it is a grey and drizzly morning here but i will not be stopped. soon, i will head off to the city and open the doors of the gallery. freya managed to wrangle one last magical week for us. do come by if you're able. it's been such an amazing, unexpected, joyful experience and the more people i can share it with, the better. besides, the space itself is just so gorgeous. it's been awesome to have a room of our own this way. the white cube is a crazy, wonderful place. to have had one extended to us so generously is a gift beyond compare. i know that it has saved me these passed few months. it really has. and i know that one day when i look back on this moment, i will see just how well-timed it all was. if not for this... who knows where i might have slid off to. i'm glad to have had such a beautiful anchor. or crutch. or stilt. or cathedral.
(when i'm alone in the space, i sing. the acoustics are fantastic. it makes me sound beautiful. i can't describe the massive wave of happy pain that finds me. is it Exaltation? or Honesty? either way, a gorgeous sensation. tears in my eyes. maybe it's just good ol' Freedom.)
today i'll be there from 2-6pm, crocheting another sweater and studying my German and reading Bataille like a good girl. ha! and sunday will be our last day. there will be cheese and wine and ME and freya and launa. come by and collect some hugs.
Showing posts with label slingshot gallery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label slingshot gallery. Show all posts
Mar 3, 2011
Feb 13, 2011
Feb 10, 2011
red roses, information
tonight is the opening of Literati at Slingshot. it is our last show in the beautiful venue at 890 Valencia. yep. our time there is coming to a close but i can't tell you how lucky we are to have had it for the passed 3 months. if you've been inside the space, you know how lucky we are. it is that gorgeous. but if you've never been and you're in the area, i highly encourage you to come out tonight. music, wine, art, ME. hahahaha! if you need more reason than that, show up and i'll give you a few more. ;)
also, we decided to leave my installation Worry Roses (for my mother, for myself) up. freya said she wanted it to have more time, every moment possible, to be seen and considered. especially in such a beautiful space. as a result, i decided to be brave and go ahead and "show" the new piece for my mom. the red roses. i say "show" because it isn't completely finished yet. i will be constructing the piece on site. you will be able to watch this bed, this garden, this head stone, be built and shaped. it's important to me to get this piece made quickly. there is something deep down that calls for its existence. i must make it. i must make it for her. and it's a risk to put such a personal narrative in public, especially one that is so current, one that is still being lived through, but i feel it necessary to open the door to that discussions. i know i am not unique in this. this story is happening in other people's lives too. we need a place to be. so few places feel right. i will build this site for all who need it.
<3
also, we decided to leave my installation Worry Roses (for my mother, for myself) up. freya said she wanted it to have more time, every moment possible, to be seen and considered. especially in such a beautiful space. as a result, i decided to be brave and go ahead and "show" the new piece for my mom. the red roses. i say "show" because it isn't completely finished yet. i will be constructing the piece on site. you will be able to watch this bed, this garden, this head stone, be built and shaped. it's important to me to get this piece made quickly. there is something deep down that calls for its existence. i must make it. i must make it for her. and it's a risk to put such a personal narrative in public, especially one that is so current, one that is still being lived through, but i feel it necessary to open the door to that discussions. i know i am not unique in this. this story is happening in other people's lives too. we need a place to be. so few places feel right. i will build this site for all who need it.
<3
Feb 4, 2011
YO!
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For Immediate Release
Slingshot: Launa Bacon, Lea Feinstein, Freya Prowe , Angela Simione
What………Group exhibition: Literati
When………Feb. 10 through early March
Reception….Thursday, Feb.10th, 6-9pm
Location……Slingshot Gallery, 890 Valencia St., San Francisco, CA
Hours………Thurs -Fri 12-5pm, Sat-Sun 1-6pm
Contact……Freya Prowe: freya@freyaprowe.com, 323.350.1042
Whether taking the shape of a poem, fairy tale, diary entry, grocery list, or miscellaneous receipt, text fuels the tempo of life and identity. It establishes the contour and texture of a day. Language, in its many forms and functions, creates and re-creates reality. It is through words that the world is made.
Whether building poems from spatters of coffee, building zoos of dark fantasy from children's tales, or finding a reflection of one's identity in the life story of a writer, the artwork in Literati offers a map of how text expands our loves, fears, ideas, desires, and philosophies. The artists in this exhibition, great lovers of books and language, pay personal homage to the power of the written word.
