Dessert: Part III of Fritos & Champagne

Thu, 13 May 2010 11:40:39 -0700

Dessert is the moment of the meal when everyone is full. It is the time when conversation takes open-ended directions. Dessert is an opportunity for those who couldn't make it to dinner to stop by for a visit. It is a time of excess, pleasure and storytelling. For Dessert, each participating artist has taken up a different aspect from taste to etiquette to preparation to service. Artists will show a range of work including public reading and presenting, sculpture, installation and drawing.

Participating artists include Colby Claycomb, Elinor Domol, Steffi Drewes, Josh Keller, Dori Latman, Cathy Lu, Michelle Morby, Hilary Schwartz, Heather Van Winckle, and The Center for Experimental Practice.

Gallery Address:
3166 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

Front and Center 2010: Weather Streams

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:52:47 -0800

Headlands Center for the Arts is pleased to present Front + Center an annual group exhibition featuring new and recent artwork by California emerging and mid-career artists. Curated from the applicant pool for Headlands’ Artists in Residence Program, this exhibition showcases work of promising Bay Area-based artists . The exhibition takes its title from the military lexicon, alluding to Headlands’ campus as a place of both environmental pristine and military history. Moreover, Front + Center reflects Headlands’ unique position as both historic and contemporary, off the beaten path yet central to the Bay’s creative community.

This year’s exhibition, Weather Streams, is co-curated by Vanessa Blaikie and Joey Piziali, codirectors of Ping Pong Gallery in San Francisco, and independent curator Jessica Brier.

From the curators: On the most basic level, artistic practice is one of re-thinking, testing and playing with multi-sensory perception. Synesthesia1, the subjective experience whereby “senses and concepts are open to each other, flowing and merging like weather streams” accentuates this amazing difference in the way people see the world and the great extent to which individual experience “colors” perception.

Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday & Sunday, 12-5PM
DIRECTIONS TO THE HEADLANDS

Front and Center 2010

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:01:44 -0800

Front + Center is an annual exhibition at Headlands showcasing outstanding work by California artists. This exhibition will make use of Headlands' historic Building 944 and Gymnasium, featuring a variety of projects including several newly commissioned, site-specific works.

Timothy Armstrong, Elisheva Biernoff, Lisa Blatt, Matt Borruso, Luke Butler, John Chiara, Jordan Essoe, Sean Horchy, Jennifer Kaufman, Joshua Keller, Kim Miskowicz, Daniel Nevers, James Sterling Pitt, Dave Stein, Jordan Stein, Primitivo Suarez-Wolfe, Chris Thorson

Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday & Sunday, 12-5PM
DIRECTIONS TO THE HEADLANDS

Museum of Pocket Art in the Front Gallery

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:23:29 -0800

Including work by Theresa Bauer, Manuel Guerra, Robert Jackson Harrington, Joann Hashitni, Vivian Huang, Estela Estrella, Rebecca Franz, Josh Keller, Susan Klahr, Robert Moya, Niki Shapiro, Kate Torgersen, Eric Shultis, Rueben Wood, and more.  Reception on Friday, December 4, 5 to 9 pm Show continues Sat and Sun, Dec 5 and 6, 1 to 6 pm in conjunction with the Postcard Show 13

MoPA Retrospective at The Lab

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:44:50 -0700

It gives me great pleasure to announce that this December 4th through the 6th the Lab gallery space in San Francisco will host a MoPA retrospective. The show will display MoPA wallets along with a list of all our participating artists and contact information and catalogs we've produced up to now. If you are in, or will be in San Francisco during this time, I encourage you to visit the exhibition.

thanks

Fri, 7 Aug 2009 20:12:19 -0700

I was overwhelmed by the sowing of support from my friends, family and colleagues. Brant, Michael, Jeesoo and I all sincerely appreciate you interest.

if you would like to see photos from opening visit artbusiness website.

works on paper

Tue, 4 Aug 2009 19:22:53 -0700

Toomey Tourell Fine Art is pleased to announce a four-person exhibition entitled "Works on Paper". The four artists exhibiting are Josh Keller, Jeesoo Lee, Michael Russell and Brant Vest, all new to Toomey Tourell and all approaching the medium of paper with distinct methodologies and intentions.

Dates of Exhibition: Tuesday, August 4th through Monday, August 31st, 2009.
Reception with the artists: Thursday, August 6th from 5:30-7:30 PM.

Josh Keller, a San Francisco based artist, systematically investigates the tension between normal routine, what has not yet happened, and the quotidian systems that define them. This body of work examines the storage strategies that help us navigate this territory - using photography, information and object, he re-investigates our relationship with known material and day to day assumptions, and the cracks that arise when they collide.

Jeesoo Lee, a New York based artist, bases her work on psychological states of being (including fear of water, suffocation, emptiness and liberation) and redefines them through the physicality of her material. The deconstruction/construction of her imagery investigates the search for enlightenment and reason. Her use of contrasting mediums (thread, color, line) continues this investigation while exploring the tensions of abstract painting with her current contemporary practices.

Michael Russell, a Los Angeles based artist, explores by lengthy sessions of concentrated repetition, pattern and mark making the search for introspection and meditative thought increasingly unattainable in our global world. Here gesture documents the complete focus and clarity of the process, including specific moments of interruption that are reflected by impulsive change of color and/or line. This intense, delicate labor leaves the viewer contemplating the ephemeral nature (and possibilities) of time.

Brant Vest, a San Francisco based artist, combines his personal, iconic symbols of revelation and spirituality with the mundane run of the mill cultural images that are a constant feed to our psyches. The recombination of these disparate influences is meant as a reflection of his mortal experience - the transcendental alongside the mundane. These works set a kind of stage for a reengagement of sometime contradictory images that mark and define his timeline on earth - a geographical site of personal conflict and curiosity.

drawers: study A book

Mon, 3 Aug 2009 21:45:47 -0700

a thousand copies of a small booklet titled, drawers: study A, have been printed. the book features the 12 images of my print series of the same name and an essay written by jesse gipko. throughout the month of august I will be deploying/distributing this limited edition booklet in a variety of ways.

toomey tourell fine art galley

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:04:59 -0700

i am one of four artist in toomey tourell gallery’s august show. the show will feature works on paper by four artist, including myself.

opening august 6th