i 2 The San Francisco Arts Quarterly SA Free Publication Dedicated to the Artistic CommunityFAQ SOMA ISSUE: July.August.September Bay Area Arts Calendar The SOMA: Blue Collar to Blue Chip Rudolf Frieling from SFMOMA Baer Ridgway Gallery 111 Minna Gallery East Bay Focus: Johansson Projects free Artspan In Memory of Jim Marshall CONTENTS July. August. September 2010 Issue 2 JULY LISTINGS 5-28 111 Minna Gallery 75-76 Jay Howell AUGUST LISTINGS 29-45 Baer Ridgway Gallery 77-80 SEPTEMBER LISTINGS 47-60 Eli Ridgeway History of SOMA 63-64 Artspan 81-82 Blue Collar to Blue-Chip Heather Villyard Ira Nowinsky My Love for You is 83-84 SFMOMA 65-68 a Stampede of Horses New Media Curator Meighan O’Toole Rudolf Frieling The Seeker 85 Stark Guide 69 SF Music Collector Column Museum of Craft 86 Crown Point Press 70 and Folk Art Zine Review 71 East Bay Focus: 87-88 Johansson Projects The Contemporary 73 Jewish Museum In Memory: 89-92 Jim Marshall Zeum: 74 Children Museum Residency Listings 93-94 Space Resource Listings 95-100 FOUNDERS / EDITORS IN CHIEF Gregory Ito and Andrew McClintock MARKETING / ADVERTISING CONTRIBUTORS LISTINGS Andrew McClintock Contributing Writers Listing Coordinator [email protected] Gabe Scott, Jesse Pollock, Gregory Ito Gregory Ito Leigh Cooper, John McDermott, Assistant Listings Coordinator [email protected] Tyson Vogel, Cameron Kelly, Susan Wu Stella Lochman, Kent Long Film Listings ART / DESIGN Michelle Broder Van Dyke, Stella Lochman, Zmira Zilkha Gregory Ito, Ray McClure, Marianna Stark, Zmira Zilkha Residency Listings Andrew McClintock, Leigh Cooper Cameron Kelly Contributing Photographers Editoral Interns Jesse Pollock, Terry Heffernan, Special Thanks Susie Sherpa Michael Creedon, Dayna Rochell Tina Conway, Bette Okeya, Royce STAFF Ito, Sarah Edwards, Chris Bratton, Writers ADVISORS All our friends and peers, sorry we Gregory Ito, Andrew McClintock Marianna Stark, Tyson Vo- can’t list you all... Photographer gel, Maurice Kanbar, Leigh Andrew McClintock Cooper, John Sanger, Ray McClure, Nicole Buffett Contributors Jesse Pollock Gabe Scott Jesse Pollock was born in the Statue of Liberty in 1980. Gabe Scott was born and raised in the Bay Area, and Three months later Jesse was bartered by his parents for after graduating from San Francisco State, has curated a brand new Pontiac Phoenix. 14 years later a blood test for numerous galleries on the West Coast over the last revealed that Jesse was the only son of the artist Jackson 9 years. His writing has been featured in Juxtapoz, Art Pollock. In 1994 Jesse was sold on EBay (before they Ltd and the SFAQ and his photography has appeared in banned selling humans) for $600 and was shipped to San Juxtapoz, Alarm Magazine and Hi-Fructose. After living Francisco where he has been living on Page St. with Sir most of his adult life in Oakland and San Francisco, he Richard Hart (no homo). has relocated to Denver, Colorado, where he works with He is currently working on a feature film starring “the the Robin Rule Gallery. Despite now spending most of worlds most famous penis” which happens to be his. his time in Colorado, he maintains close ties with the Check this quarterly in a few months for a scalding review San Francisco art community. of some genius penis work. -Banksy Marianna Stark Marianna is publisher of the Stark Guide to San Fran- Stella Lochman cisco Art (www.thestarkguide.com), a board member of Stella Lochman has lived in SOMA since 1994. She SFMOMA's SECA (Society for the Encouragement of remebers when the ballpark was an artist residency, the Contemporary Art), a member of ArtTable, and the for- safeway was a trailer park, and the dot com office com- mer executive director of the San Francisco Art Dealers plex was a gay nightclub. The palm trees on the Embar- Association. Marianna holds a BA in Art History from the cadero were installed on her 13th birthday. She currently University of California at Berkeley, and has over fifteen both lives and works in the neighborhood. years of professional experience in the field of specialty retail marketing and merchandising. Leigh Cooper Leigh Cooper lives and works in San Francisco, CA. Michelle Broder Van Dyke After earning her B.A. in Art and Art History from the Uni- Michelle Broder Van Dyke is a writer living in San versity of Colorado in Boulder and traveling throughout Francisco. She writes about arts and culture regularly Europe to pursue her interest in art; she went on to work for the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Bay for the Foothills Art Center and the Aspen Art Museum. Guardian, and the Bold Italic, and has contributed to Relocating to San Francisco in 2008, she has served as Flavorpill San Francisco, Bitch Magazine, and Honolulu the Director of White Walls and the Shooting Gallery for Magazine. Check out her blog, Boomtown Bells (www. two years. boomtownbells.tumblr.com), for links to all of her pub- lished articles and for other fun stuff. She also works at Kent Long Adobe Books, where she is the music coordinator and Kent Long is a filmmaker and musician living in San sells used books. Francisco. He teaches experimental film in the PreCol- lege program at SFAI, from whence he received his MFA Tyson Vogel in 2003. His films have shown at festivals and venues november, darkness, reasoning, seeking, rooftops, eye worldwide. He is currently involved in a rock 'n roll contact, landscaping moments, insomnia, elation, wisps project that focuses on abject catharsis as communal of sound in the silence, brainstorms, hands of furrows, reciprocity failure. soles of search, heart beat at the crevace... who will be the witness? Words from the Editors This issue would not be possible if it wasn’t for the help from all the contributors and staff. We are trying to focus our energy towards positive endeavors that help bring people together, promote a sense of community, and in- spire a new push of creative camaraderie With so much negativity in this world we only ask that you take a step back, get off your social networking site, and Enjoy our second issue. converse with people with an open mind and constructive Andrew and Greg heart...get out there and experience art! 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