Past Shows

Pause January 27-February 27, 2007

Factory Model Miami Florida Buena Vista Building 180 NE 39 St. Suite 207 33137

I curated Pause with Christopher Culver director of Factory Model Miami. He is native of Miami and current student from the San Francisco Art Institute. We selected the artists from the promising students at SFAI, local San Francisco talent and Miami artists. Pause opened for the first time in Miami as part of the Miami Design districts "Art Loves Design" Pause was featured along side many great exhibitions on the design map such as Peres Projects, Deitch Projects, The Moore Space, and the Georges Pompidou Art & Culture Foundation Paris to name a few.

Artists include: Sean McFarland, Paul Wackers, Leslie Kulesh, Angela Valella, Christopher Culver, Case Simmons & Andrew Burke, Rebecca Parks-Ramage, Nate Boyce, Rebecca Miller, Chris Natrop, Marcos Valella, Nicole Hagen, Ricky Jimenez, Homero Hidalgo, Roddy Schrock, Noel Regis

Wait a Minute

Take time for this Factory Model exhibit

BY CARLOS SUAREZ DE JESUS

In the Jetsons’ futuristic utopia, urban dwellings looked like they had been stuck atop Seattle’s Space Needle, but by comparison, the hyperornamental architecture sprouting in Dubai today makes the space-age family look like they were stuck in the Stone Age. Presented by Black Bird Space and Factory Model, “Pause,” opening tonight at 6:00 at the Buena Vista Building, features works by nearly twenty Bay Area and Miami artists exploring the architectural language being bred by urban development in Dubai, the second-largest emirate in the United Arab Emirates.

Curated by Christopher Culver and Rebecca Miller, the exhibit includes drawings, paintings, sculpture, and video conveying these artists’ investigation of the cartoon metropolis bubbling up in the desert off the Persian Gulf. Urbanist poobah Rem Koolhaas recently found himself scratching his noggin, trying to decipher how unabashed bad taste and filthy riches have resulted in such a gaudy display. That’s what these artists are hoping to help the dazed codger figure out.

Date/Time: Sat., December 9, 6pm
Event URL: http://www.factorymodel.org

Event Location
Buena Vista Building
180 NE 39th St

 

Pause catalog and art loves design guide

Case and Andrew with their work

Inside Factory Model

Inside Factory Model

The lobby in the Buena Vista building
where there was an open bar and d.j.

Nicole and her work

View from the outside of Factory Model

San Francisco Friends Claire, Chris and Paul.

Pause - San Francisco Opening

Auxs Armes Set-up

Aux Armes

Noel Regis singer for Aux Armes

Wendy Farina Drummer for T.I.T.S. and Feirce Antler

Artist Mike Arcega and Bob Callaway

 


Past Lives and Personal Exorcisms
October 15 - November 15 2005

Blackbirdspace is fortunate to announce a group show of 12 talented Bay Area artists elaborating on the ideas of Past Lives and Personal Exorcisms. This group of artists is known for enriching the San Francisco art scene extensively as well as exhibiting internationally. Through mediums of painting, sculpture, drawing, and performance, the artists muse on the idea of past lives within this lifetime. The work ranges from product photography of long shelf life cookies, when taken out of context alludes to ruins or premonitions of destruction, unearthed high school graduation portraits, a meticulously alphabetically ordered King James bible, and visionary paintings.

Live performance will shed light on individual personal exorcisms at the opening giving the viewer a window on the ritual practice of art and how it can be employed to exorcise deeply embedded ideas and feelings. The work in this show humorously reveals free associations in conjunction to the theme, encouraging a personal narrative experience for the viewer.

