"American Cuisine", new work by Ramekon O'Arwisters (SuperArt Hero)
Dates:
Wed Aug 15, 2007 00:00 - Wed Aug 08, 2007
OPENS Friday, September 14, 2007 6-9 PM
through October 14th 2007
RAMEKON O’ARWISTERS (SuperArt Hero)
"American Cuisine"
Luggage Store Annex (aka 509 Cultural Center)
509 Ellis Street (btw. Leavenworth and Ellis), SF, CA 94109
gallery hours: Wednesday - Saturday, Noon - 5 PM
Based on his premise that people of color will be the dinner served on America's Last Supper, conceptual artist Ramekon O'Arwisters (SuperArt Hero) creates a series of original visual art and sculpture in which representations of ordinary food items serve as coded carriers of social and political commentary on American society. In his exhibition "American Cuisine", images of food associated with African Americans, Asians, Native American, such as Oreos, Brazil nuts, watermelon, sweet potatoes, apples, chopsticks, and bananas, become visual stand-ins for the racial and class prejudices deeply embedded inside American culture.
through October 14th 2007
RAMEKON O’ARWISTERS (SuperArt Hero)
"American Cuisine"
Luggage Store Annex (aka 509 Cultural Center)
509 Ellis Street (btw. Leavenworth and Ellis), SF, CA 94109
gallery hours: Wednesday - Saturday, Noon - 5 PM
Based on his premise that people of color will be the dinner served on America's Last Supper, conceptual artist Ramekon O'Arwisters (SuperArt Hero) creates a series of original visual art and sculpture in which representations of ordinary food items serve as coded carriers of social and political commentary on American society. In his exhibition "American Cuisine", images of food associated with African Americans, Asians, Native American, such as Oreos, Brazil nuts, watermelon, sweet potatoes, apples, chopsticks, and bananas, become visual stand-ins for the racial and class prejudices deeply embedded inside American culture.
Backtracking 199485: RIGO 23, closing events
Dates:
Fri Jun 22, 2007 00:00 - Thu Jun 21, 2007
the luggage store
1007 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Tel. 415. 255 5971
www.luggagestoregallery.org
JUNE/JULY 2007
RIGO 23’S exhibition, BACKTRACKING…199485
EXTENDED THROUGH SUNDAY, JUNE 24th.
There will be a closing performance
FRIDAY, JUNE 22ND from 7-9pm
Featuring BLACK RAINBOW and THE NURSES (punk music) and
Spoken word performers Erika Cespedes Kent, Luara, Venturi & Eugeniya Kirovski..
There is no charge for admission, but donations are greatly appreciated.
SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 3-5pm
Discussion with Rigo and others.
SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 10AM - 2PM (GAY PARADE)
Come see Rigo’s show and enjoy the Gay Parade from the luggage store. (great views)
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OTHER EVENTS:
*JULY 2007: ARTIST IN RESIDENCY, LUGGAGE STORE ANNEX, ELAINE BUCKHOLTZ
*JULY 13, 2007: SHORT CUTS AT LUGGAGE STORE, CURATED BY CHRISTINA LINDEN
*NEW MUSIC SERIES, EVERY THURSDAY, 8-10PM
* JULY 3, 2007: EULIPIA SERIES, FIRST TUESDAY OF THE MONTH, LUGGAGE STORE, 7:30PM
*SUNDAY, JULY 15, 2007: SEWING FOR THE PEOPLE, COHEN ALLEY, MICHAEL SWAINE
* NEWS/NEEDS
*****************************************************************
JULY 2007
ARTIST IN RESIDENCY
AT LUGGAGE STORE ANNEX (aka 509 Cultural Center)
509 Ellis Street (btw. Leavenworth and Ellis), SF, CA 94109
ELAINE BUCKHOLTZ
Buckholtz will work on a new piece, “Video Pond” (sound/light/video) that will also
be transported to other sites.
