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October 31, 2005
Happy Halloween!
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October 28, 2005
Saratoga Library - Call to Artists
The Saratoga Library and the Santa Clara County Library invite you to submit artwork for consideration as an exhibitor on the Saratoga Library Art Wall. You are offered this opportunity to present your art to enhance the library surroundings and to benefit the community. The selection process encompasses a two-year exhibition schedule beginning in 2006.
download the Call to Artists submission form
ELIGIBILITY: All artists 18 or over are eligible. However, submitted work must be two-dimensional; the library cannot accommodate standing art at this time. Each selected artist will be assigned 30 linear feet of exhibition space.
ENTRIES: Work in any medium, including photography, calligraphy, fiber arts, etc., is welcome. The selection committee will make choices based on quality of work and general scheduling. Artists must submit 5 samples of their work and include the attached application form to be considered. Work may be submitted in one of three ways: maximum size 5 X7” photograph, slide or Polaroid. Submissions will not be returned. Please label each entry with your name, phone number, title, medium and framed dimensions.
EXHIBITION SELECTION CRITERIA: Artistic integrity and highest quality of aesthetic experience will be the primary considerations in the selection of public art for exhibition. The number of pieces selected will be proportionate with number of participants and available space. In addition to any exhibit-specific criteria established by the Library Art Committee, the following criteria shall apply:
1. Audience: The artwork will be suitable for display to a diverse audience including children. It should enhance its setting and help create a sense of place. 2. Style: The artwork should be suitable in scale, materials, and form for its surroundings. 3. Public Safety: The committee will not consider works that they determine may pose a threat to public safety.
PHOTO RELEASE: The library may photograph loaned items and use the images for publicity in all media, including the Internet and other electronic forms of communication.
FEES: No entry fee or commission will be charged to participants.
DELIVERY AND SET-UP: The Library Art Committee will notify artists of show dates, delivery date and pick-up date. Artists are responsible for properly framed and ready-to-hang artwork and for delivery of their work to the library at the scheduled date. Art must be picked up as well, again at the scheduled date and time. Artists will handle their own Installations with consultation with the Library Art Committee. Exhibits are normally scheduled for a 2-month period beginning in March, 2006. All artwork must remain on the wall for the duration of the scheduled exhibit. There will be no exceptions to these rules. Selection of work submitted for 2006-2007 will take place in January, 2006.
DEADLINE FOR ART SUBMISSION: Wednesday, January 4, 2006 (must be received by 5:00 p.m.) addressed to: The Library Art Committee, c/o Dolly Barnes, Saratoga Library, 13650 Saratoga Ave., Saratoga, CA 95070 (408-867-6126x3800) or Betsy White (x3817) or delivered to the library by that time.
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October 21, 2005
Tommie Smith & John Carlos
There's a new beautiful and fitting tribute statue on the San Jose State campus of Tommie Smith and John Carlos exemplifying their brilliant moment of quiet rebellion at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. The work was done by Rigo 23, his thoughtfullness includes a plaque on the number 2 spot that encourages the reader to "Take a stand." Located in the Sculpture Garden (between Clark Hall and Tower Hall), the statue is 20' tall and is made of fiberglass and bronze.
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CONTRAST opens at Low Gallery
CONTRAST featuring works by Tiffany Bozic, Mike Giant, Jeremy Fish, and Mat O'Brien opens Saturday, October 22 from 6-9 at Low Gallery. The exhibit runs from October 22 - November 20, 2005.
Group show featuring black and white drawings including installation.
"Tiffany Bozic's works on paper demonstrate her drafting virtuosity in stark relief; and the precise naturalism of her technique migrates to her paintings, combining with the rather esoteric subject matter to create a kind of surrealism derived from erotic archetypes of the natural world that is essentially Humanist, lyrical and spiritual." -Shana Nys Dambrot
Jeremy Fish is an artist/ illustrator based in san franciscos gloomy outer sunset. He is the co-owner and designer for the Unbelievers skateboard company. His work is a blend of cute and creepy. Using a basic language of charachters and symbols, Jeremy tells simple stories about real life. He works mainly in black and white, pen and paper, but also painting, woodworking, screenprinting, and sculpting as well. His work has appeared in galleries all across the us and around the world. Jeremy enjoys the color brown, old vans, pretty girls, sunsets by the beach, skinning up, saying "nice one", and all things Lebowski.
