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nice press from the Tender Blog

Please read this nice press from our friends at the only Tenderloin based website...

THE TENDER...your daily cut of the loin

http://thetender.us/2011/03/21/roasting-boar-as-a-form-of-art/

BLACK GOLD

Please join us this Friday and Saturday for the last installation and performance:

BLACK GOLD

Josh Short and Otto Von Bush

Joshua Short and Otto Von Busch are teaming up to form BLACKGOLD. Bring your rags and junk for two nights of transformation, literally. The performance duo is preparing a group reaction-painting session that joins the Dark Satanic Northern European Arts with the American Junk Culture. Otto will be leading a spiritual restoration by blackening your old rags. Josh will be operating his Gold Standard machine, transforming your junk into gold.

6-10 pm Friday

1-9 pm Saturday (note extended time)

www.joshuashort.com

www.selfpassage.org

Gentlemen's Club Begins Tomorrow

Please join us tomorrow for the first night of our Gentlemen's Club and be sure to pick up a copy of the SF Weekly tomorrow for a preview of our Thursday event with Tom Marioni.

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Drink Yourself Creative

By Heidi De Vries

The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends Is the Highest Form of Art. Agree or disagree, it's the name of San Francisco artist Tom Marioni's most famous work and a good starting point to his approach to creativity. Since 1970, the same year he founded the Museum of Conceptual Art, Marioni has invited friends over once a week to be social and drink beer as an artistic gesture focused on action rather than on any single object. It was a radical notion at the time and is still worth considering. In 2008 Marioni enacted Drinking Beer at SFMOMA for the run of its "The Art of Participation" exhibit, turning the museum's Koret Visitor Education Center into a makeshift bar once a week tended by friends and special guests. Now Marioni gets the art party started in the Tenderloin for one night during Gentleman's Club week, a gallery's playful take on the city's secretive all-male institution the Bohemian Club. Fortunately for us, all genders are welcome here, and Marioni takes on the role of stand-up comic as he delivers a routine called "Beer, Art, Philosophy, and Jokes." We're hoping for gossip about Marioni associates such as John Cage and Ed Ruscha, but there's one thing you can count on for sure: Beer.

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Photos from the Andris Kasparovics Spatial Exploration Installation

Spatial Exploration Installation by Andris Kasparovics

This video attempts to capture a truly sensational experience that makes you feel like being under water.

Spatial Exploration Installation by Andris Kasparovics from Ever Gold Gallery on Vimeo.

Click here to check out our new page on Vimeo.

March Program start March 10th.

We will be CLOSED UNTIL THURSDAY MARCH 10TH when our March Program begins.

We will not have an opening this coming "First Thursday".

Chris Ritson Video filmed at Ever Gold Gallery Residency program.

March at Ever Gold

Chris Ritson

Chris Ritson in SF Weekly

Check out this nice write up for our 1st Residency Program from SF Weekly. It will be in print this Wednesday - go pick up a copy.

Show opens this Thursday from 6-9pm

Bear Flag Wine will be serving drinks

Walk into the Cult of Personality

By Heidi De Vries

In a gallery that has displayed Mark McCloud's LSD blotter art and the post-apocalyptic interactive sculpture of Josh Short, it's no surprise the curators would make the bold move of turning the space over to Chris Ritson. Ritson makes art that is almost alchemical in nature, incorporating crystals he has grown as well as other wonders of the natural world. He fuses an interest in science with investigations into personal identity. With his exhibition “In the Kingdom of Charisma,” Ritson is the first to make use of the gallery's semiannual residency program, in which artists take three weeks to convert the “white box” space into an immersive installation. Ritson uses video and mixed media to explore how we become drawn to certain personalities, those powerful figures who seem to possess an otherworldly attractiveness whether they are celebrities or politicians. It's brave for a commercial gallery to give an artist this amount of latitude in its space, but the results are nothing if not hypnotic.

The opening party for “In the Kingdom of Charisma” starts at 6 p.m.

Art Forum Review

Congrats to John Held Jr. and the write up for his October show in the new Art Forum.

