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This new fall art show @ Doe opens Friday, November 9th with a reception starting at 7 pm. The show is comprised of collages by Lorena Siminovich, an SF-based illustrator. Right From Wrong pictured above.

Also, you might want to check out Siminovich’s wall decor company, Petit Collage… there are some fantastic peices like Blue Robot pictured below.

I saw on Fecal Face that there is an art sale being held this Saturday to benefit the residents eviction defense at 608C Haight Street. I’ve emailed a few people to find the details. Anyone know the story?

Update: So, yes, my sources are fairly vague, but here’s what I’ve received so far: I think Dwyer* is getting evicted or something and is trying to get some $$ to keep it from happening or something. should be a good show!
*That would be John Dwyer of The Ohsees and The Coachwhips fame. (This info comes from a top Fecal Face Administration official.)

608C Haight Street @ Steiner
with donated works by
Zefrey Throwell
Chris Johanson
Shaun O’Dell
Chris Solaris
Kottie Paloma
Chris Corales
John Dwyer
Kyle Ranson
Brigid Dawson
Archie Mckay
Randy Colosky
Brian Nuda Rosch
Andrew Junge
Jarett Mitchel
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I biked over to GGP this weekend to see a new exhibit at the de Young featuring over 70 sculpture & paper works by American artist Louise Nevelson. She’s best known for filling abstract boxes with discarded pieces that she found on the New York City streets, giving them “a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.” There’s something so romantic about using found objects. The ability and imagination required to take trash and turn it into art is so inspiring.

These pictures simply don’t do her work justice. The size of the artwork is overwhelming and the curators did a phenomenal job arranging, lighting and explaining the works and how they related to one another. I recommend taking the time to watch the short documentary of Nevelson’s work through the eyes of six artist-admirers. Footage of the artist is just phenomenal. Her head wrapped in a colorful scarf, draped in loose flowing clothing, fake eyelashes, extreme makeup, waving her arms around and ordering young men to lift and cut hunks of wood to her specifications, all the while clutching a clove cigarette in her hand. Sensational.

This Saturday, “Non Sequitur”, curated by artist/Life Is Good cartoonist Sacha Eckes, opens at Ritual Coffee Roaster (1026 Valencia Street). Artists featured include Timothy Buckwalter, Bill Dunlap (whose art is pictured above), Sacha Eckes, Nancy Mizuno Elliott, Christopher Jernberg, Alexis Mackenzie, Paul Madonna, Mike Monteiro, Fred Rinne, Brion Nudah Rosch & Ifton Schlinger and Micke Tong. All work will be displayed in 20″ x 20″ white frames, with each artist submitting several pieces, that together are meant to be viewed as a sequential piece of art, similar to Art Spiegelman’s Narrative Corpse. The show runs through December 2nd.

Tonight The Hive is hosting the opening party (5- 10 pm) for a showcase of rising designers like Danielle Scarpulla Millinery and Alisha Trimble. The gallery will also be showing paintings by Rykarda Parasol and Kevin Glen Price as well as photography by Brenda McLeran.

KQED’s Gallery Crawl is a monthly video series that takes a look at Bay Area galleries and the art within them. In the latest episode, artist/narrator Jeannene Przyblyski examines San Francisco street art, from commissioned pieces like Claus Oldenburg’s & Coosje van Bruggen’s hideous “Cupid’s Span” by the Bay Bridge to works by Sirron Norris and Andrew Schoultz, as well as what Przbylski calls “non-permissioned” works: illegal graffiti, stencils and wheat pasted posters. Przybylski is a professor at San Francisco Art Institute, and it shows in her narration, which comes off as a freshman year “Street Art 101″ introductory lecture. Still, it is always good to see San Francisco street art get coverage, and, as an added bonus, the video features music from The Mall’s Adam Cimino.

Check out the video here.

Photos by Awww Damn.

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9th Annual Clarion Alley Block Party
Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP).
CAMP hosts an annual Block Party (2006 was the 8th annual) that has consistently brought over 1,000 people to the celebration, which features new murals, live and DJ music, film and video projections, and more.

New artwork by:

Chris Corales
Jet Martinez
~AngelA~
Fred Alvarado + Urban Youth Arts
Rigo 23
Cuba
M. Scott Hove
Crystal Vielula
C. Collentine + Poor Magazine
Emily Glaubinger + freinds
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Opening tonight at The Salon (377 Guerrero @ 16th Street) is Seattle artist Chris Crite’s San Francisco: 1940s. This show features acrylic paintings of mugshots from the ’40s on paper bags. From Crites’s artist statement:

“Years ago I saw a book of black and white crime photographs from the past. I found it amazing. The characters and crime scenes looked like surreal glimpses into the history of human interaction. Much more intriguing for me were the mug shots. Portraits of people who had just been caught. Despair, frustration, anger – so many expressions could be read on the faces. Each one of these images has a story. Often times I have no idea what the real story is, but it’s hard not to make one up. One of the reasons I paint them is to bring out another possible story, for people to look at and think about. The majority of the images I base my paintings on are from the 1890’s through 1950’s.”

The show runs through November 27th.

This new all-ladies showcase opens at the double punch toy store tonight @ 6 pm. Featuring Tink (Jessica Whiteside), Leah Brawley, Nathalie Roland, Kelly Tunstall and Fawn Gehweiler. Star by Tink pictured below.