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SFMOMA To Launch Off-Site Programming with Major Outdoor Exhibition of Mark di Suvero’s Sculptures at Crissy Field Near Golden Gate Bridge

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By On May 18, 2013 In Art, Art Exhibits, Art News, Bay Area Artists, San Francisco With No Comments Permanent Link to SFMOMA To Launch Off-Site Programming with Major Outdoor Exhibition of Mark di Suvero’s Sculptures at Crissy Field Near Golden Gate BridgePermalink

Partnership with the National Park Service and Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, Yearlong Waterfront Display at Crissy Field Will Be Free to Public

SFMOMA Installation at Crissy Field

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It’s safe to say a museum like SFMOMA doesn’t do anything small, quiet or diminutive. If they’re closing for three years for one incredible expansion project and a series of off-site programming, they will do it large, with a very visible presence. Beginning officially on May 22nd through May 26, 2014, SFMOMA will present a major outdoor exhibition of sculptor Mark di Suvero’s works near the Golden Gate Bridge. Eight large scale steel sculptures will be installed at historic Crissy Field, and will be the largest display of di Suvero’s work every shown on the West Coast and free for all visitors. The exhibition coincides with the artist’s 80th birthday.

Mark di Suvero at Crissy Field continues the National Park Service and Parks Conservancy’s ongoing commitment and deep relationship with the city that is home to the Golden Gate National Parks. “Similar to the recent di Suvero presentation at Governors Island, this exhibition provides an opportunity to further explore how art can create a new understanding and appreciation for a historic landmark like Crissy Field,” said Golden Gate National Recreation Area Superintendent, Frank Dean. “The fact that di Suvero is a sculptor with local roots and influences adds another dimension to the story,” he noted.

So if you’re in San Francisco, or traveling through the city, you’ll have trouble missing this exhibition, a celebration of five decades of work from this important artist.

 

 

SFAI MFA Show This Weekend – Currency at The Old Mint

By On May 18, 2013 In Art, Art Exhibits, Art News, Bay Area Artists, San Francisco With No Comments Permanent Link to SFAI MFA Show This Weekend – Currency at The Old MintPermalink

SFAI MFA SHOW

Through Sunday, May, 19th
Exhibition hours: 11 am–6 pm daily

A lot of art going on this weekend, but this event is one to catch – the San Francisco Art Institute MFA show, Currency, a showcase of provocative new work from nearly 100 emerging artists. Chosen as a subject during a time of ongoing and changing economic conditions, this exhibition at The Old Mint offers a unique opportunity for SFAI’s artists to juxtapose contemporary expression with a stunning National Historic Landmark that was central to the country’s economic development.

SFAI’s 2013 MFA graduates—working in painting, photography, printmaking, film, sculpture, installation, digital media, performance, and across media—will present work that embraces the Institute’s signature spirit of experimentation and conceptual risk-taking. The result of an intense period of collaboration, critical engagement, and artistic development, the work reflects both current dialogues in contemporary art and strong individual points of view. In addition, many artists have created site-specific pieces that respond to the history, character, and physical spaces of The Old Mint.

SFAI has been at the vanguard of contemporary art for more than 140 years. Currency invites curators, collectors, critics, family, friends, and the general public to discover the next generation of pioneering artists from this celebrated institution.

At the opening reception, there is a suggested donation of $20 to support SFAI’s educational and public programs.

In conjunction with this event, SFAI is presenting Gala Vernissage—an exclusive opportunity to preview the 2013 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition.

Explore the exhibition catalogue:

San Francisco Street Art – Clarion Alley, The Mission

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By On May 8, 2013 In aesthetics, Art, San Francisco, Street Art With No Comments Permanent Link to San Francisco Street Art – Clarion Alley, The MissionPermalink

Street Art, Clarion Alley, The Mission

 

This great abstraction remains unblemished, unfortunately some people in The Mission and other neighborhoods are taking to the awfully distasteful, horrible habit of tagging street art that an artist has probably spent hours, days or weeks working on. Ah, the price you pay if you post your work out in the open. I know, right? Still, you’d like to believe we could live in a world where whoever needs to vent their anger, frustration, creativity or any other mood that strikes he or she upon pulling out the spray paint,  would find somewhere else to do it and not destroy somebody else’s work. Or, not do it at all since, well, it’s illegal. Graffiti on graffiti? Somewhat oxymoron-ish, isn’t it? Suppose city supervisors and lawyers would have trouble trying to fashion a law protecting street art. So we leave it to neighbors and other local residents to LEAVE THE STREET ART ALONE!

