Hosfelt, Charles Campbell, Double Punch, Giant Robot - San Francisco Art Events: October 20, 2007


SAN FRANCISCO ART GALLERIES - OPENINGS
HOSFELT - CHARLES CAMPBELL
DOUBLE PUNCH - GIANT ROBOT
10.20.07

Hosfelt Gallery: Driss Ouadahi - Another Place, Another Me; Susan Marie Dopp - Ether.

Comment: Düsseldorf-based painter Driss Ouadahi grids himself up some of the more engaging abstract mirage work I've seen in a while. They sure look like highrise cityscapes, but if you study the compositions up close or attempt to logic them out, those realities you thought you saw inevitably commence to vanish. Confident, convincing, and technically top shelf. Susan Marie Dopp, according to the brochure, "attempts to create a state akin to that of a meditation practice," with her delicately rendered, periodically positioned geometries. I see where she's going with this, and the smaller pieces hang in there, but as for the larger ones, when you trend inordinately spare and sporadic, you risk observations like, "So far, so good, but when's she gonna finish it?"

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Art (Driss Ouadahi).

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Art (Driss Ouadahi).

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Driss Ouadahi - art.

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Art (Driss Ouadahi).

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Art (Driss Ouadahi).

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Art (Susan Marie Dopp).

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Art (Susan Marie Dopp).

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Art (Susan Marie Dopp).

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Charles Campbell Gallery: Gage Opdenbrouw - Silence and Distance; CCA at CCG.

Comment: Soft-edge seascapes and city scenes by Gage Opdenbrouw downstairs; CCA Centennial tribute upstairs.

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Gage Opdenbrouw - art.

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Art.

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Gage Opdenbrouw - art.

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CCA show upstairs.

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Double Punch: Sweet Sunny Temper.

Artists: Leah Brawley, Tink (Jessica Whiteside), Fawn Gehweiler, Nathalie Roland, Kelly Tunstall.

Comment: All girl group show transits a panoply of all girl topics; the art's mostly small format, very affordable, most under $100,

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Art (Kelly Tunstall).

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Jessica Whiteside - art.

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Art (Leah Brawley).

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Art (Nathalie Roland - center).

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Art (Fawn Gehweiler).

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Art.

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Venue.

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Giant Robot: Black and White in Color.

Artists: Helen Jo, John Pham, Albert Reyes.

Comment: Tasty array of small format works, most under $300, good selection under $100. I continue to like that Albert Reyes edge, and a pair of painted ostrich eggs by John Pham also get my goat.

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Painted posed egg art (John Pham - like 'em).

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Art.

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Art (Albert Reyes).

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Literature.

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Tunes.








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