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Saturday, July 11th, The Nesian Ohana, seventyNINE co., and Nesian's Can Cancer Foundation presents the St. Jude Project: Can Cancer Art Show- San Diego located at The Luce Loft (1037 J St. San Diego, CA 92101) on the corner of 10th & J from 6pm-midnight.

Join the Ohana in a night of art, culture, music entertainment, food and drinks as we hold a silent auction and raffles all for the fight against cancer. Come down and check out the art of:

Jenny Larsen
GrandLarsen
Dark Vomit
Mark Jesinoski
David Russell Talbott
Kevin Peterson
Chris Ganan
Bre Custodio
Paul Brogden
Taylor Johnson
Bret Barrett
Nilo Jones
Janelle Carter
and the debut of a VERY special artist.

Along with music guests:
Kontious and the Ko-op
Dj Chris Cutz
& Dj Cnerio

Food will be provided by the asian fusion taste of Ono's Cafe- Island Style Bistro.

Support is GREATLY needed! If you know of anyone who would also be interested in attending this great event, please forward this to them as well. Each donation package comes with a gift bag and raffle tickets, quantity depends on the package purchased.

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Lux Art Institute Announces 2009-2010 Artist-in-Residence Season

Lux Art Institute, San Diego’s interactive art destination, announced today the artists who will participate in Lux’s third Artist-in-Residence season, which begins this September.

A significant contemporary art venue in San Diego County where visitors can “see art happen,” Lux is one of the first museum facilities in the United States to establish an innovative artist-in-residence program that focuses on the living artist and the creative process.

“We are thrilled with the artist line-up for the 2009-2010 season,” said Lux Director Reesey Shaw. “Lux is bringing a fresh and exciting pool of talent here, a group of inspiring artists that work in a variety of media, from marble to charcoal to metal. We hope the public will visit often throughout the new season to explore, experience and see great new art for themselves.”

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by Kevin Freitas


"Though Russe (Beate Russe - president of the museum's board of directors) believes that museums are there partly to educate and challenge their audience, this show reached too far, too fast, in her estimation, for a museum with a populist, even a parochial, bent in its programming." - Robert Pincus, from his review Oceanside's conceptual exhibit risky but worthy



photo courtesy: Brian Goeltzenleuchter


How do you know when art reaches too far? Do you try to slow it down, dumb it down, make it accessible to everyone: bite-size sugar-coated morsels for easy digestion and contemplation? Russe's commentary surely raises the hackles on all of us who smell institutional dogma and knee-jerk conclusions. But then beyond partly educating and challenging its audience, what do museums do exactly? And what about those infallible artists: are they not partially responsible for the pétrin Russe finds herself in? Of course they are. The question then becomes, who is responsible for an artwork's content and its subsequent showing after it leaves the studio? The simplistic response would be the artist is responsible for content and the museum for putting the work up on the wall. If that division of labor truly exists, then Russe has no reason to complain. So what is she questioning?

I think, despite Russe's gibberish commentary and the apparent backlash the show has accrued, some of the problem might lie within the show's formal structure and less to do with the artist and his ideas. I have a smidgen of doubt, as incredulous as her remark may seem, that it isn't a matter of Goeltzenleuchter's work being too advanced for the public, but the intangibility of an idea put on display that simultaneously positions itself as an art form laden with art historical precedents - as Pincus clearly points out in his review (a movement that many may be unfamiliar with including Russe), appears to also point an accusatory finger in her direction (clearly tongue-in-cheek), propounds some type of scientific experiment and data to back it up, but might fail in convincing the audience that what they are viewing is relevent and can be meaningful to them. Russe's criticism in an oblique way then, might be questioning what types of art should be made for the museum. What Russe doesn't understand is that art like museums, have limits in their capacity to communicate everything to everyone. It doesn't make the adventure any less exciting for trying, but the art must somehow signal a larger purpose beyond its exhibition when in a public domain (as opposed to a much more private domain such as a gallery). How that manifests itself either didactically or pragmatically with a clear intent, is the key I believe, to a show's successful reading by the public.

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by Richard Gleaves

Iz the Wiz — a writer who lived largely for sex in a can, and died largely of it, kidney and heart.

The NY Times obit mentions that Cooper and Chalfant's classic Subway Art was recently reissued by Chronicle Books. An art book's art book, this one's for the ages... check it out.

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by Richard Gleaves

Speak, memory.

