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4 Waves: 40 Performances for the Hole September 11th, 2019 5:58–10:00 pm SOMArts Gallery 934 Brannan St San Francisco, CA (415) 863-1414 Originally known as the 100 Performances for the Hole, and first launched as a project at the Garage Biennale, this festival was designed to showcase the essence of performance practices across diverse community. It has since then continued at SOMArts Cultural Center, at Performance Studies International 19 at Stanford University, and at Ping Pong Gallery in Guangzhou. Over the years between 2009 and today, 100 Performances for the Hole: a Marathon of Artistic Moments made a home for itself at SOMArts. The festival drew local artists and those coming from across the nation and some internationally to perform. The structure is simple. Each performer is given 1 minute to set up, 2 minutes to perform, and 1 to clean up, or 4 minutes to do as they like. It is fast and furious and human and a one-of-a-kind look into the Bay Area’s performance art community. There are no rehearsals. Simple rules govern the festival: no hurting yourself or others and be all wrapped up in 4 minutes. |
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Planned Obsolescence January 29th - February 22, 2019 Opening Reception: Tuesday, January 29th, 2019, 6:00pm–7:30pm Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery San José State University Near 9th @ San Carlos Streets San José, CA Gallery Hours: Mon - Fri, 10:00am-4:00pm Tues evenings 6:00pm-7:30 Ilana Crispi & Terrance Graven will feature their collaborative video piece entitled, Green Room. A little newer, a little better, a little faster. Like the eager anticipation of the newest smartphone, compulsive human motion and consumption ultimately lead to the hastening of our physical, cultural, and social deterioration. Planned Obsolescence is a group exhibition at the Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery displaying works by artists of the greater Bay Area: Sebastian Alvarez, Ebitenyefa Baralaye, Terry Berlier, Ilana Crispi, Woody De Othello, Hope Kroll, Izidora Leber LETHE, Diana Li, Darrin Martin, Daniel McClain, Lucy Puls, and Lauren Jade Szabo. |
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Equilux September 23rd, 2017 6–8:30pm Campovida Gallery 95 Linden Street Oakland, CA (510) 550-7273 Art by Terrance Graven, Nikki Kamminga, and Ericka Dominguez Equilux is a day in which the durations of light and darkness are equal. It occurs a few days before the spring equinox and a few days after the autumn equinox. This date will vary depending on where on Earth you are, and indeed equiluxes do not occur at all close to the equator, whereas the equinox is a fixed instant in time when the sun crosses the earth's "celestial equator". |
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What Is, Was Feb 6th - 28th, 2016 Opening Reception Feb. 6th, 5-8pm Epperson Gallery 1400 Pomona St., Crockett, Ca. Friday - Sunday 11-5 or by appointment 510 787-2925 Artists have long embraced the themes of memory, recollection, the passing of time. Their art may be a memorial to a person or event, a way to cope with trauma, a way to remember a place or experience or a way to challenge perceptions of what may have taken place versus what exists of the experience now. |
"What Is, Was." brings together eleven Bay Area artists who examine these themes, creating artworks that explore concepts of the past, of memory and recollection. In this day of digital, fast-food media and a transient sense of time, the exhibition presents a realm of unhurried, subtle art processes, where artists might bring their pasts forward for us to view in the present and others may question notions of past and present. The exhibit includes performance art, installation, sculpture, book art, photography, paintings and drawings to show the range of media used to explore the theme.
The artists are: Dustin Burt, Terrance Graven, Kathy Kearns, Linda Klein, Midori, Oona Nelson, Sara Press & Andrew Rottner, Anna Noelle Rockwell, Martin Webb, and Gina Zetts.
Midori will present a performance and installation from her Evoko series, first presented at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Anna Noelle Rockwell, the curator of the exhibit, will bring two of her series, Subjection and the Horror of the Family, together in paintings and drawings. Kathy Kearns explores the theme of ancestry in the context of historically influenced pottery. Terrance Graven continues his Good Mourning series originally exhibited at SFMOMA.
