2178 Palou Ave (x. Industrial Blvd) available M - F by appointment - please schedule at least 48 hours in advance; contact: info @ mckinleyartsolutions.com
ARTsoup ENCORE
A showcase for contemporary interpretations of diverse maker-determined themes expressed in traditional materials and methods as well as new media techniques. Curator: Matt McKinley
ABOUT THE VENUE: Bayshore Studios is a commercial film and photography studio rental space used mainly for shooting advertising campaigns. In addition to traditional sales and rentals of the artwork on display, each installation promotes participating artists to Art Directors who specify and rent our art for backgrounds for movies and other film projects.
contact info @ mckinleyartsolutions.com to schedule a tour
SERENITY WINTER 2010
Sponsored by UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women's Health the 'Serenity' series invites Bay Area artists to present a body of work that interprets the idea of ‘serenity’ in order to inspire relaxation, well-being and calm.
Curator: Matt McKinley
Featuring:
BLAZIN
CANDACE ANDERSON
DIANE HSIA
ELIZABETH KOVAL MAFFEO
JAMIE STOBIE
KRISTINE BRANDT
LINDA RUGGIERI
MARY LEE RYBAR
MELISSA WAGNER
PATTI ZIMMER
RUTH C. MOON
ARTISTS RECEPTION:
Tuesday, JANUARY 26, 5:00 - 7:30pm
exhibit on floors 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ~ astrology readings by Charles Vickers
SAN FRANCISCO'S SIGNS ARE A MAJOR PART OF ITS VISUAL APPEAL
69 Green St. (x. Battery) SF ~ venue open M - F 9am - 5pm; open to the public, no appointment needed
SIGNS OF THE CITY
Signs Of The City are part of the pastiche of visual information that informs our perception of San Francisco's visual appeal at the street level. They are also the images that speak to the unique features of San Francisco - places in San Francisco where people gather, lives overlap and neighborhoods are defined.
Curator: Matt McKinley
Featuring:
HILARY WILLIAMS, JOHN BERGHOLM, CHARLOTTE KAY, BLAKE TUCKER, METHANIE DEMPSAY BINDER, NICOLE FERRARA, AINDRILA, MARIUS STARKEY, JACK FREEMAN, JEANNE HAUSER, BERYL LANDAU, JAMIE STOBIE, MICHAEL BELL
Mitchell Confer's imagery is informed by his admiration of nature's adaptability to ever changing environments and the metaphor of flora's capacity for rebirth as an example of the value of persistence in achieving one's goals. Mitchell focuses on color interaction in his image collages to create vibrant compositions that use hues to symbolize the many path's of life, negative space to emphasize shapes and floral forms and the flora itself to represent resiliency.
"My work explores how unexpected elements combine in surprising ways. Nature and technology come together in harmony. Organic materials washing over technology, deconstructed images, paint and photography, when combined, create an invitation to see things with fresh eyes.
For the last decade I've been inspired by Precisionists, a long line of artists who developed a style that bridged the displines of drawings, painting and photography, creating objects that are recognizable and yet border on abstraction. Precisionists, such as Charles Sheeler, Charles Demuth, Georgia O’Keffe and Edward Hopper incorporated geometric shapes from architecture and landscapes into a form of art that influenced, and was influenced by, Cubism and Futurism.
Unexpected elements can come together in harmony. I work to create a visual conversation between nature and abstraction, with a combination of classical technique and modern technology. I combine elements of nature or architecture through digital photography, computer deconstruction and paint. I've spent the last 18 years developing and experimenting with new techniques and new forms of art that spring from a unique combination of techniques and inspiration. From technology, and from dirt. " ~ Mitchell Confer
MEET BUNNYMATIC, MR ROGERS AND A FEW OF THEIR FRIENDS on
THURSDAY, FEB 25 5-7PM
BUNNYMATIC AND FRIEND
works by MR. ROGERS
"I first learned about Shepard Fairey's work when I was in school in San Diego. I loved the way he pulled images from different media and re-shaped and re-purposed them. And I loved how he shared his art with the world by way of posters and stickers. I began following similar tactics. I found images in children's books and other sources which I began re-purposing for my own stickers and t-shirts. After moving to San Francisco and meeting Dave Warnke, I was inspired to do less image appropriation and more development on my own characters. I now have a small set of four characters which I use in most everything I do.
With these characters as a constant, I've been exploring different mediums in which I can represent them. Primarily, I work with paints: acrylic, spray paint, paint pens. And often, I use recycled materials as my canvas: windows, desk chairs, oven doors, etc. More recently, I've been doing more wood sculpture pieces. These pieces give my characters a new dimension and me a new challenge that was not present in my earlier paintings. I enjoy working with my hands, and I love thinking of new ways I can render my characters for people to enjoy." ~ Mr. Rogers
"I was born in Washington D.C, and grew up in a Maryland suburb. This ordinary life was punctuated by my father’s occasional work for the United Nations, which twice brought us to Israel to live. The Suez Crisis of 1956 – 57 flung foreign dependents out of the country. With our beloved dog (who had come with us from America) we were sent to Greece and then on to Rome.
