We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season. We are excited to announce this Saturday, January 16th is Serena Cole's Dinner Lecture in conjunction with last month's exhibition,featuring guest speakers Tina Takemoto and Jeffrey Gibson and guest cook Abner Nolan. Also mark your calendars for Saturday, January 30th when we will give guided tours of 24th Street art installations followed by a special film screening/dinner at Sun Rise Restaurant curated by Clare Haggarty. Don't miss Todd Bura's amazing review in Frieze and keep your eyes peeled for Bryson Gill's current solo show review in theSan Francisco Chronicle.
See you soon,
Joyce Grimm and Dina Pugh
p.s. Many of the Central Market Art in Storefronts are closed but all other Art in Storefronts remain up until the end of the month- Check them out!
Saturday, January 16th, 7 - 10:30pm Serena Cole Dinner Lecture
In conjunction with her solo exhibition I Wanna be Adored
Guest Speakers: Tina Takemoto and
Jeffrey Gibson
Guest Cook: Abner Nolan $35 RSVP NOW
For this unique Dinner Lecture
experience, our guest speakers will be Tina Takemoto and Jeffrey
Gibson, both who have worked with closely with Triple Base artist Serena Cole in the MFA
program at California College of the Arts. The evening will be spent eating delicious food created by
artist Abner Nolan, meeting new people and looking closely at the
artwork of Serena Cole and the work in her recent Triple Base solo exhibition,
I Wanna be Adored.
Tina Takemoto is a is a writer,
theorist, and performance artist. She is currently a Visual Studies
Professor at CCA. Takemoto will be presenting a brief lecture titled
"Art, Advertising, and the Production of Desire."
Jeffrey Gibson is a contemporary artist form New York and is a
Visiting Artist at California College of the Arts. He was recently
awarded the Headlands residency in Marin. Gibson will share his
perspective on fashion advertising images and will show how they are
reflective of class and racial demographics and simultaneously
seductive as images of surreal beauty. Gibson has created a photo
interview with Cole, exploring her teen fashion drawings as well as a
recent "Prada Fashion Show" that he and Cole created in December.
Abner Nolan (our cook for the evening) is a San
Francisco-based artist and educator. His work has been included in
exhibitions at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Nelson Gallery
at UC Davis and SF Camerawork. Nolan is currently an adjunct professor in the photography
program at the California College of the Arts.
Saturday, January 30, 6-9pm
24th Street Food & Films curated by Clare Haggarty films by Martha Rosler, Veronica Majano and Kari Orvik
This closing event for Art in Storefronts and 24th Street Promenade will feature a guided tour of the 13 art projects followed by dinner and a unique film program curated by Clare Haggarty at Sun Rise Restaurant.
RSVP here! The pre-fixe dinner w/ glass of sangria is only $20!
Film Program:
Martha Rosler, Secrets from the Street: No Disclosure, 1980
In the 80's, Rosler had a studio near 24th Street in the Mission where she filmed the street in super 8 out of a car window. The footage is
collaged with her voiceover making observations about the neighborhood.
Veronica Majano, Two Four, 2002
"Two Four" as in 24th Street in San Francisco’s Mission
District, explores the fragile decay of memory in this short hand-processed
black and white super 8 film.
Kari Orvik, Mission Portrait Studio, 24th and Mission, 2008
This video documents a day of free public portraits through
audio interviews, super 8 film and video footage of participants' reactions to
their images, neighborhood and one another.
P R O J E C T S P A C E The Friends and Neighbors Effect: Bryson Gill Solo Show
T R I P LE B A S E M E N T
_Japa_:Oliver Halsman Rosenberg and friends
Bryson Gill’s densely layered paintings explore the fine line between
abstraction and figuration, all the while struggling between the
rational and the natural. The composition of Gill’s ambiguous
landscapes, totemic structures, and portraits remain just recognizable
enough to create a spectrum of meanings and emotions. Gill has spent
the last year and a half in Berlin developing a new body of work that
plays with subtle humor and obscure historical references.
After one year of nomadic art making in India, Oliver Halsman Rosenberg
returns to his San Francisco roots to share the work he made, as well
as create a shrine with work by other travelers, locals, and friends he
met during his journey. "Japa" is Sanskrit for the repetition of a
mantra under ones breath, and Oliver will use the underground Triple
Basement space to frame this work from abroad.
Todd Bura Review in Frieze Magazine by Melissa E. Feldman Painting Spiritual Painting
Todd Bura Solo Show
September 18 – October 25, 2009
"Scruffy and small, with exacting, no-nonsense paint application, Todd
Bura’s abstractions have the intense interiority of the after-hours
painter in his bedsit.
Yet, while remaining idiosyncratic and never flagrantly....(Read More)"
Stay tuned for Bryson Gill's solo exhibition review in the San Francisco Chronicle.
