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  GROUP EXHIBITS (3)


  

NOW OPEN

ARTsoup 20 

An eclectic presentation of contemporary works in a diverse array of media.  Curator:  Matt McKinley

 

JUNE 16 - SEPT 15, 2009

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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.

venue: 
2178 Palou Ave (x. Industrial Blvd)
venue: hours by appointment - email McKinley Art Solutions for an appointment
 
 
Featuring:  John Ebersole, Aisjah Hopkins, Kazuyo Leue, Youngjin Han, Richard Herring, Blake Tucker, Anna Seven
 

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SERENITY, SPRING 09

Sponsored by UCSF Center of Excellence at The Center for Reproductive 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

 

APRIL 21 - JULY 21, 2009

venue:  UCSF Center for Reproductive Health Floors 3 & 7
2356 Sutter St (x. Divisadero) SF, CA
hours:  11a - 2p M - F or by appointment (contact McKinley Art Solutions)
 
 
ARTISTS' RECEPTION:  Tuesday, May 26 5:30 - 7:30p
reception on floors 3 and 7
astrology readings by CHARLES VICKERS
 

 Featuring:  Methanie Dempsay Binder, Victoria Veedell, Kenneth De Vilbiss, Douglass Lesser, John Ebersole, Janis Anton

 

 

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A MOMENT'S PEACE 

 

Visual presentations of how 'inner peace' can be achieved internally and externally .
 

When you think of ‘A Moment’s Peace’, what comes to mind? A specific location, meditation on an object, time with loved ones, or a newly primed canvas with loaded brush in hand? In seeking a variety of interpretations of a moments peace, this exhibit also seeks to show how diverse conceptualizations all contribute to illuminating the possibilities of how inner peace can be achieved.  read more>>

Curator: Matt McKinley

69 Green St. (x. Battery) SF
hours:  M - F  9am - 5pm 
 

 FEATURING:    Jacquelyn Paull, Maeve Croghan 

ALSO FEATURING:   Katherine Kodama, Victoria Q. Legg, Jennifer Mack, Daniel Malone, Gurpran Rau, Shawndeya, Anna Seven

 

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top - 'Cathedral Vineyards' Oil on Canvas 22 x 28 (M. Croghan) 
bottom - 'Starry Night' Digital Graphic Print 16 x 20 (J. Paull)

 

 

 

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SOLO EXHIBITS (5)

 


 

 
 
 

DREAMSCAPES 

Atmospheric landscapes explore sensual expression, timelessness, and emotion rendered in oil on canvas by Audrey Kral
 
W San Francisco
181 3rd St (x. Howard) SF, CA
 
ARTIST'S RECEPTION: Wednesday, June 10, 6 - 8pm
(reception convenes on the Mezzanine Balcony (above XYZ Cafe)

The paintings in this exhibit are from Audrey Kral’s ‘Dreamscapes’ series which explore atmospheres of sensual expression, timelessness, and emotion. These works have a mysterious, beckoning quality, often evoking the impression of a landscape. Combining the indelible color memories of her travels with a painting technique cultivated through the watercolor medium, Audrey uses the richness of oil paint to explore the depths of the mind, the emotional resonance of colors, and the transformational quality of nature. Through an intuitive process, her mind and body partner with the paint, canvas, brushes, turpentine, and gravity to explore the depths of beauty and wonder in the ordinary expressed as vibrant colors, soft brushstrokes, and bold compositions. In an improvisation of space and time, color and form spontaneously dance together to the rhythm of Audrey’s process, their interaction recorded onto the emptiness of raw canvas. 

Image: 'Contemplation: Space' Oil on Canvas 24 x 18 2008

 

 

  

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NOW IS ALREADY PAST
Journals in Mixed Media by Gianfranco Paolozzi
 
MAY 27 - JULY 15, 2009
 
342 Grant Ave (x. Bush St.) SF, CA
hours: 24 / 7
 
ARTIST'S RECEPTION:  Wednesday, June 17 5 - 7pm 
 
When I asked about his works, Gianfranco Paolozzi simply replied, “Art is life and only life”.  This succinct statement, simple, direct and, in his case, accurate, comes not from the standpoint of elitist dogma espousing ‘A’rt’s pre-eminence over all other aspects of life.  To the contrary, it is a statement from a maker who, with an understanding of the ephemeral nature of life and a compulsion to explore the possibilities within each moment in time, uses his marks to log his presence.  Each canvas becomes a summation of these marks, distillations of Gianfranco’s unconscious thoughts, energy, and emotional state at the time they are made, which create a ‘permanent’ record that speaks to the both being in the moment and the interrelationship of one moment to the next.  – Matt McKinley, curator
 
“I need to start to mark my presence here. I start with a line. I start with a color. I start on one canvas. After the first canvas absorbs the initial lines the second canvas has marks, a continuation of what was present, now past, on the first canvas. The third and forth canvasses follow. All white surfaces are marked. I'm here. I was there. I can continue to mark the past on all the surfaces. All the lines become actions of the past. I'm trying to be in the present. One small line, 2, 3, 4 more........... Soon [as] I start the mark, I created the past. I do not know the future. I cannot be in the future. The canvasses are work of the past already. How can I stop in the present? Can I stop in the present? When I die, that moment when I'll die, that dot of the line of my life, that small dot that becomes past, that small dot that interrupts the line, that line, my line, my life, is that dot, that moment, going to be the eternal present?” – G. Paolozzi

