OZCILLATOR - A R T A N D A B O U Ttag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-16050942008-06-20T01:38:13-07:00mapping off-stream art+culture™TypePadOzcillator_ARThttp://feedburner.google.comBill Berkson and Colter Jacobsen @ GALLERY 16tag:typepad.com,2003:post-516264122008-06-20T01:38:13-07:002008-06-20T01:38:13-07:00BILL By Bill Berkson and Colter Jacobsen Book Signing and Release, Thursday, June 19th, 6-8PM Live Music with Coconut Gallery 16 Editions is pleased to announce the release of our latest publication, BILL, a collaboration between poet Bill Berkson and artist Colter Jacobsen. Berkson writes; “The words and title for BILL popped out of a juvenile detective novel Tom Veitch gave me around 1980. Instantly, just flipping through this little illustrated book occasioned an emergency. The editorial imagination went to work. Soon, having typed a series of short sentences, paragraphs and stray phrases towards the bottom edge of unusually thin...franz schnaashttp://ozcillator.typepad.com/ozart/2008/06/bill-berkson-an.htmlLAUREN DAVIES @ GALLERRY 16tag:typepad.com,2003:post-478768222008-04-02T12:04:46-07:002008-04-02T12:04:46-07:00When Hell Freezes Over is a mixed media installation that centers on a young polar bear that was shot and killed in the seaside village of Twillingate, Newfoundland. The following year the bear was returned to the town as a prize specimen of taxidermy artistry and has taken on a second life as the main attraction of Twillingate’s tiny museum. When Hell Freezes Over presents a sculptural replica of the Twillingate polar bear surrounded by a slightly odd assortment of natural history knock-offs, much like the actual museum in Newfoundland: sparkling iceberg models made from fake sugar cubes; landscapes models...franz schnaashttp://ozcillator.typepad.com/ozart/2008/04/lauren-davies-g.htmlJOHN DUGGER: Mount Analogue @ S. Wolf Fine Arttag:typepad.com,2003:post-471543442008-03-17T12:04:23-07:002008-03-17T12:04:23-07:00Banners and drawings March 21 - April 26, 2008 Opening Reception – Thurs. April 3, 5:30-7:30 pm John Dugger, a Berkeley-based artist whose participation works of the 60s and 70s are widely-appreciated in Europe where he spent much of his career but hardly known here, will exhibit mountain banners at Steven Wolf Fine Arts. The Los Angeles-born Dugger began his career in London creating participation events alongside other expatriates like Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica. This work earned him a pavilion that he shared with the artist David Medalla in the 1972 Documenta curated by Harold Szeemann. In the middle...franz schnaashttp://ozcillator.typepad.com/ozart/2008/03/john-dugger-mou.htmlA PLATE OF FOOD @ LANGTON ARTStag:typepad.com,2003:post-470629582008-03-15T00:58:00-07:002008-03-15T00:58:00-07:00A PLATE OF FOOD IS A MAP OF THE WORLD everything in it can be traced back to the soil back to the land back to people Be it for pleasure or necessity, when we sit down to eat a plate of food, we discover the flavor of an idea. Folded in a mushroom risotto or the wrapper of a hamburger, what is being offered is a rendering of the world, a representation of political, economic and social realities. Over this plate of food there is often a conversation, all aspects of life are being talked about. In a restaurant,...franz schnaashttp://ozcillator.typepad.com/ozart/2008/03/a-plate-of-food.htmlDERIC CARNER @ PING PONG GALLERY - March 14 - April 25, 2008 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-471803062008-03-13T23:29:00-07:002008-03-13T23:29:00-07:00Deric Carner uses drawing and graphic forms as a way of navigating and relating to the world. He is a collector and manipulator of signs and messages, incorporating visual and textual fragments into an over coded vocabulary. They are taken from a globalized environment and mindset that is so loaded with signs and references, that meaning is constantly disintegrating or reforming around de-racinated forms. On view at Ping Pong Gallery are a series of hand-painted graphic posters which take an uncanny pleasure in naming and associating. Odd objects are paired with headline references to fictional and real locales, movements and...franz schnaashttp://ozcillator.typepad.com/ozart/2008/03/deric-carner-pi.htmlCHESTER ARNOLD @ Catherine Clarktag:typepad.com,2003:post-470559102008-03-13T20:00:00-07:002008-03-13T20:00:00-07:00In The Road to Paradise Chester Arnold continues his ongoing visual exploration into notions of accumulation and dispersal. His new work is tempered also by an awareness of the obsolescence facing time honored cultural and artistic practices: heartfelt sentiments no longer occupy letters but are rather featured in e-mail as the printed word increasingly gives way to pixilated screens. With the advent of new media the paintbrush has increasingly acquiesced to the same fate. In this latest body of paintings, masses of books and papers line desolate streets and toss on the wind. One painting, “The Business of America is...franz schnaashttp://ozcillator.typepad.com/ozart/2008/03/chester-arnold.htmlMark McKnight @ Icebergertag:typepad.com,2003:post-472081482008-02-24T12:21:00-08:002008-02-24T12:21:00-08:00McKnight is a Los Angeles based photographer who's work explores the reciprocal and codependent relationship shared by nature and culture. Acting as a mirror for the surrounding culture his work reveals an underlying landscape; urbanized, exploited, at war and in flux. In conjunction with the opening of a physical space the gallery is also bringing an interactive photography project to the streets of San Francisco. Made possible by Cadre Art Grant, the project redefines the traditional role of a gallery and sponsors artists to make work that can be installed in the public art sector. Mark McKnight's photography will be...franz schnaashttp://ozcillator.typepad.com/ozart/2008/02/mark-mcknight-i.htmlINTERVIEW: ALEX ZECCAtag:typepad.com,2003:post-469976022008-02-21T14:37:00-08:002008-02-21T14:37:00-08:00Alex Zecca, December 6.2007 (30"x 30") ALEX ZECCA Interviewed by Franz Schnaas Some years ago, pointillism painting-as-method, enthralled my mind to the point I could barely remember the actual representations rendered in Georges Seurat's work. Experienced in person, I dived for the granular, mesmerized, analyzing the intricacy of his colored dot clusters and the possible systems implicated to produce such complexity of the impressionistic kind. Little over a year ago at Gallery 16 in San Francisco, I encountered Alex Zecca's planar, line meshes for the first time. A dejà vu of sorts, as his work instantly drew my attention and...franz schnaashttp://ozcillator.typepad.com/ozart/2008/02/alex-zecca-inte.html