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The Solo Work of Community Arts Champion
Conceived and built by artist/curator Amanda Eichner in 2000, the Backroom Gallery at Adobe Books is exactly that -- a tiny, contemplative space well suited to the work of Oliver Halsman Rosenberg, in residence there until July 15th. Organized by Adobe's current curator, Eleanor Harwood, Karmageddon features a suite of Rosenberg's drawings; the show opened this past Friday night, and most pieces have already sold. More
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Debut solo show of artist Leslie Shows at Jack Hanley Gallery
A quick online search for the name "Leslie Shows" yields a tiny handful of links, mostly simple listings of her current solo show, International Parks, at Jack Hanley Gallery. Surprisingly, Shows holds no discernable Internet following. There are no blogs bantering about her "radness" or drunken party photos posted following her openings. This hype-free aura might be viewed as an accomplishment -- as a mark of purity, almost. More
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Women invoke the sprit of summer in a group show at Mission art lab
Friday night marks the opening of Bundle at Triple Base Gallery, a group exhibition featuring the work of four women: Tania Bedford, Sera Beak, and Sarah Grierson -- all Californians -- and Alda Rose, who hails from Iceland. In keeping with Triple Base's communal sensibilities, this show possesses a warm, inviting sense about it, as cultivated by the work itself. More
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Looking for Ixtlan
During his 1988 tour of Australia, performance artist-turned-faux-psychic Jose Alvarez became a national obsession. Commissioned by Australian television through infamous paranormal investigator James Randi, his performance at the Sydney Opera House was intended to question the notion of supernatural channeling, then a national craze. Alvarez's alter ego channeled the 2000-year-old spirit of "Carlos" for massive crowds of devotees, but rather than question his motives, the Australian media propelled his act forward by inflating a hoax into urban mythology. More
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Community-based projects warrant closer inspection
The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' Bay Area Now 4 is a real sprawl of an exhibition -- the kind of art show that carries with it the potential to overwhelm in a spatial, sensorial, and even conceptual sense. Many artists seem to have seized this triennial survey as a chance to make a splash, and resulting large-scale installations conquer the walls and floors of both upstairs and downstairs galleries. Aside from the drawings and murals, soundscapes, sculptures, and photographic collages, there lies a host of projects that could easily stand alone as a separate exhibition, a sub-show, if you will, though far from sub-anything in quality. More
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New York Artist Sam Gordon Returns to San Francisco's Ratio 3 Gallery
Sam Gordon's personal collection of posters and ephemera are plastered to form a visual trail leading up the building's staircase and into his current installation, "The Twinkie Defense", at Ratio 3 gallery. Photographs (or telepathic "thoughtographs," as he calls them) are interspersed amongst the foldout, full-color gallery announcements, an aesthetic nod to the now-shuttered Epicenter Zone, a notoriously punk, San Franciscan record store where Gordon first showed in the early 90's. 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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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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The Brutality of the Everyday
Beautiful Ugly Violence, Margaret Harrison's newest body of work, is the result of her recent residence and collaboration with Intersection for the Arts and is on display through May 8. A pioneer of British feminism, Margaret Harrison's first solo exhibit in 1971 was shut down by British police who deemed the work, particularly an image of Hugh Hefner as a near-nude Playboy bunny girl, "offensive". Her work has continued with a fierce (and, obviously, often funny) feminist critique ever since. More
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Profile of a local artist
Kimberly Austin is one of San Francisco's undiscovered treasures. Although her art resides in important international public and private collections - including Germany's Gelsenkirchen Museum, the Levinthal collection, Deloitte &
Touche, and that of Jane's Addiction founder Perry Farrell - and she shows regularly at San Francisco's Braunstein Quay Gallery and Cologne's Galerie Sieppel, the 38-year-old Austin remains relatively unknown. What makes her lack
of large-scale recognition all the more puzzling is that her photography-based work is among the most ethereally beautiful... More
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