-10pm

2007-08-31T18:00:00.000-07:00

Silverman Gallery is very pleased to present Double Resonator an exhibition of work by Christopher Paul Badger, Robert Smithson and La Monte Young.

Opening reception to take place Friday September 7, 2007 7-10pm.

Double Resonator is part of Silverman Gallery's Original Version, dedicated to solo exhibitions. During which, the artist and Silverman Gallery collectively choose and exhibit a selection of figures influential to the artists practice. By doing so, Original Version constructs a framework of references that form a network between the artists and enhance the viewer's experience.

C.P. Badger is a Los Angeles based artist known for his collaborative work with the group of artists and experimental musicians known as Everlovely Lighteningheart. The group creates unique harmonic events that are never duplicated and will never repeat. Departing from the group dynamic Badger’s work for Double Resonator successfully displays a similar interest in subversion by blending technology and everyday objects in an effort to produce a distinctive interplay. Drawing from these collaborative, experimental roots, Badger merges language, sound, image and sculpture to draw the viewer into a unique and temporary journey.

In the main space Badger will install photographic and sculptural works including "Harmonic Field", a 3-piece sound sculpture made of steel, wood, chord and ebow, which is placed throughout the gallery so that the entire room is engulfed in the works subtle, moan produced by slight vibration. “Harmonic Field” calls attention to the singularity and ephemeral nature of sound as well as the piece itself. Eventually “Harmonic Field’s” continuous gesture falls into the subconscious only to be awakened by any slight shift.

Other contributions to Double Resonator are by artists Robert Smithson and La Monte Young. The works included have been purposely chosen and consist of scores, collages and instructions that emphasis the artists thinking process and the idea of how to execute a work, as well as documentation of that thinking process. Included are a series of letters from Robert Smithson to curator/critic, Jan van der Marck describing a film project and Composition #10 where Young composes 29 identical instructions, "Draw a straight line and follow it". Although Smithson's drawings were not intended for aesthetic pleasure and Young’s compositions not necessarily of a musical nature, they were, as the viewer will come to see, both aids to the imagination.

Double Resonator investigates the relationships between found objects, language and the imagery they produce. The exhibition embraces a broad range of approaches and methodologies, including photography, sculpture, and sound. Double Resonator brings together an inter-generational group of artists whose work explores our perception of the ever-shifting landscape. As viewers we are not merely beholders but participants in our reality: mediating, representing, and filtering experience though our assumptions and pasts.

In conjunction with the exhibition, a limited edition print by C.P. Badger will be produced by Silverman Gallery.

Double Resonator will be on view September 7, 2007 until October 5, 2007.

Four Projected Movements

2007-08-30T13:18:00.000-07:00

Anthony McCall, Four Projected Movements at New Langton Arts.

Friday and Saturday, 14 Sep 2007 to 15 Sep 2007 Friday, 7-9pm Film “Performance” (75min) Followed by a reception with the artist. Saturday, 12-5pm Ongoing projection.

Anthony McCall has been creating film installations and performances for over 30 years. Four Projected Movements was produced in 1975 as a further exploration of his previous work Long Film for Four Projectors, and it has rarely been shown in the US. It is the last piece of his series of “solid light” films that used projector and film. For McCall Four Projected Movements is a succinct rendering of the structural principal of Long Film for Four Projectors. It uses one of the light wedges from Long Film for Four Projectors and explores the seeming gravitational pull that his solid light forms are famous for.

Placing one of the wedges into the corner of the gallery, parallel to the wall, a single fifteen-minute reel of film is run through the projector in four different ways: head-to-tail, tail-to-head, head-to-tail back-to-front, and tail-to-head back-to-front. This produces four different sweeps through space: wall to corner, ceiling to corner, corner to floor and ceiling to wall. The moving wedge interacts with the actual architectural frame. The plane of light transitions vertically and horizontally, confronting the viewer with a question of spatial orientation and movement.

Anthony McCall works in film, video, and installation. Over the past few years he has exhibited at Tate Britain, London; the Mead Gallery at the University of Warwick, Warwick; the 2004 Whitney Biennial, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou / La Maison Rouge, Paris; Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris; Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne; Gagosian Gallery, London; MACBA, Barcelona; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; and Nationalgalerie Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.

Events taking place at SFMOMA* Artist Talk: Anthony McCall September 13, 2007, 6:30pm Followed by Crime in Choir performance at 9pm*for details and ticketing information visit www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions

Anne Colvin in "it can't happen here"

2007-08-28T10:16:00.000-07:00

(front of card)

I wanted to let you know about a group show I am in up in Portland opening on Friday September 7th. it can't happen here! takes its title from a Lewis Sinclair novel about bad politics and authoritarian regimes. The premise of the show is somewhat anarchic and open to interpretation as to what constitutes "it", " happen" and "here". This is an inaugural show in a great new space, Worksound - Anne/TART

Rail Action:ARTWALK:Friday, September 7

2007-08-26T13:28:00.000-07:00

A Rail Action
ARTWALK
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7TH, 2007
DOGPATCH, SAN FRANCISCO

ampersand, Pingpong and Jessica Silverman galleries
of the Rail alliance :
are happy to announce a Rail Artwalk :
3 coordinated openings on Friday, September 7th
--see details for hours below--
--click on Map for directions--

These Rail’s project spaces and galleries are located in the path of the new MUNI T train that connects the Third Street, DogPatch, South Beach and Mission Bay neighborhoods.

The current line up for this September shows of Rail ACTION is as follows:
TART's opening on 14th as Anne Colvin is included in show It can't happen here, Worksound, Portland.

ampersand international arts: September 7th - 24th, 2007 (R3)
Opening Reception:
Friday, September 7th, 6-8.30pm
David Fought: "3 (5)wires and 5 (3)sides", Sculptures, Wall Installation,
James Sansing :"Seeing Darkly", Mixed Media Paintings
Gallery Hours:
Thursday & Friday : noon-5pm and appointment.

Ping Pong Gallery: September 7th - October 12th, 2007 (R4)
Opening Reception:
Friday, September 7th, 6-9pm.
Amanda Curreri: "Make New Friends" Multi-media Installation.
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday 6 -9pm, Thursday 6-9pm and Friday 11-5pm and appointment.

Silverman Gallery: September 7th - October 6th , 2007 (R2)
Opening reception:
September 7th 7-10pm.
Christopher Badger with Robert Smithson and La MonteYoung, Static Equilibrium.
a two part Exhibition:
Part I Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
Gallery Hours:
Thursday and Friday : noon - 5 pm and by appointment
(Part II Silverman Gallery,Los Angeles, September 7 - October 6, 2017)

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"No self-respecting art community is ever complete without a small,informal gallery run by the artists themselves and dedicated to emerging talents and experimental ideas. These galleries seldom last forever but the idea behind them never dies. Many of the things they display are half baked and scarcely survive their initial exposure; on the other hand, some of the most important people in the history of art have been introduced to the public by ventures of this kind"
Alfred Frankenstein, San Francisco
Chronicle, November 17, 1954.

Mr. Frankenstein's statement couldn't be more true today as it was then.
With the upcoming art season upon us, galleries are preparing to present to the public their latest and greatest.
Here in San Francisco, the focus tends to turn toward the downtown art scene, home of the "dentist-like-office-gallery-towers." While these spaces offer a spectrum of intriguing work, the other end of the City is bursting at the seams with a revival of innovative and exciting new gallery spaces far from the Geary "epicenter."

One such scene is Rail. Rail is an innovative alliance of San Francisco based project spaces and galleries located in the path of the new MUNI T train that connects the Third Street, DogPatch, South Beach and Mission Bay neighborhoods.
These project spaces and galleries include: ampersand international arts, Ping Pong Gallery, Silverman Gallery and TART. The Rail's galleries are diverse in their programming, but share an understanding of what constitutes an art experience, informed by the intimate nature of their spaces. Through their collective experiences, Rail spaces ensure the growing arts presence on Third Street.

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geojedi

2007-08-24T09:23:00.000-07:00

We're having a farewell party/performance in the mission on saturday the 25th at warehouse 1310 in. It would be a pleasure to have you there. Dance the light fantastic and kiss those blues away with the shivering shake of futured shockt.

http://www.geojedi.org/summer2007/party.html

luv, johnny & shalo p
WESTSIDE!

Internship/Assistant Opportunity @ Silverman Gallery

2007-08-23T10:17:00.000-07:00

Silverman Gallery, San Francisco

What we are looking for:
You are interested in working in an art gallery environment. You possess strong communication skills (both in person and on the phone), and excellent organizational and computer habits. You are willing to commit 2-3 days a week and are able to attend openings (discussion of participation in art fairs to be discussed).

Responsibilities:
1. Administrative assistance:
• Answer phone, receive/open mail, ensure messages and correspondence are distributed
• Assist with database maintenance, prepare paperwork for installations, assist with mailings, and run errands;
• Help set up for art openings, hosting special events

2. Preparatory assistance:
• Assist curators install and de-install exhibitions, including patching and painting, hanging and lighting;
• Handling art, pack and unpack artwork;

3. The fun part:
• Work with curator on projects involving research and compiling relevant information that requires direct communication with artists and collaborators.

Qualifications:
• Personable, outgoing, not afraid to ask questions;
• Ability to take direction and work independently;
• Able to perform detail-oriented tasks w/ minimal supervision;
• Strong multi-tasking and organizational skills;
• Excellent phone and interpersonal skills;
• Knowledge of contemporary/modern art or the willingness to learn about it.

About us:
Silverman Gallery's internship program is structured to coordinate applicants' interest, backgrounds and schedules with the galleries rigorous exhibition program. While the internship begins as unpaid, there is opportunity for incentives. The internship is sure to offer a behind the scenes experience in a culturally enriched neighborhood at a dynamic young gallery with a chance to work with artists and arts professionals, in exchange for the valuable time and talent of our interns. For interns currently enrolled in school programs, we are happy to assist with fulfilling credit requirements.

Compensation: This is not a paid position (interns may qualify for paid positions, based on performance and as available).

The gallery is open Thursday - Saturday from 11-6 please visit our website: http://www.silverman-gallery.com

To apply, email your cover letter and resume to jess@jessicasilverman.com or call 310.428.8932.

Hope to hear from you soon!

Jessica Silverman

Marketability.

2007-08-21T10:50:00.001-07:00

Always a mainstay of the art world, private collectors have been especially active of late, and engaged in a riveting game of one-upmanship, subconscious though it may be.

