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“SAN FRAN BUFF NON STOP”
Tina Dillman blurs the line between art and life with her new exhibit in Buffalo, New York, at Big Orbit Gallery, an experimental exhibition space of CEPA (Contemporary Photography and Visual Arts Center).“For the show, Dillman will create a facsimile of her own home in the Big Orbit space. The result, according to a Big Orbit release, will be a combination of “performance art, exhibition and house party.” The show also will include work by Bay Area artists Erik Parra, Elizabeth Cayne, Karen Thomas, Scott Greenwalt and Nathaniel Parsons, as well as live music during the opening reception from Ay Fast, Damian, Shasti and MJB Corporation,” reports Colin Dabkowski of the Buffalo News.
VISIT FRI/SAT 1-5PM THROUGH 1/24/15
Big Orbit Gallery
30D Essex Street, Buffalo, NY+ PROJECT GRANT
Check out Dillman’s next big undertaking: a six-week, socially-engaged artist residency program that hosts one artist at a time in her home in Buffalo. -
“WHIHI”
“White Out High Rise” or “WHIHI” addresses the rapid gentrification of the Bay Area and its relationship to graffiti: how the city both cherishes and criminalizes street art; how its buffing out paves the way for “safer” neighborhoods; how graffiti lures new money into fringe neighborhoods with the luster of coolness; how street art functions as public gallery space, cultural and geographical landmarks, forms of political expression, etc.WHIHI’s own graffiti wall features a slideshow of Bay Area street art, both sanctioned murals and illegal tags, photographed in 2014 in West Oakland, Temescal, Hayes Valley, Mid-Market, the Mission, and Potrero.
The condo’s interior houses a four-story private screening room for viewing street art documentaries. The public could rent the space for $11 on AirBnb during the length of its installation at Aggregate Space in Oakland.
The mockommercial shown above parodies the promotional videos of new luxury condos transforming the Bay Area.
NEW CONSTRUCTION
WHIHI’s physical building block, a mass-produced cardboard cottage (entitled “My Very Own House,” copyrighted by the Pharmtech Corporation, marketed to children, and sold on Amazon) appears like an innocent version of domestic bliss. With black outlines delineating flower boxes, shutters, and kittens pawing balls of yarn, the cottage presents the ideal of home very specifically and generically.In converting four “My Very Own Houses" into a monolith, I whited out much of their original decorative detail in order to echo today’s architectural style, which favors a sleek, rectilinear aesthetic. WHIHI’s blank facade then acted as screen for projections of photographs of Bay Area graffiti during the course of its installation at Aggregate Space Gallery.
WHIHI’s buffed-out facade acts as a frame to consider relationships among home and politics, graffiti, gentrification and art.
CREDITS
Thanks especially to Mido Lee of midoleeproduction.com, Conrad M. Meyers II and S.D. Willis of aggregatespace.com, Michal Wisniowski, Brian Cayne, Greg Fulco, Madalynn Priester, Brooke Westfall, Amy Cancelmo and Michelle Mansour of rootdivision.org, and to the street artists making marks in the Bay Area for breathing life into this project. -
ROOT DIVISION’S 13TH ANNUAL ART AUCTION
Thursday, October 23rd, come bid on over 150 art works, including a recent collage of mine (“Hands ii,” which reveals both sides of the same magazine cut out, exploring ecological and aesthetic themes within consumer society).PREVIEW THE ART
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/110088810676456200087/albums/6068759833333065489CHECK OUT ROOT DIVISION’S NEW POP-UP SPACE1059 Market Street (between 6th and 7th)Thursday, October 23rd, 2014BUY TICKETS + MORE DETAILS6-7PM VIP Cocktail Hour**Free valet parking between 6-7PM
7-10PM Regular Admission/Silent Auction
8PM Live Auction
www.rootdivision.org/Auction2014.html
PROCEEDS BENEFIT
Keeping the arts present in San Francisco!
Supporting free arts classes for underserved local children.
Subsidizing studios for emerging artists in exchange for their volunteer service back to the community. -
“WHIHI, ARTS-DRIVEN CA LIFESYLE”
See and experience the Bay Area’s newest modern high rise, located in the thick of Oakland’s gallery district, NETE, or New Telegraph. WHIHI’s amenities include a four-story screening room, moonroof, and curated exterior graffiti wall. Reserve your private viewing today.“SURVIVAL ADAPTATIONS”
WHIHI stands among other art works as part of the “Survival Adaptations” show.Alongside frank conversations about the effects gentrification, this exhibition celebrates the beauty and infrastructure that ties San Francisco and Oakland together. In collaboration with Adobe Books Backroom Gallery and Root Division, “Survival Adaptations” at Aggregate Space Gallery in Oakland considers how housing relocation, and self-made gallery spaces have contributed to the survival of the arts in the Bay Area.
Featured artists include Elizabeth Cayne, Jon Gourley presenting Alice Shintani, Erica Molesworth, Yuri Pop (with Yuko Inatsuki, Kristin Miltner & C. Alex Simpkins, Jr.), Stairwell’s (Sarah Hotchkiss & Carey Lin), Tina Dillman of WE Artspace, Jesse Walton, and Michal Wisniowski.
