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Rex Ray Print Series Hangs at Zinc Details, May 7- June 30
Rex Ray, Real Tears, 34" x 46," print edition of 25.
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Best-known work of prolific San Francisco artist shown in Gallery 16 Edition prints.
Ubiquitous, prolific, and hot. San Francisco artist Rex Ray has sustained his place atop the West Coast art world for more than two decades. Selections from a series of limited-edition prints of his best known work will be on display at the Zinc Details California Street location, 2410 California Street in San Francisco, May 7 through June 30, 2008.
"We're elated to have Rex Ray back with us," says Zinc Details owner, Vasilios Kiniris. "His work builds excitement, and he's one artist that people clamor after."
Over the past fifteen years Gallery 16 Editions has published over thirty original prints by Rex Ray. The prints represent various aspects of the Ray's investigations into collage, digital media, and his own highly recognizable visual vocabulary. These original prints are limited to editions of 25. All are all signed and numbered by the artist. Many of these works are in the collections of Museums around the country, including the San Jose Museum and the San Diego Museum of Art.
Since launching his career more than two decades ago, Ray has created an extensive oeuvre in a wide variety of art forms, from paintings and collages to prints. Ray is also an accomplished and award-winning graphic artist, having produced distinctive and striking designs for books, magazines, posters, and compact disc covers, including recent projects for Steven Spielberg and David Bowie, along with book covers for San Francisco's famous City Lights Press.
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"Warped Architecture" - new work by artist Verda Alexander at Zinc Details, March 5-April 30
Verda Alexander, Little Blue City, wood, paper, tempera. At Zinc Details, 2410 California St., San Francisco, Mar 5-April 30
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Alexander tweaks and transforms floor plans and architectural models to create urban dreamscapes
San Francisco artist Verda Alexander transforms maps, urban grids, and architectural models into extreme and implausible views of urban environments in "Warped Architecture," an exhibition of her latest work at the Zinc Details California Street location, 2410 California Street in San Francisco, March 5 through April 30, 2008. A reception for the artist will be held on Thursday, March 6, from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at 2410 California Street.
"I am fascinated by our propensity for architectural motifs and how they link us to the past, connecting cultures and histories through some sort of aesthetic appeal," she says.
"With my recent work I consider the urban grid as pattern and form," Alexander says. "I warp and tweak the lines and patterns made by roads and buildings and apply them to blocks or cardboard structures. Little Blue City is small, quaint and playful but also with its warped perspective and scale it creates a perceptually uneasy position for the viewer. It's this double entendre that I aim for. A hint of old that's fantastically new; strange and also vaguely familiar."
Verda Alexander has exhibited at a number of Bay Area galleries, most recently in "Grounded," Southern Exposure's annual juried group show, as well as in "Home," a group show at Root Division's Gallery 3175. She was nominated for the Headlands Residency award in 2007. Alexander holds an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from San Jose State University and has attended the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard University for graduate studies. She completed her Master in Fine Arts at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007.
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Zinc Details features "Green Winter," a showing by top magazine photographer Emily Nathan
The horse, by photographer Emily Nathan, at Zinc Details, 2410 California Street, San Francisco, Jan 15 – Feb 29, 2008.
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Well traveled "PDN Emerging 30" photo artist shows work through Feb 29
Emily Nathan's photographs crop up in many top magazines, from Real Simple to Departures to The New Yorker. "Green Winter," an exhibition of her work will be at the Zinc Details California Street location, 2410 California Street in San Francisco, January 15 - February 29, 2008.
Nathan, barely out of her 20s, has traveled the world for clients like Cathay Pacific Airways, Apple, and Gourmet magazine. She is listed as one of the "Emerging 30" photographers by Photo District News.
Nathan majored in English and poetry at the University of Michigan, but landed in photography almost by accident while she was on a junior year abroad in Chile. She got an internship there with La Nación and a first assignment photographing former dictator Augusto Pinochet, followed by World Cup Soccer classification games in stadiums packed with 100,000 screaming fans.
"I realized photography might be more fun than being an English teacher," Nathan says.
San Francisco-based Nathan works full time as a commercial and editorial photographer, but with the show at Zinc Details, will be showing a more personal side of her work. Her eye is drawn into locations by the shades of the natural world, but her images show a facility for tight, formal composition. Emily Nathan plays with cropping and juxtapositions to present some very playful and provocative slices of a life well realized.
