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The Persistence of Celebrity
All appreciators of modern art owe a debt to Salvador Dali. Granted, he was one of those artists whose reputations inevitably precede their legacies; he's just as known for his feverish landscapes and evanescing clocks as he is for his braggadocio and impossible mustache. Dali hob-knobbed with the likes of Luis Bunuel and Federico Garcia Lorca; and he achieved international rock star status among the paparazzi, fashionistas, and poo-bahs of the avant garde. Dali was never admired for his subtlety, and his compulsive penchant for self-multiplication in both his life and his art happily invite lampooning... More
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Elegy for a Dying City
When I asked Katherine Westerhout why she chose to focus her creative energies on photographing Detroit, no longer the splendid center of American auto manufacturing it once was, she replied that she was enticed by this very glory, former as it might be. “Detroit was once the richest city in America,” she says. “The vestiges of its success are still apparent in the beauty of its architecture, much of which has been lost to fire and demolition.” More
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War and the Persistence of Memory
By now, the rupture between history and its present depiction is par for the course in contemporary art -- but Binh Danh and Elizabeth Moy go at it one further in their haunting menagerie of images culled from personal legacies of war and reflections on the abiding effects of human conflict. In a collaborative exhibition entitled Disrupted: A Photographic Installation About Memory, History & War, Danh and Moy string together narratives retrieved and woven anew from both original photographs and archival images of the Vietnam War. More
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Shepard Fairey explores the complexities of our time
Boyish and clean cut, skater punk and engineer of dissent, genius behind the Obey Giant street art movement, Shepard Fairey is an artist who understands the complexity of the human experience. His current show “Duality of Humanity” highlights the ironies of fighting wars to achieve peace and working towards environmental sustainability for the sake of continuing endless consumption. More
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A Lethal Cocktail of Art & Politics
Perfectly timed to the run up against the election, Enrique Chagoya's new drawings at Gallery Paule Anglim prove yet again that he is an artist of both style and substance. With facile hand and rigorous intellect, the artist continues to mine comic and history books with equal vigor, creating arresting artworks that put into context the current global state of affairs. More
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Emerging artists: North of King City to South of the Oregon border
Southern Exposure's 14th Annual Juried Exhibition Epic hardly seems epic when you enter the gallery's cavernous first floor. Out of 633 submissions only twenty-six artists were selected for this year's show, each represented by one piece of art all well below the 6 x 6 x 8 ft dimension limit. More
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Three Artists Draw From Interior and Exterior Spaces
Organized by Luggage Store directors Laurie Lazer and Darryl Smith, Explosive Compulsive juxtaposes the work of two New York-based artists, Reed Anderson and Jen Liu, with local Adriane Colburn in a harried frenzy of painted, pasted, drawn and collaged-upon works on paper that, in the gallery's words, "explore consciousness, the built environment, and the natural world." More
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Exotification by Decoupage
One of the key themes explored by this modest show of pieces by local Asian American artists it that of Asians themselves as the object of a fetish. Walk down the street anywhere in San Francisco or the Bay Area , and you’ll spot several instances of what are uncharitably referred to as “rice kings” (or queens) -- tall, handsome and rich white guys with Asian girlfriends (or boyfriends). This phenomena does excite strange emotions in otherwise fair-minded people... More
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Surrealist Mapmaking
Part designer, part surrealist cartographer, Portland-based Francesca Berrini creates fantastical geographies from maps that have been cut apart and re-arranged. This comes as a more specific manifestation of what she’s known for: exploring strange combinations of found materials. But her works are not overtly popish, not purely found and presented, more thoroughly scrambled and recast. This is perhaps because Berrini arrives where she does as an artist via an unconventional course, at least as compared to other more ambitiously Warholian artists. More
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By Nicole Nardozi
Our meeting at the 69a Gallery in the Mission was not the first time I met fashion designer Galya Rosenfeld. Only a few weeks before, I volunteered as a stylist for Galya's fashion show at 111 Minna Gallery. No, I was not spying. Just doing some research. Surprisingly, Galya was not upset with me when I blew my cover and requested an interview. The clothes and accessories from her fashion show were going to be displayed at 69a Gallery the following week, so we met there. As I looked around, I recognized some of the pieces from the show but most were ones I hadn't seen before. More
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