The husband-and-wife founders of Gap recently revealed plans to open a museum in San Francisco for their modern art collection.

The French mogul François Pinault continues to steamroll his way toward turning Venice’s Punta della Dogana (the city’s old customs house) into a contemporary museum all his own. He plans to open the museum in time to complement, or more likely compete with, the 2009 Venice Biennale.
In Washington, D.C. another private collector has landed a show at the prestigious National Gallery of Art devoted solely to his photography collection.

Yet whenever contemporary private collections like these come up in conversation, I can’t help but hearken back to the quirky progenitors of all modern-day collections—the cabinet of curiosities. In vogue during the 16th and 17th centuries, these wunderkammen (wonder rooms) housed strange specimens of flora and fauna, religious relics and artifacts from far off lands, as well as paintings and sculpture. Many such collections became the cornerstones of some truly outstanding museums—the British Museum in London and the Teylers Museum in the Netherlands, to name a couple.

But more than prestige, the impetus for these collections was the wonder of the object, no matter how humble or extraordinary, and the excitement of holding something rare or exotic in one’s hands.

Nowadays collecting is often devoid of such spirit. Financial gain and status seem to steer acquisitions. The reward of a collection is inextricably linked to marketability and making a name for oneself—and there’s the folly. A collector might stipulate how his or her cache of goodies should be handled, but there is no guarantee that such guidelines will be followed forever, as the ongoing upheaval at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, a sterling example of modern collecting, shows.

Better to savor a collection for the pleasure evoked by the objects themselves. It’s the only certain payoff.

Jeans, are and more art!

2007-08-21T10:48:00.000-07:00

Doris and Donald Fisher, founders of the estimated $16 billion-per-year retail giant the Gap, announced last week a proposal to fund the design and construction of a contemporary art museum in San Francisco to house their extensive collection of 20th and 21st century art.

The Fishers, who have made ARTnews’s top ten list of world art collectors in 1993 and 2003, have a collection of more than 1,000 works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Alexander Calder, Cy Twombly and other greats, with enough pieces by some artists to show changes over the course of their careers.
The 100,000-square-foot museum with 55,000 square feet of gallery space would be built in what is now a seven-acre parking lot in the Presidio, a former U.S. military facility turned national park with views of the Golden Gate Bridge. However, it’s not a done deal. The Presidio’s seven-member board, which is accepting other proposals for the spot, has final say.

Having explored other options, such as building a new wing on the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Donald Fisher decided to build his own museum so that he could have the space and control to ensure that the public could view all his works. Fisher has essentially been acting as curator of his collection all along, displaying many in the Gap’s San Francisco headquarters.

The Fishers have chosen Gluckman Mayner Architects of New York City, who worked on the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and others, for the design of the proposed Contemporary Art Museum at the Presidio (CAMP). If accepted, the tentative completion stands at 2010.

Farley's TART Performance included in Red Without Blue DVD

2007-08-20T12:25:00.000-07:00

Mark Oliver Farley's performance at TART will be included as an extra on the Red Without Blue DVD, to be released on October 2nd, 2007. For a special Pre-order offer click here

Red Without Blue will also soon be on Netflix. We will keep you updated

Body Double, Los Angeles

2007-08-18T09:17:00.000-07:00

Performance Z-A

2007-08-16T13:07:00.000-07:00

ANNOUNCING A SEASON OF SPECIAL EVENTS TO CELEBRATE STOREFRONT'S 25TH ANNIVERSARY 21 SEPTEMBER - 16 OCTOBER: PERFORMANCE Z-A

Twenty-five years ago, in September 1982, Storefront's first public event got underway in its original Prince Street location. Performance A-Z, organized by the gallery's founders Kyong Park and R L Seltman, and artist Arlene Schloss, was a 26-day sequence of performances by New York-based artists. Each of the 26 performers was allocated one evening slot. The event became a manifesto for the gallery's future programming: as Kyong Park wrote in his introduction, "Storefront supports the idea that art and design have the potential and responsibility to affect public policies which influence the quality of life and the future of all cities."

In late September 2007, Storefront will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a new edition of its first event. Entitled Performance Z-A, this 26-day celebration will be hosted in Petrosino Park, adjacent to Storefront, in a specially built pavilion designed by Korean architect Minsuk Cho. Organized by the three directors who have led Storefront over the past 25 years (Kyong Park, Sarah Herda and Joseph Grima), Performance Z-A will be an inclusive event involving not only performance artists but also representatives of all the disciplines that have participated in Storefront's program in the past decades: architects, artists, writers, researchers, filmmakers, photographers, musicians and more. For 26 days, from September 21 to October 16, 2007, the protagonists of Storefront's past, present and future will host 26 evening events including performances, concerts, open discussions, film screenings and interviews.

Participants will include Stalker Lab, Bjarke Ingels/BIG, Vito Acconci, Florian Boehm and Luca Pizzaroni, Stefano Boeri, Eyal Weizman, Anselm Franke, Minsuk Cho, Pedro Reyes, Akiko Miyake, Barbara Held, Dan Graham, Arlene Schloss, Armin Linke, Ruben Ochoa, Frederic Tuten, robbinschilds, Center for Urban Pedagogy, Jill Majid, DJ N-Ron, Academie Schloss Solitude, Tomas Saraceno, Forum for Urban Design and many more.

A detailed program of the event will be published shortly on Storefront's website at http://www.storefrontnews.org/. Performance Z-A will be part of a city-wide celebration of the 40th anniversary of art programming in New York City's parks, during which public parks around the city will host installations by a wide range of artists, both emergent and well-known.

Assignment: JUMP THE SANDWICH

2007-08-13T19:39:00.000-07:00

The Urban Dictionary defines the term Jump the Shark as:

To reach the point where the popularity of a show, movie, musician, or any other pop culture icon declines in popularity. Original meaning was the point when a television series shows it has run out of ideas and must resort to stunts to retain viewer interest (refers to an episode of The 1960’s TV show, “Happy Days” where Fonz jumps over a shark while water skiing, see also Jump the Couch).

After last week’s Flickr fireworks, I might just be ready to make the leap. But for the next couple of weeks I’m going to be teaching at the San Francisco Art Institute. Since I won’t have much time for the blog, I thought I’d hand out an assignment. I’m going to give the same assignment to my students in SFAI:

Assignment: JUMP THE SANDWICH

One of the fascinating things about Flickr is the phenomenon of Flickr groups. A couple of my favorites are Girls Eating Sandwiches and Bed Jumpers:

photos by A.R.E. (left) and Mirandala (right)

Your assignment, if you choose to accept it:

1) Photograph a woman* eating a sandwich** while jumping*** onto a bed.
2) Post the picture**** here: http://flickr.com/groups/alecsoth/
3) I will award a prize to my favorite assignment.

*I will consider men with long hair, men wearing high heels or men who wear panties and lingerie
**Extra points will be given for grilled cheese sandwiches and/or UK sandwiches
*** I will consider this activity as an alternative to jumping
****Diptychs will be considered

Space for rent

2007-08-11T13:25:00.000-07:00

My landlady has a space for rent on Clyde which is an alley at the back of our building (Lusk). Here are the details:

38 Clyde is about 1150 sf, just one loft mezzanine at the rear, kitchen, bathroom, closet, asking $2750.

Contact me, Anne/TART if interested -

415 203 5865 info@tartsf.com

Next New

2007-08-09T09:52:00.000-07:00

Hi, I'm in a Show!!! I will be showing my new video "ghost?" along with 2 other videos from 2007. Next New at ICA. Featuring the work of MFA graduates throughout California. Friday August 10th from 6-8. It's in San Jose!!!! So I know you will all be there. I've attached the show announcement for more information and the other 10 Artists.

also: Keturrah Cummings is in another show at ICA Nightmoves August 24-November 2. Her new animation will be projected in the window of the Gallery, you can see it at any time (and it is amazing.) I hope to see you there, it will be a good show, Amy Sampson.

Amy participated in Affair at TART last year - Anne.

Learning to love you more

2007-08-08T14:10:00.001-07:00

Learning to love you more

August 24 - September 10, 2007

A project by Harrell Fletcher & Miranda July
Curated by the second year students of the MA Curatorial Practice Program at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco

MU
Emmasingel 20
5611 AZ Eindhoven
Netherlands

Five years ago, the artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher initiated www.learningtoloveyoumore.com. On this website, the two artists formulate creative assignments that can be carried out by anyone and then sent back to the artists as reports. Examples of assignments are: #1 make a child's outfit in an adult size, #16 make a paper replica of your bed, #27 take a picture of the sun, #32 draw a scene from a movie that made you cry, #48 make the saddest song, or #58 record the sound that is keeping you awake at night.

All the reports (of which there are now more than five thousand) that are sent in are posted on the website. This makes learningtoloveyoumore.com an extensive archive of various artistic views and solutions to propositions from people of all ages and many places in the world. Some of the results are vulnerable and private, while others are flamboyant and indicate participants' desires to make their ideas public. Many are moving and unexpectedly associative in nature and virtually every one of the reports that touches on an instinct to visualize shared interests.

The exhibition at MU will be the most extensive presentation of works and projects to come out of the assignments. It has been curated by second year students in the Curatorial Practice Program at CCA, who were given the task of organizing the show as an assignment by Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July in January 2007.
There will also be a book published by Prestel to coincide with the exhibition.

For more information and/or visual material, please call + 40 296 1663 and ask for Angelique Spaninks. You can also send an email to mu@mu.nl. For general information about MU, go to www.mu.nl

For more information on the Curatorial Practice Program at CCA, go to http://sites.cca.edu/curatingarchive/

Silverman Gallery Artist: Susanne M. Winterling in NYC!

2007-08-07T15:34:00.000-07:00

Susanne M. Winterling, i'll be your mirror, but i will dissolve
Daniel Reich Gallery
Chelsea
537 West 23rd Street, 212-924-4949
August 13 - September 7, 2007
Opening: Monday, August 13, 6:00PM - 8:00PM

"Winterling seems to be focused on the fragmentary, and, more precisely, on the single frame as it, being the smallest filmic unit, contains a complete world in itself while remaining indivisible. The result is a kind of beating of wings, in which are own eyes become an integral part." -- Joseph Strau

Daniel Reich Gallery is very pleased to present a debut exhibition of work by film and video artist Susanne Winterling "i'll be your mirror, but i will dissolve."

