Monday, May 13, 2013
Luminous Flux featuring Laura Sutro
LUMINOUS FLUX
featuring Laura Sutro
The Adobe Books Backroom Gallery is proud to present LUMINOUS FLUX opening May 10, 2013, featuring new work by painter Laura Sutro, a medium of the gloaming hour.
In her gallery debut, Sutro evokes a sublime isolation, an atmosphere of impasse and uncertainty, between real and virtual vantage points. In these nocturnal settings, a fugitive luminosity recedes out of absorbingly dark monochromatic color. Featuring orchestrated color of a unique and compelling design—vibration, contrasts, varying between synthetic and organic colors. In this exhibition, she presents works of art in various stages.
San Francisco native Laura Sutro received her BFA in Painting from California College of the Arts and is currently based in Los Angeles.
LUMINOUS FLUX was organized by curator Daniella Fernandez Murphy.
Friday, April 5, 2013
Tonight, Just The Two of Us
Raphael Villet and Sean Vranizan are two San Francisco artists whose lives have fatefully intertwined throughout the years. They come together for this show exhibiting entirely new work, with new mediums, and shared vibes. This partnership is not a collaboration, rather an opportunity to see two artist's works in the same place at the same time. Just the two of them.
Opening Reception Friday 5 April @ 7:30 PM
April 5 - April 27
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Say goodbye to new refined energy
Closing Celebration Saturday evening 7-10pm
Cold Boy’s Fire/Digital Physical
Bryan Morello and Augustus Thompson
Curated by Antonia Marsh
Saturday, March 9, 2013
The 2013 Adobe Books Blitz is underway!
The 2013 Adobe Books Blitz is underway!
There are only 6 days left to contribute to the Adobe Indiegogo campaign: http://www.indiegogo.com/
If we don't raise this money, Adobe books will close its doors. It's that simple. Please help!
But hey! Why not acquire a beautiful, original work of art while also donating to the cause?
A major facet of our fundraising effort is taking the form of The Great Adobe Ebay Auction which went LIVE today at 3pm. The current auction round will only last for 48 hours, so visit this link asap to browse and bid:http://myworld.ebay.com/
We've just added artwork listing by some amazing artists: Mitzi Pederson, Randy Colosky, Castle Face Records, Kelly Lynn Jones, Vogtsmith, Jesse Schlesinger, Alena Rudolph, Chris Corales, and Colter Jacobsen. Stayed tun ed for more to be added soon!
Also, check out this great event coming up on Monday to benefit the shop! Donate at least $20 through this Indiegogo link and gain entry to a truly amazing benefit concert on Monday, March 11th at Public Works, including sets by The Dodos, Adam Stevens, Andy Cabic, and more!
Please note that this is a sliding scale admission price - it's a benefit, so the more you can contribute, the better for Adobe!
Thanks, SFWeekly!
Email Katie with any questions: morgankatie@gmail.com.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Forthcoming
Cold
Boy’s Fire / Digital Physical
Adobe Books Back Room
Gallery
March 13 – 31 2013
Opening Tuesday March 12th
7-10pm
Closing Celebration
Saturday March 30th 7-10pm
This exhibition will bring together the work of Augustus Thompson (b.1985) and Bryan Morello (b.1988) for the first time. Examining new methods of self-portraiture, the works included constitute traces or secretions from projects past that, exhibited anew, conjure new narratives and meaning through mode of display and juxtaposition.
In LA-based Thompson’s latest installation, the artist takes on the role of organizer and collagist of cultural information in order to initiate a dialogue about the self. Building an archival self-portrait by appropriating images from various sources including social media feeds, music videos and texts, the artist layers printed works upon one another to form a floor-based collage.
