Heat, Sarah Jane Lapp, Ink and Gouache, 2010

happy valentine's day!





Image by Sarah Jane Lapp

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.

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;

experimental film shorts travel to la ciudad de habana, cuba

film stills above: Lick of Fury, Matty Sidle; Hold On Twice, Francois Merry: Peace Offering, Lisa Darms and Wait for Me, Noel Paul;

IMAGINING NOW program at Habana International Festival --
December 11, 4:30 p.m.
Centro Cultural Cinematográfico ICAIC
Tel.: 833 9278
Calle 23 e/ 10 y 12, Vedado, Habana, CUBA
habanafilmfestival.com

IMAGINING NOW is a program of experimental films that showcase a range of contemporary uses of low and high fidelity video, and film for dramatic and sensual affect. A collection of light studies, relational investigations and very loose narratives, these films posit investigations on the here and now and represent a new generation working on the periphery of filmmaking. Imagining Now is programmed by Aimee Friberg; total running time is 70 minutes.

Peace Offering, Lisa Darms & Growing (Brooklyn, USA), 2006, digital video, sound, 6:20 min.

Muto, Blu & Andrea Martignoni (Bologna, Italy), 2007, digital video, sound, 7:26 min.

Chronicles of a Professional Eulogist, Sarah Jane Lapp (Seattle, USA), 2006, HDcam, sound, 6:33 min.

Inperception, David W. Halsell (Seattle, USA), 2003, digital video, sound, 4:19 min.

Mathematics for Plants II, Aimee Friberg (San Francisco, USA), 2008, digital video, sound, 11 min.

A Clear Story, Katherin McInnis (New York, USA), 2007, digital video, sound, 6 min.

Wait For Me, Noel Paul (Seattle, USA), 2005, miniDV & PXL2000, sound, 12 min.

Lick of Fury, Matty Sidle (San Francisco, USA), 1995, 16mm, 15 min.

Hold on Twice, Francois Marry (Glasgow, Scotland), 2007, 2:10 min