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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Broadsides were used in England and the early United States to announce an event, proclamation, news, or other public matter. Later, broadsides became a prime means of communication and featured cartoons, poems, and song lyrics. During the twentieth-century Harlem Renaissance, Concrete and Beat writers claimed the broadside as a subversive means to get their poems and prose to the [...]
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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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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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First Amendment Gallery’s collaborative group show and charity event “The Truck Show SF” with artists Optimist and Plantrees presents Bay Area artist graffiti writers like Satyr, Jurne, and Pemex, creating an absorbing exhibition of installations and mixed media artworks that celebrate the commercial truck’s significant contributions graffiti and street art. 100% of the sales proceeds benefit programming at the [...]
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Begun at 111 Minna Gallery by Sacha Eckes and hosted by Brad Adler, Sketch Tuesdays offers the local arts community a place to congregate, exchange ideas, create, and to be seen. There was plenty of room for artists to drop in and draw, but the invited artists this month included Robert Bowen, Brett Amory, Jennybird [...]
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RayKo Photo Center’s Fifth Annual Plastic Camera Show, beginning January 18th, features the “stunning and surprising” photographs of the juried competition made by the winning plastic camera photographers from all over the Bay Area, as well as national and international artists. Among thousands of entries received this year, Rayko Photo Center chose just 100 pieces. The photographs illustrate [...]
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Varnish Fine Art‘s current group exhibition, “Mind Spring” with artists Chuck Sperry, Chris Shaw, and Ron Donovan re-assign meaning and re-contextualize images into and within the pop-art culture. Giving rock music and popular culture visual expression in sync with their urban settings, the art works, primarily their subjects are used to purposely transform events and [...]
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Electric Works‘ dual solo shows, Katherine Westerhout “At Long Last” and Jim Haynes in the Project Space explore the dynamic processes and rich visual aesthetics of decay and erosion within the urban landscape. Only using available light and no staging, Katherine Westerhout photographs disused architectural spaces from Yonkers, New York to Oakland, California. Her work artistically documents the lost beauty (or [...]
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Curated by SOMArts’ Justin Hoover and Hanna Regev, “Get Lucky: The Culture of Chance” at SOMArts Cultural Center provides a rich, multimedia celebration of John Cage’s pervading influence in the arts, while also investigating the connections of chance across cultural beliefs, values and art practices. This exhibition of art by more than 30 artists celebrates the centennial [...]
