Like many other students at CCA, I benefitted from Steven Lieber’s largesse in gaining access to his fantastic archives of artist’s ephemera, and receiving feedback in studio visits. His knowledge was vast, and sensibility unpretentious and no-nonsense. His passing is a particular loss for the San Francisco art community.
Read Roberta Smith’s obituary in the New York Times.
View Art Practical‘s interview; audio available on Bad at Sports.
Grateful for few days of art, sunshine, and friendly faces in California.
Thanks to everyone who came out to check out In Other Words at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco. I really appreciate the interest and support! I think the show looks fantastic—all respect due to Kevin Chen, gallery director; Intersection staff, and the other artists for their thoughtful contributions.
The show continues through March 24, with many public events—most are free or sliding scale.
Here are a few snapshots, with better photos to follow on my site….
Positive Signs greets viewers at In Other Words, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
Closer view of Positive Signs. In Other Words, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
Detail: Positive Sign #16 at In Other Words, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
Detail: Positive Sign #16 at In Other Words, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
Intersection Gallery Director Kevin Chen (center) delivered thoughtful comments, connecting the show's linguistic theme with the gallery's location in the San Francisco Chronicle building.
Susan O'Malley's sandwich boards. In Other Words, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
Another project by Susan O'Malley involved semi-hidden placards. In Other Words, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
Meryl Pataky had a nice pair of installed wire works, whose shadows spelled positive and negative words phonetically.
More photos, including the infamous pinkie cam treatment, on Alan Bamberger’s ArtBusiness.com site.
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Snapshots of other exhibitions I enjoyed…
Kinetic media installation by Mario Ancalmo, SECA 2010 exhibition, SFMOMA.
See also Ancalmo’s show at Eli Ridgeway Gallery; don’t miss the lower level installations.
Deflated balloon dog by Jeffrey Songco, Steven Wolf Fine Arts.
No photos, but worth checking out: Gina Osterloh’s solo show of studio photos and a documentary about blind massuers, connected by her interest in dysfunctions of the body of and Richard T. Walker’s video at ybca.
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…as well as inspiring studio visits…
Studio visit with Stephanie Syjuco.
Spool holders, hooray!
Studio visit with Michael Arcega. Baby, the artist-designed and -made collapsible, outrigger canoe, under a pinata-disco ball-hybrid. Not to mention an envy-inspiring woodshop in the studio.
Mini disco ball, wood glue, and the story of a sailing expedition at Michael Arcega's studio.
Free crate + casters + door + sawhorses = two tables that fold into one. Genius!
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Plus, (aerial) Geometry vs Abstraction.
Geometry.
Geometry detail.
Abstraction.
Via Hank Willis Thomas, I’ve been helping out with this project for the past several weeks, though it’s been much longer in the making. Congratulations to the Question Bridge artists, producers and partners for their efforts finally coming to fruition.
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Community Engagement Events
Question Bridge Blueprint Roundtables
A series of intergenerational community engagement events,
in partnership with various organizations:
Oakland · Saturday, February 11, 2012 · 1 – 3 pm
Brooklyn · Saturday, May 19, 2012 · gallery tour : 1 pm · community discussion & performance : 2 pm
Target First Saturdays at the Brooklyn Museum
Saturday, February 4, 2012 · 5 – 11 pm · Free
Free First Sundays at the Oakland Museum
Sunday, March 4, 2012 · 11 am – 5 pm · Free
Evening for Educators
Explore the exhibition and discover new ways to engage your students with art.
Brooklyn · Thursday, April 26, 2012 · 4–6:30 pm
more info: questionbridge.com
Question Bridge: Black Males was created by Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas, in collaboration with Bayeté Ross Smith and Kamal Sinclair. The Executive Producers are Delroy Lindo, Deborah Willis, and Jesse Williams. Transmedia production by Innovent.
I met Gina Osterloh just before she moved away from San Francisco. So it’s only been through chance encounters, organized exchanges, and art opportunities in Los Angeles, Manila, New York, and recently, Woodstock, that I’ve had the pleasure of being impressed by her work and her intellect. She’s the real deal: a strong photographer with a compelling body of work and thoughtful ideas.
Gina is about to make a big leap—developing three new bodies of work in 2012. And if that’s not ambitious enough, the process will be in the public eye, when she sets up her photography studio in the non-profit LACE gallery, open to visitors.
In the past when sought contributions to fund new projects, I had to gather the nerve to ask. Knowing Gina’s humble demeanor, this is a big deal to create and commit to such an ambitious Kickstarter campaign. If you are able, show your support for this talented, hardworking artist.
Visit the Kickstarter campaign for Group Dynamics and Improper Light: new work by Gina Osterloh.
See more of Gina’s eerie photos.
My review of Residency Projects II, a group show at Kala Art Institute Gallery featuring Elisheva Biernoff, Zachary Royer Scholz, Renée Gertler, Jennie Ottinger, and Jessica Ingram, is now online on Art Practical.
Gratitude Project > Call for Submissions
WHAT:
I need your help! Tell me what you’re grateful for.
WHY: I’m an artist whose projects examine positive emotions, optimism, and pessimism.
My next installation—to be exhibited in the UK—will be a collective gratitude journal of sorts.
Gratitude journals are often cited by psychologists as first step towards increasing subjective well-being (happiness). Psychologists Bob Emmons and Mike McCullough found that people who wrote down five things they were grateful for each week for nine weeks had more positive emotion overall than other groups in the study. In a study that replicated the results, the gratitude journal-keepers “reported greater satisfaction with their lives, more optimism regarding the upcoming week, and greater connection with others.” (Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd, The Time Paradox, 2008)
HOW: Write your first responses, or mull it over and submit a list. Submit as often as you like. Submit by:
Comment below
or
Send me an email: gratitudeproject (at) christinewongyap.com.
WHEN:
Submit now. I’ll accept submissions through September early October. Keep ’em coming, please!
The text you submit (edited for brevity or clarity) may appear in an installation. I’ll post documentation by the end of November on my website. Your name will not appear with the work, but if you include your name/contact info, I would be happy to acknowledge your contribution on the project web page, and send you a note when the documentation is posted.
Thank you for your help. I will be very grateful for your submissions.
Beautiful, thought-provoking textual and kinetic installations by a Maine-based young artist, Alicia Eggert.
Gorgeously physical photos of light-based interventions by Caleb Charland.
I like these paintings by Jane Corrigan, an NYC-based painter and fellow artist in residence at Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild.
Two Girls Reading (by day), 2011
Two Girls Reading (by night), 2011
You can see Jane’s work in person in Brooklyn now.
Through August 19
Goodbye, Space Shuttle
Curbs & Stoops Active Space
566 Johnson Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Tues—Sat 1—6pm
New works by a diverse group of contemporary artists, including: Taylor Baldwin, John Bianchi, Matthew Capezzuto, Jane Corrigan, Bill Donovan, Jen Durbin, Sue Havens, Alexis Knowlton, Andy Lane, Beth Livensperger, Sakura Maku, Brian Maller, Vasken Mardikian, Jason Mones, Wilfredo Ortega, Jen Schwarting, John Silvis, Lee Vanderpool, Peonia Vázquez-D’Amico and Letha Wilson.
Take the L train to Jefferson stop. Walk north by north west.
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