Art Farm Motel is a large and loose art collective founded by Tony Speirsand Lisa Beerntsen of Graton, Ca. “Portrait of a Girl” is a 8ft x 12ft detail of a room-sized installation (8 feet by 39 feet) called “The Game of Hope or Fear”, created for the 2006 Burning Man festival. The Art Farm artists (more than 60 participants including the East Bay’s Gary Amaro, Claire Cotts, Erik Friedman, Lauren Ari, and Mike Terry) contributed the thousands of drawings that became the paintings’ background, drawing images of either a hopeful or fearful nature. The 2006 Burning Man theme was “The Future: Hope or Fear?” Speirs designed a 16-foot-long, playable game board, (”The Game of Hope or Fear”) flanked by portraits of a girl and a boy, who represent both the players of the game as well as the future.  The resulting three-panel piece was hung in a room just below the Burning Man sculpture at the 2006 festival.

BRAND NEW Firehouse South on 24th & Telegraph is opening with Alan Chin, showing new work.

http://firehouseartcollective.blogspot.com/2010/01/alan-chin-firehouse-south-for-this.html

Alan’s website: http://www.alanchin.us/

Oakland Music & Art Extravaganza

The Warehouse

416 26th St. between B’way and T’graph

FIVE EAST BAY BANDS LIVE!!!!

Beatworm

The Careerers

Million Star Hotel

Measures

Lunch

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DJ “Don Guapo”

***Featuring exhibits from local artists***

Cover $5-$8 (sliding)

www.warehouse416.com

A public/private art program developed by Metrovation that screens fresh and provocative new art videos during the Oakland Art Murmur event occurring the first Friday of every month.  Videos for each monthly show are selected by jury from the submissions of local, national and international video artists. The work is projected from the roof of the Broadway Grand residential building, across West Grand Avenue, onto the 8-story rear wall of the 2201 Broadway office building, achieving a 100’ by 100’ image on the wall. This uniquely large format provides a sort of “wallpaper” of interesting art for the Murmur event and has become an important venue for video artists to display their work.  The partners in the Great Wall of Oakland project are Metrovation, Residents of Broadway Grand, the Oakland Museum of California and the City of Oakland.

Contact: Chris Curtis (510) 839-4000 x237

Guess Who? The Mystery-in-your-face Game

Call to Artists:

Seeking 2D artists working in all mediums, including painting, drawing, printmaking, collage and photography to participate in a collaborative, site-specific installation for a group show at Goforaloop Gallery and a M.A.P.P. (Mission Arts Performance Project) event in early February. M.A.P.P. is a bimonthly art walk where local performers and visual artists come together to exhibit their work at galleries, businesses, homes and community centers throughout the Mission Neighborhood it is attended by hundreds of people and is in its tenth year.

Guess Who? The Mystery-in-your-face Game Is a month long flatwork interactive show being held at Goforaloop Gallery in the Mission District in San Francisco. The project is a collaborative effort between San Francisco based sculptural installation artist Evi Ellias and twenty-four other 2D artists. “Guess Who?” A popular children’s game will be recreated life-size for visitors to the gallery to enjoy and play. The game will consist of two 16’ X 18’ playing boards and a deck of matching large-scale cards made out of original artwork by local artists.

Artwork Requirements: 3 Portraits in any flatwork medium that can be handled by the public as they play the game. Each portrait must be 2’X 3’ and either created directly on or securely mounted to foam core of the same size. Each of these foam core pieces will be either dropped into one of the two playing board frames or become part of the deck. All 3 portraits must be identical to the best of your ability and should represent a recognizable person.

Submission Deadline: Artwork must be delivered by the 3^rd of February at Goforaloop Gallery. 1458 San Bruno Ave, San Francisco CA, 94110.

To Apply: Please send a brief description of why you would like to participate in this collaborative project and 3 images of your previous work, include at least one example of a portrait to showusyourart@gmail.com no later than January 20^th.

MAPP – http://www.redpoppyarthouse.org/mappabout.html

Evi Ellias – Evitaz.com

Goforaloop Gallery – Goforaloop.com