Stephanie Peek - San Francisco Decorator Showcase 2012

April 28 - May 28, 2012 

2020 Jackson Street,  San Francisco CA

Deeper II  80” x  78”   oil on canvas 2012

Stephanie Peek  

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday: 10:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. (last entry)
Thursday and Friday: 10:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. (last entry)
Sunday and Memorial Day: 11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. (last entry)
CLOSED MONDAY (except Memorial Day) 
Admission: $30, Seniors: $25 (60+) 

Michelle Bello Fine Art Consulting
Grand Staircase, Upper Staircase and Art Gallery 
 415 317 5975  info@michellebello.com

Deborah Oropallo, Hung Liu and Squeak Carnwath: Heroes

APRIL 27 - JUNE 9, 2012

Turner Carroll Gallery

A hero is a person of notable and distinguished courage or ability. Songs, films, and paintings have celebrated heroes and their deeds for millennia. Are the creator of the image of the hero complicit? Who is the person who paints a hero? It seems like our heroes are better than in the past, maybe a bit more real and less "super." So how do we paint new heroes? Paintings by three powerhouse Bay Area painters on the subject of important personages.

                                  Opening Reception Friday, April 27, 2012 from 5 to 7pm

[n.b. that this event takes place in Santa Fe]

Gyöngy Laky: Crossover

May 3 - June 2

Opening Reception: May 3, from 5:30 to 7:30

Writing on the Wall, 2011, Ash, paint, dowels, 90 x 90 x 3 in. Photo: Alan Robin/Aline Dargie

In her first solo exhibition with the gallery, Gyöngy Laky will present a series of work examining our complex relationship with nature. Sculptural pieces containing words, letters, and symbols are made of painted and stained branches and twigs combined with screws, nails, wires, and plastic figurines.

This show will feature a selection of work exploring on the transitional space between visual and textual aspects of Laky's work, such as Writing on the Wall, a grid of wooden objects seemingly shifting between two symbolic information codes. The organic essence of the natural wood contrasted with the spiky industrial elements draws upon the ambivalence of the natural and artificial, organic and industrial, and encapsulate co-existing feelings of violence and serenity, aggression and sanctuary.

Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1944, Gyöngy Laky studied at UC Berkeley where she earned both her B.A. and M.A.degrees (B.A., 1970 and M.A., 1971). She has exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States and internationally in France, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Holland, Switzerland, Hungary, Lithuania, Colombia, the Philippines, China, and England.

A past recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis, Laky's work is in museum collections in Europe and the United States, including the San Francisco MOMA, The Smithsonian's Renwick Museum of American Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum, and the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu. The Smithsonian Institution is currently assembling a collection of Laky's personal papers, photographs and documents for the Archives of American Art.

For more images and information please contact the gallery: info@cainschulte.com, 415.543.1550

MEET UP!

Do Join Us

May 2nd (Wednesday) 5:00 p.m.

@ PICANTE

1328 6th Street (cross Gilman) in Berkeley

Come and hear about the SPRING TRAINING.

Come share your experience if you participated--

Let us all know what was useful, how you prepared, what surprised you...!

...and bring a friend!

Sonya Rapoport: The Nuclear Family in the Atomic Age

The Nuclear Family in the Atomic Age updates the 1977 artwork, "Horizontal Cobalt," that I had created in collaboration with the Nuclear Science Division of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. In that artwork I had translated the Laboratory's experimental output by drawing directly on the computer printouts that described the transmutation of chemical elements when they are bombarded with nuclear substances. Nearby at the associated Livermore Laboratory, the employees and their immediate families were celebrating the once a year Family Day, where visitors walked amidst the H-Bomb mock-ups. In the current artwork, The Nuclear Family in the Atomic Age, I digitally integrated a photograph of each member of my family into a relevant artwork created by Roy Lichtenstein. I then selected a word from the nuclear glossary that related to each collaged image. This ironic juxtaposition has a disturbing effect, purposefully conveying a critical attitude toward nuclear projects. Lichtenstein also created ironic work. His adherence to traditional structure along with his use of images selected from narratives of corporately endorsed domestic, romantic and consumer activities illuminates the irony available in my work. The nuclear era coincides with the era represented in Lichtenstein's work, making for a natural historical overlay. But just as Lichtenstein denaturalized scenes that were meant to represent an everyday life, my work denaturalizes what the corporate and scientific worlds worked to naturalize in nuclear power and nuclear weapons. The photographs of members of my own family incorporated into Lichtenstein artwork exist in a space of detachment and ironic distance, wherein the viewer is able to contemplate the harrowing juxtaposition of family and nuclear bombs.

