5 CLAUDE LANE

Call for Submissions!

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 12:20:05 -0700

Hello artist friends! For the second year, 5 Claude Lane Gallery has partnered with Bombay Sapphire and RUSH Philanthropic to present the Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series! All visual Artists are encouraged to apply. Sponsored by Bombay Sapphire, Rush Philanthropic & 5 Claude Lane Gallery, as well as Galleries across the United States! California submissions chosen will be exhibited at 5 Claude Lane Gallery, San Francisco, Opening on October 4, with an Artists Reception the evening of, from 6-9pm.

Two Artists will be chosen from these exhibitors, these two winners pieces will be exhibited during Art Basel Miami and will have the chance at a further exhibition in NYC at the Rush Arts Gallery in 2013. We strongly encourage all artists to apply, please pass along to your art affiliates!

Submit: All Visual Artists welcome! One entry per person, per day
Submission Deadline: August 24, 2012

SF Exhibition: 5 Claude Lane Gallery, Thursday October 4, 2012, 6-9pm. Opening Reception & Winner Announcements!
Join us for cocktails, bites, and winning artworks!

Basel Exhibition: December, 2012
Winners NYC Exhibition: February, 2013

submit online! and see full rules & regulations http://www.facebook.com/bombaysapphire/app_254658777929504
For more information visit our website 5claudelane.com

Chelsea Brown at Modern Eden Gallery, July 14th

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:44:00 -0700

July is shaping up to be a fun month filled with great art. In addition to our SF Aid for Animals benefit on July 21st, Chelsea Brown, who showed some of her fantastic drawings in our January show, Days to Come, has a solo exhibition, SheWolf, at Modern Eden Gallery on July 14th. The opening is 6-10 pm at Modern Eden Gallery, 403 Francisco Street.

SF Aid for Animals Fundraiser, July 21st.

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:35:46 -0700

Mark Your Calendar!
Join SFAfA and 5 Claude Lane Gallery for an evening of wine & bites!

SAN FRANCISCO AID FOR ANIMALS BENEFIT
SATURDAY JULY 21, 2012
5 UNTIL 8PM
$40 TICKET per person, benefits SFAfA
RSVP to info@5claudelane.com by July 16!

Hosted by 5 Claude Lane Gallery in downtown SF, this evening is a special event to benefit SF Aid for Animals. The evening will include:
Passed Hors d’oeuvres & Wine provided by Gitane Restaurant & Bar
Artist talk by the exuberant Mixed-Media Artist, Silvia Poloto
Auction of a recent piece by the Artist
Ticket Proceeds and 10% of any art sales during the evening will benefit
SF AID FOR ANIMALS!
RSVP to 5 Claude Lane Gallery by Monday, July 16th
info@5claudelane.com or call 415-956-1310
Space is limited so please reserve your spot early!

SFAfA is a fiscally sponsored project of Community Initiatives, a 501(c)(3) organization and a project of the San Francisco Veterinary Medical Association

work from Silvia Poloto

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 16:19:43 -0700

work from Silvia Poloto

Upcoming Event - Silvia Poloto Solo Exhibition at 5 Claude Lane

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:38:03 -0700

Friday, June 22nd, will be the opening of our next exhibition,Instinct, a solo exhibition of new works by Silvia Poloto.

Brazilian-born Silvia Poloto is an accomplished artist working in a range of visual disciplines. Recognized for her dynamic compositions and color sensibility, Poloto exploits a vibrant visual palette of boldness and subtlety. Her artwork is characterized by equal amounts of surprise, playfulness and provocation.

Poloto has worked in a variety of media, including photography, sculpture, painting and printmaking. Elements of each of these media find their home in her current work. In describing this exhibition Poloto writes, “I tend to work in series and for this exhibition I have chosen to present work from several distinct yet undeniably connected bodies of work. My work tends towards an amalgam of materials and ideas with one thing in common. Saturated with my energy, the images are personal and visceral responses to life as I live it daily.”

While San Francisco is her current home, her work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and abroad, including United Arab Emirates, France, Spain, Jordan, Italy, Romania, Croatia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece and China among others. In the Bay Area, her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Italian American Museum, the Triton Museum and the DeYoung Museum, where she was an artist-in-residence. Poloto’s work has been acquired by more than 90 institutional and corporate collections around the US.

Sweet Call and Response - new book from Steve MacDonald and Dana Smith

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:48:16 -0700

Steve MacDonald, who showed some excellent work in our January show, Days To Come, emailed over some images of his newest project, a limited edition book he produced with fellow artist Dana Smith. Here’s what he had to say about the project:

“Sweet Call and Response was developed with an emphasis on experimentation with the materials - digital printing on canvas, photo collage, machine sewn thread, and sewn collage.

