Artcity: The Readers

2008 Visual Arts and ArtTalk Lineup Announced

Artcity is thrilled to present new works and artist talks by a rich diversity of practitioners from September 5th to 14th 2008, with exact scheduling to follow.

Acclaimed graphic novelist Chester Brown will present a keynote lecture on his unique and highly personal catalogue, and conceptual artist Janice Kerbel of London, England will describe how "strategies of deception" inform her new and previous works. Sami Rintala of Oslo, Norway rounds out the ArtTalk keynote series with an engaging discussion on his architectural works and the ideal role of architecture in contemporary society. In the ongoing Visual Arts Exhibition arena, local artist Jason DeHaan will present two projects, "Piepowder" and "Coaster", in a free artist's book and multiple series. Jennifer Delos Reyes of Portland, Oregon will orchestrate a choral performance and celebration in honor of Artcity's own and only employee, Wednesday Lupypciw. Megan Morman's "Calgary Super Bingo" cards will be available throughout the festival for random play by citizens, and Morman will join us from Saskatoon on Saturday the 6th for an involved group Bingo walking tour. "The Readers", which is the inaugural project of SERG, the Social Evolution Research Gang comprised of Lori Gordon (San Francisco), Ashley Neese (Portland, Oregon), and Robin Lambert (Red Deer) will offer festival goers the opportunity to be read aloud to in various settings. Finally, Ryan Slugget (formerly of Calgary) will present a new animation on a stunning handmade screen in conjunction with Quickdraw Animation Society on the night of the Artcity Gala.

Headlands 2008 Benefit Auction

PLEASE JOIN US FOR AN EVENING OF LIVE AND SILENT AUCTION.

Lori Gordon's work here

6:00 Cocktail Hour, Gaucho Gypsy Jazz
7:45 Silent Auction Lots close
8:00 Live Auction

Lifestyle & Luxury items lot close following the Live Auction

Auction items include works by Chris Ballantyne, Thomas Campbell, Reed Danziger, KateEric,
Amanda Hughen, Misako Inaoka, Packard Jennings, Lead Pencil Studio, Yoon Lee, Barry McGee, Leslie Shows, Shinique Smith, Hank Willis Thomas, William T. Wiley and more.

Other irresistible items available to the highest bidder include weekend getaways to Glen Ellen, Point Reyes, and Cavallo Point; Heath Ceramics; jewelry and other artist-designed accessories; and various other luxury items and experieneces.


Herbst International Exhibition Hall, Presidio
385 Moraga Avenue
San Francisco CA, 94129

Tickets $100/ $90 Members

Proceeds from this event provide direct support for Headlands Center for the Arts programs for artists and the public.

Talking Art

Talking Art is a series of salon-style discussions about art - making it, appreciating it, and collecting it. These gatherings are intended to demystify the art world and provide for a meaningful exchange of ideas while surrounded by the changing exhibitions at the San Jose ICA.

WHEN:
Second Thurdays of the month, 7:00 pm discussion
WHERE:
The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
560 South First Street, San Jose

July 10
2008 Portfolio Reviews
Curators, art dealers, teachers and artists will provide 20-minute individual critiques of artists' portfolios. Each artist will have two critiques.

Reviewers include: Andrea Schwartz, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, DJ Harmon, Director, Hang Art Gallery, Denise Ruiz, Manager, Hang Art Gallery, Lori Gordon, artist and independent curator, Gabe Scott, Curator, 111 Minna Gallery, Karen Kienzle, Curator, de Saisset Museum, Jay Auslander, Hosfelt Gallery, Melissa Behrazesh, Exhibition Manager, Pacific Art League, Kuniko Vroman, CADRE, Montalvo Research Residency Coordinator, Clark Buckner, Director, Mission17 Gallery, Angelica Muro, Independent Curator

Infinite Exchange Gallery

Infinite Exchange Gallery knows the value of art and believes that everyone should have access to it in their daily lives. Presenting works and services in exchange for non-monetary trades, artists determine what they feel the value of their work is, and what they want in exchange for it. This agreement ensures the cooperative collaboration that manifests between the artists, gallery representatives and the buyer. It is functioning outside of the art market constraints. No work in the IEG has a monetary value. The viewers are thereby invited to swap and potentially even haggle in exchange for what they want.