Gyongy Laky: CROSSOVER

May 3 - June 9, 2012

Opening Reception:

Thursday, May 3rd from 5:30-7:30

Cain Schulte Contemporary Art

251 Post Street, Suite 210 (1/2 blk from Union Square)

10 Connect: A Group Show of Ten Artists - Featuring Lynn McGeever

April 13 - May 25, 2012

Gray Loft Gallery

2889 Ford St., 3rd Floor, Oakland, CA 94601

Opening reception 2nd Friday, April 13, 6 - 9 pm

Closing party/reception: May 25, 6 - 9 pm

Weekend dates: Saturdays from 2 - 6 pm and by appointment

This event is free and open to the public.

"Jan Relaxing" 30" x 22"

Lynn McGeever

GrayLoftGallery@gmail.com

GrayLoftGallery.blogspot.com

(510) 499-3445

Eddie Rhodes Gallery at Contra Costa College

Genn Toffey
Solo Show - TriCoastal Layers

March 24th – April 26th

Important: please note the Gallery is closed March 30th - April 8^th for their Spring break.

Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday 9:00 – 4:00 PM

Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 11th 4:30 – 7:30 PM

Eddie Rhodes Gallery at Contra Costa College Art Building

Building A, Parking lot 17

2600 Mission Bell Dr., San Pablo, CA 94806
(510) 235-7800

For directions and map please see below

Genn Toffey’s paintings reflect her fascination with the human spirit. Her Great Women of the Past series focuses on women who changed the world – often under hardship. Toffey developed her signature style of painting in thin transparent layers twenty years ago when she lived in New York. Genn Toffey recently moved to the East Bay area after living in South Korea for ten years. A Berkeley native, Toffey is a 3rd generation woman artist. Both her daughters are also professional artists.

For more information visit: http://GennToffey.com or email CGToffey@yahoo.com

DIRECTIONS TO EDDIE RHODES GALLERY

FROM THE SOUTH (OAKLAND, BERKELEY, RICHMOND)
1-80 east toward Sacramento. Take exit 19A "El Portal" and make a left onto El Portal Dr for 1.5 miles. Turn right onto Contra Costa College's Mission Bell Dr which becomes Campus Dr. and use parking lot 17.

FROM THE EAST (WALNUT CREEK, LAFAYETTE)
Hwy 24 to Orinda/Richmond exit. Right on Camino Pablo Rd. Continue about 10 miles to El Sobrante (Camino Pablo Rd will become San Pablo Dam Rd). Make a right onto El Portal Dr. and go 1.6 miles and turn right onto Contra Costa College's Mission Bell Dr which becomes Campus Dr. and use parking lot 17.

FROM THE WEST (OVER THE RICHMOND-SAN RAFAEL BRIDGE)
From the bridge, take the Castro St exit. Follow signs to the Richmond Parkway (under the freeway) take Richmond Parkway for about 4 miles to San Pablo Ave. Make a right on San Pablo Ave and in 1.5 miles turn left onto El Portal Dr. In a few hundred feet make a left onto Contra Costa College's Mission Bell Dr which becomes Campus Dr. and use parking lot 17.

Exhibitions are free and open to the public.

downloadable directions

The UC Art Alumni Group is Pleased to Present

*** SPRING TRAINING ***

Saturday, April 21 st

9 a.m. - 12 p.m. 1 p.m.- 4 p.m.

Kroeber Hall UC Berkeley

An Opportunity to Meet One-On-One with Arts Professionals for Advice on:

*a new body of work

*website

*presentation materials

*prepared grant or residency applications

In twenty-minute appointments, alumni will have the benefit of practical and professional advice in consultation chosen from a group of artists, gallerists, curators, and critics.

