Thu 2/23 8:00 PM $6-10 Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]

An Evening of works with Daniel Steffey, Pete Rat Martin, Benjamin Ethan Tinker

Thu 3/1 8:00 PM $6-10 sliding Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
T.D. Skatchit & Company -
“Skatch Surveillance” CD Release Show
Tom Nunn and David Michalak - skatchboxes
Guests performing with the duo in various formations:
Tom Bickley, Phillip Greenlief, Polly Moller, Tom Djll, Aurora Josephson

Thu 3/8 8:00 PM $6-10 sliding scale Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8pm: The Misspelled Trio
Philip GreenLeaf – Sax
Arora JoseFson – Voice
Matt DavingTon – Drum Machine
9pm: Christian Pincock (from Albuquerque) – Trombone

Thu 3/15 8:00 PM $6-10 sliding Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]

Guest Curation by Greedmink
Rubber ()) Cement, Bran…Pos, and Hora Flora

delivering the log

Bringing the log in; Mora Tree; 3500 lbs..

Adriane Colburn

The Luggage Store Gallery is honored to present a solo exhibition of new work by Adriane Colburn:   a mixed media installation “Of Darkness”  will open on Friday, February 3^rd and run til March 10, 2012. Opening Reception is Friady, February 3 from  6-9pm.

(Gallery hours:  Wed-Saturday 12-5pm and by appointment)

For the past several years, Colburn has traveled with scientists who study climate change in remote terrains, such as Antartica and the Amazon. This exhibition has evolved from those expeditions.

Of Darkness combines drawings, sculpture, video, photographs and large scale cut paper in an installation that looks at the tension and complex beauty born out of the collision of wilderness and human industry.

Through a snarl of meticulously cut color-mapped images, reflected surfaces and weighty sculptures, Colburn juxtaposes the patterns of the material world with the exuberant foliage of the jungle. She explores how difficult and remote terrains are viewed through the lenses of technology such as photographs, remote sensing, and 3-d models.

The works in Of Darkness, embrace abstraction through their attempt to depict the complex and unwieldy, becoming part map, part science fiction, and part psychedelic jungle.

Adriane Colburn is an artist based in San Francisco, CA, Athens, Georgia and Vermont. She has exhibited her work throughout the US and internationally, at venues such as The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Artsterium in the Republic of Georgia, Parsons, New School in New York and at the Royal Academy of Art in London. To support her work, she has participated in expeditions to remote parts of the planet- traveling to the Andes and Amazon with Cape Farewell in 2009, to the Arctic Ocean on scientific research expeditions and most recently sailing from Barbados to French Guyana on a research vessel. She has been an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Macdowell Colony, the Kala Institute and The Blue Mountain Center. She is currently teaching at the University of Georgia, Athens. She has recently participated in expeditions to remote parts of the planet- traveling on an Arctic seafloor mapping expedition with the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping in 2008 and to the Andes and Amazon with Cape Farewell in 2009 and to the Arctic an For more information visit::  www.adrianecolburn.com

“…Ever dedicated, committed, placing artistry ahead of commerciality, doing what she feels she needs to do regardless of how it may or may not play to the public– these are reasons why I respect and admire not only her art, but also everything she stands for. Worth a visit…” Allen Bamber from Art Business for more of the article go to http://www.artbusiness.com/1open/020312.html 

Burch’s project  for the TNF A.I.R residency is entitled “Somethings ..are (In) the Way of Things”. During the months of January 2012 and February 2012 Burch will build a full scale, on site,  installatioon/environment re-interpreting Amiris Baraka’s poem “Something in the Way of Things.”

Accompanying the installation of work within the Luggage Store Annex,  the residency will also incorporate  literary performances and dance pieces held in the Tenderloin National Forest itself. These performances and recitals will address various personal interpretations of the poem “Something In the Way of Things.”

(Hours: Daily 12-5, closed Mondays)

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Tuesday, January 24th, @ The Luggage Store

Admission: sliding scale, $5 to $10, no one turned away for lack of funds

Brontez Purnell is a zinester, writer, dancer and musician, who now lives in California.

Brontez was originally from Triana, Alabama, then moving to Huntsville, Alabama, and then to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he released Schlepp Fanzine while still living at home. He then relocated on his own to Oakland, California, where he released his next zine, Fag School.

He is also the mastermind behind the band The Younger Lovers.

Brontez has written for various publications, including the on-line edition of Jigsaw, and has also written a column called “She’s Over It” for Maximum Rock ‘N’ Roll. He has read his work at Lit Quake in San Francisco.

(Bochay Drum)

STREETOPIA (the book),
2011, variable edition of 30, 40 pages, 8.5 inches by 11.5 inches, each book is sub-titled with the name of a different San Francisco neighborhood.A Booklyn Publication benefiting the Streetopia exhibition, a large group exhibition that opens at the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco in May 2012, curated by writer, Erick Lyle, and artists Chris Johanson and Kal Spelletich. Proceeds from the sales of the Streetopia (the book) will be the primary funding source for the Streetopia exhibition. Streetopia (the book) is an assembling of original artworks by 24 current and former San Francisco artists and writers tentatively associated with the San Francisco Bay Area “Mission School” or, “New Mission School” art movements, perhaps the last coherent schools of contemporary American art in the 20th Century.

