Exhibition: Sandow Birk at Nyehaus Gallery, Friedrich Petzel Gallery and Metro Pictures Gallery

Sandow Birk's work will appear in the exhibition SWELL, held by Nvehaus Gallery, Friedrich Petzel Gallery and Metro Pictures Gallery

Curated by Tim Nye and Jacqueline Miro. This survey of art inspired by surf and beach culture will open to the public on July 1st at the three locations in Chelsea and will include work by most members of the group of Venice Beach artists known as Light and Space and Finish Fetish. The show historically contextualizes beach culture and its poetic and freeing nature on the Beat Generation, Assemblage, Light and Space, Finish Fetish, and early Pop Art.

SWELL: Art 1950 - 2010
July 1 - August 6, 2010
Opening June 30th, 2010

Nyehaus Gallery
5:30 – 6:45
Friedrich Petzel Gallery
6:45 – 7:30
Metro Pictures Gallery
7:30 – 8:15

http://www.nyehaus.com/
http://www.petzel.com/
http://www.metropicturesgallery.com/

Press: Chester Arnold in San Francisco

Chester Arnold's The Fall appeared in May 2010's San Francisco

Press: Charles Gute, John Slepian, and Stephanie Syjuco in The SF Bay Guardian

"Color Forms: Three artists use copyedit, counterfeit, and tech to tease art out of context"
By Spencer Young
The San Francisco Bay Guardian
Vol. 44, No. 31
May 5 - 11, 2010

Press: Chester Arnold and the SF Fine Art Fair in SF Weekly

Chester Arnold's work The Fall was featured in May 19 - May 25th's SF Weekly along with the article "Not Your Typical Fort Mason Art Fair" by San Prestianni.

Publication: Chester Arnold in Men's Health

Chester Arnold's piece Reports to the Contrary (2008) appears in June's Men's Health, as part of an interview with interior designer Will Wick.

Publication: Sandow Birk

Sandow Birk's California Correctional Center - Susanville, CA (After Thomas Moran) and California State Prison, Calipatria, both from 2001, appear in the book Prison/Culture, an investigation of the culture of incarceration as an integral part of the American experience.

Publication: Masami Teraoka

Masami Teraoka's piece McDonald's Hamburgers invading Japan/Chochin-me (1982) was used as the cover art for Tony Hoagland's book Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty

Press: Ed Osborn in Aspect Magazine

Adrienne Gagnon provided commentary on Ed Osborn's piece Vanishing Point in Aspect Magazine's Volume 15: Influence & Reference, released May 12, 2010

"For the purposes of publishing in ASPECT, the definition of New Media is anything better documented with a video camera than a still camera. However, the broader definition of New Media is still vigorously debated... In V. 15: Influence and Reference, we highlight artists who build upon the history of art and expand the definition of New Media, as well as those artists who pay particular attention to media and material that is not part of the artistic canon... Vanishing Point, a
site-specific sound installation by Ed Osborn, makes visual and conceptual reference to a Robert Irwin piece held in the Berkeley Museum's permanent collection."

http://www.aspectmag.com

Press: Travis Somerville in High Fructose Magazine's Blog

An image of Travis Somerville's piece for the Laguna Art Museum's exhibition Art Shack appeared on High Fructose Magazine's Blog on Sunday May 30, 2010

http://www.hifructose.com/the-blog/

Acquisition: Packard Jennings at Richard L. Nelson Gallery

Congratulations Packard Jennings on being added to the Richard L. Nelson Gallery at the University of California Davis!

http://nelsongallery.ucdavis.edu/

Exhibitions: Ray Beldner at James Harris Gallery

Ray Beldner will also be participating in the exhibit TXT at James Harris Gallery in Seattle.

TXT
James Harris Gallery
Seattle, WA
July 1 - August 20, 2010

James Harris Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition entitled TXT. Each artist uses language to reflect on social, political, personal or experiential content. The works not only question speech filtered through semantics but also the graphics of popular media. They tread on both verbal and visual territory resonating on many different levels. Each artist’s work conflates the meaning of written messages by questioning the power and believability of words.

http://www.jamesharrisgallery.com

Exhibitions: Walter Robinson's Upcoming Exhibitions

Walter Robinson's work will be appearing in the following upcoming exhibitions:

A Child's World
Triton Museum of Art
Santa Clara, CA
June 19– September 26, 2010

Interest in the culture of childhood persists to this day. The artists in this exhibition have created a child’s world of their own, where personal as well as collective childhood experiences become tangible expressions of contemporary life.