The artists are: Dustin Burt, Terrance Graven, Kathy Kearns, Linda Klein, Midori, Oona Nelson, Sara Press & Andrew Rottner, Anna Noelle Rockwell, Martin Webb, and Gina Zetts.
Midori will present a performance and installation from her Evoko series, first presented at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Anna Noelle Rockwell, the curator of the exhibit, will bring two of her series, Subjection and the Horror of the Family, together in paintings and drawings. Kathy Kearns explores the theme of ancestry in the context of historically influenced pottery. Terrance Graven continues his Good Mourning series originally exhibited at SFMOMA.
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Project Postcard October 20–20th, 2015 D. W. Williams Gallery 1390 East University Ave. Las Cruces, NM This group show will feature original works of art in postcard-size. |
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Reverie Saturday, July 25th, 2015 6:30–8:30pm Campovida Gallery 95 Linden Street Oakland, CA (510) 550-7273 Art by Terrance Graven, Ronnie Sampson, Nikki Kamminga, and Alex Vazquez Vice chocolates and wine pairings $25 |
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I dream of... Four of my new 2D mixed media pieces entitled–The Sun Was Extinguish'd I-IV, will be featured in three shows. They use paper, human hair, gold leaf, and paint. After the main exhibition, the artworks will be sent as a small gift to residents in nursing homes, orphanages, and homeless shelters worldwide to make them feel a little bit less lonely during the Holiday Season. I dream of... Theme: Metamorphosis - Who do you want to be? - Believe in your dreams - Think the impossible 1) ArTik FreiburgFriedrichring 2 79098 Freiburg Germany 2) Civil Academy Michaelkirchstr. 17-18 10179 Berlin-Mitte Germany 3) December 5 - 12, 2014 Opening: December 5, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Incline Gallery 766 Valencia St. San Francisco, Ca 94110 |
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Bay Area Now I am very excited to have been chosen for this prestigious art show. I will create an installation unlike most of my other work. It will reference my professional experiences as an art preparator and exhibition designer. The second half of the show will feature the remnants of the installation reinvented by an anonymous art preparator. July 18th - October 5th, 2014 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Bay Area Now 7 Opening Night Party Fri, Jul 18, 8-11 PM Grand Lobby, Galleries, YBCA Forum |
Through the work of artists who capture the spirit of "now," YBCA's signature triennial, Bay Area Now, brings to life current perspectives for both this art center and the regional art scene. In its seventh edition, BAN7 is experimenting with a new approach to curating that highlights collaborations with our region's artists and arts organizations and pushes beyond presentation toward a multidisciplinary celebration of the diversity of artistic practices in the Bay Area.
BAN7's core idea is to decentralize the curatorial process, and centralize the public presentation of some of the most exciting artistic voices in the region today.
As a common shared site for the presentation of works, BAN7 aims to create a lucid web of creative activity in the Bay Area. Our vision to create a platform for new work and experimentation is rooted in the belief that a decentralized curatorial process will open up an opportunity for a wider range of voices and create spaces for dialogue beyond the arts.
BAN7's core idea is to decentralize the curatorial process, and centralize the public presentation of some of the most exciting artistic voices in the region today.
As a common shared site for the presentation of works, BAN7 aims to create a lucid web of creative activity in the Bay Area. Our vision to create a platform for new work and experimentation is rooted in the belief that a decentralized curatorial process will open up an opportunity for a wider range of voices and create spaces for dialogue beyond the arts.