-Jennifer Delos Reyes and Lori Gordon
(Founders of Infinite Exchange Gallery)

presented in collaboration with the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
Zero1 Biennial 2008: San Jose, CA
Friday, June 6: 6-11pm

Featured artists include: Hideous Beast, Christie Hudson, Lynn Marie Kirby, Robin Lambert, Amber Landgraff, Wednesday Lupypciw, Barbara Meneley, Ashley Neese, Berit Nørgaard, Brion Nuda Rosch, Kerri-Lynn Reeves, Amy Steel and Eric Nordstrom, Elena Tejada-Hererra, Sara Thacher, Turner Prize, Gary Wiseman

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Contacts: Jennifer Delos Reyes and Lori Gordon
e-mail: infinite.exchange.gallery@gmail.com
or visit http://www.infiniteexchangegallery.com

This Show Needs You

March 28 - May 17, 2008 Opening Reception: April 4, 6 - 8 pm This Show Needs You relies on the willingness of audiences to co-author the work. Check out Related Public Programs That Need You Too In conjunction with University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) conference, Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice from May 15-17. Other Related Exhibitions: The Sesnon, April 16 - May 16, 2008 The LAB, May 1 - May 24

The work in This Show Needs You actively engages audiences in the process of creating. Evoking Joseph Beuys's exclamation that "everyone is an artist," Michael Smit's ongoing conversational piece How Have You Been an Artist Today? provocatively asks what it means to create. It is in this same spirit that Linda Montano, a seminal figure in contemporary feminist performance art, invites the audience to either "sit down with her in silence" or "sit down and receive Art/Life/Laughter Counseling" during her performance Re-Seeing: Being Blindfolded in California; 7 hours/ 4 days. Montano will also conduct a crash course in performance art called, You Too Are a Performance Artist of Your Life: A Workshop with Linda M. Montano.

Collaborators and lovers Elizabeth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle will present Love Art Laboratory Bridal Party, an experiment in exploring love as art. During the course of this seven-year performance art piece, now in its fourth year, the artists have a performance art wedding each year in collaboration with their guests, other artist and various communities. Stephens and Sprinkle will exhibit ephemera from their first three weddings including dresses, invitations, and gifts made by friends. In conjunction with the UCSC conference, the couple will renew their vows on May 17, at the UCSC campus. Additionally, the ICA will host a Bridal Shower for the couple.

Collaborators Ted Purves and Susanne Cockrell with Joseph McHenry, will rely on the participation of local gardeners to realize their installation Lemon Everlasting Backyard Battery. Inspired by San Jose's agricultural history, Cockrell and Purves will collect garden-grown lemons from the area and preserve them during the exhibition. Rows of the yellow jarred fruits will be displayed and Cockrell and Purves will provide opportunities for individuals to share recipes and stories that involve cooking with lemons. A lemon-infused picnic will convene on May 2, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. During the last week of the exhibition individuals may take home a jar of lemons.

Other projects continue the creative engagement. Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July give assignments to visitors to complete and post online in their interactive web project Learning to Love You More. Christian Jankowski's work involves collaborations with strangers. Lori Gordon's text paintings ask, "What color does your body need?" and Sara Thacher enlists neighbors and businesses to host and curate The Distributed Exhibition.

The work in this exhibition needs multiple audiences, including those who participate in the creation of the work and those who witness art in-the-making. This Show Needs You encourages discussion and exploration of what art means and what art is in the context of collective social experience.

How Fast Your World Is Changing

ampersand international arts presents

HOW FAST YOUR WORLD IS CHANGING
Harrell Fletcher
Christine Hill
Hope Hilton
Jessica James Lansdon
Jennifer Delos Reyes
Markuz Wernli-Saito
curated by Lori Gordon
critical essay by James Servin

OPENING
Friday, March 21, 6-8:30pm
featuring Choral Society for Lori Gordon by Jennifer Delos Reyes and a Silent Walk with Hope Hilton.

EXHIBITION
March 21-April 25, 2008

ampersand international arts
1001 Tennessee Street (at 20th St.)
San Francisco 94107 California USA

**Founded in 1999, ampersand international arts is a contemporary arts space dedicated to championing and nurturing emerging and mid-career artists and creating a critical conversation around their work. ampersand promotes intercultural dialogue and collaboration between artists, curators, & arts enthusiasts, cultivating an understanding of diverse aesthetic and cultural perspectives.**

PRESS CONTACT AND IMAGES
For further information please contact Bruno Mauro
bruno@ampersandintlarts.com
415-285-0170/www.ampersandintlarts.com
GALLERY HOURS: Thursdays, Fridays, 12-5pm and by appointment

Image: Shadow Followers, Returning the Negatives. Markuz Wernli-Saito. (Photograph by K'Li Ang Va.)

Monster Drawing Rally

Southern Exposure's
8th Annual Monster Drawing Rally
Friday, February 22, 2008
6:00 - 11:00 pm
Suggested donation: $5 and up
Event Location: The Verdi Club
2424 Mariposa Street at Potrero, San Francisco
Music by DJ Frau Holly

On Friday, at this annual live drawing event, 120 artists will create drawings, live and in person. Drawings will be available for purchase for $60 each. All proceeds support Southern Exposure's Exhibitions and Artists in Education Programs.

Providing the basic necessities of the drawing practice, Southern Exposure creates the context while the artists create the content of the drawings. The evening will consist of four one-hour shifts with approximately 30 artists drawing simultaneously each hour. As the drawings are completed they will be hung on the walls and available for purchase. The Monster Drawing Rally provides a unique opportunity to watch a drawing come to life, and to purchase a work of art minutes after it's completion.

