Evolutions

My new precious collection 'Evolutions', is now on show at Pieces of Eight..
More photos to come!
And more work is ever evolving!

Stephan Hawk & Amanda Verwey exhibit @ Gallery North

OCTOBER 2012

PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEPHAN HAWK

ILLUSTRATIONS BY AMANDA VERWEY 

Opening Party on second Friday, October 12, 7-9pm

1790 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley Gourmet Ghetto

We are so happy to have these artists on exhibit for the month of October 2012.

Stephan, we met in West Oakland living next door to our art live loft and he brought Amanda on board, who works for YBCA in San Francisco as an illustrator.

The Vernissage is hosted by Tom Franco, includes live music, spoken word, complimentary treats and a donation bevvy bar  including 23Monkeytree Kombucha microbrew.

Gilman Street artists rock opening show at Public Market

Kristina Lim and Korianna Kisielprice, exhibiting at Public Market from September 15 to October 15 showed up with easels and paints and created a piece during opening night each.

The video also shows Tom Franco emcee the live music which is scheduled by TMMG, the marketing partners at Public Market, musicians interested in playing live can contact them on their website sign up page.

Next opening night is scheduled for Friday, October 26, 5 to 8pm.
5959 Shellmound Street, Emeryville, CA 94608.
Inside the Public Market Hall with international cuisine options and a kid's play space.

SAM RUBIN'S FILM CLUB @ GALLERY NORTH

Announcing Firehouse collaborator and friend Sam Rubin's film club premiere

Young Bay Area actor and award-winning student filmmaker, Sam Rubin, hosts a Film Club at the Firehouse Gallery North twice a month, beginning September 29th at 7 p.m.
Sam plans to show films mostly off the beaten path, starting with Director Satsuo Yamamoto’s Shinobi No Mono, a complicated story of ninja politics with lots of action. This film was one of the early ninja melodramas and popularized the ninja in film and television using real ninjitsu techniques. It also influenced the James Bond film, You Only Life Twice. Sam chose this film because it is beautifully shot using natural light.

Each month, there will be a theme: October (Horror Month) features: Real horror: Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola) and (fun Vampire horror) Let the Right One In (Thomas Alfredson), again, both beautifully shot, well-executed (pardon the pun) films.


See Sam Rubin's full bio below*.
Film Club Premiere:
September 29th, 7pm
1790 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley Gourmet Ghetto
Donations gratefully accepted 

Shinobi No Mono (JAPAN: Satsuo Yamamoto) a complicated story of ninja politics with lots of action. This film was one of the early ninja melodramas and popularized the ninja in film and television using real ninjitsu techniques. It also influenced the James Bond film,You Only Life Twice. Sam chose this film because it is beautifully shot using natural light.

*Sam is a local Bay Area singer, actor, and filmmaker. He's been in over two dozen local stage productions, including an internship (invitation only) at The New Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, and over thirty indie films in both featured and support roles. He had his first lead in John Sullivan's graduate student film "i" when he was eleven.
Sam has always had access to video camera and made his first films in grade school. He went on to study filmmaking in San Francisco atThe Film Workshop. His award-winning films have been shown in festivals from LA to Milan, including the following list: LA FilmFestival (2x, including receiving Target's "Dream in Color" award for best student director), KSCM's "Spotlight" high school film festival (award for best Drama in film), SF Film Festival (Golden Gate Award Honorable Mention), Mill Valley Film Festival (3x, including being the cameraman for this year's "The Adventures of Guitar Greg"), The National Film Festival for Talented Youth (Seattle) (2x), Tower of Youth Film Festival (Sacramento) (4x), Chicago Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, the Alabama Sidewalk Film Festival, a couple of gender-related festivals in NYC and Connecticut (can't recall the names) and the Milan Film Festival.
Currently, Sam plays Rocket in an Internet TV show entitled "The Rocket Family Chronicles" which will be featured on The Autism Channel TV, a new internet TV channel. He is writing a one-man stage show (Acting Lessons) about his emergence from autism (Director: Michele Shay). And he is working on his current short film, "Painting Karla."
And Sam is author of the book And...Action! My TAKE on Autism (and Life) available at http://www.therocketfamilychronicles.com/action

Precious collection evolving...

Join Us For General Conference!

General Conference is coming! 

From the Church News Page:

"The First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles invite all members and friends of the Church to participate in the 182nd Semiannual General Conference on Saturday and Sunday, October 6 and 7, 2012.

Messages will be given by the First Presidency, members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and other General Authorities and general officers of the Church."

In the Greater Houston area, live broadcasts will be hosted in meetinghouses of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM on October 6th and 7th.

In the Kingwood and surrounding areas, the following cable channels will carry the live broadcasts:

Comcast of Houston channel 76
Suddenlink of Kingwood channel 23

Conference.lds.org and Mormonchannel.org will also carry the broadcast online.  Mormonchannel will carry it in English only and Conference.lds.org will broadcast the video and audio in sixteen different languages.

We hope you can join us!

NEXT FEATURE FRIDAY SHOW SEP 28 2012

Coming up fast:

Feature Friday Art opening night with Curated Art Event by Firehouse Art Collective directors: Tom Franco and Julia Lazar.

September 28, 6-9pm inside the Public Market hall in Emeryville, CA 94608

Featured artists:

Korianna Kisielprice
Kristina Lim

With light refreshments, a big live music line up emceed by Tom Franco, and a chance to meet the artists.

Always fun and with so many choices of ethnic foods you just can't go wrong...also check out our friends at Hot Italian if you are craving hipster ambiance.

Korianna Kisielprice

Kristina Lim

Bio
Kristina Lim is known for her vibrant landscapes captured with the bleeding translucency of watercolors and the thick intensity of water miscible oils. “The solidity of a mountain peak jutting out of fog, the waves breaking in a green blue ocean – I’m inspired by nature’s uncompromising force. Like the mariner shooting the albatross we are destroying what saves us.”
Born in Berkeley, California in 1981, Kristina is an artist and activist currently living in her hometown. A member of the Firehouse Art Collective, she has had a solo show at the Mudrakers Café in Berkeley, and exhibited at 200 in Brooklyn, NY, SOMArts in San Francisco, and at La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley amongst others. Kristina curated an exhibit at the Chinese Cultural Centerin San Franciscoin 2007 featuring two of her pieces. She is also an artist with Bok Choy Apparel. Kristina graduated from Vassar Collegein 2004 with a degree in Studio Art.

Artist Statement

The solidity of a mountain peak jutting out of fog, the waves breaking in a green blue ocean – I’m inspired by nature’s uncompromising force. Like the mariner shooting the albatross we are destroying what saves us.
The mountains have been my redemption. When the pieces of my life cracked and fell apart like a jackhammer on porcelain, I found solace in climbing mountains and volcanoes, swimming in the Amazon and the Pacific, and painting those moments of peace, wonder, and beauty. I let the physicality of medium – the bleeding pigment of the water color run and create clouds, light, space, and waves. Or how the thick painterly quality of the oils work to create solid mountains and expressive light-touched clouds. The medium and my physical experience with place guide the process.
There is so much in life we try to control and predict. Nature at least is honest; there is no facade of day after day of unchanging normalcy. Life mimicking life much like art responds to life through a watery whisper of clouds and the strength of a purple white snow capped volcano.