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100 Performances for the Hole Saturday, January 4th, 2014 5:58pm (sharp) - midnight SOMArts Cultural Center 934 Brannan St. San Francisco, CA $25 VIP Admission with access to complimentary beer by Ninkasi Brewing Company, $12 general admission, cash bar advance tickets recommended Now in its fourth iteration, 100 Performances for The Hole is a mini-marathon of time-based performance. Each performance lasts just two minutes and takes place in, around, in contradiction of, or is inspired by “The Hole,” a 100-year-old former sand casting pit in the floor of the SOMArts Main Gallery. The history of the hole is one of radical self-expression and experimentation. The only rules are performances must adhere to a precise time signature of two minutes, and performers may not harm themselves or others. Past performances have included the unorthodox usage of bodily orifices, a set from a heavy metal band, and ritualistic offerings. Who knows what may transpire this year when 100 brave and experimental performers take to the hole? |
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Flux Tableau Saturday, May 19th, 2012 6:30pm (sharp) - 8:30am Private event with invitation Address provided if interested. Please e-mail info@terrancegraven.com Sausalito, CA Three live drawing sessions. |
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100 Performances for the Hole: Third Strike Saturday, December 10, 2011 5:58pm - 12:00am or until finished SOMArts Cultural Center 934 Brannan St. San Francisco, CA Third Strike: 100 Performances for The Hole is a mini-marathon of time-based performance. Each performance lasts just two minutes and takes place in, around, in contradiction of, or is inspired by “The Hole,” a 100-year-old former sand casting pit in the floor of the SOMArts Main Gallery. This event was conceived by SOMArts Curator & Gallery Director, Justin Hoover. In his words, “We imagine this biennial event as a spectrometer for time- based art, an open forum for creativity reflecting contemporary media and popular culture. It’s a rare and much needed opportunity for Bay Area artists to engage in unencumbered live performance art in a way that is simultaneously intimate and macroscopic.” |
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Ever After Sunday, November 20, 2011 2:00pm - 5:30p Chapel of the Chimes 4499 Piedmont Avenue Oakland, CA OFF Space is pleased to present an afternoon of performance works by artists Terrance Graven, Justin Hoover, Bert Bergen and Jack Leamy, Emmanuelle Namont Kouznetsov, Krisztina Lazar, Michelle Morby in conjunction with a reception for all Ever After artists on Sunday November 20th, from 2 - 5:30pm. Don't miss your last opportunity to see first ever exhibition of visual and performance art at the historic Julia Morgan designed Chapel of the Chimes! Performances and artist reception on Sunday November 20th from 3-6pm "Ever After" features 15 installations by artists: Maggie Simpson Adams, Glenna Cole Allee, Rachel Dawson, Victoria Heilweil, Elyse Hochstadt, Karrie Hovey, Phil King, Marya Krogstad, Yuki Maruyama, Emmanuelle Namont Kouznetsov, Jessica Pezalla, Luther Thie, Linda Trunzo, Andrew Witrak, Kathrine Worel. The Chapel of the Chimes, aside from its historical importance and architectural beauty serves as a site of repose, contemplation, transcendence and remembrance. It is, on many levels, easy to draw comparisons of intent and use between the Chapel and museums, as art too is a portal to the sublime—the intuition that there is something powerfully beautiful and perhaps fearsome beyond our quotidian experience. The intention of this exhibition is to draw parallels between the “eternal” qualities of art, qualities that give ones life meaning and The Eternal, that which awaits us all, and which is honored at the Chapel. As each “mini installation” will be relevant to the chapel in which it is placed, it is our hope that the artwork will provide a thought provoking moment of surprise and beauty for visitors and an opportunity to reflect upon creation in its many guises. |