Artists in this year's Monster Drawing Rally are Brad K. Alder, Ulrika Andersson, Kathy Aoki, Brooke Appler, Michael Arcega, Seth Armstrong, Kelly Ball, Jessie Balmer, Steven Barich, David Benzler, Bert Bergan, Robert Bilensky, Michelle Blade, Eric Bodine, Chase Bowman, Alex Braubach, Sara Bright, Joe Byrnes, Michael Campbell, Monica Canillo, Neftali Carriera, John Casey, Susan Chen, Randy Colosky, Jaime Cortez, Adrian Cotter, lana Crispi, Jessica Cusik, Gibson Cuyler, Veronica De Jesus, Sonya Derman, Joan Di Stefano, Anthony Discenza, Inga Dorosz, Catherine Haley Epstein, Marcela Florez, Larnie Fox, Matt Furie, eddie gesso, Lori Gordon, Terrance Graven, Michael Hall, Martha Sue Harris, Jonn Herschend, Amy Hibbs, Katrine Hildebrandt, Amanda Hughen, Suzanne Husky, John Isaacson, Erik Jacobsen, Hellen Jo, Sarah Klein, Justin Klein, Evri Kwong, Max Lariviere-Hedrick, Chris Leib, Poopy Lickles, Ken Lo, Frederick Loomis, Sam Lopes, Martin Machado, Liz Maher, Kari Marb! oe, Vanessa Marsh, Jet Martinez, Christian Maychack, Mike McConnell, Kim Miskowicz, Kyle Mock, Cynthia Ona-Innis, Kelly Ording, Jennie Ottinger, , Kottie Paloma, Piero Passacantando, Alison Pebworth, Hilary Pecis, Ferris Plock, Mel Prest, Lisa Ricci, Ricardo Richie, Lordy Rodriguez, Thorina Rose, Anthony Ryan, Andrew Schoultz, Emily Sevier, Sham Saenz, Angela Simione, Sarah Smith, Jennie Smith, Lisa Solomon, Alphonzo Solorzano, Gerone Spruill, Jennifer Starkweather, Kirk Stoller, Deth P. Sun, Tim Svenonius, Stephanie Syjuco, Rebecca Szeto, Hadi Tabatabai, Owen Takabayashi, Charlene Tan, Weston Teruya, Tracy Timmons, Jessica Tully, Kelly Tunstall, Aiyana Udesen, Jina Valentine, Adrian Van Allen, Jamie Venci, Katie Vida, Andy Vogt, Victoria Wagner, Jerad Walker, Tyson Washburn, Marci Washington, Colie Wertz, Megan Wilson, Jenifer Wofford, and Anthony Wu.

Generous in-kind donations for the 8th Annual Monster Drawing Rally are provided by Anderson Valley Brewery, Firestone/Nectar Ales, Trumer Pils, Blick Art Material, Utrecht Art Supply and Pearl Art Supply.

Close Calls

Close Calls
January 13-February 24, 2008
Reception: Sunday, February 3, 2008, 2-5 pm
Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, CA
















Nature vs. Nurture
Close Calls: 2008 is divided into two themed spaces, each of which contains a broad range of media and demonstrates a variety of approaches to shared interests. These are engagement with the physical structures of landscape and architecture in the Eastwing, and with the social structures of family, community
and the media in the Westwing. These strains indicate larger tendencies within the Bay Area art scene as a whole, reflecting the concerns of the region more broadly as a laboratory of ideas where environmentalists, technologists, agriculturists, designers and architects, political activists and social welfare organizers coexist and collaborate.

Westwing: Nurture

Though they can be restrictive of the individual, communities can also provide the valuable support of strength in numbers when they develop around shared concerns. Helena Keeffe and Lori Gordon both connect people through collaborative artworks that can only be realized with the participation of others, Keeffe using the Internet while Gordon uses the mail to reach participants across significant distances.

Open Engagement: Art After Aesthetic Distance

Open Engagement: Art After Aesthetic Distance
University of Regina, Canada
October 11-13, 2007

Open Engagement: An Introduction

By Jennifer Delos Reyes

Open Engagement: Art After Aesthetic Distance was a hybrid project that used a conference on socially engaged art practices as it’s foundation and incorporated elements including workshops, exhibitions, residencies, pedagogy, curatorial practice and collaboration. The event was hosted by the University of Regina, the Dunlop Art Gallery, The Mackenzie Art Gallery and various local Regina residents from October 11-13, 2007. The three days of the event each focused on a theme of exploration; October 11, You are all that I see: Art and everyday experience; October 12, It takes two: Collaborations, collectives, other team relationships; October 13. I’ll call you: Long term relationships, communities, and connectivity. Over 40 national and international contributors were present during Open Engagement. The contributors were selected from a response to a call for submissions and a selection of three invitational individuals who could best represent one of the three themes. This was an around-the-clock experience. It was a conference, an exhibition/performance venue, a mini-residency, and a workshop. Each out-of-town presenter was billeted with a member of the local community. Participants shared meals with one another and members of the local community, commuted together and were encouraged to thank their hosts by leaving a created trace.

