ELI RIDGWAY - LIVE WORMS

INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS

06.30.12



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Eli Ridgway Gallery: Wolfgang Ganter - Informel Logic; Sean McFarland - Untitled (1948-2012).

Comment by AB: The art of Wolfgang Ganter is on exhibit in the main upstairs and downstairs galleries. Ganter tells me he cultures bacteria on thousands of old discarded 35mm slides, allowing them to degenerate to varying degrees and into fascinating abstract patterns. He then prints enlargements of select examples of the decomposed results, meticulously mounts them on wood panels and applies high-gloss finishes. Art meets science, skill, ingenuity, facility and conscientious craftsmanship. Check it out.

In the project space, a cadre of self-appointed art smarties are gushing over Sean McFarland's mini installation along with McFarland himself, talking sundry arcane argot, and having a splendid little group grope about how fabulous they all are, when I walk in and they instantly scatter. One of them even gloats about it saying, "It's all yours"-- the room, that is-- as he exits the space, like they're done eating and I'm welcome to scrounge for crumbs. Perhaps perchance, on a lark, on a whim, Sean McFarland and your elitist amigos, condescend to indulge me for a moment or three on these exceptionally infrequent occasions. I know you're better than I am, but humor me up, feign to acknowledge my philistine existence, and perhaps even stoop to answer a pathetic uninformed question or two. Thirty seconds, a minute max; that's all I need. And please-- stop acting like little children.

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Live Worms Gallery: Kim Bass and 4th and U Artists - I Left My Heart in San Francisco.

Comment by AB: Rousing and rangy group show offers up a little bit of everything and featuring the art of of Kim Bass. The artists are all from Berkeley's Fourth Street Studio.

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Intersection for the Arts: The Changemaker Social.

Artists: Tamara Albaitis, April Banks, Terry Berlier, Victor Cartagena, Adam Chin, Pablo Cristi, Binh Danh, Sergio de la Torre, Lauren DiCioccio, Ala Ebtekar, Nome Edonna, Eric Fischer, Katie Gilmartin, Matt Gonzalez, Taraneh Hemami, Dana Hemenway, Jason Jägel, Sean Marc Lee, Steve Lambert, Monique Lopez, Wendy MacNaughton, Stephani Martinez, Chris McCaw, Julio Cesar Morales, billy ocallaghan, Susan O'Malley, Lordy Rodriguez, Jos Sances, Winston Smith, Weston Teruya, Truong Tran, Megan Wilson, Imin Yeh.

Comment by AB: Combination fundraiser, art auction and call to make our community better through art.

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