Streetopia exhibition artists, besides Johanson, Spelletich, and Lyle, artists already committed to participate include SWOON, Barry McGee, Emory Douglas, Sara Thustra, Rigo 23, Monica Canilao, Ivy Jeanne McClelland, Sy Loady, Spy Emerson, Christine Shields, Annie Danger, Arnold Kemp, Tim Kerr, Tobin Yelland, Marshall Weber, David Kennedy Cutler, Rebecca Giordano, Laurel Braitman, Bill Daniel, Greta Snider, Mike Brodie, Veronica Majano, Sam Green, Kari Orvik, and more

December 10, 11am to 5.30pm

(1007 Market Street, near 6^th St., San Francisco, CA)

This one-day event concentrates on researching artistic practices that happen in the here and now and require both the presence of the artist and the engagement of the viewer/receiver to exist. The projects presented/discussed are by artists Lygia Clark (Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1920–88), Liam Everett (New York, 1973), and Goldin+Senneby (Stockholm, collaboration since 2004).

This research is part of a California College of the Arts graduate Fall 2011 seminar organized by curator Ana Paula Cohen in collaboration with graduate students Ebunolu Alugbin, Will Brown, Dane Jensen, Stephanie Kern, Peta Rake, and Ashley Stull. Focused on the idea of presentation, the seminar posed the question: How can we access an art project or exhibition that only happens in one present moment and make it active in a new context? It was informed by a close reading of the work of Brazilian artist Lygia Clark, as expressed mainly in her writings and the project Lygia Clark, do objeto ao acontecimento [from object to event], developed by Brazilian psychoanalyst and curator Suely Rolnik—a video archive of 66 interviews intending to activate the 26 years of corporeal experimentations of Lygia Clark (1963-88).

re-PRESENT: A Research Day will take shape through a series of screenings and presentations, followed by discussions. The program includes selected interviews from the Lygia Clark: from object to event archive; a lecture and discussion led by Stephanie Kern and Dane Jensen; the unauthorized presentation of the project Looking for Headless by Goldin+Senneby, introduced by Peta Rake, and the presentation of On the wall (the leaking) A Performance in 2 Acts by Liam Everett, in conversation with Ana Paula Cohen.

Snacks, coffee, and refreshments will be provided.

PROGRAM:

11am to 2pm*:

Screening of interviews from the Lygia Clark: from object to event archive. Video Interviews with Guy Brett (critic and curator, London), David Medalla (artist, based in London), Yve-Alain Bois (art critic and historian, lecturer at the Advanced School of Historical Studies, Princeton), Caetano Veloso (musician, Brazil), Jards Macalé (musician and composer, Brazil), and Suely Rolnik. *the interviews will also be available for viewing after the formal screening until the close of the event

12.30 pm: Break and refreshments

2 to 3 pm:

Introduction to the Research day: Ana Paula Cohen

Presentations by Stephanie Kern and Dane Jensen, departing from the Lygia Clark: from objet to event archive

3 to 3.30 pm:

Introduction to the Looking for Headless Project (Goldin+Senneby) by Peta Rake

3.30 pm:  Coffee break

4 pm:

On the wall (the leaking) A Performance in 2 Acts, film/performance by Liam Everett, in conversation with Ana Paula Cohen, followed by discussion

5 pm:

Final discussions, response by Will Brown

This project was made possible with the support of The Luggage Store Gallery and the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at CCA. We would like to specially thank Laurie Lazer and Darryl Smith (Luggage Store), Leigh Markopoulos and Sue Ellen Stone (CURP, CCA), Suely Rolnik, Simon Goldin and Jakob Senneby, Liam Everett, Altman Siegel Gallery.

WHEN: Thursday December 1
(6:30pm – 8:30pm)

WHERE: Luggage Store Gallery
1007 Market St. (at 6th)
(to be viewed from street level at 6th/Market)*

Having come back from Spain and France, co-curators Jorge Bachmann and Paz de la Calzada have brought together a range of pieces depicting an oniric visualscape utilizing the varied methods of Image manipulation and time-lapse technology.

Program TWO features the works of Ana Teresa Fernandez (MEX/US), Mar Caldas (SP), Stephanie Sheriff (US), Nicolas Ly (FR), Sarah Klein (US), Paz de la Calzada (SP/US) Jorge Bachmann (CH/US).

The Mobile Projection Unit (part of the Luggage Store’s Projection Series) offers public audiences from all walks of life the experience of thoughtful, engaging, and/or inspiring contemporary art for free, providing an unexpected and refreshing alternative to the corporate messaging that saturates our public space. The program is funded in part by the San Francisco Arts Commission.