« May 2005 | Main | July 2005 »
June 30, 2005
Barron Storey in the Metro
Metro's Gary Singh wrote a nice piece on Barron's exhibit in today's issue so pick up a copy for some insight. (One small correction, Barron resides in San Francisco, not San Jose.)
SAVE THE DATEs:
Saturday, July 9th: Barron will reunite with world reknown Osseus Labyrint for a performance at Anno Domini.
Thursday, July 14th: Bill Daniel screens his hobo grafitti culture film "Bozo Texino" at Anno Domini.
Thursday, July 21st: Barron will give a talk on his work and process of his current exhibit "Black Iraq."at A.D. This is also the closing of the exhibit.
Check our website for more information.
Posted by Cherri at 09:53 AM | Comments (0)
June 27, 2005
Tannery Arts Center in Santa Cruz
Giant Cow
We had the opportunity to tour the grounds of the future Tannery Arts Center in Santa Cruz today. The TAC will offer affordable housing and studio space for individual artists as well as office, classroom, rehearsal and performance space for arts organizations.
The official opening is a good three years out with ground breaking sometime next Spring hopefully. However, artists have already begun to work on several larger than life paper mache cows that they plan to place strategically around the grounds to reveal the property has new caretakers.
Posted by Brian at 10:39 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack
June 25, 2005
Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibit tours U.S.
Jean-Michel Basquiat, photo by William Coupon
Basquiat exhibit comes to Los Angeles at MOCA from July 17-October 10, 2005.
The story of Basquiat is one we're all too familiar with when it comes to any visionary's overnight rise to fame. They often fall as fast.
Born on December 22, 1960, to a Haitian-American father and a Puerto Rican-American mother, Jean-Michel Basquiat was raised in Brooklyn. Although active for just one decade, he is considered one of the best-known artists of his generation and received unprecedented international recognition. When still in his teens, Basquiat first gained notoriety among New Yorkers for the cryptic graffiti poetry he sprayed on the walls of Lower Manhattan under the pseudonym SAMO. In 1981, when he was 20 years old, Basquiat burst upon the art scene under his own name with an original body of work that quickly developed into a complex and highly diverse, mature style, marked by innovation, sophistication, skill, and a stirring emotional depth. By the age of 21, he had already enjoyed five important one-person exhibitions and been included in the prestigious Documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany. Basquiat died of a drug overdose in 1988 at the age of 27.
Untitled
1984
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
81 x 69 14/4 inches
The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Collection, Los Angeles
© 2004 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Posted by Brian at 01:26 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Intersection for the Arts Celebrates 40 Years!
Carolyn Ryder Cooley performance
Intersection for the Arts is celebrating its 40 years in action this year. They've done and are doing some of the most amazing work in the arts out in the Mission District of San Francisco.
Last week they had a big street party out on Valencia and some great works inside. We ran into Carolyn again sitting on a chair suspended over the staircase in one of the most beautiful installations/performances we've seen in a long time.
Posted by Brian at 10:26 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
June 23, 2005
Bike Club - SJ
Shawn-Paul is starting up a bicycle club here in the downtown. "Meet cool people see great bikes and have a beer"...(environment awareness was mentioned as well, and it's free.) Tonight is the charter gathering with a mob ride over to "Music in the Other Park" at 6pm. Ends back at O'Flarety's after the concert.
Tonight-Thurs. June 23nd @ 5 PM , O'Flarety's Irish Pub, San Pedro Sq. @ Santa Clara St. Downtown. Email Shawn-Paul for more info.
Posted by Cherri at 08:54 AM | Comments (0)
June 21, 2005
Garden of Memory at Chapel of the Chimes tonight
2005 New Music Bay Area and Chapel of the Chimes present Garden of Memory: a Columbarium Walk Through Event at Chapel of the Chimes
Experience sound artists and musicians throughout every room of this labyrinthine Julia Morgan-designed columbarium and mausoleum replete with gardens, fountains, and stained-glass skylights.
