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SAVE THE DATE: APRIL 23, 2011
Ictus Gallery introduces Home in the World: An Apocalyptic Travelogue
A photo installation and exhibit by Bay Area photographer Joan Osato -- featuring a new photographic series inspired and realized through the artist's travels and travails, exploring our sense of place and displacement in the American West.
In Greek, the word Apocalypse means "lifting of the veil" or "revelation," and is a disclosure of something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception.
The Apocalyptic Travelogue invites viewers to contemplate on the nature of destruction and beauty, and imagine their world in a post-apocalyptic future.
Ictus Gallery
April 23rd - June 16th, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday April 23rd, 6 pm - 10pm
Closing Reception: Thursday June 16th, 6pm - 10pm
1769 15th St. @ Albion (Between Valencia and Guerrero)
San Francisco, CA, 94013
Ictus Gallery features an emerging aesthetic of multi-dimensional realities and art forms occurring between and within places and people, the territories of artists, the revealing of things... within landscapes of travail and transformation. The artists in transit - inside their work, and their worlds, bent on a subversive contemporary point of view.
January 9, 2011
"Breathed... Unsaid..." Exhibit coming to SOMArts -- March 2011
Currently, Lumina Arts is launching an exhibition and set of related activities titled "Breathed... Unsaid..." This title references the ubiquitous, physical, and all-encompassing nature of an experience that is largely left unrevealed and unstated.
"Breathed... Unsaid..." brings together twenty Bay Area transnational/diaspora, multi-disciplinary artists to explore the unarticulated spaces experienced while living in multiple and at times disparate cultural realms.
The exhibit will be comprised of large-scale sculptural and multimedia installations, oil and acrylic paintings, mixed-media drawings, wood and metal works, as well as films. It will include auditory, tactile and visual works. Additional elements will include evenings with poets, community dialogue, and speakers.
The theme of the exhibit "Breathed... Unsaid..." implicates language while contemplating the body and unarticulated spaces. The artists participating in the exhibit all have transnational backgrounds and experiences. Despite increased connections facilitated by new technologies around the world, there still remains a disconnection in the ways in which our nations and societies relate with each other. Borders remain. The exhibit will bring together artists who attempt to show how all of us can freely go back and forth, regardless of these lingering borders, internal and external and create new spaces for understanding.
1. March 5, 2011, 6-9pm Opening with performances by Sasha Baskina, Pireeni Sundaralingam with Colm Ó Riain
2. March 13, 2011, Noon-8pm Film Event - City of Borders by Yun Suh, Crepe Covered Sidewalks by Renee Wilson, In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee by Deann Borshay Liem, The Wall by Ricardo Martinez, Noon-6pm screenings, 6-8 pm Q&A with Filmmakers
3. March 24, 2011 7-9 PM Poetry reading night - Joël B. Tan with Nick Brinkley, Laleh Khadivi and Jack Fertig in "What is a (W)hole?: A Salon of Mysteries"
4. March 31, 2011, 6-8PM Artists' talk and closing reception (Original dance performance by Archana Sachdev, who will also lead us to a Bollywood dance party!)
"Breathed... Unsaid..." will be exhibited at the SOMArts Gallery in San Francisco, California.
Artists
Participating artists are:
Sasha Baskina
* Performance artist, dance/movement/experimental theatre, originally from Moscow
Victor Cartagena
* Salvadoran-born artist residing in San Francisco whose early works dealt with memories of the violence in El Salvador and separation of family.
Kevin B. Chen
* Mixed media artist and curator for Intersection for the Arts.
Taraneh Hemami
* An interdisciplinary visual artist born in Iran, Hemami is based out of San Francisco, CA. and has exhibited regularly at national and international venues.
Kyoung-ah Kang
* An established Korean national contemporary visual artist who currently resides in San Francisco and whose work blurs boundaries of space, place and being.
Alice Konitz
* A renowned German sculptor with work featured in the 2008 Whitney Biennial.
Keba Konte
* Beloved photographer/mixed media artist who documents the Oakland African American community.
Deanne Borshay Liem
* Director of Emmy Award-nominated documentary, First Person Plural (Sundance, 2000)
Ricardo Martinez
* Director of award-winning documentary The Wall
Hang Nguyen
* Vietnamese American painter/muralist based in San Francisco.
Chris Novak
* Internationally exhibited multimedia artist based in San Francisco, CA with roots in the Jewish and Irish communities
Colm Ó Riain
* Violinist and composer from Ireland living in SF.
C. Ree
* A Korean American multimedia visual artist.
Pireeni Sundaralingam
* Spoken word artist and poet born in Sri Lanka, raised in England. Together with Colm Ó Riain, their work tackles interlinked themes of migration, myth and memory, in multiple diasporas.
Tessie Barrera-Scharaga
* Time and site-based installation artist.
Archana Sachdev
* Dance movement artist originally from India based in the Bay Area.
Joel Tan
* Award-winning editor (Best Asian Gay Erotica), writer, and visual artist, and the Community Engagement Director at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Yun Suh
* Award-winning documentary filmmaker of City of Borders.
