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  • Monica Tiulescu: Recent works

    MonicaMonica’s work utilizes systems theory methodology and concepts derived from observations that demonstrate biological growth. Projects are grown into architectonic composites that generate hyper articulated forms and spatial fields.

    The species work is grown through varied aggregation at multiple scales. The objective is the production of new systems and organizational methods that represent morphogenetic evolutionary traits.

    The paintings explore fluctuations between disfiguration and figuration between layered fields/buddings and familiar beings. Similar to the species work, the paintings are assembled based on a logic of growth. The picture plane is amassed to create spatial amplification for the figures to oscillate and dialogue in tension with the viewer.

    Monica has taught at the undergraduate and graduate college levels since 2000. She is currently the Art Director of Architecture + Design at the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts (SOTA) and developing an architecture and design high school curriculum started in 2015.

     

  • ATA @ SFPL (screening at Noe Valley library)

    Artists’ Television Access (ATA) teams up with SFPL to mine the treasures in the Library’s 16mm film archive. Join us for a quarterly screening series of fantastic movies.These short films remind us that the word “movie” comes from “movement”. They emphasize motion and music instead of the verbal.

    Program: all films are presented in 16mm.

    Phantomatic Bikes (Andrew “Mush” Emmons, 1971) 8.5 min Color.
    Cyclists race along the winding roads of the Marin Headlands as a rock and roll organ pulsates on the soundtrack. The San Francisco Public Library used to hold an annual Festival of Young Filmmakers, and this pure kinetic expression won a prize in the 1972 edition. Its teenaged director went on to become an acclaimed photographer and cinematographer, now based in Brazil.
    Baggage (Alexander Neel, 1969) 22 min B/W.
    Mamako Yoneyama is a world-class mime equally influenced by Marcel Marceau and Zen. In this wordless psychodrama, she carries a metaphorical weight across Bay Area locations from the airport to the Emeryville Mudflat. Printmaker Jack Stauffacher plays a clergyman in one scene filmed at the St. Francis of Assisi Chruch.
    Man and His World (Homer Groening, 1966) 2 min Color.
    One of many varied short films made by the father of ‘Simpsons’ creator Matt Groening, who named that family’s patriarch after his own dad (who didn’t even like doughnuts).  If Planet Earth ever commissioned a public service announcement it might look like this.
    Pas de Deux (Norman McLaren, 1968) 14 min B/W.
    The most hauntingly beautiful film ever nominated for the Best Live-Action Short Oscar. This groundbreaking experiment from the founder of the National Film Board of Canada’s animation department, applies painstaking optical printing techniques to a bewitching dance choreographed by Ludmilla Chiriaeff. The soundtrack is Romanian pan flute music.
    Luminauts (Christian Schiess, 1982) 9.5 min Color.
    This is one of the few films made by a local artist whose light sculptures can be seen at the Exploratorium and elsewhere. His brother Michael’s electronic music score pulsates with the images: against a dark background, mysterious figures (Judith Harding and Ed Holmes) clad in special “light-suits” twirl neon wands in a high-tech tribute to Eadweard Muybridge’s nineteenth-century motion studies.
    Noe Valley Branch Library      
    451 Jersey at Castro st, Sf

  • Small Press Traffic: Karen Weiser and Julie Patton

    Small Press TrafficPlease join us for the inimitable Karen Weiser and Julie Patton!

    Karen Weiser is the author of two full length collections of poetry: the recently released Or, The Ambiguities and To Light Out (UDP), as well as various and assorted chapbooks. Currently she’s working on the libretto for an opera (“You Who Made the Heavens Incline”) in collaboration with composer Peter Gilbert. It is about one of the first great composers, Kassia, a 9th century Byzantine nun. She lives in New York City where she teaches and writes on 19th century American Literature.

    Julie Ezelle Patton was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio.  Her work has primarily appeared in spoken-sung live performances in honor of the embodied presence of language.  She has performed throughout North America and Europe for decades.
    Patton’s most recent bound-ink-to-paper production is Notes for Some (Nominally) Awake. Her work has appeared in ((eco (lang)(uage(reader)), I’ll Drown My Book, What I Say and other publications. Julie is a self-­proclaimed “phonemenologist” whose book length serial poem B (Tender Buttons Press) and Writing with Crooked Ink (Belladonna) are forthcoming. In 2015, Julie was honored with a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award and an Atlantic Center for the Arts Master Artist Residency. She has taught creative writing at Case Western Reserve University, New York University and “around the block” through Teachers & Writers Collaborative and other arts organizations. She is the founding director of Let it Bee Ark Hive and the Salon des Refuge collective.
    Please consider becoming a member of SPT. Members get into all readings and talks for free!
    Visit Small Press Traffic’s website here.