whitehot | September 2008, San Francisco Fall Preview: Selected ListingsTriple Base Gallery3041 24th Street San Francisco, CA When Holy Were the Haunted Forest Boughs New Work by Christine Shields August 28 - September 28, 2008 Opening Reception: Friday, August 29th, 7-10pm After Party next door featuring Linda Hagood.  Christine Shields Girl with Wings, 2004 Cell vinyl on paper 11' x 9' Courtesy Triple Base Gallery For Shields’s first solo show at Triple Base, she will create an eerie yet ethereal environment, exploring the idea of psychic homelessness. Through a mythological narrative, Shields ponders the impermanence of life and the human need to wander. The installation will highlight Shields’s signature illustrative drawings and paintings of ghosts, orphans, animals and spirits. The artist will also be the first to extend her installation down into the gallery’s cavernous “Triple Basement”, employing descent mythology to depict the soul's journey into darkness and then back into light. Christine Shields has a BFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. She was a featured artist in Bay Area Now 4 (2005) at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco and has had solo shows at S.F. Center for the Book, San Francisco (2005); City Hall, San Francisco (2003) and Adobe Books, San Francisco (2002). Selected group shows include White Columns, NY (2006); Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco (2006); UNLV's Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, Las Vegas, NV (2006); Aidan Savoy Galley, NYC (2006) and The Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2006). Shields was the creator of comic series “Blue Hole” and recently published the book “The Lonely Bear” with Booklyn, New York. She will be releasing her first album "Treasure Gone Feral" on Evangeline Records in November. ICEBERGER GALLERY 3150 18th st. number 109 san francisco ca 94110 Pacific Reverb Society at Iceberger Gallery OPENING: saturday August 30th, 7-9pm! Bill Wehman converts a tiny gallery (ICEBERGER) into a record store (PRS) full of rare and unrefined music. A meeting place for a secret society of reverberation full of mix tapes and zines, all selling for under five american dollars. It may last only a month and our catalogue will certainly not be the largest, but since the room is small enough everyone inside will surely hear the music. Steven Wolf Fine Arts 49 Geary Street, Suite 411 Let's Pretend Chuck Fahlen September 2 - Oct 11, 2008  Chuck Fahlen Untitled, 2008. 30 x 40 x 3 in. Courtesy Steven Wolf Fine Arts Since the late 1960s, Charles Fahlen has been using humble materials to make enigmatic sculptures that explore personal memory and cultural myths while reflecting on the sculptural process and the objecthood of things. Fahlen spent the last 30 years in Philadelphia, where he was one of the city’s most renowned artists. This show surveys work from the early 1970s up through his most recent work, made since returning to California. The Gallery will publish a catalog in conjunction with this exhibition. Wattis Institute California College of the Arts 1111 Eighth Street San Francisco CA 94107 Two shows: Passengers: 2.1 Tauba Auerbach Sept. 2–Oct. 4, 2008  Tauba Auerbach, 2008, courtesy Wattis Institute Challenging the systems of language, Tauba Auerbach's artworks reconfigure letters to create word puzzles that lead the viewer to logical but unexpected conclusions. Auerbach has a background in typography and graphic design and an interest in science. Her work is a complex exploration of semiotics, but it retains an essential visual accessibility and playfulness. She dissects language as a code of symbols and a conduit for ideas. Of particular interest to her is the anagram (a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of another), which historically has been utilized to carry secret messages or hidden meanings. Auerbach often bases her work on these sorts of solvable codes or systems. In one of her works, a series of reconfigured typewriters, she alters the keys so that their letters and symbols no longer correspond to what appears on the paper. The typewriters are painted with clues to the logic of their new operating systems; once each code is cracked, the machine becomes functional again. And The Wizard of Oz Lower Gallery | Sept. 2–Dec. 13, 2008 The Wizard of Oz takes L. Frank Baum's popular novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as its starting point to examine the relationship between art and literature, our idea of home and place, as well as the cultural and social fabric of