Let's Go See Some Art
While we’ve been stuck inside our stuffy apartment in the Tenderloin, nursing a nasty cough amid empty tissue boxes and cartons of Chunky Monkey (hey, we have a very sore throat), we’ve started to feel a touch of the cabin fever. Despite our frail and sickly condition, we’re determined to get a little fresh air and check out the following shows starting tonight. We hope to see you there, just don’t stand too close.
The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
The Three Gorges Project: Paintings by Liu Xiaodong
April 7–July 16
China's Three Gorges Dam: 26 million cubic meters of concrete, 395 square miles, 250,000 workers, and millions resettled. The Three Gorges Project features a series of monumental paintings by one of China's leading artists chronicling the Three Gorges Dam project, a massive 17-year effort to dam the Yangzi River. Liu Xiaodong has shown an intense interest in documenting the China emerging today, and his aim as a painter is to capture the psychic landscape of a changing society.
The LAB (2948 16th St. at Capp)
The Man Box and Beyond
April 7–May 6 Wed-Sat, 1-6pm Opening reception Friday, April 7, 6–9 PM,
Although feminism promised a general human liberation, many men are still caught in the “Man Box.” An idea originated by the Oakland Men’s Project, it was an exercise used to open up discussions about gender roles and how they are enforced and masculinities and their connection to violence. Men are asked to indicate what messages they were given when told to “act like a man.” This exercise triggers memories of their experiences of pain, humiliation, abuse, lack of love and acceptance, and powerlessness. To be outside of the Box opens up men to being called names like sissy, geek, fag, wimp, mama’s boy, loser and pussy.
Root Division (3175 17th Street at South Van Ness)
Taste Art
April 8-23 Wed-Sun from 12-5, Opening Reception Saturday April 8 from 8-11 p.m.
O Root Division a non-profit arts organization will present Taste Art, an art opening and exhibition featuring a variety of original work by 47 of the Bay Area's brightest emerging artists.By contributing SFist Shelley and SFist Eve
"Shred Tree" by Kathy Dybeck, Art Waves Gallery
YBCA (701 Mission St. at Third)
Peer Pleasure 2
April 2-July 6
Peer Pleasure 2 continues the exploration of artist group activity highlighted in Peer Pleasure 1 and showcases a common interest in forging community networks to distribute art, information and ideas. Interactive projects address a broad range of social and political issues, from life in the prison system, to the misrepresentation of Muslims in the media. Over the course of the exhibition, YBCA’s galleries will include interactive displays and impromptu lectures.
Femina Potens Gallery (465 So. Van Ness btwn 15th and 16th St.)
Greetings From the Future
April 7- 28 Thurs-Sun Noon-6PM Opening Reception April 7 from 7-10 p.m.
Femina Potens Gallery presents Greetings From the Future, a mixed-media installation featuring Brooke Leigh Fletcher and Francesca Berrini, from April 7th – April 28th, 2006.Examining human relationships from an outsider’s perspective, Brooke Fletcher’s large scale figurative sculptures translate uncomfortable human traits into darkly grotesque caricatures. Fletcher splices her otherwise cherubic figures with distorted features and animal-like characteristics, speaking to the perspective of one who is stationed at the social margins. Pop-Surrealist Francesca Berrini displays selected works from her collection of hand-rendered mixed media collage. Combining seemingly disparate images from vintage texts and other found objects, Berrini works with the intent to “exploit humor” from the traditional and wages a jarring, if tongue-in-cheek, critique of media-based narratives. Together, their works depict subversive elements belying oft idealized, nostalgia-inducing visions of the past.
Art Waves Gallery (3848 Judah at 44th Avenue)
First Anniversary Celebration
Sunday, April 9 12 – 6 p.m.
A former beauty shop near the end of the Judah line may strike some as an unlikely venue for an art gallery, but AWG is just part of the blossoming Outer Sunset. This lively community gallery that prides itself on “affordable art” (and we are all for that) is celebrating its one year anniversary with a free reception for art lovers, neighbors, and aspiring collectors. top by and say hello to owner Kathy Dybeck who is the featured artist this month and finally pick up something to cover that odd-looking stain on your living room wall.