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object non object

something i've been working on...

Art Expo At Climate Theater SF!!!

For Immediate Release

Media contact: Victoria Heilweil
(415) 642.1046; victoriaheilweil@gmail.com
High resolution images available.

Eidolon
(Illusion/Delusion/Allusion)

Friday, May 21st and Saturday, May 22nd
8pm-11pm
$5 admission

@ Climate Theater
285 9th St (at the corner of Folsom)
San Francisco, CA 94103
www.climatetheater.com

Eidolon, from the ancient Greek, connotes a "phantom double, an apparition, or an ideal; a mere image or semblance of something visible, but without substance".

On Friday May 21st and Saturday, May 22, Climate Theater will host MicroClimate's Eidolon: a two-night art exhibition, music and performance event. For these two evenings, a diverse grouping of Bay Area artists, musicians and performers respond in an array of genres to this illusionary theme.

A few highlights of the evening will include: Elyse Hochstadt's sculptural installation "half truths and uncertain realities" which deals with the construction of memory with it's aspects of myth and fantasy; Philip Greenlief's solo saxophone performance of the original composition, "Mirrors," with which he will "seek to destroy the security blanket of western harmony;" Vita and Bryan Hewitt's scanned x-ray photographs, which allude to the collective memory of place, specifically, of San Francisco, in all it's true and fictive transience; Pantea Karimi’s prints, which combine iconic imagery from her homeland of Iran and the U.S. in a metaphoric layering that alludes to cultural identity, societal restriction, corporate hegemony, and political censorship; Terrance Graven's performative installations which use ritual materials to explore mortality, loss, and the frailty of the body; and John Melvin’s site-specific installation exploring the idea of transitional states.

trompe de l’oueil/mirage/apparition/ignuus fatus/after image/ figment/chimera
pipe dream/flim flam/distortion/camouflage/mimicry/monkey business
sleight of hand/legerdemain/duplicity

We hope you will join us for this unique event!

Participating Artists, Musicians and Performers:
Brendan Aanes: video and audio installation
Elisheva Biernoff: painting
Terrance Graven: performative installation
Philip Greenlief: solo saxophone performance
Vita and Bryan Hewitt; photography
Elyse Hochstadt: sculptural installation
Pantea Karimi: printmaking
Honey McMoney: sculptural installation
John Melvin: site specific sculptural installation
Sarah Ratchye: painting
Elizabeth Stark: reading/performance
Parker Tilghman: handmade book
Jeong Im Yi: painting

MicroClimate Collective is a team of artist-curators committed to creating opportunities for Bay Area artists to share experimental, collaborative and ephemeral projects in all genres. MicroClimate is currently: G. Cole Allee and Victoria Mara Heilweil.

G. Cole Allee is a photo-based artist whose work explores landscape as cultural iconography and addresses the shifting relationships between place, myth and memory. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BA from Reed College. Her work has been exhibited in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland Oregon, and Tokyo.

Victoria Mara Heilweil is a nationally exhibited photographic artist, educator and curator. She received her MFA in Photography from California College of the Arts in 1995. Victoria was the curator and co-owner of Points of Departure, a cooperative art gallery in New York City. Victoria is also an Adjunct Professor at City College of San Francisco and California College of the Arts. http://www.victoriaheilweil.com

Climate Theater is an alternative arts space in San Francisco's SOMA district that encourages the development of non-traditional performance and experimental work with a focus on collaboration and exploration. Established in 1985, Climate is known for such innovative landmark programs as the Solo Mio Festival, which presented such prestigious performers as Spalding Gray, David Sedaris, Allen Ginsberg and Margaret Cho. Climate is currently home to a monthly music series, MicroClimate Collective, and a wide variety of new circus and other theatrical events, including a thriving resident artist program. Climate is run by artistic director Jessica Heidt.


CALENDAR LISTING

What: “Eidolon”
A Two Night Art and Performance Event, curated by MicroClimate Collective

Where: Climate Theater
285 9th St (at the corner of Folsom)
San Francisco, CA 94103
www.climatetheater.com

When: Friday May 21st and Saturday May 22nd, 8pm-11pm

Cost: $5

absence

An excuse of sorts, I was traveling through South East Asia, if you are intersted I have posted a vast amount of photos here. Printed copies can be obtained by contacting me at jkm@johnkmelvin.com

cheers.

