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San Francisco Area Event Picks for July 5 – July 11, 2012

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“Figure, Form and Fiction” at the Slate Contemporary in Oakland, CA

Art Openings Thursday, July 5

Event: SPACECRAFT’s 3-year Anniversary Show, Opening Reception When: Thursday, July 5, 2012 At 7-11PM Where: CellSpace Art Gallery 2050 Bryant Street @ 18th Street San Francisco, CA 94110

Event: “Lost and Found” drawings by Jonas Löfgren, Opening Reception When: . . . → Read More: San Francisco Area Event Picks for July 5 – July 11, 2012

Chiharu Shiota paints a scorched room with black thread

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This installation piece sends shivers up my spine. What happened? An attack by a swarm of tarantulas? A chem-bio bomb?

“In Silence” was inspired by Berlin-based artist Chiharu Shiota‘s own traumatic memories as a child, having witnessed their neighbor’s house consumed by uncontrollable flames. Shita actually saw the neighbor’s grand piano burning.

Using miles . . . → Read More: Chiharu Shiota paints a scorched room with black thread

Nacho Ormaechea re-imagines people on the street

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Who are you? Are you what I see? Or is what I see a projected image from my brain? Nacho Ormaechea seems to be asking these questions in his personal project, Le Carnet Noir.

Using a digital composite of a photograph and a graphic montage, the Paris based graphic designer builds a narrative of . . . → Read More: Nacho Ormaechea re-imagines people on the street