Insights Art Exhibition in the New York Times!

The Insights Art Exhibition I've been coordinating for the last 7 years through the LightHouse for the Blind got a big write up in the New York Times this past Sunday. Great exposure for the show and the artists. This year's the 20th year the LightHouse has produced the show, and it's been extended through January 15th at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.


Click here to read the article
and congratulations to all the artists in the show!



Photo by Nano Visser

Halloween

Open Studios at Art Explosion Oct. 9-11

I decided to try Open Studios for the first time and now have a studio space next to my good friend Beth Schuenemann's studio at Art Explosion on Alabama and 19th. There are tons of other artists' work to check out in the building - I'll be showing a little of everything and holding it down with Beth all weekend so come on down!

FRIDAY OCT 9th, 7-11pm
SATURDAY OCT 10th, 11am-6pm
SUNDAY OCT 11th, 11am-6pm

Here are some of Beth's paintings - the yellow one is on wood.

"Home is something I carry with me" screening

Vero Majano and I compiled some audio interviews, images and super 8 footage from her internship program at the Mission Neighborhood Resource Center for this exhibition, curated by Adrienne Skye Roberts, called "Home is something I carry with me". When Adrienne told me she was putting together the exhibition, I thought that it was important to include in the show (especially one with that title) the voices of people who are homeless in the Mission. The piece is a definite work in progress, but we think it can be a sketch of a larger piece to come.

Film screening: Friday, September 4, 9 p.m. @ 348 Shotwell Street, between 17th and 18th Sts.
(Feel free to bring blankets or lawn chairs to the film screening. Popcorn will be provided)

Opening: Friday, September 4, 4-8 p.m. @ 3352 24th Street & 951 Shotwell Street
Open Houses: Saturday, September 5, 12-5 p.m. @ 3352 24th Street & 951 Shotwell Street

Home is something I carry with me is an alternative art exhibition and film screening featuring over 40 Bay Area artists whose work interrogates the concept of home. For one weekend, two homes in San Francisco’s Mission District will transform into exhibition spaces and the backyard of a third home will be used for an outdoor film screening.

Participating artists: Mara Baldwin, Taha Belal, Jesse Brown, Michael Campbell, Julie Cloutier, Pablo Cristi, Torreya Cummings, Cindy DeLosa, Amy Wilson Faville, Jonathan Fischer, Molly Goldberg, Pablo Guardiola, Alvaro Guillen, Jason Hanasik, Amber Hasselbring, Malak Helmy, Amanda Herman, Nanci Ikejimba, Josef Jacques, Amy Keefer, Claire Kessler-Bradner, Lynn Marie Kirby and Lisa Robertson, Milena Korolczuk, Laurel Lee, Lauren Mardsen, Lynne McCabe, Klea McKenna, Ranu Mukherjee, Jeff Norman, Alexis Petty, Simon Pyle, Hilary Schwartz, Renetta Sitoy, Bayete Ross Smith, Lewis Watts, Mira M. White, Anna Whitehead, Megan Wilson and Carmen Winant.

Participating filmmakers: Terry Berlier, Michael Goodier, Amanda Herman & The Morris Family, Lynn Marie Kirby, Katherin McInnis, Gloria Moran, and Kari Orvik and Veronica Majano with the Mission Neighborhood Resource Center.

Curated by Adrienne Skye Roberts

Unfortunately, 3352 24th Street and 951 Shotwell Street have large staircases and therefore are not wheelchair accessible. There is a hallway leading to the backyard of 348 Shotwell where the film screening will be held is that can accomodate 29" inches across. No stairs, but a few steps down from the hallway

To avoid overcrowded the houses on Friday, come on by early--we open at 4PM. Or wait until Saturday the 5th, both houses are open from 12-5PM.

Links:
http://www.sfweekly.com/events/home-is-something-i-carry-with-me-1648751/

Capp Street Graduation

I have not been very regular at posting....will update soon!

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!