NEWs

Congratulations to Ben Needham for his participation in three international
group shows: “To Choo Gesser”, Ichys Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; “Gold Rush”, City Museum of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia; and “Gold Rush”, Gallery OP-Nord, Stuttgart, Germany.

Congratulations to HIROYO KANEKO for being selected to participate in
"EIGHTEEN MONTHS: TAKING THE PULSE OF BAY AREA PHOTOGRAPHY.

Kudos to JOHANNA POETHIG for her participation in the Yerba Buena BAY AREA Now 5 in "The Galleon Trade" which opens on Sept 4, 2008. Johanna will exhibit a series of paintings - the "WASAK" manifesto inspired by a conversation and text with artist Norberto Roldan in the Philippines. Galleon Trade: Bay Area Now 5 Edition, Sep 5-Oct 19, 2008 * YBCA Terrace Galleries.

Togonon Gallery introduces two new artists, Chris McCaw and David Johnson

Terra Fuller's videos will be featured in an international film fest in Budapest! The Film Festival will be held at the Hungarian Multicultural Center-Medosz Art Center, Budapest, Hungary between August 04-05,2008. Terra will be one of three Americans, one French, one English, and one Hungarian artists included. Terra is also in a drawing show in Berlin earlier this month called Anonyme Zeichner. From there her work was selected to be part of the exhibition that is travelling to Galerie Stadtscheune in Otterndorf at the North Sea, also in Germany. The opening is July 4th, 6pm. Bay area audience can catch Terra's videos and drawings in her solo exhibition at the gallery in September, 2008.

Read Kenneth Baker's review on Chris McCaw's Sunburn series.

Leo Valledor & Peter Forakis - will be exhibited in “Refiguring the 1960s: The Park Place Gallery Group, New York 1963-67” at the Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, September 23, 2008-January 18, 2009. A major catalog accompanies the show curated by Linda Henderson.

Peter Forakis is featured in Princeton University Press anthology titled Einstein for the 21st Century (2008), which discusses Peter and Atlanta Gateway, the largest metal sculpture achieved by an artist of the 1960s by art historian Linda Henderson.