Yoon Lee

@ pierogi 2000 in brooklyn
march 14 - april 14, 2008

Yoon Lee creates very dense, layered, thickly textured, candy-coated, kinetically dynamic, abstract urban landscapes on huge pvc panels. the above photo shows details from one her smaller paintings, "Diversion," at 4x8 feet:


this show also includes the monumental "JFK" which, at 7x20 feet, took 5-6 months to complete:

at that size, the painting engulfs the viewer and it feels like you can enter the landscape (here Yoon offers some evidence of the scale of this painting)

the details are incredibly dynamic:



this show also features the 4x12 foot "Sweeping Through":



and the 8x4 foot "Untitled," her second major vertical painting:



flavorpill noted that Yoon shares an "interest in exploding topography and the bustling life of architecture with Julie Mehretu, but where the latter employs a t-square, Lee stands ready with a bucket of paint." both create dynamic paintings which push movement and toy with perspectival planes, but their work ends up in very different places.

this is yet another art show that is best viewed in person (Yoon spent approximately 12 months working on the 4 paintings in this show, her new york debut). if you are fortunate enough to be in williamsburg before april 14, check it out at 177 north 9th street brooklyn, ny (open fri - mon).

i have a few more photos in my slideshow. and, check out the photos from her 2006 Luggage Store show here.

jeremy fish vibrator

fuck (with) vinyl toys?

(grabbed from umbrella)

fecal face thinks barry is "the first contemporary artist designed dildo." makes sense to me. but then, i'm pervy (have you met perv monkey?) art history, take note (somehow i suspect that despite all the focus on the new in art, including new media, this will be ignored).

last chance: Chris Ballantyne

@ hosfelt gallery
february 9 - march 22, 2008

"when the world was flat," Chris Ballantyne's solo show at hosfelt gallery closes this saturday. the show includes huge works on paper.

(related to his corner mural at park life last year)


the gallery blog reported that SFMOMA acquired this painting. good for them, us, and Chris.

the show also includes this painting on wood


smaller works on paper


original paintings for the prints that park life released last year


and a large wall painting (left/right)

yet another art show that is best viewed in person.
check out hosfelt gallery, 430 clementina (btwn howard/folsom, 5th/6th)

i have a few more photos in my slideshow

art sale 12

"perv * local, organic," march 2003, 9.75x9.75" digital print on 11.5x11.5" paper, edition of 5 (my submission for the lab's art sale 12, which happens this weekend)

thurs march 13 (1-6pm): preview the show, for free
fri march 14 (1-6pm): preview the show, also free
sat march 15 (6.30-9.30pm): silent auction and live auction ($10-25 sliding scale)
sun march 16 (11am-7pm): sale continues

the auction, on sat march 15, cost $10-$25 for "snacks and refreshments" as well as the opportunity to buy art at bargain prices ("starting bids at $25 and up"). thelab notes that "250 artists will be participating, including Sarah Applebaum, Ajit Chauhan, Alex Clausen, Chris Corales, Gail Dawson, Julie Dummermuth, Tara Lisa Foley, Taro Hattori, Cynthia Ona Innis, David King, Rex Ray, Daniel Ross, Casey Jex Smith, Wayne Smith, Kal Spelletich, Zefrey Throwell, Amy Trachtenberg, Heather Wilcoxon, and many more!"

worth checking out. i have a field trip collecting fossils and will, unfortunately, miss the auction.

last chance: Paul Wackers

@ Eleanor Harwood
february 16 - march 15, 2008

Paul Wacker's second solo show at Eleanor Harwood is titled "stand still like the hummingbird."


the show shares its title with a book of essay's by Henry Miller. i haven't read it (maybe you have?) i did find this excerpt from the preface on the web: "...when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The miracle is that the honey is always there, right under your nose, only you were too busy searching elsewhere to realize it. The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous."

the show includes a lot of nice work, including "sculpture"

and "still life"


the gallery has all of the work here. better yet, get to Eleanor Harwood (alabama @ 25th) by march 15 and check it out in person before the show closes.

you can see my blog of his 2006 show here.

last chance: packard jennings

@ Catherine Clark
january 19 - march 9, 2008

Packard Jennings created an anarchist action figure, complete with a flaming molotov

bolt cutters

and helpful box graphics



he snuck them into big box stores in the bay area in december 2007 and filmed the results as he tried to buy one. the nytimes covered it in a story on shop dropping. a local tv news program also covered it. (press fuels art careers.) packard's video can be seen here (and at the gallery).

the show also features work from Wish You Were Here! Postcards From Our Awesome Future. Packard and Steve Lambert "asked Bay Area architects, city planners and transportation engineers, 'What would you do if you didn’t have to worry about budgets, bureaucracy, politics, or physics?' Ideas from these conversations were then merged, developed and perhaps mildly exaggerated by the artists to create six imaginative poster designs for exhibition in the Market Street kiosks."

part of San Francisco Arts Commission's Public Art Program, the posters appear in triangle kiosks on market street (btwn van ness and embarcadero) from november 12,2007 to march 13, 2008.


and, the show has a creative dissent work station

where you are invited to take this sign

out for fun and photographic excellence. you can also create your own newspaper headlines and paste them in newsboxes. or, perhaps, add a warning label to a bible. then post the results in the gallery.


Packard has templates for many of his projects on his website. check it out. and, if possible, stop by the gallery this weekend to see the work in person and have some fun before the show closes.

mel & travis

travis millard

and


have a show in la opening this weekend
at richard heller gallery
february, 9 2007 - march, 8 2007 opening reception: 5 - 7 pm

i love travis millard's environmental self portraits, like "family"


his humor. the spawn of his cross-sections.


i love mel kadel's metaphorically active women.



her whimsey.



both variations on rolling



check out the show in person.
were that it were in san francisco.
(photos grabbed from the gallery)

Seren

Seren, inspired at the opening reception of from the depths, drew a portrait and gave it to Rich Mooi (my best guess is she was inspired by Tiffany Bozic's battle of the deep)

grounded?

(i learn only to be contented, 2007, 24x36" digital print, edition of 5)

this year's annual juried show at southern exposure & intersection for the arts.

opening: fri nov. 9, 7-9pm
@intersection for the arts: 446 valencia st (btwn 15th & 16th)
&southern exposure: 417 14th (@valencia)
show runs: november 9 - december 15, 2007
(galleries open wed-sat 12-6; tues by appointment)
admission: free

"nearly 550 submission...63 artists were selected for the gallery exhibition."

brendan monroe: insides

@ richard heller gallery
2525 michigan ave, b-5a, santa monica, ca 90404
october, 13 2007 - november, 11 2007

set/slideshow

last chance: don't try this at home

@ intersection for the arts
446 Valencia Street (btwn 15th and 16th), san francisco, ca
September 17 - October 13, 2007
featuring Lauren Davies, Tamara Albaitis, Krishna Khalsa, Stephani Martinez & Zachary Royer Scholz

tip: this show is closing soon. check it out if you can.


Lauren Davies' sculptures are meticulous ("anatomically correct scaled versions of West Highland White Terriers"), down to the hair, which was shed by their real life counterparts, her dogs.



she also has sculpted lintballs with lint collected from "family, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances." nice reuse.

the show is subtitled "A Group Exhibition Obsessively Reshaping The Ordinary"


Tamara Albaitis produced a series of sound sculptures, including a laughing trash can


and a group of coughing speaker balls


Krishna Khalsa created biomorphic wood sculptures


doily cakes (plaster & doilies) by Stephani Martinez

i have a few more photos in my set/slideshow