Launa Bacon’s work is middlebrow, low-def and “creepy.” Her work is often an examination of the narratives that shape female identity.
Lea Feinstein’s performance and installation work incorporates narratives drawn from nursery rhymes, fairy tales, and other “domestic” sources. She also creates mixed media art books which include her personal narratives.
Freya Prowe’s work is lyrical, dark and draws upon the tradition of European fairy tales of her childhood. Prowe creates images that playfully prey upon the duality inherent in human interactions.
Angela Simione uses the methods of erasure to create her own "redacted" documents, making metaphors for the experiences of loss. Simione presents fragments, tiny bits of evidence, allusions to a lost history.
image:
Dutiful (1 & 2)
44" x 30" each
graphite on attached paper
angela simione, 2010
For Immediate Release
Slingshot: Launa Bacon, Lea Feinstein, Freya Prowe , Angela Simione
What………Group exhibition: Literati
When………Feb. 10 through early March
Reception….Thursday, Feb.10th, 6-9pm
Location……Slingshot Gallery, 890 Valencia St., San Francisco, CA
Hours………Thurs -Fri 12-5pm, Sat-Sun 1-6pm
Contact……Freya Prowe: freya@freyaprowe.com, 323.350.1042
Whether taking the shape of a poem, fairy tale, diary entry, grocery list, or miscellaneous receipt, text fuels the tempo of life and identity. It establishes the contour and texture of a day. Language, in its many forms and functions, creates and re-creates reality. It is through words that the world is made.
Whether building poems from spatters of coffee, building zoos of dark fantasy from children's tales, or finding a reflection of one's identity in the life story of a writer, the artwork in Literati offers a map of how text expands our loves, fears, ideas, desires, and philosophies. The artists in this exhibition, great lovers of books and language, pay personal homage to the power of the written word.
Launa Bacon’s work is middlebrow, low-def and “creepy.” Her work is often an examination of the narratives that shape female identity.
Lea Feinstein’s performance and installation work incorporates narratives drawn from nursery rhymes, fairy tales, and other “domestic” sources. She also creates mixed media art books which include her personal narratives.
Freya Prowe’s work is lyrical, dark and draws upon the tradition of European fairy tales of her childhood. Prowe creates images that playfully prey upon the duality inherent in human interactions.
Angela Simione uses the methods of erasure to create her own "redacted" documents, making metaphors for the experiences of loss. Simione presents fragments, tiny bits of evidence, allusions to a lost history.
image:
Dutiful (1 & 2)
44" x 30" each
graphite on attached paper
angela simione, 2010
Feb 3, 2011
now
i have learned too early maybe how short life is. i am afraid of the brevity. i want to be an old woman in my bed. i do not want to be cut short. i am afraid of being cut short. i want the death (and life) of Louise Bourgeois- 98 years old, warm in my bed after a day of work in the studio, spitting images and loves at the world all the way up to the end. i want to work with that fire. i want to be a slave for decades to it.
everything is memento mori to me now. i am making myself a sweater with a skull on it. i never really cared for skulls as an image much before but now i am strangely attracted to them. i think of vanitas, our eye-blink existence, and want to claim every single shred of joy and sweetness i can. especially those bits found inside the swivel of sorrow. they are the most nourishing, the most poignant and necessary.
my sweater doesn't look like this but maybe i will attempt to make something along these lines as well. i love it.
come see me at slingshot today if you're around and we'll talk about art. or we can crochet together. i'll be sitting in the huge window at 890 valencia in san francisco.
everything is memento mori to me now. i am making myself a sweater with a skull on it. i never really cared for skulls as an image much before but now i am strangely attracted to them. i think of vanitas, our eye-blink existence, and want to claim every single shred of joy and sweetness i can. especially those bits found inside the swivel of sorrow. they are the most nourishing, the most poignant and necessary.
my sweater doesn't look like this but maybe i will attempt to make something along these lines as well. i love it.
come see me at slingshot today if you're around and we'll talk about art. or we can crochet together. i'll be sitting in the huge window at 890 valencia in san francisco.
