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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.

On November 4th Artists’ Television will return to accessf Saturday nights at 10pm, Cable Channel 29 in San Francisco. ATV is one of the longest running cable access shows in the country and is comprised of video and film screened at, created at, or found lying around Artists’ Television Access.

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November’s Program:

11/4- in between: a brief visual history of artists’ television bumpers

11/11- au pairs- come again; urgh! its a music war
post modern (wo)man; mack mcfarland
post mortem crush I: marlene diectrich- morocco; day v jones
sew; sarah elizabeth witt & nicholas gurewitch

11/18- xray specs’ section; punk the early years
video uhhh!; jessie england
post mortem crush 2: vanita smyth- they raided the joint; day v jones
how to make peace with the bush administration; zcd//benvd
x- beyond and back; urgh! its a music war
invisible invaders; carl diehl

11/25- echo & the bunnymen-the puppet; urgh! its a music war
untitled bike dance;
slits’ section; punk the early years
berlin alexanderplatz; wago kreider
post mortem crush 3: edna mae harris – taint no good; day v jones
eventide; cassandra c. jones