MIRUS - SF ART EXCHANGE - BASH CONTEMPORARY

SHOOTING GALLERY & WHITE WALLS - EMERALD TABLET

06.08.13 Part II

(with assistance from Mark Gould, Marian Ferrara and RWM)



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Mirus Gallery: Dreamtime - New Surrealism.

Artists: Scott Anderson, NoMe Edonna, Joseba Eskubi, Christine Gray, Joe Hengst, Marcus Jansen, Ebenezer Archer Kling, D'Metrius Rice, Kate Shaw, Erling Sjovold, Marlene Steyn, Alex Stursberg, Michael Zansy, Zio Ziegler.

Review by Mark Gould: Mirus Gallery owner Paul Hemming does a great job curating a New Surrealism exhibit with artists exploring contemporary versions of surrealism via a range of symbols and metaphors to explore the subconscious. In today's globally connected yet increasingly fragmented world, our minds are assaulted with every kind of imagery. The artists who assemble work for Dreamtime - New Surrealism do an excellent job of delighting our curious nature and reframing the sense of what's real, and what's un- or sur-real.

Review by RWM: So much color and strange stuff. Beautiful to be confronted with all of this colorful paint. Iconographic at times. Intriguing collages.

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San Francisco Art Exchange: Icon Makers, Three Masters of the Album Cover - Joel Brodsky, Barry Feinstein, Jim Marshall.

Comment by AB: Seminal culture-shifting images by three of the great rock & roll photographers of all time, photographed for album covers and otherwise. The music is paramount, but the visual is what invariably ices the legacy.

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Bash Contemporary: Grand Opening!

Artists: Bob Dob, Nathan Ota, Marc Burckhardt, Christopher Ulrich, Sandra Yagi, Joshua Harker, Dave Correia, Ian Huebert, David Stoupakis, Lee Harvey Roswell.

Comment by AB: The admirably auspicious debut of this deep Tenderloin gallery is unceremoniously interrupted a manhole explosion nearby, resulting in emergency vehicles and personnel everywhere. But the show must and does go on, featuring a cogent cull of our more prodigious urban practitioners. Good show; worth a visit.

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White Walls & The Shooting Gallery: Head Over Heels - Greg Gossel; Madness - Yumiko Kayukawa; My Magic Will Bring Them Back - David Marc Grant; Bastion - Aaron Nagel.

Comment by AB: Tonight at the Larkin Shooting Gallery White Walls metroplex, we have torn tattered vintage billboard renditions by Gregg Gossel, Yumiko Kuyakawa's brilliantly fantabulous imaginary adventures (by painting herself into her dreams she becomes them-- I wish I could do that), starkly direct and at times disturbing portraits and figure paintings by Aaron Nagel, and prismatic otherworldly outcomes by David Marc Grant. Recommended.

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The Emerald Tablet: Akira Beard - The Life Show.

Comment by AB, images c/o Marian Ferrara: Akira Beard is seriously talented. Who's gonna figure out how to transit this dude to the top (which is where I suspect he'll end up one way or another)? Go see.

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