The structure of each day began with Three Cheers! a collaboration between Maiko Tanaka and Open Engagement. On day one each participant was introduced to the group and cheered for. For each day of the event a cheer was written that addressed the theme of exploration for the day. Following the morning cheer was a group activity that was centered on the day’s theme. After this was group lunch. Proceeding lunch the conference broke out into 5-8 parallel sessions. This was followed by a panel addressing the day’s topic and discussion. Each evening highlighted a different social event. On day one was a potluck and artist talk by Harrell Fletcher, on day two a small group dinner in the home of a local resident, and on day three a game of bingo followed by a dance party. Throughout Open Engagement connections were made to local individuals, local arts institutions and focused on projects that were made possible through the work of groups of individuals as well as projects that expressed support and solidarity, such as the airport pick ups. The goal of Open Engagement was to bring together like-minded individuals (artists and audience) around socially engaged art and forge lasting connections, disseminate information, share knowledge, and create networks and connections, and foster the creation of work.

What does it mean to be open? What does it mean to be engaged? What if one were to be both open and engaged simultaneously? Openness is honesty, generosity, a sense of possibility, freedom, free of boundaries and restrictions. To be engaged is a promise. It is a commitment, an obligation. It is also a sense of involvement and participation. To have an “open engagement” implies a commitment that is potentially limited or short lived. But what if the two terms once united could keep their respective definitions making openly engaged a term that would embody an obligation to honesty, sharing and possibility?

It is important to note that this website is just one aspect of a large project that had many contributors and elements. Open Engagement should be looked at as a paratext. This is just one part of a larger text that is made up a variety of sources from the call for submissions, contributor blogs, the conference program, the post-conference publication, promotional materials, interviews, the conference archive, essays and reviews written on Open Engagement, collateral events, and more. All of these external elements each play a significant and specific role in informing this project.

One Night Stand

One Night Stand
Thursday June 7, 6-8pm
Phone lines are open until June 30, 2007.
San Jose Museum of Art
San Jose, CA

The Swap Meet Project

The Swap Meet Project
The Camel
June 1-30, 2007
Opening Reception June 2, 7-10pm
Richmond, VA

SOEX Marks the Spot

SOEX Marks the Spot
Saturday, April 28, 2007
7:30 pm - 11:00 pm
Southern Exposure
San Francisco, CA

SOEX MARKS THE SPOT
Southern Exposure's Annual Spring Fundraiser and Art Auction
Artwork is now available for preview on SoEx's website at http://soex.org/artistandart.html
Saturday, April 28, 2007
at SomArts Main Gallery, 934 Brannan Street @ 8th Street

VIP Private Reception: 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Main Auction Event: 7:30 - 11:00 PM
Live Auction: 8:30 - 9:00 PM
Silent Auction: 7:30 - 10:30 PM

TICKETS
$30 advance purchase, $40 at the door
$65 per person, includes a one-year membership to Southern Exposure
Tickets for the VIP Reception start at $150
Visit us online at www.soex.org, print out a ticket form and mail it or fax it in, or call 415-83-2141 and purchase your ticket over the phone!

MAIN EVENT
SOEX MARKS THE SPOT features a Live and Silent Art Auction of work from over 150 established and emerging artists, amazing food and beverages by some of the area's most fabulous establishments, music, entertainment, and creative projects. This event provides direct support for Southern Exposure's Exhibitions and Artists in Education Programs.

VIP RECEPTION
The VIP reception is a pre-party reception from 6 to 7:30 PM, providing collectors and supporters the opportunity to preview the auction, place first bids, and enjoy conversation with a select group of artists in an elegant atmosphere. Fork & Spoon will provide culinary delights and GIN 209 will provide a chic menu of cocktails.

ARTISTS
The art auction will feature over 150 original works by emerging and nationally recognized artists such as Michael Arcega, Sandow Birk, Castaneda/Reiman, Adriane Colburn, Kota Ezawa, Harrell Fletcher, Packard Jennings, Doug Hall, Todd Hido, David Huffman, Gay Outlaw, Sasha Petrenko, Sarah Smith, Stephanie Syjuco, Gail Wight and many many others. Visit our website for a complete listing at www.soex.org.

Environmental Sustainability Through Love

McLaren Park Earth Day: Environmental Sustainability Through Love
April 22, 2007, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
organized by Amber Hasselbring
San Francisco, CA

At McLaren Park, passers-by will receive a green rubber stamp inked onto anything they choose: scrap paper, notebooks, arms, legs. The stamped message includes a link to access the project online. This project was created in collaboration with artist Melissa Chevalier, who interviewed Lori Gordon, conceptual artist, and her husband Max Auffhammer -- an environmental economist, teaching at UC Berkeley. It is a discussion about the intersection between their work, their dynamic collaboration in marriage as it relates to environmental sustainability through ideas about environmental concerns, art and love. Anyone interested, is invited to go online to read, download and print the interview at their leisure.

http://www.lorigordon.com/earthday/

Melissa Chevalier works as a graphic designer, artist and curator. She earned her masters degree at California College of the Arts, where she focused on creating artist books and people-related projects.

