Curated by Enrique Chagoya.

Never Odd or Even opening reception is May 17, 5:00-7:30 pm, runs from May 17th-June 16th 2012. Second show will open at Root Division in San Francisco, on May 23 rd 7-10 pm See info below for more details!

Excited to return to this landscape… Some photos from my time in NM

Thanks to Stanford University for granting Yulia a 2013 Cité Internationale des Arts Residency in Paris

info at: http://www.citedesartsparis.net/

- The site located at 18 rue de l’Hôtel de Ville includes 270 individual workshops in the heart of the Marais district, a dynamic quarter swarming with art galleries and a favourite destination for Parisians.

- The site located at 24 rue Norvins is composed of several buildings in a large garden in Montmartre and has 30 individual workshops. Montmartre was for many years a focal point for artists over the world.

Residents may practice their artistic discipline and develop their creative techniques for the duration of their stay at the Cité Internationale des Arts. The residence also houses an exhibition area where artists can display their works and an auditorium where they can perform concerts.

Since its opening in 1965, the Cité Internationale des Arts has accommodated more than 18 000 artists from all over the world.

Some photos from my time in Paris in 2010

There’s a certain house in San Francisco’s Cow Hollow Neighborhood. It’s not a particularly memorable home. But it is pretty old. It was built in the 1870s, and has withstood more than 140 years of remodel jobs. But its final facelift will certainly be its most dramatic.

Two years ago, Amir Mortazavi’s sister bought the house at 3020 Laguna. Mortazavi, a San Francisco real estate developer and art gallery owner, said the family planned to demolish the home and replace it with a new one. But before its date with the wrecking ball, Mortazavi envisioned one last chapter in the home’s long history.

“What we wanted to do was give this home a secondary life,” said Mortazavi, standing in front of the home’s curiously stripped down facade. “We’re giving it a secondary life by inviting these nine artists inside the building.”

Mortazavi gave nine artists free reign of the house with one stipulation: they had to create art inside using only things found in the home.

Artist Chris Fraser stripped the front of the home down to its wood slats. He removed three windows and replaced them with more wood. Inside the front room he painted stark white, light spills through the slats creating a ballet of dancing projections.

VIDEO COMING SOON

In the kitchen an artist carved a labyrinth in the linoleum. In a hallway, Artist Andy Vogt created a subfloor, almost like a wooden moat meandering toward a doorless doorway to nowhere. In the basement, Yulia Pinkusevich stripped the home’s wiring of its casing and then fashioned it into a colorful sculpture.

“When a house finally does come to the end of its time, it’s usually an unceremonious passage,” said artist Jesse Schlesinger. “This was a way of really giving depth to that lived experience.”

Schlesinger lived in the home for 28 days, becoming its final occupant before it’s torn down next month. He occupied a 10 by 12-foot room, fashioning furniture from base board and door frames. He even made a plaster cast of one of the home’s Victorian doors and hung it in his room.

“There was a kind of sadness or poignancy to that idea that this will be it,” said Schlesinger looking around the tiny room. “This space I got to know, this 10 by 12 room, will no longer exist.”

But any nostalgia for the home is tempered by the fact it will continue on in the art. Organizers of the project have photographed and videotaped the work and opened the home to visitors.

“This house otherwise probably would’ve only existed through blueprints in the city archives,” said David Kasprzak, who curated the project.

Mortazavi said the project will bring an unexpected twist to the home’s long history… “to give the building a sort of a wake and a funeral before it goes.”

The home will open this Saturday for the public from 2 p.m. – 7 p.m.

DWELL : Art from Architecture by Jaime Gillin

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SF Bay Guardian : This Old House by Matt Sussman

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Shamonica : House of Forgotten Dreams

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Art Slant: Home Makers by Liz Glass

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CoolHunting: Nine artists transform a 150 year old house into a home by Graham Hiemstra

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SF Weekly Blog: House Is Raw Material and Venue for Art Installation by Kate Conger

NEW VIEWING HOURS: SATURDAY February 11th,2012  2-7pm

Amir Mortazavi and David Kasprzak are pleased to present the opening of Highlight Gallery’s first project space, 3020 Laguna Street, a collection of sight-specific installations created in a residence in San Francisco’s Cow Hollow District, on Saturday January 28, 2012. Featuring a set of works formed solely from the materials of a residence sharing the same address as the title, the exhibition takes its inspiration from the works of artist Gordan Matta Clark. Matta Clark’s investigations into unused or forgotten residential spaces—calling them “nonsites,” a term he adopted from his mentor Robert Smithson. These liminal spaces included alleyways, median strips, and small portions of commercial and residential architecture. Matta Clark purchased these sites to become the medium of many of his works and as exhibition spaces for projects from his peers.

Working in this tradition, artists Jeremiah Barber, Randy Colosky, Chris Fraser, Christine M. Peterson, Yulia Pinkusevich, Jonathan Runcio, Jesse Schlesinger, Gareth Spor, and Andy Vogt  were invited to inhabit a modest residential space built in the 1800s. This site has been home to a number of residents over the last 150 years—fulfilling the dualistic role as both a practical shelter and a symbol of dreams and ideologies, as written about by Roland Barthes. Now slated for demolition due to structural instability, the artists were invited to enter the space, to set entropy in motion with perhaps a more sensitive hand and a “tool belt conceptualism.”