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Zinc Details features Paintings by Lily Martine through December 31.
Lily Martine, Bloom Stripe with Brown Details, oil on canvas, at Zinc Details, San Francisco thru December 31.
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San Francisco artist Lily Martine brings bold colors and a sense of the dynamic to her "Time Bloom Line" series at the Zinc Details California Street gallery through December 31.
In "Time Bloom Line," Martine is interested in the linkage of past and the present, space and color.
"The balance between space and color are important to me," Martine says. "I endeavor to make them relate but never sit too comfortably. I try to layer these ideas and surprise myself by what I see."
Lily Martine was born in Sebastopol, California. Influenced by creative parents, she studied a broad range of mediums including textiles, leather work, painting, printmaking, and drawing. She earned a BFA in Textile Design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2003. At RISD, she was awarded a design contract for a Designtex RISD collaboration. She now lives and works as an artist in San Francisco where she is currently painting.
Martine's work has been exhibited at Somarts and 111 Mina in San Francisco, as well at SF Open Studios in 2006 and 2007. Earlier this year, she had a solo show at Propeller Modern. Several of her works are available at the SFMOMA Artist Gallery.
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Zinc Details features Pen-and-Ink on NECCO Wafers by artist Denise Tassin
Sierra Nevada Green. Denise Tassin. Pen-and-ink on NECCO candy wafers.
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"Solo NECCO" - drawings on candy hang at California Street gallery through October 31.
Paint on canvas, ink on paper - they're so over. Artist Denise Tassin works with Micron pen on NECCO wafers.
Remember those rolls of pastel-colored candy disks wrapped in waxy paper? NECCO wafers have been around since 1847, and you can still find them at candy counters with a penchant for nostalgia. 160 years later, Denise Tassin takes a high-tech pen to those disks and creates an entire world of detailed miniature drawings on the backs of these quarter-sized confections.
Tassin's works - on wood and canvas as well as on candy wafers - are the center of "Solo NECCO," her show at Zinc Details, 2410 California Street in San Francisco through October 31. Gallery hours are Mon-Sat, 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. and Sun noon - 6:00 p.m.
According to Tassin, her NECCO wafers series are exercises in drawing experimentation and readymade kits. They are collectible in the truest sense, and derivative of some blissful nostalgia. The wafers are drawn on with pen and re-packaged for purchase. While this literally commodifies the drawings, the preciousness of NECCO candies in their wax paper casings maintains these pieces as artworks-formal markmaking on an edible surface.
About the Artist
Denise Tassin lives and works in Baltimore, MD. Her work has been shown in many East Coast galleries, including the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC, and hangs in the Baltimore Museum of Art and in private collections. Originally from Louisiana, Tassin holds a BA in painting, drawing, and ceramics from McNeese State University and an MFA in painting from Southern Methodist University.
About NECCO Wafers
NECCO wafers are a product of the New England Confectionary Company, which has made them since 1847. NECCO buffs know the wafers come in eight flavors and colors: lemon (yellow), orange (orange), lime (green), clove (purple), cinnamon (white), wintergreen (pink), licorice (black), and chocolate (brown).
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Photographer Marina Luz's "Minus" featured at Zinc through August 31
Marina Luz's latest photographic project, "Minus," explores the intriguing isolation found in even the busiest of cities. The exhibition will be at the Zinc Details California Street location, 2410 California Street in San Francisco, July 9 through August 31. Reception for the artist is Thursday, July 12, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. at the gallery.
Portland, by Marina Luz, at Zinc Details, 2410 California Street, San Francisco, July 9-August 31.
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In Luz's photographs, architectural details become a record of the spaces in-between society; the strange, unnamed desolation of a crowded urban environment, with faded light and washed-out colors falling on anonymous streets. The feeling of slight unease is only deepened by the rare appearance of people in the photographs, who are seen only through reflections or behind layers, seeming hardly more substantial than memories. In the end, the city is the only true reality.
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Zinc Details features "Luscious, Dangerous" Art of Amos Gajillionaire through June 30
Amos Gajillionaire, Untitled, oil and paper on poplar wood.
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Amos Gajillionaire, Untitled, oil and paper on poplar wood.