"Mat O'Brien seems to never be satisfied with one genra or a single point of view in the subject matter of his images. They seem derivated from cliche topics, a view of the sardonic, a friendly jab, or even a simple mans translation of a beautific expression. Although sometimes abstracted his influence's resinate with talk radio, a passing song lyric or a borrowed quote from a friend or author. His boundaries seem to keep him from the obvious or pretentious. This making his work more inviting. At least for now.... at least in his most recent images." -Dan Gallagher
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COMISSION '05
The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery's annual benefit party for art lovers and collectors is tonight. Collect a C’05 Box of specially commissioned work by notable Bay Area artists or get swept up in their signature auction. You're invited to "Eat, drink and groove at your civic art space."
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2005 | 6-11PM
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
401 Van Ness, San Francisco
6PM | VIP RECEPTION | $50
Premier opportunity to purchase C’05 Boxes and Mini Box.
Auction Preview | Cocktails and Hors d’Oeuvres | DJ B-Love
7:30PM | THE PARTY | $25 GENERAL ADMISSION
Open Bar and Sumptuous Snacks | DJ Hofwegen (Associated Stress)
8PM | LIVE AUCTION
Beth Lisick, Auctioneer and MC Extraordinaire
Call 415.554.6080 for details.
Limited number of advance tickets available.
The gallery derives nearly a third of its support through private donors and fundraising events like the Commission 05 release party. For more information about the SFAC Gallery or Commission 05, including Box purchases, please email Meleksah Henderson: meleksah.henderson@sfgov.org.
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October 20, 2005
Roller Jam w/ Cutso
Many of you know and love Paulo (Cutso of the Fingerbangerz) so we wanted to let you know he's having a "little get together" (it's actually his birthday party!) at San Jose Skate this Sunday, Oct. 23rd from 4pm-6pm. Location: 397 Blossom HIll Rd.San Jose
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October 19, 2005
Loose Tooth
Phantom Galleries presents:
Loose Tooth a mash-up art exhibit featuring B.F.F. Collective and H.B. Tattoo Crew.
Artists' Reception:
Thurs. Oct. 27th, 6-10pm, Free and open to the public!
featuring music by: Cutso
55 South First Street, corner of Post St., downtown SJ.
Exhibit on view thru Nov. 20, 2005.
B.F.F. Collective:
Dee Jae Pa’este
Sean Boyles
$nakeEye$
M. Strange
H.B. Tattoo Crew:
Orly Look-Yao
Cory Good Morning
Grand Master Jessico
Abraham Menor
Tobias Torres
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Gypsy Cinema presents Car Wash at St. James Park this Friday!
Head downtown to St. James Park this Friday night for a free screening of the 1976 film "Carwash" starring Richard Pryor. Bring your own lawn chair or a blanket and something warm. It's free and open to all ages (I was barely 13 when I saw it and I turned out okay... right?). Film starts at 8 p.m.
St. James Park - Downtown San Jose
105 N. 1st Street San Jose, CA 95113
Get Map
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New Skool 10th Anniversary Party
On Friday, Oct. 21, Adrian and crew at New Skool Tattoo are celebrating 10 years with a party and photo exhibit (which is a sneak peek to an exhibit here at A.D. later next year.) New Skool, 130 E. San Carlos, SJ, 10pm.
The party continues Saturday night, Oct. 22nd at Blue Monkey (1 E. San Fernando), as an afterparty to the San Jose Tattoo Convention which is going on this weekend at 180 Parkside Ave. You'll need the above flyer for entry though....it's a bit of a "private" party (or just tell them you're there for New Skool.)
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Yoshi 47 at Stussy
Check out Yoshi 47's opening reception on Oct. 21st at the SF Stussy store (1409 Haight Street.) It goes from 8pm -10pm and is free. Yoshi will be exhibiting his latest paintings and motion graphics.
