T-Train

The new Third Street T-Train begins its full-time operation on Saturday April 7th. TART, Silverman, Ampersand and Ping Pong (the route on the train) located around the Third Street Corridor all have openings on April 7th.

The first stop on the line and closest to TART is located at 4th/King Street. The nearest stop to Silverman, Ampersand and Ping Pong is on 3rd/20th. We have created a map which includes neighborhood highlights such as Richard Serra's Ballast and Dogpatch Saloon! Maps can be picked up at all of the spaces.

Look forward to seeing you on Saturday, Rail.

NPR: with Rail members Jessica Silverman, Justin Hoover, and Dina Pugh, March 24, 2007

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Rail members Jessica Silverman, Justin Hoover, and Dina Pugh, March 24, 2007

Saturday March 24th 2007, 6:46 am
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Jessica Silverman (Silverman Gallery), Dina Pugh (Triple Base Gallery), and Justin Hoover (The Garage)

and

Jessica Silverman (Silverman Gallery) and Justin Hoover (The Garage)

This is something to watch folks…. a new arts alliance is in the formative stages in San Francisco. Still very new, but full of potential, 3 members of RAIL met up to discuss the art scene around the bay as they see it. If you’re wondering what the future of San Francisco art looks like, this is an excellent bellwether.

Here are some of the organizations aligned with RAIL (not a complete list mind you):

-Silverman Gallery (founding member)
-Triple Base Gallery
-Ampersand International Arts (founding member)
-Ping Pong Gallery (founding member)
-TART (founding member)
-Joseph Del Pesco

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To listen to this interview press:

HERE

TART presents, four nights, four performances

TART will open its doors for four nights, beginning on Saturday, April 7 from 7-10 pm, for "four nights, four performances". This exciting series will begin with Oliver Farley's "Skipping Rope", a dynamic live performance drawing on the artist's talents as a Junior Olympic jump-roper, in collaboration with DJ Jacob Sperber. Farley makes his own jump ropes and creates drawings literally made by the skipping of the rope. Ropes and drawings will be available for purchase at TART for the duration of the four nights. The schedule for Farley's performances on Saturday, April 7 is as follows:

7.30 - 7.45 pm
8.15 - 8.30 pm
9.00 - 9.15 pm

with sound from Sperber in between.

Please note that Saturday, April 7, is also the inaugural Rail Art Walk. Rail is an alliance between TART, Silverman Gallery, Ampersand International Arts and Ping Pong Gallery. These galleries will all have events on Saturday, April 7. You're invited to take the newly opened T-train, which runs along Third Street, to access these spaces.

TART's performance series will continue for three subsequent nights, from 7-10 pm each night, with a screening of Stephen's Sutcliffe's video collage, "O Come all ye faithful" on Sunday, April 8; a sampling from The Kitchen's 1979 Archive on Monday, April 9; and The Essential Clash on Tuesday, April 10. The objects created by Oliver Farley on Saturday and the remnants of his performance will also be on view on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights. We hope to see you there!

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For immediate release:


TART presents
four nights, four performances
April 7-10, 2007 7-10pm

Paying tribute to the 1975 pioneering performance series “Four Evenings, Four Days”, curated by the late Marcia Tucker at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, four nights, four performances is a series of experimental performances and screenings that expands and enriches the notion of gallery-based performance.

four ....begins with Oliver Farley's “Skipping Rope”, a reformulation of past experiences into the ongoing present achieved through a kind of self portraiture. Farley’s use of the jump rope as a performance medium through which he creates images– both static and in motion, dipping the rope in ink that leaves marks where it hits a surface– recalls his childhood experience with competitive jump roping in the Worlds and Junior Olympics. In the artist’s own words, “The rope is playful, yet threatening; it is like a weapon at times…” For his performance at TART, Farley will collaborate with DJ and artist Jacob Sperber, building a sound installation that flows in and out of Farley’s piece. Oliver Farley’s work has been included in exhibitions and screenings at The San Francisco Art Institute; The Frameline Film Festival, San Francisco and Slam Dance, Utah.

The second night features a screening of Stephen Sutcliffe’s video collage, “O Come all ye faithful”, in which Sutcliffe pits a hopeful poem from the well-loved British poet Christopher Logue against a disparaging internal monologue. The artist creates a stark contrast between the found footage of Logue’s poetry reading and the terse background banter - an overlay of streaming obsenities that seem to imply Logue’s own self-doubt. The result is a performance that feels at once cohesive and schizophrenic in nature. Stephen Sutcliffe’s work has been included in solo and group exhibitions locally and internationally, at venues including Tate Britain; TART; New Langton Arts, San Francisco; The Scottish Pavilion, 2003 Venice Biennale; Breeder, Athens and Transmission, Glasgow.

The series continues with a pre-recorded audio performance of a sampling from the 1979 archives of The Kitchen in New York. These performances include works by Phillip Glass, Meredith Monk, and Steve Reich, among others, exemplifying The Kitchen’s rich history as a site of experimentation in audio performance and composition. four nights, four performances concludes with a screening of video footage from The Essential Clash, including early concert footage, interview clips and the Clash’s homemade silent film “Hell Who”. This screening pays homage to the Clash as great performers and sources of inspiration for artists of all kinds.