Dec 16, 2010
happy thursday
i am hoping for sun, that this drizzle will burn off our windows and evaporate, make clouds for airplanes to slice through and blow off in another direction. just for today, my day in the city. my beloved role as Girl Thursday at Slingshot.
such a hope finds me there. all day i get to sit in that huge room with beautiful work on the tall walls! and all the flowers! i have not met a grouchy person yet. it is impossible, i think, to be interested enough in art to walk in to a gallery of your own free will and then be a total sour puss. it even works on me. my anxieties melt as i cross the bridge in to San Francisco, as that beautiful skyline comes in to view, as i navigate the one-way streets, as i unbolt the door. such a hope and such a deep, calm happiness. unexpected and absolutely cherished. i dig my heels in to the pleasure of this the very second i am through the door.
come see me. :)
such a hope finds me there. all day i get to sit in that huge room with beautiful work on the tall walls! and all the flowers! i have not met a grouchy person yet. it is impossible, i think, to be interested enough in art to walk in to a gallery of your own free will and then be a total sour puss. it even works on me. my anxieties melt as i cross the bridge in to San Francisco, as that beautiful skyline comes in to view, as i navigate the one-way streets, as i unbolt the door. such a hope and such a deep, calm happiness. unexpected and absolutely cherished. i dig my heels in to the pleasure of this the very second i am through the door.
come see me. :)
Dec 9, 2010
lucky :)
yesterday, while a hard and mean rain came down, i sat in the gallery space and finished my drawing and installation for the december show at Slingshot. the pic up top is a detail shot of the 300 crochet roses that comprise a large work titled Worry Roses (for my mother, for myself). it is the 2nd of its kind. you can see the first here.
i feel honored and lucky to have a space where i can do this kind of work.. where this kind of work is encouraged and supported and seen as relevant. it wakes something up in me. something i somehow lost... knowing that this kind of work IS WORK. so many hours goes in to work like this. hand cramps and a numb ass too. ;) but it's all worth it. when the final rose went up, i layed my hands and face against the piece and relaxed myself in to its scent and softness and listened to the rain come down, the city traffic, and mariachi from down the street.
come see her tomorrow night. we are taking part in the Mission Holiday Block Party so the reception goes until 9pm. doors open at 6.
Temple of Flora @ Slingshot Gallery890 Valencia @ 20th
San Francisco
i feel honored and lucky to have a space where i can do this kind of work.. where this kind of work is encouraged and supported and seen as relevant. it wakes something up in me. something i somehow lost... knowing that this kind of work IS WORK. so many hours goes in to work like this. hand cramps and a numb ass too. ;) but it's all worth it. when the final rose went up, i layed my hands and face against the piece and relaxed myself in to its scent and softness and listened to the rain come down, the city traffic, and mariachi from down the street.
come see her tomorrow night. we are taking part in the Mission Holiday Block Party so the reception goes until 9pm. doors open at 6.
Temple of Flora @ Slingshot Gallery890 Valencia @ 20th
San Francisco
Dec 1, 2010
DECEMBER!!!!!! DUDE!!!!
wheredidnovembergo??????wheredidtheyeargo???????ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
but it sure has been a good ride. :) i mean it. for all the ups and downs and twists and turns and being of extra-humble means this year, 2010 has been pretty great. and it continues to be great as we move in to the home stretch. i've been so busy with the projects i've got going and trying to get them all wrapped up beautifully within the next four weeks. thankfully i've been a very good girl and the finish line is in sight. the next few days though might be kinda brutal. november just disappeared and december has begun and there is the december show to install at Slingshot in a few days. EEEK!!! i thought i had another 2 weeks to get my projects for new show finished! NOPE! good thing i've been working my tail off and am definitely on-time production wise, i'm just stunned how quickly our first month in the space went! tomorrow, i sit the gallery and, in terms of this particular exhibition, it's the last time you can see it and me at the same time so, if you haven't made it down yet, i'd love to see you. it'll be up until saturday for sure but i think we're taking all the work down on sunday.
also, i just finished my packet for one of the residencies i've been dreaming of and not a moment too soon. the post-mark "Due By" is tomorrow. hahahaha! and it's not like i waited until the last minute either. i've been arranging and re-arranging and writing and re-writing for WEEKS. this is why deadlines are actually a good thing: i could torture myself with this application forever.
