Luca Antonucci and Daniel Small, First Light, 2012

Vast and Undetectable Discovery Day
Saturday, February 25 1-4pm
Main Gallery, 401 Van Ness Avenue, @McAllister

An afternoon of science, art and activities. Free and open to visitors of all ages. 

The SFAC Gallery in partnership with Science@Cal is thrilled to host an afternoon of scientific discovery and activities in conjunction with the current exhibition, Vast and Undetectable.

Professor Pat Zambryski, Department of Plant & Microbial Biology at UC Berkeley; Steve Croft, astronomer at UC Berkeley and Nader Mirabolfathi, research physicist at UC Berkeley will be on hand to make short presentations about the scientific work they do and how it converges with the work in the exhibition.

After the presentations, many of the artists from Vast and Undetectable as well as our esteemed guest scientists will be open to questions and conversations about science and art. This casual and open-ended event will allow for all visitors to establish their own point of entry into the exhibition and the scientific concepts driving the work.

There will also be activity stations set up for children of all ages to create their own works of art based on scientific discoveries. Learn to make mandalas, explore the world through microscopes, draw your own version of galaxies the Hubble Telescope has yet to discover and much more!

Join us for this open house style of presentation and activities. The SFAC Gallery will provide snacks and drinks. This event is free and open the public.

Presentations will begin at 1:30 pm, but feel free to come by anytime to share in the activities and talk to the scientists and artists from the exhibition.

Bonus event! In addition to the festivities in the Gallery,
please also join us at 3pm for the Faux Floe Tour

The Faux Floe Tour will be a five minute excursion into the invasive synthetic rhizomatic world made visible by Reenie Charrière.  It will be available in both English and French.

The tour will take place at the SFAC Gallery window installation site at 155 Grove Street. Meet at the main Gallery to join this free adventure. The tour will take approximately 20 minutes.

 Click here for more information about Vast and Undetectable. 

About Science@Cal
In laboratories deep underground, observatories atop mountains, the open plains, ocean depths and dense rainforests, Cal scientists are exploring our natural world, finding answers that explain our past and inform the future. Through free public lectures and events, Science@Cal invites you to join these scientists on their journeys, explore their questions and share their discoveries!

For more information visit, http://scienceatcal.berkeley.edu/

Vast and Undetectable Panel Discussion: Visual Languages of Art and Science

Wednesday, March 21, 2012 6-7:30pm,
Veterans Building, 401 Van Ness Avenue, Room 110B

Reception to follow at the SFAC Gallery from 7:30-8:30pm

Panelists
Dr. Peggy Hellweg Researcher, UC Berkeley Seismological Lab
Bernard Sadoulet, Professor of Physics, Director, UC Institute for Nuclear/Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
Luca Antonucci, Vast and Undetectable exhibiting artist
Jonathon Keats,Vast and Undetectable exhibiting artist
Daniel Small, Vast and Undetectable exhibiting artist

The discussion will be held from 6-7:30pm with a reception in the SFAC Gallery to follow from 7:30-8:30.

 This event will be free and open to the public. Space is limited. Please RSVP to SFAC Gallery, 415.554.6080 or aimee.leduc@sfgov.org by March 16.

For more information about Vast and Undetectable, please click here.

Exhibition dates: January 20 – April 14, 2012

Please join us as for the opening reception of our new exhibition Vast and Undetectable. This is a special opportunity to explore space that is either so large or so small we cannot conceive of it with our known processes of sight and comprehension.
The opening reception is free and open to the public. All ages welcome.

The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery is pleased to present, Vast and Undetectable, curated by Aimee Le Duc featuring work by; Luca Antonucci, Reenie Charrière, Jonathon Keats, Phil Ross, Daniel Small, Heather Sparks and Gail Wight.

Localisation

SFAC Main Gallery

401 Van Ness Avenue (at McAllister), San Francisco, CA 94102

Cheers to all of you who made Passport such a wonderful experience!

The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery (SFAC Gallery) is grateful for all of the hard work and enthusiasm that people put forward to make this event so interesting, fun and rewarding. This year's Passport was the most successful Passport fundraising event to date. The money made from this event will  fund artists in the upcoming year. Your purchase is helping artists generate income and the SFAC Gallery provide programming that furthers cultural dialogue. We believe this is great and worthwhile and we thank you for making it possible.