Brendan Lott
"Field Painting" 2005
Ulrika Andersson
"Like It" 2005

Xylor Jane
"Bricks of Nothing" 2005
Stephanie Syjuco - Untitled Shelving Unit Sculpture
Bob Linder - "From Safe to Strip to Chair"

Cliff Hengst
"Wrong Path" 2005
Scott Hewicker
"Unfed" 2005

Margaret Tedesco
Video Film Still "No. 22 from 25th Street" 2005


Cheryl Meeker
"Calorie Collapse: Prada Campaign Colors" © 2004
Jill Miller
Self-portrait as a Sixteen Year Old Girl from Crete, Illinois Circa 1989

Marina Shterenberg
"Improbable" (Mixed Media) 2005
Art Week Review



Blackbird Space is pleased to present the first solo show of San Francisco and London based artist Kelly Eginton, All Net. A graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, Eginton has been included in group exhibitions in the Bay Area, Los Angeles and New York. Raised in a desert suburb of Southern California, Eginton relies heavily on her formative experiences in that particular geography to inform her work. With exactness and a lightness of touch, Eginton pairs bold graphic constructions of ink on paper with baroque mirrored mudballs and sequined pinecones, painted and feathered, to produce unexpected and modest interventions. Her approach is direct and minimal, tempering formalist strategies with an intuitive logic to pursue a sensational abstraction
that works in multiple dimensions.




WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW (the love show)

BLACKBIRD SPACE is pleased to announce WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW (the love show), an exhibition curated by Tia Factor featuring diverse interpretations of love being explored by 12 contemporary artists from the Bay Area and Los Angeles: Arthur Aghajanian, Eden Batki, James Bewley, Charlie Callahan and Keiko Kayamoto, Tara Daley, Jeanne Foss, Desirée Holman, Donal Mosher, Fred Nocella, Amy Rathbone, and Dave Schubert. From the intimacy between family members to the lust of a one-night-stand, the romantic longing of listening to love songs alone in your car to the warm embrace of your lover after a long absence, WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW (the love show) portrays the central role that love plays in all our lives. GENERAL INFORMATION

Exhibition: WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW (the love show)
Dates: Saturday, January 17 – Sunday, February 15, 2004
Reception: Saturday, January 17, 7 – 10 PM



"Place Particular"



"BOUTIQUE"

Curated by, Stephanie Syuco and Rebecca Miller A unique 2-day sale of original objects created by 20 different local designers and artists.

Event includes:

  • Fashion Show
  • D.J.
  • Baked goods and Refreshments


Stephanie sells her wares

The boutique in full swing

D.J. Saiman entertains the crowd

Denise Laws on the runway for Mr.Jonathans vintage 70's fashion show

Condor, Blackbirds favorite art rock band ends the event


 

Easter Island Show
September 13 - October 13, 2002

Easter Island was a project curated by Christine Sheilds.
The Mysterious menagerie of art and sound artifacts recreated Christine's imaginary expedition to Easter Island. Linda Hagood made a magical musical performance and monsters, creatures, family members and other oddities were seen at Blackbird Space.
The artists featured were: Lara Allen, Matt Borruso, Beverly Choate, Georganne Deen, James Goode, Christine Shields and Music By Linda Haygood.

Lara Allen
Lara Allen
Matt Borruso
Matt Borruso
 Beverly Choate
Beverly Choate
Georganne Deen
Georganne Deen		 Christine Shields
Christine Shields



 

SECRETIVE INTERIOR STRUCTURES
April 13 - May 13 2002

ARTWEEK REVIEW
June 2002 Issue - by Harry Roche



EDGESCAPES

For Immediate Release:

CONTACT IN NEW YORK:
JESSICA REEVES-COHEN, 718-389-6280
GOLIATH VISUAL SPACE, 718-389-0369

CONTACT IN SAN FRANCISCO:
REBECCA MILLER, 650-368-5928
BLACKBIRD SPACE, 415-826-2557

EDGESCAPES OPENS AT GOLIATH VISUAL SPACE IN BROOKLYN, NY AND BLACKBIRD SPACE IN SAN FRANCISCO, CA ON SEPTEMBER 22

EDGESCAPES IS A BI-COASTAL EXPLORATION OF WORK IN ALL MEDIA THAT REFLECTS THE DIRECT INFLUENCE (PHYSICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, EMOTIONAL, PRACTICAL) OF LOCATION ON ART. THE SEVEN ARTISTS INCLUDED FROM EACH CITY APPROACH THIS THEME IN TERMS OF GEOGRAPHICAL HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY, CULTURAL CONNECTION AND MOBILITY, REFLECTING IN THEIR WORK THE INFLUENCE OF LOCAL FORMATIONS OR MEDITATIONS ON THE QUESTION OF PLACE.

