Capp Street Graduation

Mission 17 Gallery: Wednesday May 20th

Erick Lyle will be reading, I'll be showing one of my short videos and images from "The View From Here" and Nick Pagoulatos will be breaking down community planning at this event on Wednesday, May 20th, put together by David Buuck (BARGE)and his show "17 Reasons" at Mission 17 Gallery.

There will be food, drinks, and conversation as well, so please come by!

Wednesday, May 20th, 6-8 pm
Mission 17 Gallery
2111 Mission Street
Suite 401
San Francisco 94110

New Work

The View From Here on sfmoma's Open Space Blog

Over a year ago, a CCA student named Adrienne Skye Roberts contacted me and told me she was writing a paper that discussed my project the View From Here. A week ago she contacted me again and told me that she was writing an article for SF MOMA's blog Open Space about the project. Thanks Adrienne!

View the article: http://blog.sfmoma.org/tag/kari-orvik/

L-ternship at MNRC

Last day of class for this L-ternship group - a health education class for women held at the Mission Neighborhood Resource Center, a drop-in center on Capp Street. Congratulations ladies and thanks for the love!














P.S. - I'm still working on posting video clips from the Mission Portrait Studio projects...all in good time I guess...

collodion couples

new year

I finally got my 4x5 field camera working - here is my brother in his new backyard.

My Corner Store...and Kai

I've started making panoramic portraits of my corner. I'm looking forward to taking more with my field camera, once I get it all working... Here are the brothers who work at the corner store pretty much every night. And then there's Kai.

Dog with Gold Medal

I couldn't resist posting this photo I took of Nacho wearing his owner's gold medal from the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing. After admiring his proud photo, you can read about his owner's accomplishments here.

In the MOMA...

My 20 seconds of fame.... This holiday season you can now see photos of me on 2nd St. in the window of Jeremy's clothing store (see previous post) OR on 3rd St. in downtown San Francisco at the SF MOMA: (part of the Jochen Gerz portrait project "The Gift" I volunteered to take portraits for)

http://www.examiner.com/assets/SFMOMA/cooliris.html

Greater Good Magazine

These photos I took came out a little while ago to go along with an article in Greater Good magazine about a study on prejudice. They wanted two portraits of the same person in different settings. Greater Good is published quarterly out of UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center. Belated thanks to Eve and Damon for making it a fun shoot!

New Mission Portrait Studio Screening

I’m finally pulling it together here after these last couple of days of election haze to post an event on Sunday where I’ll be screening my new short film/video of the portrait studio we set up at 24th and Mission last month.

It’s the 12th anniversary of K’vetsh open mic on Sunday November 9th. There’s a great line-up of artists - hosted by Tara Jepsen and Kirk Read!

Chris Vargas and Greg Youmans--new short film!
Charles Vasquez--reading original material!
Zara Thustra and Siobhan--performance art!
Sara Seinberg--amazing writing!
Rhiannon Argo--awesome excerpts of novel!
Cindy Emch--poet!
Heathen Machinery--beautiful monsters!
Vero Majano--Mission Media Archive footage!
Devon Devine and Jenna Riot--debut of BrownDownCrownTV show!
Kari Orvik--footage from BART station mobile portrait studio!
Danny Levesque--tales from the world of hair!
Margaret Tedesco--words and images!

Larger than life in the window at Jeremy's

If you happen to find yourself on 2nd Street in San Francisco on the corner of South Park near Bryant St., you'll notice some large murals in the window of Jeremy's clothing store. One of those 8 foot panels of different artists features a photo of me sitting on my dining room table with one of my portraits next to me and some text about my work....It is ridiculously large. But anyway, thank you to Cynthia at Jeremy's for making it happen.....

Mission Portrait Studio at 24th St.

The second part of my Mission Portrait Studio project took place at the 24th and Mission St. BART plaza on Saturday, September 13th. Over 40 people walking through the plaza got a formal portrait of themselves. Thanks to everyone who helped out to make it such a fun morning!

Eth6 Magazine Opening at Blankspace Gallery in Oakland

Some of my photos from a story on community response to gang violence in San Francisco's churches will be in this show for the launch of Eth6 Magazine, issue 3. Looks like there will be 2 openings - one on First Friday and an artist reception the following week. Can't wait to see the other work in the issue.

Eth6 Magazine Issue 3 Artist Exhibition
Sept. 5 - Oct. 13, 2008
First Friday Reception: Sept. 5, 7-10pm
Artist Reception: Sept. 12, 7-10pm

Blankspace Gallery
6608 San Pablo Avenue, Oakland, California 94608
510.547.6608

Issue Three: contributing Artists Exhibition
Opens friday, Sept. 5, 7-10pm
Art: Bert Bergen, Brian Caraway, Eve Ekman, Jana Flynn, Tara Foley, Richard Nyhagen, Juliette Oken, Brion Nuda Rosch, Sham Saenz, Adam Wier, Gaelan Mckeown-Hickel
Photography: Beryl Fine, Rachel Styer, Kari Orvik, Norma Cordova