art and science exhibit in Pasadena
The exhibit titled ’Worlds’ at the Art Center College of Design examines how scientific knowledge shapes our understanding of the world. Go directly to very cool images called The Hall of Moons by following this link: williamsongallery.net
‘Worlds’ continues through January 29, 2012.
Read more from the LA Times here: Art and science collide at Pasadena gallery
Jingletown Art Walk
The Jingletown Arts & Business Community announces their 6th Annual Holiday Art Walk,
Saturday and Sunday, December 3 & 4, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
The annual holiday open studios will highlight the work of artists who live and/or work in the area known as Jingletown, which is situated between the Park and Fruitvale Street bridges adjacent to the Oakland Estuary in Oakland, California.
For a complete listing of participating Jingletown artists and events, go to: jingletown.org.
Park Street Bridge, Color Woodcut 9"x12" Fernando Reyes © 2011, Lettering Bill Silveira
Pacific Standard Time
Pacific Standard Time exhibits the history of art in Los Angeles from the post-World War II era through the 1960s and 1970s. By exploring the significance of this decisive period, the wide-ranging show encompasses media from ceramics to video; movements from L.A. Pop to conceptualism; and themes from cultural identity and politics to the history of artist collectives in Southern California.
a collaboration of more than 60 institutions across Southern California, it begins October 2011 and runs to April 2012. check out pacificstandardtime.org, for lots more information about the exhibitions.
An intermedia performance at CalArts, 1983. Courtesy of the CalArts Archive
Digital Darkroom: An Exploration of Altered Realities
Images have been manipulated since the earliest days of photography. Techniques such as retouching, compositing and multiple exposures have been employed in the darkroom for generations, and with the advent of computer technologies, new styles have emerged. An exhibit at Los Angeles’ Annenberg Space for…
Think Art—Act Science at SFAI
Think Art—Act Science is a group exhibition of works and collaborative processes by artists who have engaged in long-term creative dialogues with scientists. Featured artists are Monika Codourey, Christian Gonzenbach, Alexandre Joly, Roman Keller, Pe Lang, Wenfeng Liao, Alina Mnatsakanian, and Nicole Ottiger.
when: September 22–November 12, 2011
more info: www.sfai.edu
YBCA – Bay Area Now
Chris Fraser, One line drawing the view from my studio window — credit: courtesy of the artist
don’t miss Part II of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts sixth edition of its signature triennial event, Bay Area Now, a celebration of regional artists across an array of disciplines, from performance to visual art, to film/video.
when: July 9 – October 22, 2011
where: YBCA, 701 Mission Street, San Francisco, Calif.
more info: www.ybca.org
Surface : Pattern :: Pattern : Surface
pivot art gallery is pleased to announce Surface : Pattern :: Pattern : Surface
An exhibition of works by Hadley Williams and Talulah Terryll, guest curated by Peter Hayes at Local 123 Cafe in Berkeley, CA.
Opening reception Friday, July 15, from 7-9 pm at the Cafe, 2049 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley. Live music, popcorn and, as always, great coffee, wine and beer. On display from July 11 to August 11 at Local 123.
Guest curator Peter Hayes organizes a show around the rich lines of resonance between Hadley Williams and Tallulah Terryll’s work. Attention concentrates on their work’s connection to a framework of a pattern, to a repetition of marks applied to a surface. In every piece, the patterns are interrupted – sometimes subtly, sometimes forcefully – by the nuances of each artist’s material, hand, and vision. The result is a joint collection that inhabits the space between mechanism and gesture, control and flexibility, stencil and spontaneity.
Affecting also the space between art and viewer, the pieces animate their surrounding area — above and below, left and right — with the way they balance rhythm and chaos. Terryll creates her patterns out of paint applied through hand-made stencils in multi-layered designs: what emerges is a vibrational character that lifts pattern off of surface. Williams endows her work with an actual and relentless dimensionality by adhering a range of materials (from bubble wrap to correction tape) to her surfaces. Their approaches to surface and pattern reflect against each other, completing the analogy – the surface is to the pattern as the pattern is to the surface.
After receiving her B.F.A. in 2003 and spending 2 years in Japan, Terryll is currently based in Oakland, California. For more information, see www.tallulahterryll.com. Williams works out of her immaculate studio in Berkeley, CA, and is currently enrolled in the MFA program at John F. Kennedy University, which she will complete in December 2011. For more information, see www.hadleywilliams.com
Desirée Holman’s Heterotopias at BAM/PFA
Desirée Holman: video still composite from "Heterotopias," 2011; three-channel HD video; 13 mins.; courtesy of the artist and Silverman Gallery, San Francisco.
who: Desirée Holman
what: Heterotopias
where: bampfa
when: June 26–September 18, 2011
Desirée Holman: Heterotopias / MATRIX 238 is curated by Phyllis Wattis MATRIX Curator Elizabeth Thomas.
new featured artist
pivot art gallery is pleased to present the next artist portfolio in the ongoing series at pivotartgallery.com
visit the site to see paintings of war and power by Lillian Bayley Hoover
Hoover - War TV (detail)
new featured artist: Mark Isaac
Mark Isaac - 4 details
Arts Advocacy Day 2011
The annual Arts Advocacy Day is the only national event that brings together a broad cross section of America’s cultural and civic organizations, along with hundreds of grassroots advocates from across the country, to underscore the importance of developing strong public policies and appropriating increased public funding for the arts. More info here: Arts Advocacy Day 2011.
artist Jill Magid at BAM/PFA
Jill Magid: Closet Drama / MATRIX 237
Jill Magid: The Sky From the Capital Steps, 2010; digital photograph; courtesy of the artist and Yvon Lambert, Paris, New York.
