Preview: A-is-for-Art at The Frame Maker
March 23, 2009 – 1:56 amToday we finished hanging the A-is-for-Art show of pre-schoolers’ paintings created under the education/direction of professional artists.
Here’s some preview pictures:
ECHOES extended, A-is-for-Art reception Tuesday March 24 @TFM
March 17, 2009 – 7:59 amAll along we knew we weren’t going to have the kids’ paintings from the SDSU Children’s Center’s A-is-for-Art program up at The Frame Maker for much longer than a week. One of the great things about the program is the display of work all around campus leading up to the gala event on April 10 at KPBS back on campus.
After our A-is-for-Art reception on March 24 (next Tuesday), we were going to move on to a show we are developing in house. But because so many people like our current show, ECHOES, we’re going to reinstall it for the month of April leading up to our booth at ArtWalk on April 25th and 26th, so if you haven’t seen Lea’s art glass and Maire’s abstract photography yet, now you’ve got another chance to get down to our Mission Hills showroom to check it out.
Here’s the special invitation the Children’s Center whipped up for Tuesday:
SDSU Childrens Center: A-is-for-Art returns in 2009
March 11, 2009 – 12:07 amAnd again The Frame Maker is proud to sponsor this excellent event supporting an excellent program. Each year the SDSU Children’s Center brings in professional artists to help develop the imaginations and worldviews of little people 18 months to 5 years old by making art.
Everyone contributes to making this community project work. The “A-is-for-Art” event itself is the culmination of a year’s art work and the genesis of the next: all the work created by the kids is auctioned off, with the proceeds going to fund next year’s program.
Last year, we were pleased to frame up twenty paintings for an even better show at the KPBS studios on the SDSU campus. This year we are really proud to display selections from the show in our showroom starting next week. We are planning a reception on Tuesday March 24 as a preview to the auction itself on April 10th (back on campus at KPBS).
Here is a link to a story about the event in today’s “Daily Aztec”, the SDSU student paper online.
Spacecraft closes its doors
March 10, 2009 – 4:32 amThe Frame Maker was saddened to receive the following email today:
Friends of Spacecraft Gallery,The Gallery will be closing for the foreseeable future. As of this week we
will no longer be able host all of the fantastic artists that we’ve worked
with along the way. The past three years running this space has been an
inspiring adventure for us and one that we will surely miss.It is time for us to pass the torch. We’ve deeply enjoyed participating in
the San Diego art scene and hope that others will continue to do so in our
absence. Galleries and artist spaces are vital to fostering the cultural
history and identity of any city, and San Diego is fortunate to have such
a resource in its many artists and venues. Thank you for all of your support
and for coming to our shows every month.All the best,
Emily, Chris & Esmé
Animalkind open at SDSU Gallery
March 2, 2009 – 10:18 pmWe framed the oversized Kiki Smith piece for this show.
SDSU Gallery Art Director Tina Yapelli is also hosting the following lecture this Thursday in conjunction with the “Animalkind” show.
John Divola at San Diego State University – Thursday, March 5 at 4:00 p.m.
Visiting artist John Divola will present an illustrated lecture on Thursday, March 5 at 4:00 p.m. in Room 412 of SDSU’s School of Art, Design and Art History in conjunction with the exhibition “animalkind.” The Gallery will be open following the lecture until 6:00 p.m. The lecture and exhibition are FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC. The exhibition continues at the Gallery through May 6.
About the Artist Since 1988, John Divola has been a professor of Art at the University of California, Riverside. His photographs have been featured in more than sixty solo exhibitions in the United States, Japan, Europe, Mexico and Australia. His work has also been featured in more than two hundred group exhibitions worldwide at prestigious museums such as The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris. Divola’s photographs were first seen at the University Art Gallery in 1995 in the exhibition “Staging: The Prefrabricated Image.” It is an honor to welcome him and his work back to San Diego State University for “animalkind.”
About the Work Seven photographs from John Divola’s series “Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert” are included in “animalkind.” In these grainy black-and-white images free-roaming canines sprint, leap and cavort as they pursue the artist’s moving car through sparsely populated neighborhoods in the southern California desert. The game is on, and the dogs’ intensity, urgency and exhilaration are palpably conveyed. These portraits, composed by chance as Divola held his camera out the window with one hand while steering with the other, reveal the potency of domesticated dogs’ primal instinct to chase their fleeing, albeit in this case mechanical, prey.