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SUPE ROSS MIRKARIMI - MUSEUM OF CRAFT AND FOLK ART ZEN CENTER - PLAYSPACE - MARKET STREET GALLERY MISSION CULTURAL CENTER FOR LATINO ARTS - BALAZO 18 02.15.08 Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi: David Johnson - Photographer. Comment by AB: A selection of historic images documenting African-American life in America, dating from the late 1940s through the early 1960s, taken by noted photographer David Johnson. In addition to his documentary work, Johnson's photographed all manner of celebrities throughout his career including politicians, musicians, literary figures, and sports icons like Justice Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, Jackie Robinson, Langston Hughes, Nat "King" Cole, and Eartha Kitt. He also holds the distinction of being Ansel Adams's first African-American student. Photography by David Johnson. Photos. David Johnson (center). Photographs. Images. *** Museum of Craft and Folk Art: The Fabric of Cultures - Fashion, Identity, Globalization. Comment by AB: Exhibition of garments and textiles representing hundreds of years of international traditions and aesthetics. Pieces are courtesy of the Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College in Queens, New York, the Queens College Costume Collection, and private collections. From Inca to Burka to Oscar de la Renta, you'll see it here. Fabric art. Fabric art. Fabric art. Really old textile art. Fabric art. Fabric art. Fabric art. The embroidered coat in the foreground is Turkish, circa 1900. Fabric art. Readables. Souvenirs in the gift shop to buy and take home. *** PLAySPACE Gallery, California College of the Arts: Fun Box. Artists: David Berezin, Donna Chung, Michael Guidetti, Stewart Uoo. Comment by AB: It's sort of an ersatz artified play on a nightclub where you enter through this bend-down-low tunnel lit by blacklight, slapdash in decor, with posters on the walls and pieces of plastic pipe and papers strewn about, and writing along the floors and walls and a genuine bona fide dude snoring in a sleeping bag on the floor. You wend your way through that and emerge into the "nightclub proper." I'm early which likely explains the paucity of people. Along the tunnel to the "club." Snoring dude in a sleeping bag. Club panning left. Club panning right. *** Market Street Gallery: African Diaspora - a Trilogy. Artists: Rae Louise Hayward, James Gayles, TheArthur Wright. Comment by AB: Kaleidoscopic semi-representational paintings by Rae Louise Hayward, robust watercolor portraits by James Gayles, and fascinating "bleach paintings" by TheArthur Wright. Basically, Wright drips and brushes varying strengths of bleach onto black foam core to create his intricate images. He tells each fade is complete within only several minutes of applying the bleach. Art (Rae Louise Hayward). Art (James Gayles). James Gayles - art. Art (James Gayles). Bleach art (TheArthur Wright). TheArthur Wright - art. Bleach art detail (TheArthur Wright). Ambience. *** Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts: WOW - Women On War, Solo Mujeres Show, 21st Annual Juried Exhibition; Yolanda Lopez - Women's Work is Never Done. Comment by AB: The main gallery overflows with intense effective images of war, abstract to representational to symbolic, wars the world over, past and present, in paintings, drawings, installation, sculpture, assemblage, and more-- all as seen through women's eyes. In the side gallery, Yolanda Lopez essays on aspects of Latino labor and influence with "Women's Work is Never Done." Muses Lopez, "They like our culture, they love our food, they just don't like us." Hey-- it's worth thinking about. What it is. Antiwar art. Pacifism art. Antiwar art. Pacifism art. Nonviolence art. Antiwar art. Pacifism art - artist (like 'em). Nonviolence art... hopefully one day. Antiwar art. Pacifism art. Antiwar activism. Art (Yolanda Lopez). Art (Yolanda Lopez). Tunes. *** Addendum: Geetesh and Anusati paintings at the San Francisco Zen Center. Geetesh (Gary Gibson) & Ansuati (Michiko Kobayashi) at SF Zen Center. One more from Geetesh & Ansuati paintings at SF Zen Center. Out front at the San Francisco Zen Center. Group show, 12 x 12 inch paintings at Balazo Gallery. More 12 x 12 paintings at Balazo 18 Gallery. Yet more 12 x 12 paintings at Balazo 18 Gallery. Long view, 12 x 12 paintings at Balazo Gallery. *** |
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