4499 Piedmont Ave.,
next to Mountain View Cemetery, in Oakland
June 21, 2005
5 to 9 pm.
$10 general, $5 students and seniors.
Performing artists:
Krystina Bobrowski, Monique Buzzarte, Sarah Cahill, Cornelius Cardew Choir, Luciano Chessa, Joe Colley, Paul Dresher and Joel Davel, Larnie Fox, Miguel Frasconi, Ellen Fullman and Celeste Hutchins, Mamoru Fujieda, Phil Gelb, Victoria Jordanova, Henry Kaiser, Jen Baker, Damon Smith, Elaine Kreston, Gregory Kuhn, Gregory Moore, Amy X Neuburg, Maggi Payne, Philip Perkins, Dan Plonsey, Jon Raskin, Brian Reinbolt, Sagan: Blevin Blectum, Lesser, Wobbly, Dean Santomieri, Jason Serinus, Tonal Chaos, Geirr Tveitt/Lino Rivera, William Winant Percussion Group, Katie Wreede, Ya Elah, Pamela Z, Aaron Ximm, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Randy Porter
Posted by Brian at 02:00 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
June 17, 2005
Carolyn Ryder Cooley at The Zebra Show
We went by The Lab last night in the Mission to see Carolyn and friends perform for the opening of The Zebra Show... rare and mystical indeed. Saturday, June 18, from 1-6 p.m. is your last chance to see/purchase the artists' very affordable works and contribute to their efforts for a new mural in Clarion Alley.
The LAB
2948 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
p: 415.864.8855
Posted by Brian at 08:31 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
June 13, 2005
Hands on Hip Hop workshop
Our buddy Jim is organizing a Hip Hop Workshop for teenagers at SKYLAB (Sacramento) on June 24th, 3pm - 11pm. He is looking for persons willing to donate a couple of hours to showing kids what this culture is all about.
There will be breakdancing, MC/poets workshop, DJ workshop, videos playing constantly about the history of the hip hop movement, and a local silk screener will be creating limited T-shirts with the kids on site, damn.
RSVP ASAP by emailing Jim Vetter, Studio Director
Posted by Cherri at 01:35 PM | Comments (0)
June 12, 2005
Call for Proposals for Commissioned Works
ISEA2006 Symposium
ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge
THEME: COMMUNITY DOMAIN
This is an invitation by the ISEA2006 Symposium and ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge to groups and individuals to submit proposals for interactive artworks and projects reflecting on the thematic of "Community Domain". Up to three commissions will be awarded, and the results will be shown at the ISEA2006 Symposium and ZeroOne San Jose Festival.
ABOUT THE ISEA2006 SYMPOSIUM AND ZEROONE SAN JOSE FESTIVAL
The 2006 edition of the internationally renowned ISEA Symposium will be held August 5-13, 2006, in San Jose, California.
The Inter-Society for Electronic Arts (ISEA) is an international non-profit organization fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organizations and individuals working with art, science and emerging technologies. Prior host cities include Helsinki, Paris, Sydney, Montreal, Chicago, Manchester and Nagoya.
ZeroOne San Jose is a milestone festival to be held biennially that makes accessible the work of the most innovative contemporary artists in the world. In 2006 it will be held in conjunction with the ISEA2006 Symposium.
See http://isea2006.sjsu.edu for more information about the Festival and Symposium.
ABOUT THE COMMUNITY DOMAIN CALL
Over the next year leading up to August 2006, individuals or groups will be commissioned to work with various San Jose communities combining technologies such as GPS, mobile communications or digital imagery to map their experiences and to tell their stories. These experiences and stories will become part of the fabric of the festival. In this way, the Festival becomes not only a glimpse of the possibilities of art and technology, but using some of those same innovative technologies, it is a celebration of the diversity found in San Jose and a platform for community members to participate.
