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A Matter of Perspective
It is rare when we discover a location where the connection between our bodies, our vision and our experiences can exist together in a thick sea of images, but Bay Area artists Deniz Demirer and Alex Killough have given us the opportunity to do just that in their installation, Video Symphony: Sequence to Simultaneity: Body Motion, Tech Motion showing at Ego Park Gallery in Oakland. More
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Have you ever wanted to show someone the best scar on your body - to tell someone what happened to you, or what you think of that scar today? Harrell Fletcher wants to see your scar. He wants to hear your story and, most of all, he wants to use his art to collaborate with as many people as he can. Fletcher's most recent collaborative projects, currently on display at New Langton Arts, trace the paths he's taken across the world and the various ways he uses his practice to observe and document the people and places he's experienced. More
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American Pop Icons, Demystified
There is something profoundly disturbing about watching Superman punch out Wonderwoman. In Michael Thrush's painting, POW, currently on display as part of his solo show, Love and Other Disasters at Rx Gallery. The two superhero icons appear against a white background, Superman with his bulging right arm outstretched, finishing off a seemingly heroic act for the greater good until we see underneath a classic comic POW bubble, that he's actually walloped Wonderwoman who is flailing backwards in mid air toward us, ready to burst through the canvas onto the floor and land at our feet. More
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A Room of One's Own
In the early 18th century, Fredrick I built the Amber Room, a small room with inlaid, hand-carved amber walls and bejeweled mosaics built as a gift for the Russian czar at the time, Peter the Great. After changing hands among the royalty of the day, the Amber Room was displaced during World War II, only for parts of it to resurface in Europe in the late 90s. It has since been reconstructed and is on display in various forms in museums and traveling shows, however, going to visit its modern day doppelganger is hardly the point of The Amber Room, a group exhibition of new work currently on display at the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco. More
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Tiny, Little Pleasures
Living in San Francisco, at times, can feel like Alice must have in Through the Looking Glass. Sometimes we can feel enormous and sometimes we feel very, very small. As San Franciscans we take the lead throughout the country in grand social movements like green living and the slow food movement yet at other times we can be walking along a street only to discover a small neighborhood gallery, with small etchings that evoke the tiny little pleasures of simply eating vegetables. More
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From the Inside Out
It's more than likely you've heard something of 'XXX', Timothy Greenfield-Sanders recent series of 30 porn star portraits. Beyond an exhibition (that opened at the Mary Boone Gallery in October and is currently at John Berggruen), the project entails a hardbound book, in which contributors' pontifications on porn (Gore Vidal, Lou Reed, Karen Finley, and Salman Rushdie among them) are interspersed through the pages of portraits. The project is also the subject of 2 behind-the-scenes documentaries (one by HBO, the other 60 Minutes), and an audio track to boot. More
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The Sheer Force of Language
Chicken Little, that famous Bulrovian fairy-tale bird, knew what she was talking about when she ran around telling everyone that the sky was falling. When things fall from the sky it usually means something big is going on… More
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San Francisco artists findinspiration during wartime
As the epicenter of homeland dissent, and one of the most rapidly reactive art scenes in the states, it is no surprise that San Francisco has been host
to several highly politicized art events of late. The large number of shows devoted to the "war cause" is impressive. However, it is more than just the
breadth of exhibits that is capturing the public's attention. The quality and depth of thought displayed by so many of the artists is what is really setting the Bay Area art scene apart right now. .. More
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Sight Gags & Slapstick in Contemporary Art
Who among us has not watched a teetering toddler trip and guiltily laughed? Personally, I laugh from the second I see the kid start to go down. But even for those of you who don't, you must admit that there is a moment, after they fall, that is true comedy. The most violent and dangerous part is over, but the kid has only just realized something is wrong and for a moment, as he looks down at his newly smarting hands, you can literally watch as he decides that it is time to cry. The face crinkles, the moan starts, and you laugh at the kid. Even if you are his mother and you have to quietly laugh as you hoist the leaky angel-monster in to the More
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At 66 balmy
San Francisco has no shortage of hidden locales. You know them, those tucked away corners of the city that you (innocently but naively) think only you know about. 66balmy, an emerging gallery and event space in the heart of the Mission, is one of those places. As you walk along the alley, it is easy to miss the gallery and see only the mural that is its face. Stashed behind a metal roller door with "Latino Pride" tagged across its entire surface, the entrance is painted over with the figure of a young Latino man. Only a modest sign bears the address and name of the gallery. More
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