"Debris from the Underground"

Chris Ritson Solo Show

For the first show of our third year, Ever Gold Gallery is pleased to announce the start of our biyearly residence program. We will be closed from January 8th- February 2nd for a site specific solo installation by SFAI alumni and 2011 Headlands Center for the Arts Residency winner, Chris Ritson.

In the Kingdom of Charisma

Opening reception, Thursday February 3rd

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A celebration of our anxieties pertaining to the body, identity, and nature: "In the Kingdom of Charisma" is a multimedia exhibit created during a three week long residency at Ever Gold Gallery.

By growing crystals and organisms alongside intricate media collages, the resulting installation, video, images and sculptures of Chris Ritson embody the nuances of how we construct an individual identity, distinct from the vast cosmology that animates our lives.

More info to come...

Special Thanks

A special thanks to the Kenneth Rainin Foundation for helping to support the Ever Gold Gallery this past year - more info soon on their continued support.

www.krfoundation.org

Fecal Face Coverage

Thanks to John and Jessica for hanging out during the opening

There are a lot of image that John took that are on

Fecal Face(dot)com

a few select ones below...

Some Opening Photos

A few opening photos...more to come over the next few days.

Thanks to everyone that made it out.

photos© Kid Yellow

I'm Trying Really Hard

Mark Mulroney

I’m Trying Really Hard

We are proud to announce Mark Mulroney’s second show at Ever Gold Gallery, “I’m Trying Really Hard.” It will be a show of reasonably tasteful works that address contemporary issues such as malnourishment and decorative pumpkin carving.

Mulroney is represented by Mixed Greens Gallery in NYC and Ebersmoore Gallery in Chicago. He has also shown in Copenhagen at V1 Gallery, National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, The San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, and Park Life in San Francisco.

He currently lives and works out of Rochester, NY.

www.markmulroney.com

Interview with Mark Mulroney by Jamie Alexander from

Park Life, in San Francisco.

Buffalo sounds like a really amazing place, how does it inspire you artistically and otherwise?

Buffalo is a fine place indeed but I live in Rochester also known as Rock City or Smugtown USA, although since the riots in '64 and factories closing down a lot of that smugness has worn off. Living here has been quite an adjustment but it has been good for me. I don't see any other artists and I don't go to any shows. It is pretty hard to get caught up in all the petty competition when you just sit in your room and work. Also minor league baseball is the greatest thing ever. My wife and I pack sandwiches and ride our bikes to the Rochester Redwings games.

Your versatility as a visual artist runs the spectrum from illustration to collage to sculpture to abstract painting to conceptual art and everything in between…with a consistent level of impressive ability on all fronts.. How do you decide what sort of work to present at your gallery shows?

I am afraid of being type cast. I don't want to become Peter Halley or Daniel Buren. Having a signature style might be great for branding and sales but it seems like death for an artist. I like to make a little bit of everything. Over the last couple years I have made an effort to try and present more consistent shows that develop around themes like loneliness, sexual frustration, unwanted bleeding or happiness. Generally I have several bodies of work going on at the same time and I just show whatever I am most excited about.

What type of people do you suffer the least?

Perhaps it is a product of getting older or just that I don't have a social life but I am not bothered by people that much anymore. I used to get really upset at everything and everyone but that was pretty unproductive. Now I just focus on trying to make work I like and let everything else fall away. There will always be more popular and succesful artists and boring curators but that is beyond my control so why get all upset.

The most?

I suppose this question is asking about those people that I have a lot of patience for. I like to see people make a sincere effort. Even if they fail miserably I still respect the effort and respect them for trying.

Your Website is hands down the best artist website I’ve ever visited, and I’ve visited my share. Do you spend a lot of time interneting?

Not really. I wish I had the discipline to spend more time on the website as I have so many new ideas for categories but I don't like working on a computer. I try and update it every now and then so it doesn't get super stale but sometimes I just let it sit there for a while. I think that a website can be just another extension of an artists' work but most artists' have websites that look like they are applying for jobs at IBM.

Is it true that you are a somewhat legendary racquetball player?

I have a two year undefeated streak to maintain. Eat right, stretch and hit the ball really really hard and you too could be a racquetball legend.

Can I still buy one of your sketchbooks?

