Panelists include Lisa Hutton, Andrew Kaufman, Lauren Tyler Norby and Donna Stack

Film and video by Justin Beckman, Mike Celona, Andrew Filippone Jr, Kip Fulbeck, Preston Poe, and Chris Todd

This Film Screening is part of the FAMILY MATTERS exhibition series

Sushi GALLERY HOURS: Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, 1 pm to 6 pm

Special Price for our Electronic Friends: Tickets to the March 12th Nepotism and Other Character
Flaws screenings are two-for-one, or $7.50/general public and $5.00/members and students. Email us
with your reservation at info@sushiart.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sissi Hale sissi@sissihalestudio.com

CITY OF TEMECULA CENSORS CONTENTS OF TWO ART EXHIBITS, IS SLOW TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR REMOVING ART WORKS FROM PUBLIC VIEW IN PUBLIC BUILDINGS, AND WANTS FURTHER SAY IN FUTURE EXHIBITIONS. Freedom of expression is and always has been a core value in the United States. Who is responsible for determining what the public can and cannot see in public spaces, what is art and what is not, and what is offensive and what is worthy? Who employs the censors? To whom do the censors answer? Is the public willing to be dictated to?

Temecula, California, [March 5th, 2010]--- On January 22, a juried multi-media exhibit titled “Visual Expressions 2010” opened at The Merc gallery in Temecula’s Old Town– minus a nude painted by local artist Jeff Hebron. At the last minute, word was delivered to Sissi Hale, Temecula resident, artist, and curator of the show: the nude could not appear. Less than a week later, two paintings by another local artist, Lora Sanders, were removed from the Temecula Public Library where they had been on display for one day. They depicted a man smoking a cigarette, and a man with a brown bottle in his hand. Later, another of her paintings (of a boy leaning over a girl) was also removed. All the paintings had previously been reviewed and approved by city management. Nevertheless, all were subsequently deemed inappropriate for public viewing by some anonymous official, and were removed without explanation from exhibit in publicly owned buildings.

Gallery Hours:  Mon-Fri / 9-5pm

Woodbury School of Architecture continues the 2010 series of exhibitions featuring work by local artist and designers.

An installation by Dave Ghilarducci at ART Produce Gallery

March 13 - April 18
Opening Reception: Saturday March 13, 6-9pm

Rattle and Hum is an interactive, room sized installation. The viewer enters a narrow gallery to find what, at first glance, appears to be a postminimalist sculpture: Two identical steel cages, each containing an imposing rusted steel panel, are placed opposite each other. However, motion sensors, electronics and motors are embedded into the artwork, endowing it with the potential for kinetic and acoustic theatricality. When the viewer enters the installation, motion sensors gage the viewer’s position relative to both of the cages and commands motors to vibrate the rusted steel panels. These vibrations change in intensity and duration based on the movement of the viewer. Yet, as the viewer lingers in the installation, the vibrations begin to change with apparent randomness. As the viewer moves toward a cage, the intensity may wax or wane, and the opposite cage may or may not also do the same. Each time the viewer changes direction, the piece randomizes again. Ultimately, an indeterminate relationship between the viewer and the objects becomes the basis for a time- and motion-based spectacle for other viewers.

ART Produce Gallery
3139 University Ave.
San Diego, CA 92104
619.584.4448
www.artproducegallery.com
http://daveghilarducci.com
http://davewerld.com

Half-consciously, though, there is the more indigenous dream that the adventure is everything…

    — Kaprow, Happenings in the New York Scene

Last month Agitprop presented Coatlicue mi Amor, a performance by The Border Corps, a group of San Diego artists, musicians, and performers. In its density of information and feeling, Coatlicue was by far the most ambitious and successful event I've witnessed to date at Agitprop, and not by coincidence it's taken me a month to figure out how to write about it.

Billed as a happening, Coatlicue felt more closely positioned between traditional performance art and current trends in interactive theatre. Its hybrid nature made for a wild ride: rather than simply disappearing, the fourth wall seemed to be in constant motion throughout the Agitprop space, flying up, down, or inverting polarity as various scenes unfolded.

Throughout the fourth-wall gymnastics backstage remained overhead and crucial, as Border Corpsmen Armando de la Torre and Anthony Vasquez worked full-time through the performance spinning a dense web of real-time audio and video around performers Endy, Perry Vasquez, and Shondra Dawson.

The work was structured in three parts: the dreams of two vividly REM-state dreamers; a satirical review of recent and ongoing commercial crypto-genocides (the gods are more subtle these days); and a traditional Catholic liturgy recounting in lurid detail the historical genocide of the Island Carib people at the hands of conquistadores.

At this point I'd normally attempt a detailed description of these parts, but doing so would require more pages than could fit on this blog, and would only lead the reader further and further away from the intense theatricality engendered by the performance. Words fail me — you had to be there.

Never overplaying its hand (except perhaps in the topical Haiti references), the entire production displayed subtle signs of being well-thought-out to the n'th degree:

• The audience was materially encouraged (via an admission discount) to attend the performance with sketchbooks and pencils. The presence of sketchers sketching throughout the performance mere feet from the performers seemed to insert them into the story itself, as complicit documenters of historical phenomena.

• The climactic genocide liturgy was delivered directly to the artist-heavy audience, reframing them as members of the Church and so complicit participants in the recounted genocide. And so we are: you and I live where we live and how we live on the bones of a destroyed people. It's an old story, and not an uncommon one, but some old stories deserve regular retelling.

• Post-performance some remarkably good food was made available to the audience for free. Perhaps not by coincidence, most of it seemed to be round.
  

I know of several people who missed this event and regret it. Word is that a repeat performance may occur at Agitprop in the indefinite future — watch for it.

