Pottery at Creativity Explored, the 2nd weekend of Open Studios, Asian Art Museum, SOMA Arts presents Dia de los Muertos 2011 and Market Street Gallery pays tribute to a disappearing media.
Chronologically speaking, this is not a "Weekend Pick' because one of the events at Creativity Explored opens tonight. But it's near enough and there's certainly enough choice to sit every taste.
Opening tonight at Creativity Explored : Hands on Clay. Hands On Clay is a show that aims to highlight the process of art making — a ceramic wheel and slab roller used by many students occupies the window display area of Creativity Explored Gallery — so even before you see a collection of impressive works, you see the tools used to make them. October 6 through November 20, 2011. Opening Reception: Thursday, October 6, 2011, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
http://www.creativityexplored.org/
Open Studios, Weekend 2. Many of the city¹s western neighborhoods are highlighted on Weekend 2, October 8 & 9, including Ocean Beach, the Sunset, the Richmond, Duboce, Upper Noe Valley, Hayes Valley, the Haight, Diamond Heights, Buena Vista, Mount Davidson, Twin Peaks, West Portal, and Glen Park.
Osaka-born painter and printmaker Takeshi Nakayoshi now makes the Sunset his home and will be showing his abstract works, as well as Hong Kong-born abstract painter Fong Fai of the Richmond district. Over in the Haight, visitors can stop in on Mark Ulriksen, an illustrator for The New Yorker who has over 30 magazine covers to his credi
Download a map at the website and check out the artists: http://www.artspan.org/
At the Asian Art Museum - "Poetry in Clay" Korean ceramics from the 14th century paired with work by contemporary Korean artists. Meekyoung Shin's painstaking replicas of antique Chinese vases feature hand-painted warriors and ornately scaled dragons that curl across brilliantly coloured bowls in blues, yellows and reds. Outside the gallery, on the second floor mezzanine, there is a corner full of open crates, as if we have interrupted an installation in progress. But don't be deceived, for for all of the glass vases, all of the painted Chinese porcelain and all of the statues are made of soap. .Her purple "Ghost Vases" inside the gallery are are a lucent counterpoint to the creamy white of the 14th and 15th century Buncheong ceramics Ha In Sun, working with pencil on Korean mulberry paper, explores the hidden afterlife of broken ceramics.
SOMA Arts: Dia de los Muertos 2011 (10/7/2011)
The opening celebration for Illuminations: Día de los Muertos 2011 features music, interactive performance and the unveiling of over 30 altars created by more than 80 artists from the Bay Area and beyond. $6-10, sliding scale admission. Advance tickets at http://dayofthedead.eventbrite.com/.
http://www.somarts.org/illuminations-opens/
Market Street Gallery: Reliquaries: Requiem for the Printed Word, an exhibition showcasing the latest works by Sandi Miot, illustrating the disappearance of books & newspapers into the digital world.
Sandi Miot enjoys making order out of a group of objects, putting them into a painting or sculpture and making modern-day reliquaries of modern-day life. There is something compelling to her about the permanence and stability it implies. They become a philosophy of what's happening around her.
1554 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
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