Saturday, November 27, 2004

stickerthrow


International Sticker Art 2004


November 20th - December 18th

KCDC Skateshop

99 N. 10th Street @ Wythe Ave.

Williamsburg Brooklyn


"Stickerhrow (sti•ker•thro), n.An event where persons, typically musical bands or companies who are a part of an underground youth culture promote themselves or their products by throwing adhesive stickers into large crowds of agitated youngsters often inciting frenzy to obtain the stickers."
Stickerthrow! has a simple concept at it's base. Everybody loves stickers. Especially if they're dope stickers. Double-especially stickers that are free.
So we decided to round up as many Street Artists as we could to pay homage to the humble sticker and flow as many stickers as we could in the process.
We are exhibiting the featured artists in a more traditional gallery setting. We've selected over 40 artists from all over the world who love stickers and have a pile of them wherever they go. Most of these are not stickers that were specially crafted for the show. Many are standard issue stickers you'll find on the streets of New York, Bangkok, London, or Amstersdam. Others have hand crafted stickers just for this event.
We're also going to have an interactive sticker wall that will be covered by stickers from Street Artists from all over as well as inviting any and all persons attending the show to bring and apply their own stickers to the wall.
If you're familiar with Street Art you'll recognize lots of names, Eko, Medium, You Are Beautiful, Jet-Pac. If you're not, then come get an education on who's regultaing the Hood in Paris, San Francisco, Tokyo or New Dehli.
In short we wanted to have a show that was as much about a good time as it was about showing new artists works in a dope medium.Hope to see you there!Abe Lincoln Jr. and Anera

Sunday, November 14, 2004

start where you are


Start Where You Are
November 20th, 2004
Location: 18th and Mission Streets, San Francisco
We’re really excited for this show, having received lots of exceptional work by lots of exceptional artists. This show is in conjunction with “SHINE: A San Francisco Art Walk.” (Previously known as Crosswalks) There will be other galleries participatinng in the neighborhood for a Mission wide art-walk. Last year, this event was so well-received by the press that we got a write-up in the Guardian’s Best of the Bay (see below), so it’s not the show to miss. Come on down and see the magic that occurs when an overlooked corner of the city transforms into a beautiful display of art.

Monday, November 01, 2004

fresh produce

FRESH PRODUCE 04

Emerging and established artists from the U.S. Canada, England and
Australia participate in this fourth annual invitational holiday
group
exhibit and sale. These artists were invited based on their
consistent
artistic vision and contribution to contemporary culture. Each artist
has submitted up to 10 works of original art available for $5 - $150.

Opening Reception: First Friday December 3, 2004 A.D.

6pm - 8pm - Collectors' Pre-Sale $10/door (beat the crowd!)
8pm til late - free admission

Exhibit/Sale continues through January 14, 2005 A.D.
Gallery hours: Mon - Thurs, Noon - 5pm and other times by appointment.

All items are cash and carry on a first come, first served basis.

Participating Artists: Luke Chueh, Francis Estrada, Sharon Eisley,
BASK, PARS, Pamela Jaeger, Dave Warnke, Matthew Curry, Lucien
Shapiro,
KIm Kielhofner, Tim McCormick, Ryan Jacob Smith, Mike Godwin, Caitlin
Kuhwald, Julie West, Tanxxx, Lisel Jane Ashlock, Gary Abkin, Brad
Isdrab, Deth P Sun, Keith Bormuth, Sean Boyles, Peter Goode, Marq
Spusta, Kari Byron, Ross Holden, Marissa Newell, Lesley Reppeteaux,
Will Russell, Andrew Schoultz, Matthew Ro, Blaine Fontana, Jenny
Bird,
Frances Glass, Alfonso Kellenberger, Akiko Nakaji, Kamau Patton, Ezra
Li Eismont, Alex Kopps, Laura Flippen, Porous Walker, Jessie Rose
Vala,
Howie Tsui, Kaori Kasai, Dan Lewis, Tyler Cohen, Paul Urich,


Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design
150 So. Montgomery Street Unit B
San Jose, CA 95110
t: 408.271.5151 / f: 408.271.5152
www.galleryAD.com
mon - thurs, noon - 5pm
first fridays 8pm 'til late

Thursday, September 23, 2004

Invitation

a performance

a room with about 15 people. in the center a table with about 15 cupcakes.
the people are asked to form a line a passed an invitation that reads as follows
1. one-by-one take a cupcake and the paper under it
2. take your cupcake to the location of your choice and eat the cupcake.
3. After eating, make a mark on each paper and return it to its previous approximate location.

Sunday, September 19, 2004

i wish i was a gerbil so i could sandbath.

Sunday, September 12, 2004

Tuesday, September 07, 2004

art again

orlan

SCENES FROM THE OPERATING ROOM DURING ORLAN'S 7TH PLASTIC SURGICAL OPERATION ENTITLED NEW YORK OMNIPRESENCE. NOVEMBER 21, 1993, PROCEDURE INVOLVED SEWING IMPLANTS INTO ORLAN'S TEMPLES TO CREATE TWO LUMPS, AND PLACEMENT OF AN IMPLANT INTO HER CHIN THROUGH THE LIFTING OF FLESH AND INSERTION OF MUSCLE TISSUE.

