Sense Memory, Paris
20” x 16”

From Mayhem to Paris
Beverly Mills

Opening reception: Thursday, December 2, 5-7pm
Exhibition dates: December 2 – 30, 2010

Canessa Gallery presents From Mayhem to Paris, mixed media works by Beverly Mills.

Mills explores two human extremes: violence and creation. She works in acrylic, adding photographs, metal and wood to explore the destruction of war, its scars and its attractions.  She contrasts this with cities like  Paris and Rome, where savagery becomes civilized.

Beverly Mills is a long time civic activist who has traveled in over twenty countries gathering images, philosophies and histories to nurture her visual vocabulary.

www.studiobeverly.com

EXHIBITION: From Mayhem to Paris, Solo Show

LOCATION: Canessa Gallery, 708 Montgomery St, San Francisco

OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, December 2, 5-7pm

EXHIBITION DATES:  December 2-30, 2010

GALLERY HOURS: Monday - Friday, 10am-3pm and by appointment

For information and/or images:  Beverly Mills, bev@studiobeverly.com or 415/235-8099

Peeling the Strata

Jamie Banes at Canessa
November 8-26, 2010

Reception Friday, November 19, 7 - 10pm  
Gallery hours MWF 11am - 3pm                               
and by appointment

My attraction to the energy of urban areas inspires a playful, excited examination of the frenzied systems around me. Highly active environments such as ports, stations, airfields, or sub-street infrastructures feel like childhood experiments with Tinkertoys and Lego bricks, or voyages into Richard Scarry's seemingly chaotic worlds. I’ve been exploring my awareness of these arrangements and my position within them, making associations with anatomy and physicality, and allowing myself the opportunity to revisit a youthful mindset that seems more and more fleeting. --Jamie Banes

Market Street Corridor

Jamie at jamiebanes dot com

Canessa Gallery Artist's Resource
708 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, California 94111
415-296-9029

A biological connection to Canessa space, "This Too Shall Pass."  Jamie Banes

    

                                        

Private office and shared work spaces are available at Canessa.  415-392-1768

Jamie Banes
September 2010

Joshua Band
How I Used to See
Ruins of Detroit
Canessa Gallery
August, 2010

Mokhtar Paki
Passion Play July 3-30, 2010

Cat U-Thasoonthorn
Post Meridiem (P.M.)

June, 2010
Reception Friday, June 11, 5-9pm

Featuring a recent body of mixed media works focusing on the Bay Area at night

Front Office at Canessa Park in Jackson Square is for rent.  There are views of Chinatown, North Beach and the Financial District.

David Molesky
Spume
Through March 25, 2010
Canessa

An exhibition honoring the Iranian Green Revolution at Canessa

Nick Coley appears in the February print edition of San Francisco magazine.  His painting of a bus is unmistakable in a beautiful interior setting.

Endless improvement and progress is a Ponzi scheme. -- GF, 2009

Do you suppose a leading policy maker had this in mind when he discovered his economic model was flawed?

Nick Coley painting returns to Canessa through December.

M-F 10-3
708 Montgomery
San Francisco CA 94111

San Francisco Art Heaven Painters
Canessa Gallery, 708 Montgomery

Oct. 30 - Nov. 26

Anonymous North Beach Artist - 2009
Termeh Yeghiazarian

Canessa Gallery
708 Montgomery Street
@ Washington & Columbus

October 4-25, 2009
11am - 3pm M-F

Reception
October 23, 5-8pm

October 24, 25
North Beach Art Walk

Or by appointment
www.termehart.com

A collection of mixed media portrait paintings by Termeh Yeghiazarian, recording admired peers who live and work in North Beach.

Artists have lived in North Beach since its early days. They are an integral part of the cultural fabric of the neighborhood.

Who are these artists? What do they do? How do they survive?

List of artwork:

1 - nick
2 - judy
3 - howard
4 - carol
5 - julie
6 - jane
7 - alex
8 - kim
9 - dominic
10 - susan
11 - candace
12 - danny
13 - barron

Artist statement

I use portrait painting as a genre to explore politics of representation. Who and what does a portrait really depict? How much of this depiction is about the observed, how much about the observer, and how much is influenced by the prevailing social/political and economical circumstances?

At the same time, I also appreciate the process as a purely painterly exploit.

Representation is an entirely subjective venture. As an Iranian/Armenian/American, a woman and an artist, I find myself subject to representation on a regular basis. After years of attempting to hack my way through seemingly never ending crop of stereotype and misrepresentation, I am beginning to resign to this fact.

And so, a portrait can be conceived as a mirror: the observer, whether it’s the artist or the viewer, will project in it his or her self. Yet, what remains after the fact is the true intrigue of a portrait, its mystery.

Termeh Yeghiazarian

Comment

Termeh, a San Francisco bay area artist works mainly in mixed media and conceptual art. Her body of work is a visual journey which explores the dichotomy of her cultural background as an Iranian/Armenian/American.

Through portraiture Termeh eliminates the conventional engagement with the subject and viewer. She depicts her portraits from behind or in profile. Her portrait creates a dialogue between identity and representation of her interlocking worlds. It creates a dialogue about diversity, beauty, individuality and anonymity.

In her recent series, Anonymous North Beach, she does a case study of the local artistic community in North Beach. Through each portrayal, Termeh tries to define the social context of the individual, the community and her connection to it all. It’s in searching and investigating of others that we find a connection and contrast in ourselves. -- Nerissa Hallim

A favorite Canessa Park post revisited...
Sometimes impressions from the past stay in the mind permanently, as do these in this article by Stephanie Young that mentions the unique room at Canessa Park, now five years later on its 43rd year as a gathering space for poets, artists, organizers and entrepreneurs.

Canessa Park was perfect because of the light. And the turquoise doors. And the brick. And the people in the wooden chairs ... and how washing my hands there feels communal and safe.

Do follow either link, as there is also a poem conveying the sense of place by Del Ray Cross, "I love you against the red bricks."

Phylum, below kingdom, above class, Canessa Gallery through July 2, 2009

Jason Trinidad, Semar Prom, Brendan Pattengale, Dori Latman, Ethan Jamison, Julia Haft-Candell, Michael Fairchild, Colby Claycomb and Jamie Barnes

See jaiv1 and phylumcollective.