Hot Rod and Clasic Car Cruise at 1/4lb Giant Burger located at 22nd & Telegraph. Open to anyone who wants to bring out a car, please no art cars. 7-10:00 pm the first friday of every month. Hosted by the Royal Jokers car club. http://royaljokers.blogspot.com/
February 28, 2010
| Saturday March 6th, 12pm to 4pm |
Join Valerie Adinolfi, Collage Artist and Taroist
on Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Oakopolis
447 25th Street, Oakland
12pm-4:00pm
Sliding Scale $15-$20
Materials provided. However, feel free to bring your own images, decorative paper, scraps and/or calendars that are special to you.
Workshop Description:
In this workshop, we will be working with the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck. The workshop begins with a short meditation led by Valerie. Each participant will then pull a tarot card, which will be the focus for their collage. Only the Major Arcana will be used for the workshop. There will be short instruction of the meaning of the cards, with the majority of the workshop focusing on making the collage. A sheet of information about the card will be given. For example, if one pulled The Hierophant, they would receive a sheet with a small color picture along with astrological correspondence, color, Hebrew name, keywords and some symbol information about the card to help with making the collage. Collage making will commence, then a discussion of each individual’s collage and a short closing meditation.
We hope you join us! Workshop limited to 12, so please sign up now with angel@earthangelart.com
| Friday March 5th, 6pm to 9pm |
Join Nan Eastep and Bridget Frederick of B. Spoke Tailor for the must see sewing performance: Windows While You Wait. This will be a multi-media sewing and light show where we will create the window treatments for this lively new cafe in North Oakland’s Tememscal neighborhood.
Look for more appearances by the B. Spoke Tailor stitchers throughout the spring and summer’s Art Murmurs at Remedy, Actual Cafe, Pizzaiolo and Laura Camp and Aaron Hale’s new yogo studio next to Remedy.
| Saturday February 27th, 4pm to 8pm |
GOFORAOOP GALLERY & THE MISSION ARTS PERFORMANCE PROJECT PRESENT:
Guess Who? The Mystery-in-your-face Game
Exhibition details:
February 6th – February 27th 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 6th, 4-8 PM, Free & All Ages Event
Closing Reception: Saturday February 27th, 4-8 PM, Free & All Ages Event
Goforaloop Gallery and Studios
1458 San Bruno Ave, San Francisco, CA 94110
Gallery hours: By Appointment
www.goforaloop.com
Related Events:
San Francisco, CA, February 27th, 2010—Goforaloop Gallery and the Mission Arts Performance Project invite visitors to play a life-size version of the game “Guess Who?” and explore what art in a gallery can be, when it is taken down from the wall and placed in the hands of its audience. Guess Who? The Mystery-in-your-face Game is an interactive, site specific, group show, featuring the work of 19 artists from the Bay Area, Northern California, New York, Texas and beyond.
Evi Ellias is a San Francisco based public artist who creates site specific, interactive installations that ask the question who is art for? And then answer it; “Everyone!” Through Guess Who? The Mystery-in-your-face Game Ellias and the 18 contributing artists explore the constraints of a gallery’s rigidity and the formal process of showing and interacting with art.
Ellias is able to transform the generic “white cube” gallery experience by taking the art off the walls and streamlining it into a single art object, an interactive board-game. In this way she has re-constituted the curation process, creating a cohesive 2D portraiture show which ties work together physically instead of thematically. Her large-scale interactive version of the Milton Bradley game Guess Who? combines the work of 18 flatwork artists and gives visitors to the gallery the chance to interact directly with the art. No more “do not touch” signs, this show is for people of all ages, and allows those who love art along with those new to it a fresh perspective and delightful experience. The portraiture on view in Guess Who? The Mystery-in-your-face Game explores identity and the labels we give ourselves and others. Through the safe parameters of play, we are allowed to ask the simple questions that political correctness so often inhibits such as “Is your person black?” or “Does your person have a big nose?” These are the questions that help define how we see ourselves and how we assume others see us. Additionally the game allows for a rudimentary art critique and analysis when players can ask “Is your person illustrated or real?” or “Is your person looking straight ahead?” Please join us at Goforaloop and MAPP for this free and family oriented social art experiment.
Closing Ceremony: Saturday February 27th, 4-8pm
Family Game Night hosted in conjunction with Just Awesome! The Board Game Store will be an evening of family fun with both big and small board games. Join us at Goforaloop Gallery for the last few rounds of the life-size Guess Who? The Mystery-in-your-face Game and play your favorite games. The art of all 16 artists involved in the show will be on sale and there will be supplies to make your own, Guess Who? The Mystery-in-your-face Game to take home and play. www.JustAwesomeTheWebsite.com
About Goforaloop Gallery and Studios:
Goforaloop Gallery is an industrial gallery apace and resident artist community located in the Mission District of San Francisco. Goforaloop functions as a gallery and event space complete with artist studios, a stage, pristine gallery and lounge. For inquiries on upcoming events and rentals visit www.Goforaloop.com
About the Artist:
Born and raised in Cambridge Massachusetts Evi Ellias is a newcomer to the west coast. After graduating from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts with her BA and BFA Ellias became an active member in the Boston-based A212 artist collective where she collaborated to create several large-scale sculptures and interactive art pieces. After two years she left to pursue a solo career as a public interactive installation artist. Ellias continues to work out of San Francisco as a set designer, public activist and creates hands-on sculptures that strive to narrow the gap between art and its varied audiences. To view her work please visit www.Evitaz.com
Contributing Artists:
Daniel Chen
Joshua Cristantiello
Chelsey Dyer
Evi Ellias
Nick Flatt
Maggie Lamb
Evan Mills
Crystal am nelson
Alfredo Pina
Lucy Rivera
Sam Sheehan
Starr Shippee & ABE
Marta Spurgeon
Najva Sol
Nite Owl
Andrew Sotzing
Jessica Tata
Catlyn Turmelle
Aaron Zonka
| April 2, 2010 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
| May 7, 2010 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
Re-Fashioned explores the art of sustainably produced clothing through the display of handmade garments, photos and video. The show illuminates the origins of the textiles, dyes and processes employed by four local clothing designers {and one wonderful Australian designer}.
