In January, the Frame Maker is proud to be showing a selection of excellent pieces from Luis de Jesus’ Seminal Projects, one of our favorite community galleries and our neighbor up the street in Little Italy.
Featuring work by Chris Barnard, Darius Kuzmickas and others, Luis has put this show together for us through January 21st, 2009.
DARIUS KUZMICKAS PinholeD176, Ocean
We’ve been working away on lots of involved projects this December @ The Frame Maker and have lots of new pictures and testimonials to add to the site– in an attempt to get caught up before 2009 get started, we’ll be adding some posts here and on the TFM Design Blog as well.
Starting with a follow-up to the project we did for San Diego Coastkeeper’s Ocean Gala back in November:
We love supporting worthy causes in our community, and like anyone, we also love to be appreciated for it. Below is an image of the acknowledgement letter we received with a very sweet handwritten note from Coastkeeper executive director Bruce Reznick.
Our friends at Spacecraft forwarded this info to us about a unique opportunity for the San Diego art community to show united support for more affordable work space for local artists and a more vibrant local art community in general.
From San Diego artist Chris Warr:
My friend Cheryl Nickel is heading up a committee that is working to build affordable work/live art studios in San Diego. This would be a space where artists could live, create, collaborate, network, and show and do so at a significantly affordable rate. Almost all major metropolitan cities have at least one space of this nature, and its fine time we get one in San Diego. The group Art Space (google them to learn more), who has designed and built many of these facilities throughout the US and in Canada, is interested in building a space for us. They will be giving a talk and answering questions at 7pm on December 10th at the World Beat Center in Balboa Park.
The issue at hand is that this project will not happen without the city’s cooperation. The city is in question as to whether or not there is a demand for this type of space in San Diego and it should be no surprise that they are hesitant to put funding and effort towards the arts. The significance of the arts in culture, economics, education, etc. and in other words its general necessity in society can all be argued, and backed up on paper by numerous facts derived from the extensive library of studies and research done on this topic. However our artistic community’s’ demand for opportunity and facility can only be expressed by our presence.
Here’s where you and I come in:
What we need is an overwhelming amount of people; artists of all forms and supporters, to show up to this meeting on December 10th. There will be a number of city council members at this meeting, they will be taking note as to how many people attend and it can quite seriously make or break this project. Is there enough artists in San Diego who would benefit from or need a space like this? I would think the response to this question would be a resounding “hell yes!” We need to flood the World Beat Center and pour out the door so that there can be no doubt that there are gobs of artists who are chomping at the bit for an affordable space/means to create their work, and that the time to meet this need is long over due. Please come, and please inform and bring as many people as possible. The success of this project is dependent on it.
Our current show of Little Italy neighbor & architect Rob Wellington Quigley’s beautiful design work for the proposed New Central Library in downtown San Diego is up for two more weeks.
Please stop into our showroom before Thanksgiving weekend to see Rob’s essential hand drawings and digital renderings of the Library design, which is a beautiful illustration of “public architecture born of public input”.
A terrific start-up San Diego art gallery/collective is having a benefit show this Saturday night, November 8, 2008.
If you don’t know about Spacecraft yet, check out their site and the “Bailout Package” benefit, where you have the opportunity on Saturday night to invest in several promising local artists at very reasonable prices.
The Frame Maker is pleased to support Spacecraft with special offers on framing anything purchased at the show. For more info, visit www.spacecraftstudio.com.
Partial list of artists participating:
David Adey, Jamison Carter, John Chwekun, Matt Devine, Brian Dick, Trygve Faste, Fabio Fernandez,
Jeremy Gercke, Miki Iwasaki, Craig Kane, Ryan Logan, Peter Morgan, Thomas Muller,
David Fobes, Christopher Puzio, Andy Ralph, Michael Reinis, Klutch Stanaway, Christian
Tedeschi, Matt Wedel, Andre Woodward
For the seventh consecutive year, John Hiemstra of The Frame Maker spent Columbus Day weekend in Little Italy chalk painting as part of “Gesso Italiano”, the street painting component of the annual Little Italy Festa.
We think The Frame Maker community will get a kick out of these photos, as this year, John created a trompe l’oeil picture frame in chalk for his chalk painting, a recreation of Dura’s “St. Domenic” from the 15th century now hanging in the Uffizi in Florence, Italy.
The Frame Maker is proud to present Sketches of Rob Quigley: San Diego New Central Library through November 26, 2008 in our Mission Hills showroom near Little Italy and the airport.
Noted San Diego architect Rob Quigley (The New Childen’s Museum) has been engaged in creating San Diego’s New Central Library for over ten years. This show presents the essential hand drawings and electronic renderings from which the final library design emerged, illustrating the evolution of public architecture born of public input.
Our long time friend Reesey Shaw’s Lux Art Institute is holding their annual fundraiser this Saturday, September 27, 2008 at the Rancho Santa Fe home of June and Neil Ash.
Check out the Lux Events page for more information about Lux After Dark and upcoming Lux events.
Located in Encinitas, Lux has a unique mission in the San Diego art community:
Lux Art Institute is redefining the museum experience to make art more accessible and personally meaningful. At Lux, you don’t just see finished works of art; you see the artistic process firsthand, engaging with internationally recognized artists in a working studio environment.
With seven working artists on staff at The Frame Maker, we have a special appreciation for what Lux does and we are proud to help sponsor their gala again this year. Be sure to visit their website at www.luxartinstitite.org.
This was a great event at a fabulous home in La Jolla, with the proceeds going to fund the new Arts and Healing Fund for Family Health Centers of San Diego.
Surrounded by the art of host Maher Morcos, SDFAS hosted an exotically blended show of sculpture and exquisite diamonds from sponsor Hearts on Fire and San Diego jeweller Charles Koll.
To find out more about our friends at the San Diego Fine Art Society and their work to inspire artists, collectors, and the entire art community of San Diego, please visit them online at www.sdfas.org.
Once again, our dynamic friend April Game of the San Diego Fine Art Society has a new catalytic happening in the San Diego art community coming up before we’ve managed to post picture of the last one.
This Saturday August 23, SDFAS invites everyone to attend its “Hearts on Fire Gala”, a benefit for the new Arts and Healing Fund for the Family Health Centers of San Diego.
Held at the home of artist Maher Morcos in La Jolla, CA and sponsored by Hearts on Fire Diamonds, the Gala offers to “entice your senses with an evening of gourmet tastes, spectacular views, exotic live fire performances and a live and silent auction for fine art, gems and more!”
Proceeds of the event will seed the new Arts and Healing Fund to purchase and install artwork in community health clinics through out San Diego. Family Health Centers of San Diego are one of the largest community health care organizations in the country. They provide health care for over 112,000 individuals annually who would otherwise go without needed care due to economics or insurance or the lack thereof. FHCSD is currently comprised of 11 primary care clinics, 3 dental clinics, 3 mental health centers, an HIV site, and 3 mobile medical units that provide healthcare services at nearly 100 different community sites, including elementary schools and community centers.
Many studies demonstrate that the presence of art reduces stress, helps boost the body’s natural immune system, and decreases the demand for pain medicatio. Many of us @ The Frame Maker have our own personal interests in improving the quality and success of the healthcare experience for anyone and everyone and have donated work to healthcare facilities in the past. The Frame Maker is proud to support SDFAS in developing the implementation procedures for art presentation and installation under the Aarts and Healing Fund guidelines, and we urge you to check out the SDFAS webpage for this event at http://www.sdfas.org/join-us.
You can read more about the San Diego Fine Art Society’s work with the Family Health Centers of San Diego at http://sdfas.org/blog.