and in other news, i'm actually really liking my new day-job. it's quite a change. i've never worked in a clothing store before. it's actually pretty fun. this particular shop has a really great group of people in it and they are all around my age which is FANTASTIC! i was afraid that i'd be the dinosaur in a group of 19 year olds. i definitely don't ever want to find myself in the "mother hen" role. no no no definitely not. i've been a second mother and the results are fairly fucked up so that's really not a role i ever want to inadvertently stumble in to again or acquire by default as the elder female in the group. gross. because i still feel 19 years old half the time myself. still stunned by the world and its events, still confused more often than i'd like to admit. but i'm learning that's the way it is for everybody: constant change and consistently struggling (in one form or another), and the struggles of 2010 have actually been what's made it so great. i've learned a lot and come through a lot and i feel more like myself than i have in a very long time. it's a wonderful feeling.
i'm rambling on and on now. time to put this post away and get myself to the post office before it closes so that i can send off my big envelope an entire day before the post-mark. hahaha!
but it sure has been a good ride. :) i mean it. for all the ups and downs and twists and turns and being of extra-humble means this year, 2010 has been pretty great. and it continues to be great as we move in to the home stretch. i've been so busy with the projects i've got going and trying to get them all wrapped up beautifully within the next four weeks. thankfully i've been a very good girl and the finish line is in sight. the next few days though might be kinda brutal. november just disappeared and december has begun and there is the december show to install at Slingshot in a few days. EEEK!!! i thought i had another 2 weeks to get my projects for new show finished! NOPE! good thing i've been working my tail off and am definitely on-time production wise, i'm just stunned how quickly our first month in the space went! tomorrow, i sit the gallery and, in terms of this particular exhibition, it's the last time you can see it and me at the same time so, if you haven't made it down yet, i'd love to see you. it'll be up until saturday for sure but i think we're taking all the work down on sunday.
also, i just finished my packet for one of the residencies i've been dreaming of and not a moment too soon. the post-mark "Due By" is tomorrow. hahahaha! and it's not like i waited until the last minute either. i've been arranging and re-arranging and writing and re-writing for WEEKS. this is why deadlines are actually a good thing: i could torture myself with this application forever.
and in other news, i'm actually really liking my new day-job. it's quite a change. i've never worked in a clothing store before. it's actually pretty fun. this particular shop has a really great group of people in it and they are all around my age which is FANTASTIC! i was afraid that i'd be the dinosaur in a group of 19 year olds. i definitely don't ever want to find myself in the "mother hen" role. no no no definitely not. i've been a second mother and the results are fairly fucked up so that's really not a role i ever want to inadvertently stumble in to again or acquire by default as the elder female in the group. gross. because i still feel 19 years old half the time myself. still stunned by the world and its events, still confused more often than i'd like to admit. but i'm learning that's the way it is for everybody: constant change and consistently struggling (in one form or another), and the struggles of 2010 have actually been what's made it so great. i've learned a lot and come through a lot and i feel more like myself than i have in a very long time. it's a wonderful feeling.
i'm rambling on and on now. time to put this post away and get myself to the post office before it closes so that i can send off my big envelope an entire day before the post-mark. hahaha!
Nov 28, 2010
back!
it feels so good to feel like myself again! :D YAY! it's been an entire week since i did anything that resembled my normal day-to-day life. it feels fantastic to be getting back on track! i spent the evening painting last night, lost in all my luscious black oil, unaware of the passage of time, and feeling totally driven. ecstatic. and today i'm heading off to the city to sit the gallery. i'll work on my textile project while i'm there and just enjoy this gorgeous, sunny day in san francisco. life is good! BURN, BABY, BURN! ;) come by and say hi if you've got some time.
Nov 18, 2010
glowing and motivated
things are busy and wonderful and i'm just rolling along with it, feeling so satisfied and happy and encouraged. more than i've felt in a long time. i really can't stress enough how absolutely wonderful it feels to work with people who trust the ins and outs of my practice, who want me to do what feels right and just be myself. it's amazing and i am absolutely grateful for this experience. and we've been reviewed twice more! DANG! and DOUBLE DANG! ha! Artbusiness.com covered it the other day. scroll down til you find Slingshot. and Content at Fecal Face too! beautiful photographs! and tons of them! and i'm in one of them! see if you can spot me. i'm wearing a black shirt that says THE END in big white letters but the END is blocked by someones arm so it just says THE. :) but YAY!!!!! i'm blown away the opening got so much attention! it's so exciting! and we're already working working working on the december show which could prove to be our last exhibition in the space (we're only guaranteed our spot until january).