She will project images onto the storefront windows during the night, as well as the
trees outside and in Cohen Alley.
She will be conducting interactive experiments with light/sound and video on an
ongoing basis.
Gallery Hours: to be announced
Reception; to be announced, late July.
1007 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Tel. 415. 255 5971
www.luggagestoregallery.org
JUNE/JULY 2007
RIGO 23’S exhibition, BACKTRACKING…199485
EXTENDED THROUGH SUNDAY, JUNE 24th.
There will be a closing performance
FRIDAY, JUNE 22ND from 7-9pm
Featuring BLACK RAINBOW and THE NURSES (punk music) and
Spoken word performers Erika Cespedes Kent, Luara, Venturi & Eugeniya Kirovski..
There is no charge for admission, but donations are greatly appreciated.
SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 3-5pm
Discussion with Rigo and others.
SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 10AM - 2PM (GAY PARADE)
Come see Rigo’s show and enjoy the Gay Parade from the luggage store. (great views)
**********************************************************************
OTHER EVENTS:
*JULY 2007: ARTIST IN RESIDENCY, LUGGAGE STORE ANNEX, ELAINE BUCKHOLTZ
*JULY 13, 2007: SHORT CUTS AT LUGGAGE STORE, CURATED BY CHRISTINA LINDEN
*NEW MUSIC SERIES, EVERY THURSDAY, 8-10PM
* JULY 3, 2007: EULIPIA SERIES, FIRST TUESDAY OF THE MONTH, LUGGAGE STORE, 7:30PM
*SUNDAY, JULY 15, 2007: SEWING FOR THE PEOPLE, COHEN ALLEY, MICHAEL SWAINE
* NEWS/NEEDS
*****************************************************************
JULY 2007
ARTIST IN RESIDENCY
AT LUGGAGE STORE ANNEX (aka 509 Cultural Center)
509 Ellis Street (btw. Leavenworth and Ellis), SF, CA 94109
ELAINE BUCKHOLTZ
Buckholtz will work on a new piece, “Video Pond” (sound/light/video) that will also
be transported to other sites.
She will project images onto the storefront windows during the night, as well as the
trees outside and in Cohen Alley.
She will be conducting interactive experiments with light/sound and video on an
ongoing basis.
Gallery Hours: to be announced
Reception; to be announced, late July.
Butoh Notation - Dance with Poem, performance 4/27, 6-8pm, @ the luggage store
Dates:
Fri Apr 27, 2007 00:00 - Wed Apr 25, 2007
the luggage store gallery
1007 Market Street (nr 6th)
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-255-5971
www.luggagestoregallery.org
Butoh Notation - Dance with Poem
6pm - 8pm, $10 - $20 sliding scale - no one refused for lack of funds
Katsura Kan & Yuko Kawamoto
with Super Performers, a collaboration with sound architecture from Japan
Dancers:
Bob Webb
Christina Braun
Douglas Ridings
Francois Sardi
Isak Immanel
Iu Hui Chua
Jennifer Hicks
Katsura Kan
Ledoh
Monique
Shelley Cook
Yuko Kawamoto
Sound Architecture: Tetsuya Umeda, Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney
Collaborative Curator: Mizuki Endo
1007 Market Street (nr 6th)
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-255-5971
www.luggagestoregallery.org
Butoh Notation - Dance with Poem
6pm - 8pm, $10 - $20 sliding scale - no one refused for lack of funds
Katsura Kan & Yuko Kawamoto
with Super Performers, a collaboration with sound architecture from Japan
Dancers:
Bob Webb
Christina Braun
Douglas Ridings
Francois Sardi
Isak Immanel
Iu Hui Chua
Jennifer Hicks
Katsura Kan
Ledoh
Monique
Shelley Cook
Yuko Kawamoto
Sound Architecture: Tetsuya Umeda, Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney
Collaborative Curator: Mizuki Endo
Rigo 23, Backtracking 199485, 5/11, 6-8pm opening, luggage store gallery
Dates:
Fri May 11, 2007 00:00 - Sat Apr 14, 2007
Press Release
For more info. Contact:
Laurie Lazer: 415. 255-5971
luggagestore@sbcglobal.net
VISUAL ART
SOLO EXHIBITION
RIGO 23
Backtracking 199485
new work, large-scale mixed media drawings on canvas
Dates
May 11 - June 16, 2007
Opening
Friday, May 11, 6-8pm
Gallery Hours
Wednesday-Saturday, 12-5pm and by appointment
Venue
the luggage store
1007 Market Street (near 6th)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Telephone
415. 255 5971
Email
luggagestore@sbcglobal.net
Website
www.luggagestoregallery.org
In this solo exhibition, Rigo 23 presents large-scale mixed media drawings with text on canvas with accompanying hand made zines. Rigo’s graphic imagery borrows stylistically from signage, advertising, popular cartoons, and newsprint photography.
