ArtBusiness.com logo

Artist/Gallery search:
Art Business The Web

  • << Back to San Francisco Gallery Openings
  • RENA BRANSTEN - GEORGE LAWSON - NOMA

    UC BERKELEY EXTENSION - EVER GOLD

    03.17.11

    (with assistance from RWM)



    Art problems? I can help. My qualifications? Click Here.

    ***

    Rena Bransten Gallery: Rupert Garcia - Vintage Posters and Prints; Ian McDonald - Wearing.

    Review by RWM: Rupert Garcia expresses politics and political issues in such a palatable way. No breaking down windows or lighting things on fire here. But the work serves to remind and influence, and the fires are by no means turned off within.

    Comment by AB: Ian McDonald uses ceramics the way painters use paint-- to create artistic compositions. Functionality is not relevant. Rupert Garcia tells me that these rare vintage images, some over forty years old, come from his personal collection. Stop on by.

    Rupert Garcia artist art

    Art by Rupert Garcia.

    art

    Protest art by Rupert Garcia.

    Photo

    Rupert Garcia art at Rena Bransten Gallery.

    art

    Rupert Garcia and his art.

    art

    Art by Rupert Garcia.

    Photo

    Rupert Garcia protest art at Rena Bransten Gallery.

    Photo

    Ian McDonald ceramic art.

    Photo

    Ceramic art by Ian McDonald.

    Photo

    Ian McDonald and art in above image closer.

    Photo

    Art by Ian McDonald.

    ***

    George Lawson Gallery: Marie Thibeault - New Paintings; Susan Mikula - American Vale.

    Comment by AB: Volatile expressionist abstracts by Marie Thibeault reference manmade and natural disasters while Susan Mikula's indeterminate images of abandoned American industrial buildings remind us that we're probably the global capital of vanishing manufacturing action. For those of you keeping score at home, this is George Lawson's final show at this location.

    Marie Thibeault artist art

    Art by Marie Thibeault.

    art

    Art by Marie Thibeault at George Lawson Gallery.

    Photo

    Marie Thibeault and her art.

    art

    Art by Marie Thibeault.

    art

    Photography by Susan Mikula.

    Photo

    Susan Mikula photographs.

    Photo

    Photograph by Susan Mikula at George Lawson Gallery.

    ***

    UC Berkeley Extension, San Francisco: Struggle - Michelle Tan.

    Comment by AB: Michelle Tan's art essays on class struggles and political inequities, and is based on personal as well as observational experiences.

    Michelle Tan artist art

    Art by Michelle Tan.

    art

    Michelle Tan art at UC Berkeley Extension, San Francisco.

    Photo

    Art by Michelle Tan.

    ***

    NOMA Gallery: How Do You Do. Organized by Margaret Lee.

    Artists: Anicka Yi, Josh Kline, Margaret Lee, Emily Sundblad, Antoine Catala. Yemenwed, Kerstin Brätsch, Debo Eiliers, Alisa Baremboym, Thomas Torres Cordova, Caitlin Keogh, Graham Anderson. Devon Dikeou, Brian Droitcour, Tova Carlin, Colby Bird, K. Mustermann, Amy Lien, Gregory Edwards, Anicka Yi, Antoine Catala, Jared Madere, Andrei Koschmieder, Michele Abeles, Ajay Kurian.

    Comment by AB: I have no idea what the 5 x 7 inch pigment prints that comprise this show are all about 'cuz I'm hopelessly lost after the first sentence of the crib sheet, but one thing's for sure-- it all started with "two photographs that feature potatoes."

    artist art

    Potato perpetrator - one of two photos that started it all.

    art

    Photography at NOMA Gallery.

    Photo

    Photographs closer (finger span = 6 1/2 inches).

    art

    Photography at NOMA Gallery.

    art

    Photograph in above image closer.

    ***

    Ever Gold Gallery: Beer, Art, Philosophy and Jokes - Tom Marioni.

    Comment by AB: The gallery has very convincingly been transformed into a bar, and is where a series of performative experiences will be taking place over the next several days. Tonight, headliner Tom Marioni delivers a classic dry wit monologue.

    Tom Marioni artist art

    The basic idea - performance art by Tom Marioni.

    art

    Fuck pants.

    ***