Heavy Handed: Art Fist, Your Mom Tweet By Katherine Sweetman THE ART FIST COLLECTIVE — a curatorial team that’s breaking the rules and making shit happen… YOUR MOM is up now through May 25th. Closing reception on Friday, May 25th, 6-10pm at Zepf Alt. The Art Fist Collective (Jim Garry, Leanne Garry and Enrique Limón) have put together their 5th, kick-ass […]
Enrique Limón on Art Fist Collective
Art Fist Collective presents “Your Mom,” a group art show with a Freudian twist, May 11th
Art Fist Collective presents “Your Mom,” a group art show with a Freudian twist, May 11th Tweet Art Fist Collective presents “Your Mom,” a group art show with a Freudian twist. Friday May 11th, 6-11pm, Zepf Alt Gallery, 1150 7th Ave. Downtown San Diego with live performance by Granny Pearl Featuring mom-inspired works by: Mark Adams, Dan Allen, Amy Baca […]
DRONES AT HOME conference organized by the gallery@calit2, UCSD
High Art in and institution of Higher Education Tweet Reported by Katherine Sweetman Date: May 11th, 2012 to May 12th, 0000 Time: All day Fri-Sat Location: Calit2 Auditorium, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego *Guest Speakers: Sheldon Brown, Ricardo Dominguez and Jordan Crandall, Co-Curators et al. Visual Arts Faculty members at The University of California, San Diego DESCRIPTION/ABSTRACT: Phase 2 of […]
Author & Punisher Announces New West Coast Tour Dates
Music From San Diego Tweet Reported by Katherine Sweetman Author & Punisher Announces New West Coast Tour Dates San Diego artist/ musician, Tristan Shone, is the man behind the madness. He will be flying solo, tearing through California, Washington, and Oregon in support of his forthcoming Seventh Rule Recordings debut, “Ursus Americanus” (due out in digital and digipak CD on […]
Sharpen your Conceptual Claws, World: UCSD Open Studios
A simple subjective experience By Katherine Sweetman “The Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego encourages experimentation, innovation and risk-taking in scholarly and artistic production. We provide a unique environment for learning and research that crosses the boundaries between history, theory, and practice in the visual arts.” – from Vis Arts website Last Saturday the top graduate art program […]
Spotlight Chicago, IL: Tom Torluemke, “Ring around the Rosie”
An Essay on Artist Tom Torluemke Tweet By Kevin Freitas Ring-a-ring-a-roses, A pocket full of posies; Hush! hush! hush! hush! We’re all tumbled down. “Though it seems at times as if nothing could rout him out of the inertia in which he is entrenched, it is quite possible that he may one day be shocked into a greater state of […]
Strip Club Owner Dressed like The Pope, Weds Couple in Strip Club
Vows And A Kiss Tweet Reported by Katherine Sweetman Exposé — Strip Club, San Diego, California April 1, 2012 Although this wedding happened to fall on April Fools Day, it was no joke — at least not to the participants. The strip club owner was ordained online and led an official, yet very unofficial looking, wedding at the strip club […]
Create at Will: An Interview with Adam Murillo
By Katherine Sweetman Tweet Two life-like dinosaur heads were sticking out of the walls at an art opening at 57 degrees. It was as if someone had hunted them for sport and mounted their heads as trophies — this was the first work I saw by artist Adam Murillo. The curator of the event, Guy Lombardo, introduced me to the […]