Bay Area Artists
January 23, 2011 | 
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SFMOMA Artists Gallery Announces January Show – Fort Mason
Mirang Wonne, Jenn Shifflet, Kathryn St. Clair
Thu Jan 13 – Thu Feb 24 SFMOMA Artists Gallery
Fort Mason Center, Building A (map)
San Francisco, CA 94123
Mirang Wonne, Sunlight 2603, 2010; burnt stainless-steel mesh on top of acrylic paint on paper; 26 x 26 in.; photo: Don Felton, Almac Camera
This month SFMOMA will feature three Bay Area artists who each have unique observations of the world around us but interpret it using very different media. Mirang Wonne creates drawings on stainless-steel mesh by burning the surface with a torch. The silver-colored metal surfaces, with colorful acrylic paintings just below it, bear some resemblance to Asian calligraphy and brush painting created on long paper scrolls. She favors motifs from nature and has developed her own style of execution that distinguishes the work.
East Bay artist Jenn Shifflet’s work could also be compared to Asian art, but with a decidedly Pop art twist. Her rich and developed palette and her interest in a very contemporary kind of line make the paintings fresh and irresistible.
Kathryn St. Clair also looks at the landscape, rendering it in colors that both convince and soothe the eye. She is adept at spotting idyllic scenes that are abundant near her home in Marin County.
Event: Saturday, January 15, 2011, 12 – 5 pm
Joint Member Day
SF Cameraworks
This Saturday, eight San Francisco cultural institutions are teaming up to offer members reciprocal admission, tours, and discounts! Members of the Asian Art Museum, Cartoon Art Museum, Contemporary Jewish Museum, Museum of the African Diaspora, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, SF Camerawork, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts are invited to visit participating museums for FREE admission, special events and exclusive discounts. All participating museums will be offering FREE admission to two people per membership! More information…
San Francisco Film Society
SFFS Screen: And Everything Is Going Fine
February 18-24
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
from The Time That Remains (via SFFS)
Steven Soderbergh brings his unique approach to this assembled biographical tribute to noted actor, writer and performance artist Spalding Gray, creating a film that is as digressive and miraculously coherent as the monologues that are its principle inspiration. Imagine a film chronicling the lives and hardships of Palestinians who were branded Israeli Arabs, living as a minority in their own homeland. Now imagine it as a comedy. This contradiction, starring, written and directed by Elia Suleiman, is a wonderful fusion of the political and personal, the historical and the hysterical. Spanning from 1948 until recent times, The Time That Remains recreates the lives of Suleiman’s family and community with precise deadpan wit.
Gallery Crawl/Quest
Color By Nano – The Art of Kate Nichols
Premieres: Wednesday, Sep 15, 2010
KQED World
The always generous, innovative, KQED shares this compelling, up close glimpse from the first collaboration between QUEST and Gallery Crawl featuring Kate Nichols. Kate is one of the recently announed TED fellows and is a San Francisco artist whose artist-in-residence at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has allowed her to create brilliant new palettes in new and different ways.
The results of the work in residence show how one artist’s inquiry into the question of how one applies her vision of what it means to “combine art and technology.
San Francisco: Artist Kate Nichols
But it’s no aside that Nichols’ statement in response to the inquiry is nothing less than breathless.
Artist Kate Nichols longed to paint with the iridescent colors of butterfly wings, but no such pigments existed. So she became the first artist-in-residence at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to synthesize nano-particles and incorporate them into her artwork.
From the laboratory to the studio, see how Kate uses the phenomenon known as “structural color” to transform nanotechnology into creativity. Rating: 5 stars.
KQED on YouTube