TART invites you to join us for each of these consecutive performances to experience how each iteration tests the meaning of the next. In particular, the remnants and products of Oliver's performance will remain constant throughout, creating a new dynamic and level of tension each evening.

47 Lusk Alley
San Francisco, CA 94107
Phone: 415 203-5865
Web: http://tartsf.com

April 7 is part of art walk a Rail action
http://railsf.blogspot.com

OPENING reception : SATURDAY April 7th = 6.00pm-8.30pm *

OPENING reception : SATURDAY April 7th = 6.00pm-8.30pm *

ARTIST: Steven Elliott
title : Waterworks
medium: mixed media
+essay by Mark Sanford Gross

ARTIST: Angela Hennessy
title:Partly Cloudy
medium: mixed media
+essay by Lydia Matthews & poem by Juvenal Acosta

Exhibition DATES: April 7th - May 11th

LOCATION :
ampersand international arts
1001 Tennessee street ( @ 20th street)
San Francisco 94107


* a Rail action
http://www.railsf.blogspot.com/ *


Contact:
Bruno Mauro
t 415-285-0170 f 415-285-6856
bruno@ampersandintlarts.com
http://www.ampersandintlarts.com

STEVEN ELLIOTT makes work inspired by and thematically linked to 19th
and early 20th century literature, illustration, and the camp
traditions of double entendre, game play, and subterfuge.
Steven Elliott holds a Master of Fine Arts in New Genres from the San
Francisco Art Institute. Steven Elliott work is in the permanent
collection of the University Art Museum at Berkeley, and has been shown
at the Oakland Museum, The Luggage Store gallery, Southern Exposure,
New Langton Arts and Intersection for the Arts.

ANGELA HENNESSY' sculpture and installations often involve materials
transformed beyond recognition. Delicate and destructive manipulations
of velvet appear as washes of ink and smudges of charcoal, a spot of
mold or a clump of hair. Her objects feel as if they might get up and
crawl away. Their ambiguous nature arouses the desire to touch, to
understand not by logic, but by tactile experience, from one body to
another. Much of her work is based on the act of unraveling black
velvet, a material rich in references to luxury, labor and sensuality,
and a slang term for black women. Over many years the color black has
emerged as a recurring theme in her practice, as both an indication of
death and a term of racial identification.Currently she is exploring
blackness as a state of being, prone to psychological vulnerabilities.
Angela Hennessy received a Master of Fine Arts from California College
of the Arts in 2005.She has exhibited in San Francisco and New York
and recently participated in the residency program at The Skowhegan
School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.She lives in Emeryville,
California and works in West Oakland.

How We talk

The Collective Foundation Pod Press invites you to celebrate the release of How We Talk a collection of new and selected work by poet and museum curator Renny Pritikin at Rena Bransten Gallery.

Wednesday, March 28th 5:30–7:30PM

77 Geary Street (between Kearny and Grant Streets)

TART

MeiDay, a fundraiser for Nyok Mei @ The Garage

Hello friends,

MeiDay, a fundraiser for Nyok Mei Wong will take place will take place this Saturday, March 31, 2007 from 7pm to 10pm at The Garage (2830 Pacific Avenue, San Francisco).

This event will feature a silent auction of works by international artists, including:

Mark Bartlett
J.D. Beltran
Andrea Bowers
Allan deSouza
Felipe Dulzaides
Jack Fulton
Alfredo Jaar
Paul Kos
Janis Crystal Lipzin
Suzanne Olmsted
John Roloff

and others. Plus there will be a raffle of other works by contemporary artists, as well as the musical explorations of Galen Grant and Tomoki Spilsbury, a hot local jazz trio called Electric Samurai.

$50 entry tickets
$10 raffle tickets
free music, drink and eats.

Buy tickets or make donations online: http://www.garagebiennale.com/meiday/

Credit cards also accepted at the door.


The back story on Mei Wong's dilemma:
On February 15, 2007, during a routine visit to INS to check the status of her green card application, Mei, an MFA student in the SFAI New Genres program, was shackled, handcuffed, and placed in the Yuba County Jail for five days. Despite an apparent administrative error by INS, she was held in jail pending the payment of $10,000 bail. Currently threatened with deportation, Mei needs to raise funds for her legal defense at her upcoming court hearing on April 5, 2007. This event has been organized by her fellow students in support of her cause – we hope that you will join us in this pursuit.

Contact the curator Patricia Maloney or Justin Hoover for more details:
Patricia Maloney
patricia.m.maloney@gmail.com
(917) 648-6918

Justin Hoover
Jhoover.charles@gmail.com
(415) 425-1647

Sincerely,
Justin


P.S. I like to consider that we take care of each other. This curatorial work approaches a democratic socialism via the strategic reproduction of free market capital.

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www.justinhoover.com
www.garagebiennale.com

Justin Hoover
2830 Pacific Ave
San Francisco, CA 94115
415-425-1647

Job Piston

Hey, check out Silverman's review on artforum.com:

Congratulations Jessica and Job.

Anne/TART.