the luggage store






Neck Face/the Date Farmers opens Friday, February 7, 2005


luggage store exhibition
extended through March 19 2005
Neck Face
The Date Farmers

Wednesday-Saturday, 12-5pm
and by appointment

co organized by the luggage store with New Image Art,LA

see SF Bay Guardian interview by Lori Spears

see SFBay Guardian article by Glen Helfand



Through February 19, 2005

Frenzy II,
featuring 90 artists,
2nd ever fundraising auction for the luggage store

Friday, December 17, 2004

MOVING MOUNTAINS BY KICKING ROCKS
opens FRI. NOVEMBER 12, 6-8PM
through DECEMBER 11, 2004



Hours: Wed-Saturday, 12-5 and by appt.

CLOSED Thursday, NOvember 27-Saturday, NOvember 27, 2004

new work by
ELENA BEELAERTS, mixed media installation (Amsterdam)
JOVI SCHNELL, mixed media on wall, ( San Francisco)
FRITZ WELCH, mixed media installation (New York)
guest artist LOREN CHASSE, sound (San Francisco)

This exhibition is the convergence of these four artists. The artists travel to different venues and the exhibition takes on different themes and forms. The "host artist" guides the exhibition's title and theme.

The luggage store is the second venue, and the host artist is Jovi Schnell.The exhibition and its process speak to the inevitable and steady deterioration of systems and societies. To these ends, the collaboratively associated art incporoates the concepts of micro and macro views and a unique interpretation of the concept of dubbing as an important component of the creative work process.



Elena Beelaerts recently hosted the artists and exhibition at the The Stedelijk Museum Bureau of Amsterdam, "Entropic Meltdown."

This exhibition was made possible with funding from the Mondrian Foundation (Netherlands), The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts, Grants for the Arts of the Hotel Tax Fund and SF Art Commission..

Elena Beelaerts

Beelaerts has exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum Bureau in Amsterdam, The National Museum of Archeology, Macedonia, National Center of Contemporary Art in St. Petersburg; City Art Center, Demarco EAF in Edinburgh, the National Art Center in Malta, The Museum Traditional Nigerian Architecture in Jos, Nigeria; Angel’s Gate in Los Angeles, the Laguna Art Museum in Los Angeles, and the Hotbath Gallery in Bath, UK.

Jovi Schnell

Schnell has exhibited at the Derek Eller Gallery, P.S. 1 in Long Island City, White Columns, in New York, The Stedelijk Museum Bureau in Amsterdam, Arena Gallery in Brooklyn, Liverpool Mixture Gallery in Houston. Schnell received her BFA in painting from the SF Art Institute, was a recipient of a Pollack Krasner Foundation grant and has had several artist in residencies including Skowhegan School, De Ateliers 63 in Amsterdam; Akademie Vytvarnych Umeni I Prague, Czech Republic, She currently teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute and California College of the Arts.

Fritz Welch

Welch has exhibited at the Momenta Art and Pierogi in Brooklyn, Jeleni Gallery in Prague, Serena Lander Gallery in Chicago, Transmission Gallery in Scotland; A/C Project Room in NY/ GV/AS Gallery in Brooklyn, Hudson Clearing, Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna, Fritz has been awarded a Meet the Composer Grant (2004), American Music Center’s Live Music for Dance, the Fund for US Artists at International Festivals and Exhibitions

see SF Weekly


A Spoonful of Sugar
September 17 - October 17, 2004
work by Michael Arcega, Packard Jennings, Julia Page, Kristin Lucas and Steven Lambert. Curated by Jackie Sumell.

Works in this show strategically employ humor as a means to engage political debate, inspire hope and provide momentary respite from the boundless barrage of imperial war vocabulary.

Bling Blasian Bling
Bling BlAsian Bling features work that incorporates traditional African American and Asian elements, forms and techniques to comment upon and explore socio-cultural and socio-political contemporary issues.

brown's paintings portray an unprecedented mixture of anonymous courtesans, geisha, and other Japanese subjects in blackface. Her work addresses the global influence of hip-hop, commercialism, and African-American culture as fetish.

brown's “w.o.i.m.s.,” (worms) are an acronym for “Weapons of Mass Spending.” The woims are armed only with a mouthful of rotting teeth, an occasional gold cap, as they greedily feast on all manner of material culture, particularly the trendy accessories of hip-hop.

For brown, the unbridled impulse to devour everything from "bling bling" to Burberry not only represents thewholesale appropriation of hip-hop culture by the Ganguro, but also the voracious nature of consumer culture in general.

Brown was born in Washington, D.C., where she is based today. She earned an MFA from Yale University and has since exhibited at UCLA's Hammer Museum; Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta; and New Image Art, Los Angeles.
See Sunday, 4/4/04 New York Times

See also Art Forum

See also SF Bay Guardian

Stella Lai
Lai works with three “girl” characters wearing animal masks – a rabbit, a bear and a cat. The characters were inspired by The Monkey King story, where human characters adopt animal traits. Lai’s characters retrace childhood memories and explore issues of sexuality, isolation and vengeance.

Lai's work is informed and influenced by graphic design and typography. Referencing her native Hong Kong’s “chaotic urban landscape,” Lai makes comparisons to several urban centers in the U.S. – SF’s Chinatown and LA’s Chinatown.

Lai also incorporates traditional Chinese painting and floral elements in her work.

Lai is represented by The Lizbeth Oliveria Gallery in Los Angeles and has shown previously at the Luggage Store, New Langton Arts and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in San Jose. She is the founder of tree-axis and currently teaches at CCA

To see PHOTOS from the opening reception, go to Art Business website



V I E W P H O T O S from this exhibition and others by clicking here


The Sixth Annual Altoids© Curiously Strong Collection represents diverse approaches to cutting-edge contemporary art practice.

Work from 23 artists are featured in the exhibition:
asianpunkboy
Conrad Bakker
Hernan Bas
Iona Rozeal Brown
Ann Craven
Daniel Davidson
Rob DeMar
Elizabeth Demaray
Joe Fig
Naomi Fisher
Tony Gray
Mala Iqbal
Nina Katchadourian
Lisa Kereszi
Nick Lowe
Wangechi Mutu
Clare Rojas
Brad Tucker
Aida Ruilova
assume vivid astro focus
Paul Swenbeck
Monique van Genderan
Daniel Zeller


ELAINE BUCKOLTZ
Mixed media installation
sound, light, video

prececing exhibition

"PROJECTING PROCESS" Modern Dialect
Young Bay Area artists collaborate in the development of environments through painting, drawing, photography, sound, text and image projection. The installation, based around an interior mural, exhibits stages of progress in contrast to the final product. This effort draws artists of diverse methods, from aerosol to oil painting, sound design, portrait photography and graphic arts.
Contributing artists:
Harley Burkhart
Levi Ryken
Matt Hunter
Robert Trujillo
Nick Stohlman
Cole Greif
Plinio Hernandez
Gabby Miller

Curated by:
Cole Greif

Related Website
www.moderndialect.com

a short show curated by COLE GREIF, our intern/artist who just graduated from BERKELEY HIGH SCHOOL and now attending NYU

MAY 2 - JUNE 14, 2003
"OUTERSPACE HILLBILLYH" featuring
LEIF GOLDBERG
BARRY McGEE
CLARE ROJAS
ANDREW JEFFREY WRIGHT

last month's exhibition
III
OPENING MARCH 21
Xylor Jane
Alicia McCarthy
Ace Morgan



previous exhibition
OSGEMEOS, "Pavil"