 

Oh Say Can You See — Metallica Style, SF Giants Style

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By On May 6, 2013 In aesthetics, Bay Area Artists, People, Photography, San Francisco With 1 Comment Permanent Link to Oh Say Can You See — Metallica Style, SF Giants StylePermalink

 

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Robert Kingston at Dolby Chadwick Gallery through March 30, 2013

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By On March 13, 2013 In Art, Art Exhibits, San Francisco With No Comments Permanent Link to Robert Kingston at Dolby Chadwick Gallery through March 30, 2013Permalink

You often hear artists talk about the meaning or intention of their work, and the process(es) they undertake being as important as the work itself. This is one of the truest definitions of an artist, not as much concerned with what philosophers or art historians might once have called aesthetic beauty; now redefined by Danto and others as embedded meaning. And embedded meaning is precisely what Robert Kingston’s work makes such excellent use of along with the creative process employed by the painter.

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According to Dolby Chadwick’s exhibition notes, “Robert Kingston looks at his work as the piling on of mistakes and hesitations, using this as a journey of contemplation and discovery. The results are beautifully complex layers of gestures and markings – making for oil paintings that are cultural explorations reminiscent of cave markings totemism, semiotics, iconography and other non-verbal means of communication.”

He is often compared with Cy Twombly, both drawn to ancient or tribal cultures, markings, scratches, primitive visual histories, abstract visual cues, legends, myths, codes and systems of cryptic communication. What makes Kingston’s work unique are his use of space, the rendering and meaning of his markings, his beautiful palettes and composition.

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The comparison to Twombly and other Abstract Expressionists suggests to this writer that Kingston is tapped in to many different interpretations of culture, history, and on a personal level, a highly trained, albeit intrinsically human curiosity about our need to interact and express with the world’s rush of images.

-Mark Gould

Rhodessa Jones Is The Recipient Of The 2013 Mayor’s Art Award

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By On January 24, 2013 In Art, San Francisco With No Comments Permanent Link to Rhodessa Jones Is The Recipient Of The 2013 Mayor’s Art AwardPermalink

 

from the San Francisco Art Commission:

Rhodessa JonesMayor Edwin M. Lee today announced Rhodessa Jones, an acclaimed performance and community artist, has been named to receive the 2013 Mayor’s Art Award.

“Rhodessa Jones embodies the spirit of the Mayor’s Art Award, as an artistic powerhouse of international acclaim whose work has saved and transformed lives,” said Mayor Lee. “It is my great honor to recognize one of our City’s most prized cultural treasures and to acknowledge Rhodessa’s tremendous contributions to the cultural, artistic and civic life of San Francisco.”

“I’m so honored to receive this award. Politics don’t work, religion is a bit too eclectic, but art could be that parachute that catches us all,” said Rhodessa Jones. (full press release –>)

 

 

 

New Work: The Art and Cognitive Neuroscience of Studio Artist’s Algorithmic Brushes

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By On January 22, 2013 In Art, Art & Technology, digital art, San Francisco With No Comments Permanent Link to New Work: The Art and Cognitive Neuroscience of Studio Artist’s Algorithmic BrushesPermalink
There are a few favorite paint applications in my digital toolbox, and Synthetik’s Studio Artist is one of them. Principal software engineer, programmer and artist John Dalton has spent many years studying cognitive neuroscience, computer intelligence and ways in which computers can respond and enhance the creative and artistic processes.

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I don’t do any work that’s strictly paint, strictly digital, strictly photographic. I’m alway’s taking a picture of a sketch, painting a photograph, scanning a found object. There’s no concern about what’s original and what’s a reproduction.

I was experimenting with a preset that emulated an oil paint effect and created this image in about an hour. But the point of Studio Artist or any digital art software, to me, is not to emulate real world paint, while that might be fun. For me there are so many things that are infinitely, uniquely digital – that’s what I’m going for 99 per-cent of the time, since the direction of my work changed some years ago.

My process may seem unusual to some, very familiar to others. I don’t do any work that’s strictly paint, strictly digital, strictly photographic. I’m alway’s taking a picture of a sketch, painting a photograph, scanning a found object, printing out a digital work, doing some work in paint, pen or pencil and then scanning it back in for more. There’s no concern about what’s original and what’s a reproduction.

I didn’t start out intending it that way, but I love it!

 

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