Opening Reception: February 2nd 6-10 pm
Over the course of his residency at Ever Gold Gallery, Josh Short will build “Bomb Shelter Radio” and host several live sonic events that will include experimental noise transmissions, live metal and hardcore bands, and subversive FM radio interventions. This will also be aided by guerrilla public installations of radios installed around the Tenderloin bringing his interventions directly to the street as a form of audio graffiti. During the day the gallery will become the “Tenderloin Self-Defense Club”, where Short will offer martial arts instruction to the neighborhood inhabitants, artists, and musicians.
Short aims to examine contemporary myth and rituals within the American cultural landscape through his interactive exhibition. Ever Gold will be transformed into a liberation center by providing tools that evoke personal liberation through free speech and improved self-confidence.
Short has previously held residencies at Recology SF, Headlands Center for the Arts, and recently a large outdoor installation at di Rosa. This is Shorts second solo exhibition with Ever Gold Gallery, his first exhibition “Touch Down Jesus” was in 2010.
Self Defense Club, Noise Interventions, Live Performance, and other on air programing as well as frequency change info will be posted on the Ever Gold website towards the end of this month and through the month of February.
www.bombshelterradio2012.blogspot.com
During the last week of the exhibition (Feb 21st- 26th) Ever Gold Gallery and Josh Short have teemed up with Noise Pop for their 20th Anniversary. This collaboration will consist of five live broadcasts over the “Bomb Shelter Radio” from bands curated by Noise Pop. These bands will be playing live at Shorts “Bomb Shelter Radio” and will be open to the public.
Feb 21 Tambo Rays Feb 22 Canons and Clouds Feb 23 Dreams Feb 24 Sea of Bees Feb 25 Taxes
Review for our current exhibition
“Beat by the Bay: San Francisco Artists and Galleries of the 50′s
Holiday Hours:
Ever Gold will be open
Wednesday the 21st- Friday the 23rd
Wednesday the 28th- Friday the 30th
January:
Wednesday the 4th- Friday the 6th (exhibition ends the 6th)
Appointments are available
“Beat by the Bay”
Curator John Held, Jr. speaks about the exhibition
“Beat by the Bay” opens December 8th
- Wally Hedrick, Courtesy Jerry Burchard Estate, c. 1957
Beat by the Bay, curated by alternative art historian John Held, Jr., traces Beat era visual artists through their cooperative galleries. In the Fifties, such spaces as King Ubu, The Six, East and West, Batman and Dilexi, supported artists Jess, Wally Hedrick, Jay De Feo, Fred Martin, Bruce Conner, Lawrence Jordan, Wallace Berman, George Herms, Joan Brown, Manuel Neri, Leo Valledor, Carlos Villa, Roy De Forest and others, who forged a vision equal to those of their poet brethren, interacting with them in these same spaces.
Less publicized then the Beat poet and writers (Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs, McClure, et al), the visual artists of the time assumed an important role in promoting an alternative vision of society influencing successive generations. The Ever Gold exhibition reintroduces their work to a contemporary audience, who can find much to admire in the lifestyles of struggling Beat artists and the gallery structures they erected for mutual encouragement.
The Ever Gold exhibition features period work by artist/writer/educator Fred Martin from his personal collection, gallery ephemera from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Library artist files, vintage photographs by Jerry Burchard, as well as Beat era posters, photographs, publications, mail art and paintings from noted area galleries, private dealers and collectors.
The current exhibition is the second Ever Gold presentation by John Held, Jr., who previously organized, Debris From the Cultural Underground, the subject of a January 2011 Artforum review. Held examines the role San Francisco Beat visual artists played in influencing Fluxus, Punk, Mail Art, DiY and Zine cultures in a curatorial talk on December 15th, at 7:30 PM.
For all inquiries please contact Ever Gold Gallery at
415-796-3676 or evergoldgallery@gmail.com
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John Held Jr.’s last Exhibition at Ever Gold received a review in Art Forum.
- Jay Defeo, Courtesy Jerry Burchard Estate, c. 1957
- Joan Brown, Courtesy Jerry Burchard Estate, c. 1957
- Carlos Villa, Courtesy Jerry Burchard Estate, c. 1957
Interview with Jessie Rose Vala on Hi-Fructose
Check out this interview between Jessie Rose Vala and curator Gabe Scott about her current exhibition at Ever Gold.
Last two days to see the exhibition; Friday 1-6 and Saturday 1-7
Jessie Rose Vala’s solo exhibition extended until Saturday, November 26th.
