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You may be familiar with Paul Bakers work of  ”pleasure boxes” and fun “mercury boxes” from Local Patron’s Winter Store in North Beach, but wouldn’t you know he  is a master at sculptural art as well. To really know Paul Baker’s craft is to interact with it,  he is known as the Bay Area’s “scientific artist”.

His latest show titled “Celestial Navigation” people literally “find” their way through the artwork and the situation. Navigation of the art piece leads one to find markers or signals of the real or metaphysical stars for guidance in themselves. His 3-D masterpieces never-the-less got people a little down and dirty. Take a look!

His Live Worms Gallery  opening, featured with Chris Angell, was too short but don’t fret, you can still contact Paul for more information on his wonderful pieces, pricing, and future shows check out his own website.

www.pbakerart.com

E-mail: Paul Baker@pbakerart.com

Phone: (415) 377-6634

If you haven’t been able to stop by Air Castle to see Danielle deRoberts, from Onerary, new Art Installation be sure to check it out tonight for the closing party. She does a wonderful display of mixing art, fabric, and drawings to seamlessly draw your eye from one piece to the next. If you miss the party be sure to check out their collection of awesome hoodies for men and women and adorable dresses at www.Onerary.com

Air Castle will be open from 12-8pm

For a map of the Gallery click HERE.

Gallery is located on 1706 Steiner Street in San Francisco.

Phone: 415-328-2160

Clark Sorensen, San Francisco Artist, best known for his fantastic Art Urinals.

San Francisco Artist Clark Sorensen is making a splash in the art world and on BBC news! Think urinals are boring, check these out. My favorite is the “down the drain urinal” where the graph of the market literally is going down the drain.

He has a line of “Bush”, as in President Bush, urinals as well as a collection of shells and flower urinals. If that isn’t your thing he also does sinks.

http://www.clarkmade.com/sinks.html

Prior to becoming an artist with porcelain, Clark Got a degree in Art from University of Utah. Hello to my fellow Ute! He then worked as a costume designer, then a computer animator for video games. Talk about a well rounded artist!

Want to watch the video on BBC click here.

Check out his website at www.clarkmade.com/

BBC News – New Jersey snow sculpture gets frosty reception.

This is an interesting article from BBC News. It addresses nude art. The New Jersey woman was forced by police to cover up her snow sculpture of  Venus de Milo or destroy it after a complaint.

This intrigues me because this original piece of art work was created around 130 – 100 BC believed to depict Aphrodite the Greek Goddess of Love and was highly sought after for it’s depiction of beauty when found in the 19th Century.

What I find more interesting is that the owner of the piece decided to put a bikini top and sarong on it  but felt it looked “more objectified”.

My question to you is do you feel that a creation of art, if nude, is indecent and which picture do you think looks more sexualized?

Over the past several years, we have operated seasonal shops in various locations around town selling locally created art, craft and design products. This year, we are coming together to open our best shop ever! SFGallery143 is merging with Local Patron to bring you the best Holiday Store yet.

Where: 1418 Grant Street @ Green

When: November18th 2009 – January 10th 2010

Hours: Monday – Saturday 11am-10pm; Sunday 11am-6pm

Events : …so far

November 20th:Opening Party Featuring DJ’ Danger Deluxxe, treats and drinks. 6pm-9pm 10% Sale

December 10th: Neighborhood Merchant Crawl 5pm-10pm we will be featuring treats from a local chocolatier.

December 18th: Nest Fundraiser, 10% of sales go to help this Non-Profit Organization. Nest helps woman get out of poverty by providing micro-loans to create their own small businesses and to become self-sufficient.

January 10th: Closing Party Featuring DJ from Hiest Dominique and Bryan Riate. Pastry Chef, Jennifer Riate, from acclaimed restaurant EOS will be featuring some of her favorite desserts for you to sample. 6pm-9pm 10% sale.

SCRAP’S 3rd Annual Exhibition will be happening December 11th, 2009 – January 29, 2010

Deadline is October 25th.

SCRAP (Scroungers Center for Reusable Art Parts) is seeking artists to submit works made in some form from found items, leftovers, recycled materials, or scraps!

This year they will have 2 venues for exhibiting. The First is ReMake Lounge on 50 Post Street (Crocker Galleria) and the Second, is Ec0-Center on 11 Grove Street (the SF Department of the Environment).

To download a copy of the submissions form go to Scrap-sf.org and scroll down for the “click here” button.

You can also email exhibition@scrap-sf.org or call for entries (415) 647-1746.

Scrap is located on 801 Toland Street  close to Third. Entrance is on Newcomb Ave between Toland & Selby.

Attendance of 5,000! I don’t think so, but never-the-less it was fun. We were expecting to only get a half of a table and ended up with a full one. Yay! We were also told it was non vending….people did it anyway. Had I known we would have brought A LOT more stuff. You live you learn and in the process we still managed to get people interested. So here is to our first “exhibit” and some pictures of the other “exhibitors.”

Enjoy!

September 29th Marks the Independent Arts Expo’s 10th Anniversary. Come to Golden Gate Park at the music concourse between the de Young and Academy of Science for over 200 local exhibitors ranging from arts projects, services, venues, schools, etc. There will be live performances and it is projected to be up to 5,000 attendees.

The event runs from 11-6pm so be sure to come early before the crowds arrive and to make it around to the 4 Groves (Performing Arts, Visual ARts, Literary Arts and Multi-Media).

Did I mention there will be a live mural painting project, sculpture garden and live performances???

TO FIND OUT MORE, Click on the Link Below

WWW.ARTSandMEDIA.NET

BBC World Service – Arts & Culture – Rankin photography.

Rankin 

Check out this voice video of Rankin and his new work. He is changing his work from photographing movie stars and models to people off the street. Inviting anyone to walk in off the sidewalk in front of his white seamless, he streams the photo to the computer and prints onsite to be hung for the Old Truman Gallery in London.

Instead of bringing the beauty out of models and movie stars, he is showing the beauty out of nurses, office workers, the “ordinary” public.  Gathering his idea from photographing people in the Congo, he wanted to not exploit the grief, which is often popular, but showing who those people really are, their essence, and their hope.

To see the photographs so far click below

http://www.rankin.co.uk/portfolio/rankinlive

and his website

http://www.rankin.co.uk/

Beauty – Model

Congo

Louie Banks – Rankin Live Project

*All images are off the Rankin website

Mars-1 has really hit the mainstream big time. Seeing him and his wife at the local Cafe I would hear of their trips to LA, New York and Portugal I wondered “what next?”  I know he had done well for himself but now he has hit mainstream. Now you can have a little taste of Mars-1 for any of your apple products like the ipod, iphone or laptop. Can’t afford his big works? Now you can have a small sampling.

Check out the link below for more information on his designs and to order! 

https://www.gelaskins.com/skins.php?Category=20&Skin=130

Check out his home site for more of his work, news, media and more.

http://www.mars-1.com/work.html