Ogee (the drawing)

  

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 O Gee Curves

photo by Styrous®

I’m reminded of a cello’s heart.
— harp curves
— young body slopes
— architecture school, where I was introduced to this elegant, multi curved line, soft,  and of Middle Eastern origin.

It’s visual significance indicates a message of fullness and double fullness as in a young human face from 3/4 rear view.

A single one of these lines appears to lie flat on the page. Two of them (not too far removed) create an impression of volume or fullness.

This drawing, informed by the cutouts on a violin, tends to be phallic if it weren’t for the sparse use of straight lines creating more chiseled 3d shapes dancing side by side.

Writing about a drawing is like writing about wine: very subjective and questionable .  .  .

In the drawing I like the way the lines kiss the soft paper. Poetry.

tw—— Jingletown, 6 December, 2019       

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Blue-Green showing in Magnificent @ the Gray Loft Gallery

Blue-Green 4 & 5

38" x 67"

mixed media

April 7 – May 12, 2018

Gray Loft Gallery is presenting Magnificent, which will remain on view until Saturday, May 12th.  This event is free and the public is invited to attend.

Magnificent is a group show that celebrates large-scale work by Bay Area artists.  The pieces in the exhibit include painting, mixed media, photography and sculpture.  Chosen not only for their scale - but also for their visual impact - the works have an intensity, significance and brilliance.  The exhibit hopes to inspire viewers to explore the experience of viewing large two- and three-dimensional artwork in a gallery setting.

Participating Artists
Betty Jo Costanzo       Katie Hawkinson        Silvie Lukacova
Javier Manrique        Julie Nelson-Gal        Ginny Parsons
Bruce Pizzichill       Simone Simon       Jan Watten
Jon Wessel       Tom White       John Wood

2nd Friday Jingletown Reception:

April 13, 6 – 9 pm


Slow Art Day:

Saturday, April 14, 12:00 – 2:00 pm


Closing reception & wine tasting with Rock Wall Winery:
Saturday, May 12, 4:00 – 6:30

Gallery Hours: 
Saturdays, 1:00 - 5:00 pm and by appointment





Join the Gray Loft Gallery for Slow Art Day! 

One day each year – this year April 14  – people all over the world visit local museums and galleries to look at art slowly. Participants look at five works of art for 10 minutes each and then meet together over lunch to talk about their experience.

That’s it.

Simple by design, the goal is to focus on the art and the art of seeing.

Click here for more information about Slow Art Day.

The Gray Loft Gallery will be hosting Slow Art Day at the gallery from 12:00 to 2:00pm, which includes lunch with the artists in our current show Magnificent.  

Send an email and we will send more information about Slow Art Day at the Gray Loft Gallery

Limit of 12 participants. Sign up today!

 

Gray Loft Gallery

2889 Ford Street, third floor

Oakland, CA 94601

Gray Loft Gallery ~ Magnificent

April 7 – May 12, 2018

Artists' opening reception

Saturday, April 7th, 4:00 to 6:30 pm

 Gray Loft Gallery

2889 Ford Street, third floor

Oakland, CA 94601

Gray Loft Gallery will present Magnificent, which opens on Saturday, April 7th, 4:00 - 6:30 pm and will remain on view until Saturday, May 12th.  This event is free and the public is invited to attend.

Magnificent is a group show that celebrates large-scale work by Bay Area artists.  The pieces in the exhibit include painting, mixed media, photography and sculpture.  Chosen not only for their scale - but also for their visual impact - the works have an intensity, significance and brilliance.  The exhibit hopes to inspire viewers to explore the experience of viewing large two- and three-dimensional artwork in a gallery setting.

Participating Artists
Betty Jo Costanzo       Katie Hawkinson        Silvie Lukacova
Javier Manrique        Julie Nelson-Gal        Ginny Parsons
Bruce Pizzichill       Simone Simon       Jan Watten
Jon Wessel       Tom White       John Wood

2nd Friday Jingletown Reception:

April 13, 6 – 9 pm


Slow Art Day:

Saturday, April 14, 12:00 – 2:00 pm


Closing reception & wine tasting with Rock Wall Winery:
Saturday, May 12, 4:00 – 6:30

Gallery Hours: 
Saturdays, 1:00 - 5:00 pm and by appointment





Join us for Slow Art Day! 

One day each year – this year April 14  – people all over the world visit local museums and galleries to look at art slowly. Participants look at five works of art for 10 minutes each and then meet together over lunch to talk about their experience.
That’s it.
Simple by design, the goal is to focus on the art and the art of seeing.
Click here for more information about Slow Art Day.
We will be hosting Slow Art Day at the gallery from 12:00 to 2:00pm, which includes lunch with the artists in our current show Magnificent.
Send us an email and we will send more information about Slow Art Day at the Gray Loft Gallery
Limit of 12 participants. Sign up today!

 Gray Loft Gallery

2889 Ford Street, third floor

Oakland, CA 94601

butohPhoto performance video

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Edited video of the performance which was the finale of the butohPhoto workshop (link below) held at the Gray Loft Gallery, San Francisco, California. 

butohPhoto video edit 

Gray Loft Gallery
San Francisco, CA

August 14, 2015

butohPhoto is one of several ButohDrawing projects that have been held since the first one, Action/Reaction with Audience Participation, in 1997.

Video credits:

Tom White - Director
Betty Jo Costanzo - Assistant Director
Styrous® - Sound design
Kyung Lee - Video

Performers:
Isaac Amala   
Minoo Hamzavi   
Larissa   
Kaia Self   

Moses Correntte - Lead cam

Jan Watten - Gray Loft Gallery Director

GRAY LOFT GALLERY
2889 Ford Street, third floor
Oakland, California 94601
510.499.3445

butohPhoto Workshop @ the Gray Loft Gallery   
   

TW aka bUtom


Tom White
Professor Emeritus
California College of the Arts CCA

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ButohPhoto

photos by Styrous®

butohPhoto is the name of a recent workshop:

a way of taking a photo utilizing peripheral perception combined with Butoh practice --  snapping the picture, sending it to a pod-cast that’s projected into The Gray Loft Gallery. 

The photos in this article are of the workshop.  The end-product, with it's faults in mind, will be in video form in the next article I post on here. 

Thanks for stopping by.

The following are a few words from previous workshops and classes originating in  a 1997 CCA winter-break workshop called ButohDrawing, where I was forced to find a way for the class participants to serve as Live Models for what was intended as an academically credited Life Drawing class.

 

“ButohDrawing is a recombinant culture, a nomadic umbrella whose spokes point to many disciplines: art, architecture, design, movement, performance, philosophy, psychology, and historicism.  It interfaces the Japanese discipline of Butoh* movement with investigations of contemporary drawing, writing and postmodern thought.   

The conceptual locus of ButohDrawing can be traced from the picture plane, through the mirror, to the Butoh-rhizome; a filigree of nerves beneath the skin:  Brunelleschi. Leonardo, Cezanne, Lacan, Hijikata and Deleuze/Guattari.  We suspend and elevate this filigree ---  we move it attentively, creating drawings and digital documents in peripheral vision that shift from "doxa" into paradox.  Dynamic tension is at the heart of this program”.   

Tom White © 2003  

* Butoh is a Japanese dance form, circa 1959.  

 





 

projection by Betty Jo Costanzo 

TW aka bUtom


Tom White
Professor Emeritus
California College of the Arts CCA

  

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