ROOT DIVISION - GUERRERO

FFDG - HEIST

10.13.12 Part II

(with assistance from Clare Coppel)



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Root Division: 11th Annual Art Auction.

Artists: Plinio Hernandez, Brooke Westfall, Chris Thorson, Leeza Doreian, Dana Hemenway Wall, Mary Anne Kluth, Michelle Mansour, Nancy White, Robert Minervini, Pegan Brooke, Alexis Arnold, Margaux McAllister, Keira Kotler, Hung Liu, Molly McCracken, Jessica Snow, Elizabeth Cayne, Carrie Lederer, Lauren DiCioccio, Darren Waterston, Adam Friedman, Kija Lucas, Amy Ellingson, Jenna North, Michael Krouse, Jamie Brunson, Walter Robinson, Ben Venom, Mel Prest, Melissa Hutton, Matt Rogers, Misako Inaoka, Ryan Jones, Daniel Nevers, Mary Burger, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Aaron Rosenstreich, Christopher Reiger, Sarah Ratchye, Lily Martine Baxter, Sarah Hirneisen, Angie O. Lee, Tom Mueske, Erica Steiner, Rebecca Shortle, Chris Fraser, Masako Miki, Susanna Corcoran, Sarah Warshaw, Lisa Congdon, Jon Kuzmich, Rachael Jablo, Claire Colette, Sholeh Asgary, Patricia K. Kelly, Rebekah Goldstein, Jan Blythe, Joel Frudden, Sarah Frazier, María Burr, Doris Mitsch Darkness, Jessica Tyler, Jennifer Brandon, Kate Stirr, Jeremiah Jenkins, Emily Sevier, Elizabeth Bernstein, Lindsay Stripling, Adam Shaw, Meri Page, Cathy Lu, Amy Cancelmo, Shirley Hazlett, Nicholas Bohac, Chris Thorson, John Casey, Adelya Tumasyeva, Uba Owl, Mitch Temple, Vita Litvak, Nicole McClure, Lauren Lavitt, María Burr, Jeffrey Glossip, Sonja Thomsen, Mary Parisi, Tressa Pack, Bijan Yashar, Susan Lynn Smtih, Michael Kerbow, Peter Foucault, Daniel Ochoa Joven, Adrienne Heloise, Sarah HaBa, Cody Bratt, Angie O. Lee, Angie Wilson, Colleen Corcoran, Abel Rodriguez, Mel Davis, Chris Thorson, Andrew Kleindolph, Amanda Quiroz, Yoshiro Negishi, Adam Green, Raymond Wong, Gina Tuzzi, Fernando Cisneros, Angie Crabtree, Nathan Haenlein, Katey Crews, Philip Ringler, Andrew English, Yoko Inoue, Dang Ngo, Rhonwyn Kaiser, Amanda Boehm-Garcia, Sarah Klein, Janis Crystal Lipzin, Meghann Riepenhoff, Carlo Abruzzese, Owen Schuh, Clint Imboden, Jessalyn Haggenjos, Jennie Lennick, Ohad Sarfaty, Alexander Hernandez, Brian King Moloch, Tobias Tovera, Jennie Lennick, Rachelle Reichert, Julia Sackett, Julie Sutherland, Massimo Pacchione, Blake Gibson, John-Mark Ikeda, Nicholas Price, Jenny Salomon.

Comment by AB: This annual fundraising event offering works by over 100 artists supports art, artists, & arts education in San Francisco including free after school art classes for Bay Area youth. Dedicate a little of your discretionary capital to Root Division's essential arts programming.

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Guerrero Gallery: Ryan Travis Christian - The Second Banana; OBLVN - Different Strokes, Different Folks.

Review by Clare Coppel: Ryan Travis Christian covers the walls with large geometric patterns and positions detailed charcoal drawings of ghosts and patterns and shapes throughout. My favorites are the "gay" ghosts and the all back scribbled out "fuck you." Also showing are various characterizations of the intoxicated spray paint can, and fruit and vegetable types by OBLVN. Lovely colors, clean lines and cuteness abound.

Comment by AB: Ryan Travis Christian conclusively confirms his aptitude for graphite in this op art extravaganza. Worth a visit.

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FFDG: The Diamond Sea.

Artists: Brett Amory, Shawn Barber, Michelle Blade, Clayton Brothers, Curiot, Jeff Depner, Meredith Dittmar, Jeremy Fish, Jay Howell, Mel Kadel, Hiro Kurata, Nicolas LeBorgne, Russell Leng, Alexis Mackenzie, Travis Millard, Ralph Pugay, Winnie Truong, Mathew Zefeldt.

Comment by AB: Select small format artworks (some very small format) by accomplished creative talents from The Bay Area and beyond.

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Gallery Heist: Gray Matter Paradise - Laura Hyunjhee Kim.

Comment by AB: Laura Hyunjhee Kim is the undisputed star of her imaginative videos which range from bedroom soliloquies to psychedelic clone-laden rock outs. The wall space between one video and the next is peppered with twisty hieroglyphic diagrams. And a fish balloon. The verdict? Thumbs up.

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