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San Diego architect named to President’s arts and humanities committee

admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:34:49 +0000

President Obama named San Diego atchitect, business and cultural leader Christine Forester to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Here is her bio as reported today on the Chicago Tribune blog.

Christine Forester, Member, President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities

Ms. Forester – an architect specializing in hospital architecture – switched careers in the 1980s to head Christine Forester Catalyst, a business, marketing and branding company. She served on the Board of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; the Board of the Museum of Photographic Arts; the Advisory Panel for the San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture’s Allocations Programs; and, currently, Scripps Institute of Oceanography’s Advisory Council.

See the rest if the newly minted member’s of the committee in the original article by Blair Kamin.

Artist Morgan Blair at MCASD Thursday August 13

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:10:56 +0000

Cheers for social networking the arts in San Diego! TFM just found this update from MCASD on Facebook:

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego is hosting a teen illustration workshop with artist Morgan Blair, next Thursday, Aug. 13. Morgan is driving across the country from Brooklyn to be here. Follow along her journey at www.sezio.org.

Hit Musical Comedy Coming to San Diego This Fall

admin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:15:51 +0000

The Housewives Are Coming!

Excerpt from: Broadway World :

The hit rock musical comedy that entertained sold-out houses in L.A. for over four months arrives in San Diego this September. Get ready for the Divas of Domesticity! Corinne Dekker, Jamey Hood and Jayme Lake (“Megawatt performances” – Coast to Coast Newspapers) reprise their roles as The Housewives, three young homemakers who form a band for their PTA talent show – then go on to become bigger than Brillo with their hilarious brand of “domestic” rock ‘n roll. The limited 4-week engagement opens September 4 at the Tenth Avenue Theatre in San Diego.

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50 Essential San Diego Artists HOMING IN @ Mark Quint in La Jolla

admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:19:08 +0000

We are reprinting Mark’s announcement email here:

HOMING IN: An Exhibition of 50 San Diego Artists

May 29th – July 11th, 2009

Opening Reception
Friday, May 29th 6:00 to 8:00 PM
Featuring musical performance by the Flip & Rollie Band

Quint Contemporary Art

7739 Drury Lane, La Jolla, California 92037

images from Mark Quint's HOMING IN show

The work of San Diego’s top tier contemporary artists hasn’t been seen in the same place at the same time since 1985, when the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art presented “A San Diego Exhibition: Forty-Two Emerging Artists.”

Quint Contemporary Art brings this long drought to an end with Homing In: An Exhibition of 50 San Diego Artists. The show presents paintings, photographs, video and sculpture; features abstraction and representation; and offers moods ranging from hot to cool – all in formats less than 24″ wide due to the limited space available.

Some of the exhibition’s artists are in their fifties, sixties and older; and were part of the La Jolla Museum’s survey nearly a quarter century ago. The exhibition’s younger artists, those in their twenties, thirties, and forties may have no recollection whatsoever of that earlier survey.

This exhibition is organized by gallery director Ben Strauss-Malcolm and in a move that’s unusual in the competitive world of contemporary art galleries he invited many artists affiliated with other local galleries to participate in order to make the exhibition more reflective of the full gamut of work coming out of studios in the San Diego region.

Anyone interested in the look and conditions of art in San Diego today is encouraged to visit this exhibition.

Artists in this exhibition include:

DAVID ADEY, WICK ALEXANDER, MICHAEL JAMES ARMSTRONG, BARRY BELL, ADAM BELT, DORIS BITTAR, ROBIN BRIGHT, KELSEY BROOKES, DAN CAMP, CLAUDIA CANO, KENNETH CAPPS, ALIDA CERVANTES, MATT COORS, LAEL CORBIN, STEPHEN P. CURRY, PHILIP CUSTER, EINAR & JAMEX DE LA TORRE, ROMAN DE SALVO, BRIAN DICK, TOM DRISCOLL, AMANDA FARBER, MANNY FARBER, STEVE GIBSON, RAUL GUERRERO, JOANNE HAYAKAWA, LOUIS HOCK, JAY JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER LEE, JEAN LOWE, KIM MACCONNEL, HEATHER MARTIN, ZAC MONDAY, RICHARD ALLEN MORRIS, ANNE MUDGE, MARIE NAJERA, PATRICIA PATTERSON, IANA QUESNELL, CHRIS REILLY, ALLISON RENSHAW, GAIL ROBERTS, JOHN ROGERS, ELLEN SALK, ITALO SCANGA, PHILIPP SCHOLZ RITTERMANN, LYNN SCHUETTE, BARBARA SEXTON, ERNEST SILVA, JAMES SKALMAN, MATT STALLINGS, PERRY VASQUEZ, VICKI WALSH

