10.27.08
Flavorpill, Other Than History:
The artists in Silverman Gallery's latest show use fanciful relics to invent alternative histories. To create her piece Mail Order Tumbleweeds, Torreya Cummings purchased samples of the western weed online and then staged them as spilling from postmarked cardboard boxes, turning their iconic aimless drift into a calculated e-commerce transaction. In the kitschy Bearsuit, she lays out a Panama hat, faux-bear fur pants, and clawed gloves on a velvet armchair — the natty wardrobe, she argues, of a newly invented queer hero from the Wild West. Meanwhile, Airyka Rockefeller's compilations of miniature images of castles invite viewers to revisit a dusty medieval fairy tale. – Jeanne Storck
10.21.08
10.20.08
Press from Susanne M. Winterling's exhibition in Flash Art:
10.18.08
Opening reception for "Capital Jewelers" @ Dust Gallery, Las Vegas, which includes Luke Butler
10.17.08
Opening of "Other Than History" tonight - runs through November, 2008
10.7.08
Desiree Holman’s “The Magic Window”
Opens Saturday October 11th, 8pm @ Machine Projects in Los Angeles, 1200 D North Alvarado Street.
Desiree recreates the staging of classic family sitcoms like the Cosby Show and Roseanne, and uses these as sets for a masked cast of characters in her video “The Magic Window”.
10.6.08
10.4.08
Congratulations to Tammy Rae Carland on her review of “An Archive of Feelings” in the October 2008 issue of Artforum
Congratulations to Susanne M. Winterling on her review of “Pattern Recognition of a Collar to Idealism” in the October 2008 issue of Flash Art International
Silverman Gallery is proud to represent Luke Butler, based in San Francisco. Luke currently has an exhibition at 2nd floor projects which runs through October 26, 2008
Christina McPhee in “War as a way of life” curated by Clayton Campbell which runs through December 19, 2008 at the 18th Street Art Center in Los Angeles
Ben Shaffer is curating a show “Joy and Misery” at FIVE THIRY THREE gallery in Los Angeles which opens on October 25, 7-10 and runs through November 22, 2008.
Silverman Gallery will have a booth at this years NY ART BOOKFAIR at Phillips de Pury & Company from October 24 -26, 2008
7.28.08
Opening Reception: September 4, 7-10pm
Susanne Winterling "Pattern Recognition of a Collar to Idealism (dedication to a womean yet unknown)"
7.20.08
Check http://look-boutique.blogspot.com/ during the month of August for updates on our upcoming show, MINI MARKET!
7.18.08
Silverman Gallery will stay open late tomorrow night until 6pm.
Why + Wherefore is pleased to announce PDF, a one-night-only show co-curated by Summer Guthery, Lumi Tan, and Nicholas Weist that will be held simultaneously in 14 cities internationally and each of the 5 boroughs of New York City on July 19 from 6 to 8pm. The show includes commissioned works from Fia Backström, Bozidar Brazda, Brian Clifton, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Rachel Mason, Sean Raspet, and Jordan Wolfson, and a contribution from Dexter Sinister.
PDF will also open at the following commercial, alternative, and artists-run galleries and institutions on July 19.
6.14.08
Recent Press:
6.13.08
Desiree Holman's Pennies from heaven in "This one goes up to 11"
View the work here: http://www.whyandwherefore.com/
5.22.08
Desiree Holman:
2008 SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
February 14 - May 17, 2009
5.20.08
New blog for Silverman Gallery @ silvermangallerysanfrancisco.blogspot.com
5.11.08
Remember you only have until May 17 to see Kick Out The Jams Organized by CHRIS DUNCAN + GRIFFIN McPARTLAND featuring work by artists featured in the current edition of "Hot and Cold" with works by our very own Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough.
5.10.08
Desiree Holman in May 2008 art ltd. magazine
"YOUNG AT ART" 15 UNDER 35
5.9.08
Susanne Winterling's works at Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin for the Biennale.
Among the works were a film installation by Winterling that explores the water condensation that flaws van der Rohe’s masterpiece.
4.24.08
Tris Vonna-Michell will perform Auto-tracking: from Cellar to Garret at the Tate Britian Saturday 26 April 2008, 15.00–16.00.
4.23.08
Hypnotic Show, Curated by Raimundas Malašauskas
You can download the scripts used in the séance HERE.
You can also find Kevin Killians review of the Hypnotic Show HERE.
Outside of Silverman Gallery "Illusion is a revolutionary weapon"
Marcos Lutyens preparing the crowd
An eager group of participants.
Thank you to everyone who made the Hypnotic Show possible.
4.20.08
Federal Agency on Culture and Cinematography
ROSPHOTO, St.-Petersburg presents:
Susanne Winterling
“…they told you: the future will be precious…(II)”
4.18 - 5.25.2008
Center for Photography, St Petersburg
Hypnotic Show, Curated by Raimundas Malašauskas
Opening reception: April 22, 2008 @ 8pm - No More reservations available.
