I’m delighted to be doing the inaugural art show at the new Actual Cafe at San Pablo and Alcatraz in Oakland. There will be an opening reception (also the grand opening of the cafe) on Friday, January 8, from 6-10 PM. Hope to see you there….
The composited neighborhoods series, now 14 strong, is on display this spring at Aunt Mary’s Cafe in the Temescal district of Oakland (43rd and Telegraph, three blocks up Telegraph from MacArthur BART).
I have a (very) small piece in a (very) large benefit/exhibit/sale in New York this month.
The piece is a tiny version of “Painted Ladies,” one of three brand-new pictures from my slowly growing composited neighborhoods project.
The event is “Postcards From the Edge,” an annual benefit for Visual AIDS, the art-based AIDS awareness and HIV prevention organization. Essentially, 1600 or more artists have each contributed a 4″x6″ postcard-sized work for the event; they’ll all be sold (or as many as possible) at a showing at Metro Pictures (519 W 24th St) on January 9, 2009 (preview party the night before). Should be an invigorating show: an overwhelming mixture of big names and little-knowns, arrayed in an anonymous grid across the walls of the gallery, all available for a standardized price (or five for the price of four!) and the money going to a good cause.
I’m showing quite a bit of work this fall at Maison Nouveau, a real estate office in Rockridge (google map). The show includes:
So I’m migrating my ‘news’ page to WordPress, a blogging platform. Soon I’ll have all the existing content of the old news page moved over, and then (at least in theory) it’ll be much easier to add new stuff.
UPDATE: I apparently have a lot to learn about css. :-) The images aren’t working out for me at the moment, so for now this will just be a big page of text.
I was one of 48 photo-based artists selected to participate in Alameda on Camera 2008. We were each assigned a sector of Alameda in a lottery on February 22, and then we had the next 48 hours to go out and shoot it. The results of the project will be shown at the Frank Bette Center for the Arts during the month of April (opening Friday, April 4, 7–9 PM).
UPDATE: With the Alameda on Camera project I’m starting a new body of work, “composited neighborhoods,” using intensively layered photographs to explore commonalities and differences among houses, buildings, streetscapes, and other features of neighborhood environments. I’ve posted a new gallery of the work from Alameda; read more about it here, come out to the Frank Bette Center to see the work in person, and stay tuned for more in this series.
UPDATE 2: My piece “The 800 block” was awarded Best of Show. I appreciate the recognition, and I’m even more galvanized to pursue these ideas further.
I have three pictures from the Blur series hanging at TOUCH, a new salon in the Montclair district in Oakland (google map). The opening reception (also the grand opening of the salon) is December 6.
“K-Line containers” has been selected for the ArtworkSF “Vessel” show at Hotel Triton (google map). The theme has obvious resonance for me, so I’m looking forward to seeing the other work in the show.
I have four pictures from the cranes + containers series in a show with two other artists (Lisa Feather and Annette Aust) at InYourElement, a modern furniture store and design studio in San Francisco (google map). The opening is Wednesday, June 13, and the pieces will be up for most of the rest of the summer.
I’m showing the “intentional blurs” pictures at Aspect Gallery and Custom Framing in San Francisco. It’s a frame shop and gallery space located at 731 Polk St. (between Ellis and Eddy) (google map). The opening for the show is Saturday, May 5, 6-10 PM, and the show will be up through June 20.