i'll be sitting the gallery again today. please do come down and say hi. 890 valencia @ 20th. i'll be there from noon - 5pm. maybe even a bit later today. people seemed to be really streaming in around 4:30 last week so i might keep the space open a bit later today if it ends up being the same.
in other news, i've finished the admissions paperwork for my local JC so that i can learn a new language in the new year. :) it's been on my TO-DO list for a very long time and, as i thought about new year's resolutions, i decided it was time to take a run at it. i can't enroll until the middle of next month but the first step has been taken and i am looking forward to wandering around on a college campus again. i love college. i always have. i highly recommend it. :) and also, if i take a second class (which i definitely will. probably something like screen printing or ceramics. fun classes!), it defers my student loan which is awesome. two birds, one stone. survival at its finest. :)
i'll be sitting the gallery again today. please do come down and say hi. 890 valencia @ 20th. i'll be there from noon - 5pm. maybe even a bit later today. people seemed to be really streaming in around 4:30 last week so i might keep the space open a bit later today if it ends up being the same.
in other news, i've finished the admissions paperwork for my local JC so that i can learn a new language in the new year. :) it's been on my TO-DO list for a very long time and, as i thought about new year's resolutions, i decided it was time to take a run at it. i can't enroll until the middle of next month but the first step has been taken and i am looking forward to wandering around on a college campus again. i love college. i always have. i highly recommend it. :) and also, if i take a second class (which i definitely will. probably something like screen printing or ceramics. fun classes!), it defers my student loan which is awesome. two birds, one stone. survival at its finest. :)
Nov 12, 2010
awesome!
so many people came through Slingshot yesterday! it was amazing! and here i was, all set to spend the day quietly crocheting, greeting the few people who might come in to look around, drink tea from the coffee shop next door, and just kick back in such a beautiful space for the day. nope! my retail you-had-better-greet-every-single-person-who-walks-in-that-door experience kicked in and i did not get much crocheting done at all! there was a constant flow of people all day long. so many people from the neighborhood came in to wish us well on our venture and express their hope that we'll get to stay in this space for a long, long, LONG time. i can't tell you how many people told me that it was wonderful to see a gallery pop up that shows this kind of art. awesome!!! :D i can't even tell you how good that makes me feel.
we are already busy planning the december show. it is the last month we are guaranteed to have the space so we want to do the best job we possible can. it's such a wonderful opportunity and just so rewarding. the beautiful artist Meagan Donegan is at the gallery today. i love her drawings of sheep. LOVE! if you're in the are, pop on in and say hello!
sunday afternoon (2-6pm) is the reception for 'tiny' at Studio Gallery which i am very much looking forward to. i love just being in jen abd rab's space. it just plain ol' feels good to be there.
i tell ya... the last few weeks it has felt so amazingly wonderful to be a working artist. :) i am so so so thankful.
we are already busy planning the december show. it is the last month we are guaranteed to have the space so we want to do the best job we possible can. it's such a wonderful opportunity and just so rewarding. the beautiful artist Meagan Donegan is at the gallery today. i love her drawings of sheep. LOVE! if you're in the are, pop on in and say hello!
sunday afternoon (2-6pm) is the reception for 'tiny' at Studio Gallery which i am very much looking forward to. i love just being in jen abd rab's space. it just plain ol' feels good to be there.
i tell ya... the last few weeks it has felt so amazingly wonderful to be a working artist. :) i am so so so thankful.
Nov 11, 2010
come on down! :)
i'll be at Slingshot all day today. well, most of the day anyway. 12 - 5pm. you are more than welcome to come down and hang out with me. i'm bringing my crochet projects to work on and some pencils and paper too. if you're in the area and looking for something to do, swing through!
890 valencia @ 20th, san francisco.
890 valencia @ 20th, san francisco.
