Ausstellung: Chris Leib: Becoming Worthwhile, Ölbilder und Zeichnungen, 19. November - 19. Dezember, 2009

I have a solo exhibition at Cain Schulte Gallery Berlin opening on November 19, 2009.

Chris Leib: Becoming Worthwhile, oil painting and drawings, 19 November 2009 to 19 December 2009.

Opening November 19th, 7 pm.

Address: Cain Schulte Gallery Berlin, Winterfeldtstr. 35, 10781 Berlin

This exhibit consists of a series of paintings I completed over this last year.

Hope you and your friends can stop by.

More details can be found on the gallery website.

CAIN SCHULTE GALLERY BERLIN • WINTERFELDTSTR. 35 • 10781 BERLIN

Big (Blue) Deal... November 14th

It's time for Visual Aid's yearly Big Deal art auction. This year it is called Big (Blue) Deal, and most of the work will have a 'blue' theme. Visual Aid helps artists with life threatening illnesses so they can continue to make their creative work. It's a great cause and a wonderful event. Like last year, I have donated a painting that will be part of the live auction event. It is blue... -ish.

I hope you can attend.

$35 earlybird tickets are available online for the next week, and tickets are $45 at the door.

Location: Somarts, 934 Brannan St., San Francisco

Date: Saturday, November 14th

For more information please check the Visual Aid website.

Night Shade

Night Shade, oil on canvas, 35.5 x 27.5 cm, 14 x 11 inches, 2009

Surfed

Surfed, oil on panel, 40.5 x 40.5 cm, 16 x 16 inches, 2009

Lasso

Lasso, 23.5 x 23.5 cm, 9.25 x 9.25 inches, oil on panel, 2009

There

There, oil/canvas, 8 x 10 inches, 2009

Look

Look, 37.5 x 72 cm, 14 7/8 x 28 3/8 inches, oil on panel, 2009

in progress... detail

Check out this link for some fine Artwork!

This guy gave me my first drawing lessons... check out his work HERE.

Another sampling...

detail of Interview, oil on panel, 16 x 16 inches

Sample.

detail from 'Lasso'

detail from "Lift"

A Sample

Night Shade, detail

Drawing Post: Michael (in progress)

detail, graphite on paper

Spring Studio Stroll in the Mission... Thanks!

We had a great crowd this weekend... thanks to all of you for making this event a success!

Spring Studio Stroll in the Mission

Spring Studio Stroll in the Mission... brought to you by Mission Artist's United!

The friendly and artistic neighbors of San Francisco's Mission district, composed of Seven artists' groups, including more than 100 working artists, will open their studio doors to the public for the weekend of April 25-26, 11am to 6pm.

The studios, clustered within walking distance of each other, stand in the reclaimed industrial section of this vibrant arts community. Participating studio buildings include 1890 Bryant Street Studios, The Blue Studio, Workspace Ltd., Project Artaud, ActivSpace and Developing Environments.

Please stop by to see some of my  paintings, drawings and watercolors.

Studios Involved

1890 Bryant St Studios: 1890 Bryant Street

ActivSpace : 3150 18th Street, #102

The Blue Studio/Mission 17 Gallery : 2111 Mission Street 4th Floor

Developing Environments : 540 Alabama Street

Project Artaud : 499 Alabama Street

Workspace Limited : 2150 Folsom Street

The San Francisco Examiner named this event their TOP PICK:

Addendum: more Southern Exposure’s 9th Annual Monster Drawing Rally, links and pictures

You can find pictures of the Monster Draw event HERE. It was a full house! There are images of some of the drawings HERE. Check out the Brett Amory, John Casey, and Serena Cole pieces, among others.

Speaking of, John Casey is currently having a solo show at Swarm Gallery, 560 Second Street, Oakland, CA.

Bacon Uprising

Bacon! ink on napkin

James Kalm's report on the 2008 Whitney Biennial, and a sketch of Robert Bechtle

Here's something that was brought to my attention recently, a link to James Kalm's 'undercover' report on the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Like artbusiness.com, which covers the San Francisco Bay Area gallery events, Kalm and his video camera brings us the happenings around NYC.

James Kalm's 'undercover report on the 2008 Whitney Biennal
(When he walks down to the third floor, is it just me... at first I thought the baby carriage was part of the show?)

