The 2012 California College of the Arts post-graduate exhibitions featured artworks by nearly 50 MFA artists graduating this spring, as well as post-graduate students in Architecture and Design programs. Unfolding throughout CCA’s San Francisco campus, the MFA Exhibition is just a single part of a year-end celebration that includes thesis exhibitions by seven CCA graduate programs such as the Baccalaureate [...]
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Visual Aid’s Live Art Auction May 10 was an intimate evening event that featured stunning work graciously donated by local emerging, mid-career, and established artists such as Ema Sintamarian, Jenn Shifflet, Rex Ray, Amy Casey, Suzy Barnard, Patter Hellstrom, Enrique Chagoya, David King, Olivia Brown, Mark Erickson, and Silvia Poloto, as well as generous support from the most [...]
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On Saturday, April 14, San Francisco Art Institute graduate students in the Dogpatch neighborhood opened their studios to the public, providing visitors to this one-day only event with a unique look at the experiments and challenges within disparate media, and a chance to see the visually stunning results of the creative processes the students have undertaken throughout their academic career. [...]
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From April 1st to the 6th, California College of the Arts San Francisco campus presented the annual Senior Painting Exhibition, the culminating event for the graduating class. The exhibition was nicely complemented with open studios of each of the exhibiting artists just a few feet adjacent to the gallery. Each one illustrated that “painting” can be interpreted as [...]
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On Saturday, March 31 Southern Exposure, one of San Francisco’s oldest non-profit visual arts organizations, held their annual fundraiser and art auction, The Silver Era. This event each year provides a majority of the funds for direct and critical support for Southern Exposure’s exhibition prgrams, So-Ex off-site public art programs, the Artist in Education program, their other [...]
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By Patter Hellstrom Armory Arts Week rates at the top of international art events with 60,000 in attendance and over 40 million dollars transacted economic activity in New York City. The Armory Show at Pier 92/94 led the proceedings with 228 international galleries of modern and contemporary art, nineteen of which were invited from Nordic [...]
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Saint Patrick’s Day is one of Ireland’s biggest holidays: they fundamentally shut down everywhere to celebrate their history and who they are as a nation. In such a metropolis as San Francisco that owes much of its culture to Irish architects, painters, and historical figures that built the city from its very foundation, we should all celebrate Saint Patrick’s [...]
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In conjunction with the closing reception for the month’s show HARUM SCARUM, 111 Minna Gallery collaborated with Oakland Museum of California Audience Development Manager Adam Rozan for “Sketch Tuesdays: The Museum Edition,” featuring artists also working as museum preparators, registrars, curators, marketers, educators, and more in museums around the San Francisco Bay Area. It was especially [...]
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Coordinated by International Interior Design Association‘s Northern California Chapter of the San Francisco City Center, The Windows Project dresses up vacant and occupied storefronts, revitalizing the mid-Market district by making artistic and bright what once was dark and blighted, inviting their audience to take a walking tour on Market from 5th street to Civic Center United Nations [...]
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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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