Renee Wilson
* Filmmaker, renowned jazz singer, actor (Ray)
Lumina Arts is an opening for artists who live in the world of transit between cultures, generations, and geographies. Created to give space for the emergence of a new vocabulary of experience, Lumina Arts commits to artists across time as they find the vehicles to convey their insight and cultivate their practice.
Lumina Arts is constructed to provide and nurture the expressive forms that share the common thematic of transnational passages. It is from this expressiveness that the work of Lumina Arts extends into the audience and community. With a variety of public presentation components, Lumina Arts brings together artists who attempt to show all of us how we can freely go back and forth, regardless of the lingering borders, and create new spaces for understanding.
Lumina Arts projects are intended to:
* Work to bring people together and support the works of artists
* Define and share culture, history, and memory without necessarily assigning place
* Dismantle differences in all their forms and both internal and external borders
September 25, 2010
Save the date for "Bits of Life and Light," an event and exhibit which will mark a coming together of Lumina Arts Projects' artists before the "Breathed..." exhibit slated for March 2011.
This pre-big show and fundraiser will feature Renee Wilson, an actress (Ray), a jazz singer, and the documentarian behind Crepe Covered Sidewalks, a heartwarming film of Renee's return home to the devastation and desolation of New Orleans after Katrina. It is a story of love, loss and rebirth, five years after the storm. The film just won the Best New Filmmaker award at the Peachtree Village International Film Festival in Atlanta.
More about Renee: www.reneewilson.org
The event will also feature Renee's spirited songs live, multimedia art by Kyoung-ah Kang, Keba Konte, and Chris Novak, and an opening piece by Sasha Baskina, an experimental performance artist. This event will also recognize my girlfriends Yun Suh and Katie Gibbons' longstanding engagement.
The event will be held at the Ichthus Gallery at 1769 15th St., San Francisco from 6:30 pm - until late. There will be food, a no-host bar, and dancing!
The art exhibit will run September 25 - November 5, 2010 at Ichthus Gallery.
The event will be free for "Breathed..." artists and volunteers. Event tickets will soon be available online as well as at the door. The suggested donation is $20, but no one will be turned away due to lack of funds. We will be asking for donations during the event. All proceeds will go to fund "Breathed..." exhibit artists' time and materials and will help support Renee's film tour.
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Lumina Arts "Breathed ... Unsaid" fundraiser and pre-show exhibit : "Bits of Life and Light"
Featuring Renee Wilson and the film, Crepe Covered Sidewalks, and the work of artists Sasha Baskina, Kyoung-ah Kang, Keba Konte and Chris Novak
Time: 6:30 till late
Exhibit schedule: September 25 - November 5, 2010
Location: Ichthus Gallery, 1769 15th St., San Francisco
Suggested donation: $20 (All proceeds to fund Lumina Arts Projects' artists and the Crepe Covered Sidewalks film tour.)
There will be food, a no-host bar, and dancing!
Renee Wilson is an actress (Ray), a jazz singer, and the documentarian behind Crepe Covered Sidewalks, a heartwarming film of Renee's return home to the devastation and desolation of New Orleans after Katrina. It is a story of love, loss and rebirth, five years after the storm. The film director just won the Best New Filmmaker award at the Peachtree Village International Film Festival in Atlanta. More about Renee: www.reneewilson.org.
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Lumina Arts Projects
Lumina Arts is an opening for artists who live in the world of transit between cultures, generations, and geographies. Created to give space for the emergence of a new vocabulary of experience, Lumina Arts commits to artists across time as they find the vehicles to convey their insight and cultivate their practice.
Lumina Arts is constructed to provide and nurture the expressive forms that share the common thematic of transnational passages. It is from this expressiveness that the work of Lumina Arts extends into the audience and community. With a variety of public presentation components, Lumina Arts brings together artists who attempt to show all of us how we can freely go back and forth, regardless of the lingering borders, and create new spaces for understanding.
"Breathed... Unsaid..." Exhibit -- March 2011
Currently, Lumina Arts is launching its first group of artists through an exhibition and set of related activities titled Breathed...Unsaid... This title references the ubiquitous, physical, and all encompassing nature of an experience that is largely left unrevealed and unstated.
The exhibit will be comprised of large-scale sculptural and multimedia installations, oil and acrylic paintings, mixed-media drawings, wood and metal works as well as films. It will include auditory, tactile and visual works, stimulating a multi-sensory experience. Additional elements will include evenings with poets, community dialogue, and speakers.
"Breathed... Unsaid..." will be exhibited at the SOMArts Gallery, SF CA. Participating artists are: Sasha Baskina, Victor Cartegena, Kevin B. Chen, Taraneh Hemami, Kyoung-ah Kang, Alice Konitz, Keba Konte, Deann Borshay Liem, Ricardo Martinez, Hang Nguyen, Colm Ó Riain, Christina Ree, Pireeni Sundaralingam, Tessie Barrera-Scharaga, Joel Tan, Yun Suh, and Renee Wilson.
Future programs will be developed in a multitude of venues and geographies through-out the San Francisco bay area with attention being paid to accessing space that exists within both the common and extraordinary pathways of people and place in an urban environment.
Lumina Arts projects are intended to:
- Work to bring people together and support the works of artists
- Define and share culture, history, and memory without necessarily assigning place
- Dismantle differences in all their forms and both internal and external borders