http://www.tritonmuseum.org/




Secret Drawings
Palo Alto Art Center
Palo Alto, CA
June 19– September 5, 2010

Inspired by the Exquisite Corpse, a Surrealist strategy to create unexpected, collaborative artworks, the exhibition SECRET DRAWINGS features artworks created by invited artists for the presentation. Each artist has been issued a sheet of paper with marks to connect their work to that of a secret collaborator. The secret collaborators have been assigned a title as a springboard for creativity, which may connect their work, or may reference artworks by Surrealists.

http://www.cityofpaloalto.org




TXT
James Harris Gallery
Seattle, WA
July 1 - August 20, 2010

James Harris Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition entitled TXT. Each artist uses language to reflect on social, political, personal or experiential content. The works not only question speech filtered through semantics but also the graphics of popular media. They tread on both verbal and visual territory resonating on many different levels. Each artist’s work conflates the meaning of written messages by questioning the power and believability of words.

http://www.jamesharrisgallery.com/

Press: Sandow Birk Interviewed by The Huffington Post

Congratulations Sandow on your interview with John Seed of the Huffington Post!

"Don't Fear These Oil Rigs: They are Just Works of Art" posted June 16, 2010

Screening: Christoph Draeger's Tales from the Underworld

A screening of Christoph Draeger's video installation Tales from the Underworld took place May 20th, 2010 at apartment-gallery Rodeo.12 in Geneva

www.rodeo12.ch

Exhibition: Anthony Discenza in The Nature of Cities

The Nature of Cities
United Nations Pavilion, Shanghai Expo, China
July, 2010

UNEP has asked Art Works For Change to produce an art installation for the UN Pavilion at the upcoming Shanghai Expo. Up to 20 video artists, architects and animators will create short videos addressing the theme of urban biodiversity.

http://www.artworksforchange.org

Exhibition: Anthony Discenza and Packard Jennings in Beaurocracy Now!

Beaurocracy Now! Parlour No. 15
Curated by Elysa Lozano for Autonomous Organization
Hosted by artist Jon Meyer in his San Francisco live-work space
Opening reception May 29, 2010
By appointment May 30th

The first Parlour exhibition to take place outside of New York City.
Titled after the exhibition Utopia Now! at the CCA Wattis in 2001, Bureaucracy Now! references this drive for a better society by:

• Bureaucracy as a medium for individual agency
• Management as self-management
• Bureaucratic engagement as opening a space for debate and negotiation
• The aesthetics of the office reconfigured or re-invented
• Examining how organization occurs, and how it can be co-opted

http://parlourdoor.com

Press: Masami Teraoka on Origin of Love

Masami Teraoka's works were included in an entry on the blog Origin of Love

Acquisition: Carlos and Jason Sanchez in Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Carlos and Jason Sanchez's John Mark Karr has been added to the permanent collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art! Congratulations!

Exhibition: Chester Arnold

G.K. Hardt Gallery
A World Defined

Petaluma Arts Center

Publication: Masami Teraoka

Christie’s. “Masami Teraoka.” Asian Contemporary Art & Chinese 20th Century Art, Taiwan: Dah Chen Design & Printing Company, 2009. Print.

Publication: Masami Teraoka

Castegnaro, Maria Elena Carballo. MADC 94/09 Diálogos y Correspondencias. San Jose, Costa Rica: Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporaneo, February 26-May 8, 2009.

Publication: Packard Jennings

"The absurd proposals offered up by Jennings and Lambert have the quality of dreams. The artists explain that they asked experts in the fields of architecture, city planning and transportation for ideas on how to make a better city. These plans were then 'perhaps mildly exaggerated.' It is exactly in this exaggeration that the artists' visions have their political power, and their morality."
- Stephen Duncombe

Moran, Judy, et al. Wish You Were Here: Postcards from Our Awesome Future. San Francisco, California: San Francisco Arts
Commission, 2007.

Behm-Steiberg, Hugh, et al. 1111, Issue Number Seven. San Francisco, California: California College of the Arts, 2009.

Publication: Nina Katchadourian

"Nina Katchadourian's appropriation of film footage from an Antarctic expedition suggests the importance of landscape, particularly polar imagery, in contemporary art."

