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OUR IMAGE GALLERY was in chronological order from the most recent exhibition at the top page "backwards."

Somehow this was completely disarranged. We ARE CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF CORRECTING THIS. IN THE MEANTIME, IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR AN EXHIBITION, YOU CAN TYPE THE ARTIST'S NAME, NAME OF SHOW IN THE SEARCH FIELD OF THE IMAGE GALLERY.

SORRY FOR THIS INCONVENIENCE. SO ARE WE!!  laurie


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SHORTCUTS  at

The Luggage Store  Annex, 509 Ellis Street, San Francisco


Granny’s Missed You
Curated by Constance Castillo

Tucker Bennett - Constance Castillo - Josh Freydkis - Francesca Ira – Maxine Puorro

August 20 - August 28th 2010
Closing Reception 7:00pm – 10:00pm August 28th

Sometimes in silence there is a humming noise. A feeling that something might not be right. Through varied mediums, five artists under the age of 21 and raised in the Bay Area will engage in a disturbance of beauty. Focused around a short story written by Penelope Lin, the multimedia show will include installation, film, photography, and mixed media. Existing in the distance between lingering memories and emerging presence these artistic distortions will act as an elegy for the material life.

Granny’s Missed You is part of the Luggage Store’s Short Cuts Program which seeks to identify, support, and emerge new and/or young curators and artists. The Short Cuts Program, now in its tenth year, is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.

An excerpt from “HOME” by Penelope Yow-Shiuan Lin:

Speak up, she says. And the aunts drag me from her musty room that hangs with blanched calendars of supple apples and framed pictures of blue-eyed children clipped from magazines. One turns on the dubbed cartoons and the other pushes me down on the black leather couch in the living room. I know better than to touch the remote. Granny’s missed you, they say.

Tucker Bennett
A filmmaker living in San Francisco, he is currently studying at the San Francisco Art
Institute. His videos have screened across America, and his first feature "Why Are You
Weird?" was called "The best VHS feature film to be made in 2009" by Interview
Magazine.

Constance Castillo
A visual and spoken word artist, she was born and raised in San Francisco and is
currently pursuing a major in interdisciplinary studies at Columbia University. Through
the exploitation of familiarity she enjoys manipulating standards of normalcy. Working in
the realm of creative intervention, she attempts to present accurate portraits of emotion in
the remnants of leftover memories and stretched smiles.

Josh Freydkis
Born and raised in San Francisco, he is currently pursuing a BFA at NYU, and has spent
the past year living and working in Berlin. Rooted in a childhood obsession with horror
and the occult, his work juxtaposes the aesthetic of sacrificial ceremony within a
contemporary storyline.

Penelope Yow-Shiuan Lin
Entering her sophomore year at Columbia University, she is a creative writing and visual
arts double major. Her work explores the way the past and its lessons fester in the state of
memory and emerge in the present, a fiction of it’s own.

Maxine Puorro
Hailing from San Francisco, Maxine is now studying at Vassar College in New York. She
has been compulsively making art for a good while. Her work disparages unnecessary
seriousness through playful irony and dry humor.

Francesca Ira
A film major at Pratt Institute, she lives between the Bay and Brooklyn. She explores
patterns of intensity and subtlety, and how we become what we thought we always had to
be. She views the camera as the seeing thing I don't see because it is whatever it sees. But
says, “The courage to expose without film is what I'm waiting for. Wind bends better
than the light.”

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Luggage Store Gallery, Ground Floor, 1007 Market Street, San Francisco

CAPITALISM IS OVER    
 

July 18 – August 28, 2010

Ground Floor Gallery open Tuesdays and Fridays at noon 

Installation can be viewed outside the Luggage Store Gallery on Market Street

           WHERE: public spaces in San Francisco including the financial and shopping  districts   downtown, other venues around the world, online, and a nightly projection series (starting the last week in July)

WHO:  Artists/Writers/Spaces include:

 Adriana Varella, Amy Berk, Andy Cox, Anthony Marcellini, B, bantercut, Cat Ferrez, Char Tan, Cheryl Meeker, Dan and Cheryl, Eliza Barrios, Francesca Pastine, Gordon Winiemko, Guy Overfelt, Heather Sparks, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Jenny Bitner, Josh Wilson, Katherine Worel, KWIK, Les Soeurs Dissentient (L.S.D.), Lowell Darling, Luther Thie, The Luggage Store Gallery, Marina Perez-Wong, Mattew Rana, Maw Shein Win, Megan Wilson, Meridian Gallery, Michael Rauner, Michael Zheng, Myron Michael, Pato En La Cara, Patricia K Kelly, Paz De la Calzada, Peter Haas, Rhonda Winter, Sarah Lewison, Sean Fletcher & Isabel Reichert, Sean Kennedy, Stephen Parr/ Oddball Film & Video, Steven Wolf, TWCDC (Together We Can Defeat Capitalism), Valerie Soe. 

          WHAT:  Artworks in the media of performative interventions, stickers, posters, web presence, video projections and more. Specific project descriptions to follow in weekly press releases.

 WHY:  Capitalism Is Over! If You Want It is a series of interruptions/actions    launched in response to the need for a fundamental shift in our approach    to Capitalism and the negative impact it has on the environment, health,    and well being of all. The status quo is not sustainable. The title of the    project references John and Yoko’s powerful “WAR IS OVER If You Want It”   campaign.

Project examples include: 

This Little Piggy Went To Market (Megan Wilson) is a pink plush pig pushing a shopping cart through the financial district giving away hand made signs exposing economic inequities.

