Tag: video

Lecture and Performance Tomorrow in the Gallery!

Gallery Hijinks is pleased to present this Friday the 13th a lecture by Renée Gertler and performance by Clint Sleeper and Audrey Love as Robot Versus Future.

Gertler is a San Francisco based artist and has shown in exhibition spaces such as Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Romer Young Gallery and Southern Exposure. She received her MFA from California College of the Arts and has had residencies at MacDowell and Kohler Arts and Industry. She was also the recipient of a Danish Arts Council Grant and a fellow at the Kala Institute. Her work delves into the magic of the natural world in terms of how we experience and understand natural phenomena; as well as how science can dissect these occurrences. Gertler’s lecture will focus on the themes found in the current exhibition in Gallery Hijinks, Visions of Yore, in conjunction with her work, as well as elaborating upon her personal artistic practice.

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Following Renée Gertler’s lecture a collaborative piece by Robot Versus Future will begin around 8:30pm. RVF is made up of 2 artists, Audrey Love and Clint Sleeper, who have been combining their artistic interests and skills in technology, sound art, and video for 2 years as a collaborative duo. Their performance, entitled Embedded Transport, is a performance of pre-recorded sounds and images from transitional and transportive spaces. A live mixing of recordings from hallways & highways, tunnels & trains – spaces where the artists most often find themselves alone and pensive about the past. The piece utilizes instrumentation, found sound, projection, and a variety of playback devices to encapsulate the performers and audience in sound.

Join us for an exciting evening! Doors open at 7pm and admission is $10.

07.12.2012 // Leave a comment // Link →

Visions of Yore-A Juried Exhibition in Gallery Hijinks

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Gallery Hijinks is proud to announce its first juried exhibition, Visions of Yore. Along with the gallery director, Tanya Gayer, Gallery Hijinks has invited guest juror Emily Lakin of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to be a part of the selection process. The exhibition will occur July 7th, 2012, and include live performance and artists lectures during the month, as well as an auction at the close of the exhibition.

Submissions are open to a range of work including sculpture, painting, printmaking, sound, video, installation, and mixed media work. The exhibiting artists should demonstrate the quality of their work and relevance to the exhibition concept. The exhibition is open to all artists aged 18 and over. Artists must be willing to take on personal responsibility for their artwork if unsold after the exhibition closes. Entries should be completed within 2 years prior to the deadline. The exhibit is open to the public.

Visions of Yore

Katharine Harmon, the author of The Map as Art, notes that to ‘orientate’ is to, “hop back and forth between landscape and time, geography and emotion, knowledge and behavior. Associations often happen with this idea of orienting because of memory springing from these categories.” To translate memory is to recall the sensory and time sensitive elements of a memory.

Memories coexist with time and space neither in the present or past, nor in one location at one time, but in fact exist and apply aspects from different places and people at all times. The process of remembering takes place in such an instant that memories only have concrete form by way of specific documentation.

Gallery Hijinks seeks works that come from our beliefs of memory. At times memory cannot be pinned down, but only felt as a means of consciousness vying for a state of attention. Cues encountered in everyday life evoke past recollections without effort, while sometimes we deliberately try to piece together the past. Artists are encouraged to submit work in homage to memory and how it is recognized in regards to the visual and formulated.

Exhibition Details:
Deadline for submissions: June 1st, 2012
Submission Fee: $20
Artists accepted for the exhibition will be notified by June 4th. Works must be delivered to Gallery Hijinks no later than June 27th, 2012.

Works will be on sale for the duration of the exhibition both in the gallery and online. The artist will receive 50 percent of the set retail price if the work sells during the month of July. If the works do not sell by July 27th, then it will be included in a larger auction held on July 28th. Artists will receive 40 percent of the original retail price no matter the auction’s final selling price. The starting bid will be set at 50 percent of the retail price unless requested otherwise (please include in Additional Details of Work section below). The starting bid and a reserve price will be reflected in the contract signed after selection process.

TO SUBMIT WORK HEAD OVER TO http://www.galleryhijinks.com/about/juried-exhibition

04.20.2012 // Leave a comment // Link →

Sebastian Wahl’s Moog Collage Mural

Sebastian Wahl never ceases to amaze me. Check out this extra large collage mural he made for Moog Fest 2011.

11.04.2011 // Leave a comment // Link →

Video: Alchemist by Scott Greenwalt

Check out this studio visit with Scott Greenwalt as he prepares for his solo exhibition, Alchemist, at Gallery Hijinks opening November 12th, from 6-10pm and on display until December 17th, 2011.

Shot and edited by Jesse Chandler. Music by Scott Greenwalt.

11.02.2011 // Leave a comment // Link →

Opening reception pictures of (t)here by Pakayla Biehn

The opening reception of (t)here by Pakayla Biehn was a night of beauty featuring eight double exposure paintings, a window installation of dangling plants and a fabulous video installation. Thanks to all the friends and family who made it out to share in the celebration! Check out some pictures from the night’s events below.

Photographs taken by Jesse Chandler

10.27.2011 // Leave a comment // Link →

“Sing You Back To Sleep” Video

Thanks to everyone who came out this past Saturday for the opening reception of (t)here by Pakayla Biehn. If you missed out we unveiled new double exposure paintings by Miss Biehn and premiered “Sing Me Back To Sleep” video installation. Check out the music video here called “Sing you back to sleep” by Sweet Tooth Nelson.

Directed By: Joe Lumbroso
Cinematography: Tylor Bohlman
Art Direction: Pakayla Biehn
Written By: Jillian Mackintosh
Editing/Visual Effects: Tylor Bohlman and Joe Lumbroso
Additional Editing: Jesse Chandler
Starring: Tessa Ribitsch

Song: “Sing you back to sleep” by Sweet Tooth Nelson.

Produced by: thirdstreetworks.com

10.11.2011 // Leave a comment // Link →

Installing with Pakayla Biehn

We are in full swing at Gallery Hijinks preparing for (t)here, new works by Pakayla Biehn. Late night shenanigans, drinking beer, video production, also I feel like I’m in a rainforest right now. Check out a few snap shots of the fun thats incurred and close up shots of a few of the painting. Hope to see you all tomorrow night for the opening reception from 6-10pm!

10.07.2011 // 1 Comment // Link →

Weekend Extravaganza

Heading down to Los Angeles for this weekend’s LA Art Fair! Don’t worry we will still be open for one last day of Sanguine Machine by Beau Stanton. If you aren’t attending the Art Fair you should definitely hit up our pal, Casey Gray’s exhibition titled Style of Eye, opening this Saturday October 1st, at White Walls Gallery. Check out his sweet promo video here.

09.29.2011 // Leave a comment // Link →

The Atomic Artists

How one group of artists is challenging Japan’s unusually strong faith in nuclear power, read more here.

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08.17.2011 // Leave a comment // Link →

Artist Feature: Nicolas Torres

San Francisco artist, Nicolas Torres, dropped in the gallery this week which inspired me to share some of his past works of art and thought provoking videos. His upcoming group exhibition titled Time x Time is located at Incline Gallery. Exhibiting aside Randy Colosky and Alicia Escott “The artists bring to the space works that take on the complexities of how time functions – from doing time to geological time to nostalgia – and the folly of trying to change the past.”-Incline Gallery

A Suppression of Vice, 2011

Torres work often focuses on topics such as urban renewal, street culture, community, family and introspection. Torres received a BA in philosophy from UC Berkeley in 2008. According to Adobe Books Parlor Neighborhood Watch exhibition statement “His parents and their struggles, have been the fodder and inspiration for much of his work.”