For Digital Physical, Thompson returns selected prints to the wall of
the gallery, where they can be understood autonomously and in conversation with
Morello’s own self-study. Compositions where Chicago rapper Chief Keef’s Instagram
‘selfies’ meet aerial shots of the Grand Canyon taken from airplane windows,
are superimposed on images of the artist’s studio, construction sites and
consumer objects the artist finds desirable to create semi-abstract
compositions. The result is a personal image stream that seems to represent an
attempt to come to terms with the speed at which image streams themselves
undulate and flow, and affect our contemporaneous visual landscape.San Francisco native Morello will create a new wall-based sculpture for Cold Boy’s Fire, based on a monologue the artist wrote for and performed at alternative mobile exhibition space ALTAR last month.
The installation at
Adobe Books Back Room Gallery will comprise sections of
text from the script of the performance integrated into a stage-like sculpture.
Investigating different temporalities of absorbing poetry, words written for
recital return to their textual genesis and invite a new kind of contemplation
from the viewer.
This exhibition is guest curated by Antonia Marsh, a writer and independent curator from London,
currently completing a Masters in Curatorial Practice in California College of
the Arts, San Francisco.
addendum
"When you first see a new picture you are very careful because you may be staring at van Gogh's ear." Rene Ricard
November 2011
Michelle Guintu combines facets of cultural identification and transcendent personal expression, without polish or refinement. Everyday cultural detritus (R. Kelly, McDonalds, Sonic The Hedgehog, canon of Abstraction) realize new potentials in their transformations. The collusion of the discarded distills a Lynchian consciousness, rendering a surreal and nightmarish craft.
“Joe Roberts is a stoney-eyed, scrapped out genius and he’s done art for some of my favorite records in recent memory besides. I can’t exactly say he throws wild parties, yet somehow I’m always at his house when they happen. He’s not allowed inside any bar that I’ve ever tried to meet him at. Yet somehow he’s like the giggly heart of it all, speaking out of the side of his mouth like “you need to be IN on this shit”, like somehow halfway through a pudding-pack he just figured out the connection between Hanna-Barbera and the JFK assassination.” —Matt Jones
Organized by Daniella Fernandez Murphy xo
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| Carletta Sue Kay sings |
photos Michelle Guintu
Keep It Cherried, a two-person exhibition featuring artists Michelle Guintu and Joe Roberts. The show marked these San Francisco artists’ first exhibition at the Backroom Gallery, brought together based on their shared impulse to create through their own obsessions. Based on inherently introverted personal infatuations, the artists presented painting, drawing, and low-budget assemblage.
Making something out of nothing is a prime artistic act. Neither harbor pretensions about their work or the impetus that pushes them to create.
Making something out of nothing is a prime artistic act. Neither harbor pretensions about their work or the impetus that pushes them to create.
Michelle Guintu combines facets of cultural identification and transcendent personal expression, without polish or refinement. Everyday cultural detritus (R. Kelly, McDonalds, Sonic The Hedgehog, canon of Abstraction) realize new potentials in their transformations. The collusion of the discarded distills a Lynchian consciousness, rendering a surreal and nightmarish craft.
“Joe Roberts is a stoney-eyed, scrapped out genius and he’s done art for some of my favorite records in recent memory besides. I can’t exactly say he throws wild parties, yet somehow I’m always at his house when they happen. He’s not allowed inside any bar that I’ve ever tried to meet him at. Yet somehow he’s like the giggly heart of it all, speaking out of the side of his mouth like “you need to be IN on this shit”, like somehow halfway through a pudding-pack he just figured out the connection between Hanna-Barbera and the JFK assassination.” —Matt Jones
Organized by Daniella Fernandez Murphy xo
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Hunger, hunger, sister Anne, leave me if you can
VALLEY
Bay Area off-ness: artist Shalo P offered up a dense array of lowlands that lie inside.
An ensemble of surprisingly supple relationships (and ultimately an ode to Sister Spread.)
Bay Area off-ness: artist Shalo P offered up a dense array of lowlands that lie inside.
An ensemble of surprisingly supple relationships (and ultimately an ode to Sister Spread.)
