Velcrow Studios is a pop-up gallery and salon in Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco
Zannah Noe, Curator for monthly art shows, cooking demonstrations, music and spoken word.
U P C O M I N G
E X H I B I T I O N S
Velcrow's Annual Holiday Show
Featuring over 20 artists from the Bay Area
THURSDAY NIGHT OPENING Dec 8th 6-9pm
SAT & SUN 12-5PM
Participating artists:
Painting/Prints
April Hankins
Eric Joyner
Jenny Robinson
Kim Smith
Leila Noorani
Zannah Noe
Sirima Sataman
Zue Acker
Sculpture/Objects
Yong Han
Alex MacLeitch
Paula Clark
Indu Krishnan
Jewelry/Textiles
Jen Lake
Indu Krishnan
Petra Benach
Cassia Appell
Sirima Sataman
Min Wan Park
Books
Kim Smith
Eric Joyner
P A S T
E X H I B I T I O N S
Springboard & Bones
Featuring the paintings of April Hankins and Zannah Noe
THURSDAY NIGHT OPENING SEPT 22th 6-9pm
SAT & SUN 12-5PM
April Hankins received her BFA from The Massachusetts College of Art and earned her MFA from Yale University. An accomplished and noted painter we are thrilled that she is showing her latest series in our September show. Her latest work, the Springboard series earns its name from her process - immediacy of gesture painting to push to another place in her work. The impulses in the strokes produce patterns and emphasize lines - nothing is sacred in this process. Building quickly on each impulse she lets the painting lead wherever it goes. No editing or reworking; the paintings are created via a rhythm of instinct rather than working consciously within formal constraints.
Off April’s hand comes vibrate botanical shapes, curves of earthen tones and layers of translucent paisley forms. Her abstracts are lush, grounded and full of fantasy, with a trained painter’s hand, she lets loose and springs forward.
WEBSITE: www.aprilhankins.com
Zannah Noe just returned from a two-month road trip through the Southwest showing American Bones: Amusement Architecture. She will be showing new work inspired by the Southwest as well the Amusement Architecture series.
American Bones Series is an exploration our cultural threads as a nation. The Amusement Architecture work is the first installment of the series. The boardwalks and fairs where generations came of age are now dated. The artist is depicting the rides as a testament to our past; a time before American marketing and engineering skills merged into a global industry of themed entertainment. The Southwest series explores our archeological roots from ancient alien/Indian cultures, western motifs, cowboys, to our modern past of space science and missile testing.
WEBSITE: www.zannahnoe.com
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Buy & Bye Retrospective
Featuring the paintings of Petra Dufoo
WEBSITE: www.PetraDuffoo.com
FRIDAY NIGHT OPENING
May 20, 2011 6-9pm
Food provided by our chefs, Jason Snyder and Steve John of (Y)our Food Choices. Sample their amazing Homemade bread and cheese panni sandwiches!
Petra Duffoo has lived and painted in the Bay Area for over 15 years. She holds a BA in Psychology with an emphasis in Art Therapy from Sonoma State and a minor in Mathematics from University of California Santa Cruz. A certified acupuncturist from Berkeley Acupressure Institute and a teacher of qiqong; she has a unique sensibility of the organic, spiritual and concrete nature of numbers.
The Buy & Bye Retrospective represents work from the last seven years and shows her development in both abstract themes and color. From 2006 to present, Petra’s body of work fully embraces the abstract and linear parts of her personality as the earlier Pod series becomes less distinct. The linear elements are consistent but in 2009, her form loosens up and the palate explodes in bright and vivid colors. Her current work finds that the line is represented, not of itself, but as a product of two elements meeting - defining a line in the boundary of colors and shape.
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"Rhythm in Space"
Featuring the suspended sculptures of Soo-Hwa Yuan
WEBSITE: www.SooHwaYuan.com
Opening Night April 15 2011 5-9pm
April 16-17th 12-5pm
Soo-Hwa Yuan's work deals with the intersection of light, form, and movement. While his installations explore the mystery of space with light and fabric surfaces on a large scale, it is his suspended sculptures that embody these three elements on a more intimate level. With light, the sculptures create movement with shapes, and change shapes with movement. This dynamic interplay of light, form, and motion creates visible rhythms as air moves the sculptures through space.
The work will be shown in a unique space that allows the viewer to move around, beneath, and above the sculptures to view them from various levels and angles.
Yuan holds a Master of Architecture from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and BA in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley.
SooHwaYuan.com
Plus a Friday performance by Liesa Lietzke
"Playing at the Edge of Intelligibility"
WEBSITE: www.liesalietzke.com
Opening Night April 15th 5-9pm
Liesa will install herself as a performing sculpture in suitu (business tutu) and flirt with absurdity, accompanied by spoken word. She earned her MFA from California College of the Arts and her BA in Creative Arts from San José State University.
liesalietzke.com
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2011
Amusement Architecture Show
March 2011
Featuring Jenny Robinson’s large monotypes of derelict roller coasters and Zannah Noe’s new mixed media paintings of Coney Island. On the floor, Yong Han’s swirling sculptures of steel and fabric and Anna Andersson’s hammered out jewelry.
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Abstract Love
February 2011
A boutique show of jewelry, objects and paintings in celebration of Valentines and the dead of winter. The show will be an eclectic group of artists where exquisite Airstream inspired silver jewelry, whimsical DIY objects, dark sorceress pedants sit alongside steel sculpture and the chaos of abstract paintings. Participating artists: Dennis Parlente, Zannah Noe, Kristiana Spaulding, Jen Lake, Alex Macleich, Min Hwan Park
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2010
Holiday Show
December 2010
Holiday show featuring Kim Smith, collage. Eric Joyner, paintings & prints. Indu Krishnan, glass object and jewelry. Zannah Noe, painting & prints.
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Opening Night
March 2010
Featured artist: Zannah Noe, European Series, paintings. Erika Hannes, kinetic sculpture