Fwd: Raw review @ Visual Art Source

http://www.visualartsource.com/index.php

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> Colby Claycomb, White Picket Fence, linoleum, plastic edging, at Root Division. RAW features mixed-media works that assert their materiality and overt identity as artifacts "made in an honest manner," according to curator/artist John K. Melvin. One of the ten artists, Barry Beach, writes of "constructing nature. . .from organic and synthetic forms, mixing and experimenting salvaged and new materials. . .not knowing exactly what will emerge," inspired by the hybrid areas "between city and country, urban and rural, nature and culture." Memorable works embodying this post-conceptual/DIY aesthetic stance (some of which incorporate the gallery's architectural elements) include: Colby Claycomb's "White Picket Fence," a wall relief composed of black linoleum shards arranged concentrically, like a fingerprint, from whose center erupts a floral spiral of coiled plastic faux-fence edging; Ruth Hodgins' "Sword in the Stone," a surrealist bat-and-ball sports (and testosterone?) parody; Brandon Truscotts's "Made by Memory," a recumbent baby doll wrapped by and suspended from strands of glossy brown audiotape; and Jesse Walton's "John Deere and the Last Frontier," a "construction detritus" installation symbolizing the industrial domestication of the wilderness. RAW anticipates, with humor and imagination, a coming era of higher-priced energy and "lowered expectations" (California's Zen governor Jerry Brown is back, after all); of creative re-purposing and applied bricolage (at Root Division, San Francisco, California).
> - Dewitt Cheng

Thanks for the memories.

RAW Sculpture coming to Root Division!!

Dear Friends, Colleagues, and Art lovers,

I am pleased to announce that an art exhibition I have been working on for a year now, will be opening to the public this coming Saturday, November the 14th. The exhibition will feature a particular and unique range of material oriented sculptors from the Bay Area. If you are in town, please feel free to stop by. Details from the press release are included below.

Thanks for all your continued support,

Best,


John K Melvin
Visual Artist

http://raw-rootdivisionsf.blogspot.com
http://www.johnkmelvin.com/
http://johnkmelvin.blogspot.com/


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ROOT DIVISION PRESENTS: Second Saturday November 2009

RAW
An exhibition of new Bay Area sculpture and installation

Curated by John K. Melvin

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Root Division is proud to present our November Second Saturday event, an exhibition of new Bay Area sculpture and installation, guest-curated by local artist and curator John K. Melvin.

The work in RAW has a distinct materiality, and each of the artists is uniquely aware of its presence. Whether assembled from found objects or crafted from items not typically associated with fine art, the sculptures and installations featured in this show work to declaim the fundamental appeal of objectness.

Artists like Colby Claycomb, Brandon Truscott, and Sarah Willis evoke their own personal narratives by exploiting the built-in meaning of used materials. Others, like Barry Beach, John K. Melvin, and Kit Rosenberg take a more detached approach, boiling down a conceptual premise to its most essential material elements. But regardless of how each artist approaches their work, there is a shared enthusiasm to maintain the integrity of the chosen medium.

Details are on-line at http://raw-rootdivisionsf.blogspot.com

Artists:

Barry Beach
Colby Claycomb
Benjamin Echeverria
Sean Olson
Christophe Piallat
Kit Rosenberg*
Brandon Truscott
Jesse Walton
Sarah Willis

*Root Division Resident Artist

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 14th, 7-10 pm
Sliding Scale Suggested Donation: $2-$20
Exhibition Dates: November 11th-December 5th, 2009
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays- Saturdays, 2-6 pm (or by appointment)

ROOT DIVISION
3175 17th Street (at South Van Ness & Shotwell)
San Francisco, CA 94110
www.rootdivision.org
415.863.7668

ABOUT ROOT DIVISION:
Root Division is an arts and arts education non-profit located in the Mission District of San Francisco. Root Division's mission is to improve appreciation and access to the visual arts by connecting personal inspiration and community participation. We provide subsidized studio space to working artists in exchange for their service in creating shared learning opportunities for the community. Artists develop creatively and professionally by teaching art to underserved youth, leading adult education classes, and producing exhibitions that showcase local emerging artwork. By combining multiple opportunities for creative exchange, Root Division cultivates an artistic ecosystem that enriches life throughout the Bay Area.

Root Division is supported in part by grants from Grants for the Arts: SF Hotel Tax Fund, The San Francisco Foundation, and the Walter & Elise Haas Fund. The Second Saturday Exhibition Series is sponsored by the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, the San Francisco Arts Commission through a Cultural Equity Grant/Organizational Project Grant, and the Zellerbach Family Foundation.