Posts: Bay Area

MOCA board confirms Jeffrey Deitch’s appointment as new director today per Art Review.

- Cheryl Meeker [Monday, January 11th, 2010]

How can we possibly do without Larry Sultan? Amazing artist, photographer, teacher, wonderful man, gone too soon.

- Cheryl Meeker [Monday, December 14th, 2009]

Visitors to the Alameda Towne Centre Mall are in for a treat this early holiday season. For a limited time, Super Pop-Up Shop brings art to mart with an array of smart, fun projects to delight and engage young and old. Curated by CCA faculty members Rebeca Bollinger and Glen Helfand, Super Pop-Up Shop features new work in a variety of media by CCA MFA students who have transformed a vacant storefront into a bustling outlet of hands-on activity and given the “Pop-Up Retail” trend a new creative spin. The grand opening last Sunday afternoon was big fun. Some highlights—a canned food for art exchange (be sure to bring a can for the Alameda Food Bank to participate), a mall-wide scavenger hunt that focuses on personal interaction rather than collecting stuff, a dance move exchange, and lots more. The store is located in a prime spot directly across from the mall Santa house. They’ll be open two more weekends including Black Friday this week which should make for some interesting crowds. Get some art and ideas in with your holiday shopping and check it out!

Super Pop-Up Shop
Open: November 27-29, and December 5-6, noon to 5pm
Alameda Towne Centre: 523 South Shore Center West, Alameda, CA 94501
(Near Trader Joe’s and Applebee’s)
http://superpopupshop.com/

- David Lawrence [Tuesday, November 24th, 2009]

We will miss Jeanne-Claude.

- Cheryl Meeker [Friday, November 20th, 2009]

A jubilant mood reigned at the opening of Southern Exposure‘s new gallery this past Friday and Saturday. The space debuted with the exhibition Bellwether, featuring work by Ant Farm, Renee Gertler, Liz Glynn, Jonn Herschend, Whitney Lynn, Jay Nelson, Nonchalance, Lordy Rodriguez, Christine Wong Yap and SoEx’s Youth Advisory Board. But the buzz was all about the miracle performed by the SoEx Board of Directors and Executive Director Courtney Fink, obtaining a beautiful, purpose-designed new home for the venerable alternative space. In the recessionary gloom, the lights coming on at 3030-20th Street, San Francisco gleamed extra brightly.


Southern Exposure Executive Director Courtney Fink (left) with Board Vice-President Amy Charles



Artist and SF Gate blogger J.D. Beltran dances on the corner with her son Sebastian. Beltran posted a great history of SoEx’s search for a new space.



Artist (and former Stretcher crew member) Megan Wilson



Executive Director of the DiRosa Kathryn Reasoner



Art historian Whitney Chadwick and artist Robert Bechtle


Revelers Rodney Ewing and Nicole Lattuca

- Meredith Tromble [Tuesday, October 20th, 2009]

The imminence of death is said to concentrate the mind; perhaps the aura of mortality that hangs around the Slaughterhouse Space (which features floor drains marked “blood” and “water”) infuses artists with the courage to do the things they’d like to do that they haven’t done yet. At least two of the artists in The Seduction of Duchamp: Bay Area Artists’ Response, which opened last night, showed firsts. Richard Berger, a sculptor who first came to prominence in the 1960s, contributed his first video piece, and Rebecca Goldfarb, a new generation sculptor, showed her first outdoor work. Of course, the inspiration might be that this Healdsburg space, a former abbatoir, is just offbeat and off-the-beaten-track enough to make artists feel experimental, while close enough to the central Bay Area to attract a rich mix of established and emerging artists. The exhibition, which was curated by Hanna Regev, continues through November 8. November 7 will find the gallery hosting another first, a performance auction conducted by Rodney Austin and Justin Hoover.

Disintegrations, at Johansson Projects has another highlight of October’s exhibitions. Andrew Benson shows two videos in which the original footage is reprocessed by a system he calls “Slorp.” The result is remarkably like watching a fire or a waterfall, with constant movement forming and reforming images that flicker out before the eye can rest on them.

- Meredith Tromble [Sunday, October 4th, 2009]

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