Designers:
Ocelot by Angelina DeAntonis
Permacouture by Sasha Duerr
The Moon by Cassidy Hope Wright & Cory Gunter Brown
Watermarks by India Flint
In addition Re-Fashioned: Origins of Our Clothing will be on view Saturdays from 2pm-5pm at Oakopolis during the month of April. As well as the first three Saturdays in May from 2pm-5pm.
| Friday March 5th, 6 pm to 9 pm |
Paintings by Brian Lucas
The Hive Space Gallery
301 Jefferson Street, Oakland
| February 26, 2010 | ||
| 4:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Our last show on Grand Ave. will be closing this weekend, so join us for a blow-out closing party on Friday night. We’re extending our usual 4-7 “happy hour” hours until 9 or so. View 3 shows…Plugged In, the Dave Meeker retrospective…Don’t Look Back, with work by Kathleen King, Jill McLennan, Charlie Milgrim and Margaret Chavigny…and a stellar Works on Paper show by gallery artists. Come by, share a glass of wine and have a last look at the space that started it all. We are moving to 471 25th St. and will open {harder, better, faster, stronger} in April/May 
| Friday April 2nd, 7pm to 9pm |
Oakland artist Fernando Reyes at
REMEDY SALON
Paintings, Drawings, Printworks
March 15th – April 19th
Opening Reception: Friday, April 2nd 7 -9pm
1195 65th Street, Emeryville, CA 94608
510-547-5000 www.remedysalon.com
February 12, 2010
Discolorations
Solo Exhibition by Karen Gallagher
February 18 – April 2nd
reception February 18th 5-8pm
first friday events 5-8pm, March 5th, April 2nd
Karen has been working to isolate in her artistic process, the facets integral to the alchemical ‘print’ process in both her printed & hand drawn works. By focusing on the underlying elements: pressure, stains, and the use of information systems as a sieve these hand drawn encaustic works are created.
Within this body of work, bruises are her primary subject. Focusing on the pure mechanics of writing & line work (similar to handwriting), brocade & other flourished line patterns are layered on wax panels in raw pigment to build up images of bruises. This subject matter illuminates her deep interest in scars & bruises as a fading, or permanent, record of an action or event that is intense enough to cause an imprint or stain on the body. The physical and observable evidence of damage to the body is represented as sensual and seductive undulations of brocade patterning.
Karen Gallagher was born in Queens, New York and is currently maintaining her studio in Oakland, CA. She is an experimental printmaker focused on disassembling the traditional format of printmaking into a contemporary experience of self-documentation and re-composition. Gallagher has taught in Bay Area educational programs such as Kala, the San Francisco Art Institute (where she received her MFA with the department Merit Fellowship), and the Richmond Art Center. She exhibits locally and on the east coast in Solo and Group exhibitions, and maintains an Artist Residency at Kala in Berkeley. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art through their acceptance of a group printmaking portfolio “The Printable Principles of Dialogue” and The State University of New York at Albany Art Museum.
Image: Black and Blue 7 (detail) drawn dry pigment on beeswax panel, 2009
Branch Gallery
455 17th Street, Suite 301
Oakland, CA 94612
info@bayvan.org
(510) 508-1764
| Saturday March 6th, 8pm to 12pm |
Subterranean Arthouse’s one-year anniversary celebratory fundraising event! Including a silent auction featuring work by local artist, wine, gift certificates to local restaurants, music lessons, massages and much more. We will also be featuring live music by prominent bay area musicians! Sliding scale $10 – $100. Hor d’oeuvres and cash bar.
WHERE: 2179 Bancroft Way, Berkeley
Between Fulton and Shattuck
Subterranean Arthouse was founded in March 2009 as a means to fulfill the community arm of the Tree of Life’s, a nonprofit organization, mission to provide cultural education to schools and communities through the medium of the arts. With the opening of the Subterranean Arthouse, we have created a community space for the exhibition of experimental and improvisational art. The Subterranean Arthouse offers support to artists of all levels, of all modalities, to come in, collaborate, perform, offer interactive events with the community. In the past year, we have presented many performance productions including butoh dance, theater shows, music concerts, visual art exhibits, contemporary dance salons, and art installations. We also offer classes for children and adults alike in many artistic disciplines.
