ArtBusiness.com logo

Artist/Gallery search:
Art Business The Web

  • << Back to San Francisco Gallery Openings
  • SAN FRANCISCO ART GALLERIES OPENINGS

    FIRST THURSDAY - 01.05.12 - Part I

    (with assistance from Larissa Archer)



    Advantages to making art in series vs one-by-one. Click Here.



    ***

    Rena Bransten Gallery: Tara Tucker - If Wishes Were Horses...; John Bankston - Smoke and Mirrors.

    Comment by AB: Every show for John Bankston is another chapter in his adventure tale of life in the Rainbow Forest. In this kaleidoscopic episode, we've got a healthy dose of man versus machine starring characters tricked out in big beards and bigger hair. In the rear gallery, Tara Tucker's amusing anthropomorphic plant/animal concoctions keep us cognizant of our environment and its inhabitants. Worth a visit.

    Tara Tucker artist art

    Art by Tara Tucker at Rena Bransten Gallery.

    art

    Tara Tucker and her art in above image closer.

    Photo

    Art by Tara Tucker at Rena Bransten Gallery.

    Tara Tucker art

    Pinkie cam detail of Tara Tucker art in above image.

    art

    Tara Tucker art.

    Photo

    Graphite drawing art by Tara Tucker.

    Photo

    Art by Tara Tucker at Rena Bransten Gallery.

    Photo

    Art by John Bankston at Rena Bransten Gallery.

    artist art

    Art by John Bankston.

    art

    John Bankston and his art in above image closer.

    Photo

    Art by John Bankston at Rena Bransten Gallery.

    art

    John Bankston art.

    ***

    Patricia Sweetow Gallery: David Huffman - Floating World; Ernest Jolly - The Labor Party.

    Comment by AB: David Huffman's basketball cosmos gets you cogitating on whether these floating spheres are symbols of success or impediments to achieving it. In the side gallery, Ernest Jolly's conceptual installation reflects on African American history, particularly that having to do with agricultural workers in the South and, later on, laborers in the North.

    David Huffman artist art

    Art by David Huffman at Patricia Sweetow Gallery.

    art

    Art by David Huffman.

    Photo

    David Huffman and his art in above image closer.

    David Huffman art

    Art by David Huffman.

    art

    David Huffman art in above image closer.

    Ernest Jolly artist

    Art/installation by Ernest Jolly at Patricia Sweetow Gallery.

    Photo

    Ernest Jolly and his art.

    Photo

    Art by Ernest Jolly at Patricia Sweetow Gallery.

    ***

    Stephen Wirtz Gallery: Todd Hido - Excerpts from Silver Meadows.

    Review by Larissa Archer: A memory-based series by Todd Hido in which the images actually look the way memories appear to the mind's eye-- snowy driveways as seen through an icy windshield, figures on a hill silhouetted against a gray sky, the bold but yellowing colors of aging Polaroids. The serenity of the landscapes contrasts with the images of people, all women-- Monroe-like starlets whimpering in torn stockings and bouffants, and bruised waif-like teenagers (apparently)-- all of whom seem to presage sex-driven disaster. One can't help but think Hido had a fraught but exciting adolescence.

    Comment by AB: Dreamy, atmospheric and Pick of First Thursday.

    Todd Hido artist art

    Photography by Todd Hido at Stephen Wirtz Gallery.

    art

    Todd Hido photographs.

    Photo

    Todd Hido and his photography at Stephen Wirtz Gallery.

    Todd Hido art

    Photography by Todd Hido.

    art

    Todd Hido photographs at Stephen Wirtz Gallery.

    Photo

    Photographs by Todd Hido.

    Photo

    Long view - Todd Hido photography show at Stephen Wirtz Gallery.

    ***

    Fraenkel Gallery: Hiroshi Sugimoto - Photogenic Drawings.

    Comment by AB: In the ultimate of homages, Hiroshi Sugimoto works from William Henry Fox Talbot's actual paper negatives, creating greatly enlarged renditions of the original photographs by exposing the negatives directly onto photosensitive paper. Stop on by.

