SQUID [04/04-04/23] URBANICA: The city of the present, today
The Squid List -- URBANICA: The city of the present, today art opening: thursday april 4. show's thru' april233 6-9pm free Event Description --- URBANICA: The city of the present, today April 4th 23rd Opening Reception: Thursday April 4, 2002 6-9 pm Curated by: Chris Benfield Crucible Steel Gallery is located in CELLspace at 2050 Bryant St. @ 18thSt. Tel.# (415) 648-7562 www.cellspace.org Gallery hours are 10am - 10pm daily. Using the theme of urban development as inspiration, Chris Benfield, curates the work of three local artists who have created URBANICA, an imaginary urban landscape. Petrina Cooper and Mark Nakamura each present a series of black and white photographs. Cooper's work reflects on nature's reclamation of urban decay, while Nakamuras series documents the transformation of farmland to make room for residential housing in the changing landscape near San Jose. Ellen Singletary installs a wall piece based around office supplies and office poetry, aswell as presenting, in collaboration with Dave Dudek and Patrick OHearn, a video which documents the strange phenomenon of some houses being relocated in the middle of the night. The show is intended to illuminate the transformative processes that we, and the environment, experience when an urban setting is being created, inhabited, and eventually decaying. Two of the artists show pieces that specifically refer to the San Jose area of California, where Silicon Valley epitomizes hyper-urbanity. Grab your map at the door .. Petrina Coopers series, titled Coevolution documents Man vs. Nature. Evocative images depict anonymous battlegrounds where humans have changed/ created an environment, and nature is silently taking back the landscape. The locations range from Chicago to New Orleans, and it should be noted that they have a universal flavor that is intrinsic to the organic processes of every urban environment. Cooper has a Bachelor of Fine Art in photography from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. She has been living in San Francisco for 4 1/2 years. This is her third San Francisco show. Mark Allen Nakamura documents the rising sprawl of new housing projects and their impact on the natural environment in Developments. These photos show the start of housing developments overtaking the natural land at the beginning of the suburban housing boom in 1996. Rolling hills have been bulldozed for pastel cookie-cutter housing tracts. Fences and streets now divide the land into parcels separated by man-made homes. These photos make it clear that no attempt was made to integrate these new housing developments with the natural environment. Nakamura is a photographer interested in documenting natural and man-made environments. He has a B.A. in art with an emphasis on photography from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and recently relocated to New York. Ellen Singletarys aggressively scaled site-specific installation, titled Look what I did with your office supplies, is a panoramic view of downtown office buildings. Made using common office supplies: post-it notes, labels, staples, tape, standard sized copy paper, and file folders, to create a visual reflection on office life. A first-time release of Singletarys chapbook Office Poems will accompany her work. Moving Stinky: A San Jose Historical home is a video piece Singletary made in collaboration with Dave Dudek and Patrick OHearn. To make way for the construction of a new San Jose City Hall, two blocks of downtown Cont'd from previous page: properties, including eleven historic structures, were to be demolished. The Redevelopment Agency of San Jose gave in to pressure from the community and agreed to move the homes. This video documents the nighttime transportation of a 117-year old house affectionately nicknamed Stinky (it was boarded-up for a year without taking out the trash first), as well as several other historical homes in San Jose, in December 2001. Singletary has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and drawing and a minor in poetry from the University of North Texas. She was Joseph Chowning Gallerys INTRODUCTIONS 2001 artist, and is currently represented by the SF Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery. Venue Info -- Crucible Steel Gallery at CELLspace 2050 Bryant st. bet. 18th 19th st's san francisco 415-648-7562 www.cellspace.org BART to 16th st. Bus 22 to bryant st. walk 2 1/2 blocks south. hwy 101 to cesar chavez exit, west on cesar chavez st., right on bryant, and 1/2 mile north...CELL is on left side of street Additional Info - [EMAIL PROTECTED] 415-285-5628 www.cellspace.org : click on gallery The Squid List Admin The Squid List, a tentacle of Laughing Squid
SQUID [04/04] Pychedelic Poster Artist Victor Moscoso
The Squid List -- Pychedelic Poster Artist Victor Moscoso Thursday, April 4, 2002 6:00 pm. $10-$15 Event Description --- Join The San Francisco chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Architecture + Design Forum for a lecture with renowned psychedelic poster artist Victor Moscoso. We'll take a visual trip through the colorful history of the San Francisco music scene, the distinctive look and feel of which was created by poster designers. In turn, those designers gave San Francisco breakthrough images that forever changed Bay Area design. After studying at Cooper Union, Yale University, and the San Francisco Art Institute (where he received a Master's degree in painting), Victor Moscoso began designing posters for Chet Helms and his Family Dog production company in 1966. Influenced by his color training with Josef Albers at Yale, Moscoso creates visually intense forms that have the appearance of movement and vibration through unexpected color combinations. He has worked with every major rock and roll band of the late sixties and seventies, and Moscoso's work is included in the collections of major museums and reproduced in countless publications on graphic design and the cultural period that was the sixties. Seating is limited. Purchase tickets in advance at the SFMOMA admissions desk or online at www.tickets.com. Order over the phone by calling tickets.com at 415.478.2277 (service charge applies). For more information call the SFMOMA Designline at 415.357.4027. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Phyllis Wattis 151 Third Street, San Francisco, California, 94103 $15 General Admission; $12 SFMOMA members, seniors, and students; $10 A+ D Forum and AIGA members After the lecture Victor will sign copies of a limited edition of our invitation poster for $25.00. Venue Info -- SFMOMA Phyllis Wattis Theater 151 Third Street San Francisco the SFMOMA Designline 415.357.4027 www.sfmoma.org Additional Info - [EMAIL PROTECTED] SFMOMA Designline 415.357.4027 www.aigasf.org The Squid List Admin The Squid List, a tentacle of Laughing Squid http://www.laughingsquid.org/squidlist/ To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your preferences: http://lists.laughingsquid.org/mailman/listinfo/squidlist/ Frequently Asked Questions Submission Guidelines Squid List FAQ: http://www.laughingsquid.org/squidlist/faq.html The Odeon Bar --- Our little clubhouse in The Mission The Odeon Bar 3223 Mission Street @ Valencia, San Francisco http://www.odeonbar.com Laughing Squid -- Laughing Squid http://www.laughingsquid.org Underground art and culture from San Francisco and beyond! Web Hosting - Laughing Squid Web Hosting http://www.laughingsquid.net Laughing Squid is an independently owned and operated web hosting service that specializes in web hosting for artists, individuals, non-profits and small organizations. We are here for those website owners and developers who often get lost in the faceless void of corporate web hosting. Copyright (c) 2002 Laughing Squid LLC. All rights reserved.