EACH ARTIST WILL BE REPRESENTED IN BOTH VENUES SIMULTANEOUSLY. THE BI-COASTAL EDGESCAPES SHOW OPENS WITH RECEPTIONS AT GOLIATH VISUAL SPACE AT 117 DOBBIN ST, BROOKLYN, NY AND BLACKBIRD SPACE AT 2642 3RD. ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA FROM 6-9PM ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2001

ARTISTS INCLUDE: PETER DUDEK (SCULPTURE), KELLY EGINTON (PAINTING), MARY GEORGE (SCULPTURE), SUSANNA HELLER (PAINTING), SAMM KUNCE (PHOTOGRPAHY), IAIN MACHELL (SITE SPECIFIC DRAWING), JEREMIAH MADDOCK (PAINTING), REBECCA MILLER (DRAWING/PAINTING), JESSICA REEVES-COHEN (VIDEO/PERFORMANCE), MAURA SHEEHAN (SITE SPECIFIC), STEPHEN SOLLINS (DRAWING), BRIAN STORTS (PERFORMANCE), MICKI WATANABE (SITE SPECIFIC/PHOTO), AND KATHRYN WILLIAMSON
(PERFORMANCE)

EDGESCAPES ENGAGES THE QUESTION OF GEOGRAPHY’S INFLUENCE ON ARTISTIC PRACTICE AT TWO POINTS ON THE “EDGES” OF ART AND CULTURE: SAN FRANCISCO AND NEW YORK. THROUGH THE PROJECT, A DIALOGUE OPENS BETWEEN ARTISTS ON BOTH COASTS WHOSE WORK REFLECTS THESE CONCERNS, EXPLORING WAYS IN WHICH LOCATION DRIVES THE MOVEMENT OF ART, IDEAS AND PRACTICES.


Dirt / July 7th – August 7th 2001

“Dirt” Was an Exhibition of 23 women artists curated by Rebecca Miller.
The artists were invited to make work based on the definition of dirt from a 1966 Websters new world dictionary. This was the first show in the new Gallery space at Blackbird. The work was subject to size limitation and the result was a vast collection of intimate works. The work was far reaching and unique to the individual as is this peculiar and loaded word, “Dirt”. The artists who participated were Matteah Baim, Amy Jo Diaz, Veronica De Jesus, Amanda Eicher, Kelly Eginton, Helene Fischman, Tara Fracalossi, Ellen Frances, Mary George, Amanda Hughen, Jo Jackson, Amanda Jones, Da Carla Kilpatric, Emily Lackman, Denise Laws, OJ Projects, Jessica Reeves-Cohen, Cathy Ross, Christine Shields, Nancy Spoelhof, Sally Tagg and Kathryn Williamson.




Window Show
February 5 – May 5 2001.

In three parts Window show was a project by Blackbird space. For three months Rebecca Created a different window show with a different theme and dispersed cards directing people to a window in an ice cream shop in China town called Sweet World.

Window show 1 - Untitiled
Window show 2 - “Babylone”
Window show 3 - “Pony”

The result was people went out of their usual way to see art in an unsuspected location in the city.


The Unforgiving Sound show at house /
August 27 1999 a one night event
This was an event where artists were invited to play music and install sound pieces throughout the Gutted Victorian. The show was curated by Rebecca Miller. The result was one big sound. The artists who participated were Tucker Shwarts, BrunsenKelly, Mary George, Dominic East, Erin Thurlow, Amy Jo Diaz, Jake Hartman, Charles Chapman, Rebecca Miller, Joshua, Manuel, Saiman Li, Condor, Our Lady of the Highway, The Deep Throats, Rubber O Cement and MoMo.


House Show / May 7, 1999
This was the first show at 2642 Third street. curated by Veronica DeJesus and Rebecca Miller. This was an installation based show. Each artist had their own room in this Gutted Victorian house to show their work. The result was high contrast of progressive art being displayed in a Spooky haunted house. The artists who participated were Rodney O’Neal Austin,Charles Chapman, Mary George, Veronica DeJesus, Brunsen Kelly, Saimon Li, David Lovins, Rebecca Miller, Sheila Miller, Stephanie Syjuco and Scott Williams.