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MAY-LING MARTINEZ: MEASURED RESISTANCE
JUNE 27 - AUGUST 1, 2009

ARTIST'S RECEPTION: FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 6 - 8 PM

Luis De Jesus Seminal Projects is very pleased to announce MAY-LING MARTINEZ's debut solo exhibition, titled Measured Resistance, on view from June 27 through August 1, 2009. An artist's reception will be held on Friday, June 26, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

LUIS DE JESUS SEMINAL PROJECTS
2040 India Street
San Diego, CA 92101
T 619 696 9699
F 619 696 9799
info@seminalprojects.com
www.seminalprojects.com

MAY-LING MARTINEZ's new sculpture and works on paper serve as a metaphor for an innate desire to understand and control our surroundings under difficult circumstances. The works in Measured Resistance engage in the larger domain of relations--among ideas, objects, and the human heart--in order to gain a deeper insight into existential issues, such as the need for security and balance. Intrigued by human behavior and thought process, MARTINEZ investigates the paradoxical idea of maintaining control and stability under chaos. At the same time, she explores the idea that reason and logic, as prescribed by science and engineering, can function as a solace to an unstable reality framed by the infallibility of perception and personal subjectivity.

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Time to take the poster down boys... our dream has ended.

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30th Street is becoming regarded as the "Restaurant Row" of San Diego because of the hip, community-minded, and innovative restaurants that have put down their roots in the last few years, but it has also long been a center of a vibrant and thriving community of artists. Sea Rocket has a lot of respect for this active, creative community and will be showing a rotation of local artists.

On view now at:
Sea Rocket Bistro
3382 30th Street
San Diego, CA 92104
619.255.7049
http://searocketbistro.com/

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For Immediate Release:
Trade Show, California – Turkey
Summer, Fall 2009

First exhibition:
Garage Gallery, July 1-30, 2009
Opening: July 3, 7-9 pm
4141 Alabama St., San Diego
619.297.6032

"Trade Show" is a traveling exhibition of approximately 100 small artworks from Californian artists and 100 from Turkish artists. The artists will trade the works among themselves, exchanging ideas of “what we value” between cultures. All artworks address the following questions: “What do I value? What would I trade?” Specifications: All artworks are 15cm x 15cm (6" x 6") and are two-dimensional in nature: drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, collage, fabric, mixed media, etc.

California:
The works will be exhibited in San Diego and other Southern Californian venues.

Turkey:
The works will be exhibited in Ankara, Eskisehir, and in Istanbul during the 11th Istanbul Biennial as a parallel exhibition.
http://www.iksv.org/bienal/english/

Curators:
Anna Stump
amstump@gmail.com
3047 University, Studio 206
San Diego, CA 92104
USA

Melike Tascioglu
meliketascioglu@gmail.com
Anadolu Universitesi
Guzel Sanatlar Fakultesi
26470 Eskisehir
Turkey

Website:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=79341346420

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by Richard Gleaves

Segment from Women Without Men

On June 18, the supremely talented filmmaker and photographer Shirin Neshat appeared at MCA San Diego to present her feature-length film/work-in-progress Women without Men.

The film, based on Shahrnush Parsipur’s magic realist novel, is set in 1953 Iran during a period of national political turmoil, and uses the deaths of three Iranian women to explore a host of social issues involving personal and political freedom.

During the post-performance conversation, Neshat and film curator Neil Kendricks spoke extensively about the work's prescience given current events in Iran. What neither of them knew was that two days later, on June 20, Neda Agha-Soltan would lose her life and become an instant world symbol of the current political turmoil.

As a result, Neshat's film — which is six years in the making — has been given the semiotic equivalent of a spin dry set on "hot". It will be interesting to see how this work-in-progress resolves now that life has told its story.

Neda, rest in peace.

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by Kevin Freitas



Gabriel Cornelius von Max - "Monkeys as Judges of Art" 1889


In last week's blog update, I published a quote from John Canaday. Born in Fort Scott Kansas in 1907, he later became the embattled art critic for the New York Times some fifty-two years later. Here is the quote:

"Critics should not know artists and artists should not know critics. But since we can't make a law against such fraternization, a critic's obligation is to make certain that what he writes (and talks) is after-the-fact judgment on what the artist creates. And the artist should create without thinking of the critic or of his, the artist's, position on a graph."

For another perspective on Canaday's quote, fellow Art as Authority contributor Marilyn Mitchell, had this to say:

"Artists are art critics, even if they deny their status as such. They must turn a critical eye to their creations, if only for a view to know when to finish a piece. Every artist (other than those creating outside of any public society) is inherently commenting on all the work they have seen with each piece they make. By making work of a particular type, they must recognize it is viewed with the cumulative collective awareness of all such previous pieces by the informed art viewer. Artists may not necessarily think about creating works with a viewer in mind, yet, the viewer still exists. Just as one hand clapping makes a certain sound, art unseen makes a certain vibration. Art comes alive in the eyes of another. Art requires critics. Critics, therefore, require artists. One does not exist without the other. A dialogue between the two is not to be abhorred. It must be exposed for what it is; a sharing of the tightrope. Like any balancing act, though, it requires an honest appraisal of the reality of the situation. Critics that know the artist they write about must expose that fact and as Canaday correctly points out, they must remain objective to the work at hand as they view it. It is only after they have done their best to objectively evaluate the piece that they can comment from their subjective experience of it as an art work."

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