Down the Rabbit Hole with Neon Lights now on view at FFDG includes an all-new series of colorful and vibrant acrylic paintings by Mexico City-based artist Favio Martinez, perhaps better known as Curiot. The artist’s second show at FFDG is in many ways a continuing chapter a convoluted narrative that reveals a surreal world of the artist’s own inspired creation. In this solo show audiences […]
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Luna Rienne Gallery’s current exhibition of 10-inch square artworks officially launches its Affordable Art Series, which will offer modestly-priced artwork to both seasoned and burgeoning art collectors alike by a continuingly growing roster of local and national artists. With this new programming, Luna Rienne joins several other galleries in the San Francisco Bay Area that simplify the oft-described difficult, or seemingly daunting process of acquiring […]
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Root Division’s “Introductions 2014″ on view now through September 27 is the non-profit arts organization’s eighth iteration of this annual, juried exhibition. Created in order to offer exhibition opportunities for emerging artists, as well as exposure to the public of the contemporary issues and ideals expressed in art produced by an array of artists working in the San Francisco Bay Area and […]
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From the beginning of the Pop-Art movement in the 1960s to the recent inclusion of art from the streets by artists such as Basquiat and Banksy, it would be easy to say expressions in modern and contemporary art has changed rapidly and includes a multitude of approaches and styles in just the past 50 years, quicker than […]
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1AM Gallery’s current show, “A Declaration of Color,” features a wide array of mixed media works on canvas, limited edition prints, and installation by celebrated New York-based graffiti artist, Sandro Figueroa Garcia, Sen2. Sen2’s particular aesthetic as well as his unique graffiti and letter style carefully developed throughout his long career make intriguing references to his Puerto Rican […]
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Since the release of their debut album Homework in 1997, Daft Punk, comprised of musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, have been at the forefront of the contemporary electronic music genre. Last year Daft Punk released its first studio album in eight years, Random Access Memories, winning five Grammys including Album of the Year, as well as Record […]
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Working within similar goals of the larger San Francisco’s Recology waste management company, the Artist in Residence program has encouraged conservation and mindfulness about the environment while also encouraging an appreciation for art and community. The program invites artists whose practice would benefit an opportunity to work at Recology, offering a large studio space and access to materials recovered […]
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Nearly 80 graduating MFA students of San Francisco Art Institute, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious schools of higher education in contemporary art, transformed the historic Old San Francisco Mint into a dynamic group exhibition, complete with multidisciplinary art installations in its bank vaults, ballrooms, corridors, facades, front lawn, and courtyards. For just a few days this year from […]
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The fourth annual Art Market was held in San Francisco from May 15 to 18, settling in a to a new location from their regular South of Market, Concourse Exhibition Center to Fort Mason Center’s Festival Pavilion. This is now the Bay Area’s only contemporary and modern fine art fair, neither San Francisco Fine Art Fair nor ArtPadSF were held this year. Surrounded by beautiful bay views, the Fort Mason […]
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Beyond Structure at San Francisco’s 111 Minna Gallery throughout the month of May showcases work by interdisciplinary, college-level art students from various regions in California that illustrate new directions and ingenuity in art-making, which is counter to and outside the bounds of their current, academic curriculum. Working outside the oft-taken artistic direction, the included artists in Beyond Structure evince […]
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