4.8.08
Vanessa Albury MFA Thesis Exhibition I
@ 80 Washington Square East Galleries
Through April 11, 2008
4.3.08
Tonight: Airyka Rockefeller
"CROOKED MEADOW "
APRIL 3 - MAY 12, 2008
@ Jack Fisher Gallery, 49 Geary, San Francisco, CA
3.29.08
Tammy Rae Carland in
"The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics"
First Floor Galleries
Mar 29 – Jun 29, 2008
Flavorpill: Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough: Symptom of the Universe
"
Taking its title from a Black Sabbath tune, Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough's solo show Symptom of the Universe taps Ozzy's evil vibes in a series of wall-mounted pieces and large-scale sculptures made from electrical tape and contact paper. Swathes of inky negative space swallow up the mid-sections of Yarbrough's translations of found images, spreading like oozing tar pits. Yarbrough exploits the electrical tape's mirror-like sheen in two psychedelic hangings that make cubist chopped salad out of the viewer's face if they're examined too closely." – Matt Sussman
3.28.08
Desiree Holman included in Second Thoughts at the
Hessel Museum of Art, March 16 – May 25
Opening reception: Sunday, April 13, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Center for Curatorial Studies and
Hessel Museum of Art
Bard College, PO Box 5000
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000
3.22.08
Three artists who have and are schedule to work with Silverman Gallery in 2008 - In the Berlin Biennale:
The exhibition spaces of KW Institute for Contemporary Art, founded in 1991 in Berlin-Mitte will hold, among other projects, films by Babette Mangolte, Michel Auder, and Patricia Esquivias as well as an intervention by Ahmet Ögüt that comments on state power and its means of control. The attic will be turned into a studio/installation activated by Tris Vonna-Michell’s storytelling.
The iconic glass hall of Mies van der Rohe’s ultra-modernist Neue Nationalgalerie in former West Berlin has inspired various responses from artists. Among them, a film installation by Susanne M. Winterling explores the water condensation that flaws van der Rohe’s masterpiec
3.22.08
REVIEW on Nylonmag.com
3.15.08
Yuval Pudik is in Bitter Finals at Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles
March 15 - April 5, 2008
3.14.08
Tonight! Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough, "Symptom of the Universe" from 7-11pm!
3.11.08
The gallery will re-open on March 14, 2007 @ our new location:
804 Sutter Street @ Jones with Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough's "Symptom of the Universe" from 7-11pm
20.27.08
Desiree Holman has been invited to Second Thoughts
Sunday, March 16, 2008 - Sunday, March 30, 2008
Second Thoughts presents exhibition as revision. Curated by first year graduate students at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Second Thoughts is a direct response to Matthew Higgs’ Exhibitionism (October 20, 2007 – February 3, 2008), a series of autonomous and highly idiosyncratic exhibitions curated for each of the 16 galleries in the Hessel Museum of Art. By engaging amplification, erasure, extension, and redress, Second Thoughts seeks to alter the strategies utilized by Higgs in Exhibitionism to progressively revise the entire exhibition.
Opening receptions Sunday, March 16, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.; Sunday, April 13, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.; Sunday, May 11, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. @ Hessel Museum of Art are located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, about 90 miles north of New York City.
2.26.08
Bad Moon Rising has been extended to February 29, 2008
Frieze Magazine Review: http://www.frieze.com/shows/review/bad_moon_rising/
2.25.08
Yuval Pudik in group show at Gavlak in Florida
Shoes!, February 23 - March 29
Featuring : Lisa Anne Auerbach, Sophie Calle
Raul deNeives, Sylvie Fleury, David LaChapelle
Sherrie Levine, Irina Melsom, Christopher Milne
Marilyn Minter, Alexandra Penney, Yuval Pudik,
Fay Ray, Corey Towers, Andy Warhol, Pae White
2.20.08
Bad Moon Rising review in Shotgun Review:
http://www.shotgun-review.com/archives/silverman_gallery/bad_moon_rising.html
"The United States of America is both a nation and an idea. Since its inception, the nation has built itself around contradictory narratives such as freedom and imperialism, justice and oppression, opportunity and classism, or creativity and cultural hegemony to name a few. Two international curators working in the U.S., Jan Van Woensel and Hou Hanru, examine the icon of the United States and apply their unique perspectives in concurrent exhibitions within the country in question..."
2.17.08
Bad Moon Rising review in Flavorpill: http://flavorpill.com/sanfrancisco/events/2008/1/25/bad-moon rising
"Alluding to both Creedence Clearwater Revival's 1969 protest song and Sonic Youth's dark 1985 album, the group exhibit Bad Moon Rising continues the sentiment that something is rotten in the USA..."