 

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TWO WEEKS LEFT 

 

 

SUPERMONKS
 
Works by Clay Vajgrt
 
MAY 20 - JULY 8
 
4049 Hartford St (x 18th St) SF, CA
hours: 2p - 2a daily 
 

I am one of the first generation raised on television and I have found my visual language to be very affected by it and other electronic media as well as comic books. My childhood was rife with fantasies of Superheroes and other “heroes” who were always portrayed in the violence of their heroic deeds. I have re-created thesewarriors into new Peace Heroes as these days I find those who can be at peace in the world to be my new heroes.

 
 image: 'SuperMonk' Archival Print 14 x 11 2008
 
 
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CLOSING JUL 7
 
 
GENTLE GIANTS
Oil paintings by Dimitri Kourouniotis
 
 
MAY 6 - JULY 7, 2009
 
 2223 Market Street (x. 16th) SF, CA
hours: 5:30 - 9:30p Su - Th; 11pm F, Sa; 11a - 2p Sun brunch
 
 
ARTIST'S RECEPTION:  Wednesday, May 20 5:30 - 7pm 
 

Horizon lines become the meeting point for complex, yet harmonious, color interplay.  Expansive skies dominated by ephemeral, atmospheric giant clouds recall both the vistas that inspired this series of nature-based compositions and the true scale of man compared to the world around us.  Bold colors attest to the energy that connects us to our environment.

Dimitri explains, "In creating art I understand more about how I relate to the world and to myself beyond the physical.”  His influences include Rothko, Picasso, Da Vinci, Kline and many Japanese Zen ink painters and calligraphers. His paintings are created as he relates the energy and momentum of the present into color, intention and emotion.  
 
 
image: 'Gentle Giants' 12 x 12 Oil on Canvas 2008
 
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DEFINING CHAOS - Attempting to harness visual energy

Oil on canvas works by Kathryn Arnold
 
APRIL 29 - JULY 29, 2009 
 
555 Second St (x. Brannan) SF, CA
hours: M - F 11:30 - 2p; M - Sat 4p - 2a
 
“These paintings explore the nature of defining chaos by juxtaposing expressive mark making with the ordered constraint of a see-through grid. I see this as similar to words giving definition to experience. The grid in these works serves as a device for creating boundaries that enables the containment of visual energy which is activated through the use of color.” – Kathryn Arnold

Kathryn has shown her work on a national scale, from New York City to Hawaii, Los Angeles, Chicago, Kansas City and St Louis in commercial galleries, university galleries, and non-profit community art spaces. Notably, she is a NEA Regional Fellowship recipient amongst other fellowships, grants and awards she has received. She has been written about by Alan Artner, Chicago Tribune and Raphael Rubenstein of Art in America and her work has appeared in the New York Times. Her work is included in numerous public and private collections. 

image:  'I Need I Want' 66 x 48 Oil on Canvas 2008

 
 
 
 

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EMERGING ARTISTS EXHIBITION at the California Institute of Integral Studies


Cosponsored by McKinley Art Solutions
Funded by the Phyllis Jackson Memorial Fund for the Arts

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May 8–June 30

 

Artists:  David Rose, John Haines, David Boudreau, Gordon Beebe, Philip Ringler


Reception
Friday, May 8, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM
CIIS Minna Street Center  695 Minna Street, Second Floor

The Emerging Artists Exhibition affords the opportunity for several artists from the Bay Area community to display their work, as well as receive financial support for exhibit materials through the Phyllis Jackson Memorial Fund for the Arts.

 


 

 A4A_card_2009.jpgART FOR AIDS - juried silent and live auction August 28, 2009

 

benefitting UCSF AIDS Health Project

 

Bringing together a creative community of artists, galleries, art donors and art patrons, sponsors and media, Art for AIDS connects the art world, a community deeply aware of the epidemic's toll, with one of the nation's leading AIDS prevention and care organizations.  In support of this cause, McKinley Arts Solutions has been invited to recommend artists for participation in the silent auction.

 

Artists - contact Matt McKinley (info@mckinleyartsolutions.com) for more information on submitting work DEADLINE FOR INQUIRIES - MAY 22 (JURY DATE MAY 27)


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

ART FOR ALL SEASONS '08 RECEPTION VIDEO (courtesy of SOMArts Cultural Center / George Aguilar, run time 9:21):

 
 
The Toy Drive resulted in two overflowing barrels of toys this holiday season!  Thank you to all who participated.  
Our Guitar Heroes ranged in age from 7 to 84 - rock on, superstars! (watch for my leg kick in the video..)
Tenuta di Arceno's Chianti was a surprise hit and Obsello's Absinthe provided warmth on a cold winter day..
The Kid's Art Gallery showed that art is alive in the next generation with works featuring figurative to abstract forms.
 and, yes, artwork was sold!
 
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