Winterling's work gives viewer the material for constructing a portrait, an imagined identity distilled/manifested through specific images and references presented devoid of hierarchy or chronology. Though this identity remains elusive, the audience is able to form a multitude of hypotheses but with no affirmation of a knowable conclusion.

What the artist describes as "an impossible auto-biography" generates the "modes of transport for the narratives and their sensibilities." Hence, the viewer experiences a malleable landscape. This effect circumvents both film and photography¹s documentary aspect. The image remains temporal and the subject elusive as the work negotiates this nostalgic esoteric terrain.

"Play Winterling", a video piece, observes two women performing a mundanely choreographed transposition. A raincoat is exchanged repeatedly. One removes the garment from herself to dress up the other, a moment later the action is reciprocated by the other. As the activity continues the nature of each character is constantly reassessed. As the gesture repeats the persona of each character alters as though reflecting the continuing change in costume.
Through isolation the mannerism of each character is amplified, one of few signifiers in the relationship between these two women.

The elusive nature of Winterling's work involves an ambiguity which possibly the subject itself pointing to both the specific autobiographies of the women she depicts (fragments of Winterling's composite sensibility) and to the experience of an audience intuitively absorbing a subject in terms of their own subjective frame of references. In this way, Winterling's work
subtly blends method and content making subtle yet infinitely reflecting connections.

Commodified Culture

2007-08-03T13:43:00.000-07:00

Dear friends,
I thought you might be interested in this panel coming up on Sunday at Headlands. Dinner afterwards with the panelists is filling up, so please make your reservations here:
http://www.headlands.org/article.asp?key=21
Dinner is a bargain at just $15 per person, completely fresh and organic, family-style gourmet. Reservations for dinner are required three days prior to the event.

Hope to see you Sunday!
Best wishes,
Anu

Commodified Culture: Zittel, Tomb, Kuniavsky and Fortescue
Date: 8/5/2007 (Sunday)
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Headlands Center for the Arts, Eastwing, Building 944
Ticket Info: $10 General Admission, FREE for Headlands Members

Join us for a conversation on cultural imperatives and market forces with four trendsetting design and art practitioners. 2007 Headlands Artist in Residence Andrea Zittel's practice explores the intersection where sculpture, design, architecture, craft and technology meet. She is concerned with how art might positively impact daily living, incorporating furniture and clothing into installations that address sustenance and habitation in contemporary society. Appropriating a corporate model, she investigates how work and commerce infiltrate private life and vice versa through her designs for living.

Zittel will be joined by Donald Fortescue, Mike Kuniavsky, and Bruce Tomb: three artist/designers who share her interest in modes of production, both of objects and of ideas, and who similarly operate across categories of occupation to think more broadly about what it means to make objects and products in a contemporary cultural context.

--
Anuradha Vikram
Program Director
Headlands Center for the Arts
944 Fort Barry
Sausalito, CA 94965
415 331-2787 x 30
415 331-3857 FAX

DOGPATCH: not so patchy anymore.

2007-08-02T08:11:00.000-07:00

The SF Chronicle reports that the Slow Club will be taking over 2495 Third St., the space formally housing the Third Street Cafe.

Owner Erin Rooney got the keys to the space — it formerly housed the Third Street Cafe — just last week. She’s hoping for a Sept. 1 opening.

Slow Club chef Chris Kronner, a 2007 Chronicle Rising Star chef, will oversee the menu at the new location.

“It will be the same Slow Club style,'’ says Rooney. That means stylish California/American comfort food on a daily changing menu, with ingredients sourced directly from local ranches and farmers.

In the meantime, she says, there’s some remodeling to do. Eric Heid, who designed Range, Spork and Citizen Cake, is in charge of creating a look that takes advantage of the 18-foot ceilings and exposed brick walls. When the remodel is complete, the restaurant — which is still unnamed — will have 50 seats, about the same as Slow Club.

“We’ve been looking in Dogpatch for two years,'’ Rooney says. “It’s a very comfortable move for us because the neighborhood feels similar to the Slow Club neighborhood'’ — with a mix of artists’ and designers’ lofts, light industry and some residential buildings.

The folks at Tablehopper are also reporting that:

The A16 folks are currently incubating a concept that they hope to launch next year in the Esprit Park complex, a project from developer Build Inc. at 900 Minnesota. The concept is still quite up in the air (like which region they even want to focus on—I cast my vote for Calabria) and they are working out preliminary permitting matters, so stand by for more later.

Kate Fowle is off to Beijing!

2007-08-02T08:01:00.000-07:00

After five years establishing and Chairing the MA Program in Curatorial Practice at CCA, I have accepted a new position as International Curator for the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, China. I will start my new role as of the September 1 and will be working between San Francisco and Beijing, before relocating to New York in the New Year. I will continue to Chair the Curatorial Practice Program for the Fall semester.

For more info checkout: Ullens Center for Contemporary Art

NY TIMES ARTICLE, JULY 2007
A Belgian Couple Will Give Beijing a New Home for Contemporary Art
By RANDY KENNEDY

If you wanted to illustrate the increasingly global nature of the money and influence driving the art world these days, you might invent a wealthy Belgian couple who live in, say, Switzerland, and plan to use the money they made selling a collection of English masterworks (Turner watercolors) to establish a center for contemporary art in Beijing, where one early show will probably feature a well-known German artist.

In a telephone interview this week, Baron Guy Ullens, who, with his wife, Myriam, perfectly fits that description — they sold their Turners, the biggest group to come on the market in more than a century, for $21 million this month at Sotheby’s — hastened to add that he was educated mostly in the United States. And that he is also using his money to set up philanthropic programs for children in Nepal.

Baron Ullens, 72, is to be in New York today to announce details of his plans for one of the largest contemporary art spaces in China, now nearing completion in a former munitions complex in the booming Dashanzi warehouse arts district in Beijing. The center, scheduled to open on Nov. 2, will transform two large factory buildings and a collection of smaller ones into as much as 26,000 square feet of exhibition space, with an auditorium and library.

Baron Ullens, who had business interests in China for many years, has collected contemporary and classical Chinese art with his wife for two decades. The goal of the center, he said, is to provide an exhibition space for artists from around the world but particularly for those from China who are less commercially oriented, at a time when the market for Chinese contemporary art is roaring. He said the couple’s plans for the center evolved as their collection grew and as they began to see the Chinese government’s growing receptiveness to contemporary art.

“I think it’s part of their desire to have world-class cities with lots of services,” he said, adding that, especially with the Olympic Games coming to Beijing in 2008, “I think they’re suddenly very proud of many of their artists.”

But the freedom and flexibility of Western art institutions has still not fully arrived. Last year several galleries in the arts district were ordered by government officials to remove paintings, apparently because they dealt with touchy political themes.

Baron Ullens also explained that he and his wife, known as Mimi, would have to operate the center technically as a commercial space, even though they wanted to run it as a nonprofit. Under the Chinese bureaucracy a nonprofit space would have been more closely overseen by the government. Yet in practice, he said, the center — to be called the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art — will be noncommercial.

Asked whether pieces from his own collection would be exhibited — exposure that could help to increase the market value of the pieces, should the couple decide to sell any — Baron Ullens said yes, adding that a show from the collection is planned during the Olympics, to be held Aug. 8 to 24 next year. But he added that the center’s director and curators would be given great latitude to program the space as they see fit and to choose only the pieces they want from his collection.

“We’re going to try to have as little influence as we can,” he said, adding dryly: “Nobody thinks were doing this for the love or the passion. They think we’re doing it for the money.”

“The key question for us is how do you organize it in such a way that is clean and transparent for everyone — that is what we are doing right now,” he said. He added that while he and his wife, who live outside Geneva, were the only backers for the center now, they planned to seek sponsorships and other financial help later. “It’s painful now,” he said, laughing loudly. “It’s just me and Mimi.”

The center is planning a large opening exhibition that will examine the emergence of a new wave in Chinese contemporary art that emerged in the mid-1980s. It is also planning a show with the German artist Rebecca Horn, and Baron Ullens mentioned interest in an exhibition involving Gilbert and George, the irreverent British pair.

Baron Ullens, whose father was a diplomat in China before his son was born, grew up with a deep love of the country instilled in him by his family, which made its fortune in sugar and other food-related companies, including Weight Watchers. When he had a hand in the family’s firm in the 1980s and early ’90s, he traveled constantly to Asia, where he was trying to expand the business.

“We were not too successful,” he said. “In a way that was my weak spot in business. But I started meeting young artists and traveling with them on weekends. It was a golden time really.”

“They were very professional but not at all commercial at that time,” he said. “Some might have been producing 10 pieces a year. There was no market, no Sotheby’s or Christie’s in this field then.”

Now, he said, even with his wealth he can no longer afford some of the most sought-after pieces coming onto the market, from artists like Wang Guangyi and Zhang Xiaogang. And even having a huge, sleek space in Beijing is no guarantee that he will be able to attract those artists and others to take part in shows. “There’s a lot of competition,” he said. “We’re learning, learning every day.”

“The key problem is going to be to keep the quality of the art very high,” he added. “Are we going to be good enough to survive? I don’t know.”

Tapas y Palabras : a Rail reunion

2007-08-01T23:13:00.000-07:00

we just finished our Rail meeting _t'was hosted by Ann @ Tart
( si!_Anne you still have the Barcelona touch: deliciosas tapas! )

we plotted together our next Rail action evening ( Friday September 7th ) (more later)
and dreamt out loud of our big April ( 2008 ) collaboration...

feel very fortunate that serendipity and "low" rent have put us all in the same hood :
talent and enthusiasm and generosity are indeed inspiring .

hasta pronto!

D FOUGHT & J SANSING @ ampersand !!

2007-08-01T10:33:00.000-07:00

We are getting ready for the next shows @ ampersand...
sanding and painting and having fun ( well_i am...'-)

The 2 solo shows of new work by the brilliant Bay Area artists :

DAVID FOUGHT

and

JAMES SANSING

will be opening with a reception on
Friday, September 7th (6.00pm - 8.30pm).
Both artists will be in attendance.
These exhibitions will continue until September 24th .

AND Writer/Poet Stephanie Baker and Art Collector Jeff Lane will contribute text inspired by these artists' work.

AND Rail Action will be that very Friday September 7th as well !
more info later

AND we'll see You there!