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October 15, 2005
Call for Entries
Attention Photographers
New York based publisher (former publisher of the now defunct art and music magazine, b.informed) is in search of talented photographers to feature in a documentary photography book, Story.
Story, a photo annual, will exhibit new and unpublished work by ten invited documentary photographers.
Selection Process
Invitations will be extended to photographers who:
-demonstrate artistic and technical facility
-are willing to create new and unpublished work
-work exclusively or extremely well with black-and-white film
-have a sincere interest in the use of photography as a storytelling medium
-take a unique and stylish approach to their work
Qualifications
Selected photographers will have adequate writing skills, excellent photo editing skills, will be detail and deadline oriented, will possess strong communication skills, and will be organized and self-motivated.
Consideration / How to Submit
For consideration, photographers are required to submit their current portfolio to submit@storyannual.com. Before sending your portfolio, please be sure to compress your files. We will not consider portfolios that are not compressed or “zipped.” If your portfolio is published on a personal or commercial website, please send us the link and we will use that to reference your work. Photographers are encouraged to submit portfolios regardless of geographic location.
Deadline
Portfolios/links to websites must be emailed to us no later than Nov. 15th, 2005. We will notify photographers of their acceptance on November 22nd.
Note: Please keep in mind that we are asking photographers to submit their portfolios as part of the selection process. We will not publish the photos in your portfolio. Selected photographers will have to create new and unpublished work for the publication.
Submit portfolio’s to:
submit@storyannual.com
Good luck!
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October 13, 2005
Zoe Keating record release
If you haven't experienced the wonderful world of loop cellist Zoe Keating, we highly recommend you make it out to one of her upcoming performances in San Francisco. The former SF resident/roommate of Aaron Ximm at 964 Natoma (former home of the reknowned Field Effects series) now resides in Portland, OR.
Zoe's Record Release Show
Friday, Oct 14, 8:30 pm
St John's Church
1661 15th Street (on the corner of Julian) SF
$5-$10 suggested donation
Zoe opens for Robin Guthrie & Halou (of the Cocteau Twins!)
Monday, Oct 17, 8:00 pm
Mezzanine
Jessie Street near the Old Mint
$10 in advance / $12 at the door
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October 11, 2005
Quality of Life opens October 12th in SF
We caught the film Quality of LIfe at the 2004 Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose. It was shot in and around SF's Mission District. If you missed it, it's finally made it back into the theater in San Francisco, starting Wednesday, October 12, 2005. If you're into grafitti and/or just curious about some of the culture that surrounds it, check it out. It's a nice ride. It's cool even just to see a few notable's like Sam Flores pop up on the silver screen.
UA Galaxy 4 Theater
1285 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
(800) 326-3264
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October 07, 2005
Y2K5 International Live Looping Festival
Saturday, Sunday, October 8-9
noon - midnight
46 live looping artists will perform 30 minute sets on two stages.
Admission: All shows $10/door - no one turned away for lack of funds
Please note the location change:
120 Pearl Alley, Santa Cruz (directions)
Webcast: http://216.12.162.58:9030/ (click listen)
Here's a link to some photos I snapped of the performers/event on Day 1: Y2K5 International Live Looping Festival.
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October 06, 2005
Victims Benefit
hosted by: dj basura
with guests Jen (streetlight), cutso, jeff jagged
When: Friday Oct 07, 2005 at 9:00 PM
Where: THE BLANK CLUB
44 S. ALMADEN AVE., SAN JOSE
No Cover
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October 05, 2005
Anno Domini's new digs
The demolition crew was finishing up today in our new space downtown. Thought you might enjoy a sneak preview. Be sure to mark you calendar for First Friday, December 2nd when our annual group exhibit, Fresh Produce, opens. We're really looking forward to seeing you all again!