Quint Contemporary Art | 7739 Fay Avenue (Alley entrance only between Kline & Silverado) | La Jolla | CA | 92038

Many reasons for TFM to love Mix: 9 San Diego Architects at MCASD

admin — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:23:51 +0000

The design and production staff at The Frame Maker are lucky enough to have worked with some of the accomplished talents presenting themselves in this new show at MCASD’s La Jolla galleries.

Both here and on our Design blog we’ve posted about custom picture frame mouldings hand milled from sustainable lumber sources for San Diego architects Jenifer Luce and James Brown earlier this year.

So we’re especially happy about this show, not just for the celebration of our friends’ and clients’ work at the Museum of Contemporary Art, but also because the majority of us are passionate one way or another about architecture as well as art on The Frame Maker staff.

We were also very pleased to see our friend Rob Quigley properly credited in the MCASD online overview with inspiring an entire generation of designers and architects represented in this show, so as 2009 Corporate Sponsors of MCASD we took the liberty of reprinting original MCASD post here to share with you!

Lloyd Russell, R3 Building, San Diego, CA, 2007. Photo by David Harrison.

MIX: Nine San Diego Architects and Designers presents the work of nine architects and designers who lead local architectural design firms that are redefining housing design, development, and urbanization in the San Diego region and beyond.

estudio teddy cruz (Teddy Cruz, lead designer), LUCE et Studio Architects (Jennifer Luce, lead architect), Sebastián Mariscal Studio (Sebastián Mariscal, lead designer), Public (James Gates and James Brown, lead architects), Rinehart Herbst (Todd Rinehart, lead designer, and Catherine Herbst, lead architect), Lloyd Russell (Lloyd Russell, lead architect), Jonathan Segal FAIA (Jonathan Segal, lead architect), are representative of a generation of architects and designers who have pursued sophisticated design forms aligned with a critical understanding of the economic and social context of the region. These qualities, learned from the lessons of San Diego architects such as Ted Smith and Rob Wellington Quigley, have contributed to the remarkable development of original buildings and progressive housing models that have put this city on the architectural map, both nationally and internationally.

The architects and designers featured in MIX are known for their expertise and experience in designing and building spaces appropriate to a location. For this reason, each architect, designer, and firm will be defining their own representation for the exhibition, with new site-specific presentations of their own design.

MIX: Nine San Diego Architects and Designers is made possible, in part, by The Getty Foundation, which supported the project’s interpretive materials and research. This is the third of three exhibitions in a series called Connecting to Place. Additional support comes from the County of San Diego Community Projects Fund and the Office of Supervisor Pam Slater-Price, the San Diego County Community Enhancement Program, and MCASD’s Annual Fund donors.

MCASD bi-annual Benefit Art Auction

admin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:51:11 +0000

The Frame Maker is proud to again support the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego by sponsoring their 2008 Benefit Art Auction by providing museum quality framing for over thirty works on paper being presented at the auction. Along with fellow sponsors Sotheby’s, KPBS, Artworks San Diego, and TK & A Custom Catering, we are excited to participate again in this special event.

Museum mounting and matting Lewis de Soto’s “KLS: Klingsor to Edith”, 2007 for MCASD.Check out the online preview of these very special pieces courtesy of galleries, private collections and the artists themselves, at www.mcasdartauction.org.

You can also visit our blog specifically about our contribution to the event at www.theframemaker.com/mcasd.