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  • SAN FRANCISCO ART GALLERIES OPENINGS

    FIRST THURSDAY - 06.02.11 Part I

    (with assistance from RWM)



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    Toomey Tourell Gallery: William Edwards - Chemical Reaction.

    Comment by AB: Perfect matching sets of circular ceramic discs by William Edwards, all discs in each set frosted with luxuriously sensational matching glazes. How does get those looks? His father was a custom autobody painter, he tells me, so there's a big clue-- skills honed at an early age.

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    Art by William Edwards at Toomey Tourell Gallery.

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    William Edwards and his art.

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    Art by William Edwards at Toomey Tourell Gallery.

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    William Edwards glazed and painted ceramic art.

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    Corden Potts Gallery: Isa Leshko - Thrills & Chills.

    Review by RWM: Surreal times at the amusement park, perhaps also a sense alienation being confronted with the wild angled images. The motion captured is thrilling. The experience can also be chilling.

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    Amusement park photography by Isa Leshko at Corden Potts Gallery.

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    Photographs by Isa Leshko.

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    Isa Leshko photography at Corden Potts Gallery.

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    Modernbook Gallery: Fan Ho - A Hong Kong Memoir.

    Comment by AB: So much has changed in Hong Kong since the 1950s and 60s that you'll have difficulty reconciling the Hong Kong pictured in Fan Ho's romantic vintage images with the dominant world-class metropolis that it is today.

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    Hong Kong photographs by Fan Ho at Modernbook Gallery.

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    Fan Ho photography of Hong Kong.

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    Photographer Fan Ho at Modernbook Gallery.

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    Fan Ho photographs.

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    Photography of Hong Kong by Fan Ho.

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    Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery: Kenjilo Nanao - The Roots of a Painter.

    Comment by AB: Half a century of paintings by Bay Area artist Kenjilo Nanao range from figurative introspections to elemental color-field abstractions.

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    Art by Kenjilo Nanao at Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery.

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    Kenjilo Nanao art.

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    Art by Kenjilo Nanao at Elins Eagles-Smith.

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    The McLoughlin Gallery: Flying Solo - Laura Kimpton; Every Reverie - Barbara Traub.

    Review by RWM: Birds as spirits, guides and totems. Also the workings of the heart here and searches for freedom. Birds make such wonderful symbols, but they also can be internalized. Solemn at times, yet uplifting.

    Comment by AB: An over the top extravaganza of funk style frames and refuse-dense assemblages slathered with high-gloss acrylic uproariously overwhelms the gallery. Laura Kimpton's never met a discard she can't convert. Worth a visit. In the side space, see Barbara Traub's surreal photographic Burning Man retrospective. Revised enlarged book coming soon.

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    Assemblage/mixed media art by Laura Kimpton at McLoughlin Gallery.

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    Assemblage art by Laura Kimpton closer.

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    Laura Kimpton & daughter & art at The McLoughlin Gallery.

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    Art by Laura Kimpton.

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    Laura Kimpton mixed media & assemblage art.

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    Art by Laura Kimpton.

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    Art by Laura Kimpton.

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    Pinkie cam detail of art by Laura Kimpton in above image.

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    Laura Kimpton assemblage art at McLoughlin Gallery.

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    Burning Man photography by Barbara Traub.

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    Barbara Traub photographs at McLoughlin Gallery.

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    Patricia Sweetow Gallery: Gail Wight, Sid Garrison and Terri Friedman - Unspecified.

    Comment by AB: Sid Garrison's abstract colored pencil drawings have a look all their own, not like pencil drawings, but you're not sure what. And that's what entices you in, this unique technique that he appears to have mastered. Also on the docket are Terri Friedman's irradiated fantasy-scapes on plexiglass and delicate spiderweb renditions burned onto vellum by Gail Wight.

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    Art by Sid Garrison at Patricia Sweetow Gallery.

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    Colored pencil art by Sid Garrison.

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    Sid Garrison and his art at Patricia Sweetow Gallery.

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    Art by Sid Garrison.

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    Sid Garrison colored pencil art.

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    Art by Sid Garrison.

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    Art by Terri Friedman.

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    Terri Friedman art at Patricia Sweetow Gallery.

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    Art on plexiglass by Terri Friedman.

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    Terri Friedman art at Patricia Sweetow Gallery.

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    Dolby Chadwick Gallery: Shelley Hoyt - Recent Paintings.

    Review by RWM: Great views of the bay from the Berkeley Hills by Shelley Hoyt. The City sometimes gets lost in the fog, but the sky ever beckons. Nice atmospherics.

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    Art by Shelley Hoyt at Dolby Chadwick Gallery.

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    Art by Shelley Hoyt.

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    Shelley Hoyt art at Dolby Chadwick Gallery.

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    Art by Shelley Hoyt closer.

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    Shelley Hoyt art.

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    Addendum:

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    Group show "Lines" at Bekris Gallery.

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    Another from group show at Bekris Gallery.

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    Last one from group art show at Bekris Gallery.

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    "Life & Landscape" group show at George Krevsky Gallery.

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    "Life & Landscape" group show at George Krevsky Gallery.

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    One more from group art show art George Krevsky Gallery.

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    Art by Hilla Rebay at Adler & Co. Gallery.

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    One more from Hilla Rebay art show at Adler & Co. Gallery.

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