A wide range of cultural contexts, media, art disciplines and venues are feasible within the definition of "Community Domain".
San Jose has a very diverse and hybrid population, and we are particularly interested in projects that traverse different communities.
Three commissions will be offered for projects related to the Community Domain theme: one at a level of $25,000 and two at the level of $5,000.
Proposals may be submitted by individuals or groups: professional artistic credentials and advanced forms of technology are not required. The proposal narrative should be no more than three pages in length and should cover five topics:
Description of the project: What are the characteristics of the project? In what ways will the project connect to the theme of Community Domain?
Audience: In what fashion will an audience be engaged in this project? In what ways will the project seek to engage audience members of varying cultural backgrounds?
Technology: What types of technology will be incorporated into the project?
Personnel: Please identify the key individuals/groups involved in this
project, and their qualifications.
Budget: Please provide a brief explanation of how funds will be used to
support this project.
Special Considerations:
Projects will be welcome in a variety of traditional or new forms of art, media and physical environments. For example, projects in formal theater or exhibition settings or informal community or outdoor settings will be appropriate. All art forms are welcome including literary, performing, visual, media and multidisciplinary. Appropriate forms of technology include, but are not limited to, mobile communications, Worldwide Web, recorded audio or video, film, robotics and digital imagery.
Projects involving teams and collaboration are encouraged.
All projects should incorporate an element of "shared space" that will be accessible to persons of varied backgrounds.
Preference will be given to projects involving artists and other personnel having significant familiarity with the communities and cultures of San Jose and Silicon Valley.
TIMELINE
Proposals must be submitted by August 1, 2005. Proposals will only be accepted online at http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/submissions . All proposals will be reviewed by a panel of distinguished authorities on culture, art, technology, and community. Final awards will be announced by September 1, 2005. All awards are subject to ZeroOne San Jose's fundraising efforts.
INQUIRIES
Questions regarding this call for proposals can be addressed to communitydomain@yproductions.com
PLEASE NOTE
There will be a subsequent call, beginning September 1, 2005, for existing projects related to the Community Domain theme that do not, necessarily, focus on San Jose / Silicon Valley.
ISEA2006 Symposium | ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge
Calls for Participation
Community Domain Commissions
Posted by Brian at 09:31 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
June 09, 2005
Inspiration versus Information
"Of course there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask, 'how,' while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why.' Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information." ~ Man Ray
Posted by Brian at 09:51 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Sony Bites LOMO
As any of the million plus Lomo lovers will tell you, one of the Golden Rules of Lomo is, and has always been "Don't Think. Just Shoot." It's on all of their literature and it's the title of the Lomo coffee table book
Translated from German via Google:
Thursday, 9 June 2005 ADVERTISEMENT NEWS homepage Sony: New advertisement and Plakatkampagne [ 06/06/2005 ] "Don't think. Shoot." The new advertisement and poster campaign of Sony set completely on Spontaneitaet and intuition. Whether when filming, photographing or with the music down load -- to try goes studying over. Principal item of the new Sony campaign are the in-usual advertising messages "Don't think. Shoot." for the photography range and "Don't think. Connect." for mobiles music pleasures. The main messages: Mach of snapshots in each situation in life, and connects you at any time with the unlimited music world approximately around the Sony MP3-Walkman and the InterNet platform Connect. The campaign beside the poster notice is unrolled into larger Swiss cities in public means of transport via hanging cardboards with Dispenser, by means of supplement in the Sundays press and over a specialized trade brochure. Parallel to it also TV Spots are driven to the new DVD Camcorder. At the POINT OF Sale is led the werbekampagne consistently further and creates so clear recognizing at the consumers.
Posted by Cherri at 12:37 PM | Comments (2)
RotGut LA
We're pleased to see RotGut showing in L.A. and getting the recognition he deserves. He and Fosik had their debut gallery showing here back in 2001 and returned last year with Monster Project (catalog here.) If you're in L.A., check it out.
