Engineer's Daughter

matokie mix 06.16.13

mix

This week I begin with a gorgeous 34-minute dark ambient track by Rapoon and then proceed from there.  Please enjoy!

matokie mix 06.09.13

mix

While I look for another sub-type slot on KALX I'm going back to making a new Spotify mix every Sunday.  And on the internet I don't have to worry about playing dirty words.  Please enjoy!

aboveground animation: 3d-form

Jacolby Satterwhite

This week's find from the archives is an online-only exhibition courtesy of the New Museum:

“3D-Form” is a presentation of four experimental animations selected from the archive Aboveground Animation for the New Museum’s monthly series First Look: New Art Online. Featured artists include Barry Doupé, Kathleen Daniel, Ryan Whittier Hale, and Jacolby Satterwhite. Beyond Pixar, Adult Swim, or the default avatars of video games, these works explore possibilities for 3-D human forms. Their casts of improbable people are hatched out of personal history or emotion—through a longing for intimacy or an uncertainty for the future. Experimental and short-form, all the works were made to be viewed across various screening contexts, from the cinema to the gallery to the browser, and yet their structure reflects a sophistication with a range of digital media and programs, from Maya to 3D Studio Max.

Take some time and watch all four animations, though I admit I'm particularly fond of the one by Jacolby Satterwhite.

agenda 06.05.13

Thursday, June 6:

• We Miss Myk Arthur Memorial at Mosswood Park
• Mathew Zefeldt: What Are I? at Hatch Gallery
• 1st Thursday Ska & Rocksteady at the Swell Bar
• Free First Thursday at the Berkeley Art Museum
• Quiet Lightning | Neighborhood Heroes Edition at the Contemporary Jewish Museum
• Exploratorium’s After Dark
• Children's Fairyland Annual Gala | There's No Place Like Fairyland
• Etsy Meet & Make | Craft Lab at the Museum of Craft and Design
• Sid Davis | Nightmare Maker at Oddball Films
• The Field (Live A/V Performance) at The Independent
• Dead Kennedys at the Uptown Nightclub

Friday, June 7:

• Barry Underwood + Sarah Kabot at Johansson Projects
• Enough Already. First Friday Event at Aggregate Space Gallery
• Moco Collective Re-Opening Party
• Preview Event for Rhys Chatham's A Secret Rose (100 Guitars) at The Lab
• Just Make Something at Interface Gallery
• Headspace at Krowswork
• A Function of Lines + Frustrules at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary
• 11th Annual Urban Services YMCA Wine Tasting & Silent Auction at Zephyr Showroom
• Either/Or at Incline Gallery
• Speaker Series | Jewelry to Jellyfish at the Museum of Craft and Design
• Musical Art Quintet | North Beach First Fridays at The Emerald Tablet
• Submerged Cinema at Oddball Films
• Madlib Medicine Show at 1015 Folsom

Saturday, June 8:

• Things Fall Apart: Group Show at Visual Aid Gallery
• Island Hop at Swell w/DJs, Burlesque, Dance Contest, Free Hair Styling
• Bangarang Crash meets Intensified at St Mary's Pub
• 43rd Annual Live Oak Park Fair
• NextNewCA at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
• Adult Workshop | Wire Knit & Crochet at the Museum of Craft and Design
• Yerba Buena Gallery Walk
• Crossing Borders at SOMArts
• Ty Segall's Birthday Party at The Eagle
• Chipotle Cultivate in Golden Gate Park

Sunday, June 9:

• Afterimage at Temescal Art Center
• Alkaline Trio at the Regency Ballroom

Monday, June 10:

• Beth Orton at The Chapel

Tuesday, June 11:

• Séduction Féroce June at the New Parish
• Active Music Series: Thomas Carnacki + Bryan Day + Robert Lopez Mateo Lugo at the Uptown Nightclub
• Going Modern | American Design in the 1920s at the Walt Disney Museum
• Small Black at the Rickshaw Stop

Wednesday, June 12:

• Qwazaar & Batsauce w/ Lady Daisey at the Legionnaire Saloon
• Draft Horse at Moco
• Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965-1977 at the Mills College Art Museum
• N.E.A Panel Discussion at Gallery 16

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Abyssinian Baptist Church, New York City.  June 15, 2007.

fictional/familiar & present tense

Cybele Lyle

Leigh Merrill

Emma Spertus

Through June 9 - Fictional/Familiar at Swarm Gallery.  The first of two shows I'm highly recommending this week before they close, this exhibition features a trio of artists who play with our perception of space and place.  Cybele Lyle's photographic landscapes are interrupted by planes of color and other images, and her sculpture in the center of the gallery similarly invites the viewer into her constructed version of reality.  Leigh Merrill is more of a trickster and a brilliant one at that, deliberately tweaking her pictures of strip malls and other architecture of banality until the line between true and false is not clear at all.  Meanwhile Emma Spertus expands on that topic by creating a veritable staircase into another dimension and stacking it with seemingly common built objects that cleverly comment on perspective in art and in life.  Sadly this is Swarm's last show before they close their doors, all the more reason to visit this space that has been a venue for cutting-edge and thoughtful art in Oakland for many years.