Instinctively, messages are sent to attract a response. This book is a visual poem about communication through the interplay of universal symbols and photographic images.
The book is printed entirely on canvas specially coated for digital printing with pigmented inks. A variety of sewing techniques, such as patchwork and embroidery, are applied to the pages over the ink. Each page of the book is treated with meticulous stitching executed by hand using a home sewing machine. Pages are affected on both sides by the stitching. Inverse images create a visual echo woven into the design of the book, which propels the narrative ever forward.”

More information about the book here.

Serge Gay Jr., "Smashed"

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:10:50 -0700

Serge posted a photo of this excellent new painting he made for “Wasted”, a group show at WWA Gallery (9517 Culver Boulevard, Culver City) opening June 9th.

Smashed, Serge Gay Jr. 2012

Nemo Gould at Google's Building 43

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 13:30:20 -0700

Here’s an installation shot of Nemo Gould’s sculptures on display in Google’s Building 43 in Mountain View. The sculptures will be on display through July. More photos of Nemo’s Google installation here

Upcoming Event - Peter Adamyan at Spoke Art

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 12:20:39 -0700

Mark down June 7th in your calendars… Peter Adamyan, who showed work here at 5 Claude in January, will be debuting new works in the back room at Spoke Art on Sutter. His new work continues along the same theme of emulating vintage B-Movie posters while injecting his unique brand of satire, political and social commentary, and personal narrative into the works. His work will be shown alongside New World Hoarder, an exhibit of new works from Casey Weldon.

(image from PeterAdamyan.com)

Congratulations!

Sat, 12 May 2012 14:57:00 -0700

A big congrats to the CCA and SFAI graduating classes of 2012, including Mia Christopher, who showed some of her work in the “Days To Come” group show this January, and Joseph Sanders, who is in our current show, “Someplace in Space.”

Kristin Farr - Hexagons

Fri, 11 May 2012 14:07:21 -0700

Kristin Farr - Hexagons

nemomatic: Mayday! Mayday! New piece finished up last minute...

Fri, 11 May 2012 12:14:53 -0700

nemomatic:

Mayday! Mayday!

New piece finished up last minute before our show this weekend!

A stranger in an even stranger land finds himself in peril, desperate for a safe place to land.

Materials:

Radio cabinet, chalk line, license plate light bulb cover, typewriter cooling fan blade, radio tuning knobs, book illustration clippings, fresnel lens, LEDs, motors

Natural Selection - Nemo Gould, Jeremy Mayer, and friends

Fri, 11 May 2012 12:13:53 -0700

If you’re in Oakland this evening, be sure to pop by Lost and Foundry Studios, 305 Center Street, to check out a new crop of works from Nemo Gould, Jeremy Mayer, Jesse Small, and guest artists. The opening goes from 5 to 9 pm.

Joseph Sanders at the Phoenix Hotel Tonight

Fri, 11 May 2012 12:01:00 -0700

Tonight will be the San Francisco Art Institute’s MFA graduate art exhibition at the Phoenix Hotel. Be sure to check out Joseph Sanders’ work in Room 22. More of Joseph’s work is currently at the gallery as part of “Someplace in Space”.

Upcoming Event - Helen Bayly at LoPo Gallery Saturday 5/12

Thu, 10 May 2012 11:34:00 -0700

This Saturday, be sure to stop by LoPo Gallery (1141 Polk at Hemlock, SF) for the opening of Helen Bayly’s solo show, “Lust For Life”. Helen will be unveiling several new paintings, as well as an installation inside the gallery. Helen is an extraordinary artist who we had the pleasure of including in our January show, “Days To Come”. Below are a couple sneak peeks of the show from her blog, The Helen Tree (http://thehelentree.blogspot.com/).

Hi-Fructose covers Peter Adamyan's curated show, "Dark Spectrum"

Thu, 10 May 2012 11:19:00 -0700

Hi-Fructose covers Peter Adamyan's curated show, "Dark Spectrum":

Peter Adamyan, who was in our January show, “Days To Come”, curated this fantastic show in the space that used to be Mama Buzz on Telegraph in Oakland. He got a nice feature on the Hi-Fructose website.

Someplace in Space Featured Photographer - Maciej Makalowski

Tue, 08 May 2012 12:31:46 -0700

Like many people in the Bay Area, Maciej Makalowski has done a lot of moving around. His parents, both scientists, moved the family often for jobs at different institutions. Leaving Poland when he was seven years old, his family would settle briefly in Montreal before moving to the United States when Maciej was nine. He would also live in Washington, DC; Pennsylvania; and Long Beach, CA.