I had some recent sketchbooks out as part of the last New York show and I got an offer of $10k for one of them. The money would have been nice as I don't make much but I didn't sell it. I think that at some point I will want to publish a book of my best sketchbook pages over the years and I will need to hold on to them until that happens. I tend to think my best work is in the sketchbooks. Of course you (Jamie) are the Lord of a vast publishing empire so if you want to trade your services for mine I am sure we can work something out that is mutually beneficial.

A Few Rochester Notes:

Frederick Douglass was born here.

The home of the "Garbage Plate".

Kodak was founded here.

Just one of many stops on the now irrelevant Erie Canal.

I can walk to the airport from my house.

Phoney Baloney

Joe Enos

Phoney Baloney

For the exhibition, Phoney Baloney, Joe Enos will create a space that addresses manufactured realities and contemporary commitments to certain cultural tropes. Since Joe was a child he has studied and been mesmerized by cartoons. His present work interrogates the semiology of his lifelong fascination. Joe uses “real” objects from cartoons− such as cartoon-like representations of wood− and will reintroduce them within the space of the exhibition. The space has been modified in a way that totally submerses the viewer− or consumer− into these cartoon symbols. The exhibition space will be paneled with "cartoon" like wood panels, with plushy grotesque shapes oozing from behind. In addition, the exhibition will combine elements of sculpture and photography that explore shapes invoking gluttony. In the universe of cartoons everything is presumed fake, and nothing has much of a commitment to the assumed laws of alleged reality. The artist perceives in our consumer society a lack of commitments to unified cultural ideologies and semantic order in contemporary popular culture. Through this exhibition, Enos hopes to demonstrate an earnest commitment to his own subjective interpretations of cultural symbols from comics and cartoons. Paradoxically, it is a commitment to something inherently false, fluctuating, and flawed much like contemporary popular culture itself. Through this exhibit and this creative philosophy Enos hopes to create a truly “American” experience.

www.tjosephenos.com

www.evergoldgallery.com

Ever Gold Music Series Presents

Rumspringa

and

Great Willow

playing this friday at 8pm

December shows

Please join us this coming Thursday, December 2nd, from 6-9pm for the openings of

Mark Mulroney

"I'm Trying Really Hard"

and

Joe Enos

"Phoney Baloney"

We are proud to announce Mark Mulroney’s second show at Ever Gold Gallery, “I’m Trying Really Hard.” It will be a show of reasonably tasteful works that address contemporary issues such as malnourishment and decorative pumpkin carving.

Mulroney is represented by Mixed Greens Gallery in NYC and Ebersmoore Gallery in Chicago. He has also shown in Copenhagen at V1 Gallery, National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, The San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, and Park Life in San Francisco.

He currently lives and works out of Rochester, NY.

www.markmulroney.com

www.evergoldgallery.com

Joe Enos

"Phoney Baloney"

Solo Show in our project room

For the exhibition, Phoney Baloney, Joe Enos will create a space that addresses manufactured realities and contemporary commitments to certain cultural tropes. Since Joe was a child he has studied and been mesmerized by cartoons. His present work interrogates the semiology of his lifelong fascination. Joe uses “real” objects from cartoons− such as cartoon-like representations of wood− and will reintroduce them within the space of the exhibition. The space has been modified in a way that totally submerses the viewer− or consumer− into these cartoon symbols. The exhibition space will be paneled with "cartoon" like wood panels, with plushy grotesque shapes oozing from behind. In addition, the exhibition will combine elements of sculpture and photography that explore shapes invoking gluttony. In the universe of cartoons everything is presumed fake, and nothing has much of a commitment to the assumed laws of alleged reality. The artist perceives in our consumer society a lack of commitments to unified cultural ideologies and semantic order in contemporary popular culture. Through this exhibition, Enos hopes to demonstrate an earnest commitment to his own subjective interpretations of cultural symbols from comics and cartoons. Paradoxically, it is a commitment to something inherently false, fluctuating, and flawed much like contemporary popular culture itself. Through this exhibit and this creative philosophy Enos hopes to create a truly “American” experience.

www.tjosephenos.com

www.evergoldgallery.com

Opens December 2nd