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At dusk, a radiating neon green herbal leaf welcomes visitors to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. It serves as one of the first installations a visitor sees when entering the Bay Area Now 6 (aka BAN6) visual arts exhibition. The signage was created by, Bay Area artist and San Francisco Art Institute faculty member, Tony Labat. As a play on the words Yerba Buena and the rich history San Francisco brings to the ongoing political and social debate…
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Mutiny Radio was a treat at the BAN6 Visual Arts Exhibition opening last Friday. They conducted a live broadcast of the show visitors were able to tune in and listen to on headphones provided (in exchange for your ID). Looking at art as you listened to BAN6 interviews made the experience much more engaging. Thank goodness for Mutiny Radio! Click on the image above or here to learn more about this organization.
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I wanted to get some pictures up of BAN6’s Visual Arts Exhibition opening as soon as possible. With this much art and in such a large space, BAN 6 deserves repeat visits! I’ve been a huge fan of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for a long time so I highly recommend a visit, especially for BAN6. I’m returning to YBCA in the next couple of weeks so I can be intimate with the art (no, not like that, people).…
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Recently, the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field imaging system unveiled the deepest portrait of the visible universe ever achieved by humankind, that reveals the first light from 13.5 billion years ago. The exposure lasted for eleven and a half days and is the as far back as the human eye has seen to the origins of the universe. Collapse, Antonucci’s first solo show, addresses these awe-inspiring galactic portraits in a purist vocabulary imbued by the hand of the artist. With the topic…
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Get your tickets for BAN 6: Visual Arts Exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. It will be fun, engaging, educational, and there will be lots of people with smart and interesting things to say. Amazing artists will be showing their phenomenal work. Spread the word, support Bay Area artists and a great arts organization!!
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When it comes to art, New York has been called a hub where intellectualism and creativity meet. Although it has a smaller population, the same sentiment can be said about San Francisco. As the city known for its diversity, its no surprise that one can find a multitude of extraordinary and unique artists creating art ranging from traditional to highly experimental and conceptual. These individuals need someone capable of navigating the art world as well as having the deft business…
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Anais Nin once said that the role of the writer is to not to say what we can but to say what we cannot. The sentiment certainly translates well into the visual arts. Often, dishonesty abounds in everyday pleasantries, which is why the artist strives to reveal the truths of human interaction. To detect the context and sub-context. The artist mines the crevices of everyday exchanges and finds the raw, unpolished, sometimes tarnished, kernels of mundane gesture and speech to…
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Regionlism is defined by the Merriam-Webster online dictionary as, “consciousness of and loyalty to a distinct region with a homogeneous population“. Well, I highly doubt the ‘homogeneous’ part. San Francisco is home to such a diverse population. In any case, I had the pleasure of attending the fourth official Upgrade SF meeting and the discussion entailed regionalism within the New Media Arts specific to the Bay Area. This past meeting included the following speakers: ZER01 Social Media Manager, Danielle Siembieda OFFSpace co-founder, Kathrine Worel Micaëla Gallery owner, Micaela van Zwoll Each presenter explained their role in the…
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It is a great corner site, an exciting but exhausting gig painting in the micro climates of the scaffolding. Hot on one side and cold on the other. Sweet and sinister, everyday living mixed with screeches of pain. My favorite compliment this week: ”The Hummingbird is a motherfucking powerful bird.” ~Excerpt from Johanna Poethig’s Blog Bay Area visual, public, and performance artist, Johanna Poethig, created a blog to document the process of her latest mural project located in the Tenderloin district of San…
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writer | artist | scholar
Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. 