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By Maya Kroth
Housed in a cozy gallery in downtown Oakland, "That Girl!" showcases the work of the Bay Area's finest up-and-coming female artists. Works by Lisa Solomon, Jungsun Kim, Stella Lai, and Simone Shubuck and Katherine Aoki adorn the walls of Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery in a show that proves that feminism has truly come a long way, baby. More
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By Alison Gilbert
The cartoon-like funniness of Thunderbird Theatre Company's newest endeavor Rocket Girl is sure to leave a mark on all who see it. This energetic sci-fi parody brings us back to days when science fiction was just a little bit simpler. Robots were metal cylinders, superheroes were do-gooders, evil nemesis' plotted to take over the universe, and space gorillas were evil assistants chock full of Shakespearian melodrama. Wait. what was that again? More
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Most people know Elliot. You know someone who knows Elliot if you don't know Elliot yourself. Chances are good you have been invited to a performance, art opening, or some kind of event at Build, the intimate gallery space at 483 Guerrero, between 16th and 17th Streets. Sometime in the year 2000, after graduating from the San Francisco Art Institute with a B.F.A. in interdisciplinary studies, Elliot Lessing took over the storefront art space. Previous to assuming a role as Executive Director of Build, Lessing ran Art Hut, a space for site-specific artist installations based in the living room of his home in the upper Haight. In the last insta More
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Dirty Work at Ego Park
As a venue whose mission statement is currently the Gettysburg Address (I had to take their word on it, as the website is under construction until late spring), Ego Park seems to be a different sort of arts space from the very get go. Even the name is different, described by founder Kevin Slagle, a creative writing student turned sculptor and painter, as a happy accident that stuck, it describes Slagle's somewhat ironic philosophical take on showing art. Specifically, that a gallery is a place for artists to take their egos for a walk - a dog-park for the ego. More
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The Secret Life of Storage
Bags, the current exhibition from the folks at New Langton Arts, has brought Soma an experience somewhere between a puppet show and the wonderment of a child's first trip to the airport baggage claim - overwhelming, yet intriguing. Bursting with flights of fancy, Bags transforms Langton's gallery into a living, breathing creature full of component parts, referred to by James Bewley, the show's curator, as "bag-based life forms." More
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Strangers in a Strange Land
White powdery footprints, detailed with an intricate Persian flower motif, mark the way up Intersection's black stairs and into the gallery, which has been transformed into a liminal locale - a traditional Iranian coffee - house spattered with hip-hop paraphernalia. More
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Not the Odalisques of Old
The first solo show at the newly opened Fabric8 Gallery, Altered States, Dreamscapes, and Underworlds exhibits the alluring yet playful works of Ursula Xanthe Young, a native of England and long-time Bay Area resident. A curious combination of street and fantasy, Young’s works feature wide-eyed (though not necessarily innocent), pursed-lipped beauties among backdrops of city skylines and climbing vines. More
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An Exchange of Political Posters between artists from the Bay Area and artists from Puerto Rico
In the past eight years, we have seen America steered wildly off-course: Abu Ghraib. Guantánamo. The Patriot Act. The War on Terror. An erosion of environmental policy. We voted in the candidate for change, the candidate that repudiated the Bush Doctrine, but where does that leave us? What is the state of our country, our democracy, our politics? The Art of Democracy is a national art coalition that aims to expand the dialogue on these questions. More
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Feb 11th to Feb 24th
February hurts. A grayish, coldish wetness stretches interminably ahead, the groundhog saw its shadow and Valentine's is on a Monday. The next two weeks reign in a carnival of creep, cynicism and cheap thrills that could make the sassiest Tenderloin tranny cringe: a new little black dress made of trash bags; humans living in cages for a week (protests are already in the planning); and Ronald McDonald holding two topless girls by a fistful of their hair. So don't get fruity on the 14th -- like my duplicitous friend Claudia likes to say: celebrate V.D. and spread the love. More
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Feb 25th - March 10th
Due to lease problems, the Punch Gallery will be closing its doors at the end of the month. They arrived almost exactly three years ago on a mission to promote urban art. By any measure -- dance, visual art, music or installation -- they have maintained a consistent presence within the city's different artistic street cultures. They go out in true form by featuring New York's composer-violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain: a man known to use his violin as an ambassador of hip-hop to classical music circles. Friday Feb 25th will be their final farewell. . . More
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