Passport 2011 artists employed variety of creative solutions to the challenges of producing  small scale works that are interesting, meaningful and continues the language of their larger body of works. Artist John Chiara went so far as to build a small wooden frame that served as a printmaking register for his stamp(s). Although a single image was produced there were three distinct images at varying sizes and colors that were layered to create one final image. The process utilized three people. One to ready the Passport and ink the stamps, one to put the wooden frame into place, set the register blocks and press the stamp and finally another person to blow dry the ink between layers. It looked like a small factory line. People lined up out the door and down the sidewalk for this stamp, but there is no doubt that it was worth the wait.

Chiara was not the only artist to utilize assistants and a small production line for their stamp. Monica Canilao had a stamp that involved cutting, collage, sewing and stamping. The process alone was a work of art. Open the book, cut the page, collage on the page and insert a small strip of paper, sew the strip on, finish with a stamp on top of it all and repeat about 330 times. Having those two works alone is well worth the $25 cost of the Passport, not to mention the other incredible stamps and artworks that were produced.

Each year the SFAC Gallery visits a different neighborhood to host Passport. The impact in each neighborhood is also a worthy cause for participation. Each year patrons are introduced to vendors they may not have known existed. Several people commented on how they had never really explored the Castro and how great it was to find new spaces in their city that they might not have heard about. It is the SFAC Gallery's goal to partner with local business during this event. This partnership helps promote their business, introduce new customers to them and strengthens community.

After a day of meeting artists, collecting art and seeing new neighborhood spots people headed over to QBar for some refreshments and entertainment. This was a lot of fun. Artist Sean McFarland was taking photographs in a low lit room with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and any willing participants for $5. This was not officially a Passport stamp, but it really rounded out the collecting experience. McFarland shot black and white photos with a Fuji Polaroid style camera. With each participant he took time to light the scene, posture the subjects and came up with some truly amazing photos. Also at the after party was DJ'ing, musical performances, drink specials and raffle prizes. QBar generously donated a percentage of bar sales and helped organize and create a fun environment for everyone.

Stay tuned for next year's Passport event. We will be located in a new neighborhood with a new crew of artists and venues for your art collecting experiential pleasure.

For information about  Passport 2011 visit our Facebook page at  http://on.fb.me/SFACPassport2011 or call 415.554.6080.

Tell me more! How did Passport start?
In its inaugural year, Passport 2009 took place in the Mission District, arguably the heart of the local art scene, with stamps created by Libby Black, Michelle Blade, Lisa Congdon, Maria Forde, Colter Jacobsen, Veronica De Jesus, Sean McFarland, Barry McGee, Tucker Nichols, Maria Porges, Clare Rojas, Andrew Schoultz and Marci Washington and a diverse range of neighborhood supporters that served as lively stamping locations, including Needles & Pens, Bombay Ice Cream Company, Paxton Gate and Casa Sanchez.

In 2010, Passport took Hayes Valley by storm, with artist contributions from Timothy Cummings, Richard Diebenkorn (courtesy of the estate), Jamaica Dyer, Ana Teresa Fernandez, Suzanne Husky, Jason Jägel, Ruth Laskey, Paul Madonna, Nigel Poor, Ricardo Richey, Lordy Rodriguez, Jovi Schnell, Travis Somerville, Deth P. Sun, Weston Teruya, and Lindsey White. Small business and organizations in the area such as local bag-designer Timbuk2, AgeSong assisted-living home, the African American Art Culture Complex, and clothing designer Lemon Twist—who outfitted a drill team to parade along stamping route—were integral to the event’s success.

Pasport 2011 was generously supported by Body and the following sponsors.

Robin Scheswohl

Exhibition dates: July 28 - August, 27, 2011

Please join us as we celebrate The Hootenanny! City and County Employees of San Francisco Art Exhibition. This is a special opportunity to take a glimpse at the creativity and vast talents of a selected group of CCSF employees. The opening reception is free and open to the public. All ages welcome.

The jurors Noah Lang, publisher and artist manager of Electric Works, and Justin Hoover, curator & gallery director of SOMArts reviewed hundreds of artworks and selected 13 artists to participate in this special exhibition.

Artists: Amber Crabbe, Rochelle Delavega, Ruth Geos, Paula Kehoe, Vicky Knoop, Thomas McGeorge, Frank Patt, Maggie Preston, Elizabeth Prillinger, Robert Reed, Robin Scheswohl, Beatrice Thomas and Daryl Wells.

