In participation with the Bayview Underground Pop-Up Market in Building 12, Austin Press will be exhibiting each Thursday night 5:30 - 8 pm, from now until June 26. Come join the fun and experience food, wine, music, art, and craft. To get to the market, enter Pier 70 from 22nd Street. For more information, you can check the web site of the Bayview Underground Food Scene.
Forest City, developers of the Waterfront Site at Pier 70, are conducting an event on March 27, where they will be showing preliminary designs for the Pier 70 waterfront. The program will include a walking tour of the Pier 70 site,a brief presentation and Q&A, and an informal, open house-style discussion with the Forest City staff. All NBA members and friends are encouraged to attend, and if the open house events aren't enough of a draw, know that light snacks and beverages will be provided.
To register for this event, follow this link to the Eventbrite website.
Note that the event location has been changed to Building 12, at 420 22nd Street – the previous location was to be at the Orton office in the Noonan Building.
The agenda will be:
5 - 6 pm: Tour of the Waterfront Site 6 - 6:45 pm: Presentation 6:45 - 7:30 pm: Informal Discussions
NBA artist Daniel Phill is exhibiting his work in a 3-person show at the Art Essex Gallery in Essex, Connecticut. The show is open from March 19 though April 12, with an opening reception on Saturday, March 22, from 4pm to 7pm. The other artists in the show are Lynn Blodgett and Jed Paterson. The Art Essex Gallery was voted 2013's "Best Art Gallery" in Connecticut by CT magazine. For more information visit the gallery's web site.
An upcoming group show at the Campfire Gallery in the Mission, called “Fractal”, will feature new works on paper by Noonan Building Artist Francis Berry. The show will run between March 12 and April 13, 2014, with an artist reception on Saturday, March 22, from 6pm to 9pm. You can get the address and directions from the gallery’s web site. From the gallery: “Fractal brings together three artists whose work is influenced by the underlying patterns found in our natural and urbanenvironments. Organic and man-made elements are reconfigured into visual landscapes that seek to convey both order and chaos.”
Here is Francis’s statement that accompanies his work in this show: “Rather than contextualizing man in landscape, I contextualize landscape in man. Recycled Landscape reduces human elements to verticals and natural elements to horizontals. By converting the rectangular elongation of the traditional landscape format to a more restrictive square, human design and nature are framed on equal terms. With multiple landscapes crowded in a square format and several horizons stacked on each other, each Recycled Landscape reflects a meditation on the kaleidoscopic interaction between nature and human design.”
Better late than never ... We just got word that Noonan Building Artist Kim Frohsin was included in a group show at the J. Cacciola Gallery in New York City. That show was up between Feb. 18 and March 1, 2014. Kim is also planning to release a book soon, to be entitled "Portraits of Numbers: 2010-2014". The image for this post is one of the paintings to be included.
Factrix, the Bay Area-based industrial rock band which includes the Noonan Building's Mark Abramson on guitar, will be back in action next week, opening for Lumerians, Friday, November 22, at the Chapel in San Francisco. The Chapel is located at 777 Valencia Street, between 18th and 19th Streets, in the Mission. Admission is $12 per person in advance, and $15 per person at the door. Here's the link.
Lumerians are new to us, but they've done some good music and nice videos too, which you can see on their web site. Playing first is a band called Li Xi.
Noonan Building Artist Connie Harris will be a part of an upcoming group show called "Aftermath – Post-Minimal Abstraction" at the Chandra Cerrito Contemporary gallery in Oakland. The show will be up from October 4 through November 22, with an opening reception at the gallery on Friday, October 4, from 6pm to 8pm. The other artists in the show are Brian Caraway, Lisa Espenmiller, Connie Goldman, David Allan Peters and Dianne Romaine. There will also be an artist talk at the gallery, moderated by DeWitt Cheng, on Saturday, October 5, from 2pm to 3pm. For more information on the show, the opening or for the gallery’s location, click on this link to their web site. The information will also be on our calendar page.
Noonan Building Artist Henry Jackson has a solo show of his recent work coming up next month at the Sandra Lee Gallery in San Francisco. The show will be up from October 1 through November 10, with an opening reception at the gallery on Thursday, October 3, from 5:30pm to 7:30 pm. For more information on the show, the opening or for the gallery's location, click on this link to their web site. The information will also be on our calendar page.
Bay area-based industrial rock band Factrix will be playing a show this Sunday in Los Angeles, at the Echo nightclub in Echo Park. Noonan building artist Mark Abramson plays guitar with the band. Factrix will also be playing a show in San Francisco soon, as part of a mini music-festival in the Mission called the San Francisco Punk Homecoming. The date for that show will be September 22; look for more information in a future post on this blog. Here are some links related to the show this weekend in LA:
The Echo's web page for this event.