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9/10 - The Day Before Never and Ever Saturday, September 10, 2011 6:00pm - 11:30pm Bay Area 51 1667 Jerrold Ave. San Francisco, CA PERFORMANCES BY: Da Assstronauts Tiny Tina The Time Bomb Miss (PIGGY) America Eric Svedas Grandpa Jenkins Ray Mack Brel Forbes Renee Von Trier Rotating Structure Gross Liftoff Weight Splendid Climax Or Awkward Moment Copy Lake Paul Knowles Honey Mchoney Terrance Graven |
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Chain Letter July 23 - August 25, 2011 Opening Saturday, July 23 / 6-8 pm Shoshana Wayne Gallery 2525 Michigan Avenue, B1 Santa Monica, CA 90404 Chain Letter is a group exhibition based on admiration. Initially conceived by Christian Cummings and Doug Harvey in 2006, inclusion in the exhibition is based on invitation by someone who admires your work. Each artist invited then invites ten other artists whom they admire, and so on. This email invite will circulate for thirty days, at the end of which each artist will install their own work on the floor at Shoshana Wayne Gallery. This exhibition is rooted in the ideals of inclusion, and highlights the social nature of the art world. It is the hope of the curators that the response will be vast and that the artists represented will be an exponential representation of all artists that are currently working and admired by their peers. Chain Letter mimics communication today; and the way in which information is passed. The outcome will be a testament to the power of connectivity within society at present. |
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Division of Labor July 15th, 16th & 22nd & 23rd, 2011 Doors 8:00, show 8:30 pm Buy a festival pass for $36 Co-curated by Sarah Bernat, Eilish Cullen, Terrance Graven, and Honey McMoney Design by Bert Bergen + Grant LaValley The Lab 2948 16th Street San Francisco, CA p: 415.864.8855 The Lab Performance and Sound Art Festival: Division of Labor playfully examines experimental music, sound, performance, and DJ Culture, bringing together distinctive artists and uniting diverse audiences from within The Lab’s innovative creative community and beyond. Friday, July 15th - $11 Terrance Graven and Heather Ciriza will present a collaborative piece entitled, Nothing to Stand On. It will incorporate sculptural elements, live performance, and a live sound piece that will explore falling into the wound and the escape of disconcerting dreams. Saturday, July 16th - $12 Terrance Graven will present a solo performance piece entitled, The Body Speaks to the Worms: By You My Flesh Is Horribly Decorated. It will feature sculptural elements, live performance, and a sound piece that skirts issues of entrapment and the body in distress within the context of the 14th century and its relevance to modern day living. For complete schedule |
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Shadowshop November 20, 2010 - April 30, 2011 SFMOMA 151 Third Street (between Mission + Howard) San Francisco, CA 94103 Tel: 415.357.4000 Stephanie Syjuco: An in-gallery emporium of local artists' merchandise that explores alternative models of distribution. The exhibition itself will continually change, with a varying array of works on view; from this gathering of diverse forms and voices, common themes emerge: fragmentation, fragility, entropy, metamorphosis, reconfiguration. Terrance Graven will exhibit mourning ribbons, gold leafed medications, and embroidered patches. For more information visit: Shadowshop |
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Bodies in Space(s): Negotiating Sites/Sights September 22, 2010 8:00 - 10 pm $5/advance (at Madrone) or $10/door Madrone Art Bar 500 Divisadero St (at Fell) San Francisco, CA info line: 415/241-0202 Exhibition: Jeffrey Beauchamp • Theophilus Brown • Linda Wallgren Performances: Bert Bergen • Daniel Blomquist • Terrance Graven • Justin Hoover • Geraldine Lozano • Lauren Marsden • Honey McMoney • Crystal Nelson • Heather Sparks •Kathryn Williamson • The Muistardeaux Collective |
This presentation contemplates how experiences and representations of the body are embedded in socially conditioned modes of expression, and are constituted as sites/sights of identification, agency, and personal history, articulated in varied cultural spaces.
