Engineer's Daughter

interlocutor

Ivy Hill, Oakland.  September 8, 2013.

members only

Jennie Ottinger

Jennie Ottinger

Jennie Ottinger

Through September 19 - Jennie Ottinger: Members Only at Johansson Projects.  This is the fourth show I've seen of Ottinger's work at Johansson Projects (I had to go back and count), and it is yet another instant classic.  The size of her canvases has expanded recently, and her command of paint and color remains so masterful that the daubs and swaths of pigment are even more searingly vivid than in her more intimate artworks.  As indicated by the title, the show cheekily examines the idea of clubs and inclusion versus exclusion, and by extension the subtle menace exuded by packs of young children.  Besides an impressive array of new paintings Ottinger has also created a series of rough-sewn uniforms that hang in formation in one corner of the gallery which are augmented with stuffed animal parts and other wonderfully strange details.  Though the version of reality she depicts in this show often incorporates such elements of the macabre, it also eerily resembles the way I remember remnants of my own past, on the schoolyard and elsewhere. 

See also:

• Johansson Projects
• Jennie Ottinger

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made in l.a.

I heart L.A.

Though I missed the inaugural installment of the Hammer's Made in L.A. biennial last year I am already plotting a visit for the 2014 iteration, especially with Michael Ned Holte as one of the curators.  From the L.A. Times:

Holte is best known as an art critic who writes for magazines such as Artforum and teaches at the California Institute of Arts. He has curated shows for the Thomas Solomon Gallery at Cottage Home in L.A. and Wallspace in New York. A Wisconsin native, he was originally drawn to L.A. in 1995 when finishing a student movie "because of my somewhat naïve understanding of the film industry,” he said, describing a roundabout entry into the L.A. art world.

See also:

• Made in L.A. 2012
• Michael Ned Holte

agenda 09.04.13

Thursday, September 5:

• "Sea Stories Between The Tides" Group Exhibition at Highlight Gallery
• Alternative Exposure Info Session, 3 of 3 at Southern Exposure
• Ladyfest Volunteer Night
• Comedy at the Fox Theater - The Cynic Den
• Post Primal Presents: Real Magic (tour farewell), Believe, Beast Nest, Bedroom Witch at MOCO
• In The Wake / Jack O The Clock / Peck The Town Crier at 19 Broadway
• Sandy Kim at Ever Gold
• Maira Kalman: Mostly New Etchings at Paulson Bott Press
• David Maisel: Mining at Haines Gallery
• Laurel Roth and Tomoko Konoike at Gallery Wendi Norris
• Free First Thursday at the Berkeley Art Museum
• Anticon 15 Year Anniversary at 1015 Folsom
• Ty Segall at The New Parish
• The Zombies at Yoshi's San Francisco

Friday, September 6:

• "The Missed-Adventures of Br’er Rabbit and Br’er Death in the Land of Shadows" First Friday Event at Aggregate Space
• Aqua Vitae (water of life) at Vinocruz
• Liquid Systems 004 at Lounge 3411
• Jennifer Locke at Savernack Street
• Amanda Hughen, Jennifer Starkweather at Electric Works
• Ryan McGinley at Ratio 3
• Drawn Together: A Celebration of Bay Area Artists at Children's Fairyland
• Thomas Heinser at Gallery 16
• The Most Nights Tour 2013 at the Greek Theatre
• Murder By Death at The Independent
• The Zombies at the Uptown Theatre Napa

Saturday, September 7:

• Cassette Store Day Swap Meat at MOCO
• VAMP hosts their 1st Annual International Cassette Store Day
• Four Core Chambers at Martina }{ Johnston Gallery
• Experimental Notations at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
• Linda Geary, All the Pink Together: Boom & Hotbox Forever at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
• Sir Rudy Blackout VS Sure Shot Live Radio DJ Battle Soundclash Fight To The Death at Radio Valencia
• Deep Teens + Moira Scar + Centre + Daisy World + djs Necromos + Burning Skies at First Church of the Buzzard
• Borderless Bass - A benefit for the Anti Repression Committee at the International Capoeira Angola Foundation
• Debaser | B-Sides and Remixes Edition at The Knockout
• Stefan Kürten at Hosfelt Gallery
• Philip Jarmain at Meridian Gallery
• This Is the Sound of Someone Losing the Plot at Catharine Clark Gallery
• Ed Moses at Brian Gross Fine Art
• New Media Combinations: TraditionalDigital at Berkeley Art Center
• Film Screening | The Stein Family: The Making of Modern Art at The Emerald Tablet
• Joan Jett and the Blackhearts at the Mountain Winery

Sunday, September 8:

• Lil Bub's Big Adventure in San Francisco
• Shapeshifters Cinema Presents Steve Dye at Temescal Art Center
• Luke Sweeney, Pat Hull, Mark Joseph & The Missing Pieces at the Hotel Utah
• fun. at the Greek Theatre
• Titus Andronicus at the Great American Music Hall

Monday, September 9:

• San Francisco Moth StorySLAM: Rules at the Rickshaw Stop
• Andrew Weathers Ensemble + The Parmesans + Trouble at MOCO
• Dominic Angergame: 16mm shorts retrospective at The Emerald Tablet
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor at the Great American Music Hall
• Titus Andronicus at The Catalyst

Tuesday, September 10:

• Chromance- Art show at Stone Pony
• Support Inclusive Student District in Berkeley
• September's Séduction Féroce at The New Parish
• Working Proofs: A Revelation at Crown Point Press
• Global India: Kerala, Israel, Berkeley at The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor at the Great American Music Hall
• Neko Case at The Warfield

Wednesday, September 11:

• 24 Hour Exhibition: Fault Lines at Kadist SF
• Screaming Queens (Canada) / Lunch Lady (Canada) / Bitter Fruit / Death Drive at Heco's
• Musical Chairs Party at the Make-Out Room
• MCO Fest 2013: Diesel Dudes, UrthDance, Venkman and Hershel Krom at the Stork Club
• Introductions 2013 at Root Division
• Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival 2013 at Shoreline Amphitheatre
• Moving Units at DNA Lounge

honcho

Marcel Dzama and Alice Shaw, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.  February 23, 2006.

one week

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