Closed Thanksgiving
Water McBeer Grand Public Opening this Thursday 6-10
With Music From:
Little Wings
Alex Bleeker and The Freaks (from brooklyn/ of Real Estate)
The Memories (new gnartapes/marriage records band from portland)
WATER McBEER Gallery group show presented by Ever Gold Gallery
21 Solo Shows under one roof for one week only!!!
Grand “First Thursday” Public Opening: Thursday August 4th, 6-10pm
Epic Closing Reception: Saturday August 7th, 6-10pm
Special musical guests each event TBA!
Featuring:
Gerald Anekwe
Quinn Arneson
Mario Ayala
Juan Manuel Bocca
Jordan Bogash
Ryan de la Hoz
Jeremy Fish
Matt Furie
Jay Howell
Henry Gunderson
Lili Ishida
Warren Thomas King
Kool Kid Kreyola
Aubrey Learner
Calvin Marcus
Evan Nesbit
Matthew Palladino
Albert Reyes
Eric Shaw
Aiyana Udesen
Jamie Williams
Susan Wu
Alexander Ziv
Guy Overfelt
PEZ
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Images by Kid Yellow
SPONSORED BY PBR
Tenderloin Photo Book Release
Please Join us this Wednesday from 6-9 for a one night photo book release documenting the Tenderloin.
Residency Program August 11th- September 24th
We will be closed until September 1st for the Opening Reception of our Residency Program.
Biyearly Residency Program Featuring
Owen Takabayashi
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Residency: August 11th- 31st
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 1st , 6-10pm
Exhibition runs until: September 24th
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Ever Gold Gallery is pleased to announce the second edition of their biyearly residency program. Designed to give emerging artists a space to express their vision, the three-week residency and subsequent exhibition generates a new body of work specific to each individual artist’s encounter with the site. San Francisco-based Japanese American artist, Owen Takabayashi, has previously had two solo exhibitions in Ever Gold’s project space. For Takabayashi’s new body of work and site-specific installation he will be appropriating the utility of found, mass-produced objects.
Through semiological deconstruction Takabayashi’s investigations into themes of departure and spirituality will, during the exhibition, take on sculptural and flat forms. His Japanese roots mixed with his experience of American culture has caused him to recontextualize contemporary spirituality and in doing so question the importance of cultural devices fabricated and implemented by those misguiding current culture.
With conceptual nodes to Joseph Beauys’ 1974 performance, “I like America and America Likes Me”, which recontextualized man and America’s global roll, Takabayashi will create a new interaction with the elements of local vs. global by “living” with this discarded junk, thus making it sustained and localized. Through his process, Takabayashi also places himself in the area between art and craftsmanship where the objects not only take on new meanings but new physical functions as well; a proletarian form of Assemblage.
Studio Visits Available, please contact Ever Gold Gallery
Owen Takabayashi’s Interview
Ever Gold Gallery
Residency Program
Opens September 1st.
Studio Preview and Performance Images
Exhibition runs until September 24th.
Gallery open Wednesday-Saturday 1-6
Untitled from Ever Gold Gallery on Vimeo.
Interview with Owen Takabayashi
For people who are unfamiliar with your work, briefly describe the concepts behind your work, and your primary mediums in your practice?
The concept of economy plays a large part in my practice. I usually paint, draw, and sculpt. A portion of my materials are often reclaimed objects which I then reappropriate to investigate themes in my practice
Where are you originally from, and how long have you been living and working in San Francisco?
Southern California, suburbs, pretty close to the beach man. I’ve been living up here for about seven years now. One year out in Berkeley, and about six years out here.
How does the Bay Area play a role in your artistic practice?
I think this is a great place for artist in the sense that you can be exposed to so many great people and things and ideas. It’s pretty free and civil up here, I think?
This show is your third solo show at Ever Gold Gallery. What can we expect from this show?
Well I hope to show works with sort of a native, primitive, end of summer sorta feel. Simple abstractions.
How has your experience been working in the Ever Gold Gallery as your studio?
Its great to have all the space I wish I had more time too. It’s a little noisier down here in the evening hours. Thank you for the opportunity.
You are known as a collector of objects. What is the importance of collecting in your practice?
I guess I collect things that fascinate me or that I want to contemplate a little more, I have been working on picking up less stuff off the street. I guess I sometimes equate collecting with a sort of currency/ economy. It’s a bad habit that I got into, but around my neighborhood the population is so transitory that sometimes, whole apartments are just thrown out.
You graduated from SFAI as a painter. How has your practice expanded since then?
I like sculpture and the practicality of design. I hope to expand into stuff that is practical and functional. Paintings, drawings and sculpture function in a different way.
The book: Exile and the Kingdom, by Albert Camus, is a recurring theme in your work and the primary thread in this show. Please tell us more about the role of this book in your artwork.
