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

May 27, 2009 – 11:19 pm

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

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Stage Designer Franco Colavecchia at The Frame Maker 6/4/09

May 27, 2009 – 6:13 am

Even though we have some more to say about Artists’ Proof, the current show at The Frame Maker, we’re pleased to announce our next opening on June 4 for stage designer noted Franco Colavecchia’s show, “SoHo Memory Paintings”, which run throughout the summer.

Franco has designed theatre and opera sets for nearly forty years, working with luminaries like Gian Carlo Menotti, Frank Corsaro, and Ian Strasfogel, for locations as varied as the New York City Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, The Music Opera Association/Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, The Oxford Playhouse and the Edinburgh Festival in the United Kingdom.

Franco also designed the Emmy award-winning production of La Boheme with Luciano Pavarotti, which went on to tour Italy and the world.

Franco lived and worked the heyday of his design career in a warehouse style loft in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood in the 1980’s. The series of original paintings in this show is a fascinating interior catalogue of this time period, begun as Franco wrestled to regain his eyesight after major surgery in 1997 and developed in private over his last 12 years teaching stage design at North Carolina School of the Arts.

SoHo Memory Paintings | Franco Colavecchia

The Frame Maker is also extremely proud to be showing and offering the first ever editioned prints of Franco’s stage design renderings from the period, the originals of which exist mostly in private collections and the Harvard University archives.

La Boheme Act I | Philadelphia Opera 1982 | Franco Colavecchia

Check The Frame Maker blogs for more detail, and be sure to join us next week, June 4, at The Frame Maker showroom for our reception for “SoHo Memory Paintings– Franco is in San Diego right now on his annual teaching visit to UC-San Diego and will be our honored guest Thursday night!

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

May 21, 2009 – 11:23 pm

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.

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ArtWalk Business of Art Scholarship Project now showing at The Frame Maker

May 20, 2009 – 12:38 am

Along with the Artists’ Proof show now at The Frame Maker through June 2, we are also proud to have “Business of Art” Scholarship winner Jessica Siemens‘ work in our Artist Services’ Room as well.

If you missed Jessica at ArtWalk in Little Italy back in April, her booth and presentation was the product of a new scholarship program sponsored by ArtWalk and The Frame Maker, and lead by John Hiemstra of the San Diego Finishing School.

In the program, a student artist form SDSU is awarded with a mentoring sequence in the “Business of Art” built around the two day exhibition ArtWalk exhibition.

We’ve written some about the ArtWalk experience for us as 2009 Event Sponsors, and its fun to see both shows serenely installed now in The Frame Maker showroom after two frantic days at ArtWalk.

Here are a few pictures of Jessica installation in the Artists’ Services room, we’ll post more about this particular project from our point of view soon.

Jessica Siemens original oil painting at The Frame maker

Jesica Siemens original watercolors at The Frame Maker

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Artists Proof now open @ The Frame Maker, Reception this Friday 5/15/09

May 12, 2009 – 2:38 pm

The complete show is finally installed and lit in The Frame Maker showroom with just a few details left to do for this Friday’s reception for the artists at 6pm.

We hope you’ll join us to see what six San Diego artists– who also happen to be longtime custom framing professionals– do when turned loose on the most current digital reproduction technologies available today. Through The Frame Maker’s new Artist Services program partner Moebius Color, these artists have printed on paper, canvas, steel, plexi and even directly on to an innovative green, 100% recycled panel product using durable UV resistant inks to create both new experimental editions of their work and in one case, to create new originals altogether.

Here’s a few preview pictures of the final installation.