Thursday, December 7th, 2006
Under the Mistletoe: Art & Good Cheer
KSW's annual holiday party & art auction
hosted by KSW's Board of Directors
Start off your holiday season with Kearny Street Workshop's annual holiday party & art auction, this year at the landmark Potrero Hill Neighborhood House. Eats, drinks, a live and silent auction featuring work by some of the Bay Area's top talent, ornament-making, music, more, all in a Julia Morgan-designed house overlooking the city.
Art auction features work by SF Bay Area talents Kevin B. Chen,
Derek Chung,
Binh Danh, Rob Dario,
Nancy Hom,
Bob Hsiang,
Cat Huang,
Rosemary Kim / Agent R,
Han Pham,
Shizue Seigel,
Truong Tran, Jennifer Wofford, Dino Ignacio, and Christine Wong Yap, among others--see full list below--and is hosted by comic and rising star Ali Wong. Live music performances by Lumaya and Golda Supanova.
Date/Time: Thursday, December 7th , 2006; 6-10pm
Silent Auction: 6 - 9.30PM
Live Auction: 8 - 9PM
Location: Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, 953 De Haro (@ 19th St.), San Francisco
Cost: $10 at door
no additional fee for auction registration.
Info: info@kearnystreet.org; 415.503.0520; www.kearnystreet.org
Featuring artwork by
and others.
& featuring musical performances by Golda Supanova and Lumaya.
auction hosted by Ali Wong
About the Artists
Kevin B. Chen works in printmaking, sculpture, collage, and illustration. He's been living in Northern California since 1994. He has exhibited his own work locally at Southern Exposure, Ampersand Gallery, Barbara Anderson Gallery, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, Kearny Street Workshop, Kala Art Institute, Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition, and nationally at Angel's Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro, CA), the California Museum of Art (Santa Rosa, CA), City of Brea Art Gallery (Orange County, CA), The Kitchen (New York, NY), and Carleton College (Northfield, MN).
Derek Chung is a photographer, painter and co-founder of Tactile Pictures, an eleven-year old digital design studio located at space180 with KSW. At Tactile, he created the Tactile12000 MP3 DJ software, featured in Print Magazine's Digital Design Annual in 2000. He also helped create the Global Arcade web site in 1998 at an artist residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, and helped produce the Whirled Bank website to critically analyze the role of the World Bank in global poverty. Derek was also a curator for KSW's APAture, Pirated and Home shows, an organizer of Fling in 2006, and is no longer the interim managing director of KSW.
Glenn Fajardo is the dynamic bassist of Lumaya, a San Francisco alternative rock band fronted by Olga Salamanca. Glenn's bass playing style has been described as "punchy," "funky," and "dirty," though he disagrees with those characterizations… except for maybe the last one. Mostly self-taught on bass, Glenn formally studied cello and piano for 10 years each. He is on a constant search for unexpected combinations and creations that groove, flow, and resonate. His musical inspirations include Doug Wimbish, Meshell Ndegeocello, and Vernon Reid. Glenn was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and was raised in Florida.
Agent R1 (the secret identity of Rosemary Kim) works with yarn, thread, #1 and 2 plastic beverage containers, and buttons she receives from people's grandmothers. She exhibits constantly to audiences both accepting and weary. Her family has a history of mental illness and retardation which may manifest in her one-of-a-kind work and behavior. She has an acupuncture license which she threatens to use at some point.
Han Pham is a storyteller who enjoys obsessing over the little shit. Her work embraces the humor and beauty of moments normal people would rather forget – port-a-potty romance, bedroom snafus, and foul-mouthed mothers. Her stories have been featured on the radio, in the anthology “Encounters: Essays for Exploration and Inquiry,” and in publications such as Hyphen Magazine, Nguoi Viet News and Nha Magazine. Active as a performer, artist and producer in the Asian American art community, Han has helped over twenty artists get it on for the sake of art in “Fling” (myartfling.com). As a performer and artist, Han has worked with Vietnamese theater ensemble, Club O’Noodles, and the TwentyFourHour Show, a site-specific art installation featuring Asian-American women artists spanning dance, performance, spoken word, photography and visual art (twentyfourhourshow.com). Her photography was recently released in the anthology “As Is,” an collection of visual and literary works by Vietnamese American artists.