I like to read. I guess it’s a study for trying new works. Picturing things from a book and trying to translate them into images. I was reading this book when you approached me for the show. Some of the scenes in the book were really beautiful so I thought I’d try to make art that aspired to the words. And the themes too. Camus was an absurdist. I guess the themes of the collected stories in that book are parables of the weird paradox of being human. What do we do? Personally I think I get stuck in inaction when it comes to life and art. But death pushes us on? Its absurd but we have to move. I guess that’s what the book was saying.
Ever artist has their studio hardships. How does this residency break your love/hate relationship with your studio in Knob Hill?
I love space. It is always good to switch up the feng shui.
What would you consider to be the perfect studio experience?
A perfect studio? Some sun, modern conveniences, a lot of space, for a little bit of money, near food, near some good people, and it pays for itself.
What is the highlight of your experience working in Ever Gold Gallery?
It’s a great atmosphere, and I got time and space to make art. Thanks for the opportunity which was a pleasure in itself.
Lucas Soi Solo Exhibition
“We Bought The Seagram Building”
Lucas Soi
Installation images and available works
Black Card (2011), Ink on Paper, 30"x44"
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 6th, 6-10pm
Exhibition Runs until: Thursday, October 27th
We Bought The Seagram Building, Canadian-based artist Lucas Soi’s first exhibition with Ever Gold gallery, explores the architecture of capitalism and the economic effects of globalization.
In 1958 the Canadian company Joseph E. Seagram & Sons commissioned German architect Mies van der Rohe to design their American headquarters in New York City. The skyscraper became one of the most influential architectural designs of the 20th century. In 2000 the Seagram Company Ltd. was acquired by Vivendi, a French conglomerate. In 2009, at the bottom of the worldwide economic recession, Lucas Soi bought back the Seagram Building from its French owners, returning it to Canadian ownership.
Lucas Soi is a Canadian artist and curator living in Toronto, Canada.
www.lucassoi.ca
Untitled (Four Seasons Plant) Ink on Paper, 30"x44"
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Recent Solo Exhibitions
2011 We Bought The Seagram Building, Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco
2010 Cradle Stories, The Shooting Gallery, San Francisco
2009 Lolita, Preteen Gallery, Hermosillo, Mexico
2008 Private Collection, East 3rd Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
2007 Found Alive, Snap Contemporary Art, Vancouver, B.C.
2006 Innocent Blood, Snap Contemporary Art, Vancouver, B.C.
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Ever Gold Gallery
441 O’Farrell St.
SF, CA, 94102
www.evergoldgallery.com
evergoldgallery@gmail.com
(415)796-3676
Interview with Jessie Rose Vala
Check out this interview with Jessie Rose Vala who will have a solo exhibition next month at Ever Gold Gallery and the good people over at Cinders Gallery in NYC
Press Release for Future Tellers
opens November 3rd
Lucas Soi Press
Check out this review from Zyzzyva on Luca Soi’s solo exhibition.
Another Review for Lucas Soi
Written by: Matt Stromberg
Jessie Rose Vala Opens Next Thursday!!
Horus’ Daughter Trailer 1 from light hits on Vimeo.
Jessie Rose Vala – Future Teller
OPENS THIS THURSDAY!!!
November 3rd, 6-10pm
Ever Gold Gallery is pleased to announce the opening reception for ‘Future Teller’ from bi-coastal artist Jessie Rose Vala. A graduate of CCA, this will be Vala’s first exhibition with the venue. This will be her first solo offering in the Bay Area since 2002.
Vala is known for her site specific installations that emphasize her diverse skill with multiple media backgrounds. Future Teller is an elaborate three dimensional mythology that serves as the artist’s personal investigation into Man’s fall from ‘Paradise’, as depicted in a utopian existence. Many cultures and religions maintain a belief in a ‘Tree of Life’ or a ‘Great Tree’ that describes or reflects the human journey back to a spiritually divine existence. Vala’s prior installations have involved rebirth and decay as primary theme, and this new body of work also follows that path, examining the subject from both eastern and western perspectives. Her graphite drawings directly interact with and support the other aspects of the installation.This encompassing environment has been built through the meticulous layering of materials over a six month period between Brooklyn, NY and Portland, OR. Future Teller was conceptualized by Vala and presentation will be assisted by San Francisco based independent writer and curator, Gabe Scott.
On Tuesday November 8th, Ms. Vala (BFA 1999) will be participating in a panel discussion from 7- 9:15 at the California College of the Arts campus in Oakland. The Treadwell Ceramic Arts Center will be hosting a dialogue with fellow Ceramics alumni Lava Thomas (BFA 1999) and Bruk Dunbar (BFA 2005). All three will be presenting slides and discussing their careers after art school. Additional details available at www.cca.edu.
Curated by: Gabe Scott
Jessie Rose Vala – Future Teller
Opens this Thursday!
6-10pm
After spending a few days building a new wall in Ever Gold Jessie has started installing her sculptures.