    Hiroshi Sugimoto artist art

    Photography by Hiroshi Sugimoto at Fraenkel Gallery.

    art

    Hiroshi Sugimoto photographs.

    Hiroshi Sugimoto Photo

    Photograph by Hiroshi Sugimoto at Fraenkel Gallery.

    Hiroshi Sugimoto art

    Hiroshi Sugimoto photography.

    art

    Population sample - Hiroshi Sugimoto photographs at Fraenkel Gallery.

    ***

    Jack Fischer Gallery: Caleb Duarte & Xun Gallo - A Collaboration.

    Comment by AB: Caleb Duarte and Xun Gallo, both from Chiapas, Mexico head up North to lay down a half-art, half-construction combo featuring one of the most precarious contraptions I've had the discomfort to be in the immediate vicinity of-- a concrete slab supported by thin freestanding strips of plywood. The thing looks so unstable, I keep one eye on it the entire time I'm there, which means one less eye available to look at the rest of the art.

    Caleb Duarte & Xun Gallo artist art

    Art by Caleb Duarte & Xun Gallo? Possibly. Dangerous? Probably.

    art

    Art by Caleb Duarte & Xun Gallo at Jack Fischer Gallery.

    Photo

    Caleb Duarte & Xun Gallo art in above image closer.

    Caleb Duarte & Xun Gallo art

    Art by Caleb Duarte & Xun Gallo.

    art

    Caleb Duarte & Xun Gallo art at Jack Fischer Gallery.

    Photo

    Tenuous art by Caleb Duarte & Xun Gallo at Jack Fischer Gallery.

    ***

    Altman Siegel Gallery: Jessica Dickinson, Liam Everett, Alex Olson, Josh Smith, Garth Weiser.

    Comment by AB: A motley medley of endeavors by "five exceptional young painters" from Brooklyn (Jessica Dickinson), San Francisco (Liam Everett), Los Angeles (Alex Olson), Knoxville, Tennessee (Josh Smith), and New York (Garth Weiser).

    Garth Weiser artist art

    Art by Garth Weiser at Altman Siegel Gallery.

    art

    Pinkie cam detail of art by Garth Weiser above (nicely done).

    Photo

    Art by Josh Smith at Altman Siegel Gallery.

    art

    Liam Everett art.

    art

    Art by Jessica Dickinson at Altman Siegel Gallery.

    Photo

    Alex Olson Art.

    Photo

    Pinkie cam detail of Orion Shephard's face at Altman Siegel Gallery.

    ***

    Toomey Tourell Gallery: Larry Bell & Greg Edwards.

    Comment by AB: Slick colorific mixed-media works by Larry Bell contrast with symbol-rich black and white giclee prints by Greg Edwards.

    Larry Bell & Greg Edwards artist art

    Art by Larry Bell (left) & Greg Edwards (right).

    art

    Larry Bell art at Toomey Tourell Gallery.

    Photo

    Artist Larry Bell at Toomey Tourell Gallery.

    art

    Greg Edwards and his art at Toomey Tourell Gallery.

    art

    Art by Greg Edwards.

    ***

    Scott Nichols Gallery: Ralph Steiner - A Point of View.

    Comment by AB: Vintage contact prints by Ralph Steiner dating from the early 1920s include New York City scenes, modernist still-lifes, and scenes from Upper New York State. They may be small, but they're dense with imagery. Check 'em out.

    Ralph Steiner artist art

    Photography by Ralph Steiner at Scott Nichols Gallery.

    art

    Ralph Steiner photograph closer.

    Photo

    Photograph by Ralph Steiner closer art Scott Nichols Gallery.

    Ralph Steiner art

    New York City skyline photograph by Ralph Steiner closer.

    ***

    Addendum:

    art

    Medicinal selections at Adler&Co Gallery.

    ***

    Here's a thought.... support the cause.

    ***

    First Thursday - December 1, 2011

    First Thursday - November 3, 2011

    ***