As you might notice, Robert Bechtle's work is in the exhibition. As an undergrad I admired his painting, '60 T-bird, which hung at the UC Berkeley Art Museum. I took my first painting class from him in 1992. If you get a chance to check out his work, do so. His retrospective at the SFMOMA was one of the best shows I've seen there. His paintings capture an abstract quality and a level of depth that is very impressive. It is especially prevalent in his more recent paintings.

Coincidentally, a couple weeks ago I was going through some old sketchbooks and came across the sketch below.



Artbusiness.com
http://artbusiness.com/

James Kalm video reports
http://www.youtube.com/user/jameskalm

Back from Monster Draw!

I just came back from the Monster Draw! The place is boiling hot and packed to the walls. I've never seen so many people for an art event. As a friend of mine commented, it is sort of antithetical conditions for an artist, like having a large crowd of people watching you sing in the shower. But after about 20 minutes one settles in and ignores the flash bulbs and noise. I'm happy to report I was able to finish two drawings... a couple of my 'little dudes' that I draw for kicks. (The photos are a bit out of focus because the table was constantly being bumped) Monet had his little character drawings, I have mine...

Southern Exposure’s 9th Annual Monster Drawing Rally

Hey, is that me from last year?... yep, that's my RBK hoodie and Coffee Bar coffee.

This is an annual live drawing event with more than 120 artists creating drawings... live! And you can purchase a drawing for just $60! All proceeds support Southern Exposure's Exhibitions and Artists in Education Programs. Southern Exposure has been a big part of the arts community and the Mission district, I hope you can make it to this great event.

Time: Friday, February 27, 2009, 
6:00 - 11:00 PM (I'll be drawing from 9 to 10 pm)

Donation: $5 & UP

Event Location: Verdi Club, 2424 Mariposa Street (between Hampshire and Potrero Streets)

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS include:
 Brett Amory, Lauren Anderson, Kathy Aoki, Chris Applegren, Seth Armstrong, Johnna Arnold, Mara Baldwin, David Becker, Pete Belkin, Bert Bergen, Elisheva Biernoff, Evan Bissel, Michelle Blade, James Bradley, Val Britton, Charlie Callahan, Michele Carlson, Deric Carner, John Casey, Constance Castillo, Alexander Cheves, Youmna Chlala, Serena Cole, Randy Colosky, Lisa Congdon, Jaime Cortez, Lauren Davies, Christian Davies, Veronica De Jesus, Tina Dillman, Nina Elder, Marcela Florez, Amy Franceschini, Adam Friedman, Matt Furie, Narangkar Glover, Pete Glover, Ariel Goldberg, Michael Hall, Liz Harvey, Chelsea Heikes, Eric Heiman, Queena Hernandez, Terry Hoff, Misa Inaoka, Ian Johnson, Kelly Lynn Jones, Kara Joslyn, Josh Keyes, David King, Tashana Kjelland, Sarah Klein, Chris Leib, Justin Limoges, Ken Lo, Ivan Lopez, Marina Luz, Nathan Lynch, Paul Madonna, Minette Mangahas, Michelle Mansour, Kari Marboe, Vanessa Marsh, Corinne Matesich, Christina Mazza, Mike McConnell, G! aelan McKeown, Jeff Meadows, Jody Medich, David Muller, Carson Murdach, Claire Nereim, Jessica Niello, Andy Nizinskyj, Sandra Ono, Jennie Ottinger, Matthew Palladino, Lana Parcello, Erik Parra, Kamau Patton, Hilary Pecis, Stephanie Peek, Chris Pew, George Pfau, Ferris Plock, Mel Prest, Kyle Ranson, Lisa Ricci, Ricardo Richie, Favianna Rodriguez, Lordy Rodriguez, John Rogers, Veronica Rojas, Thorina Rose, Nat Russell, Zachary Rossman, Sham Saenz, Colleen Sanders, Zachary Royer Scholz, Andrew Schoultz, Emily Sevier, Ryan Shaffer, Deth P. Sun, Jiharri Terry, Tracy Timmins, Trevor Tubelle, Jessica Tully, Kelly Tunstall, Gina Tuzzi, Aiyana Udesen, Paul Urich, Adrian Van Allen, Jamie Vasta, Ben Venom, Marci Washington, Amanda Williams, Jenifer Wofford, Michael Louis Young.

MUSIC. FOOD. DRINKS.
 Music will be delivered all night long by Bo Derelict.
 (great name...)

Last years event was great fun... hope to see you there!