This weekend is packed with art openings, some Comic Con related and some not. Here's a quick run down of shows we're trying to make it out to...
Tonight in the East Village, Space 4 Art and Double Break are collaborating on Do Anything, featuring a group show and zine releases.
Cartoon Network is celebrating 20 years on air by taking over Jett Gallery Saturday, featuring a 75 artist show curated by Mark Murphy.
Subtext Gallery is hosting another Con-related show, featuring Scottish artist Tim Maclean in Fragments & Phantoms.
Morgan Manduley (pictured below) has a new solo show, entitled For Immediate Release opening at disclosed unLocation Saturday night in North Park.
Wire artist Spenser Little is back in town from the Northwest, showing in La Jolla on Saturday night at one of Alexander Salazar's 17 gallery spaces.
"A Curious Feeling" by Morgan Manduley
Posted By zack | 7/13/2012 | 11:24 AM | Add a Comment
This Friday, Helmuth Projects will host the opening reception for Peached Out, celebrating the month-long artist residency featuring new work by Lindsay Preston Zappas and Hess.
Both artists have been fixtures in the San Diego art community, showing often before moving out to Michigan for grad school where they participated in the same Sculpture program at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Hess recently graduated and Lindsay will return in the fall to finish her second year. Peached Out serves as a type of homecoming for the two, a summer vacation spent in the same room in a city they used to live and work in.
As a show, Peached Out is bright and weird, exploring the Southern California aesthetic and landscape in two specific but complementary styles. Both girls gathered materials from dollar stores and home depot and created directly in the space, where their distinct methods and approaches literally rubbed elbows in Helmuth’s 500 square foot studio.
For almost a year, Helmuth Projects has proved a magnet for wandering artists and projects, hosting month long residencies and weekend exhibitions. A wide spectrum of work has been shown, with many more openings planned during this calendar year.
The opening reception for Peached Out is this Friday, June 6th from 6-10pm. Helmuth Projects is located downtown at 920 E Street, Suite 103, San Diego, California 92101.
Posted By angella | 7/5/2012 | 3:44 PM | Add a Comment
The last time Wes Bruce was given the opportunity to build a giant stucture (a 2,000 square foot fort at the CA Arts Center), he filled the 25 rooms with photos, artifacts, and memories from his own childhood, and from various abandoned homes around the United States. For his latest project and structure, Wes and a variety of collaborators will be gathering new content, and counting on you to help create and influence this expansive project.
Structures Poetry Humans is a year-long exploration, adventure, and art project made possible by an artist grant from the San Diego Foundation and Lux Art Institute. Wes Bruce is relying on his friends as well as total strangers to dig up memories, photos, and emotions about important structures in their life, and to forward them his way via post.
Meanwhile, Wes and friends will be collecting images and thoughts of their own throughout the year, recording them in daily calendar posts on the project's amazing new website - StructuresPoetryHumans.com. Dig deep into this new adventure, and we really hope you choose to participate!
The project will culminate in a new structure which will be constructed from scratch and built on the bluff above the beautiful Lux Art Institute in Encinitas. Save October 25th on your calendar and get involved with Structures Poetry Humans right here!
All photos by Wes Bruce. See more here!
Posted By zack | 7/2/2012 | 4:48 PM | Add a Comment
Spaces In Between, a new solo show from Scott Saw, opens at Subtext Gallery this Friday night. Saw will have 24 pieces on display, all showcasing his fantastic color and detail. Cruise out between 6-10pm and also make sure you wonder down the street to JETT Gallery which features a solo show from NEKO.
Posted By zack | 6/7/2012 | 8:17 AM | Add a Comment
It's always great to see two friends work together, especially when they combine to make something beautiful. Chris Puzio is an architect, designer, artist, and teacher at Woodbury, and is also the latest focus of image-smith Charles Bergquist. Charles followed Chris around to six different projects over the course of 14 months. The result: an amazing 10-minute artist feature.
Posted By zack | 6/5/2012 | 8:58 AM | Add a Comment