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Several warehouse spaces in the Factory will be curated by Amoeba Music. For our third annual art show, Amoeba is thrilled to feature work from over 60 representatives from our three locations – San Francisco, Berkeley, and Los Angeles. The creativity and diversity of the accomplished Amoebites knows no bounds; look out for film and sound installations and a dedicated graffiti/live mural room, in addition to more traditional formats. This year’s featured local artists and Amoeba family:
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Lori Katz:
I have always been interested in representing nature in my work, both its elements of pure beauty and nature as process. I work the surfaces of my paintings by layering and removing paint so that it mimics the growth and decay that breaths life into our natural surroundings. The surfaces build a sense of space, place, and history. The backgrounds are made up of several layers of images that are found in textiles, scientific botanical drawings, stencils, and other appropriated images of plants and flowers. My newest body of work expands on my interest in patterns in nature by looking at the patterns and habits we develop in childhood. A donated artwork by Lori will be included in the silent auction to benefit her chosen charity: Girls Inc.: Inspiring all girls to be strong, smart, and bold. |
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Billy Sprague:
Billy Sprague is an Oakland based multi-media artist. Current explorations include smoke-like surreal creatures delicately shaded with graphite on vintage or stained paper. These smaller experimental works have recently been getting reproduced as large colorful wall murals in urban and gallery settings. Sprague uses discarded brightly colored house paints and india ink to materialize these intestinal alien forms, which sometime include reel to reel tape loop or other sound devices within them. Sprague has shown his work recently in Berlin, Los Angeles, and at Oakland's Fort Gallery. A donated artwork by Billy will be included in the silent auction to benefit his chosen charity: Creativity Explored: a nonprofit visual arts center where artists with developmental disabilities create, exhibit, and sell art. |
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Russell Quan:
has drummed for seminal Bay Area garage rock bands such as The Mummies, The Phantom Surfers, The Count Backwards, The Bobbyteens, and The Flakes. His obscure 60's record collection is the stuff of legends. Come sweat to the oldies with this king of the record swap.
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This First Friday spectacular art, music, and film event celebrates the works of regional artists and pays tribute to Andy Warhol and his Factory, the original New York City studio from 1962 to 1968. The Factory Party takes place in a massive warehouse space divided into nine distinct rooms where guests are immersed in a wide range of art mediums, as well as live art, musical performances and theatrical art forms. A portion of this event features a re-creation of Andy Warhol's Factory, and is brought you by the East Bay Express. Visitors entering the Factory will see live production of art in the style and process performed by Andy Warhol, including silk screening, filming, screen testing, and painting. Velvet Underground cover bands will perform, recreating sounds at the Factory. Guests are encouraged to dress in their 1960’s best and are welcome to lounge in the Factory with “Warhol” and his “Super Stars”.
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Composed of some of the Bay Area’s finest musicians, Nihilist Outlook and Grace pride themselves on being an authentic Velvet Underground cover band. Members include:
- Diego González - viola- Bassist, oudist, and occasional violist.
- Doug Poore - bass - Velvet Underground was a big early influence along with punk, heavy jazz, and noise. Most recently played bass for the punk band, Beat Cops.
- Grace Cooper - vocals: Member of the Bay Area bands New Face In Harlem and The Sandwitches (feat. members of U.S. Girls).
- John Garcia - guitar, vocals: Erstwhile creator of the Lhooq and co-chair of the Jean Freres. He is known to strum string- driven things.
- Josh Pollock - drums, vocals, guitar: Plays and loves.
- Nero Nava - Vocals, guitar :Former singer/songwriter for SF's party pop/cult band Barbarasteele, he has most recently released an EP with The Invitation To Love, and is currently working on a split 7" with The Sexx Act. He’s described as a bit of an outsider on the SF trend train. Kevchino.com says: "Nero Nava forges the most subversive of stimuli into an exhibit in the three-ring circus that is his mind. Born of the cavernous pits of Italian horror flicks, the extravagant layers of Sacher-Masoch’s undergarments and the sordid, sullied stuff your mother was too timid to warn you about--this might be the scariest show on earth if his delivery weren't so damned perfect."
