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  • Sofa Underground: LE PARODY, ADAM BALBO, DAVID STARLIGHT and HANNA QUEVEDO

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    First Edition “Sofa Underground San Francisco”

    We are very proud to announce this Micro Art & Music Festival has landed in San Francisco with a very special first show in ATA Gallery. We will enjoy in this first edition a very international varied proposal with Le Parody, USA TOUR in California, she will share this special stage with two local musicians,
    Adam Balbo based in Oakland and David Starlight from San Francisco and the amazing  photograph Hanna Quevedo with a 35mm projection show Le Parody´s songs, there is no principal element that imposes upon the rest. Like in recipes that call for a slow cooked stew, the multiple layers are incorporated and savored in the precise moment. Invented folk melodies, electro-pop beats, toy glitches. Nevertheless, all of her pieces have a reoccurring presence, which is Sole´s voice. A voice often compared to latin-american classic folk singers like Lila Downs, but stained with Andalucian, Californian,
    and even Asian accents.

    ADAM BALBO (Oakland)
    He comes across for all the world as an exiled New York anti-folker. His music settles slap bang in the middle of territory most well known for the likes of Jeffrey Lewis and Lach… He can be wry, witty, cynical, self-deprecating and awkward all within the space of a line or

    DAVID STARLIGHT (San Francisco) Is a vagabond troubadour who keeps his heart tethered to the wind. He sings in the world. He is a ragged street poet forever entranced and attuned to the dance between sky and sea. He is a true 21st Century North American folk artist who keeps his ears to the ground

    HANNA QUEVEDO (San Francisco)
    This amazing Analog Photographer brings us her last artwork in a projection 35mm projection Show : “A walk through India”
    “The photographs of Hanna Quevedo are completely magnetic. In equal parts they are intriguing, evocative, emotionally connecting and ultimately thoroughly engaging. Hanna sees the world she inhabits as a keen observer. Her ability to move through externals to the heart of her subject is strong and direct. It is through her distinct observations that she uncovers the unusual amidst the ordinary. Her sensitivity to her surroundings, both physical and personal are evident in the way in which she sees. Observation and engagement coexist in all of Hanna’s photographs.

    leparodybandcamp.com
    adambalbobandcamp.com
    starlightylosfarolitos.bandcamp.com
    hannaquevedo.com
    sofaunderground.com

  • Cine Mas: Delusions of Grandeur

    GrandeurThe Cine Mas SF Monthly Screening Series will be screening  Delusions of Grandeur,  Directed by Iris Almaraz & Gustavo Ramos.

    San Francisco is known as the home of progressive liberals and the free-spirited; so it only makes sense that after quitting her depression medication, Lulu, a rebellious, grungy girl moves here to live with her transgender fairy godmother, Illusion. Bored by her job at a local coffee shop, Lulu leaves no stone unturned when it comes to her sexual lust. Meanwhile, Illusion searches for someone to love and Lulu’s friend Mario turns on her intrigue for living outside the box. With its avant-garde perspective, Delusions of Grandeur is a bright and colorful presentation of the struggle from adolescence into adulthood. Enjoy this local spin on the coming-of-age tale for a new generation.

    Familiar sights in San Francisco. Cameo by nightlife icon Juanita More!

    Buy your tickets online at http://bit.ly/1rPFQpk or call 1-800-838-3006.

     

  • Openings: Beast by the Waterfall Guesthouse & Together Forever

    Gallery: Beast by the Waterfall Guesthouse

     June 11, 2014 – June 30, 2014

     Wenxin Zhang (b. 1989) lives and works in San Francisco. She received her MFA at California College of the Arts. Zhang creates non-linear photographic novels. In her writings and photography, she describes her experiences of growing up in China, her current life in San Francisco, and her personal relationships. Zhang’s work has exhibited widely in United States and China. Zhang is now doing and Artist in Residence at Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco. Zhang was selected as a finalist in 2014 Three Shadows Photography Award, Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award, and Photographic Museum of Humanity New Generation Award. Also, Zhang will be an artist in residence at The Center for Photography in summer 2014.

    The on-going project Beast by the Waterfall Guesthouse discusses lost and rediscovered desire, the evolution of curiosity and estrangement between childhood and adulthood in human life, and how the recent history has affected my generation and me in an illusive way. Beast by the Waterfall Guesthouse consists of photographic and written works to create a nonlinear story, in which the boundaries between animal and human are blurred, as well as the sense of time.


    Window: Together Forever

    June 11, 2014- June 30, 2014

    jbrATATogether Forever is part of an ongoing body of work that explores the way in which media projections of reality increasingly and with greater immediacy distort our perception of experience. Starting with news media, these trickle-down distortions permeate, then supersede, the objective happenstance of occurrence. The design of these new truths is seductive, its arc a shadow of our own fears and desires. By embracing this veiled stream of myth I hope to rechannel it, to slow it down long enough to catch the mirror in its surface. Together Forever is part time based installation, and part experimental brand identity.

    Be the mirror. It’s up to you now.