Together We Can Defeat Capitalism (TWCDC), a guerrilla art group fighting capitalism since 1996, sticks (it) to the system once again ferrying a hostage Piggy around downtown in “Das Vegetal” and offering stickers with the slogan Capitalism is Over If You Want it.

Consumers on Strike! hold signs and march around the shopping district beginning at Macys and ending in the park.

Daily Slots (Eliza Barrios and Paz De la Calzada) repurposes news stands located along Market and Montgomery Street with alternative messages focusing on the economy, consumerism and the un-sustainability of the capitalistic culture.

New York Times Action (Francesca Pastine) covers the NYTimes with graphite pencils, engaging with passersbys about the nature of censorship and the meaning of information.

World Border Acupuncture Treatment (Lowell Darling) places needles in the earth to increase the flow of people on the planet starting at The Great Highway in SF. 

Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert loudly argue about money, honesty, infidelity, or getting lost as they travel between different companies related to oil.

News from the Heartland offers broadcast freeze frames of the flood of foreclosures, banking collapses, and gold standard delirium.

Market Fatigue (Dan and Cheryl™) stay in bed because they have run to the end of their credit limits, are exhausted by looking for jobs, and to protest the proposed sit-lie law.

DOMA: DO ME (B) offers a Buenos Aires, Argentina perspective with a photonovel, How Fragile Everything Is. 3:43 min., stills and DV projections

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upcoming at the Luggage Store Annex, 509 Ellis Street, San Francisco

Community Property

Featuring artists in residence Chris Evans and Ernest Jolly

September 6 - November 20, 2010

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REHISTORICIZING ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM 1950s-1960s SYMPOSIUM

SEPTEMBER 10-11, 2010 AT THE San Francisco Art Institute

800 CHESTNUT STREET, Click see more for more information...

This large scale exhibition, which showed at the Luggage Store Gallery, creates and contextualizes an archive of women artists and artists of color who were undervalued because of the public and personal hegemonic social and aesthetic scrutiny at that time.

CARLOS VILLA, curator

featuring work by Nell Sinton, Barbaa Rogers, Bernice Bing, Deborah Remington, Mary O'Neal, Cornelai Schultz, Ruth Asawa, Dewey Crumpler, George Miyasaki, Jose Montoya, Luis Cervantes, Manuel Neri, Joan Brown, Jay DeFeo, Bob Closescott, Joe Overstreet, Allan Gordon, Arthur Okamura, Sung Woo Chun, Win Ng, Leo Valledor, Patricia Toro, Frank LaPena, Jimmy Suzuki, Esteban Villa, Arthur Monroe, Sonya Gechtoff, Gary Woo and Jim Marshall, Jerry Bruchard and ephemera, courtesy of the SFAI Library.

For more information see REHISTORICIZING

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 at the Luggage Store Gallery, 1007 Market Street, SF 

10th Anniversary Fecal Face group show

curated by John Trippe

September 10th - October 9th, 2010,

OPENING RECEPTION:  Friday, September 10, 2010, 6-8pm

Gallery hours Wed-Sat, 12-5pm and by appointment

Featured Artists:

Corey Arnold (Portland), Tiffany Bozic (San Francisco), Kelsey Brookes (San Diego), David Choe (Los Angeles), Richard Colman ( Los Angeles) , Faile (New York), Jeremy Fish (San Francisco), Ian Francis (London) , Matt Furie (San Francisco) , Mike Giant (San Francisco), Henry Gunderson (San Francisco), Maya Hayuk (New York), Jim Houser (Philadelphia), Jay Howell (San Francisco), Sylvia Ji (Los Angeles), Mel Kadel (Los Angeles), Anthony Lister (New York), Mars-1 (San Francisco), Travis Millard (Los Angeles), Ferris Plock (San Francisco), Albert Reyes (Los Angeles), Jeff Soto (Los Angeles), Damon Soule (New York), Kelly Tunstall (San Francisco), Aiyana Udesen (San Francisco), Oliver Vernon (San Francisco), and Megan Whitmarsh (Los Angeles)

FECAL FACE DOT COM is a content-rich, comprehensive, multidisciplinary
art and culture website supporting the art scene in San Francisco and beyond since 2000.
With its roots in the stone-age of the internet, Fecal Face was the first of its kind - an onlinedestination featuring blogs, articles, interviews and awesomeness when the internet itself wasjust starting out. With almost ten years under its belt, the site now greets between 11,000-14,000 visitors a day, occupying a unique niche online and in the "real world," by chronicling andshaping the local, national and international contemporary arts scene.

In January 2008, Fecal Face opened Fecal Face Dot Gallery (66 Gough St, San Francisco), a physical destination for the website offering visitors the opportunity to experience, in person, the work they see showcased online. With a new installation each month and opportunities to meet the artists, it’s a way to merge what Fecal Face has been doing online since 2000 into the vibrant art scene of San Francisco.

About John Tripp

Fecal Face Founder and 10 Yr. Curator
Trippe moved to San Francisco in 1993 from the Midwest via the East Coast to immerse himself in the dynamic Bay Area skateboard scene of the 90s. While skateboarding semi-professionally John went on to work in all artistic fields within the industry from magazine layout at Thrasher Magazine to filming, directing and producing videos for a number of skate companies. While working at Thrasher in 1998 he created Fecal Face first as a homemade/ Kinkos produced zine to chronicle his friends' artworks and his own photography and writing. After teaching himself html in 2000, he moved the Fecal Face online to gain a wider audience and to satisfy his nerdy desire to learn web programming.

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