Consider the theater of Orlan. It aims to impact memory, to physically condition this mental state, thereby suggesting that one's thoughts and the recollection upon which they rely can somehow be tangibly modeled, shaped. In its deliberate diversity Orlan's art constructs memory through a plurality of media that will ensure that "something"--whether a face (hers), a feeling (yours), a desire (of artist and spectator)--be both transmitted and received. Text plays an active role in this process and is submitted to as wide a range of articulations as are images, Orlan's self- produced self- imagery




eduardo kac

investigate the philosophical and political dimensions of communications processes. Equally concerned with the aesthetic and the social aspects of verbal and nonverbal interactions, I examine linguistic systems, dialogic exchanges, and interspecies communication. In 1998, to further expand my investigation of communications processes, I proposed Transgenic Art, a new art form based on the use of genetic engineering techniques to transfer synthetic genes to an organism or to transfer natural genetic material from one species into another in order to create unique living beings. The nature of this new art is defined not only by the birth and growth of a new plant or animal, but above all by the nature of the relationship between artist, public, and transgenic organismñwhich must be respected, loved, and nurtured like any other organism.




Roxy Paine Sculptures



"Kick Butt" by Roxy Paine 1992 (at the Herron Test Site)
This piece is activated every few minutes. The boot rises
slowly, then releases on its pendulum arm, swinging back
and kicking the rubber bust of the artist's lower torso which
then reverberates on its springy stand.



"Plug-in Painting" by Roxy Paine 1995 (at the R. Feldman Gallery, Soho)
A large 'canvas' with randomly placed inserts which accept the intriticately
molded larger-than-life brushstrokes.



"The Flinger" by Roxy Paine 1995 (at the R. Feldman Gallery, Soho)
The Flinger sits dormant most of the time. On periodic intervals,
the masterfully welded machine lowers its arm, grabs a card,
and flings it across the room, exposing the next card. The sequence
of cards record conversations of the artist and was restocked daily
during the month-long showing of the piece.

sarita vendetta





judith scott
udith Scott (born 1943), a fifty-five year old woman with Down's Syndrome, has spent the past ten years producing a series of totally non-functional objects which, to us, appear to be works of sculpture, except that the notion of sculpture is far beyond Judith's understanding. As well as being mentally handicapped, Judith cannot hear or speak, and she has little concept of language. There is no way of asking her what she is doing, yet her compulsive involvement with the shaping of abstract forms in space seems to imply that at some level she knows. Judith possesses no concept of art, no understanding of its meaning or function. She does not know that she is an artist, nor does she understand that the objects she creates are perceived by others as works of art. Whatever she is doing she is definitely not concerned with the making of art. What then is she doing? Unmistakably she is working, and working hard. Her formidable concentration surpasses that of most professional artists.

adolf wolfi


hannah hoch


Hanna Hoch was born in 1889 and grow up in Germany in the small town of bourgeois milie. She was from a middle class family. In 1912 at the age of 22 she left home to attend college in Berlin. She was supported by her family, and also worked at a newspaper and magazine publisher. Later in life she would worked as a pattern and handy craft designer for several women's magazines.

In the early 1920's Hanna was involved fellow dada artist Raoul Hausmann. Hausmann was married and remained with his wife. Around 1926 they split up and Hanna started a relationship with Dutch writer Til Brugman. The two women lived together in until 1929. Hoch was briefly married to Kurt Matthies but remained childless. She continued to create and show her work through out her life. She died in Berlin 1978.

Saturday, September 04, 2004

recommendations please

recommend to me
1. a movie
2. a book
3. a musical artist, song, or album
4. a visual artist
5. what I should have for dinner
6. a website
7. a quotation

guinea pig art show!

  • this
  • is not acceptable. i need to fix something up. xx anyone?

    i am putting on a guinea pig art show.

    Friday, August 27, 2004

    ah the cinema

    films i've seen recently:
    susperia (dario argento)
    eraserhead (david lynch)
    careful (guy maddin)
    joe (a 70s movie about hippie killers)
    the hunger (with david bowie)
    liquid sky (cult)
    trust (hal hartley)
    switchblade sisters (jack hill)
    nights of cabiria (fedrico fellini)
    louisiana story
    doom generation (greg araki)
    journey into bliss
    big business (with bette midler)
    triplettes of belleville
    tenebre (dario argento)
    the living end (greg araki)
    spider baby (jack hill)
    napolean dynamite
    battle royale
    m.butterfly (cronenberg)
    mystery train (jarmusch)
    shivers (cronenberg)
    the 400 blows (truffaut)
    the happiness of the katakuris (takashi miike)
    Night on Earth (jarmusch)

    Tuesday, August 24, 2004

    gone

    tomorrow i will severe all ties with my former institution of learning. tomorrow is the final day. it will be over by noon. i am nervous thinking about it. i am worried that i am a failure. hopefully everything will be fine tomorrow.

    Monday, August 23, 2004

    a hair cut and a package in the mail

    both two excellent things.
    the prospect of meaningful projects.

    i scared to write in this thing

    Sunday, August 22, 2004

    Friday, August 20, 2004

    h views great art

    when i went to school, there was fast change. when i went to school, no one wanted to go to school. i went to school with a flapper named olivia. we both detested school equally. i watched olivia everyday. i watched olivia frament and whidle. i watched until olivia became needy. olivia's was a life of speration.
    olivia eventually became ambivalent.
    "oh h., why is this such a bore?"
    she cried into my large drooping ears and strong high shoulders.

    i was a popular guinea pig. i did not have the fault of an intermixing of red or white hairs or a poor undercolor. i was spotless with no tingle of yellow.