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  • ELECTRIC WORKS - MISHO - JELLYFISH - PARK LIFE

    YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS - ROLL UP - FFDG

    07.08.11

    (with assistance from Mairead O'Connor and RWM)



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    Electric Works Gallery: Light Making Motion - Works on Paper and in Light by Elaine Buckholtz.

    Review by RWM: Incredible and amazing work on display. Great sculptures for play. Odd things you have never seen before for fun and games.

    Comment by AB: Elaine Buckholtz outdoes herself this time with myriad manipulations of light. Diversions include a video wall of vacillating color bands in the rear gallery, metal pipe kaleidoscope doodads you can pick up and look through, curious kinetic sculptures, a walk-up floor to ceiling mirror sculpture where you become part of the action, and more. Definitely recommended.

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    Video wall of color by Elaine Buckholtz at Electric Works Gallery.

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    Art by Elaine Buckholtz.

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    Elaine Buckholtz (center) fields questions from the fan base.

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    Kaleidoscope-like devices by Elaine Buckholtz.

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    Hmmm. Interesting. Art in above image by Elaine Buckholtz closer.

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    What I'm looking at in above image - Elaine Buckholtz art.

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    Elaine Buckholtz floor to ceiling mirrored work in center.

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    View looking down into floor/ceiling Elaine Buckholtz art above.

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    Art by Elaine Buckholtz at Electric Works Gallery.

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    Jellyfish Gallery: Immature - Beth Goolsby.

    Comment by AB: What do you get when you combine the Japanese earthquake aftermath and David Lynch's Twin Peaks TV series? This show, of course! Keep looking; you'll see it.

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    Art by Beth Goolsby at Jellyfish Gallery.

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    Art by Beth Goolsby.

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    Beth Goolsby art in above image closer.

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    Art by Beth Goolsby at Jellyfish Gallery.

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    Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: Bay Area Now 6 (BAN6).

    Artists: Tammy Rae Carland, Sean McFarland, David Huffman, Robert Minervini, Ranu Mukherjee, Richard T. Walker, Mauricio Ancalmo, Suzanne Husky, Allison Smith, Weston Teruya, Amy Balkin, Tony Labat, Chris Fraser, Brion Nuda Rosch, Chris Sollars, Rio Babe International, Ben Venom.

    Comment by AB: Probably my favorite episode yet of Bay Area visual arts high spots, Yerba Buena style. Practically everything rubs me right. Highlights? OK... I'll tell you. Mauricio Ancalmo's player piano face-off extravaganza, Suzanne Husky's sculptural wooden pods, Chris Sollars' beard-play videos, Tony Labat's neon marijuana leaf (he's such a rabble rouser), Chris Fraser's brilliantly simple 5-lightbulb theater (at the top of the front stairs), Robert Minervini's industrial-haze Arcadia paintings, Ben Venom's heavy metal T-shirt quilt, Brion Nuda Rosch's building block installation (weird as ever, but they're kind of growing on me), Sean McFarland's dark densely foliated photographic forays. Required viewing.

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    Art by Mauricio Ancalmo at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (like it).

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    Mauricio Ancalmo piano art closer.

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    Art by Tony Labat at Bay Area Now 6.

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    Robert Minervini art (like 'em).

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    Godzilla-sized heavy metal T-shirt quilt art by Ben Venom.

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    Quilt art by Ben Venom closer (like it).

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    Installation art by Rio Babe at BAN6 at YBCA.

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    Pod art by Suzanne Husky (like it).

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    Art by Brion Nuda Rosch - including the sheetrock walls (like it).

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    Weston Teruya art.

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    Art by Chris Fraser from inside.

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    Art by Chris Fraser from outside (like it).

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    Photography by Sean McFarland.

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    Art by David Huffman at Bay Area Now 6.

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    Pile of stuff art - not sure who it's by (help please).

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    Art by Allison Smith at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

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    Beard video art by Chris Sollars (like it).

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    Multi-screen video installation by Richard T. Walker.

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    Archaeological oddity art by Amy Balkin (nicely done).

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    Overview - Bay Area Now 6 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

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    Waiting list - BAN6 at YBCA.

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    Roll Up Gallery: Human Life - The Art of Story Telling Exhibition.

    Artists: Ricardo Castro, Anthony Papini, Ricardo Rodriguez.

    Review by RWM: Memorable are the photographs of scars by Ricardo Castro, no longer any stitches, but ouch just the same. Nice wall of art by Anthony Papini with juxtapositions galore, assembled from pieced together paintings.

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    Art by Anthony Papini at Roll Up Gallery.

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    Anthony Papini art (I think that's Papini standing at the end).

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    Photographs of scars by Ricardo Castro.

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    Ricardo Castro photography at Roll Up Gallery.

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    FFDG: Youth of Today - Paintings by Shawn Barber. >Review by Mairead O'Connor: Shawn Barber uses dolls heads and skulls to illustrate what he sees as a problem with the youth of Today. They are consumed by popular culture and detached from themselves.

    Comment by AB: The latest chapter in Shawn Barber's "Doll Series" prognosticates a perturbing pox on our progeny (say that ten times fast). Hopefully, he's erred on the calamitous side. Then again, the way things are going, he kind of makes you think.

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    Art by Shawn Barber at FFDG.

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    Shawn Barber closer.

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    Art by Shawn Barber closer yet (image c/o Mairead O'Connor).

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    Shawn Barber and his art at FFDG.

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    Shawn Barber closer (image c/o Mairead O'Connor).

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    FFDG proprietor John Trippe doing his Jeeves imitation.

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    Statistical sample - art by Shawn Barber at FFDG.

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    Park Life: Last Time It Was Gray - Sadie Barnette & Ian Johnson.

    Review by RWM: Cool jazz portraiture by Ian Johnson contrasts with abstract images by Sadie Barnette. Great attention to detail on both their parts. One may wonder what kind of music is playing. Interesting messages paired with bright color rays, blank space, and fascinating characters on display.

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    Art by Ian Johnson at Park Life.

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    Best of show - art by Ian Johnson.

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    Pinkie cam detail of art by Ian Johnson in above image.

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    Art by Sadie Barnette (left) - Ian Johnson (right).

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    Art by Sadie Barnette (left) - Ian Johnson (right).

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    Sadie Barnette art at Park Life.

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    Addendum:

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    2-year anniversary show at Misho Gallery.

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    More from group show 2-year anniversary at Misho Gallery.

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    Last one from 2-year anniversary group show at Misho Gallery.

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