DOLBY CHADWICK - HEDGE

HIGHLIGHT - ARC - ET AL.

12.12.13

(with assistance from RWM)



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Dolby Chadwick Gallery: Hello, Goodbye - 15 Artists Respond to the Concept of Impermanence.

Artists: Travis Collinson, Stephen De Staebler, John DiPaolo, Edwige Fouvry, Ann Gale, Hollis Heichemer, Shelley Hoyt, Katina Huston, Alex Kanevsky, Jerome Lagarrigue, Danae Mattes, Joshua Meyer, Ada Sadler, Kai Samuels-Davis, Forrest Williams.

Review by RWM: Group show with all sorts of work from fifteen artists. Some wondrous. Some painful. Difficult identities and fascinating free forms. The title of the show does have viewers wondering whether the San Francisco art scene is changing, i.e. are the shows of the future, next year, going to be less social and more art-appreciation oriented. Tough times the city is facing with some galleries closing and others moving. Beautiful work is still available with artists continuing to make an impression.

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Hedge Gallery: re:Visions - The World of Michael Boyd.

Comment by AB: Noted modern furniture and design collector Michael Boyd is inspired by legendary designers and the objects he collects to create his own furniture forms. Functional sculpture would aptly describe the results. In this show, his furniture is displayed within the context of the period and vintage objects that have influenced it. Worth a visit.

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Highlight Gallery: Chris Fraser - In Stereo.

Comment by AB: Chris Fraser creates three-dimensional illusions by projecting light onto two-dimensional surfaces. You can only experience the effects in person; they're not photographable. But these images might get you close enough... with a little added imagination. If they can't, you have to come down and see 'em firsthand.

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Arc Gallery: Choice. Juried by Catharine Clark.

Artists: Lennell Allen, Jung Ran Bae, Yvette Brown, Jessica Burke, Francine Dailey, Jessica Damsky, Amanda Dandeneau, Stephanie Eley, Meryl Feigenberg, Alexa Garbarino, Guerrilla Girls on Tour!, Jennifer Hawke, Jo Anna Hickman, Bernadette Howard, Tonia Klein, Christine Knox, Liza LaBarge, Suzanne Lacke, Rahshia: Linendoll-Sawyer, Katrina Majkut, Stela Mandel, Juliet Mevi, Miwako Nishizawa, Priscilla Otani, Judi Parks, Amy Puccio, Tamra Seal, Cindy Shih, Jackie Skrzynski, Priscilla Smith, Diana Unterspan, Deborah Wheeler, Vera Ximenes, Jennifer Zona.

Comment by AB: Seems like the battle over reproductive rights and choice to control one's own destiny never ends. Artists weigh in on the matter in this exhibition presented by the Northern California Women's Caucus for Art. Some asking prices are a mite ambitious, but not all.

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Et al. Gallery: Present Perfect - Luca Antonucci + Daniel Small.

Comment by AB: I won't even get into the spectacularly baffling statement which begins, "Present Perfect ruins the distinctions it proposes, and moves back and forth in time through a speculative discourse with fetishized abandon." Magniloquence in malarkey.

Fortunately, I procure a moment with co-conceptor Luca Antonucci who tells me that the deal is sort of kind of about concocting a theoretical history by cogitating on relics rescued from the original Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, like a tacky plaster rendition of Winged Victory of Samothrace, as well as other recently unearthed archaeological oddities. Now that I can understand.

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