He received his BFA in painting from Pennsylvania State University in 2008, and his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2011. When asked about his transitions between painting and photography, he states, “I studied to be a painter. My dad and brother were both really into photography when I was a child. I didn’t start taking photos seriously until the end of undergrad, maybe 2006 or 2007.”

He reflects on his work in general, “We are living in dismal times. My work creates a record of the physical manifestation of hopelessness, apathy, alienation, desire, loss, loneliness, and melancholy created by the conditions of modern life. My work does not offer solutions to predicaments, but illustrates and exposes them. Even though this view of life is bleak, within my work, there are always various elements of irony and humor. The formal aspects are as important to me as the subject matter. Through the inherent quality of the medium, I convey these fragile emotional states.”

Shooting his images on expired film, he owns about 30 cameras, only four or five of which work, mostly gifts or picked up from the side of the street. These include four Polaroid cameras, an old Polish twin reflex, some Eastern European SLRs, and an array of point and shoots. He also has 16-millimeter, Super 8, and 8-millimeter motion cameras.

Influences include fellow photographers here in San Francisco, his friends, who often end up as his models, Terry Richardson, Harmony Korine, Dianne Arbus, Helmut Newton, and the never ending flood of images on Tumblr.

Someplace in Space Featured Photographer - Haris Mesic

Sat, 05 May 2012 14:38:26 -0700

Haris Mesic, while a transplant to the Bay Area, has definitely adopted some of what is considered San Francisco culture, from his long hair, ever-present skateboard, love of capoeira, and easy-going attitude. “San Francisco has been my home since ‘95. I could not see my self living in any other city in America. We are surrounded by a land whose beauty, bounty, and blessedness are only rivaled by the hearts of the people who inhabit it.”

Haris and his family moved to the Bay Area to escape the conflict in what was once Yugoslavia. The effects of the genocide Haris witnessed as a child are deeply engrained in his personal philosophy, a quest to find light in a world filled with darkness.

Haris returned to what is now Bosnia to document the areas around Sarajevo as they undergo transition. “Bosnia is in the process of joining the EU. Joining the EU has a lot of economical rules that came along with it… and as we’ve seen in the past, economic progress always leads to cultural destruction. This first half of the series is about capturing a small part of Bosnia, or at least what is left of Bosnia. Then, sometime in the future once things have changed more, I will go back and finish the series in an attempt to hold up a mirror to people as an examination of our obsession with capital and profit and what we are willing to give up for it. Yugoslavia was once a state of idealism…three very different faith-based cultures living together as one and a government that took care of its people, all devoured by greed. There is much examination needed of what happened and why.”

He discovered photography as an outlet while attending school at John O’Connell High School, which offered a program in which students could enroll in free classes at City College of San Francisco. He currently shoots his photos with a Voigtlander Bessa III bellows camera, preferring 120 film.

More of Haris Mesic’s work can be seen on his website http://onelifephotography.net

All of this freaky weather has been making for some really...

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:03:00 -0700

All of this freaky weather has been making for some really amazing photos. JR Doty, who is also in the current show, Someplace in Space, took this amazing picture of the bridge using an IPhone.

Someplace in Space Featured Photographer - Leo VanMunching

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:42:40 -0700

Leo VanMunching was born in Chicago in 1955, relocating to the Bay Area in 1980. A self-taught photographer, VanMunching was a philosophy professor at UC Berkeley before starting his own photography studio.

On the subject of what has influenced him and shaped his work, he talks about what inspired his most recent project, a book:

“Like many photographers who prefer the results of a large view camera, I initially fell under the spell of Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, though I soon realized that nature was not the subject matter for me. Street photography, on the other hand, seemed just the antidote to my disenchantment with academia and its isolation from the world outside the ivory tower. But hauling a view camera around the city struck me as both wildly impractical and quite retrograde, since the best street photographers of the last 75 years have favored small cameras for their fluid ability to capture the fleeting and spontaneous.

“But around then, someone gave me a book of Atget’s early-twentieth-century studies of changing Paris, which opened my eyes to the possibilities of using a large camera to document buildings and streets, especially the rapid expansion of downtown San Francisco. In learning to operate an 8x10, I came to appreciate Richard Avedon’s portraiture even more, which sent me searching for his influences. Luckily, SF MOMA just happened to be hosting a retrospective of August Sander’s chronicling of German life from the 1920’s - ‘40’s. Sander’s uncanny ability to record something about his subject’s character inspired a second direction in my street photography.”

“From this, as well as my exposure to Max Yavno’s 1949 record of his year photographing San Francisco, I decided to work on a book about turn-of-the-21st-century San Francisco. Even if I couldn’t capture “the decisive moment” that is available to someone using a digital SLR, I was intent on discovering what the more formal results of very old photographic technology might be when applied to the depiction of a modern city.”