Engineer's Daughter

agenda 07.17.13

Thursday, July 18:

• Séduction Féroce: DEUX at George's Nightclub
• Paint the Night: Action Jackson at Project One Gallery
• Shipwreck: Competitive Erotic Fanfiction at the Booksmith
• The Mission Position with -Justin Lucas, George Chen, Andrew Roberts
• Brooke Westfall at Spare Change Artist Space
• More Amazing Animal Antics at Oddball Films

Friday, July 19:

• Lit Tease: A Sneak Preview of Litquake's Lit Crawl at the Swedish American Hall
• Camper Van Beethoven & Cracker at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
• San Jose Night Market Grand Opening Weekend
• Schrödinger's Cats at The Popular Workshop
• Shitty Shitty Band Band and Captain Fatass at the Makeout Room
• Silver & Black Soul Club - Monthly Dance Party at the Night Light
• Evangelista at the Night Light
• Decades Magazine Release Goth Prom at The Lab
• Reconsidering the Horizon at PHOTO Fine Art Photography
• Brenna Murphy at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
• Considering the Source at Fouladi Projects
• The Speed of Dark: Nightlife and Nightmares at Oddball Films
• The Summer Slaughter Tour 2013 at the Regency Ballroom
• A Celebration of Fela Kuti at 1015 Folsom
• Music in the Park featuring Ozomatli with Sonido Clash at St. James Park
• California Wives + My Gold Mask at Neck of the Woods

Saturday, July 20:

• Serenade/A Brief History Of Nowhere/Yes To The Dress at NIAD
• SOMArts Summer Shindig – live music, food & a silent auction to benefit SOMArts
• Cynic Cave
• San Jose Night Market Grand Opening Weekend
• Metal Mother/The Tempers/Bedroom Witch/Opulence at the Night Light
• Bad News, Pod Blotz, Mike Shiflet, MSHR, Jim Haynes & DJ Kit Clayton at the Totally Intense Fractal Mindgaze Hut
• Lookout Weekend - Third Saturdays at Bar 355
• R U That Some Body? at The Lab
• Exploratorium Market Days | Fresh New Programs
• Call of the Wild and Christian Houge at Hosfest Gallery
• Pankisi Feltworks at Painted Bird
• David Byrne & St. Vincent at the Mountain Winery
• Santa Cruz Music Festival

Sunday, July 21:

• Emily Heller at Cynic Cave
• Mshr, Rubber (() Cement, and Waxy Tomb at The Lab
• E@RLY Family Workshop: Made and Found Instruments at the Berkeley Art Museum
• 2013 Headlands Summer Open House
• Ending Hunger Here at Home: A Poetry Benefit for the SF Food Bank at the Emerald Tablet

Monday, July 22:

• Alternative Exposure Info Session, 1 of 3, at Southern Exposure

Tuesday, July 23:

• 35 Years of Bauhaus at the Fillmore

Wednesday, July 24:

• The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells Book Tour and Party at the Booksmith
• West of Center Screening: Ant Farm at the Mills College Art Museum
• Windows Stay Gold Reception & Screening at ATA Gallery
• Author, Éireann Lorsung will read from "Her Work" at Little Paper Planes
• End of Season Party at Kadist SF
• Soft Metals at the Rickshaw Stop

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The Christmas House aka The Pink House, Daly City.  July 15, 2013.

go see this

My picks for shows to see this week before they close:

Tauba Auerbach

Through July 20 - Tauba Auerbach: // at Paulson Bott Press.  Auerbach's black-and-white tiled floor at SFMOMA was probably one of the most Instagrammed works of art that museum ever put on display, and her six new prints at Paulson Bott similarly exhibit a simple idea beautifully executed.  For each etching she used two mesh screens in colors that when combined create a hypnotic visual effect that echoes ripples on water or the static on a TV screen.  Bonus: Paulson Bott is situated right next to Vik's Chaat & Market for all your Indian sweet and savory needs.

Lisa K. Blatt

Through July 21 - Proximities 1: What Time Is It There? at the Asian Art Museum.  This small but mighty group show of Bay Area artists curated by Glen Helfand is the first in a three-part series exploring the influence of Asia on contemporary art.  In this initial installment the artists use personal histories, familiar motifs, or stereotypes of the exotic to question our notions of Asia, actually a continent of incredibly diverse countries and ethnicities.  Personal favorites included Elisheva Biernoff's handmade postcards depicting endangered Japanese wildlife and the "shelves" of Asian antiques and curios by Tucker Nichols, but honestly everything in the exhibit is worth your time.  Bonus: the Asian is mere blocks away from Saigon Sandwiches.

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mildred howard

I just found this short film from when the great Mildred Howard was given the Silver SPUR Award last year.  From the SPUR website:

Mildred Howard is an acclaimed mixed-media installation artist, activist, teacher, mother and grandmother, born and raised in the Bay Area. The Oakland Museum of California, the de Young Museum, SFMOMA, the San Jose Museum of Art and the Museum of the African Diaspora have all exhibited her work. She has received prestigious grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Local works includeThree Shades of Blue on Fillmore Street and The Music of Language on Glide Memorial’s family housing building. With an eye toward the built environment and its impact on daily life, Mildred has shaped how we experience the public realm.

Love her!