America itself. PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Robert Bechtle, Jennifer Bornstein, Ulla von Brandenburg, Bruce Conner, Walker Evans, Simryn Gill, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Loris Gréaud, Joseph Grigely, Carsten Höller, Evan Holloway, Glenn Ligon, Steve McQueen, Gareth Moore, Rivane Neuenschwander, Raymond Pettibon, Clare Rojas, Harry Smith, Donald Urquhart, Andy Warhol, Cerith Wyn Evans This exhibition will also include a large number of cultural artifacts, both contemporary and historical, that have been created in response to the novel, including a first edition of Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, several of W.W. Denslow's original illustrations that accompanied the first Oz book, excerpts from early film adaptations, such as the first film version directed by Baum himself, and other curiosities, including, of course, the ruby slippers. A unique exhibition design that follows some of the elements of the original novel and the famous film adaptation of 1939, as well as a specially produced publication, will make The Wizard of Oz an unusual experience of how to analyze and exhibit contemporary art. Silverman Gallery 804 Sutter @ Jonest San Francisco, CA 94109 Pattern Recognition of a Collar to Idealism (dedication to a woman yet unknown) Susanne M. Winterling September 4, 7-10pm .jpg) Braunstein Quay Gallery 430 Clementina San Francisco, CA 94103 Paul DeMarinis New Works September 4 – October 4, 2008 Opening reception, September 6, 3-5pm  Paul DeMarinis, Early Media Goes to the Movies, Part 1: Weekend – Traffic Jam: Panorama, detail, 2008 Digital print on archival paper; 13 x 20 inches Jancar Jones Gallery 965 Mission, Suite 120 San Francisco, CA 94103 Chadwick Rantanen September 5 - 27, 2008 opening Friday, September 5th, 5-8pm Little Tree Gallery 3412 22nd st.(@ guerrero) san francisco, ca 94110 Chad Moore sep 6th - oct 4th Keep an eye out for Chad Moore this season. He has shown in the Bay Area and New York. Mr. Moore received his MFA in painting at San Francisco Art Institute and his undergraduate from the University of Georgia. He currently resides in San Francisco. San Francisco Arts commission Gallery 401 Van Ness Ave (at McAllister) San Francisco, CA 94102 Immediate Future: The 2008 Murphy and Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts September 6 - October 18, 2008 Location: SFAC Gallery (Map It) Artists: Bren Ahearn, Michael Arcega, Elisheva Biernoff, Tom Borden, Modesto Covarrubias, Eilish Cullen, April Grayson, Claire Jackel, Anthony Marcellini, Robert Minervini, Robert Moya, Michael Namkung, Moses Nornberg, Daniel Ochoa, S Patricia Patterson, Hilary Pecis, Jeff Ray, Gina Tuzzi, Jina Valentine, Annie Vought, Sara Wanie, Andrew Witrak, Imin Yeh, and David Yun The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery is proud to present Immediate Future, featuring works by the recipients of the 2008 Murphy & Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts. This exhibition provides a first-glance at what is being produced by promising artists within regional graduate programs. For many featured artists this exhibition marks their first major exposure, and for all participants it represents an opportunity to share what they have been developing in their graduate studios with a broader audience. Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market Street (nr. 6th St.) San Francisco, CA 94103 USA SEPTEMBER 12 ANDREW JEFFREY WRIGHT, Art for Corporations Queens Nails Projects 3191 Mission St San Francisco, CA 94110 Kamau Patton September 13, 7-11pm  Kamau Patton, 2008, Courtesy Queen Nails Projects Kamau Patton will be the inaugural exhibition for the newly defined Queens Nails Projects. The exhibition will be open from September 13th to October 18th. The opening reception will be held from 7 - 11 and will feature a special appearance DJ. Patton is an artist that creates multi-dimensional, non-linear narratives. He works in a wide range of media including sculpture, digital photography, and video. All elements of the work are meant to interact. Sculptural objects are produced to serve as props for video and photographic work. In turn, photographic and video images operate to give context and power to the objects. Ping Pong Gallery 1240 22nd St. San Francisco, CA Gwenael Rattke Berlin, Germany Opening Reception: Friday, September 19th from 6:00 - 9:00pm Exhibition runs from September 19th - October 17th, 2008  Gwenael Rattke, Vol. VII, mixed media, 18"x 24", 2008 Courtesy Ping Pong Gallery
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