Engineer's Daughter

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Feria de San Telmo, Buenos Aires.  November 21, 2010.

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From a very moving group show last fall at Intersection for the Arts that included artists' responses to the above photos:

After the 2011 Tohoku earthquake hit, a massive tsunami swept away houses, and everything that was inside them. As the search for survivors ended and attention turned to the clean up mission, Self-Defense forces, firemen, and policemen who were in Tohoku to help survivors began to pick up photos they found in the mud, and to store them in an elementary school gymnasium. Two months after the earthquake hit, a group called the “Memory Salvage Project” began to sort out the more than 750,000 photos and prepare them for return to their owners.  The images were cleaned and digitized by volunteers who came from Tokyo and other parts of Japan. The photographs you see here are part of photos recovered from the city of Yamomoto.

agenda 05.15.13

Thursday, May 16:

• Currency at The Old Mint
• One-on-One Mentorship Program Final Group Show at Southern Exposure
• Out-of-Order, Youth Advisory Board's Final Student Project at Southern Exposure
• Popup Shop at Mercy Vintage
• The 33rd Annual Russian River Women's Weekend in Guerneville
• BawdySlam's 'Never Saw Them Again' at Balancoire
• ArtPadSF 2013 at The Phoenix
• Ritlab | Create, Nosh, Shavuot at the Contemporary Jewish Museum
• Miss Conception at artMRKT
• Strange Sinema 64 | Optical Explorations at Oddball Films
• Big Boi at Mezzanine

Friday, May 17:

• Scream Queens Fest at RCA
• Silver & Black Soul Club at The Night Light
• Art at the Dump Artist in Residence Exhibitions at Recology San Francisco
• The 43rd Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum
• Currency | The Moving Image at the Contemporary Jewish Museum
• TNDC's 32nd Anniversary Dinner
• Ballet of Heads: The Figure in the Collection at the Berkeley Art Museum
• CCA Annual Fashion Show
• Sugar Shock | Candy, Cavities and Saturday Morning Shenanigans at Oddball Films
• The Black Angels at The Fillmore
• The Ocean Blue at Cafe du Nord
• Get Freaky at 1015 Folsom

Saturday, May 18:

• RRWW presents the Smelly Pirate Hooker Burlesque Show and Dance Party at Jerry Knights River Theater
• Lookout Weekend - Third Saturdays at Bar 355
• Cerberus: New Transmedial Work at Meridian Gallery
• Freedom of Expression at Kala Gallery
• An Evening of Kathak Dance | Next Generations at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center
• MGMT at Frost Amphitheatre

Sunday, May 19:

• Black Pus (Lightning Bolt) + Bands & Comedy at LoBot Gallery
• Home Body + Black Jeans + Violent Vickie at El Rio
• Live and Become at the Contemporary Jewish Museum
• Live 105 BFD 2013 at Shoreline Amphitheatre
• Beck at The Rio Theatre

Monday, May 20:

• San Francisco Theater Pub 4.5: The Pub From Another World
• An Evening of Cuban Culture at The Emerald Tablet

Tuesday, May 21:

• The Future of Bicycle Parking at SPUR
• Boris at the Rickshaw Stop
• Ariel Pink at The Chapel

Wednesday, May 22:

• An Evening of Adventure with Chicken John, Tupelo Hassman, Suzanne Kleid, Joshua Mohr and Sarah Fran Wisby at The Emerald Tablet
• Why Should I Care! with Natasha Muse at Cynic Cave
• Boris at the Rickshaw Stop
• Bjork at Craneway Pavilion
• Matthew Dear at Mezzanine
• Cold War Kids at The Catalyst

ravens and ruins

Darren Waterston

Darren Waterston

Darren Waterston

Through May 18 - Darren Waterston: Ravens and Ruins at Haines Gallery.  I had recently seen Waterston's evocative silhouettes for the first time at Paulson Bott Press in Berkeley when they published the folio he created with poet Mark Doty, A Swarm, A Flock A Host: A Compendium of Creatures.  It was therefore a delight to encounter his bestiaries yet again at Haines, especially because I enjoy the way his animals twist across the page in sinuous and vaguely grotesque forms governed by their own internal logic.  His large-scale paintings are also compelling as they depict post-apocalyptic landscapes and references to human architecture that one can imagine being retaken by nature itself.  Red in tooth and claw indeed.

