Anxiety is the Handmaiden of Creativity

Brooke Waterhouse presents:

THE ANXIETY SHOW April 7 – May 1
Curated by Christine Kristen aka LadyBee

Project One, 251 Rhode Island St, San Francisco

“Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.” - T.S. Eliot

The economic crisis, global warming, and the wars have generated a free-floating anxiety which is difficult not to internalize. This show is an exploration of the uncertainty of our times, featuring Brian Goggin, Deidre DeFranceaux, Bryan Tedrick, Laura Kimpton and Jeff Schomberg, JennyBird Alcantara, Jonathan Solo, Francis Baker, Tony Speirs and Lee Harvey Roswell...so bring your worries and woes to the opening reception Wednesday, April 7th, 8pm-midnight!

UPDATE: Artists Brian Tedrick, Bryan Goggin, Deirdre DeFranceaux, Francis Baker and Lee Harvey Roswell will speak about their work on...
April 27th, 7-9pm at Project One Gallery

“The Hole and Some of his Parts” by Lee Harvey Roswell

BRAF REPRESENTS AT OPERATION RESTORE DEFENESTRATION - Opening Reception

OPERATION RESTORE DEFENESTRATION - Opening Reception
Originally uploaded by 1AM SF

In this photo: Rae Richman, BRAF VP Board of Directors, Dr. Deb, BRAF Advisory Board, Freddy Hahne, President BRAF Board of Directors and last but not least our own BRAF Executive Directore, Tomas McCabe.

To See more photos from this Event, Click Here

photo: 1AM SF

Operation Restore Defenestration Video

prior posts about Brian Goggin

Video: MstrWa Thanks so much Ben, it is fabulous!

Operation Restore Defenestration

Operation Restore Defenestration
Originally uploaded by Laughing Squid

Spotlight shows Brian Goggin hanging from cables as he fixes some furniture during the Operation Restore Defenestration Party.

Thanks for the great photo Scott!

Defenestration is COOL, that's what.

Defenestration is COOL, that's what.
Originally uploaded by Bill, Beth & Beyond

STOP

STOP
Originally uploaded by Troy Holden

"Defenestration" is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window.


Prior posts about Brian Goggin

Operation Restore Defenestration

Come and join us at the “Operation Restore Defenestration”- Fundraiser, Solo show and new works by Brian Goggin.

1:AM Gallery and Brian Goggin are proud to present Operation Restore Defenestration, a month long celebration of Defenestration building’s 13th anniversary as well as the next era of the project’s existence. Operation Restore Defenestration is an event raising funds to repair and improve the artwork, making the building once again beautiful by day and vibrant by night. The exhibition will include restoration work in progress and artwork for sale with proceeds from the event going towards the project.

The Black Rock Arts Foundation is a fiscal sponsor for this exhibition.

Please join us for the opening reception on:

1AM Gallery
Friday, March 5th 2010
6-10pm
1000 Howard Street San Francisco

To read more about the Defenestration and its history check out this great blog post on Laughing Squid.

Prior posts about Brian Goggin

Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone

Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone
Originally uploaded by Troy Holden

More to come about "Operation Restore Defenestration"....watch this space...


Prior posts about Brian Goggin

1:AM Gallery Shout-Out

Thanks to 1:AM Gallery for the shout-out about what BRAF does and that we are a fiscal sponsor for the project (and 1:AM's next art exhibition opening March 5th) titled “Operation Restore Defenestration“.

Watch this space for more information about that opening and project here...

photo: unknown

Curbed SF gives Language of the Birds the "Best Legal Public Art 2008"

The Language of Birds, originally uploaded by bothboths.

Language of the Birds from Thomas Both on Vimeo.

Language of the Birds by Brian Goggin & Dorka Keehn was part of our Grants-to-Artists Program and is being a big sucess at the corner of Broadway and Grant in San Francisco.

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/21/language-of-the-birds-by-brian-goggin-and-dorka-keehn/

http://www.ecofriend.org/entry/eco-arts-brain-goggin-s-solar-powered-language-of-the-birds/

Prior posts:

http://blackrockarts.blogspot.com/search/label/Language%20of%20the%20Birds

Meet our Grantees - Language of the Birds Unveiling

The Language of the Birds dedication, a site specific sculpture by Brian Goggin and Dorka Keehn was an art unveiling worth remembering. Local luminaries spoke and the artists spoke and then the Extra Action Marching Band showed up to accompany the actual defrocking of each book in the sky, and that is when it got exciting. We had skimpily clad women and heroic artist scaling the heights to remove the covers, at times to our collective breathes held to the beat of the drum, and then the Language of the Birds lit up and brightened the sky.

To see more photos by Steve Rhodes: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ari/sets/72157610035643833/
video: http://www.youtube.com/user/Monatov

Previous posts:
http://blackrockarts.blogspot.com/2008/11/meet-our-grantees-language-of-birds_14.html

http://blackrockarts.blogspot.com/2008/11/meet-our-grantees-language-of-birds.html

Meet our Grantees - Language of the Birds Dedication

I told you that Language of the Birds by Brian Goggin and Dorka Keehn was coming to the NW corner of Broadway where Grant and Columbus Streets intersect in San Francisco.

I am writing to let you know that the Dedication will be:

November 23 at Dusk
Is that the same as sunset (4:54)? The SF Weekly lists the dedication time as 4pm. (Watch the sky, not the time.)

Hope to see you there.

http://www.7x7sf.com/arts_entertainment/art/33493914.html
http://www.sfweekly.com/events/language-of-the-birds-1241058/

digital illustration Brian Goggin

Meet our Grantees - 'Language of the Birds' Brian Goggin with Dorka Keehn

Installation Site photo Anna FitchBrian and Dorka photo Anna Fitch

Digital Illustration of completed installation by Brian Goggin

I was in a car a couple of days ago, and guess what I saw, Brian Goggin and Dorka Keehn in a boom lift installing 'Language of the Birds'.

Language of the Birds is one of BRAF's 2007 Grants-to-Artists recipients. It is a permanent site-specific public art installation on the threshold of North Beach and Chinatown in San Francisco, at a new public plaza where the NW corner of Broadway, Grant and Columbus Streets intersect.

'Language of the Birds’ is a sculpted, illuminated flock of twenty-three translucent, suspended open books positioned to give the impression of birds in flight. Phrases, taken from books written by neighborhood authors or written about the local communities, are scattered and embedded in the pavement as if the words had fallen from the books as they took flight. These suspended bird-books blink light patterns are modulated to interpret music gathered from the community. The lights are also intended to evoke flight, giving the flock the appearance of being in constant motion.

The Black Rock Arts Foundation is pleased to join the City of San Francisco, artists and local patrons in supporting this permanent art installation designed to unite area neighborhoods and impart some magic in ‘a language of birds’ (sometimes considered in antiquity to be the secret key to perfect knowledge) to all who encounter it.

Look for your updates to the project right here!!

Here is some of the buzz about the installation:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=26229

http://www.witchvox.com/wren/wn_detail.html?id=20057

http://www.thebaumfoundation.org/birds.html