Winning photographs from the inaugural Mobile Photography Awards, an international juried competition, on view at San Francisco’s ArtHaus gallery exemplify today’s digital times. “I think creativity is unleashed in a different way when you can pull a camera out of your pocket,” says Mobile Photography Awards founder Daniel Berman. “There’s a Wild West feeling to phone photography. Not everyone carries their camera with them, but everyone has their phone.”
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Transient SpacesFriday through May 3. Free. Painter Joanna Swan slows the pace of online life and re-imagines social networking profile pictures and Google street views in a series of acrylic and oil works on view in the first Friday Oakland Art Murmur. [Brown Couch Café, 340 14th St., Oakland, (510) 452-1664, www.artslant.org]
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By:
Murray Paskin
04/04/12 2:00 PM
Stunning skill and imagination characterize paintings by Oakland artist Mark Stock, whose show “Stage Stories” is on view at Modernism Gallery in The City. The exhibition — a collection of 10 diverse oils on canvas of scenes from a film set — stems from his longtime interest in performing arts. Stock, whose works are in permanent collections of the San Francisco and New York museums of modern art, studied ballet and modern dance in the 1970s, and he designed sets for dance companies before starting to paint figures and gaining acclaim for his narrative paintings.
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A strange and wondrous world is on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in “The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area.” Besides being a utopian, the man many called Bucky also was a genius designer, dreamer, lecturer and seemingly endless producer of ideas. Perhaps best known for designing the geodesic dome, Fuller (1895-1983) also created the ultralight three-wheeled Dymaxion car, decades before the quest for small cars began.
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If the de Young Museum’s “The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From Sidewalk to Catwalk” proves anything, it’s that Jean Paul Gaultier is the Andy Warhol of the fashion world.Madonna’s cone bras, as ubiquitous as Warhol’s soup cans, are on view with Gaultier’s costume illustrations for the film “The Fifth Element”; a cubic corset for Kylie Minogue; and photographs of Nirvana, Depeche Mode and Lady Gaga in Gaultier gear.
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By:
Emmaly Wiederholt
03/28/12 3:01 PM
The dancers roll, gesture and lunge to the audio landscape of writer and performer Carl Hancock Rux. The movement is exacting, athletic and birdlike. Rux’s recording lends a feeling of funk to the scene. This is the world of Robert Moses’ Kin, one of San Francisco’s leading contemporary dance companies.Led by enigmatic choreographer Robert Moses, the troupe — known for its diversity — premieres its new work “Helen” in The City this weekend. Inspired by Rux’s work, poetry by E. Ethelbert Miller and Homer’s “The Iliad,” “Helen” focuses on themes of objectification.
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Offering works by Picasso, Miró, Chagall, Dali, Andy Warhol and Rembrandt, Martin Lawrence Galleries could rival a museum.But museum art can’t be purchased, which is why the Union Square gallery’s auction Saturday at the Stanford Court hotel in The City is so exciting. (Other Martin Lawrence Galleries in San Diego; Oak Brook, Ill.; and New Orleans are hosting similar events.)
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By:
Murray Paskin
03/21/12 2:53 PM
The seeds of rebellion, characterizing American culture in the 1950s and ’60s, wrought profound changes on painting of the period that continue to resonate today. Experimentation and risk-taking, which had been absent from American painting, became dominant features of the art scene.Capturing that spirit is “Momentum of a Movement,” an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Bay Area artists on view at Hackett Mill gallery through the end of the month. The show features 17 pieces by major figurative and nonobjective artists working at the time.
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Arthur Tress was a 23-year-old unknown when he arrived in The City from Coney Island, N.Y., in 1964. He shot some 900 black-and-white photographs on San Francisco streets, capturing civil rights demonstrations, political rallies and everyday scenes. His subjects were both prominent and common people. Dozens of those images, illustrating the social and cultural upheaval of the times, are on view in “Arthur Tress: San Francisco 1964,” running through June at the de Young Museum.
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After seeing the abstract paintings of artist Mark Bradford, you might never look at a scrap of paper the same way again.“Mark Bradford” is being presented at two locations: the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through June 17 and at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts through May 27. The exhibition includes more than 50 paintings, collages, sculptures and other mixed-media pieces by Bradford, winner of a MacArthur Fellowship in 2009.
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