After five and a half months we were reunited with our father. En route home we visited the remains of Pompeii, where the adult men were shown certain mysterious murals while women and children waited in the ancient street. My circumspect father never told me what they were.
Years later I saw Fellini’s Satyricon in Boston. I rode home to Cambridge on a tiny borrowed bicycle. There I was on a weird machine in a fabulous darkened city. Just like the movie. I often think about the Greeks and Romans, for whom the ancient world was modern. The people who come to us in broken statues and mosaics, faded murals, and scraps of text. What will remain of our lives in two thousand years? Which of our stories will remain?
When I began this work it was to celebrate the iconic beauty of men. It is also an attempt to preserve those unseen Pompeiian paintings, those vanished lives, and our own. " - A. Ogus
Spheres are my favorite things to draw. To render a soft looking, precisely round, three dimensional form on a two dimensional surface is both challenging and rewarding.
The series began as an experiment. I wanted to test a fixative that would prevent my drawing from smearing when painting around it. I grabbed a small canvasand drew a heavily shaded sphere with charcoal and chalk, sprayed it and put it aside. When I walked in the next day, the simplicity, strength and weight of the image inspired me to do more. I created eight more canvases just like it. As the compositions became larger and paint replaced charcoal and chalk, the crusty texture became reminiscent of a childhood memory, dragging my finger tips along our neighbor’s cinder block wall – gray, dry and raspy.
One day while sipping a cup of tea outside my studio, a passer by asked to enter and have a look. She gazed upon a large diptych for quite awhile. She emerged with a thoughtful smile upon her face and said “powerful and poetic”. Works for me!" ~ S. Gooch
Quirky characters and collaged surreal narratives influenced by Oakland's urban environment
exhibit on display in XYZ Restaurant, XYZ Cafe, Library Room (2nd Floor)
W San Francisco
181 3rd St (x. Howard) SF, CA
ROUGH AROUND THE EDGES
paintings by GARRETT ROBINSON
One gets the impression that Garrett Robinson’s characters are…experienced.They’ve seen things, they’ve done things and they wear expressions that suggest they’re not quite ready to recede into tranquil, quite lives.Their faces show the wear of living for the moment, not the wear of defeat.Maybe they can’t get out of their own way but neither can we stop watching them, waiting for their next adventure, hoping for the next chance to be amused.
Of his work, Garrett says, "I can't explain how I translate my ideas into art, it's just subconscious. I like painting and started doing it as a kid when I was skating around town. Like other artists, I get an idea and build on it. Sometimes, it can be difficult to realize my 'vision' so the actual process can take from days to weeks and, sometimes, years."
...McKinley Art Solutions has been invited to curate an exhibit at GENSLER in San Francisco...more details soon!
ONE YEAR LATER
A Community Photographic Exhibit of the 56th Inauguration
January 20 - March 21, 2010
African American Art and Culture Complex
3RD FLOOR HALL GALLERY
762 Fulton Street
San Francisco
curated by Melorra J. Green,
AAACC Visual Arts Coordinator
featuring the work of CHAZ GUEST:
Chaz Guest's 'President Obama', a 40 color serigraph available in San Francisco exclusively through McKinley Art Solutions, is the 'welcoming image' for this celebratory exhibit of Barack Obama's historic inauguration as President.
STORY BEHIND THE IMAGE:
Chaz first met President Obama when the then Senator Obama selected a portrait of Thurgood Marshall done by Chaz for his Capitol Hill office. Subsequently, Chaz was invited to be the emissary for Presidnet Obama to present one of the serigraphs in this series to the Mayor of Obama City, Japan in January, 2009.
"Several local community members, including the AAACC Executive Director, worked tirelessly to campaign for Barack Obama and also flew over 3,000 miles to witness the historic occasion. We collectively watched the first African-American President be sworn into office and now this exhibition will highlight, celebrate, and give a first-hand perspective on what it was like to be in Washington D.C and experience history unfold. Unite with us as we recapture the energy, emotion, and enthusiasm that swept the Bay Area and the entire world last January." ~ Melorra J. Green
Inquiries about Chaz Guest's 'President Obama' serigraph:
Chaz Guest's 'President Obama', a 40 color serigraph available in San Francisco exclusively through McKinley Art Solutions, is the 'welcoming image' for this celebratory exhibit of Barack Obama's historic inauguration as President.