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REAL ART WEST: Art a la mode by Alexandra Rosa (Don't forget - Check out the Picked RAW choices for next month)
Congratulations the Movers and Shakers project of the San Diego Visual Arts Network which has been recognized for excellence by the California State Legislature and District 77 Assemblymember Joel Anderson with a certificate in honor of outstanding service presented at the opening of the Movers and Shakers 2. Photos in the montage above come from Sidney Wildesmith, Rosemary KimBal, Charles Bronson and Fritzie Urquhart. See all their photographs in detail on the Movers and Shakers/SDVAG site. Cheryl Sorg gets a thumb up from Angela Carone's blog on KPBS. You can win prizes on Jan 27 when you listen to ArtRocks! Internet Radio live from 7 pm to 8 pm. Listen for the password for the night and then email me ( Alexandra Rosa). Let us hear from you if you win a prize! Pump up your sales with a web video produced by the Art Rocks247 Team complete with spokesperson. This is the hottest, most cost effective way to reach a moneyed up target audience. And it has a money back guarantee! Look for the Movers and Shakers video on ArtRocks247. Applications are now being accepted for San Diego’s Beyond the Border International Art Fair . The selected galleries will be notified in March. The biggest news is that the venue has changed and the fair organizers have committed to hold the fair at the new Hilton Bayfront Hotel for the next three years. We can’t wait to see the next showing from Sept 2-4. San Diego Visual Arts Network is the fiscal agent for the non-profit component of the Fair which benefits the SD Art Prize Congratulation to all the artists chosen to be featured in the Mission Federal Art Walk (April 24/25). Special cheers to San Diego regional artists: Dani Dodge, Karen Eastman, Ben Horne, Wade Koniakowsky, Monique Straub, and Diane Uke as well as Kandy Allen, Nobe Babayan, Andy Anh Ha, Thomas Barbey, Charles Sherman, and Red Wolf who are coming specially for this event. The African Archives by Lauren Woods includes videos, still photographs and other mixed-media works. M(other)land, and is on view in February 2010 at the University Art Gallery, UCSD. This show offers a glimpse into The African Archives and provides a space for viewers to sift through their own projections about a continent still primarily glimpsed through the veil of social crisis, Hollywood movies and television news. The exhibition is curated by Los Angeles-based independent curator Lisa Henry. Ms. Woods will give a talk about her work on 2 March at 6:30pm in the Visual Arts Facility Performing Arts Space. To accommodate visitors the gallery will be open until 6:30. More info: Isabelle Lutterodt, Exhibition Coordinator 858.534.0419 Barbara Markoff has announced the publication of her book, Becoming a Corporate Art Consultant, the Handbook for Corporate Art Consultation due out in February. It retails for $29.95 and is the first we have heard of in this field. We certainly need more business people representing artists and we hope she will follow up with a book for Artists Agents. We were very impressed with the found object folk art pieces shown by St. Madeleine Sophie's Center at the San Diego Art Department. These works were inspired by a tour and grant from the House of Blues Foundation when nine of their students were invited to participate and be inspired by southern folk artist Roland Knox, who is in the collection of the HOB. An outside consultant was hired by the HOB to run 4 days of classes over a month period. The original 9 pieces were included in a group show at the gallery at Jazzercise Headquarters in Carlsbad. Then works were showcased at the El Cajon City Hall and Passageways: The Road of Life held at Sophie’s Gallery. Each artist picked a central symbol that became the theme of their work. Sophie’s also offered classes in the folk art tradition to the public. Several pieces have sold and this is the fourth year that San Diego Art Department has shown the work of this terrific group of artists. Watch for these works at the San Diego Regional Office at Santee, 8760 Cuyamaca St. #100. The new Martha Pace Swift Gallery at NTC (main foyer of Building 201 ) has a grand opening with an inaugural exhibit from February 5 - April 2. The Garden of Mythos: Abstraction in Collaboration with Nature featuring recent oils by Anna Zappoli Friday, February 5, 5 to 9pm. The Swift Gallery is