The drawings portray activists and events that have influenced and shaped local Bay Area, national and global politics, and have all but been forgotten in the Bay Area.
San Francisco has always been regarded as a “safe haven” for social experimentation; as a place where differences enriched rather than divided the socio-political landscape. San Francisco was a sanctuary town, which welcomed individuals fleeing from war and hunger; people moving towards freedom of expression -- sexually, politically, socially, artistically and spiritually; and as Rigo says, who “…at least walked towards a better and more humane collective future.”
Backtracking 199485 pays tribute to, honors and thanks those who have sought to preserve and extend freedom as the artist shares seminal moments that shaped and influenced his life in the Bay Area during this vital period.
Dr. Huey P. Newton, (1942-1989), co founder of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense.
Dolores Huerta (b 1930), co founder United Farm Workers of America and co founder with Cesar Chavez of the National Farm Workers Association
AIDS Vigil on UN Plaza at Civic Center, focusing on the connections between homelessness, poverty and HIV.
Keith McHenry, Co-Founder, Food Not Bombs.
Critical Mass, monthly mass bicycle/non-car ride.
Brian Wilson, Vietnam Veteran Against the War who protested US arms shipments to Central America by practicing civil disobedience
Judi Bari (1949-1997) Earth First! Activist
“Backtracking…” too stems from the artist’s need to share some of the seminal moments in this particularly vital period 1985-1994 that shaped and influenced his life in the Bay Area.
Representations of time and issues of justice have always played an important role in Rigo’s artistic practice. His first solo show at the Richmond Art Center in 1994 was titled "Time and Time Again" and was dedicated exclusively to the plight of Geronimo Ji Jaga, at the time incarcerated at Mule Creek State Penitentiary. In 1992 he did a series of works focusing on the 500-year celebrations of the arrival of Europeans to this continent. In 2002 he painted a giant mural across the street from the Civic Center entitled “Truth” in dedication to Robert King Wilkerson, an ex-Black Panther who after spending 29 years in solitary confinement at Angola State Prison was released from prison and found innocent.
Towards an ever more meaningful intercommunalism… Rigo continues to place his powerful murals, paintings, sculptures, and tile works in strategic locations, encouraging viewers to examine their role and their relationship, locally, nationally and globally to their community and their environment, and as participants (whether willfully or unwittingly) in the public policies that affect us all.
A graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute (BFA) and Stanford University (MFA), Rigo has been exhibiting work for over 20 years internationally and locally. He has had solo exhibitions at the Museo de Art Contemporanea in Brazil, Artists Space in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago, Chile, The DeYoung Museum, Paule Anglim Gallery in San Francisco.. He has participated in the California Biennial at the Orange County Museum, the 2006 Liverpool Biennial; the Liverpool Biennial, and has been featured in a wealth of group exhibitions including The SFMOMA, The Berkeley Art Museum, and the Pasadena Museum of Art.
