Author: tmorotmoro

Carey Lin & Bonanza
What’s Going On (feat. 4 Non Blondes)
January 17 ­ February 21, 2015

What’s Going On (feat. 4 Non Blondes) is an exhibition of new works by Carey Lin and Bonanza centered on the functions of different workspaces. Carey Lin’s practice highlights the space of the studio as a subject for art­making and examines painting as a self­reflexive process. Bonanza’s work considers the site as a type of flex space with pieces that literally bend, bow, and curve into pose. Taken together, this exhibition focuses on both the physical and mental process of “working it out”.

A free, limited edition Colpa Press Risograph print with writing by Suzanne L’Heureux will accompany this exhibition.

Carey Lin is a San Francisco­ based visual artist, curator and co­director of Stairwell’s, a collaborative project with programs and exhibitions throughout the Bay Area. Carey earned her M.F.A. from the University of Chicago and served as a Visiting Lecturer at UChicago’s Department of Visual Arts. She has been an artist­in­residence at the Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), LPP+ (SF) and Ox­Bow (Saugatuck, MI). In her spare time, Carey makes ceramic glazed donuts and other inedible baked goods at the Randall Museum.

Bonanza is the collective practice of Conrad Guevara, Lindsay Tully, and Lana Williams. The formal cohesion of a filmmaker, sculptor, and painter is the result of their shared way of thinking and making. Bonanza centers around ideas of abstraction, questions of authorship, and dismantles the ideas of the heroic artist. They have exhibited at Interface Gallery, Artists’ Television Access, n/a, and S.H.E.D. Projects in the Bay area.

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Andrea Bacigalupo

November 1 – December 6, 2014

Freedom of movement and the freedom to roam, themes of past and present, and family and relationships, are highlighted in Andrea Bacigalupo’s works. She is an Oakland-based artist and has exhibited throughout the Bay Area and in New York. She is a graduate of California College of the Arts, San Francisco Art Institute and Santa Clara University and recently completed a yearlong residency at Headlands Center for the Arts.

The viewer is invited to move or roam throughout the spatial environment of basic forms; rods, planks and slabs in the exterior space, and to be tuned to the freedom of movement and the freedom to roam. To circulate, transit, rest or linger in the space can encourage a sense of ease and a sense of one’s own inner score and harmony.

Jake Ziemann

Jake Ziemann lives and works in San Francisco, California.  He is a graduate of California College of the Arts, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Central College in Iowa.

His work investigates the formal and paradoxical relationships between what is built up and broken down­ – both affective and entropic as well as formed and formless.  Using visual cues, connections, and/or disconnections between painting and sculpture, his most current projects explore themes of utilitarianism, ambivalence of self, and romance.  To this end, his paintings of brick wall motifs alongside mound-like ceramic sculpture evoke ideas of restraint and pleasure in the face of co-dependency.

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Just Deserts
May 24 – June 14th 

“Just Deserts” is an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Evan Reiser. The works are loosely based on a recurring scene in “Looney Tunes” cartoons with Wile. E. Coyote. In each cartoon the coyote, in his neverending attempts to catch the Roadrunner, falls off a cliff to the desert floor below. The abstracted desert landscape changes from one scene to another, but the result is the same.

The coyote is clever and cunning, using strange combinations of materials to create traps and machinations which backfire and offer little utlility. Resolute in his desires, he creates imaginative processes and tact to chase after an impossible goal. In this, Reiser sees a parable to the life of an artist: a career in which ritualistic, Sisyphean failure is the point, not the punishment.

Evan Reiser is a San Francisco-based visual artist. His works reference historical narratives, highlighting ambiguity and subjectivity in what is often believed as fact. He has exhibited throughout the Bay Area, New York, and Florence, Italy. In addition to his own artistic practice, Reiser is a curator and a proprietor of City Limits, a gallery in Oakland’s Jack London Square.

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Dickson Schneider teaches painting and art at California State University East Bay. He is represented in California by Autobody Fine Art. His work is in collections from London to Hong Kong. Mr. Schneider is the author of Every Angler’s Guide to Amazing Lures and Flies, Viking, 1997.

Over the past five years Schneider has created over 4,000 works of art to give away to the public on the street in Oakland and last December at the commercially charged “bling” spectacle of Art Basel Miami. In July he took the Project to the Kunstraum Tapir gallery in Berlin, Germany and made art there which was displayed in the gallery and available free to passersby. The Berlin project was featured on Deutschlandradio, a national Art and Culture program. Last November he and the Free Art Project spent a month at the Paolo Mejia Gallery in San Francisco.

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Cara Levine is an artist based in Oakland, CA. She is an instructor at Creative Growth Art Center and a Graduate Teaching Fellow in Sculpture at California College of the Arts (CCA). She received her MFA from CCA and her BFA from the University of Michigan School of Art and Design. Cara has participated in residencies, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and forthcoming, Anderson Ranch. Her work has been shown such venues as The Wattis Institute for Art, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, and The Manresa Gallery in San Francisco, and has work in the Stanford Hospital permanent collection. Cara is originally from Los Angeles. She has a twin brother. And she lives with her dog, and often collaborator, Pigeon.

Kate O’Connor is an Emmy nominated art director, illustrator and painter living in Los Angeles. She holds fine art and communication design degrees from The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MFA from Yale University. Kate has received numerous awards including a One Show Pencil, a D&AD award and a Cannes Lion. Her illustration clients include The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, Oprah Magazine and Print Magazine. She has also art directed and illustrated album covers for Ninja Tune and Warner Records. Over the last few years Kate has participated in artist residencies including Struts Gallery in Sackville, New Brunswick, the Vermont Studio Centre in Johnson and the Institute for Studio Studies in Auvillar, France with Yale University. She has shown her work in Europe, the US and Canada including Katherine Mulherin Art Projects in Toronto. Her ASS series (a collaboration with artist Gareth Long) was purchased by Michael Stipe in 2013 for his personal collection. Kate is also left-handed and Canadian.

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Rebekah Goldstein is an artist based in San Francisco. Her paintings depict imagined structures, spaces, and characters and test the boundary between description and abstraction. She received an MFA from California College of the Arts in 2012 with a focus on painting and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 2004. She has participated in residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida and the Arad Arts Project, Israel. Her work has been exhibited widely throughout the Bay Area, including a recent solo exhibition at City Limits Gallery (San Francisco) and group shows at Alter Space Gallery (San Francisco), Pro Arts (Oakland), and Berkeley Art Center (Berkeley). Rebekah is also the founder of the Painting Salon, a monthly forum that fosters conversation about contemporary painting practices. She teaches art at an independent school in San Francisco.

Lisa Rybovich Crallé lives & works in the SF Bay Area.  Her sculptures, collages, and paintings explore the theatricality of everyday life. Lisa received an MFA from the University of California, Davis in 2011 and a Bachelors of Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College in 2004, after also studying at the San Francisco Art Institute and the New York Studio School.  Her work has been exhibited in the US and abroad, including exhibitions at Field Projects (NYC), The Lab (San Francisco), the Dublin City Gallery (Dublin, IRE), Queens College Art Center (NYC), Roots & Culture (Chicago), Proof Gallery (Boston), and the 2011 Bay Area Currents exhibition (Oakland).  Lisa has been an Artist in Residence at Ox-Bow (Saugatuck, MI), the People’s Gallery (San Francisco), ART342 (Ft. Collins, CO), Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (Amherst, VA), the Studios of Key West (Key West, FL) and she is the recipient of the 2011 Robert Arneson Award.

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