I’ve been slovenly and let the jpegs pile up, so here is a potpourri of photos from various events of the past two months in San Francisco and the East Bay, in chronological order. Minimal captioning: I need a life, too, occasionally.
1. Richard Misrach: 1991: The Oakland-Berkeley Fire Aftermath @ Oakland Museum of California, October 13, 2011. My writeup of this show, presented simultaneously at the Oakland Museum (where these photos were taken) and the Berkeley Art Museum, appears at http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/fire-trail/Content?oid=3036643.
OMCA Executive Director Lori Fogerty and Richard Misrach at press preview.
OMCA Photography Curator Drew Johnson.
Johnson explains Misrach’s “elegy book.”
2. David Molesky: A Journey Back @ 12 Gallagher Lane, November 3, 2011
Molesky, who has shown landscapes and seascapes in recent years, is showing eleven paintings that show the influence of his former teacher and mentor, Odd Nerdrum, and of nineteenth-century Romanticism and Symbolism. The lighting was extremely low, so the color in these shots may be wildly inaccurate. Through December 31. GallagherLane.com
3. Sarah Bostwick: Grey Area @ Gregory Lind, November 4, 2011
Bostwick models and casts wall-hanging bas-reliefs that depict architectural views in receding perspectives. More on this later.
4. David Ireland: Artworks from 1974-1975 @ Gallery Paule Anglim, November 4, 2011
Chandra Cerrito Contemporary in Oakland mounted a recent exhibition of contemporary artists’ responses to conceptual artist David ireland (see posting here from a couple of weeks ago; more later). Ireland’s work at Anglim runs through November 26. Gallerypauleanglim.com.
5. Monsters @ Collaborate, November 4, 2011
This fairly new art/photo Oakland gallery is on 13th Street near Broadway, so it’s a little outside Murmur’s current borders, but worth checking out. Weekday schedule, I believe, plus First Fridays; see website. Monsters, featuring work by twenty-nine local and international artists, runs through November 29. Collaborateoakland.com.
6. Corcoran/Defendi/Peek @ SFMMA Artists Gallery. November 12, 2011
Annette Corcoran combines birds and teapots in her whimsical and beautiful ceramics. Adrienne Defendi photographs classical ruins in her Remembrance series. Stephanie Peek paints floral still lives that look back to European tradition but are also informed (at least at the larger sizes) by Abstract Expressionism’s decentered overall compositions and looser brushwork. Through December 27. SFMOMA.org.
7. Castigation @ Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, November 15, 2001
Jud Bergeron makes complex geometric sculptures that probably refer wittily to Cubist /Futurist figuration, and brightly colored bas-relief wall pieces. Albert DiCruttalo makes bronzes composed of interlocking/interpenetraing spherical forms. Wayne Shaffer makes bronzes that suggest abstracted and simplified plant life. The title, I presume, refers to bronze casting and its difficulties. Through December 23. Wolfecontemporary.com.
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