PHOTO EPICENTER is now ran on a membership style of business. Much like a gym, members can come and work in the darkroom at any time between 10am-10pm everyday, monday thru sunday. Members will have keys, access to the entire facility, and use an online scheduler to make their own appts.

Membership space is very limited. We are only taking 13 members per month. Memberships are on a month-to-month basis. Members must demonstrate a certain level of responsibility, darkroom expertise, and professional attitude.

Reserve your space today!

Starting at $150/month.

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The Secret of the Ninth Planet
April 24-May 24, 2009

Featured concurrently at:

Queen’s Nails Projects
3191 Mission Street, San Francisco

Photo Epicenter
26 Lilac Street, San Francisco

http://www.thesecretoftheninthplanet.com

The Secret of the Ninth Planet is the 2009 final thesis exhibition presented by students in the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

The show takes its title from a 1959 Donald A. Wollheim novel of the same name. In the book, evil colonialist curators display in vitrines captured members of various intergalactic cultures. Operating counter to this model of the curator as authoritarian cultural anthropologist, CCA’s nine graduate student curators focus instead on works that deal in one way or another with ideas of time, space, and travel. The featured artworks are in a variety of media, from video and sound installations to (in the artist Suzanne Treister’s words) “delusional, time-traveling watercolors.” The galleries are illuminated not by overhead lighting, but by light emitted from the works themselves.

The metaphor of liberation extends as well to the show’s organizational premise. As opposed to the traditional concept of an exhibition as a zone of stable definition and order, The Secret of the Ninth Planet is united, somewhat paradoxically, by a disavowal of order. The dual-venue installation is also a deliberate attempt to offer expanded possibilities for interpretation of the works’ layered content.

Artists in the exhibition: Raymond Boisjoly, Chu Yun, Jasmina Cibic, Maryam Jafri, Yael Kanarek, Kitty Kraus, Gabriel Lester, Euan Macdonald, Gianni Motti, Kamau Patton, Dario Robleto, Sham Saenz, Tokihiro Sato, Suzanne Treister, Matt Volla, and Hillary Wiedemann.

The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalog with artist works and essays, including a commissioned text by the renowned theorist and curator Lars Bang Larsen.

Exhibition opening:

Friday, April 24, 7-11 p.m.: Queen’s Nails Projects (3191 Mission Street, San Francisco) and Photo Epicenter (26 Lilac Street, San Francisco). A shuttle between the venues will be provided.

Additional programming at Galería de la Raza, 2857 24th Street, San Francisco:

April 26, 11 a.m.: “How Pluto Lost Its Status as a Planet (And Why It Had It Coming),” a lecture by popular astronomy educator Andrew Fraknoi

May 13, 8 p.m.: Screening of short animations and films

May 22, 8 p.m.: A live performance by Lucky Dragons and Avocet

Organized by the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at
California College of the Arts
1111 Eighth Street
San Francisco CA 94107-2247
T: 415.551.9239

http://www.cca.edu/curatorialpractice

http://www.queensnailsprojects.com

Photo Epicenter
26 Lilac Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
www.photoepicenter.com
415-550-0701

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Spirit Rappings
March 27 - April 15, 2009

Opening Reception: Friday, March 27, 6 – 9pm

Gallery Hours: Monday – Saturday, 10am – 10pm
Contact: Michelle Y. Hyun, rappings@gmail.com

Featuring works by: Sarah Filley, Daniel Turner, & Michael Wells.

Taken from the title of an Old American tune from 1854 and a Spiritualist term for otherworldly communication, Spirit Rappings features works in painting, sculpture, installation, performance, photography, and printmaking. Each acts as conduits through which hermetic recipes, public and private rituals, mystical revelations, transcendental reflections, phenomenological hallucinations, myth and the sacred ineffable are transmitted through monochromatic, primordial portals.

“They are indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest.”

- Ludwig Wittgenstein in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1921

our first fundraiser, tons of photos and paintings for sale donated from san francisco all stars. full list of confirmed artists coming any day now. save your dough and purchase an exquisite piece to add to your already omnipotent collections. help us spread words..

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

SAN FRANCISCO - As of January 1 2009 PHOTO EPICENTER will be changing its format from an hourly based darkroom rental facility to a membership based darkroom rental facility.

Members will pay a monthly fee ranging from $200 - $350 depending on their own space requirements and darkroom usage. Offices and workspace and storage for supplies will be available for members.

Members will have full access to the entire facility. That includes b/w darkrooms, color darkrooms, wireless internet, scanners, printers, microwave, fridge, etc. The PHOTO EPICENTER will be available to members 24/7*. And to make sure you have your darkroom available we are limiting the number of members. At this time we are taking 13 members and space is already filling up. Once all spots are reserved, we will have a wait list for following months. Become a member TODAY!

Candidates will be screened, must have some darkroom experience, be required to sign a contract, and depending on space agreement will have to pay a deposit. Multiple month discounts will be available.

*24/7 availability depends on the number of members signed up. Costs must be covered for us to print around the clock.

**If you are a current customer and have purchased a block of hours, you have the next 30 days to use up those hours. Otherwise they will expire.