Nov 8, 2010
:)
i have been crocheting roses for the better part of a week and switching back and forth between reading jean genet and simone weil. is that an odd combo? polar mysticisms, for sure. and i bend under the weight and steam of both their writings, come to some sort of faithful ground where exploration as such becomes the best and only beauty. philosophy has always turned me inside out in such wonderful ways. it is a grand art. it always makes me sad to see it flailing, unnoticed, in the background of culture at large: shining and ignored. still, i become more and more thankful for it. i ensure myself some much coveted moments alone with it daily now; the rain finding us so often.
today the sun is high and bright but it is freezing cold. the chill bit my face on the Mighty Run and made my nostrils hurt. the heater on and am wearing a huge sweater, thankful for walls and a roof and the water boiling for cherry tea.
and my head is still not screwed on entirely straight, still lop-sided and dangling (happily!) from the radiating joy of the weekend. a moment of satisfaction??? it was so wonderful to see my school friends again! their smiling faces and warm hugs. it felt like no time had gone by at all and it was just a few weeks ago that we were all crammed in to the studios together, worrying about the meaning of painting and things like Relevance and Historic Reference. hahaha! and of course those things are important but, now, 2 1/2 years later the story has changed: those concerns become tempered, cut down to size by struggling alone with your own practice, your own ideas, picking out books to read on your own, and holding them under your own microscope. my school friends all said "your work is so different now". :) and i suppose it is.
and so i feel quiet and happy today. spinning, but pleased. i will be watching Slingshot Gallery on thursdays so come on down! draw with me! talk to me about books or art or whatever shenanigans you may be up too. it would be wonderful to hang out! i'll be there from 12-5pm at least. i'll keep the doors open longer some days when i don't have to rush right off.
today the sun is high and bright but it is freezing cold. the chill bit my face on the Mighty Run and made my nostrils hurt. the heater on and am wearing a huge sweater, thankful for walls and a roof and the water boiling for cherry tea.
and my head is still not screwed on entirely straight, still lop-sided and dangling (happily!) from the radiating joy of the weekend. a moment of satisfaction??? it was so wonderful to see my school friends again! their smiling faces and warm hugs. it felt like no time had gone by at all and it was just a few weeks ago that we were all crammed in to the studios together, worrying about the meaning of painting and things like Relevance and Historic Reference. hahaha! and of course those things are important but, now, 2 1/2 years later the story has changed: those concerns become tempered, cut down to size by struggling alone with your own practice, your own ideas, picking out books to read on your own, and holding them under your own microscope. my school friends all said "your work is so different now". :) and i suppose it is.
and so i feel quiet and happy today. spinning, but pleased. i will be watching Slingshot Gallery on thursdays so come on down! draw with me! talk to me about books or art or whatever shenanigans you may be up too. it would be wonderful to hang out! i'll be there from 12-5pm at least. i'll keep the doors open longer some days when i don't have to rush right off.
Nov 7, 2010
i am smiling so much my face hurts!
i am still reeling from the opening at Slingshot last night. it was amazing! simply, totally amazing. i had such a wonderful time. and it was PACKED! the turn-out was unbelievable and i am joyfully overwhelmed by the amount of support we received last night. incredible and humbling and so beautiful. and we've even been reviewed already! thank you Arteaser! AHHHHHHHH! :D
Nov 1, 2010
november will be an awesome month!
i cannot believe it is november already. the 2nd to the last month in the year. geez. doesn't it seem like it was new year's eve just a couple of months ago? doesn't it feel like we should only be in april? don't you feel like we should have a bit more time to get rolling on all those straggling new year's resolutions we made? ha! but maybe this is how i know we really are gearing up for winter: joining the chorus of people talking about how quickly the year went and how each year seems to go by faster than the last. this one sure did! and next year will too! AHHHHHHH! remember how long a day seemed when we were little? how large time felt, how expansive summer break was? summer break felt like an entire year.
but november is actually quite an amazing month for me and i am looking forward to each and every minute of it. the install on saturday at Slingshot went amazingly well. the space looks absolutely gorgeous. it really does. the funny thing about art exhibitions is that once everything is curated and set in place, it always looks better than you could have imagined. always. and there is this wonderful moment that comes where you are actually impressed with yourself. :) it's a great feeling! and i pretty much spent the entire weekend feeling pretty impressed with not only myself but with the other artists i'm showing with. it feels fucking fantastic to have your work in the same space as the work of other artists you respect. i've wanted to show with freya for 3 years and now it's happening and i am ecstatic! if you are around, please come down and share the joy! the whole thing is quite an experiment - we are the people actually physically running the space for the next few months. it's our gallery for a time. the space has been lent to us temporarily and we are turning the magic on. i'm not sure what day is mine to sit the gallery but i'll let you know as soon as i find out. the opening reception is this saturday november 6th from 6-8pm at 890 Valencia. come on down and bring a friend and make some new friend too!
