MIRUS - ROOT DIVISION - BOOK & JOB

ART PRIMO - ARTPOINT AT THE DE YOUNG

02.09.13

(with assistance from RWM)



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Mirus Gallery: The Looking Glass, Refraction through the Female Gaze - A Group Exhibition.

Artists: Kimberly Brooks, Sandra Chevrier, Naja Conrad-Hansen, Mercedes Helnwein, Alexandra Levasseur, Jen Mann, Sari Maxfield, Alyssa Monks, Jennifer Nehrbass, Casey O'Connell, Claire Pestaille, Rachel Walker, Janelle Wisehart, Christine Wu.

Comment by AB: Female artists riff on the female form. Plenty of perspectives to ponder here.

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Root Division: MFA Now - A Juried Group Exhibition. Juried by Brian Karl, Program Director of Headlands Center for the Arts.

Artists: Dalia Anani, Megan Atherton, Gwynessa Balvanz, Barbara Boissevain, Missy Engelhardt, Joey Enos, Taylor Friend, Adam Henderson, Jonathan Huang, Beckey Kaye, Marie-Luise Klotz, Kat MacKinnon, Elizabeth Moran, Sarah Nantais, Eleanor Oakes, Byron Peters, Simon Pyle, Tamra Seal, Dimitra Skandali, Lauren Marie Taylor, Sarah Tell, Kevn Tijerina, Katy Warner, Tali Weinberg, Dawn Weleski, Ansley West Rivers.

Comment by AB: Survey of work by promising Bay Area MFA candidates from California College of the Arts, Mills College, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco State University, San Jose State University, Stanford University, and the University of California, Berkeley.

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Book & Job Gallery: Voyage - New Works by Cameron Thompson.

Review by RWM: Beautiful pictures of birds are included in some of these design schemes. One can get lost in Cameron Thompson's works which can take one on a artful and personal voyage. Birds remind that we have choices and we can choose to be elsewhere. Great show, nice selection of them as totem and muse, and to see them in the colorful designs. They are looking at you also.

Comment by AB: Cameron Thompson's vibrant patterned paintings and prints reference nature, the environment and the spiritual encounters we all have as we wend our way though life.

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Art Primo SF: Zipgun For Life - Dan Zipgun.

Review by RWM: Want to do graffiti? Want help with a mural? Great place to go here. The artist has also gone graffiti wild in the back room including a great installation of a bathroom.

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ArtPoint at the de Young Museum: Annual Valentine's Gala and Fundraiser.

Comment by AB: ArtPoint, the Young Professional's group at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, celebrates the season of love and romance with a gala after-hours fundraiser at the de Young Museum. Options include food, drinks, dance, access to museum exhibitions and more. My favorite quote of the night, "Where's the girl?" is overheard while at the exhibition of Dutch paintings from the Mauritshuis, of course referencing Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" currently on display at the museum. ArtPoint parties are always exhilarating, entertaining and packed with oodles of peppy people.

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