Jury-Rigged: improvised: done or made using whatever is available. Over 20 different local artists in 2 venues: Lestats Coffee and Art of Framing

Opening reception March 6th from 7 - 11pm

Artists:
Dan Allen, Bret Barrett, Sean Brannan, Paul Brogden, Scott L. Brown, Stephan Caddell, Vanessa Christie, bd Dombrowsky, Corey Du Laney, Peter Geise, Gary Holliday, James Ivey, Chesalie Loach, Andrew Lucas, Mullet Pony, Paul Nazri, S.Tink, David Russell Talbott, Seth Tegardine, Maura Vazakas and more...


Lestats Coffee House and Art of Framing are teaming up to bring a bigger art scene to San Diego. This March will be our first opening at 2 different venues. The first show is called "Jury-Rigged" and features over 20 different local artists.

The Opening is Saturday, March 6th, from 7pm to 11pm it will be held at Art of Framing 3333 Adams ave and at Lestats 3343 Adams ave. Art will be on display for the whole month. Art of framing open 10am-6pm mon-fri Saturday 10am-4pm . Lestats open 24 hours a day.

www.lestats.com
3343 Adams Avenue (North Park)
619.282.0437

www.theartofframing.net
3333 Adams Avenue (North Park)
619.563.9770

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Brian Goeltzenleuchter
858.602.8448
brian@cphomedecor.com

SUSHI Performance and Visual Arts Presents Family Matters
A visual arts exhibition in conjunction with a dynamic series of multidisciplinary events

San Diego, Calif. –Family Matters introduces Sushi’s audience to a group of artists who reflect on the esoteric legacies of the avant-garde through work that is formally – if paradoxically – influenced by popular entertainment.

On view from Thursday, March 4 through Saturday, April 24, the exhibition brings a range of expression similar to that of a young person coming to terms with his own family history - harsh criticism, misty-eyed sentimentality, perverse parody, and nuanced understanding all abound. SUSHI’s viewer is presented with a range of experiences stemming from the personal stakes these artists have in the often revolutionary, always transient moments that make up the history of the avant-garde.

DAY OF ACTION

9.00 AM – 12.00 PM Breakfast at Sustainability Resource Center (next to PC Theater)

9.30 AM BSU Rally at Chancellor’s Complex

11.00 AM Faculty Press Conference at Cross Cultural Center,Comunidad Rm

11.30 AM Walkout/gather at Gilman Parking Structure

11.45 AM March to Geisel Library

12.00 – 3.00 PM Rally at Silent Tree (Library Walk)

including the Arts Collective, Sam Jung, Jake Blanc, Fnann Keflezighi, Mar Velez, Edwina Welch, Kuttin Kandy, Micah Cardenas, Yen Espiritu, Ivan Evans, K. Wayne Yang, Maria Tillmanns, Carolan Buckmaster, Matias Marin, L. Chase Smith, Krishna Sriram. And MCs: Chevelle Newell and Bryant Pena.

2.30 PM Buses leave for All San Diego Rally from Chancellor’s Complex

March begins at Centro Cultural de la Raza (Park & President’s Way) @ 3.30 PM

March Downtown to Governor’s Office (1350 Front Street)

· first-come-first-serve on buses
· travel to downtown also by Rt. 150 atGilman


In light of the recent events taking place on the UCSD campus, spurred by both the continued privatization of the University as well as the organization of racially derogatory events by some students and non-students, there will be a series of protests happening today on the UCSD campus and throughout San Diego. This is an invitation to join in.

The San Diego artist and designer will share prototype studies for large sculpture at this one-night event.

Brian Fick
Skateboard Photography

Brian Fick has photographed some of the top skaters in the world and his photographs have been published internationally in almost every skateboarding magazine, including Thrasher and Transworld Skateboarding. He continually seeks challenges to develop his skill and with that pushes the field of skate photography to a new edge.

Show includes photos of: Bob Burnquist, Bucky Lasek, Lance Mountain, Wes Kremer, Peter Hewitt, Rodney Johnson, Marius Syvanen, Alex Perelson, Tyler Surrey, Div Adams, Rudolfo Ramos & others.

Opening Reception for the Artist March 7th, 4 - 10pm
Food & Drink Specials - Surprise Celebrity Guests - DJ Ken "Donger" Lieu

Sea Rocket Bistro
3382 30th Street
San Diego, CA 92104
619.255.7049
www.searocketbistro.com
www.brianfick.com

"Cascade" - Wendy Maruyama


The California Center for the Arts in Escondido has a high quality exhibition that most everyone will find visually interesting and well installed (with only a few exceptions). To begin, "Material Matters: Selected Works by Allied Craftsmen" has a range of works, all worth pondering. The title of the show, 'Material Matters' could be interpreted as a pronouncement that material items have importance, versus decades of conceptual dominance in art or it could be viewed simply that all items presented highlight the use and transformation of materials. Here are a few that must be seen...

Glashaus celebrates its one-year anniversary with art and music.

It houses Device Gallery and the studios of Greg Brotherton, Matt Devine, Michael James Armstrong, Michael Maas, and others.

11 AM - 7 PM Thursday, February 25
11 AM - 10 PM Saturday, February 27
11 AM - 10 PM Sunday, February 28


Folks who attended the opening said the show looked especially good at night, so here's the opportunity.

Meantime, Donovan herself will be giving a talk in the gallery Saturday afternoon at 2 PM. Note that the museum warns: "Space is extremely limited due to restricted gallery capacity. There are no advance tickets for this event. Entry will be on a first-come, first-served basis."

On that basis I'm skipping the talk, partly out of unwillingness to camp on the doorstep overnight, and mostly due to putting in a full day this Saturday at the sdspace4art community build.