#

Artist: David Fought
Title of Exhibit: " 3 (5)wires and 5 (3)sides "
Dates of Exhibit: September 7th - 24th
Media: sculptures, wall installation

&

Artist: James Sansing
Title of Exhibit: “ Seeing Darkly "
Dates of Exhibit: September 7th - 24th
Media: mixed media paintings

THX
bruno

yep...Ingmar and then Michelangelo...

2007-07-31T09:46:00.001-07:00

Michelangelo

Ingmar

Last scene:
they slowly close the door and they go on to have a drink somewhere...
FADE TO BLACK .

Skol Ingmar ! Salute Michelangelo!

yes Cheers!--thanks for the very moving images

KYLE MOCK : " DO NOT DISTURB " @ Triple Base Gallery

2007-07-29T14:53:00.000-07:00

KYLE MOCK:" DO NOT DISTURB "
July 13 - August 26, 2007 @ Triple Base
Triple Base Gallery is pleased to announce Kyle Mock’s first solo exhibition, Do Not Disturb. Perhaps you have wondered what it would be like to step into one of your favorite paintings or even into the mind of an artist you admire. This is your chance to do just that ...
Gallery Hours
Thursday-Sunday 12-5pm (please check for special evening hours)
3041 24th Street _ San Francisco

ARTIST NEEDED !

2007-07-25T11:16:00.000-07:00

Southern Exposure is seeking a part time art instructor and an artist assistant to support the art instructor to conduct a 8-week workshop for Southern Exposure's after school program

Location: at the Boys & Girls Club: Columbia Park.
Deadline to apply: Friday, August 24, 2007 5PM.

more info HERE

NEW LANGTON ARTS: POSITION AVAILABLE

2007-07-24T13:14:00.001-07:00

NEW LANGTON ARTS

JOB DESCRIPTION

Gallery manager and Office Assistant

Salaried Full-time

Hours: 9:30-6:30 pm (1 hour lunch); also evenings for events, and Saturdays during exhibition periods

$20-24,000 annually

General Description:

The gallery manager and office assistant works with a highly qualified and enthusiastic team of staff and Board members. Responsibilities include: managing the gallery; organizing and overseeing the volunteer and intern program to ensure adequate volunteer, gallery, and reception support; providing administrative support to the executive director including organizing Board meetings and communications with the board of directors; providing administrative support to all departments, in particular to support membership, organizing openings and events, and press communications. The position is supported by volunteers when available.

Qualifications:

At least one year of experience working in an administrative office environment, preferably in the arts.
Educational background that includes the arts and/or office administration

Experience:

Experience in the following areas is required:

Working with other staff or a team to set and manage priorities
Strong working knowledge of Macintosh computers and Microsoft Office
Knowledge of database systems (Filemaker Pro)
Knowledge of Adobe programs (Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign)

- Office procedures including filing systems, databases, and events management

Knowledge of the following desired:

Knowledge of contemporary art practice in the visual arts, music, video, literature and/or performance art important. This person will need to become completely conversant in Langton's mission, program, and activities.
Ability to update e-announcements and the website

Abilities:

This position requires the following skills:

This person is a personable, well-organized individual with proven interpersonal, communication and office skills.
Exceptional organizational skills, efficiency, and a keen eye for detail and accuracy

- Must be a self-starter, detail oriented, and able to multi-task.

Responsibilities:

GALLERY MANAGEMENT:

1. The position is responsible for opening and closing the gallery, and overseeing the experience of general audiences, and different groups visiting the gallery.

2. Foster relationships with local schools and volunteer resource centers to ensure consistent interest in the volunteer and internship program.

3. Solicit and place interns and volunteers for all departments and events.

4. Supervise and train interns and volunteers to gallery sit, coordinate opening receptions and other events, answer telephones, and perform departmental and basic administrative support.

5. Maintain volunteer database and files.

6. Coordinate intern gatherings and gallery tours.

7. Set-up and organization of events including openings for exhibitions and events, special tours with groups, membership, and other special events which range from brunches, to cultivation events, and salon dinners.

8. Ensure clean and safe presentation of exhibition space, supplying appropriate gallery and institutional signage.

9. Keep front desk and entrance clean and well organized.

10. Sell catalogs and memberships, and maintain catalog inventory and stock.

11. Track daily attendance and produce quarterly and yearly attendance reports.

12. Report any technical or gallery safety problems to the Assistant Director.

Office Administration:

1. Order office supplies and postage, retrieve messages off the answering machine, sort incoming and process outgoing mail daily, and maintain office procedures manual.

2. Ensure the timely answering of the telephone with background knowledge of all possible inquiries.

3. Take phone reservations for evening programs, and sell advance tickets as needed.

4. Set up and attend full board meetings. Take minutes and distribute with other important board information on a timely basis.

5. Keep board meeting files, binders, meeting calendars, and address lists current and well organized.

6. Maintain and update all board of director files, database, address list, and other important board documents.

7. Provide administrative assistance to the Executive Director, including fielding phone calls, creating correspondence, editing correspondence and scheduling meetings.

8. Provide general support to staff in other departments, including membership, grants, mailings, and events.

9. Support Assistant Director in development, providing reliable support in all areas, including correspondences and tracking of membership, special event planning, Board giving, coordinating grant applications, and generating correspondence.

10. Oversee distribution of press releases, PSAs, listings, and press kits to print, digital, and broadcast media.

11. Oversee collection, clipping, and filing of reviews of all presenting and exhibiting programs.

12. Coordinate volunteer and staff distribution and posting of announcements.

13. Oversee all data entry and management of Langton’s mailing and email lists. Ensure the timely and accurate updating of information. Train and support gallery coordinator and volunteers in data entry.

14. Undertake other related duties as required.

Responsible to: Executive Director

Reports to: Assistant Director

Supervises: Interns and volunteers

We are all invited to Glasgow !

2007-07-20T08:36:00.000-07:00

Thank You Pierre !
(time for another SF meeting ?!)
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Production Meeting
Private view: Tuesday 24 July 2007, 6 to 9pm
Opening times: Wednesday 25 to Friday 27 July, 11am to 6pm

Participating artists include: Hayley Caradoc Hodgkins, House of
O'Dwyer, Colin Tennant...

Intermedia Gallery
CCA
350 Sauchiehall St
Glasgow
G2 3JD
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For Production Meeting, the Centre of Attention will be onsite (on location) for the duration aiming to pursue the production of a number of works. The gallery becomes a set as well as a production meeting venue, in what we call an active or 'hot installation'.

Filming tests, script editing and performance will be done against a back drop of a contemporary art show which includes paintings, photography etc. The Centre of Attention will be available the whole time to meet artists, discuss and review proposals and portfolios while pursuing the production of a number of video works including 'Remake', 'Boo', and the as-yet-untitled staging of a mass fight in the gallery at the opening.

Uncertainty, provisionality and the lack of a defined product see the moment of the exhibition, not as the culmination/fruition of a process, but as a production site for preliminary research and work to be completed at a later date (maybe).

One avowed aim of Production Meeting is to turn the audience into fodder for our work: in this model, the viewer becomes the labour rather than participant, and the artist becomes the consumer, utilising, bleeding the resources of the infrastructure, the space and the public, for the realisation of their own ends.

Our version of a production meeting may not bear any resemblance to what passes for a production meeting in the corporate world.

Notes: Production Meeting is part of 'It's not hard' curated by Anthony Schrag at Intermedia.

The Centre of Attention
is a gallerycuratorartistschaft started in London in 1999.
For more information contact Pierre/Gary at:
on@thecentreofattention.org
or 07792 582 386

Summer Session

2007-07-19T09:58:00.000-07:00

looking fwd to seeing you!
xo,
n.
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On view through July 29, 2007
Christian Tomaszewski:On Chapels, Caves and Erotic Misery - The Happiness of Objects

MAD SCIENCE @ PLAySPACE

2007-07-18T13:08:00.000-07:00

The fourth and final event in the MAD SCIENCE summer series is coming up next Monday, July 23 from 7-10 pm @ PLAySPACE
Join us for drinks and conversation
around works-in-progress by:
David Elinoff, Jordan Essoe and Jonathon Keats .

The event series will culminate in a month-long residency at PLAySPACE, for which one artist who has shared work over the summer will be invited to use the gallery as their studio for the month of August, 2007.

Please visit HERE for more details
or email us at playspace@cca.edu with any questions.
Stay tuned for the announcement of the lineup for our Fall 2007 season!

::
PLAySPACE Gallery
California College of the Arts
1111 Eighth Street
San Francisco, CA 94107

Coffee, Elephants and Garden Furniture

2007-07-17T09:39:00.000-07:00

Had too much of that great coffee at our local Piccino_poor me_ so i went for long walk in Dogpatch / Mission Bay ...
I stumbled upon “Ballast--The Richard Serra”, 2 handsome slabs of steel, like 2 sad elephants left behind by some small circus somewhere in nowhereland.
Underwhelming for me it was: poorly situated, it felt like a "missed opportunity", revealing even more the suburban, safe feel of the architecture around it...luckily the skyes above it were beautiful and baroque as they can be in San Francisco
BUT a really great surprise though was the arrangement of furniture / art installationish style in the garden close by (in the Koret Quad at UCSF Mission Bay) _ it is the work of Roy McMakin, lighthearted and whimsical, almost subliminally subversive, revealing itself slowly as you sit down and reflect : these awful pastic and wood garden chairs are actually made of bronze and these ubiquitous, ugly filing cardboard boxes laying around are made of steel and little bizarre details like that everywhere...check it out if you can...
(&)

HEY DOGPATCH!! THIS Sunday July 15th : BRING YOUR LOVER/S, DOG/S, KID/S

2007-07-14T11:11:00.000-07:00

this Sunday JULY 15TH @ from 1 - 4pm
@ Esprit Park
a Dogpatch Portrait:
portraits taken by the brilliant Christopher Irion
towards an outdoor installation to be unveiled later this Summer @ 900 Minnessota street.

THE Rail MAP

2007-07-13T21:42:00.000-07:00

ampersand international arts + Ping Pong
Gallery + Silverman Gallery + TART = Rail

Rail is an innovative alliance of San Francisco based project spaces and galleries: ampersand international arts, Ping Pong Gallery, Silverman Gallery and TART. As seen on the map, Rail’s project spaces and galleries are located in the path of the new MUNI T train that connects the Third Street, DogPatch, South Beach and Mission Bay neighborhoods.