Posted by Cherri at 11:20 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The Fungus by Attaboy
Check out The Fungus, a short movie Attaboy put together from his recent installation for the CrossOver Toy Show down at Nucleus Gallery in Los Angeles. Be sure to stop by the YumFactory and HiFructose booth and say "hey!" to him if you're at Comicon next month (July 14-17). Enjoy.
Posted by Brian at 09:39 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
June 07, 2005
Chanticleer performs Hildegard von Bingen
My first experience with the music of Hildegard von Bingen was when David Lynch and his partner John Neff produced Jocelyn Montgomery's "Lux Vixen" back in 1998 which featured interpretations of compositions by the medieval mystic. Since then I've picked up additional recordings of her work and any books I could find to learn more about her life.
I was disappointed to find out that the internationally reknown Chanticleer had just performed an original music-theater piece titled, Hildegard: A Measure of Joy at St. Joseph's Cathedral (practically in our back yard) and we hadn't heard a word about it. But here's the good news... there are two more performances in the Bay Area. Tickets are almost gone so act quickly if you're interested.
Posted by Brian at 06:09 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
43rd Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival
The 43rd Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival Road Show Tour features four hours of the Festival's award winning independent films selected from over one thousand entries submitted this year. While the films may range in origin from local to international, in length from 1 minute to half an hour, and from humorous animation to serious documentary, the one thing they all have in common is no major studio affiliation. KFJC has been presenting what is usually the only Bay Area screening of the Festival's winning entries for 11 years, because the films exhibit a raw, financially non-polluted spirit like much of the music played at the station. The films screen in Foothill College's Appreciation Hall on Saturday, June 11 from 7PM - 11PM, and again on Sunday from 6PM - 10PM. Admission is $5 - $10 sliding scale benefits KFJC.
Posted by Brian at 05:34 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
and the Storey goes on...
"There is no student who left his hands without being stripped of their artistic hubris. We all walk and think, draw and paint, with the ghost of Barron in our forehead. His remnants are tendrils in your mind, reminding you of every what-if, every tragedy, every comedy, every searing archetype that you embody. And how it is possible to tap into the dark wealth of your psyche if you only allow yourself to destroy what you create, and create what you have destroyed. A true shaman, indeed." ~ Nadine Takvorian
Posted by Brian at 11:32 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
New Photography Competition
CALL FOR ENTRIES deadline June 24, 2005
New Photography is looking for high quality, cutting edge work to exhibit in the photography galleries of the Millard Sheets Gallery at the L.A. County Fair. Each year more than 500,000 people view this exhibition, which includes some of the finest examples of contemporary fine art photography.
For information write:
The Millard Sheets Gallery
Andi Couwenberg, New Photography Coordinator
P.O. Box 2250
Pomona, CA, 91769
or fax to (909) 629-2067, Attn: New Photography Competition/The Millard Sheets Gallery
E-mail, couwenberg@fairplex.com
Find the complete Call for Entries and registration forms on our web site,
AWARDS
$5,000 in total prize money is offered. The jurors will select the winners from prints (no slides) in both college and open divisions. All entries selected for the exhibit will receive a certificate suitable for framing.
JURORS
Daniel Foster is the executive director of the Riverside Art Museum.
Dennis Keeley is the chair of photography at the Art Center of Design in Pasadena.
Habib Kheradyar is founder and director of the critically acclaimed POST, an alternative art space.
Steve Scudder is a commercial photographer, specializing in studio and location advertising photography.
Posted by Brian at 09:23 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Contemporary Fine Art Competition and Paint Out
Returning to the formidable tradition established by California regionalist Millard Sheets, director of Fine Arts at the L.A. County Fair from 1930 to 1956, the Fair will organize a Fine Art Competition to be exhibited at the Millard Sheets Gallery Wednesday through Sunday Sept. 9 through Oct. 2, 2005.