AGGREGATE SPACE
801 West Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA
Entrance on West StreetGALLERY HOURS
Saturday 1-5PM and by appointment
July 4 to August 2, 2014OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, July 4, 5-8PMSECOND SATURDAY ARTIST TALK
Saturday, July 12, 11AMFIRST FRIDAY EVENT
Friday, August 1, 6-10PMFEATHERBOARD WRITING SERIES
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“EAT CAKE”
For Root Division’s “Kitsch-In” exhibition, I erected a three-story playhouse condo and served (red velvet) cake from within, handing out to-go boxes every 11 minutes on opening night.The condo consists of a stack of three mass-produced cardboard playhouses, which sport white grounds and black lines demarcating architectural elements, i.e. windows and shutters, and whimsical yet ordinary flourishes, i.e. cats pawing balls of yarn. In converting three single-family-unit playhouses into one newly constructed condo, I have obscured much of the curvilinear black outlines with multiple layers of white paint, as today’s modern architectural style privileges the severe rectilinear form. A seemingly innocent vision of domestic bliss, this generic playhouse elicits a critique about the modern American ideal of the home and its resident consumer.
THANKS!
To Julie Sadowski for the photos, to Michael Miller for the video, to the curators Amy Cancelmo, Richard Rinehart and Julie Sutherland, and to Root Division, many thanks! -
“XX (KISS KISS)”
This installation transforms print mass media into a surprise powder-room flirtation using scent and scale, reveal and repetition. Fragrance ads, ripped from magazines, then taped and stitched together, emit their powdery fumes as scented paper sculptures. Wallpaper decorating the sink and toilet partitions, a.k.a. “stallpaper,” features imagery of women’s lips: initially cut from magazines, then scanned – both front and back sides – blown up, and printed onto 44-inch-wide glossy photo paper. Each partition displays a unique “stallpaper” pattern, whose front and back each show a different side of the same cut-out mouth. “XX(KISS KISS)” explores the symbol of women’s mouths – the organ employed for eating, for expression, and for intimacy – and bodies as sites of hunger and glamour, pleasure and desire, acquiescence and power.PHOTOS BY MIDO LEE
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“PRINCIPAL”
Bay Area, come out this weekend and see some fresh fine art (including mine, in the ladies room downstairs), as part of SFAI’s MFA exhibit.
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The Old Mint, 5th and Mission, San Francisco
May 15 (Thursday) to May 18 (Sunday), 11 am to 6 pm
Public opening on May 17 (Friday), 7 to 9 pm
“_______ vs. _______ (& everything that falls in b/w)”
Tina Dillman is pleased to present _______ vs. _______ (& everything that falls in b/w), her MFA thesis exhibition for the San Francisco Art Institute. For her thesis project, the work of Bay Area artists Elizabeth Cayne, Scott Greenwalt, Erik Richard Parra, and Karen Thomas will be included. Through the installation of people, text, objects, photography, drawings, paintings, and collage, alternative spaces will be transformed into their own private/public viewing areas. This exhibition questions the value and intention of a graduate thesis show, in a city that is currently experiencing a high rate of evictions for artists, gallerists and cultural centers, at a site that embodies the currency and history of this city. A limited edition artist made catalogue for “________ vs. ________ (& everything that falls in b/w)” will be on sale in the book room, on the first floor of the Mint.
“XX (KISS KISS)”
For this exhibit, in the downstairs bathroom of The Old Mint, Cayne printed “stallpaper” to decorate the partitions of the ladies toilets. This work utilizes both front and back sides of paper cut-outs to think about women’s mouths as a site of hunger and glamour, pleasure and desire, acquiescence and power.
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“EAT CAKE”
Come out for a hand out, served from the front door of my new playhouse condo.“KITSCH-IN” OPENING
Saturday, April 12, 7-10PM@Root Division
3175 17th Street, San Francisco, CAExhibition Dates: April 9-26, 2014
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“IDYLLIC GESTURES”
These collages mine paper mass media, exploring relationships among individuals and objects, consumption and conservation, chaos and categorization. The use of only primary-sourced cut-outs (versus scanned and reprinted reproductions) emphasizes the materiality of paper media and its impending demise in a digital climate.ASIDE GALLERY
Thank you, Tina Dillman, for showing my new work in your gallery space at 3rd Street Studios (in San Francisco’s Dogpatch). Friends, let me or Tina know if you wish to see the work, up through the month of March, 2014.2565 Third Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA
Viewing by appointment.
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HOME AGAIN
Thanks to Dickerman Prints for selecting my photograph for their upcoming juried show, “HOME.”As we move forward through life, the idea of “home” is constantly evolving, and must be redefined as time passes. What does “home” mean to you? Is it a physical place or a familiar emotional state? A sanctuary from the outside world? We all need an anchor; someplace where we feel safe to be ourselves. We are interested in your interpretation of “home,” for an exhibition that explores our shared experiences, and divergent views.
“Moving forward in life requires looking back, back towards home, that laser point on the horizon by which one learns to clarify the angles and shapes of any new experience.” Margaret Sartor
WHERE?
Dickerman Prints
1141 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA
dickermanprints.comRECEPTION
Wednesday, March 19th, 6:30PM to 8:00PM