cell phone pic sneak peek!
after setting up, i went across town to Studio Gallery and dropped off 5 pieces for their annual "tiny" exhibition, a show that is definitely a san francisco favorite. all the work in the show must be 7" x 7" and under and is price capped at $400. it is the place to be if you want to give art as a gift for the holidays or if you want to start a collection of your own. it's an amazing show that i'm so happy to be a part of again. i think it is so important to encourage people to see the arts as a very human activity, not something rooted in elitism and removed from daily life. this show helps to bring art in to the home, to make it accessible and comfortable to acquire. the first reception for the show is sunday november 14th from 2-6pm. here's a little preview of the work i've got in the show, priced at $200:
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fall (2)
6" x 6"
oil on canvas, 2010
and the afternoon/night before the reception at Studio, from 4-9:30pm there is the reception and live action benefiting Visual Aid, the annual Big Blue Deal, to attend. i have a piece on the auction block again this year (Visual Aid is one of my absolute favorite benefits and deserves its own blog post!)
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Private Romance (Angela, age 19)
42" x 35"
oil on canvas, 2010
and i hope that you can make it out or, if you are an artist in the greater san francisco area, donate a great piece of work to their cause. it is such a fantastic and important way for artists to help support their own community. it really is. please click the link above and check them out. Visual Aid is am amazing foundation and i feel absolutely honored to be able to do something that may help other artists in need. this auction in particular hits very close to home.
LOTS of great stuff this month! and i hope if you're willing and able to make it out to any of these events, that you will introduce yourself! it would be so amazing to meet you! sincerely!!!! :)
but november is actually quite an amazing month for me and i am looking forward to each and every minute of it. the install on saturday at Slingshot went amazingly well. the space looks absolutely gorgeous. it really does. the funny thing about art exhibitions is that once everything is curated and set in place, it always looks better than you could have imagined. always. and there is this wonderful moment that comes where you are actually impressed with yourself. :) it's a great feeling! and i pretty much spent the entire weekend feeling pretty impressed with not only myself but with the other artists i'm showing with. it feels fucking fantastic to have your work in the same space as the work of other artists you respect. i've wanted to show with freya for 3 years and now it's happening and i am ecstatic! if you are around, please come down and share the joy! the whole thing is quite an experiment - we are the people actually physically running the space for the next few months. it's our gallery for a time. the space has been lent to us temporarily and we are turning the magic on. i'm not sure what day is mine to sit the gallery but i'll let you know as soon as i find out. the opening reception is this saturday november 6th from 6-8pm at 890 Valencia. come on down and bring a friend and make some new friend too!
cell phone pic sneak peek!
after setting up, i went across town to Studio Gallery and dropped off 5 pieces for their annual "tiny" exhibition, a show that is definitely a san francisco favorite. all the work in the show must be 7" x 7" and under and is price capped at $400. it is the place to be if you want to give art as a gift for the holidays or if you want to start a collection of your own. it's an amazing show that i'm so happy to be a part of again. i think it is so important to encourage people to see the arts as a very human activity, not something rooted in elitism and removed from daily life. this show helps to bring art in to the home, to make it accessible and comfortable to acquire. the first reception for the show is sunday november 14th from 2-6pm. here's a little preview of the work i've got in the show, priced at $200:
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fall (2)
6" x 6"
oil on canvas, 2010
and the afternoon/night before the reception at Studio, from 4-9:30pm there is the reception and live action benefiting Visual Aid, the annual Big Blue Deal, to attend. i have a piece on the auction block again this year (Visual Aid is one of my absolute favorite benefits and deserves its own blog post!)
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Private Romance (Angela, age 19)
42" x 35"
oil on canvas, 2010
and i hope that you can make it out or, if you are an artist in the greater san francisco area, donate a great piece of work to their cause. it is such a fantastic and important way for artists to help support their own community. it really is. please click the link above and check them out. Visual Aid is am amazing foundation and i feel absolutely honored to be able to do something that may help other artists in need. this auction in particular hits very close to home.
LOTS of great stuff this month! and i hope if you're willing and able to make it out to any of these events, that you will introduce yourself! it would be so amazing to meet you! sincerely!!!! :)
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