Monstrosities in San Francisco

Jillian Mcdonald
Monstrosities
June 20 - July 23, 2009
Rosenthal Gallery
365 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103
opening with Zombie Makeup Station, Saturday June 20, 2009, 4 to 9 PM

"Opening Saturday, June 20th at Michael Rosenthal Gallery is the premiere of Canadian-born, New York-based Jillian Mcdonald’s Zombie Apocalypse filmed in the Northern California Headlands, alongside three other video works and a series of lenticular photos, all of which comprise Mcdonald’s upcoming exhibition Monstrosities."

Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 am to 7 pm

ARTBOOM 09'

Marcin Ramocki and ARTBOOM 09' have the pleasure to present the European premiere of "Brooklyn DIY: A Story of Williamsburg Art Scene".

The screening will take place on Saturday, June 13th, 7pm
Kino Pod Baranami, Rynek Główny 27, Krakow



ARTBOOM Festival
Krakow, Poland - June 12-22, 2009

ARTBOOM 09 is a first edition of a cyclical event which will focus on art in the urban space.

featuring works by: Paweł Althamer, Mirosław Bałka, Rahim Blak, Rafał Bujnowski, Brad Downey, Karolina Kowalska, Norman Leto, Teresa Murak, Joanna Rajkowska, Marcin Ramocki, Pipilotti Rist, Jadwiga Sawicka, Roman Signer, Paul Slocum, Grzegorz Sztwiertnia, Julian Tomaszuk, Twożywo , Erwin Wurm, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Zeus

lectures/presentations by: Adam Budak, Michaela Crimmin, Regine Debatty and Robert Rumas

With special Atari music performances by Paul Slocum.

Organized by the Krakow Festival Office and the East of Art Foundation Curated by Małgorzata Gołębiewska.

Brooklyn DIY @ El Parqueadero, Bogota

Please joins us for the Latin American premiere event of "Brooklyn DIY: A Story of Williamsburg Art Scene" at El Parqueadero, Bogota.

The screening will take place on Saturday, May 30th, 5 pm, first floor of Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Calle 11 # 4 – 21, Bogota, Colombia.

Curated by Ernesto Restrepo.




Related events:

"Hacker Art y prácticas alternativas de navegación por Internet ", lecture/workshop by Marcin Ramocki, May 27-28, 2009

"8 BIT" (Ramocki, Strawhand 2006), screening and Q&A, May 29, 5pm

All events are free and open to the public.


El Parqueadero is a collaborative project of Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño and La Banco de la República promoting contemporary media arts.

"2 X 3 X 10" @ vertexList, opening Saturday 05.23

vertexList has the pleasure of presenting

2 X 3 X 10: MARSHA COTTRELL, MATT HARLE, JAMES SHEEHAN
an exhibition organized by Charles Goldman.

A reception will take place on Saturday, May 23, 2009, from 6 to 9 p.m.
And the exhibition will be on display through Sunday, June 21st, 2009.

2 X 3 X 10: MARSHA COTTRELL, MATT HARLE, JAMES SHEEHAN, examines two works made ten years apart by each of these three mid-career artists.
“Marsha, Matt and James are some of the first people I met when I moved to New York over 10 years ago. There’s something about "intimacy" in this show -- it exists between these artists and within (and between) their works. The work suggests a language just beyond the viewer’s reach. One that is simultaneously infinite and intimate in scope and one that continues to resonate.”–Charles Goldman



Marsha Cottrell has exhibited solo in New York and Paris and been included in group exhibitions at the Tang Teaching Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, and the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. Cottrell has received awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the N. Y. Foundation for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.



Matt Harle has exhibited widely, including "Linked" at Heskin Contemporary in New York City and "The Medium is the Message" at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. His upcoming exhibitions include "Silent as Glue" at The Oakville Galleries in Toronto. Harle is the recipient of Guggenheim and Pollock-Krasner grants.




James Sheehan has had solo shows in New York, Zurich and Montreal. Selected group shows include "181st Annual: An Invitational" The National Academy of Design Museum, NY, "Working in Brooklyn" at the Brooklyn Museum, "Ehrenshal" at the Haus der Kunst Museum in Munich, Germany, “Painting as Paradox" at Artists Space in New York City. He has received numerous awards, grants and residencies, including NYFA, Pollock-Krasner. Charles Goldman multifaceted practice explores the cyclical nature of life and the standardized units used in its measurement. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally. His work is included in public and private collections.

Charles Goldman multifaceted practice explores the cyclical nature of life and the standardized units used in its measurement. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally. His work is included in public and private collections.

vertexList gallery hours are Friday, Saturday, Sunday 1pm - 6 pm, or by appointment. We are located between Graham and Manhattan Avenues on Bayard Street. For more info please visit our website www.vertexlist.net or call (646) 573-5837.

Undead in the Night, Jillian Mcdonald

Undead in the Night May 28 - 30, 9pm to 1am.
Malmö, Sweden
*Already sold out!*

The performance Undead in the Night is a collaboration between Jillian Mcdonald (New York) and Lilith Performance Studio in Malmö, Sweden that involves over 100 actors, out in the forest in the middle of the night. The artist places two undead creatures (hideous Zombies and stunning Vampires) in the same scenes with their victims, violating the codes and boundaries of the horror genre, and creating an impossible scenario. The observer becomes a visitor in a living horror movie. Starting at twilight a bus transfers the audience 8 people at a time to an undisclosed forest location. Following a path in the dark various scenes come alive along a 3 km long horror path.

Info here.
More info including press release here.
Article in Sweden's People magazine by Mirjam Johansson here.

"Kiosk" @ STRP, Eindhoven

via: http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com

http://www.strp.nl/strp/artist/125

Blanka Amezkua @ vertexList: opening Friday, April 17

vertexList space has the pleasure to present “Mala Moska”, a solo exhibition by Blanka Amezkua.

A reception will take place on Friday, April 17th, 2007 from 7pm - 10pm, with the artist in attendance.

The exhibition will be on display until Sunday, May 17th, 2009.




Blanka Amezkua presents several series of image and text works made from modified and reconfigured Mexican adult comic books. In these new works, Ms. Amezkua explores and reveals the codes and language of pulp pornographic comic books commonly found through out Mexico. She uses invasive techniques and materials to isolate the images and separate the text from its’ original context, creating intensely disembodied figures and a cacophony of dialogue. The works in the exhibition celebrate the vernacular language and slang of pulp fiction and popular culture prevalent in Mexico as well as demolish the prevalent sexist clichés and stereotypes in a transgressive act of reclamation.



Ms. Amezkua hails from the Bronx wher she initiated the Bronx Blue Bedroom Project in 2008. She was included in How Soon is Now? (AIM 28) at The Bronx Museum of the Arts and has shown at El Museo del Barrio, Queens Museum of Art, Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA) in San Jose and recently had a solo show at The Taller Boricua in Spanish Harlem. Mentions of her work are included in the New York Times, TimeOut, Daily News, Queens Chronicle, among others. Her fututre exhibitions include: There Goes My Hero, curated by Erin Riley-Lopez at The Center for Book Arts; A Complex Weave, curated by Marty Rosenberg and Susan Isaacs at Rutgers University; and an upcoming project for Jersey City Museum in 2010 curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado.



VertexList gallery hours are Friday, Saturday, Sunday 1pm - 6 pm, or by appointment.
We are located between Graham and Manhattan Avenues on Bayard St. For more info
please visit our website www.vertexlist.net or call 646 573 5837.