Re: SF city hallblind art show

pete eckert writes:
> I have some photos up at a show at San Francisco city hall. If any one on
> the list lives in SF drop by if you have the time. the show will be up
> until September.
>
> (I also have some photos up in Sacramento at the True Love cafe. But those
> are drawing with light instead of pin hole. )

Thought I'd follow up on this. I visited City Hall last week.

Pete's work is part of a pretty big show called INSIGHTS 2002, which is
sponsored by LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Twenty-six
artists participated in the show, and painting, drawing, printmaking,
photography, sculpture, and mixed media are all represented. There's a
nice brochure available, too, that reproduces one piece for each artist
and has artist statements, titles and prices.

Pete is being modest; he has four pieces in the show, and he received an
Oustanding Artist Award. The first photograph, Saloon, is taken from
the dark recesses of a bar; it's blurry, but the form of the room can
be made out, as well as the forms of drinkers at the bar. Pure white
light enters the bar through the door and suffuses the front of the
space with a beautiful glow. The other pieces, Monocle Man, Eraser Man,
and Broadcaster, are what I take to be long exposures in which an out of
focus human form emerges. In Eraser Man, the figure has been brought out
of darkness with, one assumes, a flashlight being traced over his body.
In Monocle Man, the figure is again blurry and emerging from darkness,
but a scene out the window is in focus.

I should've written about these last week when they were still fresh
in my mind. Sorry Pete, but congratulations.

Anyway, I'd encourage locals to stop by and see the show. There are four
hallways full of art much of the time in the basement of City Hall, and
the SF Arts Commission Gallery is across the street on the ground floor of
the War Memorial (former SFMOMA space). My friend Holly Blake's paintings
are on view in City Hall right now, too, around the corner from Pete's.

--Eric
Received on Wed Jul 31 11:59:50 2002