At Spoke Art this month, Portland, Oregon-based artist Ron Ulicny facilitates his fascination of transforming familiar objects to create innovative sculpture, re-presenting them in a unique re-evaluation of materality, purpose and three-dimensional form. Foregoing the object’s usage in some works, Ulicny’s fine craftsmanship and particular attention to the object’s inherent elements of design, color, and style give dignity and exceptional [...]
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At Shooting Gallery‘s opening reception for “Calamity,” we met up with the artist, Mary Iverson. A resident of Seattle, Washington, Mary’s Shooting Gallery solo show is her first at the gallery, although she’s exhibited in San Francisco before at White Walls and Park Life. We talked with Mary about the unique artwork she makes of shipping containers placed [...]
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San Francisco’s First Thursday this February was full of gallery exhibition openings and events, many of which have reach beyond the SFADA galleries, originators of the event. The rare ocurrence of a mild-weathered evening in February afforded the opportunity for the First Thursday crowds to enjoy a genuine art walk. Some of the highlights included: K. Imperial Gallery opened a solo [...]
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Spanish artist Luis Urculo examines the methods and physical act of drawing reinterpreted through crochet, wood, glass and plastic, blending with his artwork the experiences and techniques from his background in architecture and design in “Jet Lag: New Works” his solo show at The Popular Workshop. Urculo’s choice of mediums is vast, and the term ‘drawing’ is cleverly [...]
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Artist Charmaine Olivia continues her exploration of power through the female form within fantasy, supernatural, and surrealistic imagery in her San Francisco solo show debut at Shooting Gallery, “Ritual.” Olivia’s females, painted amid a hauntingly obscure place and time exist between two worlds, possess both human anatomy and god-like qualities and reverences. They have obviously come from an investigation into past cultural and [...]
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Brooklyn-based artist duo Skewville‘s installation show ”Playground Tactics,” curated by gallery director Tova Lobatz is their first solo project with White Walls Gallery. Made up of about 30 artworks and several interactive toys and games, the installation brings the artists’ iconic urban playground style to the gallery space. The artistic duo known as Skewville are twin brothers Ad and Droo Deville, and ”Skewville” derives from the name [...]
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Spoke Art’s first annual Supersonic Electronic Invitational, new works by sixteen artists in various states of their careers, illustrates the variety of work by many of the most imaginative creators throughout the United States: from Mississippi artist Allan Innman‘s photorealistic paintings, the art of Mike Mitchell from Los Angeles, to Brooklyn-based, Miami native Tatiana Suarez. The curator of [...]
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Ever Gold Gallery successfully collaborates again with curator and alternative art historian John Held, Jr. for the current exhibit, Beat by the Bay, tracing local Beat era visual artists and contemporary cooperative galleries through artwork, photographs, and paper ephemera from the era. The survey examines the roles art spaces such as King Ubu, The Six, East and West, [...]
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“Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” Christian Guémy, also known as C215′s solo show at Shooting Gallery until January 7, 2012 investigates the motives of cigarette ads and the iconology of smoking. Employing stencils based upon sample iconography of vintage cigarette advertising, Guémy blends layers of found objects, recycled cardboard, vintage advertising papers, and antique burned canvases with [...]
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In White Wall’s new exhibition, Something About Everything About Something, artist Mark Warren Jacques further explores his interest in sacred mysticism, folklore, and universally shared moments within the growth and cycle of relationships between men and women. Employing universal symbols representing moments such as conception, birth, death and the after-life, his paintings evince the easily transmutable states of being [...]
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