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
new featured artist: Aaron Leaman
pivot art gallery is pleased to present the next artist portfolio in the ongoing series at pivotartgallery.com
visit the site now to see Leaman’s portraits!
Leaman, untitled photograph, 2011
Take 5: Art Break Day
What: Take 5: Art Break Day. Hosted by Art is Moving
Where: San Francisco Bay Area, California
When: September 2, 2011
Details: This free public event encourages attendees to “Take an Art Break” and provides supplies and a space to create art. It will happen simultaneously in five different cities – San Francisco, San Rafael, Richmond, Berkeley, and Oakland from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
Booths and tables will be set up and there will be free access to art supplies, including paint brushes, paper, pencils, paints, and crayons. Everyone is welcome to make art for free. No prior art-making experience is necessary to attend the event.
More Details: artismovingnow.com
Hadley Williams at Arc Gallery
Hadley Williams is part of a group show – the 2nd Annual “FourSquared” exhibition at Arc Gallery
Exhibition: Aug 27th – Sept 28th
Opening Reception: Sat, Aug 27th from 7-10pm
Artist Talk – Sat, Sept 17th from 12-3pm
Closing Reception: – Weds, Sept 28th from 6-8pm
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
Seven on Seven at Rhizome
AOL presents Seven on Seven, a conference bringing together leading figures from the fields of art and technology.
According to the Rhizome website, it “…will pair seven leading artists with seven game-changing technologists in teams of two, and challenge them to develop something new—be it an application, social media, artwork, product, or whatever they imagine—over the course of a single day.”
The conference is organized by Rhizome, an affiliate of the New Museum and is set to take place on May 14, 2011 from 1–6pm at the New Museum in New York.
more info: rhizome.org/sevenonseven
new featured artist: Scott F. Hall
headphones please!
pivot art gallery is pleased to present the next artist portfolio in the ongoing series at pivotartgallery.com
Scott F. Hall, still from "Video Self-Portrait" 2009
Pro Arts Youth Fellows 2011
what: Youth Fellows Exhibition 2011
when: April 12 – 16, 2011
artist reception: Thursday, April 14, 6 – 8 PM
where: Pro Arts Oakland, CA
Pro Arts’ Youth Fellows Exhibition features artwork by young artists participating in the Youth Fellows program. The exhibition showcases new work in a wide variety of mediums, illustrating the creative voice of Oakland youth who took part in ‘Art Intensives’.
more info here: proartsgallery.org
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.
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
Moving Walls 18
The Open Society Documentary Photography Project hosts an opening reception for the Moving Walls 18 exhibition, which focuses on a variety of social justice and human rights issues.
Where: OSI-New York
When: March 16, 2011 (reception) The exhibit will be on view till mid-October, when it moves to OSI’s headquarters in Washington, DC.
Photographers include:
- Samantha Box, Invisible: Homeless LGBT Youth
- Gabriela Bulisova, The Option of Last Resort
- Bénédicte Desrus, Persecution of Homosexuality in Uganda
- Andrea Diefenbach, Country Without Parents: Labor Migration from Moldova
- Carolyn Drake, Paradise Rivers
- Abdi Roble, The Somali Diaspora: A Journey Away
- Tadej Žnidarčič, Being Gay in Uganda
the art of video games at the Smithsonian
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has created a website to let the public vote on video games that will be included in its first exhibit to explore the art of video games.
According to the site, the exhibit will “…explore the 40-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking visual effects, the creative use of new technologies, and the most influential artists and designers.”
go here to vote and for much more info: artofvideogames.org
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
David Lance Goines at Moe’s
David Lance Goines will be discussing and signing his book The Poster Art of David Lance Goines at Moe’s Books in Berkeley on Wednesday January 26, 2011.
the book highlights a four-decade career of distinctive Arts & Crafts-style posters that promote movies, galleries, restaurants, and concerts, and other events and products. this original edition was developed in cooperation with the artist, who provides a preface and there is a foreword by Alice Waters.
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
- dog night at BAM
Brooklyn-based avant-garde ensemble NYMPH presents new music and artist Daniel Jay projects visuals celebrating our best friends – dogs.
L@te at BAM - tonight!
Peter Greenaway lectures
September 13
Avenali Lecture I: “New Possibilities: Cinema is Dead, Long Live Cinema”
Peter Greenaway (The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover; Prospero’s Books)
6:00 pm @ Zellerbach Playhouse
Note: Free tickets (1 per person) available at Zellerbach Playhouse at 5 on evenings of lectures.
September 14
Avenali Lecture II: “Nine Classic Paintings Revisited”
Peter Greenaway
6:00 pm @ Zellerbach Playhouse
September 15
Panel Discussion with Peter Greenaway
12:00 pm @ 315 Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley
more info about the lecture series here
the Townsend Center will screen Greenaway films Sept. 8-10, details here
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