Special treat: The Let's Be Frank hot dog cart will be taking care of business in front of the Gallery all evening.

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Additional Exhibition Information

• Ernest Jolly: Natural Reaction
• 2011 Sister City Biennial: San Francisco and Sydney
• Picturing Power & Potential
• 40th Anniversary Celebration and Opening Reception
• Mayor Newsom declares February 12, 2010 San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery Day

Amy Balkin +Alicia Pozniak

Event Date: Wednesday, June 29, 12:30 pm
Event Location: SPUR 654 Mission Street, San Francisco Click here for a map.
Admission: Free for SPUR members, $5 non-members
Please feel free to bring your lunch.

Join San Francisco-based artists Rebar, Amy Balkin and Sergio De La Torre as they discuss their projects for the inaugural Sister City Biennial exhibition, Urbanition, co-presented by the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) and CarriageWorks of Sydney, Australia.

Their proposals range from improving immigrant rights and revamping the Sutro Baths to re-envisioning BART as a more human-centric system. Learn about the artists’ roles as activists and instigators of civic change. Moderated by Urbanition co-curators Meg Shiffler of the SFAC Gallery and independent curator Justine Topfer.

Click here for more information about Urbanition.

Additional Exhibition Information

• Ernest Jolly: Natural Reaction
• 2011 Sister City Biennial: San Francisco and Sydney
• Picturing Power & Potential
• 40th Anniversary Celebration and Opening Reception
• Mayor Newsom declares February 12, 2010 San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery Day

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Angel Florentino, Image courtesy of Central City Hospitality House

Please join us for the As We Live It opening reception:
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 5:30-7:30

Location: SF City Hall, ground floor,
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place,
San Francisco

Hours: Monday – Friday, 8 am – 8 pm
Exhibition dates: June 8 – September 9, 2011

The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and the San Francisco Study Center are proud to present As We Live It, a juried exhibition at historic San Francisco City Hall featuring works created by participants of San Francisco’s Community Behavioral Health Services. The selected artists are  among thousands of San Francisco residents who access the City’s multiple programs of assistance for anything from temporary counseling to places to live, and who receive substance abuse and mental health treatment.

As We Live It celebrates the vast and deep talents of artists who use their visual art practice as one form of articulating their identities in a way that words cannot.

Featured Artists: Rene Avalos, Kami Cheatem, Anamar, Jeff Roysdon and John Wotipka

Artists: Donald Becerra, Charles Blackwell, Tim Cavey, Phillip Cha, Daniel Conant, Will Dempsey, Harry Driggs, Angel Florentino, Maria Enrique-Leach, Mehrin Ganjeizadeh, Ronald Goodman, Ethyl Hayes, Raisa K., Michael King, Lucky Lee, Amelia Lewis, Bill Malcolm, Richard McIzzie, Robert Miklos, Phillip Pena, Cipriano Perez, John Rhodes, James Scoville, Marjorie Shiffer, Bill Snook, Ron Takeuchi, Taeafa Togia, Doris Yen, Raymond Young as well as artists from the Central City Hospitality House permanent collection.

Partnering Organizations: San Francisco Study Center and Central City Hospitality House, Central City Older Adults Mental Health Clinic, Chinatown/North Beach Mental Health Services, Citywide and Community Focus Center, Creativity Explored, Family Service Agency – Older Adult Day Support, Hyde Street Community Services, Janet Pomeroy Center, Mission ACT DPH Mental Health, Mission Mental Health, Office of Self Help, RAMS Inc., San Francisco Department of Public Health, SOMA Mental Health Services.

Click here for more information about As We Live It.

Ernest Jolly, Natural Reaction

A performance inspired by recent natural disasters and those who have survived.

Date: Wednesday, June 1,  7pm
Location: 155 Grove Street, SFAC Window Installation Site with a reception following the performance at the SFAC Main Gallery in the Veterans Building at 401 Van Ness Ave

The SFAC Gallery presents an evening of music, dance and art in a unique San Francisco setting. Under the early evening sky, we’ll gather on the sidewalk outside Bay Area artist Ernest Jolly’s new installation, Natural Reaction, in front of the SFAC Gallery Window Installation Site. Jolly has created an environment that incorporates elements such as water, wind, sound and light, and is inspired by a post- natural disaster sliver of shoreline. This moody and reflective installation is the perfect setting for a performative engagement.

