LUGGAGE STORE - BRAUNSTEIN QUAY - BAER RIDGWAY

871 FINE ARTS - MOLLUSK SURF SHOP - CULTURE SKATE

(with assistance from RWM)

10.17.09

Wonderland Show: Tenderloin Transmissions at Luggage Store Annex.

Comment by AB: Wonderland Show, curated by Lance Fung, is a one-day event featuring the work of 74 artists participating in 16 projects throughout the Tenderloin. Here at Luggage Store Annex you can experience Tenderloin National Forest, the product of creative inspiration and loads of hard work-- an extraordinary idyllic transformation of a neglected vacant lot into a halcyon center-city oasis. Don't believe me? Check it out.

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Braunstein Quay Gallery: Bean and Alan Finneran - Three Decades of Sculpture, Performance & Photography.

Comment by AB: Combination retrospective exhibition and survey of recent work by Bean and Alan Finneran. In the recent work department, we've got provocative figure photography by Alan Finneran and elaborate installational sculpture by Bean Finneran composed of myriad spaghetti-like glazed ceramic strands. The retrospective portion of the show consists of set designs, photographs, broadsides and video of early theater and performance works by the pair. Good show; go see.

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Baer Ridgway Exhibitions: Brendan Lott - Paintings of the Vernacular; Mauricio Ancalmo - Dubitatio.

Comment by AB: Brendan Lott tells me he trolls the internet for amateur photos (of which there's certainly no shortage), culls out examples ranging from curious to unsettling to bizarre, digitally buffs 'em up, and then off they go to China to get reproduced as paintings. And the results are on display here. For those of you scoring at home, the more I look at these so-called Chinese repro paintings and the closer I study 'em, the more I'm thinking that many are actually digital prints withl hand highlighting. I wouldn't swear to that on a stack of Kippenbergers, but that would be the skew of my current inclination. In the lower gallery, Mauricio Ancalmo debuts "Dub Chain: part 1-4," four film projectors piled in the center of the gallery running a single looped film reel-- a conceptual consideration of the simultaneity of past, present, and future. Ancalmo also exhibits a series of static works of art sourced from found altered movie film.

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871 Fine Arts: June Felter - Then and Now.

Comment by AB: June Felter celebrates her 90th birthday here this afternoon. And she's offering up a fine select survey of her art to mark the occasion.

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Culture Skate: Brandon Lomax & Pua Logan - Nomadic Daydreams, Collective Works from a Summer in the Desert.

Review by RWM - images c/o Culture Skate: Animal art once again, this time with longing and dreaming. One notices the thinking in this evocative display of wish exploration. With not a lot to do in the desert, there are the wide horizons which help one to dream of more fertile places, even ones that are less than introspective. The plans for the journey seem to have begun, but others have taken this path before.

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