Showing posts with label Berkeley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Berkeley. Show all posts

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Blue V-day!

I been told I am pretty bad at reading in between the lines but what happens when everything in between the lines is grey? Huh, what happens then? Saw Blue Valentine this day at the mall in San Francisco by myself. WTF...I lived there three years and never realized the mall was that big!

Then I ran into myself thanks to Theodore Watson's interactive art installation called "Faces".

Walked some more in the cold, cold, cold to the TL to White Walls and Shooting Gallery... Saw a glimpse, and kinda fell in love: Morgan Slade, his art work.


I also met two sweet gentlemen. One who talked about art, the other one who told me story about getting mugged in Berkeley aka technically Oakland and how effed up the police precincts are. I heart this pic:



We talked art...


And getting mugged in Oakland technically Berkeley but legally Oakland.


Yeah "Snitches get Stiches"!
Went "home".



* Faces by The SF Gate

Sunday, July 1, 2007

Mission: school

my teeth hurt or the nerve ending that used to be attached to a tooth is hurting... a few months ago i was asked in LA what the differences were between LA and SF art. always the one to never like answering such questions i simply said, "there is more drawing in SF art" and quickly proceeded to running away. i may or not be right but when i think of SF art, drawings, and mixed media come to mind. you know, the whole Mission School bit insert goes here, whatever that means. so read this article (or not), Mission: school by Johnny Ray Huston, in it he talks about "Fer-ma-ta", the 37th annual UC Berkeley MFA graduate exhibition and Alicia McCarthy...and of course about art in the bay area...to bad i missed it. my favorite quote of the article:

"Here, as in other shows, her drawings are on already used surfaces: construction or packing paper and slabs of wood. The use of found material, while welcome in an ecological sense, has become cliche in Bay Area circles and beyond in the indie pop Found magazine culture".

here is a crappy picture i took of the art from the article, nerd? yes, but i'll remove if it bothers anyone. art above right, Alicia McCarthy, left(gray) Bridget Riley.

time for my pill.