March 20, 2011 – June 12, 2011 More info: bampfa.berkeley.edu
Mexico: Expected/Unexpected at MCASD
The exhibition features works by Mexican contemporary artists as well as international artists who share similar sensibilities.
It runs through May 15, 2011 at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD). more info here: mcasd.org
Carlos Amorales, The Horny Ghost 07, 2007, oil on canvas
artist Bulisova featured on Burn
Gabriela Bulisova - Iraqi-Refugee
artist Gabriela Bulisova (featured on pivot Aug 2010) series on Iraqi refugees featured on Burn magazine.
Burn is an online journal for emerging photographers curated by magnum photographer david alan harvey
here is the link: burnmagazine.org
Very Local – a Local 123 staff show
Local 123 - 2049 San Pablo Avenue (at University Avenue) Berkeley, CA 94702
Artists: Evan Gilman, Olivia Lopez, Julia Sacket, Emma Spertus, Rebecca Stevens, Tim VanDragt, Brian Quakenbush.
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 26, 7-10pm
Very Local Live: An evening of performance - Saturday, April 2, 7pm
Exhibition closes: April 3, 2011
featured artist Maria Zaikina
pivot art gallery is pleased to present the next artist portfolio in the ongoing series at pivotartgallery.com
Maria Zaikina – 2 details
check out the site to see two remarkable, very different yet parallel portfolios!
Powers of Ten | A Variation
Excursions into Domains of Familiarity and Surprise
Sunday, February 6, 3 p.m. @ BAM/PFA (free)
This event frames the research process, starting from the known and reaching forward to the unknown. The program includes a screening of Powers of Ten (and other special shorts) alongside sound experimentation with Marijke Jorritsma.
more info here: futurefarmers.com/powersoften
Outernational In Print
WHAT: An exhibition of photographs by members of Metro Collective
WHERE: FOTOWEEK DC & BEYOND – United States District Court for the District of Maryland, 6500 Cherrywood Lane, Greenbelt, MD 20770
WHEN: November 4, 2010 to January 26, 2011 – RECEPTION: THURSDAY, 01/13/2011, 5PM TO 6:30PM
A joint exhibition of powerful documentary photographs by members of the international Metro Collective photographic group. Eight participating photographers present series of photographs from around the world: from Holocaust survivors celebrating Purim holidays at an assisted living home in Prague, to children in Afghanistan, to impoverished gold miners of Peru, to victims of the Chernobyl nuclear accident’s aftermath, to people of the Miskito Coast of Honduras, to the voodoo celebrations of Haiti, to the landscapes of Eastern Europe.
The idea behind OUTERNATIONAL IN PRINT is a worldview that emphasizes looking outward, embracing what is beyond our field of direct vision, calling upon us as viewers to commit some of our overburdened emotional energy to connect with the world through this unique, immersing visual portal. Through these images, our collective understanding of the world around us is enhanced and enriched.
METRO COLLECTIVE is a coalition of independent photographers in DC and around the world, united by shared dedication to the expressive documentary tradition. The twelve members bring their individual visions to create what is at times a brutally honest, at times poetic and beautiful, but always humanistic record of the world.
Metro Collective is:
Michael Bonfigli (Washington DC)
Gabriela Bulisova (Washington DC)
J Carrier (New York, NY)
Daniel Cima (Washington DC)
Bill Crandall (Washington DC)
Hector Emanuel (Washington DC)
Michael Robinson Chavez (Los Angeles CA)
Karel Cudlin (Prague, Czech Republic)
Scott Dalton (Bogota, Colombia / Houston TX)
Bevis Fusha (Tirana, Albania)
Eros Hoagland (Oakland CA)
Robert Knoth (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
WEBSITE: metrocollective.com
FACEBOOK: facebook.com/metrocollective
moving stories project
Moving Stories
- an international co-operation project supported by the European Union. Six partner organisations from Belgium, Italy, Austria, Germany, France and Poland are producing and exhibiting six new works of art. Each partner co-produced the work of one artist.
see more here: moving-stories.eu
museum of digital art — now open!
back in August I mentioned keeping an eye out for the Adobe Museum of Digital Art. it is now open and the inaugural exhibition is excellent!
take a look at the Uncanny Valley exhibition by artist Tony Oursler here
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