JENKINS JOHNSON - MCLOUGHLIN - RAYKO

VISUAL AID - CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS

05.10.12



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Jenkins Johnson Gallery: Territory - Yigal Ozeri; The Moon is Down - Vanessa Prager.

Comment by AB: Yigal Ozeri was born in Israel and for the past 20 years has made his home in New York City. At first I think think I'm looking at photographs of young women, mainly taken in Central Park, and then small-format watercolors of those photographs, but they're all paintings. As good a photorealistic endeavor as I've seen in a while... and deserving of a perusal. In the rear gallery, self-taught Los Angeles artist Vanessa Prager paints up a series of strange tales in curious colors. Even though you get a sense that something foreboding lurks in the shadows, you're still beguiled by the intrigue.

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The McLoughlin Gallery: STILL - Pia Maria Martin.

Comment by AB: Stuttgart, Germany artist Pia Maria Martin makes her American solo debut with complex stop-motion videos consisting of progressions of still images scripted into plot lines that range from humorous to hypnotic. Stars of her escapades include a whole frying chicken, strips of colored plastic tape, militarized rows of identical chairs, and a pot of soup. Worth stopping by.

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RayKo Photo Center Gallery: Critical Mass Top 50. Juried by Darius Himes.

Artists: Jane Fulton Alt, Evgenia Arbugaeva, Jessica Auer, Mary Ellen Bartley, Daniel Beltra, Nadine Boughton, Colette Campbell-Jones, Christopher Capozziello/AEVUM, Kirk Crippens, John Cyr, Katrina d'Autremont, Scott Dalton, Christopher Dawson, Nigel Gordon Dickinson, Mitch Dobrowner, Carolyn Drake, Jeremy Dyer, Mark Fernandes, Misha Friedman, Lucia Ganieva, Meggan Gould, Gabriela Herman, Sarah Hobbs, Jeroen Hofman, Jennifer Hudson, Yaakov Israel, Heidi Kirkpatrick, Alejandra Laviada, Fritz Liedtke, Sebastian Liste, Gloriann Liu, Larry Louie, Mark Lyon, Michael Marten, Susana Raab, Jesse Rieser, Alejandro Rivas, Kent Rogowski, Philipp Scholz Rittermann, Geoffrey H. Short, Youngsuk Suh, Daro Sulakauri, Stephen Vaughan, Toshiya Watanabe, David Welch, Sarah Wilson, Susan Worsham.

Comment by AB: The goal of Portland, Oregon-headquartered Photolucida's Critical Mass program is to give exposure to beginning and mid-career photographers from around the world. These top fifty images were chosen from among submissions by over 500 photographers. The show has traveled from Photo Center NW in Seattle to Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, Oregon to RayKo.

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Visual Aid at Chronicle Books: Live Art Auction.

Artists: Ross Bleckner, Stephanie Weber, David Maisel, Jeremy Morgan, Donald Bradford, Ema Sintamarian, Jenn Shifflet, Rex Ray, Amy Casey, Kimberly Rowe, Jonathan Barbieri, Gregg Renfrow, Penny Olson, Suzy Barnard, Martine Jardel, Heather Patterson, Gale Antokal, Patter Hellstrom, Charles Hobson, Colin McRae, Aondrea Maynard, Timothy Cummings, Enrique Chagoya, David King, Olivia Brown, Mark Erickson, Denae Anderson, Joni West, Piero Spadero, Jessica Anne Schwartz, Silvia Poloto, more.

Comment by AB: Annual auction fundraiser to support Visual Aid's mission of providing free art supplies, grants, support, exposure and exhibitions to artists in need. A most exemplary cause and certainly worth supporting, not only tonight, but all year long.

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California College of the Arts: CCA MFA Exhibition 2012.

Comment by AB: Off goes yet another class of fully credentialed CCA MFAs. Next stop-- Reality. Here are some highlights of their education's climactic crowning hurrah. Care to assist with giving these artists the credit they deserve? Then please drop me an email and help caption the art.

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