Leach, Patricia, et al. Art from the Collection of Driek and Michael Zirinsky: Out of Bounds. Bellingham, Washington: Whatcom Museum at the Lightcatcher, 2009.

Exhibition: Somerville, Birk at Laguna Art Museum

Art Shack
June 13 - October 3, 2010
Opening Reception: June 12, 2010
Laguna Art Museum
307 Cliff Drive
Laguna Beach, CA 92651

Artists combine art and architecture in Laguna Art Museum's group exhibition Art Shack guest curated by Greg Escalante. Immerse yourself in 30 different worlds created by such artists as Don Ed Hardy, SHAG, George Herms, Paul Frank, Marion Peck, and Mark Ryden, among others. Explore surf shacks, tattoo huts, retro shanties and more--shack up at Laguna Art Museum this summer! Art Shack is presented by Hurley.

Many shacks will be enterable, and some will include interactive components such as music and film. Don Ed Hardy’s Tattoo Hut will feature an activated tattoo machine.
Abandoning the rules of the art market and pressure to create saleable work, art shacks allow the artists to create an experiential environment, narrowing the distinction between art and function, object and environment.

Exhibition: Christoph Draeger at para_SITE Gallery

Debris
Exhibition: June 5 - July 17 2010
Opening: June 4 from 7–10 PM
para_SITE Gallery
Kaiserfeldgasse 22, 8010 Graz, Austria
Web: http://www.para-site.eu

The word "Debris" in the context of the show depicts as much actual fragments of destroyed material as fragments of memory and meaning.
The gallery will be transformed into a state of carefully constructed, stylized destruction. Parts of a DC-9 passenger plane that crashed in 1981 in Corsica,
(collected by the artist during several expeditions to a mountain top) will be superimposed with the splintered fragments of a destroyed museum floor
recovered at the nearby Universal Museum Joanneum, currently under renovation.

Presss: Travis Somerville in Artillery

"Rapid Fire Reviews: Travis Somerville at Charlie James Gallery"
By James Scarborough
Artillery
Volume 4 Issue 5
May/June 2010

"'A Portion Of That Field…' could be one of two things: a painful reminder that an Obama presidency represents but a small step in the Sisyphean integration of race or else a glorious prism through which to view art's cannibalistic and self-reflexive tendency to devour and reconfigure popular culture. Though the show's walkaway impression is one of postponed "I have a dream" hope, it's obvious that the humorous sophistication of Somerville's compositions and the historical breadth and depth of his scope that the latter's the case."

Press: Catharine Clark Gallery

SquareCylinder.com
SF Art Fair @ Fort Mason
By Dewitt Chang
Posted on June 06, 2010


Catharine Clark (Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco): “There were 15,000 people in attendance and that in and of itself was impressive and helped to keep energy and spirits high (for gallerists, collectors and patrons). The gallery sold work and met some people that we did not know going into the fair—the main reason to participate in any fair. The layout of the fair was clean and contemporary looking (no carpets—yes!); the collaboration with ZER01 was innovative and impressive. The outreach to the public was beyond expectation. The sound [and signage need to] … be improved upon next year…. I’d like to see more contemporary galleries participating from the far reaches of the globe.” CCG will attend next year and recommends that others do so, too. On the poor media coverage: “I find it scandalous that the Chronicle did not feel obligated to cover an event that 15,000 San Franciscans thought was important enough to show up to.”

Press: Chester Arnold

"Pessimism, humor infuse Chester Arnold's art"
By Kenneth Baker
San Francisco Chronicle
Saturday, June 5, 2010

Sonoma painter Chester Arnold frequently chooses a theme or epigraph around which to develop a body of work. His recent pictures at Catharine Clark's pivot on Immanuel Kant's famously pessimistic remark: "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing strait was ever made."

Natural Histories: The Crooked Timer and other paintings and drawings
May 22 – July 3, 2010
Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco

Exhibition: Birk, Discenza, Greene, Knoll, Robinson, Somerville, Taylor

Secret Drawings
June 19 - September 5, 2010
Palo Alto Art Center
1313 Newell Road
Palo Alto, CA

Inspired by a Surrealist strategy to create unexpected artworks, Secret Drawings features pieces created for the exhibition by invited artists who have been assigned a title and paired with a secret collaborator.

Press: Stephanie Syjuco

Artillery, Vol 4 Issue 5, May/June 2010
"SF 2010 Bay Area Emergent, Galleries and Artists Put San Francisco on the Map"
By Anuradha Vikram

Artillery