SQUID [04/05 04/06] Apocalypse Mañana
The Squid List -- Apocalypse Mañana Friday, April 5 Saturday, April 6 8:00pm-12:00 midnite $10 with costume, $15 without. Event Description --- Pocha Nostra Performance in collaboration with Stormy Leather (San Francisco) and Calaca Press (San Diego) present: Apocalypse Mañana ~ An Ethno-Techno Living Museum of Intercultural Fetishes super-locote Costume Ball (a new concept in presenting performance art) Ese/a: Are you sick of ethnic profiling, or does the idea of police frisking excite you? Do you secretly yearn to be of a different ethnicity or have an interracial relationship? Do you desire to perform your intercultural fantasies? What about ceding your will to performance artists so they can utilize you as a human paperdoll? Do you want to be a transvestite zapatista supermodel or just look like one? If so, come and celebrate with us at the 10th Anniversary/CD Release Performance Fiesta for Guillermo Gómez-Peña's La Pocha Nostra; Como? 3 evenings of radical performance art; live rocktronic opera music, video-arte, and revelry; plus trans-racial makeovers, cross-racial weddings, political peep shows, exotic cocktails. Dress code: Operation Enduring Otherness. Come dressed as your favorite ethnic profile, or your favorite evil other. Best costumes will get to be part of a performance fashion show. Prizes for best costumes. Judged by Camille of Stormy Leather. Naked mariachis enter free! THE PROGRAM: (Subject to change) Music by post-Mexican composer Guillermo Galindo, With Pima Native drummer David Brush (Arizona) and surprise opera singers Performances by: Guillermo El Mad Mex Gómez-Peña, Juan Ybarra (Mexico City), Michelle Ceballos (Bogota), and San Francisco's Bella Ramanzia, Emael, Ali Dadgar, Gigi Otalvaro, BC, Chris Hill, Isis Rodriguez, Liz Lerma, Sara Shelton Mann, Dakota, Leilani Chan and extroverted audience members MC: Elaine Katzenberger (City Lights) Art by El Capo de la Misión Rene Yanez Video-graffittis by Gómez-Peña in collaboration with Daniel Salazar, Arturo Baston, Gustavo Vazquez Vahid Vahed Tickets at the door: $10 with costume / $15 without (cash only) Naked mariachis enter for free! No host bar -- About the release of the audio-CD Apocalypse Mañana: Continually expanding the boundaries of Chicano/Mexicano art and culture, pioneer performance artist/writer Guillermo El Mad Mex Gómez-Peña, has teamed with Mexican ex-rockero gone symphonic composer Guillermo Galindo to create a bizarre piece of audio-art. Part Spanglish spoken word epica, and part rocktronic opera, Apocalypse Mañana defies all categories, and traditional genres. Distributed by Calaca Press. Funded by The National Endowment for the Arts and Grants for the Arts Venue Info -- BALAZO / Mission Badlands Gallery 2811 Mission Street at 24th Street San Francisco BY BART: 24th St. station, just across the street. By Muni: The 14, 49 and 26 lines get you almost at our doors. By car, from North: on 101 exit on Cesar Chavez, right on Chavez , make a Right on Mission, 3 more blocks and you reach 24th St. From South: on 101, exit on Army/Cesar Chavez. Left on Chavez, right on Mission, 3 more blocks and you reach 24th St. Additional Info - [EMAIL PROTECTED] 415-701-7385 www.pochanostra.com The Squid List Admin The Squid List, a tentacle of Laughing Squid http://www.laughingsquid.org/squidlist/ To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your preferences: http://lists.laughingsquid.org/mailman/listinfo/squidlist/ Frequently Asked Questions Submission Guidelines Squid List FAQ: http://www.laughingsquid.org/squidlist/faq.html The Odeon Bar --- Our little clubhouse in The Mission The Odeon Bar 3223 Mission Street @ Valencia, San Francisco http://www.odeonbar.com Laughing Squid -- Laughing Squid http://www.laughingsquid.org Underground art and culture from San Francisco and beyond! Web Hosting - Laughing Squid Web Hosting http://www.laughingsquid.net Laughing Squid is an independently owned and operated web hosting service that specializes in web hosting for artists, individuals, non-profits and small organizations. We are here for those website owners and developers who often get lost in the faceless void of corporate web hosting. Copyright (c) 2002 Laughing Squid LLC. All rights reserved.