For more information write:
The Millard Sheets Gallery
Cris Martinez
P.O. Box 2250
Pomona, CA, 91769
or fax to (909) 629-2067, Attn: Contemporary Fine Art Competition/ The Millard Sheets Gallery
E-mail, cmartinez@fairplex.com
Find the complete Call for Entries and registration form on our Web site.
JURORS
Steven Comba is assistant director at the Pomona College Museum of Art in Claremont.
Peter Frank is an art critic.
Roland Reiss is a painter and sculptor.
ELIGIBILITY
Competition is open to artists 18 years of age or older working in oil, watercolor, acrylic, gouache, or mixed media. Artwork must be originals less than two years old. Paintings must be exactly as presented on slide (if applicable). Categories are Abstract, Plein Air/Still Life, or Figurative. Artists are also invited to participate in a Paint Out the first three days of the L.A. County Fair to create unique scenes of the excitement on the Fairgrounds. These paintings will be judged as a separate category.
AWARDS
Awards total $4,200. 1st place in each category and one Best in Show award will be given, along with a People’s Choice prize. All winners and honorable mentions will be exhibited during the L.A. County Fair, Sept. 9 through Oct. 2. Winners (except Paint Out and People’s Choice) will be published in the exhibition catalogue and posted on our website at www.fairplex.org.
Posted by Brian at 08:59 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
June 05, 2005
MIY (Make it yourself) culture
O'Reilly's new Make magazine
Posted by Brian at 09:15 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Electron Wranglers
The good people at Machine Project in L.A. are offering a beginning class on electron wrangling. Their pitch, "After 4 sessions of intense brain expansion you will bask in your new knowledge and 'can do' attitude towards using electricity to make rad art."
I've got to admit I'm a little jealous that I can't take it (it meets in L.A. for 4 consecutive Sundays starting June 12th, 4-8 p.m.). If you're in the area and think this would be for you... see the course description on their website. Mark Allen, the instructor, gives some good resources to check out even if you can't make it down there. Enjoy.
Posted by Brian at 08:18 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
A Vulcan Sunday
We went up to the Vulcan today to visit Ezra and Charity, and Alfonso. Ezra has a show coming up at Inferno Gallery on June 30th. And Alfonso has some new work you'll be seeing at A.D. soon!
Ezra's works.
Alfonso's works.
Posted by Cherri at 07:25 PM | Comments (0)
Ryder Cooley
Carolyn stopped by to talk with us about her upcoming exhibit here (with Jessie) this fall. She regaled us with stories about her recent trip to Checklosovakia, hermaphrodite deer and buildings made out of human bone.
Carolyn and Barron devise a plan to serranade nature.
Posted by Cherri at 12:35 PM | Comments (0)
We Heart Paul
After our First Friday opening nights, we like to take the weekend off and be on the other side of the art business....the art admirer. We went up to SF to see Paul's new exhibit "Inside Out" at Low. His work has evolved quite a bit since showing here (and here) and we encourage you to check it out. Paul has also been invited into a Yerba Buena group show yet to be announced.
Some of our favorite pieces:
Posted by Cherri at 12:09 PM | Comments (0)
June 02, 2005
Latino Art Auction
Nezar by Doze Green
Long before we started our gallery, Anno Domini, we would scour art events and happenings searching for artists that we didn't know of... a bit of a treasure hunt is how we saw it (since then, we've realized it was inspiration we were in search of and art provides it for us). I must say that now, looking back, we scored with a Doze Green triptych we bought at the MACLA Latino Auction over 5 years ago (I think Doze still lived here at the time). Each panel is 3' tall, acrylic on wood, depicting man, God and the devil. These days Doze's work sells faster than it can dry and is way out of our price range.
MACLA is having it's 7th Annual Latino Art Auction this Saturday, June 4th, where it promises to give you the opportunity to find your own treasure...and inspiration as well.
Posted by Cherri at 01:20 PM | Comments (0)