60SIX - PHOTOBOOTH SF - FFDG - MODERN EDEN

08.20.11

(with assistance from Clare Coppel, Mairead O'Connor and RWM)



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Gallery 60SIX: Passage - A Group Photography Show.

Artists: Michael Jang, David King, Steve Bird, David Magnusson, Stephen Mallon, Anne Terpstra.

Review by RWM: Cool collaged photos of train stations in Europe and others of trips down the road. The experiences are familiar, and the settings wondrous and comforting, even if foreign. The eye can usually compete with the camera one on one, but not when dozens of photos can be brought to bear. Here are multifaceted perceptions of places and tales we can only really know from talking to those who are deeply involved.

Comment by AB: Also on the docket are Michael Jang unearths a set of circa 1983 head shots he was commissioned to take of people competing to report the weather on a local television station. The photos were never used... until now. For scrolling purposes, Jang has inserted an iPad into the body of an old Macintosh Classic so that you can flip through the portraits with your finger.

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Photobooth SF: Grand Opening.

Photographers: Michael Shindler, Vince Donovan, Jenny Sampson, Chloe Aftel, Christine Zona.

Review by Clare Coppel: Grand opening of Photobooth portrait studio/gallery/store. Lots of people, old school large format portraits being shot during the madness and of course photographs on the walls. Beautiful tintype portraits by Michael Shindler and Jenny Sampson, large joyful black and white prints by Vince Donovan, a look at sexy polaroid impossible project work by Chloe Aftel and humorous/romantic plastic camera photographs of America and the Ukraine by Christine Zona, of which I really love the cow.

Review by RWM: Grand and fun opening, especially for those who do not have anyone to take their photograph... because you can get it taken here. Or you can wait and get your own special portrait taken later. Quite the party.

Comment by AB: According to the proclamation, Photobooth SF is "the world's only Tintype and Polaroid portrait studio."

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FFDG: Then What Happened - Paintings by Damon Soule.

Review by Mairead O'Connor: Damon Soule's intensely colored and precisely rendered abstracts are a feast for the eyes. By engaging with his work, the viewer is taken on a journey. Colors, shapes and lines evoke feelings and emotions.

Comment by AB: Damon Soule's accomplished cosmic contemplations have positively got the moxie. We all wanna go to every last one of the places he concocts from the seemingly boundless reservoirs of his brain. I guess that explains why so much is sold.

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Modern Eden Gallery: Leilani Bustamante - Prey; Memento Mori - Group Exhibition.

Artists: Lacey Bryant, Lee Harvey Roswell, Marya Zoya, Jessi Kempin, Sakuna Daring, Katie Bacigalupi, Kim Larson, David Camisa, Lance Hewison, Shannon Amidon, Lucy Hillenbrand, Howie Whitehouse, Ziad Abudiab, Allison Sommers, Bradley Platz, Stephanie Mansolf, Jacob Kobrin, Corey Conell, MJ Lindo, Sidharth Chaturvedi, Michael Foley, Jeff Leake, Basic Lee, Timo Hanley, Kurtis Rykovich, Doubleparlour, Mary Syring, Sheri Jurnecka, Christine Benjamin, Emilio Villalba, Joseph Kohls, Sheri DeBow, Kristin Forbes-Mullane, Melissa Morgan, Sean Sczepanik, Carlos Villez, Jeremy Marcelino, Kieran Collins, Genessa Kealoha, Karmene K-P Hassell, Chris Beards, Cody Vrosh, Vahge.

Comment by AB: Leilani Bustamante's paintings endeavor to reveal the animal within us. Consider your primal urges here. On the left wall of the back galery, numerous artists contribute their twists on Surrealism.

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