He has been awarded public commissions from the San Francisco International Airport, the Gerbode Foundation and the San Francisco Arts Commission, as well as permanent murals and terrazzo walks in Portugal. In October of 2005, a commissioned outdoor sculpture was dedicated on the campus of San Jose State University. Rigo depicted the two 1968 Olympic athletes, Tommie Smith and Juan Carlos in a larger-than-life version of their fisted saluteHis much publicized San Francisco murals, “One Tree” and “Inner City Home” have made him a spokesperson for urban San Francisco residents. In 1999, Rigo received the SECA Award from SFMOMA.
A mid-career survey exhibition of Rigo’s work, Jam Sessions: RIGO 84 - 23, is traveling from The Centro das Artes, Casa das Mudas in Madeira, Portugal onward to Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, Brazil in 2007.
For more info. Contact:
Laurie Lazer: 415. 255-5971
luggagestore@sbcglobal.net
VISUAL ART
SOLO EXHIBITION
RIGO 23
Backtracking 199485
new work, large-scale mixed media drawings on canvas
Dates
May 11 - June 16, 2007
Opening
Friday, May 11, 6-8pm
Gallery Hours
Wednesday-Saturday, 12-5pm and by appointment
Venue
the luggage store
1007 Market Street (near 6th)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Telephone
415. 255 5971
luggagestore@sbcglobal.net
Website
www.luggagestoregallery.org
In this solo exhibition, Rigo 23 presents large-scale mixed media drawings with text on canvas with accompanying hand made zines. Rigo’s graphic imagery borrows stylistically from signage, advertising, popular cartoons, and newsprint photography.
The drawings portray activists and events that have influenced and shaped local Bay Area, national and global politics, and have all but been forgotten in the Bay Area.
San Francisco has always been regarded as a “safe haven” for social experimentation; as a place where differences enriched rather than divided the socio-political landscape. San Francisco was a sanctuary town, which welcomed individuals fleeing from war and hunger; people moving towards freedom of expression -- sexually, politically, socially, artistically and spiritually; and as Rigo says, who “…at least walked towards a better and more humane collective future.”
Backtracking 199485 pays tribute to, honors and thanks those who have sought to preserve and extend freedom as the artist shares seminal moments that shaped and influenced his life in the Bay Area during this vital period.
Dr. Huey P. Newton, (1942-1989), co founder of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense.
Dolores Huerta (b 1930), co founder United Farm Workers of America and co founder with Cesar Chavez of the National Farm Workers Association
AIDS Vigil on UN Plaza at Civic Center, focusing on the connections between homelessness, poverty and HIV.
Keith McHenry, Co-Founder, Food Not Bombs.
Critical Mass, monthly mass bicycle/non-car ride.
Brian Wilson, Vietnam Veteran Against the War who protested US arms shipments to Central America by practicing civil disobedience
Judi Bari (1949-1997) Earth First! Activist
“Backtracking…” too stems from the artist’s need to share some of the seminal moments in this particularly vital period 1985-1994 that shaped and influenced his life in the Bay Area.
Representations of time and issues of justice have always played an important role in Rigo’s artistic practice. His first solo show at the Richmond Art Center in 1994 was titled "Time and Time Again" and was dedicated exclusively to the plight of Geronimo Ji Jaga, at the time incarcerated at Mule Creek State Penitentiary. In 1992 he did a series of works focusing on the 500-year celebrations of the arrival of Europeans to this continent. In 2002 he painted a giant mural across the street from the Civic Center entitled “Truth” in dedication to Robert King Wilkerson, an ex-Black Panther who after spending 29 years in solitary confinement at Angola State Prison was released from prison and found innocent.
Towards an ever more meaningful intercommunalism… Rigo continues to place his powerful murals, paintings, sculptures, and tile works in strategic locations, encouraging viewers to examine their role and their relationship, locally, nationally and globally to their community and their environment, and as participants (whether willfully or unwittingly) in the public policies that affect us all.
A graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute (BFA) and Stanford University (MFA), Rigo has been exhibiting work for over 20 years internationally and locally. He has had solo exhibitions at the Museo de Art Contemporanea in Brazil, Artists Space in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago, Chile, The DeYoung Museum, Paule Anglim Gallery in San Francisco.. He has participated in the California Biennial at the Orange County Museum, the 2006 Liverpool Biennial; the Liverpool Biennial, and has been featured in a wealth of group exhibitions including The SFMOMA, The Berkeley Art Museum, and the Pasadena Museum of Art.
He has been awarded public commissions from the San Francisco International Airport, the Gerbode Foundation and the San Francisco Arts Commission, as well as permanent murals and terrazzo walks in Portugal. In October of 2005, a commissioned outdoor sculpture was dedicated on the campus of San Jose State University. Rigo depicted the two 1968 Olympic athletes, Tommie Smith and Juan Carlos in a larger-than-life version of their fisted saluteHis much publicized San Francisco murals, “One Tree” and “Inner City Home” have made him a spokesperson for urban San Francisco residents. In 1999, Rigo received the SECA Award from SFMOMA.
A mid-career survey exhibition of Rigo’s work, Jam Sessions: RIGO 84 - 23, is traveling from The Centro das Artes, Casa das Mudas in Madeira, Portugal onward to Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, Brazil in 2007.
my love is a 187, the luggage store gallery, Opening Feb.9th, 6-8pm
Dates:
Tue Jan 09, 2007 00:00 - Sat Feb 03, 2007
For immediate release
Contact: Laurie Lazer, 415. 255 5971
www.luggagestoregallery.org
luggagestore@sbcglobal.net
EXHIBITION:
Dates:
Friday, February 9 - Saturday, March 17, 2007
Preview:
Friday, February 9, 12-3pm
Artist Talk:
Friday, February 9, 12-1pm
Opening Reception:
Friday, February 9, 2007, 6-8pm
Place:
the luggage store
1007 Market Street (nr 6th)
San Francisco, ca 94103
Telephone:
415 255- 5971
Website:
www.luggagestoregallery.org
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday-Saturday, 12-5pm and by appointment
The luggage store is pleased to present: “MY LOVE IS A 187,” an exhibition by four leading artists: MARK BRADFORD, TITUS KAPHAR, SHINIQUE SMITH and MICKALANE THOMAS who explore global consumerism, and Black visual representation in history and US popular culture.
MARK BRADFORD (Los Angeles, CA)
Bradford presents a large-scale work from The “Lucky Project” -- an “excavated” and altered billboard; as well as “Alexandria,” found and altered video footage. Bradford’s work explores global consumerism, art and artifice.
Bradford received his MFA from California Institute of the Arts. He is the recent recipient of the prestigious Bucksbaum Award from the Whitney Biennial 2006, and USA Artists Award. His work has been featured internationally and nationally at the Sao Paolo Bienniel, The Zacheta National Gallery in Warsaw, Poland, The Whitney Museum, Lombard-Freid Gallery, and Brent Sikkema in NY.
TITUS KAPHAR (New York, NY)
Kaphar’s paintings present an alternate view to the enslaved, in servitude or impoverished representation and portrayal of Blacks in American 18th and 19th century painting.
Kaphar received his MFA from Yale University and is currently an artist in residence at the Studio Museum of Harlem in NY. He has exhibited at The Anna Dommini Gallery in San Jose, CA; Miami Basel 2006 with Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery (Los Angeles), Jack Tilton Gallery, NY; and Roberts & Tilton, LA.
SHINIQUE SMITH
Ms. Smith will present a “bundled” installation made from the collection and accumulation of unwanted objects, spiritual philosophies, and words, reflecting and commenting upon popular culture and global economies.
Smith received her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and has shown at PS 1 in Queens, NY (Altered, Stitched and Gathered) the Studio Museum of Harlem, (Frequency), Caren Golden Fine Art, NY, a solo exhibition at The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. In addition, she participated in the 9th International Istanbul Biennial.