On Sunday, August 18th the Noonan Building Artists will be participating in Dogpatch's first Urban Air Market. The event will be held in the building on Pier 70 that formerly housed one of the City of San Francisco's tow yards and a police vehicle impound. Entrance to the event will be through what is normally a locked gate at 22nd and Illinois St. leading to a massive raw building on the waterfront. For the first time ever and for one day only, this will be a community gathering place for art, fashion, food, drinks, and music. Urban Air Market is a curated marketplace for sustainable design featuring 150 independent designers of men’s, women’s, and kid’s clothing, accessories, jewelry and home décor. Participating designers are selected based on their quality, originality, cleverness, and method of sustainability in design. The organizers say they are inspired by “green” designers who are pushing the direction of fashion where it should be going.
The Noonan Building Artists will be contributing by setting up a small self-curated gallery with representative works from a number of the Building's artists. NBA members will be at the gallery all day to get the word out about our group, and the part we play in the Dogpatch community, giving the community at large an opportunity to get acquainted with this group of painters, printmakers, and mixed media artists.
Again, the date is Sunday, August 18, from 11am to 6pm. Entrance is at the corner of 22nd Street and Illinois.
San Francsico-based post-punk industrial rock band Factrix, an integral part of the Bay Area music scene from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, has re-formed to play a show in Oakland next week. Noonan Building artist Mark Abramson will be playing the show with them on guitar. The show will take place on Friday, July 26 at a venue called Night Light in Oakland, at around 9pm. This is a special event to honor the release of artist Ruby Ray’s book of photographs of the 1970s San Francisco punk scene “From The Edge of the World.” For friends and members of the NBA who are interested in attending the show, here is some information about the band, the venue and purchasing tickets:
To go to the Facebook page for this event, follow this link.
Factrix has a Facebook page of their own, click here for that.
To see the web page for this event on the promoter’s web site, and to buy tickets, follow this link.
The same company publishes Ruby’s book, and here’s a link to that page.
The venue for this show, Night Light, has a web site with a calendar, directions, etc.
Noonan Building Artist Francis Berry has a show opening this weekend with designer Chad Wright at Satellite 66, located at 66 Sixth Street in San Francisco. The show will be up from Saturday June 22 through Thursday June 27th. Gallery hours are in the flyer above. The opening reception is Saturday June 22 from 7pm to 10pm. More information and a map can be found in our calendar.
Noonan Building Artist Suzy Barnard will be included in an upcoming show at the SFMOMA Artists Gallery, at Fort Mason in San Francisco. The show, entitled "Lure: Bay Area Artists Explore the Sea," brings together works by Bay Area artists who look to the sea as a primary reference in creating art. The exhibition, which is in recognition of the America's Cup sailing regatta taking place this summer on the San Francisco Bay, offers a water-centric exploration of a vital Bay Area resource that is the basis of daily life and culture, attempting to reveal fresh insight and meanings inspired by the region's seas.
Besides Suzy, other artists include Julie Alvarado, Leo Bersamina, Willard Dixon, Jessica Dunne, Nancy Genn, Colin Gift, Julian Hoenig, Katina Huston, Abner Kingman, Janel Leppin, Ian MacLean, Bonnie Neumann, Judy O'Shea, Susan Parker, Emily Payne, Kent Roberts, Tim Svenonius, and Marie Van Elder.
The show will be up at the SFMOMA Artists Gallery from June 15 through August 15, with an opening reception on Saturday, June 15, from 1pm to 3pm. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10:30am to 5:00pm For directions, visit their website.
Noonan Building artist Daniel Phill is having a solo show in June at the Sandra Lee Gallery, 251 Post Street, suite 310, in San Francisco. The show will be up from June 4 through June 29, with the opening reception at the gallery on Thursday June 6, from 5:30 pm to 7:30pm. The press release from Sandra Lee Gallery follows:
Sandra Lee Gallery proudly announces the Vernation Series, a solo show by artist Daniel Phill. In this interpretive series, Phill aims to re-imagine nature, specifically vegetation and flowers, using abstraction and implications of space. Created using expressionist methods, the paintings are not merely representational, but gently suggestive of landscapes. Composing and dissolving forms and colors, Phill’s creative process is just as instinctive and liberated as his final images. Blending, dripping, and flinging the paint, Phill develops familiar shapes using an unconventional approach.By combining artistic techniques, Phill embodies the dichotomies of color, form, and light found in the natural world. His process begins with a flat surface, pooling and mixing the colors to create a fluid base or background. He then moves the canvas upright to a wall, creating detailed pops of brilliant colors, often against a muted softer field. This method references the combination of loose subtleties and sharp intensities that make up our everyday visual perceptions. Shapes and colors mix and merge, fade and appear, often submerged under layers of pigment, washes and transparencies. The result is an image that exudes the depth and atmosphere reminiscent of a tangible landscape. Phill gives these paintings a textured, impassioned and radiant life.