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    INCLINE - DUMP - PARK LIFE

    01.20.12.12



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    San Francisco Arts Commission: Vast and Undetectable.

    Artists: Luca Antonucci, Reenie Charrière, Jonathon Keats, Phil Ross, Daniel Small, Heather Sparks, Gail Wight. Curated by Aimee Le Duc.

    Comment by AB: It's art about space-- macro space, micro space and all the spaces in between, or in other words, everything. The artists are on point; the work is worthy and makes sense within the context. The denouement? A show worth seeing.

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    Art by Jonathon Keats at San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.

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    Textural art by Luca Antonucci.

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    Digital images incorporating bone fragments (sorta like 'em).

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    Pinkie cam detail of bone fragment art in above image.

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    Kaleidoscope video art at SFAC Gallery by Heather Sparks.

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    Art at Vast and Undetectable group show at SFAC.

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    Art about macro/microcosms at SFAC.

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    Overview - group show at San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.

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    SF Camerawork: Allan deSouza - The World Series.

    Comment by AB: Race, politics, migration, immigration and prejudice are all topics touched upon here at the inaugural opening at SF Camerawork's new location on Market Street.

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    Photography by Allan deSouza at SF Camerawork.

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    Allan deSouza photographs closer at SF Camerawork.

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    Photography by Allan deSouza closer.

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    Allan deSouza (center) discourses on his photography at SF Camerawork.

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    Allan deSouza photography show at SF Camerawork.

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    Quick break at Allan deSouza photo show (image c/o Ricardo Richey).

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    Photographs by Allan deSouza closer.

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    Population sample - Allan deSouza photograph show at SF Camerawork.

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    FFDG: Future Colors of America - Albert Reyes, Matt Furie, & Aiyana Udesen.

    Comment by AB: This combination solo and collaborative endeavor is dense with options. Albert Reyes handles the pop culture in-your-face-twice-and-then-once-again-just-to-make-sure department, Aiyana Udesen takes a more sensitive and benign approach but still gently roughs you up, and Matt Furie rounds it all out with his technicolor creatures from the land of nightmares and love.

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    Collaborative art by Albert Reyes, Matt Furie, & Aiyana Udesen at FFDG.

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    Albert Reyes and his art at FFDG.

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    Aiyana Udesen and her art at FFDG.

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    Matt Furie and his creature art (not sure which is which).

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    Collaborative art by Albert Reyes, Matt Furie, & Aiyana Udesen at FFDG.

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    Incline Gallery: Cyclorama 2 - Alan Miknis and Jeff Rahuba.

    Comment by AB: Cyclorama is a 360 degree painting depicting events of the Civil War, located in GA where both Alan Miknis and Jeff Rahuba grew up; it's in Atlanta to be exact. According to the Cyclorama website, the painting weighs in at over 10000 pounds, is 358 feet in circumference, and all kinds of other impressive stats like that. In short, I wanna see it. But since I can't do that immediately, I'll have to settle for the Miknis/Rahuba rendition here, a collaborative contemporary black & white riff on the original. Also on the dance card are creepy doctored vintage album covers and curious furry things by Jeff Rahuba, and chockablock abstract/representational montaged compilations by Alan Miknis. This one's an eyeful.

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    Altered album art by Jeff Rahuba at Incline Gallery.

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    Furry assemblage art by Jeff Rahuba.

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    Jeff Rahuba and his art at Incline Gallery.

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    Alan Miknis and his art.

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    Art by Alan Miknis closer at Incline Gallery.

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    Pinkie cam detail of art by Alan Miknis in above image.

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    Alan Miknis and Jeff Rahuba's version of Cyclorama.

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    Art by Alan Miknis and Jeff Rahuba in above image closer.

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    Ambiance - art by Alan Miknis & Jeff Rahuba at Incline Gallery.

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    San Francisco Dump Artist in Residence Exhibitions: Terry Berlier - Even the Windmills are Weakening; Donna Anderson Kam - Beginning at the End; Ethan Estess - Stories from the Changing Tide.

    Comment by AB: Terry Berlier's sculptures take the prize here. A shopping cart and birdcage weighted with concrete, a 360 degree working piano-esque music making mechanism, a meandering spiral sonata made from chair and table leg sections, and a contorted pocket billiard affair. Too good! Also on the docket, works on paper by Donna Anderson Kam made entirely from salvaged materials. And in the annex gallery, a ropey whale tale to remind us that our deep sea friends deserve consistent and serious attention, a propane tank flower blossom, a duct-draped creature, and more by Ethan Estess.

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    Piano-esque art by Terry Berlier at Recology Residence (like it).

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    Art by Terry Berlier.

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    Terry Berlier and art in above image closer.

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    Art by Terry Berlier at SF Dump Residence Exhibitions.

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    Terry Berlier art (kinda like it).

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    Art by Terry Berlier at SF Dump Residence Exhibitions.

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    Art by Donna Anderson Kam at Recology Art at the Dump.

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    Donna Anderson Kam and her art.

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    Art by Donna Anderson Kam at SF Dump Residence Exhibitions.

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    Donna Anderson Kam art.

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    Circumstance - Donna Anderson Kam and Terry Berlier at SF Dump.

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    Whale tale reminder art by Ethan Estess (like it).

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    Ethan Estess gas tank art at SF Dump Residence Exhibitions.

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    Recycling art by Ethan Estess.

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    Air duct art by Ethan Estess.

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    Friends and admirers of Ethan Estess at SF Dump Gallery Annex.

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    Park Life: Remainders - New Paintings by Sonya Derman.

    Comment by AB: Vague memories of this and that are expressed as figural and textual speculations, ever inconclusive. Are there any other kinds? When we're not quite sure, we conveniently fill in the blanks.

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    Art by Sonya Derman at Park Life.

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    Sonya Derman art closer at Park Life.

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    Art by Sonya Derman.

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    Sonya Derman art closer at Park Life.

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    Art by Sonya Derman at Park Life.

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