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Four SF Art Exhibitions in Usual and
Unusual Places
By Alex Bigman on January 23, 2013 9:00 AM
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Adam Friedman, "Space & Time"; Acrylic on panel, 48 x 48 in.
In search of great art, this week we're hopping between conventional exhibition spaces and
some more unusual ones. Regular haunts like SFMOMA's Artists Gallery at Fort Mason and
Eleanor Harwood Gallery are always solid bets, but the ground floor of City Hall and the
Burritt Room + Tavern (which also happens to be one of our favorite watering holes) are
showing work too, and commanding our attention with what they're hanging.
Space and Time, and Other Mysterious Aggregations, at Eleanor Harwood
Gallery
For artist Adam Friedman, the natural world is steeped in a mystery impenetrable to human
sense and methodology. We come up with methodologies and concepts for measuring nature,
ranging from space age technologies to the age-old binaries of space and time, up and down,
near and far. But at a certain point, Friedman believes, these structures fail. This is where we
find his brilliant, surreal canvases. Here, rules of perspective, distance and light bend; space
can become a solid object and places fold on top of one another. The intention is a bold one:
To restore a sense of wonder in what exists.
Space and Time, and Other Mysterious Aggregations runs from January 25 through March 2
at Eleanor Harwood Gallery, 1295 Alabama Street. Opening Reception: Saturday, January
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Noisy Nameless Trapezoids, at Burritt Room + Tavern
In response to the Burritt Room + Tavern's distinctive atmosphere–a jazzy, exposed-brick
hideaway in Union Square's Mystic Hotel–local artist Jennifer Kaufman produced a series of
installations that she titled Noisy Nameless Trapezoids and Stammering Trapezoids. "I make
lines and forms that fumble their way through gravity and into an infinite balancing act," she
says. By the third cocktail, who doesn't do the same? Kaufman's show marks the The Burritt
Room's inaugural exhibition of what the bar plans to be a quarterly series. Stop by Thursday
evening for an opening reception featuring a gin-based cocktail inspired by the artist's work:
"Sparckling Orchid." The event is open to the public, but do take a minute to RSVP (see
below).
Noisy Nameless Trapezoids runs from January 24 through March at the Burritt Room +
Tavern in the Mystic Hotel, 417 Stockton Street. Opening Reception: Thursday, January 24
at 5:30 pm (RSVP to [email protected])
Carol Lefkowitz, Toru Sugita, Juan Miguel Santiago, at SFMOMA Artists Gallery
What is space? The line of inquiry is ludicrous to all but a handful of physicists, philosophers
and artists, the latter of which we can count on to produce endlessly fascinating work–
something SFMOMA Artists Gallery's current show aims to showcase. Carol Lefkowitz
modulates the opacity of her paint splotches and drips to produce what she calls "image-less
space"; Toru Sugita, a Bay Area transplant from Japan, uses etching and wood block prints to
convey the physicality of three-dimensional space; and Juan Miguel Santiago creates cavity-
bearing ceramic sculptures to explore notions of interior and façade, place, and memory.
Carol Lefkowitz, Toru Sugita, Juan Miguel Santiago runs through February 21 at SFMOMA
Artists Gallery, Building A, Fort Mason Center
Take Me Away, at City Hall
It seems almost devilishly appropriate that a show such as Take Me Away should wind up on
the ground floor a government building–City Hall, no less. A juried photography exhibition
organized by the San Francisco Arts Commission, Take Me Away explores the desire to
escape, to evade or overcome the everyday, perhaps by trading stability for a motor home, or
fashioning oneself a new identity entirely. Culled together from an open call for submissions,
the show consist of over 100 works by eighteen emerging and non-professional artists, whose
work will hang alongside series by three celebrated photographers, David Gardner, Alice
Shaw and Rebecca Horne, each of which somehow captures or constructs an effort to evade
the mundane.
Take Me Away runs from January 30 through May 10, at the Ground Floor of City Hall, 1 Dr.
Carlton B Goodlett Place. Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 30, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
under Arts + Culture, art, galleries
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fanstastic review of friedman's work. fyi: the show is tonight not saturday.
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Here's another one: Exhibition of the Illuminations by David Normal at the
Atrium Ballroom (adjoining the AMC 14 Theater) at 1000 Van Ness, San Francisco.
http://normal.bz/
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