The Rail galleries are diverse in their programming, but share an understanding of what constitutes an art experience, informed by the intimate nature of their spaces. Through their
collective experiences, Rail spaces ensure the growing arts presence on Third Street. Rail’s actions include monthly coordinated openings, projects across all Rail venues, an online
resource, hosting of national and international visiting artists, curators and critics.

Rail stands as an open invitation to the neighborhood, the San Francisco arts community and beyond.

“Rail‘s ‘artwalk’was a trip! -- a journey of discovery, sociability, and unexpected aesthetic delights. It’s a perfect opportunity to explore what’s germinating in the San Francisco art scene
and to tour this developing area of the city.” MARCIA TANNER curator / writer

For more info/to obtain copies of map contact: railsf@gmail.com
Vanessa Blaikie/Joey Piziali 415 550 7483
Anne Colvin 415 203 5865
Bruno Mauro / Patricia Maloney 415 285 0170
Jessica Silverman 415 255 9508

Endgame continues ?!...

2007-07-13T16:01:00.000-07:00

ENDGAME is about to end at ampersand...yep...;-(
what a great adventure; a great story it was indeed.
Marion & Cofone _ it was a privilege to work with You both
you have been so highly inspiring and enlightening...and challenging...'-)

mais en fait rien n'est fini : car à vous Buenos-Aires !!!!!

Albert Reyes _ we miss you here !!!

2007-07-13T10:04:00.000-07:00

HEY ALBERT REYES !
when are you coming to visit ?
January 08 seems far...

be well
give!
)
Bruno

http://pimplywimp.com/

[2nd floor projects] presents :

2007-07-13T09:07:00.000-07:00

“ THIS IS THE NEXT MORNING (no means yes.) ”

new work by
EVAN ELLSWORTH JOURDEN

from

June 8 til JULY TWENTY SECOND ! , 2007

[ 2nd floor projects ]
3740 25th street, no.205
san francisco CA 94110
415 824 2644

hours: SUNDAY 12-5pm + by APPOINTMENT

The Intersection Institute's: ART WALK THROUGH THE MISSION

2007-07-13T08:52:00.000-07:00

From July 14 to August 4, 2007
art lovers will be able to stroll through a small section of the Mission District and discover exciting new work from local artists in unexpected places.

A highlight of the Intersection Institute's workshop on art show curation led by visual artist, educator and curator Julio Morales, nine workshop participants will curate their own art show in the form of an Art Walk across several blocks of the Mission District.

A MAP with locations and addresses will be AVAILABLE at Hideo Wakamatsu beginning July 14th.

A RECEPTION will be held at Hideo Wakamatsu, 563 Valencia Street(between 16th and 17th Street) on July 14 from Noon to 3 p.m.

Artists and Addresses include:

REBECCA MILLER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hideo Wakamatsu, 563 Valencia Street, (17th Street)

Bill Jenkins
Corner of 17th Street and Mission (in front of Thrift Town)

Marialuisa Ruiz & Eileen Schwappach
Buffalo Wings Restaurant, 663 Valencia Street (18th Street)

Marion Coleman
Regalito, 3481 18th Street (Valencia)

Kristen Van Patten
Lamp Post in front of Architectural Elements, 573 Valencia Street, (17th Street)

Secret Artist
16th Street (Albion) above Southwest Corner

(Rebecca Miller Image taken from New Image Art gallery L.A. website)

A House Is Not A Home @ Caren Golden Gallery NYC

2007-07-12T14:20:00.000-07:00

A House Is Not A Home
Curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody

July 9 - August 17 , 2007

212-727-8304
shane@carengolden.com

enLIGHTtning

2007-07-12T12:35:00.000-07:00

Jessica_ I love the neon light photos you posted
thanks!
((((and sorry))))

brunoldfart-tempertantrum

HIROSHI mon amour

2007-07-12T06:13:00.000-07:00

FINALLY really enjoyed a show @ De Young :

Hiroshi Sugimoto's work is in town !

http://www.famsf.org/deyoung/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?exhibitionkey=658

First Tuesday of each month FREE.
Muni riders with Fast Pass or transfer receive a $2 discount.

JOEY PIZIALI : FREAKs OF NATURE

2007-07-11T12:28:00.000-07:00

Bronx River Art Center presents: "Freaks of Nature"
Curated by Jose Ruiz & Trenia Wooten

July 20th - August 25th, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, July 20th from 6:00 - 9:00pm

Artists Include:
Cesar Cornejo, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Javier Cuellar, Bronwyn Minton,Domenick Di Pietrantonio, AND THE ONE AND ONLY JOEY PIZIALI, Ryan Hackett, Justine Reyes, Jenny Ham, Patrick Resing

Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday 3:00 - 6:30pm, Saturday 11 - 5:00pm

Bronx River Art Center
1087 E. Tremont Ave. PO Box 5002
Bronx, NY 10460

Neon inspiration to brighten your day.

2007-07-11T11:54:00.000-07:00

ilar lari rali airl lira lria airl

2007-07-11T10:53:00.000-07:00

HIGH on sugar w/ SOEX (and Mission Pie Café)

2007-07-11T09:44:00.000-07:00

old-fashioned pie baking contest

an event hosted by Free Enterprise,
Southern Exposure's summer residency program.

July 21, 2007 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Location: Southern Exposure

Nathan Lynch, in collaboration with Southern Exposure and Mission Pie*, invites all neighbors to an old-fashioned pie baking contest. Share your fresh baked pies, family pie recipes and tales of the oven at 2901 Mission Street. Guest judges will announce the winner. All pies are welcome. All ages are welcome.

* Mission Pie Café
(Possibly the best freakin' pies on the Left Coast)

"LIFE OF PIE
Not only does the Mission Pie cafe employ students from Mission High (with a goal of helping them to build healthier local food systems within their community)—this SF offshoot of Pie Ranch, a sustainable farm near Pescadero, sells first-rate, mostly organic pies (pictured, apple pie, $18). Mission Pie, 2901 Mission St. (enter on 25th Street), 415-282-1500.":7X7 Magazine

(&)

hey !

2007-07-11T09:41:00.000-07:00

hey there
aaaahh...so nice to be here_SF is finally home i feel...
will overcome my “shyness” and write here and there of artsy (or not) relevant things _and shamelessly plug friends and family's projects.
Soon our Patricia Maloney, “La Maloney ” will let us know of her grand tour’s impressions: Venice, Kassel & Berlin .
peace out!
Bruno Mauro - Ampersand (&)

MOVEMENT Issue of LOUDmouth Magazine!

2007-07-09T20:47:00.001-07:00

Greetings and salutations,

It's that time again...Back Page Question for the
MOVEMENT Issue of LOUDmouth Magazine!
We want to know:

"What are you moving towards/What are you moving away
from?"

This is a great way to participate if you weren't able
to submit a pitch to this issue's call for
submissions.

Just send your answer,name (we accept nicknames,fake
names and codes to protect the innocent),and age to
Irina Contreras at loudmouthmagazine@gmail.com.

Besitos,

Irina Contreras
Editor in Chief
LOUDmouth Magazine
www.calstatela.edu/usu/loudmouth
feminism: fem'e-niz'em -n. [The] movement to end
sexism, sexist exploitation and [all] oppression.
- bell hooks

TART Talks 06

2007-07-08T10:28:00.000-07:00

NONE OF THE ABOVE

We have a couple of John Armleder posters at the top of our stairs, one in red with none of the above in white and one in white with none of the above in red - both different fonts and sizes. They are so bold yet enigmatic, an apt description of Armleder's work. Since we put them up there people have been really drawn to them, in fact love them as I do - for their playfulness.

Today I feel like none of the above; a call for something different, unexpected even. Time to start all over again... This can be a scary yet very liberating feeling, always worthwhile if you really get into it.

Back in a month, Anne.

TART Talks 05

2007-07-06T09:23:00.000-07:00

Here are some shows to check out if you are in New York. Enjoy! Anne.

Rudlof Stingel at The Whitney

Automatic Update at MOMA

'Til I Die at Spencer Brownstone

Early Work at White Columns

Substance and Surface at Bortolami-Dayan

Fischli/Weiss at Swiss Institute

PatrichMcmullan.com (Who am I?) at Gavin Brown's Enterprise at Passerby

David Lamelas at Maccarone

Organizing Chaos (includes Luke Fowler who had his first US solo show at TART) at PS1

The Atrocity Exhibition at Thierry Goldberg Projects

Freaks of Nature (includes Joey Piziali of Pingpong) at Bronx River Art Gallery

SKELETONS IN THE CUPBOARD

2007-07-05T14:31:00.000-07:00

SKELETONS IN THE CUPBOARD

Lia Anna Hennig

opening reception 7th of July, 7-10pm
also open by appointment

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peles empire
1137-2 S.Cochran Ave.
90019 Los Angeles
California

TART Talks 04

2007-07-05T10:09:00.000-07:00

Internship Opportunity at Silverman

This came in today...
If anyone has any suggestions - please forward this along! Thanks, Jessica.

What we are looking for:
You are interested in working in a growing art gallery environment, possess strong communications skills (both in person and on the phone), and excellent organizational and computer habits. You are able to commit 2-3 days a week and are able to attend all openings (and occasional extra days, if we participate in art fairs).

Responsibilities:
1. Administrative assistance:
• Answer phone, receive/open mail, ensure messages and correspondence are distributed
• Assist with database maintenance, prepare paperwork for installations, assist with mailings, and run errands;
• Help set up for art openings, hosting special events

2. Preparatory assistance:
• Assist curators install and de-install exhibitions, including patching and painting, hanging and lighting;
• Handling art, pack and unpack artwork;

3. The fun part:
• Work with curator on projects involving research and compiling relevant information that requires direct communication with artists and collaborators.

Qualifications:
• Personable, outgoing, not afraid to ask questions;
• Ability to take direction and work independently;
• Able to perform detail-oriented tasks w/ minimal supervision;
• Strong multi-tasking and organizational skills;
• Excellent phone and interpersonal skills;
• Knowledge of contemporary/modern art or the willingness to learn about it.

About us:
Silverman Gallery's internship program is structured to coordinate applicants' interest, backgrounds and schedules with the galleries rigerous exhibition program. While we cannot offer paid internships, we offer a behind the scenes experience in a culturally enriched neighborhood at a dynamic young gallery with a chance to work with artists and arts professionals, in exchange for the valuable time and talent of our interns. For interns currently enrolled in school programs, we are happy to assist with fulfilling credit requirements.Compensation: This is not a paid position (interns may qualify for paid positions, based on performance and as available).