Contact us to reserve your membership today: people@photoepicenter.com

ALOHA

THE PHOTO EPICENTER WILL BE CLOSED
DEC 22 2008 - JAN 4 2009.

THANKS.

AS ABOVE SO BELOW CLOSES THIS FRIDAY WITH PERFORMANCES, CATALOG RELEASE, AND MORE

CLOSING RECEPTION: December 12, 2008 from 6 – 9pm
PRESS CONTACT: Chris Fitzpatrick - lightning@chrisfitzpatrick.net

Can an exhibition generate a film in the minds of its viewers?

For the past month, Photo Epicenter in San Francisco has presented AS ABOVE SO BELOW, an interdisciplinary group exhibition featuring work by local and international artists. The gallery has survived the aftershock of photography, installation, sound, painting, video, the gallery’s answering machine (415-550-0701), and a green screen sculpture for psychic activation with a large selection of scripts, stories, visual publications and other texts commissioned from writers.

The closing reception is free and open to the public on Friday, December 12, from 6-9 p.m. Two performances of Van Halen’s “Eruption” on the electric guitar will occur simultaneously from 8:50pm – 9:00pm.

AS ABOVE SO BELOW features an active papier mâché volcano by the collective Anonymous Orphan, vinyl wall text and thousands of matchbooks by Francesca Bennett & Nicholas Matranga, a left-handed painting by James Bradley, video by Aleksandra Domanović, a reappearing photographic composite by Gerald Edwards III, retroactive computer-generations of Carlos Gutierrez’s photographs of the Chaiten eruption, photography and mushrooms picked by Uri Korn, a light box by Bessie Kunath, a quantic experiment by Raimundas Malašauskas, video by Daniel Oates-Kuhn, an immaterial evacuation by Post Brothers, a message smoked on the gallery ceiling and an installation outside its window by Rick Predovic, as well as a video by Brad Troemel created to induce seizures. Alternate scripts and other texts written by Francesca Bennett & Nicholas Matranga, Jon Frechette, Israel Posinov/Geoffrey Post/Post Brothers, Ray Potes, Sally Szwed, and many more will be displayed on a large table with Mandarin subtitles to a non-existent film by Xiaoyu Weng and a reader-illustrated children’s coloring book by Michelle Y. Hyun.

OPENING RECEPTION: November 14, 2008 from 6 – 9pm
EXHIBITION DATES: November 14 – December 12, 2008
GALLERY HOURS: Monday – Saturday, 10am – 8pm
PRESS CONTACT: Chris Fitzpatrick - lightning@chrisfitzpatrick.net

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Can an exhibition generate a film in the minds of its viewers?

Photo Epicenter in San Francisco will present AS ABOVE SO BELOW, an interdisciplinary group exhibition, from November 14 through December 12, 2008. It will feature work by local and international artists in photography, installation, sound, painting, video, the gallery’s answering machine (415-550-0701), and a green screen sculpture for psychic activation. A large selection of scripts, stories, visual publications and other texts commissioned from writers will also be on display. The exhibition is free and open to the public, with an opening reception on Friday, November 14, from 6-9 p.m.

Curated by Chris Fitzpatrick, AS ABOVE SO BELOW takes its title from the Emerald Tablet and has been organized in response to a series of photographs that document the Chaitén volcano as it erupted during a lightning storm last May. Diverse themes—from the fungal Nordic roots of Christmas to claims over Nikolai Tesla—will emerge in each artwork and text, presenting a seemingly disparate series of triggers that will elicit an infinite combination of subjective narratives.

AS ABOVE SO BELOW features an active papier mâché volcano by the collective Anonymous Orphan, vinyl wall text and thousands of matchbooks by Francesca Bennett & Nicholas Matranga, a left-handed painting by James Bradley, video by Aleksandra Domanović, a reappearing photographic composite by Gerald Edwards III, retroactive computer-generations of Carlos Gutierrez’s photographs of the Chaiten eruption, photography and mushrooms picked by Uri Korn, a light box by Bessie Kunath, a quantic experiment by Raimundas Malašauskas, video by Daniel Oates-Kuhn, an immaterial evacuation by Post Brothers, a message smoked on the gallery ceiling and an installation outside its window by Rick Predovic, as well as a video by Brad Troemel created to induce seizures. Alternate scripts and other texts written by Francesca Bennett & Nicholas Matranga, Jon Frechette, Israel Posinov/Geoffrey Post/Post Brothers, Ray Potes, Sally Szwed, and many more will be displayed on a large table with Mandarin subtitles to a non-existent film by Xiaoyu Weng, a children’s coloring book by Michelle Y. Hyun, and new visual publications by Anonymous Orphan.

During the opening reception on November 14th from 6pm – 9pm, Popcorn modified with colors and flavors inspired by the Chaitén eruption will be served, Post Brothers will stage a reading enacting a scene from grandpa Posinov’s The Capsule. At the closing reception on December 12th from 6pm-9pm, two performances of Van Halen’s “Eruption” on the electric guitar will occur simultaneously.

ped was in town too, get some tees printed!