Here are some of the photos I took at this year’s San Francisco Art Fair. Reflection to follow.
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Entrance to the San Francisco Art Fair 2011 
Another sculpture to the left of entrance 
Marbles by Dennis Hare – Westbrook Modern (Carmel, CA) 
Searching for Heroes by Don Morris – Westbrook Modern (Carmel, CA) 
Searching for Heroes by Don Morris (Detail) – Westbrook Modern (Carmel, CA) 
Artist, Augustus Francis, sitting below one of his latest works 
Works by Michael Carson – Bonner David Galleries (Scottsdale, AZ) 
Waiting by Brett Amory (Living Painting) – Sandra Lee Gallery (San Francisco, CA) 
Monica Lying on Blanket by Tom Wesselmann – This piece is painted steel! 
Untitled by William Betts 
Untitled by William Betts (Detail) ¶¶¶¶¶
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An amazing start to the weekend with Recology SF opening for Scott Kildall. I captured some video footage of Scott’s piece, Live Transmission. Kildall created the work using a turntable, DVD player, projector, wiring, and circuitry. The projection simulated a transmission of the distant future where humans salvage and re-create a world they once knew. By re-appropriating the technology we utilize today in this particular series presents an environment where the objects we discard outlive us and what might happen when humans must recreate and reinterpret the world through these objects. According to the artist, Live Transmission was one of the easier works to produce! Brilliant…
If you are not familiar with the Recology SF Artist In Residency program, it’s a wonderful opportunity for artists to bring their ideas and concepts into fruition. You can learn more about the residency here and learn about past artists as well as upcoming residents.
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If you’re not familiar with Utterback’s work, please familiarize yourself.She’s phenomenal AND a presenting artist with Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA)…¶¶¶¶¶
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As the subject to the post states, this weekend, if you want your fill of art, your wish has been granted. I LOVE this time of year because I become intoxicated by art due to the copious amounts of visual, mental, and intellectual stimulation with all the art fair hopping.
Click on each the event below to learn more about it!
I’m sure these events don’t need any of my marketing but, I would like to offer the benefits of attending art fairs. They are as follows:
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Art increases brain activity and ensure the synapses keep firing
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Social engagement! You can meet all types of individuals at these events and, if you’re dating someone, take them and look at art together. Trust me, you learn a lot about people through their opinions. Right? Right!
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Don’t know much about Modern and/or Contemporary Art? THIS is your chance to see who is emerging in the Bay Area as well as artists from around the globe.
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Related to the above, galleries involved and showcasing their stable of artists are NOT only from the Bay Area. There are international exhibitors and artists. It’s as if the gallery from New York or Berlin is coming to you. How awesome is that?
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Art just gives you perspective. I mean, seriously, what’s the gateway drug to culture, critical thinking, and engaging – ART! Plain and simple.
All right, I have to get going. So much to write to do this week BUT I wanted to get this post in and promote some amazing San Francisco Art events!! Hope to see you there.
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During the Transmutations closing this past Friday, I couldn’t help but film the CUBIIC piece. It was one of the interactive works that rely on the end-user to modify the plexiglass cubes and utilize touch technology (imagine mini turn tables) to create and layer sounds to produce music! After viewing the video, please visit the project site by clicking here to learn more about the the extremely innovative artists, Lyes Belhocine and Drew Detweiler.
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The Transmutations exhibition, at the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA), closing show completely reinvigorated the art writing. I will definitely post thoughts and reflections of the show in the next few days including thoughts on GAFFTA’s awesomeness. It was one of the best closing nights I’ve EVER attended. I’m extremely proud to be a volunteer for this organization!! More to come…
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My brain has been mush the past few days and I think it has to do with deadlines. I’ve met a couple of them this past week and still plugging along with revisions but wondering where the steam has gone. There’s one piece, in particular, I’ve been working on that has me going in circles, which can be good (forces me to craft my words well and a great exercise in thinking critically) and bad (because I’m ALWAYS reading about art and am not very good about stepping away and coming back).
Sigh.
The past couple of weeks, I’ve been tempted to listen to tons of Katy Perry, watch re-runs of America’s Next Best Dance Crew (and listen to Lil’ Mama’s butchering of the American/English language and her repetitive feedback and guidance for dancers to ‘Go hard’), and make an obscene amount of baked goods. However, I have to plough through these edits and revisions.
Double sigh.
Trust me, I’ve got a hot and steamy love affair with Art but at the moment, I’ve got a headache and my grandma underwear on. Hopefully, tonight, at the Transmutations exhibition closing (at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts), Art puts on some stilettos and gives me something to write home about (literally).
I think she will… 😉
I entered the word “blah” in a Google search and this was the first image that popped up…
Artist Dylan Sisson knows what “Blah” looks like, indeed. With a little bitty belly button too.
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This was taken when I was at the God Only Knows the Audience Exhibition at the Wattis Institute at the California College of the Arts ¶¶¶¶¶
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Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. 