You Can Have It All (New York)

Feb 24-march 17, 2007
Opening Reception: Saturday Feb 24, 6-8pm
Salvation Gallery
450 W41st Street (9th & 10th Ave)| 4th floor, #406. Hunter College MFA studio Building. New York, NY | Gallery Hours: Thur-Sat 12-6, and by appointment

Through human understanding and coexistence, lies the ability to know oneself and to know others in a deeper way. With all of this work in the exhibitions, there is no interest in changing public opinion or agenda, but instead to dismantle certain perceptions about the art market and in turn a gift economy. These works are about the everyday, the mundane, and the complex notion of generosity.

You Can Have It All is occurring at a time when many artists are making objects and creating services that are given freely. They do not require a fee, nor is there an expectation of reciprocity. Instead, these artists are trying to find a way of creating community, and indirectly, long lasting relationships with the receiver. Much like the gaia hypothesis, these artists hope to create a change within their own community that will then ripple out, creating far reaching effects that penetrate beyond their local territories.

Lori Gordon and Ashley Neese, curators.

INTERIOR LIFE

INTERIOR LIFE
December 4th 2006 - January 4th 2007
ampersand international arts
San Francisco, CA

Artists:
Tommy Becker, David Fought, Lori Gordon, Amanda Hughen, Christine Lando,
Jeff Morris, James Sansing, Sarah Smith, Jennifer Starkweather, Andy Vogt.

ampersand presents INTERIOR LIFE : a group show of small-scale work, featuring painting, sculpture, and work on paper, photography, video, and mixed media. At a time of very needed quiet reflection, ampersand is proud to champion the artists of INTERIOR LIFE for their outstanding talent, passion and dedication. Whether through minimalist precise gesture, repetitive mark-making, or seemingly ritualistic process the art pieces of INTERIOR LIFE capture a range of visual interpretations of the "subtle" power of art : the artwork here has the quiet strength and beauty to enlighten us but also challenge our awareness as reflective beings.

Gift

Gift Show
December 3 - 23, 2006
301 Bocana Gallery

Japanewyork

The Small Gallery

Location: Outside 49 Geary, in conjunction with First Thursday

Thursday October 5th, 2006 - 5:30-7:30pm

In this video, Gordon shares personal footage from her travels to Japan and New York. This uncomplicated inspection of the world presents footage that she is using to examine her life. By scrutinizing other's behavior in places known and unknown, she is attempting to understand herself and the universe more clearly.

"One destination a place unknown, full of strangers.
One destination revisited, connecting with loved ones."

Angel Island | Art & Ecology

conception and organization by Amber Hasselbring
September 16, 2006
Angel Island State Park, CA
Link here

The Angel Island ART & ECOLOGY Festival is a large-scale collaboration between artists, the natural island environment and festival attendees. This daylong artwork brings together dance, biology, orations and whispers, sculpture, group exercises, history, music, drawing, *community service work and photography. The festival is an opportunity for all participating to rediscover the creative, regenerative qualities of nature.

Come on Over

Come on Over: a month-long art exhibition celebrating experiential and participatory projects by artists in the Bay Area and New York City
curated by Emma Spertus and Hope Hilton
July 7 - August 7, 2006
Opening: Friday, July 7, 2006 7-11 pm
RockPaperScissors
Oakland, CA

RockPaperScissors is excited to announce its newest exhibition, Come on Over, curated by Emma Spertus and Hope Hilton. Focusing on the idea of art as a participatory or shared experience, this exhibition is meant to encourage engaging in art as a way to make connections: to a neighborhood, to a specific person or place, to a book, to sounds, to a hotline, to food, to unused trash, to understanding love, and ultimately to each other.

The artists involved in Come on Over recognize and embrace the current movement toward creating and exchanging within their communities, initiating possibility for a new kind of artistic cooperation to be a vehicle for change and progress which extends positively into the greater world at large.

Recognizing that the act of coordinating and presenting events is a form of art-making, the curators both share backgrounds in art collectives and working collaboratively. They are very excited to bring these communities together. Emma Spertus is a founding member of RockPaperScissors (Oakland, CA) and Hope Hilton is a founding member of Dos Pestañeos (Atlanta, GA; http://www.dospestaneos.com/). Visiting from NYC, Emma and Hope are both pursuing MFA’s at Hunter College.

Come on Over will host lectures and events to coincide with the exhibition, including a visit from Jon Rubin to discuss the Independent School of Art and a creative writing class for children. Please check comeonover.org, artmurmur.org, or

Drain: Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture

Issue #6 - Play
May-December, 2006
Drain

Drain: Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture is pleased to announce the launch of issue #06 – Play.