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POST 9/11...the day after forever... FREEDOOMED... September 12, 2010 6:00 pm - 11:30 pm NOMA Gallery 80 Maiden Lane, 3rd Floor (@ Grant) San Francisco, CA Performance, art, and noise. organized by Paul Knowles and Harry Crofton Please join us on September 12th @ NOMA Gallery for a night of performances that celebrate and contest the current state of living in the United States of America..... between 6 pm and midnight. An evening of performances will be taking place including the likes of: Matthew Post Terrance Graven Brel Froebe Eric Svedas Jonah Susskind Frankie America & Me Paul Knowles Honey McMoney and more........................ |
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BLACK LAB August 13th - August 28th, 2010 The Lab 2948 16th Street San Francisco, CA p: 415.864.8855 Opening reception Friday, August 13, 7:00 - 10:00 p.m. Special performances by Terrance Graven and Gerritt Wittmer & Paul Knowles Performance Night Friday, August 20, 8:00 - Midnight. Performances by Group Rhoda, Eric Svedas, Amir Coyle, Eighth Evening, and more. Afterwards dance party with DJ's Warm Leatherette and more Gallery hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 1:00 - 6:00 p.m. FREE admission |
Featuring: Vincent Como with Reuben Lorch Miller, Eric Larson, Rachel Dawson, Josh Hagler, Faye Kendal, Eric Madsen, Malcolm Smith, lourdes of the flies, Michael Campbell, Caitlin Denny and Marcella Faustini, Terrance Graven, Ben Venom, Ryan De La Hoz, Kara Joslyn, Group Rhoda, Amir Coyle, Gerritt Wittmer and Paul Knowles, and No Peace at the Gates.
Inspired by The Black Laboratory of Brooklyn artist Vincent Como, Black Lab investigates the cultural connotations and psychological implications of the darkest color. Michael Campbell, Eric Larson, Reuben Lorch Miller, Malcolm Smith, and Ben Venom deploy counterculture themes and imagery in two and three dimensions. Artists Rachel Dawson, Erik Madsen, and Como formally evoke aftermath, decay, and possible transcendence through color and texture in paintings, drawings, and sculpture. Faye Kendall's, Kara Joslyn's, and Ryan De Hoz's sculptures and drawings tap into occult and animalistic archetypes. Marcella Faustini and Caitlin Denny's multi-media installation plays with popular fascination with dark topics in science. Painter Josh Hagler's portraits, artifacts from the life and family of Anton LaVey, Lourdes of the Flies, and No Peace at the Gates portray the flip-side of American religiosity. Performances by Terrance Graven, Group Rhoda, Amir Coyle, and Gerritt Wittmer and Paul Knowles enact paranormal ritual and unspeakable mysteries.
Inspired by The Black Laboratory of Brooklyn artist Vincent Como, Black Lab investigates the cultural connotations and psychological implications of the darkest color. Michael Campbell, Eric Larson, Reuben Lorch Miller, Malcolm Smith, and Ben Venom deploy counterculture themes and imagery in two and three dimensions. Artists Rachel Dawson, Erik Madsen, and Como formally evoke aftermath, decay, and possible transcendence through color and texture in paintings, drawings, and sculpture. Faye Kendall's, Kara Joslyn's, and Ryan De Hoz's sculptures and drawings tap into occult and animalistic archetypes. Marcella Faustini and Caitlin Denny's multi-media installation plays with popular fascination with dark topics in science. Painter Josh Hagler's portraits, artifacts from the life and family of Anton LaVey, Lourdes of the Flies, and No Peace at the Gates portray the flip-side of American religiosity. Performances by Terrance Graven, Group Rhoda, Amir Coyle, and Gerritt Wittmer and Paul Knowles enact paranormal ritual and unspeakable mysteries.
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The Junk Mail Show: So Many Products, So Little Time July 9th - July 30th, 2010 Artist Reception: Friday July 9; 6-9PM Gallery Hours: Monday -Thursday 10-1 or by appointment. Soap Gallery 3180 Mission Street San Francisco, CA between Cesar Chavez & Valencia Phone: 415-920-9199 Curator: Andy Vogt & Sarah Smith |
A group exhibition of bay area and midwestern artists presenting meditations on the ultramundane products that surround us. Using 'Junk Mail' as a roadmap participants create homages to the detritus of the mail slot.