2.16.08
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
War, beauty, and survival
Vanessa Albury, Jesse Bransford, Jacob Cohen, Mila Geisler, Pamela Jue, Caroline Polachek, Max Razdow, Hiroshi Sunairi
Curated by Jan Van Woensel
Feb 13 to Feb 29, 2008
The Commons Gallery, NYU Barney Building
34 Stuyvesant Street, NY, NY 10003
2.5.08
Review of Vanessa Albury and her work in Into the Atomic Sunshine http://www.shift.jp.org/en/archives/2008/02/into_the_atomic_sunshine_exhibition.html
1.20.08
Job Piston will be in an upcoming group show at FORT Gallery
California as Paradox: Imagined Communities
Opening Reception: Friday, February 8, 6-9 PM
FORT GALLERY
83B Wiese St. @ 16th (between Mission & Valencia)
www.fortgallery.com
1.15.08
Ben Shaffer is in SPACE AS A SPACE at Bonelli Contemporary
January 25th– Feb. 23th 2008
Reception: Friday January 25th 6-10pm
Bonelli Contemporary is pleased to present a large-scale group exhibition entitled ‘Space as a space’ with work by Malisa Humphrey, Ben Shaffer, Karthik Pandian, Devon Oder, Tadashi Moriyama, Joshua Callaghan, Nikko Mueller and Justin Michell. The show will be presented in both our current space at 936 Mei Ling Way and will serve as the inauguration of our new gallery location at 943 N. Hill St. adjacent to Chung King road.
www.boenllicontemporary.com
1.12.08
Vanessa Albury in Into the Atomic Sunshine -- Post-War Art under
Japanese Peace Constitution Article 9 @ Puffin Room 435 Broome St
New York, NY 10013
Until February 20 2008
1.4.08
San Francisco Bay Guardian
"The Distance That Keeps You"
Works by Yoko Ono, Bas Jan Ader, and Vanessa Albury
BY AVA JANCAR
Wednesday January 2, 2008
1.3.08
Desiree Arlette Holman and Job Piston will take place in this years Close Calls:2008 at Headlands Center for the Arts
Runs through: 1/13/2008 - 2/25/2008
Opening Reception: February 3, 2-5pm
1.2.08
"The Distance That Keeps You" Works by Yoko Ono, Bas Jan Ader, and Vanessa Albury Review by Ava Jancar for SF Guardian.
Taking an approach that's somewhat different from that of most relatively new art spaces in San Francisco, Silverman Gallery actively strives to historically contextualize the emerging artists shown in its basement space on Third Street. By including the work of canonical heroes, it introduces a subtly didactic element into its exhibitions -- an approach that directs the reading and interpretation of its contemporary artists' pieces.
In the case of the current show "The Distance That Keeps You," Vanessa Albury has chosen to exhibit her art alongside works by Yoko Ono and Bas Jan Ader. In a selection of photographs from her series Other Portraits/Performances (2004-07), Albury documents a figure -- mostly obscured by either a swath of fabric or the surrounding landscape -- in black and white. It's hard to avoid matching these images with Ader's filmed performances that screen across the room, because of the similarity in landscapes. Although the two artists' works share a sense of theatricality, Albury's pieces are highly composed maquettes of broader, unknown actions, as opposed to Ader's more slapstick routines.
Bearing a similarly striking resemblance, Albury's video 12/17/05 to 6/5/06 (Text Message from Mark) (2006) invokes Ader's weeping face in I'm Too Sad to Tell You (1971). In a further exploration of self, Albury's White Lilies (In Black) -- composed of three projections, one of which loops the image of a woman filming her image -- references the Ono film Fly (1971), which follows a fly as it traverses the body of a young woman. Again, one finds the mood of the exhibit almost overwhelmingly colored by a need to compare Albury's work to that of her predecessors. Due to its subject matter, the art in this ambitious show -- which includes pieces made over several years by an artist still completing her education -- may have benefited from being exhibited without historical restraints in order to accentuate its sense of mystery and melancholy.
12.13.07
Opens December 14, 7-10pm: Mary Elizabeth Yarbough in The Dollar Show at Eleanor Harwood
Opens December 18, 6-8pm: Airyka Rockefeller has new work in "AND WHO ARE YOU? WORK FROM SAATCHI ONLINE" Curated by Ana Finel Honigman
11.15.07
Nothing Moments is listed in Flavorpill.
All Nothing Moments publications can be viewed and purchased on Look-Boutique.com
11.14.07
In the spirit of the holiday season Silverman Gallery has invited an artist to produce a limited edition that is sent to collectors and friends. This year we are excited to have Job Piston produce a limited edition print. A small selection will be available at the gallery.
11.13.07
We congratulate Patricia Esquivias who has been selected for the Illy Present Future Award.