Thursday, November 8, 2012
RIP Gilles Deleuze
LR-X
September 2012
"Last Renaissance-X"
It is an experience similar to a leap, a leap breaking out of a window and jumping into infinity. A wake up call and walking out of your room and out of your house door.
"I see the plane, and I see the plane crash into the building. I see the building burn, and I see the building fall down. I see imagery that until now did not exist in reality, only in the fiction of film. Seeing it with your own eyes, in real time--not on the screen, not projected by the frame of a television set, not in the communal darkness of a movie theater--seeing it like this is irreconcilable, like a hallucination, a psychotic break." - A.M Homes - The New York Times 9/11. "The Virtual Window" - Anne Friedburg
---In this room five minds have melted into one cohesive 21st century "hyper human" frozen in real time with real objects. Everything you are seeing here is off-line.
---In this personal lullaby the screen (window) famously connected to modern technology has dissolved and new unknown circuitry is invented; new possibilities, pleasures, and risks areformed and leap into a whole new beyond. Images and information are directly "up-loaded" bypassing --"invisible"-- and straight to your brain.
---In this 21st century the screen(window) has left the cinema, television, and computer. They have all melted together and lost their true identity and source. Windows have become mobile and the audience has become the "player" and the "user". Similar to chemically based photography losing its origin to digital images to the cinema losing its origin to the smart phone. In this microcosm exhibition the five minds display painting, photography, video, and installation as an "out-of-field"/ "radical elsewhere" inviting the audience into a cohesive collaboration bedroom to witness a "hyper-human" in seclusion dwelling into the depths of technophilia.
The event is November and the year is 1995 - Philosopher Gilles Deleuze (most famous for his main influence in philosophy, literature, film, and art) is in his french apartment-- he opens the window and throws himself to his death.
R.I.P Gulles Deleuze January 18, 1925 - November 4, 1995.
We invite you to come in - The door is always open.
Malcolm Kenter
George Lochman
Ian Maberley
Greg Shimada
Rafael Delacruz
www.lastrenaissance.tumblr.
September 2012
"Last Renaissance-X"
It is an experience similar to a leap, a leap breaking out of a window and jumping into infinity. A wake up call and walking out of your room and out of your house door.
"I see the plane, and I see the plane crash into the building. I see the building burn, and I see the building fall down. I see imagery that until now did not exist in reality, only in the fiction of film. Seeing it with your own eyes, in real time--not on the screen, not projected by the frame of a television set, not in the communal darkness of a movie theater--seeing it like this is irreconcilable, like a hallucination, a psychotic break." - A.M Homes - The New York Times 9/11. "The Virtual Window" - Anne Friedburg
---In this room five minds have melted into one cohesive 21st century "hyper human" frozen in real time with real objects. Everything you are seeing here is off-line.
---In this personal lullaby the screen (window) famously connected to modern technology has dissolved and new unknown circuitry is invented; new possibilities, pleasures, and risks areformed and leap into a whole new beyond. Images and information are directly "up-loaded" bypassing --"invisible"-- and straight to your brain.
---In this 21st century the screen(window) has left the cinema, television, and computer. They have all melted together and lost their true identity and source. Windows have become mobile and the audience has become the "player" and the "user". Similar to chemically based photography losing its origin to digital images to the cinema losing its origin to the smart phone. In this microcosm exhibition the five minds display painting, photography, video, and installation as an "out-of-field"/ "radical elsewhere" inviting the audience into a cohesive collaboration bedroom to witness a "hyper-human" in seclusion dwelling into the depths of technophilia.
The event is November and the year is 1995 - Philosopher Gilles Deleuze (most famous for his main influence in philosophy, literature, film, and art) is in his french apartment-- he opens the window and throws himself to his death.
R.I.P Gulles Deleuze January 18, 1925 - November 4, 1995.
We invite you to come in - The door is always open.
Malcolm Kenter
George Lochman
Ian Maberley
Greg Shimada
Rafael Delacruz
www.lastrenaissance.tumblr.
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