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Sea Monster

Eduardo del Rio was born in Salamanca, Spain and grew up in Yuba City, California. He received his B.A. in Spanish Literature from the University of San Francisco and a professional illustration certificate from the Universidad de Salamanca. He creates his artwork at his studio by the beach in the outer sunset and does design for companies such as Sony, Gap, and The Body Shop. He is currently showing a selection from his curious and lively Monstruos series of oil paintings along with various illustrations from his Clock Monster series. Also on display are several illustrations inspired by the lyrics of the incomparable, Bob Dylan.

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“apolitical” by Chad Stayrook

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The Mad Genius returns!

Recent San Francisco Art Institute graduate, Chad Stayrock….Staybrook….er, Stayrook takes a break from his new job at Sarah Lawrence college in New York to grace the Valencia Street corridor with his pirated breed of science/art/consumer logic. Sometimes he’s setting off mousetraps with a typewriter in the name of the big bang theory, other times he dons pink bunny ears and just wants to play a little ditty about a piece of string named Ahab that floats out to sea.You just never know what you’re gonna get with this guy.

This installation is one of the curated-in contributions (by ATA Webzine Editor and Gallery Exhibitions Coordinator Kathleen Quillian) to the group show: Order, Measurement and Systems, staged in conjunction with the release of ATA webzine issue #3 (http://www.atasite.org/zine/)

Chad’s work can also be seen (but not dismantled, please!) during the month of November in the 2004 Emerge group exhibition at the Old Mint, sponsored by GenArt.

The Stayrook Equation: governing overall artistic value

(VA + m) / i = PV
thus
(((PV2) Im) Ic) / X = OV

where:
VA = valid argument
m = medium
i = artist’s intention
PV = proposed artistic value
Im = intensity of the communication/concept as derived from the medium
Ic = intensity of the meaning as derived from the communication/concept
X = audience expectation
OV = overall artistic value

The valid argument plus the medium used, divided by the intention of the artist equals the proposed artistic value of the work. Thus, the proposed artistic value squared and multiplied by the intensity of the communication/concept as derived from the medium, multiplied by the intensity of the meaning as derived from the communication/concept, all divided by the audience expectation equals the overall artistic value of the work.

http://www.chadstayrook.com

Finding Beauty Where Nobody Does

Plinio de Oliveira—— Finding Beauty Where Nobody Does——- My complete name is Plinio Jacintho Waller de Oliveira and I am a 31 years old artist born in Sao Paulo, Brazil. I began doing art seriously on January of 1999 when I took a drawing class at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz with Mr. Donald Roy Thompson that learned art form Wayne Thiebald. From then until today I have been either drawing or painting every semester in my college career. My first painting class was taken in the fall of 2003 at the College of San Mateo. I also took painting classes at Cabrillo College and at the University of California of Santa Cruz. Much of my inspiration comes from artists in my family. My Dad is a very good photographer. He worked really hard on drawing classes when he attended Cabrillo College, making some really beautiful pieces. My Dad’s uncle Claudio Barros Barreto was a professional painter that made very beautiful work and he also taught art in a very important University in Brazil called Fundacao Armando Alvares Penteado. Most of my works in this show are abstract pieces that are very colorful and full of patterns and geometric shapes. I feel like a lot of my work has a good amount of development and for example the painting “soccer, surf and hangliders” has about eighteen hours of work. On “soccer, surf and hangliders” I used a technique were I applied layers of paint and glazes that were water mixed with white paint. My work of geometric shapes happened in the summer of 2006 in a painting class that I took with a teacher and gentleman named Mr. Frank Galuska at UCSC. My more patterned work started happening in the fall 2006 in a painting class with UCSC instructor Jenny Mc Dade. In this show I also have Relief prints, graphite, pastel and charcoal drawing and some paintings that were from still life that I loved doing and that were an attempt to paint more realistic. The still life paintings are my latest work.