Whether one, three, five, or even ten years out in the world, an experienced eye, guiding voice, informed perspective is an invaluable resource to us all !

Our generous and supportive mentors :

Lucinda Barnes, Chief Curator, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California

Brian Gross, Brian Gross Gallery

DeWitt Cheng, Art Critic, Independent Curator, and Artist

Indira Morre, Co-owner of Martina Johnston Gallery; University of California Berkeley Department of Art Practice Visiting Lecturer, Artist

To Register:

Registering is a two part process:

To secure a place, first send an email to calartalumni@gmail.com listing your 1st choice with your second and third back up choices of mentor. To complete the registration process, use PayPal on the top righthand side of this blog to pay the process fee of $20.

Richard Shaw: 40+ Years of Students' Work

CALL TO SHOW:

The University of California at Berkeley Department of Art Practice is organizing a show of 40+ years of Richard Shaws’ students’ work. All former students from The San Francisco Art Institute and UC Berkeley are invited to show work. We are hoping for small works (and egos).

The installation will begin Monday April 2^nd 2012. The Department of Art Practice will be throwing party for Richard along with the reception for the show April 5th 2012. The Department of Art Practice will unfortunately not be able to provide funding for shipping to or from the show.

Department of Art Practice
345 Kroeber Hall #3750
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-3750
510.642.2582
artdept@berkeley.edu

www.richardshawart.com

MEET UP!

Do Join Us

March 21st (Wednesday) 5:00 p.m.

@ PICANTE

1328 6th Street (cross Gilman) in Berkeley

Come and share Projects, Exhibitions, and Insights---

...and bring a friend !

Bridge 11: Lia Cook

Feb 4-May 13, 2012

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

Lecture May 12, 2012 "Navigating the Maze: Neuroscience and Fiber Connections” Houston Museum of Art

Review: Lia Cook “Bridge 11″ : Arts + Culture Magazine Houston

Group Exhibitions

"Sourcing the Museum", The Textile Museum, Washington, DC, March 23 - August 19, 2012

Lecture, Lia Cook. May 31, Textile Museum Washington DC.

"Sleight of Hand", Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, extended to November 25, 2012

"New Materiality" Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC November 18-March 18, 2012

Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR April 13- August 5, 2012

"The French Connection" artspace, Richmond Va February 24-March, 2012 http://thefrenchconnection2012.blogspot.com/

"8th International Fiber Biennial" Snyderman-Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Essay on Exhibition "Shot Through-Textile and Photography" by Glem Adamsen. Retrospective Catalog 2011 Hordaland Art Centre

Book Cover: "Point of Touch, Bathsheba"

Sensation and Perception, Jeremy Wolfe Ed.

Nancy Genn: The Shape of Water

February 26 - March 11, 2012

Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Cowell College UCSC

This exhibition is being held in conjunction with a reenactment of the 1966 Cowell College Fountain Dedication Ceremony. Complete with a performance by the original Cowell alumni returning to perform as they did at the original celebration. A contingent of Osher Lifelong Learning members; emeritii faculty; current faculty, students and staff; and with the current Cowell a capella choir also performing, should make this a fun event.

Nancy Genn’s style is deeply personal, finding inspiration and themes between geometric abstraction, landscape and architectural motifs with great attention to light and to the calligraphic images that have constantly influenced Genn’s works throughout her career. While growing up she was strongly influenced by her mother’s lobbying efforts on behalf of nature and trees, and many of Genn’s works take their semblance from nature as does the Cowell fountain she designed in 1966 and those pieces in the exhibit at the Smith Gallery.

The exhibition features seven large scroll paintings, mixed media works on paper, and six bronze sculptures.

Peter Voulkos Event Coverage

These photos were taken of former students, colleagues and admirers of the highly influential and world-renowned sculptor and Cal professor, Peter Voulkos, at a party and screening of the energetic documentary film by Susan Fanshel called "Voulkos and Company." For more info on Peter Voulkos, here is a good link:

IN MEMORIAM

Peter Voulkos

(click images below to enlarge)

Photos Courtesy of Susan Felter