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Iconoclast Gajillionaire seeks to eradicate "homogenized blandness" from interior walls; work already hangs in homes of Deborah Harry and Sir Elton John
Mercurial painter and collage artist Amos Gajillionaire invites collectors to seize a place on the bandwagon next to luminaries like Sir Elton John and Blondie's Deborah Harry, who already own pieces of Gajillionaire's mind-bending work. Gajillionaire's collages are on display at Zinc Details, 2410 California Street in San Francisco, through June 30. Gallery hours are Mon-Sat, 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. and Sun noon - 6:00 p.m.
The work is highly decorative and extremely colorful, combining photography, silkscreening, and painting to create one-of-a-kind electrifying collages. Gajillionaire is dedicated to making his pieces accessible to his audience, in that all come ready to hang, mounted onto 100% poplar wood. They are coated with a protective epoxy resin giving them a striking gloss and sumptuous shine. No two works, he assures, are ever the same.
"My vision is to completely eradicate mass-produced posters and homogenized blandness from the walls of astute, urbane inhabitants. I'm out to prove that there is no reason discerning citizens of the 21st century cannot afford unique, dangerous, luscious fine art," Gajillionaire says.
In the two years his work has been in production, Gajillionaire has been profiled in Surface magazine and collected by the likes of The Scissor Sisters, Rufus Wainwright, Shirley Manson of Garbage, along with Harry and John.
"It is carried by astute establishments in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco," Gajillionaire emphasizes.
Feeling properly astute, Zinc Details is one of the first places in San Francisco to show Gajillionaire's work.
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Beholder Gallery Show at Zinc Details, March 10-April 28
Jennifer Sanchez, Untitled, 16" x 20", mixed mediums on canvas
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Online Gallery Brings Actual Art to California Street Store
Zinc Details will host a showing of the work of various artists from the Beholder Gallery, a new online gallery, March 10 through April 28 at its store at 2410 California Street in San Francisco. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, March 15, from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m.
The Beholder focuses on emerging talent from around the country and offers works in a variety of mediums. Artists on display at Zinc Details include Bob Bechtol, Ian Dingman, Katja Ollendorff, Warren Dykeman, Sarah Thibault, Jennifer Sanchez, and Simon Redekop.
The Beholder was founded in 2005 as an accessible way to buy art outside the traditional gallery system. Director and Curator Suzanne Shade has created a space where buyers can sample a wide range of work and feel comfortable in choosing pieces that connect with them.
The Beholder periodically holds events at "brick-and-mortar" spaces, including 111 Minna in San Francisco, Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, and now at Zinc Details in San Francisco's Fillmore district. The online gallery is at www.beholder-art.com.
"The artists the Beholder exhibits produce some of the most dynamic, creative, and gorgeous art around, but frequently must hold down day jobs to make rent. Beholder provides these artists with a forum to both exhibit and sell their work, and is also a great resource for art fans to see what's up in the art scene." - Flavorpill NY, May 2006.
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Zinc Details features Artist/Designer/Filmmaker Caroline Seckinger
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| Caroline Seckinger, from Numbers Series, acrylic on paper, 26" x 34". At Zinc Details, 2410 California St., Nov 1-Dec 31. |
Constructivism and Hard-Edge Abstraction revisited in "Orbs and Numbers" at California Street location November 1 - December 31
Filmmaker, production designer, painter, and printmaker, Caroline Seckinger is an award-winning visual artist at home in many media. She presents two bodies of works on paper in her exhibit "Orbs and Numbers" at Zinc Details, 2410 California Street in San Francisco, November 1 through December 31. Gallery hours are Mon-Sat, 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. and Sun noon - 6:00 p.m.
"Orbs" is a series of limited edition serigraph prints in which Seckinger explores the color theories of Josef Albers.
"Number Series," is a series of reductive paintings that follow the Constructivist sensibility of sourcing from the industrial world. Seckinger chooses a non-specific, very pedestrian typeface as a means of investigating the number as a graphic form. By overlaying and repeatedly printing the numbers, the familiar forms become deconstructed and concealed, and as the overlaying loosens up, the forms emerge and the original structure of the type is revealed and recognized.
Caroline Seckinger's varied career in the visual arts has seen her as a production designer/art director for TV commercials that include L'Oreal, Showtime, and the Environmental Defense Fund and for music videos for Ozzy Osbourne, Blind Melon, and The Goo Goo Dolls. Seckinger has directed and edited several films, including an award-winning documentary on Skin Head Gangs in Los Angeles. She holds a BFA from UC Santa Cruz and an MFA in Film/Video from the California Institute for the Arts. She studied painting and drawing at California College of Art and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC.
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