Weekend Art Roundup

Posted Feb 9, 2010 by Angus Shafer

Updated Feb 9, 2010 at 11:59 AM

It was a busy Saturday night for the Bay area arts community. Here are some photos from the four openings I made it to.

I started the night off at Cafe Hey where Victoria Skelly and Emily Labit Fingar had a two person show.

“Cowboy Catharsis” a series of block prints by Victoria were great.

Eash print is relief-carved from “Sintra”, a plastic composite material then hand printed on paperboard

A block of carved Sintra

The little seed that grew
Emily Labit Finger
Glass collage

My next stop on the night was the new Tempus Projects space. Atlanta artists Mario Schambon and George Long where showing. Both of these guys had fresh work and a knack for good conversation.
They were both also impressed on the amount of events going on in area in one weekend.

George Long’s paintings.

Here are two of Mario’s scultpures. I will have to head back and get photos of the rest of his work.

This piece really reminds me of an Alberto Giacometti.

Next stop was over the bridge to Central Ave in St. Pete for the opening of the BlueLucy and Vitale Brother’s work spaces. I can not wait for this strip of artist shops and workspaces to be fully opened.

BlueLucy

Chad and Phillip had a selection of new and old works up on the wall of their new diggs.

Vitale Art Studio

The Vitale Brothers space was jammed pack, like a normal Vitale event.

It was a little hard for me to get shots of any of the work on the walls.

I did score a shot of this newer Bask piece hanging next to Dj Mega, who was providing music for the evening.