The gallery is open Thursday - Saturday from 11-6 please visit our website: http://www.silverman-gallery.com

To apply, email your cover letter and resume to Jessica@Silverman-Gallery.com or call 310.428.8932.

Hope to hear from you soon! Jessica Silverman

TART Talks 03

2007-07-04T09:33:00.000-07:00

Happy 4th!

Bruce Springsteen, Born in The USA - East Berlin 1988

The Clash, I'm So Bored With The USA - live 1978

TART Talks 02

2007-07-03T09:26:00.000-07:00

What's been going on...

..things have been pretty crazy recently starting with the nomination of national and international artists for Headlands residencies then the show I was in at Gavin Brown's in New York followed by Omega Man at TART, which incidentally will be reviewed in Artweek's September issue. I have also been in the process of putting together TART Upstairs, an ongoing works on paper selection - a sort of private backroom. Finally, I have planned September's show Three Years and Counting which I am really excited about, time to celebrate our three year anniversary. So....I am going to step back a bit from TART over the summer (other than TART Upstairs by appointment) and get back to my own work. I have a couple of shows coming up so need to stay focused, more on that later.

On the Rail front we participated in an International Archive project at The Shedhalle in Zurich, great to position ourselves in this context. We are also working on a very exciting project which will take place across all spaces sometime in the spring, an interesting challenge. Our next scheduled Rail night is September the 7th - watch out for the new map.

That's about it for now, I'll be back tomorrow with something for the holiday, Anne.

TART Talks 01

2007-07-02T09:06:00.000-07:00

Brunch at TART

We had a brunch at TART on Saturday for a few people from the documentary film world interested in Oliver Farley's work. For them this was another layer in Oliver's story and one which resonated in a very special way.

Currently between shows, we hung his huge watercolor and ink pieces on the walls in the main space and I have to say it looked pretty spectacular. It is always an interesting challenge for me to install work that isn't time-based.

What I love about Oliver's work is that there is nowhere to hide - he is the work. I'll leave it at that for now! you will be seeing more of him at TART.

It was a very laid-back experience this brunch thing, people just made themselves at home and got on with it. It's something that I've noticed happens when visitors come to TART. One thing that did strike me though was how few mimosas were consumed, mind you it didn't stop me, Neil and Oliver!

Well on that cheery note, I am going to sign off but I will be back tomorrow and for the rest of this week with more TART Talks, Anne.

CALL FOR SUBMISSION: DONATE YOUR ARTWORK TO THE NYU OPEN COLLECTION

2007-07-01T20:25:00.001-07:00

Dear friends, dear colleagues,
I am working on a new project at New York University. We are creating
a new collection of artworks (all media.) The first exhibition I
curate will show the process of working with a collection, and will
take place in September/October 2007.

Please be so kind to forward this email to all artists you know. I
need as much as possible artworks for the new New York University Open
Collection.

Yours,
Jan Van Woensel

CALL FOR SUBMISSION: DONATE YOUR ARTWORK TO THE NYU OPEN COLLECTION

In the framework of the exhibition titled: "All is well that begins
well and has no end," organized at 80 WSE Gallery, New York, September
2007, we are creating an open collection of artworks. This collection
will be a work in progress that grows and shifts during the course of
the exhibition.
The "Open Collection" redefines the act of collecting as a
collaborative process, and initiates an organic conversation between
artists, and curators. This will function as an ongoing laboratory.
"All is well…" acts as a contemporary accompaniment to "The Geometry
of Hope," a survey of the Cisneros Collection on view at The Grey
Gallery, New York. The Cisneros Collection focuses on modern and
contemporary Latin-American art, and has a strong emphasis on
geometric abstraction, concrete art, minimalism, and conceptual art
from the 1930s to the 1970s.

"All is well that begins well and has no end" uses the Cisneros
Collection's focus on geometric abstraction, concrete art, minimalism,
and conceptual art, as a platform to survey artists working with
similar visual languages today. The call for donations is open to all
artists, working in all possible media.

By donating to the Open Collection, your artwork will engage in an
experimental cross-cultural dialogue. The artworks of the Open
Collection, will be displayed in the central gallery of the exhibition
"All is well that begins well and has no end," by Jan Van Woensel, the
curator of the show, in collaboration with Ernesto Burgos and Jonah
Groeneboer. The Open Collection forms a resource for curators and
artists, and will be archived at New York University.

HOW TO DONATE YOUR ARTWORK TO THE NYU OPEN COLLECTION:

Mail:
Step 1: Email your contact info, artist statement, resume, and 1 JPG
of the work (1 work per artist) you submit to 80wse.gallery@gmail.com
ASAP!

Step 2: Mail your artwork to:

Jan Van Woensel
New York University, dept of Art and Art Profession
34 Stuyvesant St, 3rd floor
New York, NY 10003
USA

Deadline: September 1st, 2007

Drop off:
August 28th – September 1st, 2007: Gallery hours 10am – 5pm, from
Tuesday to Saturday
Gallery address:
80 Washington Square East
New York, NY 10003

"All is well that begins well and has no end," is an exhibition
curated by Jan Van Woensel, in collaboration with Ernesto Burgos and
Jonah Groeneboer. The exhibition takes place in September and October
2007, at NYU 80 Washington Square East Gallery, NY.

For information, please contact Tricia Owlett at office.janvanwoensel@gmail.com

Young Collectors, where are you?

2007-06-29T09:20:00.000-07:00

New Collectors On The Block
Liz Tunick, The Forbes Collector 11.08.05, 4:00 PM ETNew York -

Art collectors keep getting younger. Consider the 13-year-old boy who spent his bar mitzvah money on a Rembrandt etching at a 2003 art fair. In a few years, after finishing his education and landing a well-paying professional gig, our young friend may find himself with plenty of disposable income and empty walls in his loft that his tiny Rembrandt won’t fill.

How will he scratch his art itch then? Sure, he can spend his weekends wandering the dizzying art mall that is Chelsea, getting dissed by dilettantes in pointy shoes. Or he can fast-track his art world access by joining one of the dozens of dynamic collecting groups springing up around the country, many of them auxiliary membership groups attached to museums, auction houses and art fairs.

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With its graying leadership, the art community is looking to foster the next generation of collectors, trustees and donors. Paltry acquisition budgets put museums in the business of collecting collectors, ideally ones blessed with deep pockets and impeccable taste. It’s in museums’ interest to shape that taste so that its collector protégés might one day gift their treasures to the institution.

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So who joins these groups? Young married folks interested in art and looking for a boost on the social ladder? Cultured singletons who prefer to spend a weekend gallery hopping to TV watching? While only a few groups have actual age requirements, membership age ranges from 21 to 45. Whatever the age, gender or marital status, all are united by their desire to learn more about art and socialize with like-minded culturati.

Young collecting groups cater to these interests by hosting frequent events ranging from intimate visits to artists’ studios to bopping blockbuster galas. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Contemporary Extension group takes its members on a winery field trip, complete with a slide talk on the “Bacchanalian History of Wine Seen through 4,000 Years of Art.” It also offers an innovative community-service project that pairs members with local students to view exhibits and make art together. The Contemporaries, a collecting group started this year by Harvard Business School alums, recently sponsored a tour of artist Cedric Smith’s studio in Atlanta to view his mixed-media images of African-Americans initially inspired by rap artist Public Enemy.

Indeed, the most important thing these groups offer: insider access, invaluable in the insular and clubby art world. Want behind-the-scenes access to museum collections and staff? Members of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Apollo Circle attend exclusive curator-led workshops on topics like developing a “collector’s eye” or the importance of art conservation. A few blocks down, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Whitney Contemporaries meet regularly with curators, trustees and director Adam Weinberg. At the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the youth-oriented Museum Council sponsors connoisseurship seminars, special exhibition openings and weekend jaunts to New York art fairs.

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Want a curator to accompany you to a few cutting-edge galleries to demystify the art? Philae Knight, co-chair of the Whitney group, says that their events foster “a close relationship” with gallery owners and artists. Nothing like an influential curator in tow to melt the frost off those gallery gatekeepers.

All of which makes it easier to whip out the checkbook when you are so moved. That’s exactly what Affordable Art Fair director Helen Allen hopes will happen with the New Collectors Group she formed in conjunction with the New York-based fair, which offers vetted contemporary art for under $10,000. Curatorial lectures and gallery walks are intended to help educate and broaden the market. Rodney Reid, a founding member of The Contemporaries, gets even more specific: “We focus on young artists, as we’re aiming to create a generational support system.” In other words, young collectors can help their creative peers be less reliant on their day jobs so they can focus on making art.

So, what’s the ante to get into this game? Fees range from nothing (joining The Contemporaries is free, but you have to be invited) to hundreds of dollars for an annual high-category museum membership. Of course, part of the mission of any museum-related group will be to support the institution. Young San Francisco collectors recently raised a whopping $1.9 million with their swanky spring ball. But often the cost of joining goes simply to cover the cost of group events, like space rental, speaker fees and refreshments.

The bottom line is that all these groups help people enjoy what they love: art.

The following is a list of collectors' groups and contact information:

The Museum Council
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.
617-369-3268 / museumcouncil@mfa.org

The Apollo Circle
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.
212-650-2371

SFMOMA Contemporary Extension
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
415-357-4086

The Whitney Contemporaries
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y.
212-570-3641

AAF New Collectors Group, New York, N.Y.
212-255-2003

The Contemporaries, New York, N.Y.
info@contemporaries.com

Watch out George...

2007-06-27T10:02:00.000-07:00

This Scotsman is no poodle!

Catch a falling star

2007-06-25T12:36:00.001-07:00

Rhizome News
June 25, 2007

Catch a falling star

With her video installations, photographs, and short films, Australian artist Lynette Wallworth creates communal environments that respond, like natural ecosystems, to human presence. At her current show at the British Film Institute (open June 23-September 2), her new work, Hold: Vessel 2, invites visitors to carry a lens-shaped glass bowl through a cavernous room.

