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    FIRST THURSDAY - 01.06.11 Part I

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    Introductory instant First Thursday poem composed on the spot by Zach Houston at SF Camerawork:

    forced thirst daily to
    be defied by mere
    common sense
    appetites
    than the
    image
    public
    is mostly
    concerned
    with appearances
    at the expense of
    content and business

    Enrique Chagoya artist art

    Poet Zach Houston in the heat of creative fervor.

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    Gallery Paule Anglim: Enrique Chagoya - Works on Paper.

    Comment by AB: Experience Enrique Chagoya's incisive editorial expositories in an impressive array of mediums including oversized charcoal drawings, text-based pieces, mixed media works on paper, and graphics. Always a contemplative experience. Go see.

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    Art by Enrique Chagoya.

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    Enrique Chagoya art - Illegal Alien's Guide.

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    Enrique Chagoya (center).

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    America's in a shitload of debt art by Enrique Chagoya.

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    Art by Enrique Chagoya.

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    Enrique Chagoya narrative art (like it).

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    Graphic art by Enrique Chagoya.

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    Haines Gallery: Terra Firma - Paintings by Max Cole; The Old Boys' Club (aka Katya Bonnenfant) - La Destitution de la Jeune Fille.

    Comment by AB: Lapse into a state of linear bliss courtesy of Max Cole's highly refined acrylics on linen-- impressive at a distance, even better up close. In the anteroom, Katya Bonnenfant (currently monikering herself around as "The Old Boys' Club") puts forth an elaborate symbol-saturated adventure centered around the trials and tribulations of a young girl vs modern life. Pick of First Thursday on both counts.

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    Art by Max Cole.

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    Max Cole art.

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    Pinkie cam detail of art by Max Cole in above image (like it).

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    Art by Max Cole.

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    Max Cole art - acrylic paintings on linen.

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    Art by The Old Boys' Club (aka Katya Bonnenfant).

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    Art by The Old Boys' Club (aka Katya Bonnenfant) in above image closer.

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    Art by The Old Boys' Club (aka Katya Bonnenfant) closer.

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    Art by The Old Boys' Club (aka Katya Bonnenfant).

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    Gregory Lind Gallery: High-Def.

    Artists: Don Voisine, Aaron Parazette, Jake Longstreth, Leonhard Hurzlmeier, Chris Corales.

    Comment by AB: Five artists get jiggy with geometry. If you're into precision, I might suggest a sojourn here.

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    Art by Dan Voisine (grouping, left) - Jake Longstreth, right.

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    Chris Corales art.

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    Art by Aaron Parazette.

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    Leonhard Hurzlmeier art (three pieces, right).

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    Brian Gross Fine Art: Marco Casentini - Recent Paintings.

    Comment by AB: Marco Casentini takes us on a colorific rectangular romp in acrylics on canvas overlaid with painted plexiglass panels.

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    Art by Marco Casentini.

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    Marco Casentini art.

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    Art by Marco Casentini (plus bonus - Brian Gross, left).

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    Art by Marco Casentini at Brian Gross Fine Art.

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    Fraenkel Gallery: Katy Grannan - Boulevard.

    Comment by AB: Berkeley photographer Katy Grannan tells me the subjects of her uncompromisingly intense portraits are street people of San Francisco and Los Angeles, photographed in direct sun against stark white walls along the boulevards where they hang (she mentions Santa Monica Boulevard in particular). At times, you almost don't want to look... but you do... you have to, really. Being forced to face all these folks you really don't want to think about requires reflection on who they are, what their lives might be like, and maybe even why you're here looking at them while they're there living it.

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    Photography by Katy Grannan.

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    Katy Grannan photographs at Fraenkel Gallery.

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    Katy Grannan and her photography.

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    Photographs by Katy Grannan.

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    Katy Grannan photography.

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    Katy Grannan photography at Fraenkel Gallery.

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    Jack Fischer Gallery: Dan Lydersen - Blue Skies From Now On

    Comment by AB: Take a wigged out safari through Dan Lydersen's brain via his paintings, and in so doing, behold a confounding cornucopia of outlandishly flabbergasting circumstances. Stop on by.

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    Art by Dan Lydersen.

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    Art by Dan Lydersen in above image closer.

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    Dan Lydersen art.

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    Art by Dan Lydersen.

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    Dan Lydersen art at Jack Fischer Gallery.

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    Art by Dan Lydersen.

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    Altman Siegel Gallery: Chris Johanson, Charley Harper, Matt Keegan.

    Comment by AB: Uncommon perspectives constitute the commonality here.

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    Art by Chris Johanson.

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    Chris Johanson art.

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    Art by Charley Harper.

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    Art by Matt Keegan.

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    Matt Keegan art (this one might come in handy).

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    Toomey Tourell Gallery: Michael Ajerman - Glossolilia.

    Comment by AB: I'm gonna guess that this series of fiery vital expressionist semi-representational paintings by Michael Ajerman, an American artist living in London, depicts what life is like in Glossolilia.

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    Art by Michael Ajerman.

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    Michael Ajerman art.

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    Art by Michael Ajerman at Toomey Tourell Gallery.

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    Michael Ajerman art.

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    Scott Nichols Gallery: William Garnett - An Aerial Aesthetic.

    Comment by AB: See how William Garnett transformed aerial photography from utilitarian pursuit into fine art in this select survey of works dating from the early 1950s through the mid-1980s.

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    Aerial photography by William Garnett.

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    William Garnett aerial photographs at Scott Nichols Gallery.

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    Bekris Gallery: Wosene Kosruf and Abdoulaye Ndoye - Inscription, Graphic Systems in African Contemporary Art.

    Comment by AB: Two fine selections of textually based works by Wosene Kosruf and Abdoulaye Ndoye.

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    Art by Abdoulaye Ndoye.

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    Book art by Abdoulaye Ndoye in above image closer.

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    Abdoulaye Ndoye art.

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    Art by Abdoulaye Ndoye in above image closer.

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    Pinkie cam detail of art by Abdoulaye Ndoye in above image.

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    Art by Wosene Kosruf.

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    Wosene Kosruf art at Bekris Gallery.

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    Art by Wosene Kosruf.

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