Heat Waves in the Swamp

It's not exactly a swamp day in Berkeley, but warm nonetheless--- today, Charles Burchfield show at the Whitney is on my mind. After last night's reception with artist & experimental animator Sarah Jane Lapp, today I have an appetite for the ethereal, especially as figurative works on paper.












Charles Burchfield, Glory of Spring (Radiant Spring), 1950. Watercolor on paper, 401⁄8 x 293⁄4 in. (101.6 × 73.7 cm). Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Corning Clark, 1959.

We like the idea of seeing your work in the Brooklyn Art Library--
25 bucks signs you up on the sketchbook tour, they send you a moleskin, and you fill it by Jan 2011 -- sweet!

Earlier this week, Obi Kaufmann (artist/ curator & Swee(t)Art blogger) came by for a sneak peak at the artwork in the SHOW & TELL: My Summer Fantasy show and did an interview with Gallery Extraña Director/Founder Aimee Friberg (me).

Read his thoughts and the interview here:

Obi also runs and curates a very cool drawing gallery adjacent to the Compound art collective and gallery space (address below).


http://oaklandsweetart.wordpress.com/

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Swee(t)art Drawing Gallery opened in August of 2009 in North Oakland. Its present location is 1167 65th Street, just off San Pablo.

SHOW & TELL: My Summer Fantasy contributing artist, Sarah Jane Lapp will be gracing the bay area with her presence in the next week-- come see her painting Gravlax at the gallery, then go catch the animated screening series at ATA next week, where her short Bedtime Stories (2009) will screen.









Gravlax, Sarah Jane Lapp, gouache on paper,22 x 30 inches, 2010












Still from Bedtime Stories, Dir: Sarah Jane Lapp, Animation, 2009;

Lawrence Jordan discusses the art of the Personal Film, CineSource interview

Read the article here

new show opens next Friday!

Gallery Extraña & Cosmic Debris present:

























SHOW & TELL: My Summer Fantasy
an eclectic melange of desire and daydream by 20 West Coast artists

August 20 - September 23, 2010

Opening Reception Friday, August 20, 7- 10 pm
with equatorial beats by DJ FELINA

Tim Biskup
David Bornfriend
Lon C. Clark
Veronica de Jesus
Brian de Roo
Steve Ferrera
Aimee Friberg
Matt Gonzalez
Jake Huffman
Sarah Jane Lapp
Brian Lucas
Masako Miki
Emily Nathan
Rob Reger
Emilio Santoyo
Gareth Spor
Brian Strang
Tallulah Terryll
Emily Wick
David Wien

www.gallery-extrana.com

above detail: Tim Biskup, Summer Vacation, cell vinyl acrylic on watercolor paper, 2010