MICKALENE THOMAS
Thomas will present mixed media paintings with rhinestones; large scale color photographs and a mixed media installation. Her work explores the marketing and consumption of Black femininity and exoticism within US popular culture.
Ms. Thomas received her MFA from Yale University and was an artist in residence at the Studio Museum of Harlem. Her work has been exhibited at The Studio Museum of Harlem, “Frequency” and “Hands on Hands Down”, PS1/MoMA “Wild Girls,” at Exit Art, NY and the Longwood Art Gallery in the Bronx, as well as the Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago.
300 DPI JPEGS ARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST as well as complete BIOS on artists.
Additional photos may be seen by visiting the website:
www.luggagestoregallery and clicking on view images
Contact: Laurie Lazer, 415. 255 5971
www.luggagestoregallery.org
luggagestore@sbcglobal.net
EXHIBITION:
Dates:
Friday, February 9 - Saturday, March 17, 2007
Preview:
Friday, February 9, 12-3pm
Artist Talk:
Friday, February 9, 12-1pm
Opening Reception:
Friday, February 9, 2007, 6-8pm
Place:
the luggage store
1007 Market Street (nr 6th)
San Francisco, ca 94103
Telephone:
415 255- 5971
Website:
www.luggagestoregallery.org
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday-Saturday, 12-5pm and by appointment
The luggage store is pleased to present: “MY LOVE IS A 187,” an exhibition by four leading artists: MARK BRADFORD, TITUS KAPHAR, SHINIQUE SMITH and MICKALANE THOMAS who explore global consumerism, and Black visual representation in history and US popular culture.
MARK BRADFORD (Los Angeles, CA)
Bradford presents a large-scale work from The “Lucky Project” -- an “excavated” and altered billboard; as well as “Alexandria,” found and altered video footage. Bradford’s work explores global consumerism, art and artifice.
Bradford received his MFA from California Institute of the Arts. He is the recent recipient of the prestigious Bucksbaum Award from the Whitney Biennial 2006, and USA Artists Award. His work has been featured internationally and nationally at the Sao Paolo Bienniel, The Zacheta National Gallery in Warsaw, Poland, The Whitney Museum, Lombard-Freid Gallery, and Brent Sikkema in NY.
TITUS KAPHAR (New York, NY)
Kaphar’s paintings present an alternate view to the enslaved, in servitude or impoverished representation and portrayal of Blacks in American 18th and 19th century painting.
Kaphar received his MFA from Yale University and is currently an artist in residence at the Studio Museum of Harlem in NY. He has exhibited at The Anna Dommini Gallery in San Jose, CA; Miami Basel 2006 with Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery (Los Angeles), Jack Tilton Gallery, NY; and Roberts & Tilton, LA.
SHINIQUE SMITH
Ms. Smith will present a “bundled” installation made from the collection and accumulation of unwanted objects, spiritual philosophies, and words, reflecting and commenting upon popular culture and global economies.
Smith received her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and has shown at PS 1 in Queens, NY (Altered, Stitched and Gathered) the Studio Museum of Harlem, (Frequency), Caren Golden Fine Art, NY, a solo exhibition at The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. In addition, she participated in the 9th International Istanbul Biennial.
MICKALENE THOMAS
Thomas will present mixed media paintings with rhinestones; large scale color photographs and a mixed media installation. Her work explores the marketing and consumption of Black femininity and exoticism within US popular culture.
Ms. Thomas received her MFA from Yale University and was an artist in residence at the Studio Museum of Harlem. Her work has been exhibited at The Studio Museum of Harlem, “Frequency” and “Hands on Hands Down”, PS1/MoMA “Wild Girls,” at Exit Art, NY and the Longwood Art Gallery in the Bronx, as well as the Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago.
300 DPI JPEGS ARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST as well as complete BIOS on artists.
Additional photos may be seen by visiting the website:
www.luggagestoregallery and clicking on view images