Contributions in this issue address how playful energies can constitute a driving social and artistic force. Drawing attention to trials and errors, mischievousness, illusions, irregularities, pretences and states of 'make-believe' this issue of Drain in various ways addresses how familiar elements combine in unfamiliar ways.

Art projects, some of which engage 'play' as a sociopolitical force and others that shake our senses around with a little bit of naughtiness, include works by Max Kazemzadeh, Julie Püttgen, Matt Monroe, Robert Sphar, Pierre Archambault, Per Pegelow, Lori Gordon and Robert Praxmarer.

Momentum

(aura portraits)
May 6, 2006 6-10pm
Southern Exposure
San Francisco, CA

Tender is the Nob

April 1-30, 2006
Cafe Royale
San Francisco, CA

CAFÉ ROYALE ANNOUNCES :TENDER IS THE NOB
A GROUP EXHIBITION
EXHIBITING : APRIL 2-29, 2006
Opening reception : Thursday, April 6, 8:00pm until midnight

This exhibition features work by local residents of the Tendernob – a transitional space that cannot be found on the map. Located in-between the affluent Nob Hill and the impoverished Tenderloin, this eclectic neighborhood intersects an area that boasts a collection of eateries and establishments as varied as Keith Hufnigel’s fancy footwear, a storefront with a life-sized Yoda, psychics and an all-male nude review. These artists are offering their personal take on the place they call home through the lense of a polaroid camera.

Art Sale 10

March 24, 2006 6:30-9pm
The Lab
San Francisco, CA

The 10th Annual Fixed Price Art Sale and Live Auction.

Monster Drawing Rally

February 24, 2006, 6-11pm
Southern Exposure
San Francisco, CA

Southern Exposure announces the 6th Annual Monster Drawing Rally, a live drawing and fundraising event featuring over 100 artists. Providing the basic necessities of the drawing practice--pencils, charcoal, pens, markers, ink, and paper--Southern Exposure creates the context while the artists create the content of the drawings. The evening will consist of four one-hour shifts with approximately 25 artists drawing simultaneously each hour. As the drawings are completed they will be hung on the walls and made available for purchase for $50 each. The Monster Drawing Rally promises to be an action-packed spectacle you won't want to miss!

Hush Hush (a show about secrets)

[curator]
January 30-February 25, 2006
Opening Reception: Thursday February 2, 8-12pm
Cafe Royale
San Francisco, CA



















Café Royale announces : Hush Hush
Curated by Lori Gordon
Artists : Ben Guttin, Virginia Kleker, Ashley Neese, Susan O’Malley, Jamie Vasta
Exhibiting : January 30-February 25, 2006
Opening reception : Thursday Feb 2, 8pm-Midnight
(Video Screening & Performance Included)

San Francisco – Hush Hush offers works created with a secret in mind. While each artist hascreated something that contemplates this idea of discretion and concealment, both the approach and outcome are quite different. At a time when information is often unauthorized or undisclosed without privileged access, these artists are bravely divulging their own aspirations and apprehensions without restraint. Jamie Vasta presents her ‘secret work’, which she rarely shows to people. These drawings explore devices that have always caused anxiety, such as patterns, swimming, fear and desire, as she attempts to render them delicate and insubstantial, beautiful and harmless. Through exploration of emotional consciousness Virginia Kleker’s performance demonstrates the force inflicted on helium filled balloons as a metaphor for pressure induced on the psyche from holding onto secrets. Ashley Neese takes this one step further by looking at her concerns of regret, creating an audio piece with specific lists of her fears, wishes, apologies, and thoughts surrounding her relationships with her family, to be read out loud. In a more playful way Ben Guttin and Susan O’Malley keep something hidden from others, only to be revealed through the work itself. Susan O’Malley’s video captures her performing small acts which point to the absurdity, isolation and conformity that exists in the front yards of her neighborhood in San Jose, while Ben Guttin’s video shows him dancing before the camera alone in his New York studio, transforming his inward gaze into endless self-invention. Whether these secrets are known or shared only by the artists is immaterial, as these works create a residue that will certainly answer some questions if not divulge the mystery altogether.

Café Royale, located in the heart of San Francisco, is a neighborhood coffee & tea house, beer and wine bar and art space. The Café supports the work of Bay Area artists throughout the month through visual arts exhibitions, music and literary programs, art markets and events to benefit nonprofits. Every first Thursday of the month Café Royale celebrates the opening of a new exhibition by local artists.

Café Royale : 800 Post Street @ Leavenworth : San Francisco California www.caferoyale-sf.com
Regular business hours : Sun.-Thurs. 4pm-12am & Fri.-Sat. 4pm-2am

Truth and Lies

December 2-January 7, 2006
Opening Reception: Friday December 2, 6-9pm
Mission 17
San Francisco, CA

The Postcard Show

December 2-4, 2005
Opening Reception: Friday December 2, 6-9pm
The Lab
San Francisco, CA

There Is No Failure Here

November 4-December 16, 2005
Opening Reception: Friday November 4, 6-8:30pm
Ampersand International Arts
San Francisco, CA

In conjunction with this exhibition, one of the interactive painting projects will be presented in the window of BIG THINK Studios.

