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| DERIC CARNER @ PING PONG G |
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| PING PONG GALLERY |
Curated by Allison Cummings
June 20 - July 18, 2008
Opening Reception for the Artists, Friday June 20, 6-9pm
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| Of the beast in me that everybody knows
They've seen him out dressed in my clothes
Patently unclear if it's New York or New Year
God help the beast in me
-excerpt from The Beast in Me by Nick Lowe The Beast in Me loosely draws it's inspiration from Nick Lowe's somber lyrics. The tune describes an ever-present internal battle to control and express one's passion, personifying emotion as the Beast—which manifests itself as an almost second personality. Visual artists likewise grapple with the forces within that compel them to create what they do. This exhibition attempts to give form to that compulsion both physically and conceptually, exploring the multiple facets of the Beast’s influence on artistic expression which can be at once inspirational, brilliant, and clever as well as self-conscious, destructive, and uncontrollable.
Bringing together the work of six different artists from a variety of disciplines including painting, drawing, sculpture, video and sound—The Beast in Me presents a rich and dynamic environment within the gallery itself. A subtle dark undertone pervades the exhibition, made poignant by the occasional juxtaposition of humor and beauty. Physical incarnations of creatures, the structures they inhabit, and narratives they inspire, exist adjacent to non-representational forms that evoke a darkness which is simultaneously intimate, vast, and austere.
| PING PONG GALLERY
1240 22nd Street (between Pennsylvania and Mississippi)
San Francisco, CA 94107
415.550.7483
www.pingponggallery.com GALLERY HOURS
Tuesdays, 6 - 9pm
Thursdays, 6 - 9pm
Fridays, 11 - 5pm
Saturdays, 11 - 5pm |
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May 14, 2008: 7pm-midnight
San Francisco Art Institute Raster-Noton: Archiv Fur Ton Und Nichtton is a platform, a network covering the overlapping border areas of pop, art, and science. After surviving the storm that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall... READ MORE >>>
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| GROUP SHOW @ MICHAELA GALLERY |
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HOW LOUD BEFORE A WORD IS AN ACT OF CHANGE?
- ozcillator
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| SUPPORT OZCILLATOR DECK YOURSELF OUT |
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SHERMAN | WATSON-WALLACE | BERKSON | JACOBSEN
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| BILL BERKSON & COLTER JACOBSEN @ GALLERY 16 |
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BILL, By Bill Berkson and Colter Jacobsen
Gallery 16 Editions is pleased to announce the release of our latest publication, BILL, a collaboration between poet Bill Berkson and artist Colter Jacobsen.Berkson writes; “The words and title for BILL popped out of a juvenile detective novel Tom Veitch gave me around 1980. Instantly, ... READ MORE >>>
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| CHESTER ARNOLD@ CATHERINE CLARK |
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'The Business of America is Business,' wearily denotes a fleeting bygone moment of destruction summoned, perhaps, by our collective, media saturated visual conscience. Arnold's large images are composed of minute details, old telephones, computers, papers, books, vinyl records that fill the composition. READ MORE >>>
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| SCOTTY THE BLUE BUNNY @ TT |
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| CHRIS BALLANTYNE @HOSFELT |
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| MAGAZINE FEATURE: STEPHEN PELTON @ SFMOMA |
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| MARK McKNIGHT @ ICEBERGER GALELRY |
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| COUNTERPULSE JUNE 19 - JUNE 22 |
TAYLOR MAC "The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac"
in repertory with...
DYNASTY HANDBAG "Tales from the Purse"
Tales from the Purse
Thursday, June 19 at 8p
Friday, June 20 at 10p
Saturday, June 21 at 8p
Sunday June 22 at 10p
The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac
Thursday, June 19 at 10p
Friday, June 20 at 8p
Saturday, June 21 at 10p
Sunday June 22 at 8p
After two sold-out presentations of "Weimar New York" at SF MOMA in Feburary, it brings me great pleasure to return to San Francisco to present two of New York's most outrageously talented and provocative performance arists in repertory. Dubbed "a crackpot genius" by the Village Voice, Dynasty Handbag is the one woman music/comedy/performance/meltdown/portable electro-ballad vehicle of Jibz Cameron. Cameron resided in the bay area for many years performing as Dynasty Handbag and with rock bands Dynasty & The Roofies and also acting in various theater productions and independent films. In 2004 she relocated to NYC, and within five months she was crowned Miss Lower East Side in Murray Hill's annual pageant. Since then she has presented solo shows at P.S. 122, Galapagos Art Space and Dixon Place and performed at BAM Cafe, Joe's Pub, SXSW Festival, the Aurora Festival and Duckie in London.
A flamboyant chameleon of words, music, humor and sociopolitical tirades, the visual and vocal phenomenon Taylor Mac employs gender-bending surrealism to explore the human condition and explode contemporary society's adoration of homogeny - which was only meant for milk. Mac has performed "The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac" internationally at The Sydney Opera House, Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theatre, London's Soho Theatre, Stockholm's Sodre Teatern, Dublin's Project Arts Center, Portland's Time Based Arts Festival, Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival, over 30 additional theatres all around the globe. He is a resident artist at HERE Arts Center where he premiered "Young Ladies Of" last year to critical acclaim, and he was the first-ever recipient of P.S. 122's Ethyl Eichelberger Award for which he wrote and starred in the musical "Red Tide Blooming." Mac is also a member of New Dramatists, and in 2007 he was named to "Best of" lists by the Village Voice, Time Out, and the New York Press.
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| LOCAL HEROS/BIG PICTURE @ ODC |
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San Francisco's New Traditionalists host big visuals from Minneapolis and Philadelphia June 26-28; July 17-26
ODC Theater Festival 2 is a selection of new generation visionaries whose new expressions reflect our regional identity. Six artists, each representative of a different community or creative tradition, from elegant ballet to fiery Haitian dance, sensual Indian Odissi to upright modern, be prepared for the richly diverse threads of our cultural composition.
FESTIVAL 2: WEEKEND 1: Thurs-Sat, June 26-28 at 7:30pm and 8:15pm
SCUBA: Karen Sherman: Tiny Town, Kate Watson-Wallace: House ...MORE >>>
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"I ALONE HAVE THE KEY TO THIS SAVAGE SIDE SHOW."
- A. Rimbaud
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