Shizue Seigel is reconnecting with art after spending most of the last decade writing. She studied painting, printmaking and art direction at the College of Marin and the Academy of Art College before working at Financial District ad agencies in the 1980s. More recently she authored “In Good Conscience: Supporting Japanese Americans during the Internment,” and edited and art directed “Nikkei Heritage” and “The Beam.” Her work was been published in the anthology “InvAsian: Asian Sisters Represent,” as well as in “Dis*Orient,” “Negative Capability” and other periodicals.
Ali Wong is a comic legend in the making. She likes durian, seafood and cheezy r&b songs. Visit www.ALIWONG.com
Christine Wong Yap is a visual artist whose work includes mixed media, installations, prints, paintings and drawings. She has exhibited locally at Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Euphrat Museum, Oakland Museum Restaurant Gallery, Southern Exposure, Pro Arts Gallery, Berkeley Art Center and space180. Nationally, her work has been shown at Limner Gallery (NYC), A.I.R. Gallery (NYC), Asian Arts Initiative (Philadelphia), and V.U. Gallery (Bellingham, WA). Her work has also been exhibited at Osaka University (Japan). She lives in Oakland, CA. For more information, please visit http://christinewongyap.com/
Saturday, December 16th, 2006
Commotion 2
KSW's arts-displayin' arts-sellin' affair
plenty of browsin' perusin' & purchasin' pleasure.
This saturday, from 12 - 5pm, stop by KSW's Commotion event. Check out artwork, clothing, jewelry, & other items made by local artists, and take home some original gifts for the holidays and beyond.
Tables featuring
Sakura Haru
Collages of ink and tea, and handmade jewelry
Jessica Van Hulle
Science Fiction and Fantasy Illustration
www.jessicavanhulle.com
Marcus Lo
Sosar Studio Productions
Illustrations with influences of urban art & Chinese brush painting
www.myspace.com/sosar1
Leslie Designs/Leslie Yee-Murata
a blend of contemporary and Asian
inspired pendants, bracelets and earrings
Patricia Wakida, aka wasabi press
Silkscreened and gocco printed Year of the Pig calendars (illustrations by cartoon artist Garret Izumi) and linoleum block images of traditional Japanese New Year symbols
wasabipress.blogspot.com
Hands in Harm Reduction/ Shannon Riley
hand-sewn half gloves and mittens made from recycled sweaters
Famous Melissa
www.famousmelissa.com
Medium Reality/Rachel Hoposodar
art handmade from recycled and sustainable materials
Golda Supernova
www.myspace.com/goldasupernova
and more
Date/Time: Saturday, December 16th , 2006; 12 - 5pm
Location: KSW's space180, 180 capp street, (@ 17th St.), San Francisco
Cost: $2 suggested donation; no one turned away for lack of funds.
Info: info@kearnystreet.org; 415.503.0520; www.kearnystreet.org
About some of the artists/vendors
Hands in Harm Reduction: This design evolved from Shannon Riley wanting to get herself to Vancouver to attend the 2005 International Harm Reduction Conference. She has since returned and continues work at her harm reduction outpost in the Mission at 16th and Capp at the Mission Neighborhood Resource Center (a drop in center for homeless people in SF across the street from KSW). What is Harm Reduction? It is a philosophy that is committed to reducing drug-related harm among individuals and communities by initiating and promoting local, regional, and national harm reduction education, interventions, and community organizing. About craft - Both Shannon and her partner Rosa Linda sewn various styles of half gloves and mittens made from recycled sweaters. Also reducing harm as they are sweaters that don't go into the landfill but get transformed into a great accessory to keep your paws warm and your fingers free to move about.