By moving through the darkness with a ritualistic posture of supplication and offering, viewers 'catch' projected still and moving images of microscopic underwater life forms and deep outer space. Participants inevitably interact with each other; the artist structures her works to 'encourage temporary interdependence.' While her user interface is simple and transparent, Wallworth's collaborations with specialists in contemporary scientific visioning technologies--the BIO-Rad confocal laser scanning microscope, X-ray Microtomography, and remotely operated light-sensitive cameras--reveal images of the world ! that are invisible to the naked eye.

Placing the human subject at the nexus of a microcosm and a macrocosm largely outside the reach of everyday experience, the artist offers access to those wondrous hidden realms while hinting at the infinite 'unknown unknowns' beyond. Hold: Vessel 2 is a visceral reminder of our interconnectedness within the vast and complex system of the universe--a feeling which, according to the artist, is 'a useful sensation to achieve.' - Marcia Tanner

http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/southbank/gallery/wallworth

Pink Weekend

2007-06-24T12:43:00.000-07:00

Hey there,

just a quick note that I will be performing for hundreds of queers on the street today. Pee Play does the Tantra Soundsystem located between 18th and 19th on Castro street. Just look for the big truck with all the stretch fabric near Nirvana restaurant and the Wells Fargo? I do an early set from 7pm - 8pm (one hour and thats it) and then you can stay tuned for San Francisco legendary Techtress DJ Darcy who goes from 9pm -10pm. This is my favorite set of the year, please come join me. Links for all the events I'm doing this weekend are attached.

http://www.deejaypeeplay.com/honey/pinksaturday.jpg http://www.deejaypeeplay.com/honey/afterglow.jpg
http://klodhopper.com/joy/2007/media/Afterglow.jpg

Happy Pride Everyone! Jacob aka PEE PLAY

Red Without Blue, airing on Sundance.

2007-06-21T11:11:00.001-07:00

For those of you who missed Red without Blue, it will be airing on The Sundance Channel on Monday June 25th at 9pm. It is a beautiful, moving and very inspiring film. This stands as a very important human document. Anne.

Red Without Blue

2007-06-16T14:02:00.000-07:00

Check out the The SF Chronicle article about Red Without Blue, the documentary which explores the relationship between identical twins Mark Oliver and Alex as Alex undergoes a transformation into a woman named Clair...

Oliver recently performed Skipping Rope, a reformulation of past experiences into the ongoing present achieved through a kind of self portraiture at TART.

"Red Without Blue finds painful beauty in the unshakeable bonds of family. "- L.A. Times.

“Clair and Mark share their story so bravely. They are teachers and true beauties, and each so wise and kind.” - Antony Hegarty, Antony & The Johnsons.

Screening at:
Frameline, San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival
June 17: 5:00 pm, The Victoria
June 20: 2:30 pm, The Castro Theatre
San Francisco, California

Mad Science

2007-06-14T18:45:00.000-07:00

Hi Anne, below is my blurb for the PLAySPACE events; thanks for the plug! Hope to see you on Friday, Jess.

PLAySPACE presents Mad Science

This summer, PLAySPACE Gallery will host a series of one-night events. The gallery will become a space for experimentation, presentation and conversation. The events will feature works-in-progress by artists, writers, architects, designers and curators from CCA and beyond. Participants have been invited to bring actual works-in-progress or documentation of these works to show and discuss casually. These are not meant to be critiques or finalized exhibitions but opportunities for conversation around process. Participation in these events is not exclusive to the CCA community.

All members of the public are invited to join us for drinks and conversation.

Featured artists lined up so far include Dina Danish, Joshua Gabriel, Samantha Lautman, Travis Meinolf, Dina Pugh, Karie Reinertson, Zachary Scholz, Gareth Spor, and Paul Zografakis.

The schedule of upcoming events is as follows:
Monday June 25, 7-10 pm
Monday July 9, 7-10 pm
Monday July 23, 7-10 pm

The event series will culminate in a month-long residency at PLAySPACE, for which one artist/writer/architect/designer/curator who shares work over the summer will be invited by the directors and committee to use the gallery as their studio for the month of August 2007.
Please email us at playspace@cca.edu with any questions.

yacht club gallery presents:

2007-06-13T21:33:00.001-07:00

yacht club gallery presents:

F*CK YOU / COMMENTARY, CRITICISM

Opening: Saturday, June 16th, 6-10pm
2750 Yemans
Hamtramck, MI 48212

exhibiting artists: Mary Addison Hackett (Los Angeles); Nevin Tomlinson (Chicago); Dick Goody & Jef Bourgeau (Detroit); Jose Ruiz (NY); Andre Ethier (Toronto); Dylan Spaysky (Detroit)

yacht club gallery’s inaugural exhibition aims to showcase contemporary works that address or actively rebuff standard notions of critical evaluation and acceptance in art. But this is not a reactionary show; it is rather pro-active in its anti-critical stance. Included works both directly and indirectly address the role of criticism in the contemporary art community and its relationship to artists in the act of creation.

yacht club gallery

248.709.9747

Directions here

- ann gordon

Terra Incognita II

2007-06-12T23:01:00.000-07:00

Film Screening
Friday June 15
7pm
Sliding scale $5-$10

New Langton Arts and San Francisco Cinematheque present Terra Incognita II, an evening featuring the work of Abbas Kiarostami. We will be screening Roads of Kiarostami and A Taste of Cherry. These screenings supplement the ongoing exhibit Critical Foreground, a group show of international contemporary artists whose works foreground the representation and manipulation of landscape.

Abbas Kiarostami (b. 1940, Tehran) is a master of modern cinema and one of the few Iranian filmmakers to enjoy fame in the Western world. He has made such classic films as The Wind Will Carry Us, Through the Olive Trees, and Close Up. His films are distinguished by their simplicity; a poetic meditation slowly deepens into a sophisticated dialogue that mixes nature and culture, fact and fiction. In 1998, he became the first Iranian filmmaker to win the Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival with A Taste of Cherry.

Program
Roads of Kiarostami (2005), 32 min
*Taste of Cherry (1997), 95 min
*Please note that we will be screening a digital version

Roads of Kiarostami makes a thoughtful probe into the connection between still photography and film. The camera follows the paths in Kiarostami's landscape photography, widening out to show the pathway's scenic context. Narrated by Kiarostami and set to a musical score, the paths are poetry: "ways of love, ways of escape...ways which destroy us, ways without conclusion like stagnant water..." (Kiarostami, 2005.) Here, the conclusion is not stagnant, but explosive; the film creates a hand-wringing anxiety about the future of our world.

Taste of Cherry follows the journey of a middle-aged man who is going to end his life. Seeking the help of someone to bury him if he succeeds, or to rescue him if the attempt fails, the characters he meets on his drive through the area surrounding Tehran all refuse to assist him, and their the diverse reasonings form the dialogue. This simple fable delivers complex meditations on life, death, and Iran.

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New Langton Arts
1246 Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA 94103-3817
For further information: 415.626.5416
www.newlangtonarts.org

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Rail night

2007-06-09T18:48:00.000-07:00

Rail invites you to our openings, open hours and events on Friday June 15th from 6pm onwards.

Ampersand and Ping Pong open their new shows, TART has open hours for its current show which is being reviewed for Artweek magazine and Silverman has an event planned.

Rail's actions include monthly coordinated openings, projects across all Rail venues, an online resource, hosting of national and international visiting artists, curators and critics. Rail recently participated in an International Archive Meeting at The Zurich Schedalle.

Rail's artwalk was a trip! -- a journey of discovery, sociability, and unexpected aesthetic delights. It's a perfect opportunity to explore what's germinating in the San Francisco art scene and to tour this developing area of the city - Marcia Tanner, curator and writer.

Look forward to seeing you, Rail.

Jump (Break Up)

2007-06-08T11:54:00.000-07:00

A portrait of our 'skipper' Oliver Farley who recently performed at TART is featured in Caitlin Mitchell-Dayton's show at Gallery Paule Anglim.

Printed Matter

2007-06-08T09:50:00.000-07:00

Dear TART,

Please join us Thursday, June 7th from 5:00 - 7:00 pm at Printed Matter to celebrate the publication of the fourth volume of Between Artists: Amy Sillman & Gregg Bordowitz. Between Artists is a series of small format, conversation based books edited by Alejandro Cesarco. The books document different positions and strategies of leading and up-and-coming contemporary artists.

Printed Matter is located at 195 Tenth Avenue between 21st and 22nd streets. The artists will be present.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

A.R.T. Press is the publishing arm of Art Resources Transfer, Inc., a nonprofit, tax exempt organization founded in 1987 and dedicated to establishing access to the arts through publishing and community-oriented distribution. Art Resources Transfer is committed to documenting and supporting artists' voices and work, and to making these voices accessible to the broadest possible public. Since its founding, Art Resources Transfer has maintained two interconnected program areas: publishing (A.R.T. Press), and the free distribution of books to underserved communities (D.U.C. Program).

For additional information on these programs, as well as ordering this and other A.R.T. Press titles please visit http://artresourcestransfer.org/artpress.php

Ms. Homeland Security

2007-06-06T14:41:00.000-07:00

Hi all,

I wanted to let you know that Ms. Homeland Security:Illegal Entry Dress Tent will be performed, for one night only at The San Jose Museum of Art this Thursday evening, June 7, 6-8PM.

I hope to spy on some of you there!!!!

Robin.

Marilyn Minter in conversation with...

2007-06-01T09:43:00.000-07:00

Silverman Gallery, San Francisco/Los Angeles, June 1 and June 9, 2007

2007-05-31T16:17:00.000-07:00

Silverman Gallery
2295 Third St. (corner of 20th)
San Francisco, CA 94107
415 255 9508

Jam Session and Closing of "With signs following" tomorrow, Friday
June 1, 2007 from 7pm on.

windy wires, clickety clang of leaky pipes and distant whistles.

Bring your own instruments, battery or acoustic to jam with the
artist.

Next Weekend in Los Angeles:

Photo: Courtesy of Job Piston

MAK Center Artists in Residence Barbara Wolff, Katharina Stoever and
Marc J. Cohen of Peles Empire Present:

"A KINGDOM FOR A HORSE"

June 9–July 3, 2007

Opening Reception: Saturday, June 9, 7-10 pm

Curated by Jessica Silverman

Vanessa Albury,
Christopher Badger,
Patricia Esquivas,
Job Piston,
Yuval Pudik,
Ben Shaffer

Mackey Apartments
1137-2 South Cochran Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90019

To schedule an appointment after June 9th, contact: 323-935-2278 or
pelesempire@gmail.com

Peles Empire is a London-based collaborative founded in 2005 that
explores historical architectural styles within contemporary social
surroundings. Named after a Romanian castle designed by the Viennese
architect Wilhelm Doderer in 1883, Peles Empire reproduces rooms of
this castle within their own domestic surroundings. The project in Los
Angeles is the fourth room of the castle to be re-created. Using
photocopies as wallpaper, they have layered a nineteenth century
baroque interior onto the modernist architecture of RM Schindler. This
re-creation is a site for social gatherings, art exhibitions, and
culinary experiments.

