Through the looking glass

Through the looking glass

Three artists reinterpret Wonderland...

Mad Tea party on September 26^th 6-9pm with live Jazz by ManOverboard 

and bubbling Absinth spiked tea if you dare!
Show runs Sept 21^st- Oct 31^st

Join artists Bruce Tamberelli, Darwin Price, & Yvette M. Buigues for the opening reception of “Through the Looking Glass.”  Prepare to be amazed by strange and wondrous works of art. Enjoy the jazz stylings of  'ManOverboard' . You'll be grinning like a Cheshire cat! 
 

About the Artists…

Bruce Tamberelli:

Bruce Tamberelli is an Oakland artist with 29 years of experience. His mediums include; photography, painting, mixed media and story telling. In the late 1970’s Tamberelli began to work with photography, by using multiple imagery and manipulating Polaroids.  His first painting was on a Polaroid.  On a whim, in 1993, he bought oil paints and canvas.   The works of a self-taught painter, his paintings have always been carefully sketched out compositions.   These new works are not sketched, and are influenced by drawings of hands of traveling BART passengers.  With hands he has added boxes and circles into his favorite objects along with landscape and cityscapes.  

“In these changing times, a new administration, economic difficulties and uncertainties, people are reaching, searching, looking for something, anything.  The paintings reflect our current times.” - Bruce Tamberelli

Darwin Price: 

Darwin Price is a well-known artist in the San Francisco Bay Area art scene. Often present in his work is the reconciliation of such dichotomies as good/evil, anima/animus, orange/blue. Darwinprice.com

Darwin broke Alice’s glass: He slipped along dragging one foot in the gutter with a guilty ‘wasp in his wig.’ Wondering, “with everyone saying different things to me; while taking everything that they can. What do I believe? Not this world! Who wants to be sheep or an oyster to be fleeced or shucked and eaten by god?”  He had hoped he might just stay unnoticed long enough to slip sideways between the sidereal worlds and back to Alice.  To be, at last, among all the strange and forgotten relics and people he’d somehow misplaced. With their laughter still ringing in his ears and surrounded those worthless treasures he’d sought so very hard to find & hold one again: the rock, a signpost, a teapot, a single socks, a melody, and all his memories of you; of love. He thought aoud, “I can be happy as any of these things.”  

Yvette M. Buigues:

Yvette Buigues was born in Los Angeles, California. Her father, an internationally known sculptor, was her greatest inspiration and mentor.  A self-taught painter, Buigues studied fine art illustration in Buenos Aires, Argentina under the tutelage of Adrian Dorado, a contemporary constructivist painter, and Nicolas Bufidis, a master fresco artist and director of the Buenos Aires School of Fine Arts. She worked in graphite and colored pencil, focusing her efforts on technique and realism.  Buigues has been an exhibiting artist for the past seventeen years. heavyblackline.com

"200 Hares" wrestles with darkness as it gives way to light and humor.  The pieces weave back and forth provoking the sobriety and joy that is emotional and physical growth.” - Yvette Buigues

About the Music:

Man OverBoard is a musically versatile band drawing on the influences of Jazz, Blues, R&B, and Classic Rock. Formed in 1996 in San Francisco the band is a quartet with Bill Carey on tenor saxophone, Allen Fine on guitar, Randy Valdez on drums and Jon Zax on Bass. The band has the unique accolade of the 2004 award from the "Bay Guardian" as the best Jazz with a Hot Dog for their twice a month performances at the now defunct "Perry's Joint" on Filmore St, S.F.

M A R T I N W E B B, “P A S S E N G E R S”

M A R T I N  W E B B

“P A S S E N G E R S” 

Paintings, drawings and mixed-media with sticks-and-mud, live music by Lucio Menegon and Suki O'Kane

Opening Artist Reception
Saturday February 17th 2007, 6pm-9pm
Show runs 02/15/2007 through 03/15/2007

"I grew up in England. Whilst the other kids were playing cricket I was drawing pictures and making things out of sticks and mud. In many ways little has changed” Martin Webb

Have you ever flown over England? The entire country is a very beautiful patchwork of fields, roads and towns. By contrast, the western US looks very different. Here, there are vast swathes of raw untamed landscape with small pockets of crazy man-made geometry. Visually, it’s a compelling combination especially the hinterlands where man and nature duke it out. 

These paintings are reflections on traveling through such landscapes, and the thoughts and feelings those travels stirred in the artist. As passengers, we presume that we are passing though, and the land is just waiting to take over once we're gone.

The people featured in Martin Webb’s “Passengers” exhibit aren’t posed. Instead, they are depicted in transition as they move from one place to another – much like the landscapes they pass through, they’re in flux. Some are drawn from real life, some from photographs. and some from memory.

 
As an art director Webb designs and produces artwork for concrete floors, which gives him the opportunity to work on a massive scale - "canvases" up to 40,000 square feet. He works throughout the United States collaborating with architects, designers and furniture makers. www.quicksandstudio.com






Lucio Menegons music works exceptionally well with Webb’s artwork, Menegon will be performing live for the opening reception.  He is a guitarist, improviser, composer, collaborator and sonic artist. His work encompasses rock 'n' roll, blues, country, punk and experimental music, and will be accompanied opening night by the amazing Suki O'Kane.
www.kingtone.com

www.quicksandstudio.com

Hands in Motion, The works of Adekunle Kabir Adejare (Jareking)
A benefit for Paths of Native Africa



Opening artist party Saturday January 20th 07, 6pm-9pm
Show runs 01/16/07 through 02/15/07

FLOAT Gallery, in conjunction with The African Outlet, presents a sampling of the life’s work of Nigerian born Bay Area award winning artist Adekunle Kabir Adejare (Jareking).

Proceeds from sales of this event will go to Paths of Native Africa , a not-for-profit organization that undertakes self-sustaining projects, education and cultural exchange to help African people overcome hardships and improve their quality of life.   

Adejare choose to name this show “Hands in Motion” for his extensive combinations of artistic media. Pen and Ink drawing, Batik painting (applied as acrylic on canvas), Rice Paper painting, Quilting, Appliqué, Natural Indigo dyeing, Tie-Dye, and Embroidery all have important roles in his art pieces. He has also developed a technique that he calls “Plywood Etching”. Due to the intricacy and detail of Adejare’s methods, many of his pieces have taken as long as three months to complete.

Adejare, who values knowledge and wisdom, has made it his life work to “Document Past and Present Events for the Next Generations". His artwork illustrates historical events, current affairs, stories and folktales. The inspiration for his work stems from his culture, which is rich with stories about good and evil, kindness and selfishness, fate and determination. 

“I strive to connect those educational and universal lessons to daily life,” Adejare explains. 

Please join us for this very special show.