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October 03, 2005
The Zine Unbound
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Presents
THE ZINE UNBOUND: KULTS, WEREWOLVES AND SARCASTIC HIPPIES YBCA Galleries
October 7-December 30, 2005
Opening reception: October 6, 2005 from 6-9 pm
Berin Golonu, Assistant Visual Arts Curator, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SAN FRANCISCO—September 7, 2005— Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presents The Zine UnBound: Kults, Werewolves and Sarcastic Hippies, running October 7 through December 30, 2005. The exhibition highlights three publications nationwide as successful models of collaborative activity. In these collaborations, the artists, writers, and designers come together and provide alternative avenues to distribute their artwork. The three zines featured are K48, based in Brooklyn, New York, Werewolf Express, out of Los Angeles, California, and Hot & Cold, published in Oakland, California. Selected art works from zine editors and contributors will cover the gallery walls, turning the exhibition space into a 3D text.
The Zine UnBound: Kults, Werewolves and Sarcastic Hippies is curated by Berin Golonu, Assistant Visual Arts Curator of Yerba Buena Center for the Art. This show is one of the four successive exhibitions at YBCA that highlight a growing trend in visual art—collaborative artist activity. The Zine UnBound: Kults, Werewolves and Sarcastic Hippies is also part of the Center’s “Future Shock” series, one of the Big Ideas that guide the 05-06 programming. Work associated with the Big Idea of Future Shock, investigates reactions to a hyper-modernized world. Some common strands that run throughout these works is the spirit of collaboration and artists forming microcommunities, intended to bring artistic activity and critical dialog back down to human scale. It is a move away from the object-based capitalist economy of the gallery circuit. “I find K48, Werewolf Express and Hot & Cold to be three of the most innovative zines currently being published by artists on the ever-expanding zine scene. Each of them is an exceptional treasure trove of artworks specially commissioned for the page.
The editors of each zine--Scott Hug, who publishes K48, Trinie Dalton, who publishes Werewolf Express, and Chris Duncan and Griffin McPartland, who publish Hot & Cold—are at the nucleus of networks of artists, writers and musicians who come together, inspire one another, and feed one another’s creativity. These creative exchanges have sparked new artistic endeavors that are beautifully manifested on the pages of these zines,” states Golonu. The three zines all employ multiple artist collaborations, but yet they differ greatly in their aesthetic. While still maintaining some of the low-tech, DIY elements, such as Xeroxed pages, they have grown to include a range of different formats, including professionally printed glossy covers and elaborate hand-printed silk-screened pages.
Werewolf Express, edited by Trinie Dalton, is a zine made of up illustration-heavy material accompanied by significant reading. Werewolf Express explores all things werewolf, with all of the writing and art in line with the theme. Complete with short stories, interviews, poems, and informative articles, it is inspired by the encyclopedic style of the editor’s childhood sticker collections. Previous zines by Dalton, are Unicorn Institute, Strawberry Shortcake Meets the Aztec, and Lost Kitten Saves a Nation. On view will be a selection of artworks by artists influenced by the horror genre.
K48 began as Scott Hug’s thesis project at Pratt Institute. While it employs slick graphic design work as a result of his formal training, it is still very much DIY, personal and expressive. Each issue has a different theme, and the exhibition at YBCA will be a site-specific extension of the most recent issue, K48 is an Animal, pulling artwork from the pages in a published format to translate it to gallery walls. Hug has collaborated with 48 artists to create an installation environment within the gallery that references a Boyscout encampment. Each artist has created a separate element for the installation from customized tents, to sleeping bags, to backpacks and bug spray.
Published by Chris Duncan and Griffin McPartland, Hot & Cold, is a true amalgam that has included over 50 artists to date. The editors assigned the zine its own expiration date, with a cap at ten issues, thus the first issue was aptly titled Issue #10. Hot & Cold emphasizes a hand-built quality and the spirit of community which the project is based on. It has come to incorporate an envelope stitched inside its back cover, filled with artist-made goods such as CD’s, DVD’s, buttons, calendars, cookbooks, wallets, and posters. Encompassing an entire community of artists, this goodie bag for Hot & Cold’s readers, is also essentially a way to make their art accessible. On view will be a selection of gallery-based work by thirteen of Hot & Cold’s past contributors.