Jolly invited cellist and multimedia artist Chris Evans and members of ahdanco, a Bay Area modern dance company, to create a new work specifically for his SFAC Gallery installation. Join us for this very special one-night only performance, and then head over to the Main Gallery for beverages and socializing afterwards.

Please click here to learn more about Ernest Jolly's installation, Natural Reaction.

Music by Chris Evans
Chris Evans is a multimedia artist with a focus on sound and movement. She plays cello and loop station with the San Francisco-based band Entamoeba. Her interest is in interdisciplinary collaboration and improvisation and the potential for these collaborations to create artistic spaces for the play of imagination between artist and audience. Recent performances include Community Property at the Tenderloin National Forest at the Luggage Store Annex, Nzoto Installation at MOAD and ODC, Freedom Study at Black Choreographers Festival /Dance Mission. To learn more about Chris Evans and Entamoeba please visit www.entamoeba.net.

Dancers: ahdanco Company
ahdanco’s mission is to create innovative, profound, and kinesthetically satisfying modern dance that mines rich veins of that which is brilliant and dark within the human psyche.  Founded in 2002 by Artistic Director Abigail Hosein, ahdanco has performed at venues such as The Ashby Stage, Dance Mission Theater, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center and showings at local festivals including paufve|dance's 8x8x8, West Wave Summerfest, the Julia Morgan Center’s Dance Is Festival, Monterey Dance Festival, RAWdance’s Concept Series, and Jewels in the Square. The company’s repertoire consists of a wide range of modern dance diverse in style, structure, and content and including collaborations with composers, poets, and visual artists. ahdanco has successfully worked with local composers, including Jessie Brodkey, Brandon Dubea, Scott Sìmon, Judith Rosenberg, and Entamoeba; spoken words artists from the Bay Area Poetry Slam Circut; and visual artists Carrie Flemming and Stephen Weiss to name few.  For more information please visit www.ahdanco.org

Abigail Hosein holds her MFA in Performance and Choreography from Mills College and her BA in Psychology from Goucher College. Hosein has performed locally with Hudson Dance, DanceRepertory/San Francisco, Barely Complete Productions, and Mills College Repertory Dance Company. She currently teaches at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center and Santa Clara University. Hosein’s work has been commissioned by Berkeley High, College Prep High, Dance/10 Performing Arts School, the Shawl-Anderson Youth Ensemble and the San Francisco Performances' Dance Mentors Program.

Lauren Baines received a B.A. and B.S. from Santa Clara University, triple majoring in Theatre Arts (with a Dance Emphasis), Art History, and Psychology.  She has been dancing professionally since 2005.  In 2010, she was asked to present her choreography at the de Saisset Museum’s program Beyond 2-D: Portraits in Other Dimensions, and more recently, was selected as part of sjDANCEco’s ChoreoProject Awards.  Currently, Baines serves as Managing Director for the Cardboard Box Theatre Project and works at the Montalvo Arts Center as the Education and Arts Programs Coordinator.

Amanda Whitehead has been with ahdanco since 2007.  She trained at The Washington School of Ballet in Washington, DC and danced with The Washington Ballet from 1994-1996, before leaving to get her bachelor's degree in Spanish with a minor in dance at Princeton University.  She then choreographed for the drama program at The Pennington School in Pennington, New Jersey, for nine years.  She has danced locally with Tammy Cheney and Mo Miner and she now teaches beginner ballet and creative movement for kiddos, teens, and grown-ups at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center.

El Puesto, Sergio De La Torre

Artist Panel Discussion at the San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association (SPUR) featuring San Francisco artists Amy Balkin, Sergio De La Torre and Rebar as part of the Sister City Biennial 2011.

Moderated by SFAC Gallery director and exhibition co-curator, Meg Shiffler and co-curator Justine Topfer.

Event date and time: June 29, 12:30-1:30PM
Location: 654 Mission Street
RSVP by June 28 to Aimee Le Duc, aimee.leduc@sfgov.org or 415.554.6080

Join us at the SFAC Gallery for a between Sister City Biennial exhibiting artists, Amy Balkin, Sergio De La Torre and Rebar as they discuss their past and most recent projects. For our inaugural Biennial exhibition, Urbanition, the curators tasked the selected artists to create works addressed to the Mayors of San Francisco and Sydney that propose visionary solutions to make each city more humane, green and livable.  This is a wonderful opportunity to get to know the exhibiting artists and participate in a discussion about the ideas and solutions proposed in the exhibition.