Exhibition at Canessa through March 29, 2009

Toby Lurie
Synesthesia
Performance Painting

My original concept, Synesthesia, is a fusion of painting, poetry and music...
when language becomes music becomes art... all become one... seeing, feeling, singing... in joy

Synesthesia
Interlacing the various art disciplines, music, language, performance with painting, the mortar that binds all forms together

Dale E Moyer
Life Drawings with Attitude

Celebrating the human form created by the Creator... by allowing the viewer to celebrate the model's world, captured in a moment in time

Drawing with an attitude
Drawing from life is essential to helping the artist understand, convey shape and form, and spatial relationships. Drawing the human figure provides additional elements such as spirit, emotion, attitude, mood and character.

“RE: CANESSA GALLERY--ARTISTS! ESCAPE THIS TRAP!!! (financial district),” a recent craigslist post, discusses a problem the artist has with vanity galleries. Canessa Gallery Artist's Resource is a nonprofit public benefit corporation and is not organized for the private benefit of any person. It operates under several generous private donations that cover 75% of $4,000 monthly expenses. In the absence of more donations from our annual fundraising campaign or obtaining a grant of some kind for the exhibition program, artists contribute the remaining 25% either through maximum $1,000 commission on brisk sales or direct donation. The gallery has been running since 1966, a nonprofit since 1993, and remains one of San Francisco's best places to show, entirely free from commercial picking and choosing. Please call the gallery at 415-296-9029 if you have any concerns.

Grant Johnson
Welcome to the Future

An exhibition of environmental art featuring forests, landscapes and fauna of the future

October 30 - November 28, 2008
Opening October 30, 5-8pm

415-558-8339
www.grantjohnson.net/

Launch party for Mrs. Maybe
Sunday Nov. 11, 3pm
Canessa
708 Montgomery
Ssn Francisco CA 94111

Mrs. Maybe is committed to a suspicion and concomitant love of the “irrational”; that is, the parts of the human imagination that don't result in wasted time, nuclear war, or the abuse of the affective in service of ambition, evil, or tedium in dress. Mrs. Maybe is published in Northern California; its title comes from Robert Duncan’s play “Adam’s Way.”

James Sherry reviews
The Grand Piano Project
Part 3
San Francisco, 1975–80

Jacket 34 — October 2007
Language Poetry by the Bay
[wood s lot]

Steve himself deplores his self-consciousness, even though his work is himself. The essay is quite difficult, and it must have been hard to write such an open book. “Did I not know how to play?.... What was I seeking in its place? Responsibility? The ability to respond, to integrate reaction and reflection in resolve, in action — I figured maybe it was that.” Remember this was written in the 70s when action was widely considered an ethical question. He haunts bars seeking lovers, but what is his goal? “Is there anyone here who would like to be me? As if my goal were to discover someone to embody this role, about whom I could fantasize afterward.” His progression into relationships with men embodies the traditional poet’s tendency to see the world like or even as the self.

Words for Peace
August, 2007

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Bioacoustician Bernie Krause is interviewed on BBC World today for his sound map of the world. Listen to the map at Wild Sanctuary.

BLDGBLOG: The Sun, the Grid, and the City

BLDGBLOG: The Sun, the Grid, and the City
In Canessa's quest for NESW, consider Manhattan, 29 degrees.

Sunday June 24th @ 3pm

A reading 26 Magazine - Issue f

Steffi Drewes
Lisa Ludden
Tina Rotenberg w/Nathaniel Dorsky

Great chance to hear some poems and pick up the latest
issue of 26 focusing on the serial poem.

Reading Admission is a $3-$5 donation or
buy the magazine for $10 a hear the reading gratis.

Co-Editor Brian Strang's painting/poems are currently up in the Gallery Space some of which can be previewed at his blog Sorry Nature. Well worth a visit on its own.

Avery Burns
co-editor 26 Magazine

Canessa Park Gallery
708 Montgomery Street @ Columbus
San Francisco CA

Tags: poetry

It is time for another post on the history of the Canessa Park Reading Series, since there are rumors of a new director.

Ron Silliman on Rachel DuPlessis

The Grand Piano

Experiences at Canessa...

Spencer Selby is the author of eight poetry books, three compilations of visual work and a study of film noir. He coordinated The Canessa Park Reading Series for six years and created The List of Experimental Poetry/Art Magazines in 1993. He lives in Oakland, California.

25 FEBRUARY---sunday:
CENTRAL:
• Canessa Park Poetry presents John Sakkis and Megan Pruiett, To Music, guest curated by Tiff Dressen, Canessa Park, 708 Montgomery, at Columbus, SF, 3:00

Gratuitous reference to absinthe

Grand Piano -> Canessa Park

Colleen Lookingbill

Definitive history by the Black Cat (not to be confused with The Black Cat)

Silliman's Blog has an article on recent doings of the antecedent of the Canessa Poetry Series, Grand Piano.

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A year of sunsets shows the aggregate time of sunset as it changes with the seasons.

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Shaping San Francisco is a site that Chris Carlsson started to increase community involvement in the history of the city.

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Transamerica Pyramid at winter solstice. Shadow at winter solstice in ArchiCAD sun study--used December 22, 2006. The large gray rectangular plaza is 5456' x 4038'.

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Mark Roller and Colette Crutcher, exhibiting Canessa artists from the past, successfully transform a park.

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Transamerica sun study, approximately the summer solstice, 2006.

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Hourly sun study of Transamerica pyramid, June 21, 2006, sunrise to sunset.

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Luigi Mastropasqua, architect of Canessa after the 1906 earthquake and fire designed this little building on Kearny at Clay, once former Mayor Willie Brown's campaign headquarters.

Mastropasqua also designed at least two San Francisco landmarks, Julius's Castle, most easily reached by walking a few blocks up the hill from Canessa. If you can see the city below the rail of the Bay Bridge as you come into San Francisco, you can't miss Julius's Castle. "Built in 1922, this fanciful castle-as-restaurant was designed, not surprisingly, by an architect who moonlighted as a cartoonist, Louis Mastropasqua of la vita italiana. This crenellated edifice seems to hang like magic from its vantage point just below Telegraph Hill's other famous landmark, Coit Tower."

The other landmark is one of the twelve buildings on 15-84 Macondray Lane Roughly 900-982 Green at 1918-1960 Jones (National Register Landmark 87002286, Charles Bovone House, 68 Macondray.

Avery Burns, who runs the Canessa Park Reading Series, contributes an eponymous poem to the new online-only format of Dirt :: A Journal of Minimalism, edited by Philip Primeau.

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Powerful work in Canessa's version of Oktoberfest...

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