Calit2 Building Dedication Ceremony

Computer Music Concert.
Screening: Romance with a Double Bass
October 28, 2005
Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA)
La Jolla, CA

ART on BART

An interactive Bay Area Tour
Performers, Artists and Activists address the urban ecosystems
organized by Amber Hasselbring
Saturday October 1st, 2005 - 10:15am-5:46pm
Bay Area, CA



On Saturday, October 1, 2005, citizens from all nine Bay Area Counties are invited on a tour, ART on BART. The day-long tour will include performance art, lectures, readings, demonstrations and presentations by Lorna Brod, Lori Gordon, Jessamyn Lovell, Nicole Krauch & Jenny Selgrath, Kate Moore & Ken Angelo, Mark Ostapiak, Bill Owens, Rick Prelinger, Ted Purves & Susanne Cockrell, Christopher Woodward and Amber Hasselbring. During the tour, we’ll ride each BART line, passing through or stopping at 43 different system stations. A program, maps and information will be provided.

We will board the 2nd car of the SFO/Millbrae train at Civic Center Station in San Francisco at 10:15 am, exit at Rockridge Station for lunch at 1:10 PM, re-enter the system, board the SFO/Millbrae train at 2:10 PM, and finally, we’ll exit at Civic Center Station at 5:46 PM.

To RSVP visit here. Space is limited.

Please bring a $5.80 BART ticket with you for fare and money for lunch.

Black Market Auction

Black Market Auction
September 24, 2005, Beginning at 6pm
Hayes Valley Market
Independent School of Art
San Francisco, CA

The Independent School of Art will hold a black market auction of high quality knock-offs of well-known artists' works.

The Independent School of Art will be staging an event titled the Black Market Auction. Artists selected for this show (which will include students from the school as well as over 75 local and national artists) will be producing high quality knock-offs of well-known local, national, and international artists' works. The participants were requested to knock-off works that they would like to own themselves or wish to see more readily available to others. During the two-day exhibition at the Hayes Valley Market, a 6000 square foot gallery in Hayes Valley run by Albert Herter and Lisa Rybovich Crallé, these works will be sold through silent and live auction at bargain prices. All artists (knockers-off) will receive 50% of the sale price when their work is sold. The works available for sale are not interpretations, parodies, or inspired by, but true replications. These knockoffs are designed to be 90% to 100% the quality of the original artworks in comparison. All public information regarding this event will list the original artists and the knock-off artists intermingled so that no one knows who knocked off whom. We are simply running a black market auction of great original works, by great artists, at great prices. In addition to magnanimously undermining the art market, your purchase will also generously help to support the Independent School of Art.

Dress: Clothing as Art

Dress: Clothing As Art
curated by Any Vikram
September 6-October 30, 2005
Opening Reception: Thursday September 15, 6-8pm
Knitting Sitting Performance Dates: September 24, October 15 (12-5pm)
Richmond Art Center Richmond, CA

Dress is a universal art form. Every day, each of us creates and projects an image of a self we wish to show the world, and each day we exhibit it to everyone we encounter. Dressing marks a transition between private and public life, permitting us entry into society. From our earliest choices, we shape our identity and relationships through clothes. We declare personal identity, economic status, sexual preference and cultural affiliation in our sartorial choices.

Dress: Clothing as Art presents a culturally diverse group of emerging and mid-career artists from the San Francisco Bay region. Informed by assemblage, sculpture and performance, each uses clothing as a medium to explore the interpenetration of art and life. Dress proposes many ways for gallery visitors to interact with and experience the works on view. Visitors are encouraged to touch many of the objects, to make their own artworks, and to take certain pieces home. Where possible, they may try on the works, more deeply experiencing their power to alter bodily awareness. Visitors are also asked to bring old clothes with sentimental value for use in a perfromance and installation. Artists working within the exhibition space during Saturday gallery hours will invite visitors to participate in the making of functional clothing artworks, whether through social interaction or a collaborative construction process. In this way, the exhibition encourages the simultaneous consideration of art as a finished, viewable end product and as a practice, open to all who wish to engage in it.

Featured artists are also invited to perform during the opening night festivities on September 15, demonstrating the transformative natureof their creations and animating the gallery with their presence. A catalogue will accompany the exhibition, and will include a limited edition of hand-made covers produced by exhibiting artists.

You Can Have It All

July 19 - August 5, 2005
PlaySpace Gallery
San Francisco, CA

Press Release [PDF]



You Can Have It All presents work designed to be taken away by the viewer, derived from the artists' investment in altruistic acts that create happiness and social engagement. This artist-led exhibition intends to facilitate conversation and interaction within the community. The artists' everyday experience translates into the vernacular of these small items, acting as portraits of their situational environments. Whether mix tapes or postcards, the works rely on our personal associations with making and receiving gifts. The form these multiples take, objects that the viewers can wear on clothing or privately listen to, extends the art beyond the gallery experience. You Can Have It All correlates with a significant history of individuals generating and circulating crafts, editions, and 'zines in the Bay Area.