See also:

• Mildred Howard

agenda 07.10.13

Thursday, July 11:

• The Beat Generation with Biographer Bill Morgan and Poet David Meltzer at the Contemporary Jewish Museum
• Site Unseen: [Relics and Response] / A solo exhibition by Annie Albagli at Royal NoneSuch Gallery
• Three Day Stubble, John Trubee, Merchants of the New Bizzare at The Lab
• A Literary Tour of North Beach with Bill Morgan at Vesuvio
• Aimé Mpane at Haines Gallery
• Journey Forth: contemporary landscape between technology and tradition at Gallery Wendi Norris
• The Bridge Builders by Joseph A. Blum at SF City Hall
• Movies Making Movies: The Secrets of Cinema at Oddball Films
• Under the Sun Tour at the Mountain Winery
• Amadou & Mariam at Davies Symphony Hall

Friday, July 12:

• Stranded In-Store: YETI + Social Music Party
• Pre-Bastille Day Bardot A Go Go Dance Party at the Rickshaw Stop
• Yogurt Brain/ Cat Jelly (Reno) / Golden Drugs / Hazel's Wart / Easy Living at MOCO
• Living Impaired w/ comedian Richard Sarvate at Stage Werx
• Klea McKenna: Volcano Watchers at The Lab
• Electronic Pacific Group Exhibition at SOMArts
• Brett Goodroad 2012-13 Tournesol Awardee Exhibition at Luggage Store Gallery
• Learn Your Lesson...On Wheels Shockucational Traffic School at Oddball Films
• Beirut DJ Set at 1015 Folsom
• 45 Live w/ Stones Throw Records & Prince Paul at Mighty
• Sonny & The Sunsets at the New Parish
• Rogue Wave at the The Indendent
• Glaciers Record Release Show at Bottom of the Hill

Saturday, July 13:

• Undercover Geniuses at the Petaluma Arts Center
• Cynic Cave One Year Anniversary
• Bangarang Crash at St Mary's Pub
• Hyosung Jeong at Meridian Gallery
• A Night for Sudan at SOMArts
• Character Profile at Root Division
• We Had Nothing To Do And We Did It at Adobe Book Backroom Gallery
• Experiments in Levitation: An Evening of Sound and Image at The Lab
• Phono Del Sol Music & Food Festival 2013 at Potrero Del Sol Park
• Shugo Tokumaru at Bottom of the Hill
• Rogue Wave at The Independent

Sunday, July 14:

• Stillsuit/Death Drive Tour Kick Off w/ Styrofoam Sanchez and New Happiness at Sugar Mountain
• July East Bay Vegan Bakesale at ISSUES
• "Sunday Garnish" by Daniel Jeffries at City Limits
• 2013 O'Neill Student Playwright Theatre at Tao House
• Victory and Associates, Banshee Boardwalk, Sort of Invisible, Washing Machines & Moral Coed at SUB/Mission
• Replicant: Part I at The Lab
• Godwaffle Noise Pancakes at The Lab
• Howl Legacy: The Continuing Battle for Free Expression at the Contemporary Jewish Museum
• Shapeshifters Cinema Presents Beige at the Temescal Art Center
• Langhorne Slim & The Law at Long Meadow Ranch

Monday, July 15:

• San Francisco Theater Pub 4.7: Pint Sized Plays IV
• hbi2k13#1
• Deafheaven at Bottom of the Hill

Tuesday, July 16:

• Alto! (PDX) + Tiberius (Guarino/Cramp) + Tonal Masher at Life Changing Ministry
• Black Flag at The Catalyst

Wednesday, July 17:

• Sailor Moon Coloring Party at MOCO 
• Two Biennials in the Americas at Kadist SF
• PM Show at Cynic Cave
• Under the Influence of Music Tour at Shoreline Amphitheatre

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Up Your Alley Fair, San Francisco.  July 29, 2006.

relax as it is

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winds ground hollow

Kathryn Spence

Kathryn Spence

Kathryn Spence

All images from Kathryn Spence's solo show Winds Ground Hollow at Stephen Wirtz last year.  From the gallery:

Throughout Spence’s career, her art has continually addressed the complex relationships that exist between the constructed and the natural, the cognitive and the organic. “Short sharp notes…” moves this ongoing investigation forward by suggesting a physical structure for cognitive processes, constructing environments that mimic organic environments. Wood boxes of varying lengths, heights and modularity resemble cityscapes or excavated ruins that provide homes and places of uneasy rest for fauna and flora—owls, other birds and forms of wildlife—made from mud and paper, discarded textiles, and bound texts that have outlived their usefulness, all displayed in the larger constructed environment of an exhibition space. What results is akin to a veristic nesting doll of environment, occupation, and refuge, a monument as well to the spaces and processes of the mind, addressing the unfathomable access to information afforded by contemporary culture, particularly focused on the space that exists between perception and knowing, and the inevitable temporal discard that comes with evermore rapid development and deepening incursions by the civilized world into the natural world.

I first encountered Spence's mud-encrusted animals and pigeons meticulously crafted out of garbage at SFMOMA shortly after I moved to SF, and they made quite an impression.  If you happen to find yourself in Houston in July she has an exhibition on display at Front Gallery there right now too.

See also:

• Stephen Wirtz Gallery
• Kathryn Spence