the 6th visual arts space to open at NTC and will be curated by the Expressive Arts Institute. The gallery will share the building with ARTS: A Reason to Survive. The grand opening coincides with the newly launched Friday Night Liberty, a monthly open house to showcase the museums, galleries, arts and design studios, dance companies and other innovative organizations that call NTC Promenade home. Consejo Fronterizo de Arte y Cultura (COFAC)/ Border Council of Arts and Culture, was awarded $10,000 by the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC) Transnational Cultural Remittances (TC) Grant Program to support and expand the Home Intervention Mural (HIM) Project in La Colonia Federal, Tijuana, B.C., Mexico and in Highland Park, California in collaboration with Avenue 50 Studio, Inc. Artists from both countries will work together to create four exterior Home Intervention Murals on houses in these neighborhoods customized to respect and enhance the architectural integrity of the structure. Homeowners will be active participants in the design and content of the mural. This project will be well documented via photographs, videos, and interviews at COFAC's La Casa del Tunel: Art Center and Avenue 50 Studio Gallery. For more info contact Gerda Govine Ituarte 626.484.0740 My Better Half: Mr. and Mrs. Larsen's Valentine's Eve Art Show is at the Thumbprint Gallery on University Avenue starting on Sat, February 13, 6pm to 10pm. Is that eve as in the day before or Eve as in Adam and Eve? The Stardust Arts had its first Fine Art Exhibition in Oceanside with 87 pieces of art from young artists completing courses with the Stardust Arts Program and artist/instructor Cheryl Ehlers. Ehlers just received funding from the Oceanside Art Commission (Jan 2010) to contribute to The Stardust Art Program through June of 2010. Congratulations to Gerrit Greve for another successful Arts for Healing exhibition at the Morrison Hotel Gallery in Del Mar. They raised $10,000 and every painting sold! A new mural by Werc Alvarez and Geraldine Lozano representing the emergence of art and revitalization of the area is now on view on the eastern facade of the historic Bekin building, located at 3727 El Cajon Boulevard. Werc has contributed much of his creative talent to El Cajon Boulevard, including the mural that was painted on the San Diego Stage and Lighting building last summer as well as more than 15 utility boxes. The El Cajon Boulevard Business Improvement Association is astonished by every one of Werc's pieces and is very grateful for the high standards that he has set for the emerging Boulevard Arts District. With help from a generous grant from the County Supervisor Ron Roberts, art has always been used as a tool for retelling the history of the community as well as revitalizing neighborhoods. Jeffery Laudenslager was represented at the L.A. Art Show by Sculpturesite, his gallery in San Francisco & Sonoma. Also, Jeffery's sculpture Mikoshi (at the entrance of Scripps Hospital Encinitas, donated by Nate & Ralyn Wolfstein) has been nominated for the Orchid Award 2010. You can view it and add any comments at the link. Deborah Francis is one of the artists in the Small Image Show (everything is under 10" in every dimension). It is in Gallery 21 at Spanish Village in Balboa Park and runs until Feb. 28 th. OPPORTUNITIES (click to see a list of all current opportunities listed on SDVAN) Southwestern Artists’ Association ’s 9th Annual Juried Art Show 2010 “Top 100” including a One Foot Show Opens February 27 through March 14, 2010 in Balboa Park.. It is open to all San Diego County residents for 2-dimensional wall-hung artwork. Mail-in registration deadline for entries is Monday, February 1, 2010. Juror: Mollie Kellogg, Art reception is Sunday, February 28th, 5:30-7:30pm. More info: Jennifer Meeder 619.232.3522 Oceanside Museum of Art is offering the perfect Valentine’s Day gift but is in need of an artist to donate their talent to painting a backdrop for the singers of More That’s Amoreé. The dimensions of the canvas are 16’ wide x 9’ tall. A heart or love theme would be perfect. We are offering the artist 2 free tickets to the event, including Champagne, chocolate, and love songs. Mention in the program and at the event. Please contact Carolyn Mickelson, 760-940-8200. Dottie Stanley has a lovely studio space (total 658 square feet) available to share at 7602 Fay Avenue in La Jolla. Contact her at 858.352.8192 or dottieartist@san.rr.com , MUSEUMS The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) is showing Fifty-Six Chinese Hat Boxes — And One Hat! Hat boxes made of wood, lacquer, paper and leather; from the late Qing Dynasty (c. 1890-1912) are showing t hrough March 21. We can’t wait to see Allison Renshaw: Plastic Fantastic at the Oceanside Museum of Art (704 Pier View Way, Oceanside, 92054) opening with a reception Sat. Jan 30, 5 -7 pm. There is also a gallery walk and talk with Renshaw on Thurs. Feb 25, 7 pm and the show continues until June 20. More info: Danielle Susalla 760-435-3720 Bankruptcy is topical right now and Rembrandt's Recession: Passion and Prints in the Dutch Golden Age is continuing at the Timken Museum of Art until May 2. The exhibition features 15 exceptional impressions of Rembrandt's landmark prints illustrating Gospel narratives from the 1650s. At a time of economic hardship and a strict moral code, Rembrandt made some of his most compelling imagery using scenes of compassion and sacrifice from the Gospel. Rembrandt’s Recession examines this New Testament subject matter in light of Rembrandt’s personal life, his 1656 bankruptcy and other factors of the times. Parents, children, and educators are invited to visit The San Diego Museum of Art’s James S. Copley Auditorium to learn about resources for home schooling families and educators available at the Museum. Activities will run from 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. on Sat Feb 6 and will include hands-on art making, museum program information, and presentations by museum education staff. Light refreshments will be served. To attend, RSVP by Wed, Feb 3rd to Amy Briere, Coordinator, Educator and Student Programs at 619.696.k1952 Lux Art Institute is presenting Iva Gueorguieva through March 17 and you can watch her in-studio while she creates another large-scale work from start to finish through Feb 6. Free Saturday is Feb 6, 11am-3pm. Enjoy free admission all day, guided tours, music by Italian jazz guitarist Daniele Spadavecchia and refreshments! Studio Series is Feb 25 with a wine reception: 5:30-6pm and discussion: 6-7pm and you can hear Iva Gueorguieva and LA Times art critic Leah Ollman. $5 for members; $10 for non-members. RSVP kleen@luxartinstitute.org 760.436.6611. Coming in Feb 28, 2010 to the Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA) is Viva Mexico – 1810 / 1910 / 2010. In celebration of Mexico’s 200 years of independence and the 100 th anniversary of its Revolution, Mingei International Museum is collaborating with the Central Cultural de Tijuana to exhibit an important collection of folk art housed there by the federal government. Among the 150 objects that will be on loan for nearly a year are a set of glazed and painted plates commemorating the heroes of Mexico made twenty-five years ago for the 175 th anniversary of Independence. Among other distinctive objects is a monumental Tree of Life in painted clay. P.S. On-Assignment: Exploring Sunrise Highway is a photo workshop held on February 13, 8:00 am - 3:00 pm Just in time for Valentines’ Day, California Center for the Arts, Escondido presents an Art & Intrigue opening reception: Courtly Love including Material Matters: Selected Works by Allied Craftsmen , Seth Augustine's Chimerica Dreality , and Chance & Circumstance: Works by Anne Mudge all starting. Saturday, February 13 with a Sneak Peak Preview · 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. Heroes and Artisans, opening Sun, Feb 28 at Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park and celebrates the 200 th anniversary of Mexican independence (1810), the 100 th of the Mexican revolution (1910) and the folk art that colorfully expresses the nation’s spirit. The exhibition continues through January 2, 2011. Organized around the three themes of Search For Identity, Daily Life And Religion And Festivity, works in the exhibition express Mexico’s cultural diversity and are grouped as Independence, Revolution, The National Shield, The Sacred and Profane, Trees of Life, Pottery Vessels, Skeletons and Masks. Among other exceptional objects in the exhibition is a monumental (more than six feet tall) abundantly ornamented, painted clay tree of life. During the month of January, New Children’s Museum celebrates Ernest Silva (SD Art Prize recipient) and The Rain House. Known as a visual storyteller, Silva's calm and contemplative environment encourages play in unexpected ways. For Animal Art, the artist created a