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prints and proofs

Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn

Anne Appleby

Through January 5 - Richard Diebenkorn: Prints and Proofs + Anne Appleby: Five New Etchings at Crown Point Press.  In a poetic coincidence here I am making my final post of 2012 about one of my favorite artists, Richard Diebenkorn.  I was interning at SFMOMA just before his massive retrospective there in 1998 and have fond memories of seeing the Ocean Park paintings in person for the first time in that exhibition.  I still remember the goosebumps I got standing in front of them, Diebenkorn's gloriously transparent treatment of light and color.  He was also an accomplished printmaker, spending much time at Crown Point Press in the '80s and early '90s, and their current show illuminates the complicated processes that went into making some of his most famous images.  Hanging next to Green, for example, are five full-size proofs brimming with layers of cut-out paper and shifting ideas that lead to the final aquatint.  They even have some of his original printing plates on display.  The whole show is a wonderful evocation of CPP's 50(!) years of hosting amazing artists in their studio, and the new series of Anne Appleby's luminous prints out in the hallway gallery is a reminder that history is still being made there.

See also:

• Crown Point Press
• Richard Diebenkorn
• Anne Appleby

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playlist

Don't know when I'll have another shift yet, but in the meantime I'll continue to update the Matokie Mix on Spotify and post here when I do.  Stay tuned!

mark dion

Mark Dion

Mark Dion

From an article by Jim Lewis on the New York Times blog on the occasion of Dion's show Phantoms of the Clark Expedition at the Explorers Club earlier this year:

Dion, then, is working in a ghostly space in between institutions, between cities, centuries and theories and practices; in response he’s made a spectral show, fabricating the materials that Clark would have brought with him — including a campfire, provision boxes, instruments and tools, the revolver the haplessly murdered cartographer left behind in camp and a few biological specimens (squirrel, giant moth, dead pig) — all of them (except the squirrel) made out of unpainted papier-mâché and carefully arranged on the main table of the Trophy Room, where they’re overseen by a marble bust of Clark himself. They look ashen and uninflected, like so many survivors of Pompeii, the wraithlike leftovers of an adventure that was part science project and part amateur guerrilla war, part benign and sincere, part high-handed and clumsy.

See also:

• Mark Dion on Art21

agenda 12.26.12

Thursday, December 27:

• Limp Wrist All Ages Matinee at Submission
• John Trubee & The Ugly Janitors of America at the Red Devil Lounge
• Limp Wrist at El Rio
• Sepalcure at The Independent

Friday, December 28:

• Shark Stapler, Dirty Pillows, Lectric Was House at the Night Light
• X-Mas 2012 featuring X at Slim's
• Wintersalt Fest at Fort Mason
• Free Party with Dam Funk at 1015 Folsom

Saturday, December 29:

• Melvins at the Great American Music Hall
• X-Mas 2012 featuring X at Slim's

Monday, December 31:

• New Years Eve with Human Toys & Believe at the Dark Room
• Neurosis at Oakland Metro
• Sea of Dreams New Year's Eve 2013 at the Concourse Exhibition Center
• The Fresh & Onlys at The Chapel
• Temple New Year's Eve 2013
• Streets of San Francisco with A-Trak at Fort Mason

ugsome

Great Palace Mosaics Museum, Istanbul.  November 21, 2012.

istanbul pics

A Christmas present for you and for me!  I finally edited all my photos from my trip to Istanbul, and you may find the full set here.  Please enjoy.

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playlist

And a quick reminder that I have one more shift in the foreseeable future, subbing for Sharkey this coming Sunday:
Noon - 3pm PST, Sunday, December 30
KALX Berkeley 90.7fm

polly apfelbaum

Polly Apfelbaum

Polly Apfelbaum

Polly Apfelbaum

All pictures from Polly Apfelbaum: Planiverse, a show at Galerie nächst St. Stephan in Vienna earlier this year.  From the press release:

Unlike the minimalists of the 1960s, who tried to make something completely unprecedented, a “specific object” that was neither a painting nor a sculpture, I am interested in making objects that maintain the properties of both painting and sculpture: structure and support, flow and movement, color and surface, repetition and interval.

See also:

• Galerie nächst St. Stephan
• Polly Apfelbaum

agenda 12.19.12

Thursday, December 20:

• ASCENT - Mills College MFA Fundraiser at Incline Gallery
• A Very Castle Face Christmas at The Chapel
• Judgement Day at the Great American Music Hall

Friday, December 21:

• Henry Gunderson: Apocalypse Shelter at Ever Gold
• Night of Yalda at Meridian Gallery

Sunday, December 23:

• Between Destinations at Electric Works

quadrennium

Embarcadero, San Francisco.  December 18, 2012.