See also:

• Haines Gallery
• Darren Waterston

equivocate

San Francisco.  June 16, 2005.

matokie mix 05.12.13

mix

Next Sunday I'll have an hour shift on KALX before the baseball game, then a full 3-hour shift the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, and then that'll be it for me in the noon-3pm slot.  I'm sure I'll pop up elsewhere on the schedule before too long!

take me to the apple breeder

Jessica Rath

Jessica Rath

Jessica Rath

All images from Jessica Rath's solo show take me to the apple breeder at Jack Hanley Gallery in NYC last fall.  From the press release:

Resulting from visits to Cornell University’s agricultural research stations, the show reflects both the desire of Cornell’s apple curator Philip Forsline who has traveled the world to rescue fast- disappearing varieties, and the work of Dr. Susan Brown, one of only three apple breeders in the country inventing new apples for mass production.

Rath’s porcelain sculptures allude to the odd forms and luminescent hues of little-known and endangered varieties, while large-scale photographic portraits document newly manufactured hybrid trees. These artifacts are designed to investigate diversity at a molecular level and human intervention in the natural world. 

See also:

• Jack Hanley Gallery
• Jessica Rath

agenda 05.08.13

Thursday, May 9:

• You're Going To Bleed at EXIT Theatre
• Playing on the Nines: Gregory Scharpen at the East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse
• House of Heidi: A Benefit for Dress for Success San Francisco at SF Camerawork
• 28th Annual Art Auction Benefiting Hospitality House's Community Arts Program at White Walls & Shooting Gallery
• Bottle Rock 2013 Napa Valley
• Cal Spring Spotlight at the Ashkenaz

Friday, May 10:

• Acid Mothers Temple at Amoeba Berkeley
• Stranded In-Store: The Blank Tapes - Record Release Party
• Jack O' The Clock - All My Friends album release concert at the Starry Plough
• Mortar & Pestle (cd release) | Jaysonik | The Tambo Rays | Believe at the Uptown Nightclub
• After Glow | As The Wick Burns at Electric Works
• Conversations with Artists | Kehinde Wiley, Portraiture, and the Hip-Hop Diaspora at the Contemporary Jewish Museum
• Yo La Tengo at the Fillmore
• Re:Creation at 1015 Folsom

Saturday, May 11:

• Farewell ThunderEgg (supported by Dull Richards and Carl & Beatrice) at the Main Street Theatre
• Azin Seraj - "Sublunar" at Martina }{ Johnston Gallery
• Win Win, A NIAD Art Center Fundraiser
• Clipping / Foot Village / Straight Crimes at LoBot Gallery
• Bitter Fruit, Catholic Spit, They Feed At Night at The Church
• Bangarang Crash at St Mary's Pub
• MFA Open Studios at the Mills College Art Museum
• Yo La Tengo at the Fillmore
• Man Or Astro-Man? at Bimbo's 365 Club
• Bottle Rock Napa Valley
• Kate Nash at The Chapel
• Locked & Reloaded Tour at Shoreline Amphitheatre

Sunday, May 12:

• Special Preview Of The Pub From Another World at Borderlands Cafe
• E@RLY: Rock N Roll “Flea Market” at the UC Berkeley Art Museum
• Jim James at the Fillmore

Monday, May 13:

• Brave Enough Tour at Slim's

Tuesday, May 14:

• Séduction Féroce May Day May Day at the New Parish

Wednesday, May 15:

• 24 Hour Exhibition: Representation and its Discontents at Kadist SF
• Film Screening | Sans Soleil at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
• The Appleseed Cast at Bottom of the Hill