Intersection for the Arts Gala Auction this Saturday

Come to Intersection for the Arts' 45th Anniversary Gala on June 12th at their new space on Mission at 5th St! I donated a piece and there are tons of great artists in the auction - including one of my favorite pieces by Binh Danh - The Moon:

"The Moon" by Binh Danh

More info at http://theintersection.org/.

Tiny Locas Show at Mission Cultural Center

Aquanet, 110 camera, tagged converse hi tops, can of budweiser, black orchid lipstick....


I took photos at the opening reception for the show 'Two Four Mission Home Girls, Circa 1980' put together by Clare Haggarty, Vero Majano and Sandy Cuadra at the Mission Cultural Center - it's up through March 27th....If you are on facebook you can view the photos here.

The show features a great collection of photos by Sandy of her homegirls the Tiny Locas, in the Mission in the late 70's/early 80's, as well as 16mm film and other memorabilia. Definitely worth stopping through if you're in the neighborhood!

Chain Reaction show at SFAC Gallery

Chain Reaction 11
Exhibition Dates: February 12-May 16, 2010
SFAC Gallery Locations: Main Gallery, Grove St and City Hall
Opening Reception: Feb 12, 5:30 - 9pm at all 3 locations

SFAC Gallery asked me to select a Bay Area photographer who selects another and so on for their 40th anniversary celebration. Excited to see the show!

Here are the 10 chains:
SFAC Staff – Anne Colvin – Ginger Wolfe-Suarez – Lordy Rodriguez
SFAC Advisory Board – Walter Logue – Alexander Cheves – Paul Clipson
Glen Helfand – Christine Wong Yap – Pablo Guardiola – James Tantum
Enrique Chagoya & Kara Maria – Justine Lai – Emily North – Angie Wilson
Desiree Holman – Joshua Churchill – Jasmin Lim – Cameron Soren
Judy Moran – Michael Arcega – Suzanne Husky – Amy Balkin

SFAC Gallery Window Installation Site at 155 Grove St.
Kamau Amu Patton – Chris Bell – Elaine Buckholtz – Floor Van Herreweghe

SFAC Gallery at City Hall, Ground Floor
Abby Chen – Hui-Ying Tsai – James S. Kang – Scott Polach
Rupert Jenkins – Gabriela Hasbun – Eros Hoagland – David Paul Morris
Kari Orvik – Robyn Twomey – James Chiang – Josh Kirschenbaum

24th Street Food and Films this Saturday

Come to a guided tour of the 12 Art in Storefronts projects on 24th Street before sitting down to an evening of food and films about 24th Street by Martha Rosler, Veronica Majano and Kari Orvik, curated by Clare Haggarty (we were all in a band together once - no, not really...)

Saturday, January 30, 6-9pm
Sun Rise Restaurant (3126 24th St.)

The pris-fixe dinner (vegan option) w/ glass of sangria is $20 in advance (if you pay by cash or check...)
RSVP info: http://www.basebasebase.com/projects.html

Film Program:
Martha Rosler, Secrets from the Street: No Disclosure, 1980
In the 80's, Rosler had a studio near 24th Street in the Mission where she filmed the street in super 8 out of a car window. The footage is collaged with her voiceover making observations about the neighborhood.

Veronica Majano, Two Four, 2002
"Two Four" as in 24th Street in San Francisco’s Mission District, explores the fragile decay of memory in this short hand-processed black and white super 8 film.

Kari Orvik, Mission Portrait Studio, 24th and Mission, 2008
This video documents a day of free public portraits through audio interviews, super 8 film and video footage of participants' reactions to their images, neighborhood and one another.

Halloween at Grace Cathedral

Capp Street Graduation

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

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...

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.

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

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.....

Saturday