Born and raised in the bay area. Marcus Lo loves working in a variety of mediums including pencil & ink, watercolor, charcoal, paint, pastel, mosaic, collages, oils, acrylic, and many more. Some of his influences include comic books, graffiti, hip hop art, fine art, Chinese brush painting, and photography. He also volunteers teaching art weekly at Manzanita Elementary in Oakland for SPORTS 4 KIDS. You may be able to find him at Frank Ogawa Plaza or Jack London Square on certain weekends selling and doing art. If you need any custom artwork done, feel free to contact him. He also has a lot of prints of his past works for sale. For more information, please visit www.myspace.com/sosar1
Medium Reality is a fledgling design firm headed by Rachel Lyra Hospodar, art hustler and maverick of things visual and textural. MR produces a popular local event series called Pandora's Trunk. This label brings you human-sized and eminently consumable works of art and high style, from handmade felt hair accessories and exclusive hats to framed works of art you can put in your pocket.
The beautiful, savage sound of full grown adolescence, Golda Supernova arrive in splendid new-millennium rock fashion - 3rd World born, 1st World bred, with new wave appetites, fed on old school hair rock, perverted by punk, a lil' bit of funk, and completely addicted to majestic chaos. LAVA, their first LP due Summer 2005, is the product of struggle, stubborn individuality and torturous dedication. Tracks like "FALL," "DIAMOND," and "FALSE," are all arsenic and ear candy, full of fast-paced new wave bass, classic rock riffs and the drama of a good novel. On vocals is Golda, the Supernova - lyrically addicted to and trapped between possession and revelatory wonder, darkling paints with the blackest shades and the brightest lights. On drums is Ogie Gonzales - raucousy rhythms committed to the down beat and the relentless heart of the song. On guitar is Brandon Bigelow - razor-sharp and smokey smooth, this converted jazz guitarist has dug deep down in the back pocket of his memory and pulled out his roots - rock baby, yeah!!! On bass, James Gonzales - perpetual energy, in love with the live show and winner of the biggest bass amp haul contest, 2005. Golda Supernova - new rock fables for a new world. For more information, please visit http://www.myspace.com/goldasupernova.
Leslie Yee-Murata is a jewelry designer and art/quilt
teacher.
Her Collection is currently available at Oakland
Museum Shop, CPMC Health and Healing Center gift shop
and the National Japanese American Historical Society
in San Francisco, CA
She has sold at many local fund raising events,
craft shows, boutiques and private showings throughout
California, Washington, Utah and Hawaii. Leslie Designs is a blend of contemporary and Asian
inspired pendants, bracelets and earrings made from
carved semi precious stones, bone, amber, pearls, wood
and symbolic charms and finished with hand knotted
cords.
Jessica Van Hulle graduated with her BFA in Illustration from the SF
AAU in 2004 with specialization in Sci-fi & Fantasy art. She has
produced professional illustrations and conceptual art for the gaming
industry and published products for the past three years. She also
creates intense figurative fine art that can be seen in the galleries
in San Francisco periodically as well as on her website:
www.jessicavanhulle.com. Now she is launching her own product line with
Zodiac Goddesses. In addition Van Hulle teaches professional and
personal development workshops to graphic designers and illustrators to
break through low self-esteem and improve money habits. For more
information contact jvh@jessicavanhulle.com with "workshops" or "art"
in the subject line. For more information, please visit http://www.jessicavanhulle.com
Patricia Wakida is the proprietor of wasabi press, a tiny green Chandler and Price platen letterpress stashed away in her garage studio in Oakland. Patricia cut her teeth in the book arts and printing business as an apprentice papermaker in Gifu, Japan, and with letterpress printer and hand bookbinders, the Arts and Crafts Press, in Berkeley. Her whimsical linoleum block prints, letterpress books and other ephemera have appeared in exhibitions at the Mission Cultural Center, SOMArts Gallery, New Langton Arts, the Korean Cultural Center of Los Angeles, the San Francisco Main Public Library, Needles & Pens, Deep Roots Urban teahouse, and Post, Poster, Postest in Tokyo. She currently serves on the board of the San Francisco Center for the Book and is a TA at the Mills College Book Arts program. She is a long-time friend of KSW and has shown her work many times at APAture. For more information, please visit http://wasabipress.blogspot.com