The work, Reads Like the Paper convinced the jury with its unconventional approach to personal narrative, alluding to the tradition of filmic diaries but updated to the computer age. The work has an intimate, human dimension that opens to a delicate and at the same time entertainging stream of consciousness.
The jury was comprised of Corinne Disrens, Director of Museum of Modern and Contemporary art, Bolzano; Francesco Manacorda, curator of Barbican Art Gallery, London; Susan Pfeffer, curator of KW Kunstwerke, Berlin.
10.25.07
Desiree Holman at Elizabeth Leach Gallery
New Work by Recent Graduates of the California College of the Arts
Curated by Lawrence Rinder
November 1 - December 22, 2007
Preview Reception: October 31, 2007, 6 - 8pm
First Thursday Reception: November 1, 2007, 6 - 9pm
Reminder: Desiree Holman will take part in Independent Exposure Halloweird Edition TONIGHT!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/25/NSVFSSE1J.DTL
10.11.07
Silverman Gallery in the news!
Check out our new Dogpatch guide on 7x7 Magazines online at the Hot List Blog under A&E
Make sure not to miss the new exhibition TV HONEY and to read about it in yesterdays 96 hours! "Visual Art: 'TV Honey' uses video to deconstruct television's power" by Reyhan Harmanci.
10.9.07
Desiree Holman is one of 15 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA FINALISTS ANNOUNCED FOR ARTADIA AWARDS 2007
10.2.07
Artist Updates:
Silverman Gallery is very pleased to announce the representation of San Francisco based artist, Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough. Her first solo exhibition will take place in February.
Job Piston is invited to Littlest Sister 07 which will be held at Spinello Gallery, Miami, (November 10, 2007 - January 5, 2008). The Group Art Fair is by invitation only - narrowed down from an extensive list of artists both local and abroad, selected and curated by Claire Breukel (Independent Curator & Executive Director of Locust Projects, Miami) and Art Fair Organizer, Anthony Spinello.
Desiree Holman will take part in Independent Exposure Halloweird Edition, October 25th @ the Red Vic Movie House.
Tris Vonna-Michell's new solo show just opened at Milliken Gallery, Stockholm. Tris can also be seen performing at Serpentine Gallery, London on October 13. He will have his next solo exhibition at Cubitt Gallery, London this November.
Ben Shaffer has a new work in a group exhibition at TELIC ARTS EXCHANGE, Chinatown, CA on October 27.
9.8.07
Artissima is pleased to announce the names of 15 artists selected for Present Future, the special section of the Fair devoted to international emerging artists.
The team of curators, consisting of Cecilia Alemani, Luca Cerizza and Raimundas Malasauskas, has focused the attention on original and ambitious projects by young artists, conceived specifically for Artissima.
The artists will display their works in a specially designed space. Present Future will be an exhibition in its own right, where the works will be installed following a curatorial path that highlights the dialogue among the works while respecting their own individual nature.
The artists and galleries selected for Present Future 2007 are:
Julieta Aranda, Michael Janssen, Berlin
Rosa Barba, Vera Gliem, Cologne
Becky Beasley, Laura Bartlett, London
Rä di Martino, Monitor, Rome
Haris Epaminonda, Domobaal, London
Patricia Esquivias, Silverman, San Francisco, CA
Anne Hardy, Bellwether, New York, N.Y.
Helen Johnson, Sutton, Melbourne
David Maljkovic, Annet Gelink, Amsterdam
Michael Riedel, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Johann König, Berlin
Jamie Shovlin, 1/9 Unosunove, Rome
Ryan Trecartin, Elizabeth Dee, New York, N.Y.
Luca Trevisani, Pinksummer /Giò Marconi, Genoa / Milan
Donelle Woolford, Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
During the Fair, a jury of international critics and curators will meet to assign the illy Present Future Award to the most significant work. The winning artist will receive a 10,000-euro prize from the event partner, illy, and will have the opportunity to present a design for the “illy Art Collection” of auteur coffee cups.
Artissima
Corso Re Umberto 46 Bis
I-10128 TORINO - ITALY
Tel. +39 011 546284
Fax. +39 011 5623094
info@artissima.it
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9.6.07
NEW HOURS:
We are now open Wednesday-Saturday, 11 - 6pm
Double Resonator: Christopher Badger, Robert Smithson and La Monte Young.
OpeningReception: Friday September 7, 7-10pm. Limited Editon print by Christopher Badger available.
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9.1.07
Vanessa Albury in It Moves at Rosenberg Gallery, Barney Building, NYU
Thursday, September 13, 2007 till Friday, September 28, 2007
34 Stuyvesant Street, Rosenberg Gallery
Vanessa Albury
Marthe Fortun
Alex McQuilkin
September 12 - 28
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 13th, 6-8 PM