The Zine UnBound: Kults, Werewolves and Sarcastic Hippies celebrates the creative and political spirit of independent publishing, showcasing independently produced artist publications as a model of collaborative activity as well as an alternative exhibition space and sometimes even as a vehicle to disseminate political messages. The exhibition asks us, what does this banding together by artists say about the world we live in? Does this movement reflect a greater need on the part of contemporary artists for connection and community in an impersonal world? Is resistance to commodification at the root of desire to create temporal artworks? In enlisting a wide variety of people in these projects, perhaps this form of artistic expression is a much needed intervention in our media saturated world.
Also featured in the exhibition is a historic collection of zines dating from the 1980’s to the 90s, from the archives of noteworthy gay fiction writer and zine publisher Dennis Cooper. The Zine UnBound: Kults, Werewolves and Sarcastic Hippies will be accompanied by a 93-page color catalog, independently published in true zine fashion by Hot & Cold editors Chris Duncan and Griffin
McPartland in Oakland, CA.
K48
Editor: Scott Hug
Artists:
Suzanne Ackerman
Carl D’Alvia
Shoplifter
assume vivid astro focus
Dan Attoe
Ben Beaudoin
Hisham Bharoocha
Olaf Breuning
Jared Buckhiester
Chris Caccamise
Peter Coffin
Ryan Compton
Ann Craven
Joanna Ebenstein
Franklin Evans
Brendan Fowler
Jay Foxx
John Hogan
Rachel Howe
Matthew Day Jackson
John Kleckner
Terence Koh
Oliver Lutz
LoVid
Noah Lyon
Michael Magnan
Ashley Macomber
Dominic McGill
Deborah Mesa-Pelly
Billy Miller
Mirror Mirror
Kenneth Andrew Mroczek
Mary J. Nicholson
Shay Nowick
PFFR
Phiiliip
Jon Rappleye
Theo A. Rosenblum
Justin Samson
Adam Shecter
Christian Siekmeier
Tracy Stewart
Scott Treleaven
Michael Wetzel
Grant Worth
Jeremy Yoder
Werewolf Express
Editor: Trinie Dalton
Artists:
David Altmejd
Sue de Beer
Matt Greene
Marnie Weber
Folkert de Jong
Adam Putnam
Sammy Harkham
Sean Dungan
Benjamin Weissman
Lorenzo de Los Angeles
Jesse Bransford
Francine Spiegel
David Hamma
Greg Dalton
Molly Dove Keogh
John Kleckner
Anna Sew Hoy
Nick Lowe
Thaddeus Strode
Hot & Cold
Editor: Chris Duncan
Artists:
Griffin McPartland
Mary Joy Scott
Rebecca Miller
Kyle Ranson
Chris Pew
Jen Smith
Ryan Wallace
Vic Blue
Crust & Dirt
Paul Yurich
Matt O’Brien
Laurie D.
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October 01, 2005
Black & Brown tonight 10/01
Black and Brown, a little gem on San Carlos, is having an art opening Saturday night, October 1st, featuring 6 artists from the region: Lionel Guzman, Jorge Cruz, David Smith, Tiffany Liu, Ken Stockwell and Amin Rastgar. Music by DJ Handecap. Stop by B&B at 1225 West San Carlos, SJ - Opening from 7 - 10pm.
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Ephemeral Transformations
Ephemeral Transformations opens at Hayes Valley Market Gallery in SF tonight and runs through October 20th. Artwork by: Tonya Thorton, Tara Lisa Foley, Frozen Lava, Julie Aviava Bernstein, Brian Caraway and Bert Bergen. Opening Reception: October 1st from 7-10pm. Hayes Vallery Market Gallery is located at 580 Hayes at Laguna in San Francisco.
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The Humble Beginnings of SJ Critical Mass
I went out for the first gathering of a Critical Mass in San Jose yesterday. It was a small group, but the word really hadn't gotten out. Great group of people though. Highly recommend coming out whether you're an enthusiast or a serious cyclist. The group could use your support to make our streets better for all of us. If you want more information email sj_critical_mass@yahoo.com. Hope to see you out there.
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