The East Bay's premier Velvet Underground-inspired psychedelic band, Exploding Plastic Amoeba! …Covering the following songs, jams, and compositions: “Venus in Furs,” “Sunday Morning,” “Femme Fatale,” “I'll Be Your Mirror,” “Heroin,” “All Tomorrow's Parties,” “I'm Sticking with You,” “Pale Blue Eyes,” “I'm Beginning to See the Light,” “Sister Ray/Feedback Jam,” and “I'm Waiting for the Man.” Members include:
- Dean Santomieri - Guitar, Vocals
- Cynthia Lloyd - Vocals, Tambourine
- Ivy Clift - Bass Guitar
- Kent Randolph - Guitar, Vocals
- Clare Randolph - Violin
- Jefferson Parker - Guitar, Vocals
- Marc Weinstein - Drums
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Will take place at the Factory. Available March 24th on Plexifilm and on sale at Amoeba!
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Share in the experience – even if you aren’t in Emeryville for the party! A selection of original artwork from Amoeba artists Lori Katz, Billy Sprague and invited guests TBA will be offered in a silent auction beginning March 6th. All proceeds will benefit local charities chosen by the artists. Artwork and benefitting charities will be announced March 6th at The Factory exhibition and featured on amoeba.com.
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OFFspace, an artist-run curatorial collective, presents “Oh, Maybe,” an exhibition of contemporary work that responds to the question, what might Warhol’s practice look like were he alive today? For this exhibit, artists expand upon key methodologies from Warhol’s practice, such as reproduction, persona, and spectacle.
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Founded in 1895 in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, the de Young Museum has been an integral part of the cultural fabric of the Bay Area and a cherished destination for millions of residents and visitors to the region for over 100 years. The de Young proudly announces the upcoming exhibition Warhol Live (from February 14 to May 17, 2009), presenting the first comprehensive exploration of Andy Warhol’s work as seen through the lens of music. Over the course of his meteoric career, Andy Warhol used the medium of music to transform himself from fan, to record album designer, to producer, to celebrity night-clubber, to “rock star.”
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East Bay Express is an alternative newsweekly and website covering the international populations that make Oakland and Richmond so dynamic, to the ideological diversity that separates Berkeley from Walnut Creek. Our readers are united by their love of a region that is second to nowhere in beauty, livability, intellectual firepower, and cosmopolitan charm. Every week, the Express provides these well-educated world travelers the only medium dedicated exclusively to them. From our authoritative cover stories; to our in-depth local reporting, arts and dining coverage; to the area's most comprehensive weekly calendar; the East Bay Express has been this vibrant region's leading voice since 1978.
OFFspace is a curatorial collective that showcases artists’ projects by marrying selected proposals with established art venues, alternative, and/or non-traditional spaces. Designed as a curatorial "think-tank," OFFspace pursues internal proposals in addition to partnering with outside artists and curators. Visit OFFspaces' online gallery to see showcase documentation from past exhibitions.
Pro Arts continues to serve as the East Bay region's primary visual-arts venue by hosting annual exhibitions and special events. Each June, Pro Arts organizes Open Studios where over 500 artists display their works throughout the East Bay.
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de Young Museum, founded in 1895 in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, has been an integral part of the cultural fabric of the Bay Area and a cherished destination for millions of residents and visitors to the region for over 100 years.
Montana Cans offers professional-quality artists’ spray paint in a brilliant array of over 180 matte colors.
Art Alternatives offers quality art supplies within your budget, so you can keep on creating.
Ex’pression College for Digital Arts offers accelerated Bachelor of Applied Science degree programs to launch your career in animation, gaming, motion graphic design, or sound arts.
Urban Ore our purpose is to end the age of waste by advocating and developing total recycling. We receive unwanted things and sell them as-is for reuse. We design disposal facilities for zero waste and publish technical papers.
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