MAK Center for Art and Architecture
at the Schindler House
835 North Kings Road
West Hollywood, CA 90069
323 651 1510 phone
323 651 2340 fax
visit: www.MAKcenter.org
contact: office@makcenter.org

part time at headlands - anyone?!

2007-05-31T14:08:00.001-07:00

The Headlands Center for the Arts is looking for part-time, temporary help in their development office--most likely now through August. The position consists of managing the membership program (ask letters, renewals, thank yous etc.), overseeing donor special events and general departmental admin. work. Speaking from experience, it is a fabulous place to work, and could be a great gig for someone trying to build a development resume.

Please send anyone you think might be interested my way!

Thanks,

Ellen

Jessica Silverman is a RAFTER

2007-05-29T11:52:00.000-07:00

www.rafterjumpon.com/ - Jessica Silverman is an Art Rafter, part of a cutting-edge network of correspondants who are always on top of the latest, most exciting events in his or her fields of interest and who reports on them in an interesting and entertaining way.

TO JOIN ME: http://www.rafterjumpon.com/application_form.php5

the line of time and the plane of now

2007-05-29T10:10:00.000-07:00

Omega Man at TART

2007-05-24T10:30:00.000-07:00

JORDAN ESSOE, OMEGA MAN

June 1 - 23, 2007

Opening Friday June 1st, 7-9pm

TART is pleased to present Jordan Essoe’s Omega Man, a poetic and provocative installation created specifically for TART. Use of whites and open space create a sense of raw, nearly devotional, silence. At once lyrically subtle and urgently visceral, this body of work places the struggle of the individual at its core, questioning the human condition operating inside [of] issues of political diplomacy and displacement.

Rail notes and updates

2007-05-21T23:02:00.000-07:00

Silverman Gallery and TART:

June 1 - With signs following closing, 7 - 10pm
Omega Man, Jordan Essoe 7 - 9pm

We would like to suggest that you begin at TART and make your way down to Silverman as we will have a performance with the artist, Ben Shaffer around 9pm [please bring instruments: acoustic or batter operated, and take part in the jam session]
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Silverman Gallery

June 8 - Slow Burning Lights, 10pm
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All Rail members - TART, Silverman, Ampersand and Ping Pong

June 15 - Steve Elliott opening at Ampersand, Jon Hittner opening at Ping Pong, TART open 6-8pm, POSTED1 and Look Boutique at Silverman Gallery - all 7 - 10pm
____________________________________________________________________
Silverman Gallery

June 22 - A cat with a thousand names - an event that is not to be missed.

HORIZON

2007-05-21T23:01:00.000-07:00

Jan Van Woensel, Art in General, and Bloomberg proudly present:

HORIZON
About Travel and Melancholy

22 May 2007 - 31 August 2007
Exhibition Opens at Bloomberg

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Art in General and Bloomberg have partnered to create exhibition opportunities for artists at the corporation's headquarters. HORIZON, featuring artists Vanessa Albury, Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock, Eric Van Hove, Paulus Kapteyn and Sufjan Stevens, and guest curated by Art in General's 2007 Curatorial Fellow, Jan Van Woensel, is the fourth exhibition organized by Art in General and held at Bloomberg?s corridors.

The HORIZON artists have used various media, from installation, photography, music, poetry, and drawings to create an exhibition about travel and melancholy. As a whole, the exhibition creates a journey for the viewer. Whether the work is about accidentally venturing to the wrong place in search of something, a sequence of images on a roll of film, the creation of an alter ego in order to reflect on the post-industrial landscape of Jersey City, or even the possibility of making a phone call to access the less visual works, each project contributes to the creation of a correspondence about travel from one place to the next.

HORIZON is organized by Art in General and sponsored by Bloomberg.

Bloomberg
731 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Subway: 59th Street (N, R, W, 4. 5, 6)

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Jan Van Woensel is an independent curator and art critic based in New York and Antwerp, and the founding director of the International Curators Program Antwerp. In 2002-2003 he was appointed as professor of Initiation in Contemporary Art at the ?Karel de Grote? Art University, while completing a Bachelor degree in Philosophy at Antwerp University.

Since 2003 he has curated numerous exhibitions internationally. He is currently working on a monographic exhibition with installation artist Kris Vleeschouwer at MoMA Shanghai, a project for a new movie on the Bauhaus by Sue de Beer at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp,
Belgium; as well as an exhibition at Sandroni Rey Gallery in Los Angeles, CA (2007). He is a contributing writer for ART, a Belgian magazine for contemporary art. In January 2007, he was appointed Visiting Lecturer and Senior Studio Professor at New York University, and has lectured and taught extensively.

Eric Van Hove was born in 1975 in Guelma, Algeria. He was educated in Cameroon, Belgium and Japan, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Art, E.R.G. in Brussels, Belgium. He studied traditional calligraphy under Japanese master Hideaki Nagano and is currently a PhD
candidate of the Tokyo Geidai University of Fine Arts and Music. He has been based in Tokyo, Japan since 2001; and has exhibited internationally. Having made displacement his studio, he is in perpetual movement; residencies in 2006 include Kolin Ryyna:nen, Karelia, Finland; MIDBAR Mitzpe Ramon, Israel; Paradise Art Center, Tehran, Iran; Sharjah Art Museum, United Arab Emirates; Lijiang Studio, Yunnan, China; while that same year he lectured in ten countries including the West Bank.

Paulus Kapteyn was born in 1970 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He grew up in Manhattan. In 1999 he graduated from the New School University with a Bachelor of Arts degree, where he majored in Art History and Literature. In 2004 he received a Master of Fine Arts degree from New York University School of Art in New York City. In 2005 he had a solo show at Art in General.

Vanessa Albury was born in 1978 in Nashville, Tennessee. Before settling last year in Brooklyn, New York, Albury lived and was educated in various southeastern US cities and abroad. Albury has exhibited her work throughout the United States and internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Charleston City Gallery in Charleston, South Carolina and Nan Boynton Gallery in Tallahassee, Florida.

Stephan Apicella?Hitchcock received his Bachelor of Arts from Hampshire College in 1991 and his Master of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1996. He has exhibited at the Shanghai Zendai Moma, the Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna, the Nuart Scandinavian Art Festival in Norway, and the Armory show in New York City. He has lectured about his work at Harvard University and the Whitney Museum of American Art, and was also a resident in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's WorldViews studio residency program at the World Trade Center in 2000.

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This Friday at Orchard

2007-05-21T15:48:00.000-07:00

Orchard presents:

A conversation between Felicity D. Scott, Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, and artist Martin Beck, addressing issues of exhibition systems, administrative logics, spectatorship, and their relationship to minimalism and conceptual art.

Friday, May 25, 6:30 PM, The conversation is part of Martin Beck’s exhibition The details are not the details, currently on view at Orchard.

Sounds Like It

2007-05-20T19:37:00.000-07:00

You are cordially invited to the opening of 'Sounds Like It'. A series of interventions by Johanna Hällsten taking place simultaneously at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (UK) and Kunming Institute of Botany (China). Exploring notions of translation between; language, objects and the senses -using sound, photography, text, and live video streaming.

www.soundslikeit.co.uk

Opening Event: Friday 25th of May, 1-4pm in the Chinese Hillside at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

Funded by Arts Council England and Loughborough University

Come On Pilgrim

2007-05-18T09:54:00.001-07:00

Dear Friends,

This Sunday May 20, 2007 is a good day for a pilgrim. Come experience two events related to Laura Mott's roaming exhibition, Come On Pilgrim (www.comeonpilgrim.com). Come On Pilgrim is Laura's thesis exhibition as part of Bard college's CCS program. At 2:00pm travel to the Trailside Nature Museum in Cross River, New York where you can take a short hike to the Leatherman Cave with historian Dan DeLuca who will discuss the history of the Hudson Valley folk icon the Leatherman with the artist James Walsh. More below. 5:00pm continue on up the Hudson to Tivoli where artist Robert Bryn will perform "In Honor of St. Francis Academy" a speech delivered from the bow of a row boat on the Hudson river, as it slowly advances towards to opposite shore.

Please let me know if you want to come and we will arrange a ride for you.

Best, Anthony Marcellini and Laura.

Public Art - Photography!

2007-05-15T20:02:00.001-07:00

Hello,

I'm managing a project that I thought might be of interest to you or
others whom you may know. The commission calls for up to three
photographers to each create a portfolio of work that deals with
sustainability and recycling. The images will be used as part of a
public service campaign and a set of original prints will be included
in the City's permanent collection. The estimated budget per artist is
$35,000. Would you please pass it around? The web link is:

http://phoenix.gov/ARTS/calltoa.html

Should you have any questions, please feel free to call me directly.

all best,
Rebecca

Rebecca Blume Rothman
Public Art Project Manager
602.495.0893

Red Without Blue

2007-05-10T11:08:00.000-07:00

Film Arts Foundation presents:

Red Without Blue by Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills & Todd Sills (2006, 77 min, video)
Wed, May 16, 7:30 pm Yerba Buena Center for The Arts
701 Mission St. at Third Street, San Francisco, CA

In 1983, Mark and Alexander Farley were born just minutes apart as identical twin boys. Twenty-three years later, Mark is apartment hunting with his boyfriend in San Francisco, and Alex is living as a woman named Clair. A heartbreaking but optimistic look at the tribulations of growing up gay and transgender in rural Montana and maintaining strong family bonds in the face of adversity.

http://www.ybca.org/tickets/production.aspx?performanceNumber=3000

Mark Oliver Farley was included in four nights, four performances at TART.

SNP wins

2007-05-06T09:43:00.000-07:00

The separatist Scottish National Party defeated Labor, emerging as Scotland’s biggest party in regional elections on May 3 and ending a half-century of Labor’s dominance there.

- this stands as an anti Tony Blair vote, an anti-war vote. The Scots as always vote for justice.