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  • Don Soker - Jenkins Johnson - W Hotel

    SFMOMA - Art International

    03.18.10

    (with assistance from RWM)

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    Don Soker Gallery: Tom Bills - New Cast Concrete and Steel Sculpture.

    Review by RWM: Images of swimmers embedded in the vertical and horizontal features of Tom Bills' massive cast concrete sculptures give one reason to pause and reflect. The heavy textural and structural components capture moments in time, yet the movement still reverberates.

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    Cast concrete art by Tom Bills.

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    Cast concrete art by Tom Bills.

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    Cast concrete art by Tom Bills.

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    Cast concrete art by Tom Bills.

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    Tom Bills cast concrete art.

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    Jenkins Johnson Gallery: Francesca Sundsten - Portraiture.

    Comment by AB: According to the handout, "portraiture is an artistic interpretation of a person or animal and often intends to capture the essence of the subject through its artistic application." Well, the essence in this exhibition of distorted human and animal portraits by Francesca Sundsten intrigues in strange and unsettling ways.

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    What it is - art by Francesca Sundsten.

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    Francesca Sundsten art.

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    Small art by Francesca Sundsten.

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    Small art closer by Francesca Sundsten.

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    Pinkie cam detail of art in above image by Francesca Sundsten.

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    Art by Francesca Sundsten.

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    San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Now Playing.

    Comment by AB: First in a series of three "Thursday Night Happenings" where the museum opens late, you get to enjoy complimentary cuisine samplings from a number of tony Ess Eff eating establishments, plus cash bars and all galleries including the roof garden. Entertainment is courtesy of Los Angeles-based art band My Barbarian. Mark your calendars for the final two installments-- April 15 and June 17. It's all yours for the price of admission. Worth it!!

    In related news, they tell me downstairs that I can take pictures in the galleries. They tell me upstairs I can't. So I do both.

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    Gourmet options on the ground floor in the Schwab Room.

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    Elegant eats on the ground floor in the Schwab Room.

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    One more from the Schwab Room.

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    Art upstairs on the roof garden.

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    Arachnid art upstairs on the roof garden.

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    Robert Arneson's head holds court on the roof garden.

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    View from the roof garden.

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    Luc Tuymans art at SFMOMA.

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    Art by Luc Tuymans at SFMOMA.

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    Luc Tuymans art at SFMOMA.

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    The Concourse Exhibition Center, 620 7th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103: Art International San Francisco.

    Comment by AB: It's a three-fer-- Art International San Francisco, The San Francisco Fine Jewelry and Antiques Show, and Wine Expo San Francisco. Shall we? OK...

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    Russian modernist art.

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    Jerome Adamson of Adamson-Duvannes Galleries & Warren A. Newcombe art.

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    Jonathon Wind of Paul Mahder Gallery & Twiga of Twiga Gallery.

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    Uptown knickknacks.

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    Fine jewelry.

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    Antiques.

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    Antique furniture and decorations.

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    Jaren Bonillo & Laura Poppiti of The Imagine Bus Project.

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    Modern glass arts from Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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    Addendum:

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    Danyol & his art c/o McKinley Art Solutions at W Hotel.

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    More art by Danyol c/o McKinley Art Solutions at W Hotel.

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