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Falkirk's 100 - 100 Fine Artists, 100 Artworks Auction for Falkirk
I'll be participating in this auction to benefit the Falkirk community center. I will be contributing one of my gun assemblage entitled- ROSEBUD.
Save the Date:
Friday, December 10, 2010 from 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Silent Auction and Reception featuring 100 amazing works of fine art of exhibition quality.
To view photos of the Exquisite Corpse event please click the following link.
EXCOR EXCOR
How lucky am I! I just received this fantastic art work in the mail
from James Kaufmann- I couldn't love it more.
James is a great artist and a wonderful and generous man. He was the curator of the CUT & PASTE EXHIBIT- TAG Art Gallery, Nashville, TN
that I participated in 2007. He really gave it his all and the results were a phenomenal show.
An exhibition in Berlin featuring the always controversial art of
urban legend-Michael Hernandez de Luna.
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READ ALL ABOUT IT!
A showing of
44 complete creations
Max DuBois’ studio
312 south A street
Santa Rosa, CA
join us for a unique collaborative
by 26 artists from the bay area
reception 5:30-6:30pm Saturday, November 6th
September 29, 2010
I have been working around the clock on a new collection of art to wear necklaces- utilizing vintage collectable's and found objects. These necklaces will be shown at 2011 Spring Open Studio.
I will be participating in a Fine Art Silent Auction
December 10th 2010 -
to benefit the Falkirk Cultural Center
1408 Mission at E Street
San Rafael, CA 94915-1560I will be exhibiting one of my toy gun assemblage- Rosebud. I'll be posting more about this auction as the time gets close, they are a great organization and deserve all the help they can get from the community.
I recently had the task of painting a street sign for guitarist Montrose-a fan had thrown it on stage in the 70's- it is a much larger sign than your usual street sign. SheeeesSsh- I learned a lot about painting on steel, and that was just a fraction of what I needed to know. The letters are painted with acrylic stainless steel effect paint. He has also commissioned me to paint one of his Stratocaster Electric Guitars, very exciting!!! I thought I was knowledgeable about utilizing alternative surfaces, but just covering everything with gesso is not the solution in every case!
Living on the Edge
Years of work in prisons and death row and now literally living on flaming lava in Hawaii doth qualify my friend Bo Lozoff into the...
those who live life in the realms of razor sharp
"Madame Pele has resumed a significant flow of pahoehoe lava and has flowed down into Kalapana once again, inundating about 1/3 mi of the end of Hwy 130, obliterating all access to the end of Hwy 137 forever..."
I doubt any of it pumps adrenaline into his system, lava overflow happening in Kalapana.
A passage from the extraordinary book Haiku,
by Andrew Vachss...
Years of lessons and the most dutiful attention may result in an accomplished painter. But only forces we do not understand produce a Van Gough.
All such gifts are delivered in two boxes, one inside the other. One is a grant; the other a demand. The larger box may be torn open, as if by an eager child handed a present. The smaller-and far more precious-box is locked. Its key is not provided; it can be located only through devotion, labor, and sacrifice.
To be gifted is inborn. It is not earned. Not all those who are gifted are worthy of their gift. That test lies not within the locked box, but in the search for its key.Andrew Vachss
The opening for the Paper View Exhibition is on the 11th of June. It opened on the 5th and I gallery sat on Sunday- the show has some really interesting artists. I'll be attending the opening and taking lots of photos.
MY PAPER VIEW ARTIST STATEMENT
The collages that have been selected for this exhibition are from a mixed media series called Street Aphorisms. They contain a grid of parking tickets, stubs and random papers found on the streets of San Francisco. As I progressed through this series the grid began to disappear and representational elements began to emerge; which leads up to the collage series I am working on today entitled “Ad hoc Entities”.
I work in many different medias, and can completely divert projects for time spans sometimes lasting years. Working in my subconscious, it knows more about where a series is going than my conscious mind. I allow my creative urges free reign, leaping from one medium to another, one series to another. In the end bodies of work take form and the core of my artistic intent unfolds.
New cd out by the multi talented
Dave Getz.
"Can't Be The Only One" available at www.BBHC.com . It features a song written by Janis Joplin and Dave 42 years ago that ne never got to perform or record. It also features Kathi McDonald, the late James Gurley and many other great vocalists and instrumentalists, including Dave Getz, performing compositions he's written over the years. It's music that has come out of his lifelong love of Jazz, Blues and Rock as well as his love for the great songwriters and modern composers of the twentieth century from Gershwin to Satie.
I've begun to participate in an Exquisite Corpse project created by Sherry Parker- she is a fantastic collagist- please check out her website. Hopefully the final art works or works to date will be published online soon.
In this below exor I am the top section and two other artists attended to the center and bottom sections.
I participated in open studio this Spring and thanks to an unexpected article in the Chronicle I had a lot of people come that might have otherwise not known about me. The best treat of all was having a friend show up that I grew up with- Stephanie Schneider, what a thrill. I'm not sure if she realizes how important she was to me growing up and how happy I was to see her again after all these years. There is no underestimating the power and magic of childhood friends and influences- not to mention astounding publicity . We spent many hours at her parents stereo listening to Country Joe and the Fish, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix to name a few. I also remember going to see the Movie 2010 a Space Odyssey with Stephanie's family wearing a full head of super-sized curlers- OMG!
I had been working small as I wasn't up to going out to my studio on crutches and canes and so forth- so I worked in my apartment. I focused on new toy gun assemblage, art to wear, and a series of new collages, that are still in progress.
My studio space is narrow, with a great back wall and high ceilings, I rotate the back wall installation, this time around with vintage doll head installation High Brows , you will also see an installation made of my cats fur Keylets, and an installation called Direct Line that sits on a pedestal.
I'm not sure what will be happening to our studios at Hunters Point but I think we are going to be moved soon, one way or another I sense an move on my part. 2010-2011 I will be focusing on the art to wear and I'm very excited about it and hope to offer it for sale on my website. One of a kind pieces made from found objects.
I am also grateful for my friends that support me and the always ongoing support of Barbara Holden- what a lucky person I am to have such loyal and thoughtful friends.
Tron Bykle, Janet Jones, Leighsa Montrose, Lenny Bove, David Speath-thank you all!
Dianne O'Connell , Sandra Taylor, Deb Colotti, Doris Borris stopped in Sunday before closing the event and we went back to Dianne's home to celebrate Sandra Taylor's birthday, it was lots of fun, even though I was zombie tired.
Another great outcome of open studio is that Mike Kimball stopped by to select work for a show he is curating at the Arc Gallery, he is great to work with- I am very happy to be in any thing he is involved with.
Paper View: Contemporary works on paper
by Bay Area artists
Many artists have a long and abiding love of paper due to the tactile, sculptural and malleable qualities that paper offers the artist. With paper, artists create flat or sculptural works such as assemblage, collage, drawing, mixed-media, painting, prints and book arts.
To celebrate this much-loved medium of paper, seventeen contemporary Bay Area artists who create works on paper were selected to showcase their artwork in an upcoming exhibition at Arc Studios & Gallery. Presented in works by some of the regions most creative artists, organized by guest curator, Mike Kimball.
DATES: June 5-27, 2010
RECEPTION: Friday, June 11th, 7-10pm
HOURS: Fri-Sun 12 noon-5pm, and by __________________appointment.
LOCATION: ARC Gallery 1246 Folsom St. San __ _________________Francisco, CA 94103
ADMISSION: Free and open to the public
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