Graduate Exhibition

(Close Encounters)
May 12-21, 2005
Opening Reception: Thursday May 12, 6-9pm.
California College of the Arts
San Francisco, CA

The Pitch

April 30, 2005 - 8pm
Organized by Jon Rubin and Jason Mortara
New Langton Arts
San Francisco, CA



The Pitch, the brainchild of San Francisco artists Jon Rubin and Jason Mortara, is an evening of live art that revels in the promise of a good idea. The duo pre-screens and recruits fifteen individuals to pitch their original ideas to a live audience and panel of judges. The presenters compete for cash prizes, selling ideas brilliant and outlandish, pragmatic and fantastic.

The judges include a local building contractor, newscaster, brand strategist, librarian, urban planner and cognitive scientist. The Pitch privileges the idea over the work, the imagined over the realistic. And in the end, as any self-respecting car salesman will confess, it all comes down to the act of persuasion.

ART4TIBET

Benefit show for Students for a Free Tibet
Sunday April 16, 2005 - 6-9pm
Juice Design
San Francisco, CA

White Wonder Woman Noise

Short Film Festival
Thursday April 7, 2005 - 7:30pm
Timken Hall California College of the Arts
San Francisco, CA

Graduate Open Studios

Sunday April 3, 2005, 12-5pm.
California College of the Arts
San Francisco, CA

sideXside

March 29-April 8, 2005
Opening Reception: March 30, 6-9pm
PlaySpace Gallery
San Francisco, CA

Upon This My Dreams Are Depending

Press Release [PDF]
February 1 - 28, 2005
Opening Reception: February 3rd, 8:00pm-12:00am
Cafe Royale
San Francisco, California

Carefully Analyzed Crackpotism

December 10, 2004 7-10pm
CCA Media Arts Department
San Francisco , CA

Drawing Show

Temescal Amity Works
Opening Exhibition
October 24, 2004
Oakland, CA

Subject to Oneself

September 21 - October 7, 2004
Opening Reception: September 23, 6:30-8pm
PlaySpace Gallery
San Francisco, CA

Piñata Party

September 4-16, 2004
Curated by It Can Change
Reception & Piñata Party September 10 from 6pm until every piñata is smashed
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise at Passersby
New York, NY

Murphy/Cadogan Fellowship Award Exhibition

Jurors: Courtney Fink, Rene de Guzman, Steve Seid.
September 1 - October 9, 2004
Opening Reception: September 1, 5:30-8pm
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
San Francisco, CA

Humanity is the Ultimate Source

[In conjunction with the Artist Projects Series: Exersizes]
with ELeanor Harwood and Christina Turner
July 15 - 21, 2004
Opening Reception: July 15, 6-9pm
PlaySpace Gallery
San Francisco, CA

Film/Video/Performance Juried Show

Jurors: Caveh Zehedi, Hannah Henry, Gregory Cowley.
April 23, 2004
California College of the Arts
San Francisco, CA

Felix Variations: Artists Respond to Felix Gonzales-Torres

Curated by Meredith Talusan
with Meredith Goldsmith and Tanya Zimbardo
April 23 - May 15, 2004
Opening Reception: April 23, 6-9pm
PlaySpace Gallery
San Francisco, CA

Flim Flam Flux: An Evening of Fluxus Performances

March 17, 2004
PlaySpace Gallery
San Francisco, CA

Screening: Romance with a Double Bass

Feb 27, 2004
University of California, Berkeley
(Center for New Music and Audio Technologies)
Berkeley, CA

Screening: Romance with a Double Bass

Feb 20, 2004
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA

The Big Ballyhoo - The Inside of Inside Benefit

December 20, 2003
The Lab
San Francisco, CA

Winter Formal Dance Spectacular

December 12, 2003
California College of the Arts
San Francisco, CA

99 Bottles

November 23 - 25, 2003
Gala Reception: Sunday November 23, 4-9pm
Build Gallery
San Francisco, California

Post-Postcard 7

November 20, 2003
Opening Reception: Thursday November 20, 6-9pm
The Lab
San Francisco, California

Screening: Romance with a Double Bass

June, 2003
International Society of Bassists Convention
University of Richmond, VA

Screening: Romance with a Double Bass

January 15, 2003
Mandeville Recital Hall
University of California, San Diego
San Diego CA

Alien. How I came to terms with my disposition, and other obsessive things

with sound artist Nathaniel Clark
August 1-16, 2002
Reception: Friday August 9, 7-11pm
Herbert Marcuse Gallery
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA

Strength In Numbers

Saturday, June 29, 2002. 7-10pm
Art Auction to benefit Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
Apollo 13 Studio
San Diego, CA