Joshua Band

Kari Orvik

Jordan Perkins-Lewis

Kyle Austin Dunn

Liam Everett

Michael Koehle

Yulia Pinkusevich

Also through June 9 - Present Tense: Graduate Fellows Exhibition at Headlands Center for the Arts.  The other must-see this week is this culminating exhibition for the Graduate Fellows after a year of residency at Headlands.  It's always genuinely interesting to see how their work has evolved over their time in the Headlands community, and the artists this year clearly thrived.  I'm also positive this is not the last time you will be seeing any of them on my blog.  Pack a picnic lunch, and go spend a Sunday afternoon (or a weekday afternoon if you can play hooky) with art and nature.

See also:

• Swarm Gallery
• Headlands Center for the Arts

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headlands center for the arts

With the annual Headlands benefit auction coming up this Wednesday (yours truly is heading up the docent team for the third year running) I'm taking this chance to listen again to when KQED's Forum featured executive director sharon maidenberg and a handful of artists on their show last year:

A writer who sets up rock concerts for gorillas. A former bicycle engineer who makes art out of scrub brushes and rope swings. A man who designs natural "lightbulbs" with roots and dirt. Those are some of the creative minds who are part of the Artists Programs at Headlands Center for the Arts, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this week. We look at the history of the center, and talk to the artists who find inspiration in the old military fort nestled in the Marin Headlands.

Headlands is hands-down my favorite local arts organization, both for its gorgeous, unique location and for the quality of its public programs where visitors often get to hobnob with the current crop of artists-in-residence.  Every time I make a trip out there I find new inspiration.

See also:

• Headlands Center for the Arts Turns 30 on Forum
• Headlands Center for the Arts

agenda 05.29.13

Thursday, May 30:

• Countdown Celebration at SFMOMA
• Local Time--A Party for Proximities 1: What Time Is It There? at the Asian Art Museum
• International Noise Conference - SF at The Lab
• Landscapes: Near and Afar at Vessel Gallery
• The H18 Project | Print Release in Collaboration with Varnish Fine Art
• The Long and the Short of It at Goforaloop Gallery & Studios
• The xx at the Fox Theater
• Mumford & Sons at the Greek Theatre

Friday, May 31:

• Dad / G.Green / CCR Headcleaner / Straight Crimes at the Stork Club
• The Hop Rockabilly Prom w/ The Sugar Daddys & The Rocketz at the Elbo Room
• Friends, Family, Neighbors at Royal NoneSuch Gallery
• Friday Night Gallery of California Natural Sciences Reopening at the Oakland Museum of California
• Underwater exhibition at Roll Up Gallery
• San Francisco Chamber Music Society | An Evening of Classical Music at The Emerald Tablet
• Mice Parade at the Brick & Mortar Music Hall
• Wavvey at 1015 Folsom

Saturday, June 1:

• East Bay Open Studios
• Cornerways by Stairwell's
• New Monotypes | Summer Choices at Crown Point Press
• Gallery of California Natural Sciences Reopening Weekend at the Oakland Museum of California
• Limited at The Lab | Annual Fundraising Auction
• Lightbulb Ensemble | Modern Music Inspired by the Balinese Gamelan at The Emerald Tablet
• The xx at the Greek Theatre
• Guinness Oyster and Music Festival at Sharon Meadow, Golden Gate Park

Sunday, June 2:

• Free First Sunday: Gallery of California Natural Sciences Reopening at the Oakland Museum of California
• Sting at the America's Cup Pavilion

Tuesday, June 4:

• Film Screening | Howl at the Contemporary Jewish Museum
• Fool's Gold at the Brick & Mortar Music Hall

Wednesday, June 5:

• Headlands Benefit Art Auction at the Herbst International Exhibition Hall
• The Thing That Ate Temescal (aka "Belly Larf") comedy and music at Good Bellies
• Local Rock Show at the Uptown Nightclub
• Strange Bedfellows | Collaborative Practice in Queer Art at Root Division
• The Boxer Rebellion at The Fillmore

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Oakland.  May 5, 2013.