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  • CANESSA - AMPERSAND - QUEENS NAILS - VARNISH

    SPARE ROOM PROJECT - HOT STUDIO - SILVERMAN

    10.23.09


    Canessa Gallery: Termeh Yeghiazarian - Anonymous North Beach Artist.

    Comment by AB: Termeh Yeghiazarian effectively renders rear and side view portraits of North Beach artists who she knows.

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    Art by Termeh Yeghiazarian.

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    Portrait paintings by Termeh Yeghiazarian.

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    "Anonymous North Beach artist" - portrait of artist - Termeh Yeghiazarian.

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    Termeh Yeghiazarian art.

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    Termeh Yeghiazarian portrait paintings.

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    Ampersand International Arts: Lori Gordon - Snippets.

    Comment by AB: Lori Gordon takes "snippets" (phrases) out of context from conversations or dialogues she has heard over the years, prints 'em up, gives them to people, asks those people to display and photograph them in their new contexts, and then asks that they send the results back to her. This show is surveys those results. Apparently I JUST miss a rousing rendition of Bridge Over Troubled Waters (Simon and Garfunkel), organized by Jen Delos Reyes and sung impromptu by everyone in attendance at the opening at that moment.

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    Photography and text installation by Lori Gordon.

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    Installation by Lori Gordon.

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    Lori Gordon and her art.

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    Installation in the rear gallery by Lori Gordon.

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    Art by Lori Gordon.

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    The Spare Room Project: Collaborative Works by Maggie Preston and Jason Kalogiros.

    Comment by AB: Photographers Maggie Preston and Jason Kalogiros travel to Greece and thereabouts, and here present their impressions in images that range from abstract to decontextualized, atypical to amusing.

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    Photography by Maggie Preston and Jason Kalogiros.

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    Maggie Preston - Jason Kalogiros and their photographs.

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    Photos by Maggie Preston and Jason Kalogiros.

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    Maggie Preston and Jason Kalogiros photography.

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    Queens Nails Projects: Jacqueline Gordon - Our Best Machines are Made of Sunshine.

    Comment by AB: A futuristic soundscape by Jacqueline Gordon drones away reverberating you to varying degrees as you transit about the gallery. Nicely done and worth a perusal, visually as well as auditorially.

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    Audiovisual installation by Jacqueline Gordon from the rear of the gallery (like it).

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    Installation control panel - art by Jacqueline Gordon.

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    Wiring by Jacqueline Gordon - I like artists who aesthetically attend to everything.

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    Audiovisual installation by Jacqueline Gordon from the front of the gallery.

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    Hot Studio: Hot Open Studio.

    Artists: Renee Anderson, Peter Jacques, Holger Struppek, Ramekon O'Arwisters, Carlo Abruzzese, Christopher Craig, Benji Hunt.

    Comment by AB: Part of ArtSpan San Francisco Open Studios, weekend three. Options include haunting digitally enhanced hand painted vintage yearbook portraits by Christopher Craig, art glass by Renee Anderson and intriguing editorial assemblages by Ramekon O'Arwisters.

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    Collage art by Peter Paul Jacques.

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    Assemblage art by Ramekon O'Arwisters.

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    Ramekon O'Arwisters and his art.

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    Glass art by Renee Anderson.

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    Photography.

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    Reconstituted vintage yearbook portraits by Christopher Craig.

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    Hot Studio long shot.

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    Varnish Fine Art: Dark Nouveau Rock Art Poster Show.

    Artists: Urlo, Poia, Lu, Alan Forbes, Dave Hunter, Chuck Sperry, Ron Donovan.

    Comment by AB: Excellent exhibition of rock art posters from the Italian collective MALLEUS and San Francisco's own Firehouse Kustom. What's brilliant in all instances here is that the artists homage pretty much every era of the discipline from Art Nouveau to the Psychedelic Sixties, unequivocally venerating their elders every step of the way. But the magic of the matter is that they adapt these antecedents to make them their own, ultimately to advance the proverbial envelope. There's derivative and there's visionary. One is mired in the past; the other manifests the future. Welcome to the future.

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    Rock poster art by MALLEUS and Firehouse Kustom.

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    MALLEUS and Firehouse Kustom rock art posters.

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    MALLEUS and Firehouse Kustom principals.

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    MALLEUS and Firehouse Kustom rock art posters.

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    A little something for the kid's room.

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    Silverman Gallery: Christina McPhee - Tesserae of Venus.

    Comment by AB: Christina McPhee's travels to "remote parts of California where biological systems clash with technological landscapes" (some of the more ravaged landscapes in the state), documents the circumstance and then whips the results into complex photomontage abstraction. A selection of her mixed media works on paper is also on display. Stop on by and have a look.

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    Silverman Gallery and art by Christina McPhee.

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    Christina McPhee photomontage.

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    Photomontage art closer by Christina McPhee.

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    Art by Christina McPhee.

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    Ambience.

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