The artists have responded to this specific history of the building through many forms, excavating the literal scars contained within its walls, investigating the history of the site’s residents and the craftsmen who create residential structures, projecting their own histories and identities into the space, and enacting these investigations through the purely cathartic act of destruction. Please join us on Saturday, January 28^th, for the opening of the exhibition—or perhaps more accurately, the wake of this site.

Data Mass Projection

“Data Mass Projection” is an installation created out of telephone and data wires found throughout the Laguna Street house. The found wire was taken down and stripped of its grey outer coating to reveal the multi-colored inner strands, that comprise each telephone wire. The installation serves as metaphor for a spectrometer like visualization of digital data and information surrounding us at all times. This data is anchored in and released through a single point of projection, bouncing a wave like form throughout the space, redefining the parameters of the architecture. Color sequencing algorithm is applied to the pattern, which also account for digital noise or moments of interference.

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More about the artist curators and project please visit http://3020lagunast.com/

Frontrunners: The San Francisco Foundation 2011 Murphy & Cadogan Fellowship Awards Exhibition

What: Frontrunners: The San Francisco Foundation 2011 Murphy & Cadogan Fellowship Awards Exhibition

When: August 17, 2011 – September 16, 2011

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday, 12 – 7PM. Saturday 12 – 5PM.

Where: 934 Brannan St. (between 8th & 9th)

How much: Free Admission

SOMArts Cultural Center and The San Francisco Foundation present a focused look at the future of the Bay Area visual and media arts landscape.  Frontrunners is a survey of new work from the recipients of the competitive Jack and Gertrude Murphy Fellowships and the Edwin Anthony and Adelaine Bourdeaux Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts. The exhibition identifies young artists whose work connects directly to the pulse of emerging trends and showcases the work of promising visual artists from regional Masters in Fine Arts (MFA) programs working across disciplines.

The exhibition will include an accompanying artist talk & social, Lesser But Vital Practices (August 30th, 5:30 – 7:00PM). Moderated by SOMArts Curator & Gallery Director Justin Hoover, exhibiting artists will discuss the evolution of their artistic practice through the exploration of individual and cultural identity. A selection of these talks will be released on the SOMArts YouTube channel in early September.

The public is invited to celebrate with the Fellowship winners at a special closing reception (September 16th, 6:30 – 9:30PM) featuring food & DJs.  During the awards ceremony at 7PM,  Fellowship tuition awards, plus one additional
Juror’s Choice tuition award, will be presented to all exhibiting artists.

EXHIBITING ARTISTS INCLUDE
Andrew Chapman, Stanford University
Li Chen, San Francisco Art Institute
James Coquia, California College of the Arts
Christine Elfman, California College of the Arts
Joel Frudden, San Francisco Art Institute
Stephanie Halmos, California College of the Arts
Joey Izzo, San Francisco State University
Adam Katseff, Stanford University
Michael Koehle, Mills College
Senalka McDonald, California College of the Arts
Kate Nartker, California College of the Arts
Toyin Odutola, California College of the Arts
Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck, University of California, Berkeley
Kari Orvik, University of California, Berkeley
Maya Pasternak, California College of the Arts
Christine Peterson, California College of the Arts
Yulia Pinkusevich, Stanford University
Michelle Ramin, San Francisco Art Institute
Amy Rathbone, University of California, Berkeley
Helene Schlumberger, California College of the Arts
Sofia Sharpe, Mills College
Elia Vargas, San Francisco State University
Rachel Weiss, San Francisco Art Institute

ABOUT THE MURPHY & CADOGAN FELLOWSHIPS
The Murphy & Cadogan Fellowships, administered by The San Francisco Foundation, provide a varying number of annual tuition awards of $3,500 to MFA students in support of exploring and developing their artistic potential in digital art, illustration, film/video, hybrid practice, installation, mixed media, painting, photography and sculpture.

ABOUT THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
The San Francisco Foundation is the community foundation serving the Bay Area since 1948, granting more than $800 million over the past ten years. Through the generosity and vision of our family of donors, both past and present, The San Francisco Foundation awarded grants totaling $76 million in fiscal year 2010. By focusing on policy, advocacy, community organizing, and systems change, the Foundation addresses community needs in the areas of community health, education, arts and culture, community development, and the environment. In response to the economic downturn, The San Francisco Foundation is focusing funding on safety net partners, job creation and training, and foreclosure response and neighborhood preservation for the next two years.

The Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) presents its annual Modulations festival in San Francisco: an 8-hour marathon of sound art installations and live electronic music. The event begins with interactive and kinetic sound installations by Trimpin and his students; evolves into a sit-down concert of electronic music; and ends with a dance party, with performances by CCRMA artists and guest performers Wobbly and Sutekh.

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/modulations/

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/modulations-2011

SOMArts is located at 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA

Yulia will exhibit her Icarus Kinetic Fan at this event!

Stanford University, 1st year MFA Exhibit

“Heretical Hierarchy”

Featuring works by : Yulia Pinkusevich,Andrew Chapman, Yvette Deas, Rhonda Holberton, Adam Katseff.

January 11-February 13th, 2011

Opening Reception January 13th 5-7pm

Thomas Welton Art Gallery (Stanford University)
Gallery Hours: Tuesday- Friday 10-5pm