1AM - RAYKO - ARTISTS ALLEY - 60SIX

WIRE + NAIL - SAN FRANCISCO DUMP - GALLARIA

09.23.11

(with assistance from Clare Coppel, DeWitt Cheng and RWM)



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1AM Gallery: Fast Forward. Curated by Mike Bam Tyau.

Artists: Suiko, Sueme, Poesia, Robz, Bam, Jaybo Monk.

Comment by AB: Five outdoor artists from Japan, Canada and The Bay Area imagine what graffiti of the future might look like.

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RayKo Photo Center: The Brothers - Elin Høyland; High Plains Drifters - Amanda Boe and Sarah Christianson.

Review by Clare Coppel: In the right gallery, Elin Høyland's body of work, "The Brothers," is a documentary series of beautiful images portraying the daily life of two brothers, Harald and Mathias Ramen, living a very old school way of life in rural Norway.

In the left gallery, "High Plains Drifters," photographs by Sarah Christianson and Amanda Boe, document North Dakota and South Dakota respectively. The images are of the farms and farming communities where both of these women were raised... and then left, like many people who come from the Dakotas. There is a ghostly quality and a quiet straightforwardness in both series of work, echoing the silence of the plains.

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Artists Alley: San Francisco Erotic Art Exhibition.

Comment by AB: More erectile tissue than you can shake a penis at. Over 400 works of erotic art by more than thirty artists. I wish I could show you everything but mommy says no.

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60Six Gallery: Design & Dissolution - Oliver DiCicco and Julian Hönig.

Review by RWM: Wild abstractions. Interesting kinetic contraptions by Oliver DiCicco will fascinate even the engineers. Cool to see these unusual machines tell their tales.

Comment by AB: Industrial designer Julian Hönig's abstracts are painted on top of schematic diagrams originally done for Audi.

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Wire + Nail Gallery: Adam Gray and Sam Fuchs - HellaMoreFunner presents Pizza Party!

Comment by AB: Adam Gray and Sam Fuchs do a pretty convincing (and entertaining) job of making art that reflects the overwhelming inundation of stimuli that constantly bombard today's youth. Plus they've put together a big fat book about it. Nicely done.

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San Francisco Dump Artist in Residence Exhibitions: Lauren DiCioccio - Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me); Abel Rodriguez - Out of Sight, Out of Mind; Kaiya Rainbolt - Upscale.

Comment by AB: Intricately sewn works by Lauren DiCioccio incorporate chards of discarded fabric. Single-color constructions by Abel Rodriguez seem almost like ghost ships rescued from the sea. Kaiya Rainbolt's sculptural ingredients included toilet balls, old postage stamps and sheet metal.

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The Galleria, San Francisco Design Center: Art for AIDS.

Artists: Jose Acosta, Linda Adreveno, Kamal Al Monsour, Jose Maro Alvarado, Catherine Ames, Don Anderson, Charles Anselmo, Astrid, Sue Averell, David Avery, Jane Baker, Jenny E. Balisle, Kevin-Louis Barton, Sandra Beard, Michael Beckler, Ruth Bernhard, Sandow Birk, Ross Bleckner, Katherine Bloodworth, Jan Blythe, Serena Bocchino, Richard Bolingbroke, Donald Borthwick, Johnny Botts, Blair Bradshaw, Patrick M. Brandt, Gary A. Bukovnik, Ed Calhoun, Heather Capen, Elizabeth Cayne, Karen Chew, Belinda Chlouber, Linda Colnett, Antonio Cortez, Franc D'Ambrosio, Sidnea D'Amico, Rob Delamater, Monica Denevan, Robin Denevan, Daniel Diaz-Tai, Kathryn Dunlevie, Aximillion Helga Duson, Kathleen Elliot, Eric Engstrom, Jennifer Ewing, Bean Finneran, John Fitzsimmons, Kat Flyn, Bernadette Jiyong Frank, Matthew Frederick, Martin Freeman, Susan Friedman, Jerry Frost, Mauricio Gardeazabal, Thomas Gardner, Paul Gibson, Katie Gilmartin, Nina Glaser, Ken Gorczyca, Jesse Gottesman, Jana Grover, dk haas, Ralph Holker, Richard Holzmann, Joel Hoyer, Frank Hyder, Joe Illick, Martine Jardel, Eric Joyner, Brian Karvelis, Tracey Kessler, Russel Kiehn, Wayne Killinger, Mark Kostabi, John Kraft, Katy Kuhn, Adam Kurtzman, Marc Lambrechts, Joanne Landis, Leah Lau, Reddy Lieb, David Lofton, Catherine Mackey, Liz Mamorsky, Jesus Marez, Kay Marhsall, Kara Maria, Michael Markowitz, Jonathan Marks, Bill Mattick, Liz Maxwell, Kristine Mays, Will McBrideRocky McCorkle, Molly McCraken Kumar, Brian McDonald, John Melvin, Kenney Mencher, Erika Meriaux, Pamela Merory Dernham, Susan Merrell, Carolyn Meyer, Lee Miltier, Doug Minkler, Chiyo Miyashita, Takeshi Nakayoshi, Andrea Narins, Kelly Nicolaisen, John Nieto, Diane Olivier, Mustafa Önder, Deborah Oropallo, Nancy Otto, Dennis Parlante, Monique Passicot, Michelle Peckham, Lorraine Peltz, Sonya Philip, Matt Pipes, Silvia Poloto, Kristina Quinones, Lucky Rapp, Rex Ray, Robert Reed, Jon Rendell, Fernando Reyes, Ryan Michael Reynolds, Anthony Ricci, Craig Riedel, Carol Rienecker, Heather Robinson, Jenny Robinson, Merl Ross, Thierry Rosset, Alejandro Rubio, Rachel Sager, Ginni Savalli, Chris Schiavo, Greta & Manu Schnetzler, Nikki Schrager, Nanci Price Scoular, Loretta Siegel, David Smith-Harrison, Monika Steiner, Charles Stinson, Marcia Stuermer, Jock Sturges, Anne Subercaseaux, Jeremy Sutton, Brian Tepper, Aaron Terry, Rab Terry, Kirsten, Tradowsky, Tri Tran, Trish Tunney, Frank Van Duerm, Michal Venera, Stephen C. Wagner, Jonah Ward, Audrey Welch, Jon Wessel, Bernie Weston, Carole Whitacre, Hilary Williams, Kara Wood, Elena Zolotnitsky.

Comment by AB: This major annual fundraiser live and silent auction event benefits the UCSF AIDS Health Project. Hey collectors-- check out that list of donating artists and make sure you tootle yourself on down for next year's bidding and buying opportunities. Plus it's a major kick-ass party.

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