new giant foam puzzle and an interactive felt mural in the "backyard." TRANSITIONS The Board of Directors of the San Diego Performing Arts League has named Kevin Chaisson as Chief Executive Officer. Chaisson has served on the Board of Directors since 2004. For the past 2 years he has been Board President and acting Executive Director. During this time he reorganized the finances and services of the organization balancing the budget for the first time in over 8 years. Along with a dedicated board, he was able to retire over $160K of debt and bring the payables up to date avoiding closure of the League. In June of 2009, Mr. Chaisson would be 'termed out' and the League Board felt that action must be taken in order to continue the work of the San Diego Performing Arts League. We will watch for the 5 year plan soon to be revealed. We may have lost Derrick Cartwright from the SDMA and Skip Pahl from Oceanside Museum of Art but we are not alone. James N. Wood, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, announced that Dr. Michael Brand has elected to step down as director of the J. Paul Getty Museum at the end of January. If you have suggestion for a new director for OMA, please do contact them. Marla Winitz 760,720.1781. They are seeking to hire a dynamic Executive Director who is passionate about art and who will lead the Museum to its goal of becoming the premier regional art and cultural institution in Northern San Diego County. The Executive Director is responsible for providing leadership in financial and staff management, fundraising, marketing, community relations and public programming. Successful candidates should possess 8 to 10 years management experience as a Director or curator in an art museum or gallery. An undergraduate degree or higher is required and a BFA and MFA are preferred. It seem negations have fallen through in La Jolla for Luis de Jesus Seminal Projects and so they will be moving to Los Angeles but hoping to keep a presence in San Diego as well, perhaps with a private dealing? We are glad to see that they will continue to promote San Diego artists and nice these worthy talents will get a toe hold in LA. TIDBITS We liked this Flavorwire list of Contemporary Trends that include Video Art, Art Salons, New Media, Found Object Design, and Abstraction. The article ends with a series of other suggestions including information imagery like charts and graphs, social media, online art vendors, virtual art tours, and earthy/imperfect art. Let us know if you have other ideas. info@sdvisualarts.net. Take a look at the really fun digital show at the Victoria and Albert Museum as report by the BBC in London. Digital Design Sensations exhibition includes Eyes that look at the viewers and gestures that result in flung paint. We won’t even begin to describe this show A Spectrum of Jewels by Kaz Maslanka at Roger Smith Lab Gallery (New York City) The show, curated by Robert C. Morgan, will run from March 5, 2010 to March 26 th 2010 and will feature what Maslanka calls a ‘Dodecaorthogonal Space Poem’ But luckily for us there is a computer aided design mockup showing the main structure of the installation which is well worth viewing. The graffiti artist Banksy will/might/could premier a film at the Sundance Film Festival. Exit Through the Gift Shop is narrated by Ifans and might have been directed by Banksy. Terry Guetta has been recording graffiti are for years and it is believed that a meeting between the two resulted in this premier. But the film maker is anonymous and then could be an art hoax. We understand from contact in London that The Royal Academy of Arts is showing Vincent van Gogh with a new twist. The multi-volume book of his letters inspired this show which matches descriptions in his letters to the images on display…plus the letters have his own drawings of the work incorporated into the text. If you go, you will see 35 letters, 65 painting and 30 drawings. These are works gathered from all over the world and many from private collections not seen in recent times. Here is a fair in London that would be possible in San Diego. Somerset House will present Pick Me Up, the first contemporary graphic art fair in the UK. The fair will bring together a selection of the most innovative galleries, collectives and designers under one roof, and showcase affordable work by the world’s most cutting-edge graphic designers and illustrators. Alexandra Rosa
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