CCA MFA Class of 2011 Exhibtion!!! (Part II)

As I mentioned in the previous post below, here are some of the images I took of our CCA MFA Class of 2011 Exhibition, both from the night of the opening on May 12 and from the much quieter days to follow.  My humble apologies to the artists I missed.  (Please double-click on images for larger views).

Angus Haller created a silkscreened printscape of visual noise coupled with a soundscape of musical noise to make an immersive installation for the audience.

Close-up of Haller's screen prints

Julie Henson's super-hard-to-photograph installation room with theater props, mirrors, and lights to reflect her sparkly trees.

Marissa Botelho's equally hard-to-photograph immersive head-goes-in-the-box installation, where she created mini lanscapes.

Inside the box

Marissa also created a video game come to life with her reenactment of Red Dead Redemption's lasso move, and the feeling of disappointment of reality.

Elizabeth Dorbad's epic theater prop/carnival disaster installation

Victoria DeBlassie's intensely laborious sewn orange peel hut

Courtney Johnson's wild child women paintings

Johnson painting

Miss Courtney Johnson herself

Mark Taylor's screen prints of wear patterns on records, along with a box set of prints and a clever projected image on record player. 

The box set, with liner notes and song titles he makes up

Rachel Dawson's classy display of all her various projects in one room- psychic analysis video, lit clay sculptures, and photo realist vessel painting.

Mark Benson's "It's art/it's not art" ready-made sculptures of over-stacked dish rack and towel-strewn drums

Benson's special one-night display of inflatable blue dancing guys

C. Wright Daniel's photograms of crumpled paper

Nancy Nowacek's "Get in this room and walk in fake snow" construction

Sarah Hotchkiss's space data center

Katie Dorame's paintings of Westward expansion

Rachel Foster's lovely screen-prints of mysterious imagery

Rachel in front of her Ouija wall

Natasha Wheat's purposely opaque "situational construction" of  symbols of labor and consumerism with unreadable neon letters and painted palettes

Wheat's digital prints on silk of laborers in Panama

Allison Rowe poses in front of her RV-turned-mobile-environmental-educational tool

Once more, and with feeling:  Congrats to my Class of 2011!  I'll miss you!

Here are some more shots of both our MFA show at CCA, as well as SFAI's MFA show from Art Business, some shots by Meighan at My Love For You is a Stampede of Horses, as well as the JD Beltran article in the SF Gate I previously posted.

Let the Fall Art Season Begin!

Holy Shit! There's art happening everywhere in the Bay Area this week, as the season opens. Here's what I would, (and may actually), go see:

These two are ongoing shows that are worth a stop:

"This Means War" at Unspeakable Projects with work by bros, Matt Momchilov, and Justin Limoges, with AMTK and Hannah Ireland

On view through October 14

Readily by appointment

735 Tehama Street, San Francisco 94103

Matt Momchilov's amazingly real and grotesque paintings of balls look like they're important to see in person.

AMTK "The Crowd Still Waiting"

"Hauntology" at The Berkeley Art Museum

July 14, 2010 - December 5, 2010

2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA

Super rad idea curatorial concept by Larry Rinder.

Paul Sietsema "Ship drawing"

Upcoming shows:

"BlindSighted": a show featuring two of the winning works from CCA’s annual media arts juried prize by brohemians,

JULIE HENSON &

NATALIA GOMEZ, at

N O M A Gallery

Opening September 9th 6-8pm

80 Maiden Ln. 3rd fl,

San Francisco, CA

Julie projects film onto sequins (yes!)

Natalia Gomez’ video "No Depression in Heaven" and Julie Henson’s project “Wonder”

Ruth Laskey at Ratio 3

Opening September 10th, 6-8 pm

1447 Stevenson Street, San Francisco, CA

Super cool, hand-dyed weavings by our CCA librarian & Mrs Runcio.

Ruth Laskey "Blue Gray"

Michael Guidetti at Jancar Jones Gallery

Opening September 10th, 6-9 pm

965 Mission Street, Suite 120,

San Francisco, CA

Fellow CCA undergrad is doing really well!

Michael Guidetti, "Bounce Room 1"

"Folly":

Elisheva Biernoff Solo Show at Triple Base Gallery

Opening September 10th, 7-10 pm

3041 24th Street,

San Francisco, CA

I'm excited to see a new show at my gallery by a new artist!

Elisheva Biernoff, "Folly"

"Introductions 2010" with work by buddy, Mark Benson, at Root Division

Reception September 11th, 7-10 pm

3175 17th Street, San Francisco, CA

Have to support your buds, right?

Ok, Ready, Set, Go!!!