Featuring 20 Bay Area and Midwestern artists including: Bert Bergen, Meri Brin, Jeff Canham, Randy Colosky, Creativity Explored artists (TBA), Ilana Crispi, Lauren Davies, Derek Fagerstrom, Tara Foley, Erica Gangsei, Terrance Graven, Jennie Hinchcliff, Malik Johnson, Kyle Knobel, Bessie Kunath, Miriam Lakes, Denise Laws, Kristina Lewis, Mike McConnell, Honey McMoney, Daniel Nevers, Kelsey Nicholson, John Riegert, Michelle Rose, Mark Stramaglia, Sarah Smith, Lauren Smith, Chalene Tan, Nicholas Torres, Scott Tsuchitani, Andy Vogt, Sam Ward, Christine Wong-Yap
Featuring 20 Bay Area and Midwestern artists including: Bert Bergen, Meri Brin, Jeff Canham, Randy Colosky, Creativity Explored artists (TBA), Ilana Crispi, Lauren Davies, Derek Fagerstrom, Tara Foley, Erica Gangsei, Terrance Graven, Jennie Hinchcliff, Malik Johnson, Kyle Knobel, Bessie Kunath, Miriam Lakes, Denise Laws, Kristina Lewis, Mike McConnell, Honey McMoney, Daniel Nevers, Kelsey Nicholson, John Riegert, Michelle Rose, Mark Stramaglia, Sarah Smith, Lauren Smith, Chalene Tan, Nicholas Torres, Scott Tsuchitani, Andy Vogt, Sam Ward, Christine Wong-Yap
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Eidolon (Illusion/Delusion/Allusion) Friday May 21st and Saturday May 22nd, 2010 Climate Gallery 285 9th St @ Folsom St. San Francisco, CA 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm $5 admission Terrance Graven will feature two photographs and a performative installation entitled The Spoiler Set / His Seal of Silence which will be performed on May 22nd. A few highlights of the evening will include: Elyse Hochstadt's sculptural installation "half truths and uncertain realities" which deals with the construction of memory with it's aspects of myth and fantasy; Philip Greenlief's solo saxophone performance of the original composition, "Mirrors," with which he will "seek to destroy the security blanket of western harmony; " Vita and Bryan Hewitt's scanned x-ray photographs, which allude to the collective memory of place, specifically, of San Francisco, in all it's true and fictive transience; Pantea Karimi’s prints, which combine iconic imagery from her homeland of Iran and the U.S. in a metaphoric layering that alludes to cultural identity, societal restriction, corporate hegemony, and political censorship; Terrance Graven's performative installations which use ritual materials to explore mortality, loss, and the frailty of the body; and John Melvin’s site-specific installation exploring the idea of transitional states. |
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100 Performances for the Hole - Take Two March 6th, 2010 SOMArts Cultural Center 934 Brannan St. San Francisco, CA Opening: March 6, 2010 5:58 pm until 1:00 am (or until done) Exhibition Dates: March 6 – March 26, 2010 Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Friday, 2:00 pm - 7:00 pm & Saturday 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm $2 to $12 suggested donation |
On March 6th, for one night only, SOMArts Cultural Center will feature a progression of two-minute performances by one hundred artists. SOMArts has a unique space, among other attributes, it houses a large mechanics pit in the floor of its main gallery. This pit will be transformed into a unique platform for performance.
After the live event, documentation of all the pieces will be exhibited in the gallery for the duration of the month.
After the live event, documentation of all the pieces will be exhibited in the gallery for the duration of the month.
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From Ancient to Present November 20th, 2009 De Young Museum 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive San Francisco, CA 6:00 - 9:00 pm |
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Aghast October 9th - November 3rd, 2009 K Gallery 2513 Blanding Avenue Alameda, CA Opening on Oct. 9th from 6:00 - 10:00 pm. |
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TEMPVS: A Solo Project July 2 - August 1, 2009 David Cunningham Projects Gallery 1928 Folsom St. San Francisco, CA Opening Reception: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm With performance around 8:00 pm Normal Hours: Noon - 6:00 pm Thursday thru Saturday |