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Art in East Village and Barrio Logan

Far be it from me to make cheesy metaphors about holiday splendor but seriously, this time of year is magical. To celebrate, there are two exciting art shows over in East Village and Barrio Logan this weekend.

Stop off at Space4Art for Anti-Freeze, an exhibition and sale featuring work from the in-house artists where an eclectic range of work will be available at affordable prices. A gallery committee member at S4A let me know that 50% of sales go to each artist and the other half to keeping this amazing community driven institution running which includes public arts programming and day to day functions. There’ll be live music including a DJ set from Rafter, hor d’ouerves, champagne, and beer donated by Mission Brewery. And if that’s not enough, MIHO Gastrotruck will be on-site serving up grub. (7-10pm)

Down the street, Art Fist Collective will host In Guad We Trust, a group show in celebration of Our Lady of Guadelupe’s feast day at the Roots Factory. In Guad will feature reworked images of the Virgen de Guadelupe by a stacked line-up of artists including Tocayo, Exist 1981,  Jona Téllez-Girón, Perry Vasquez and Mario Torero. There’ll be live mural painting and DJ sets by Saul Q and Latin Lovers. In Guad We Trust goes from 6-10pm.

 

Breadtruck Films : Art As A Weapon

Long time collaborator Jeff Durkin and Breadtruck Films are at work on their next documentary, but they need your help! Hoping to travel and film in Burma for their newest film Art As A Weapon, Durkin and crew have turned to Kickstarter and their community to help get them there. Check out the trailer above and a whole list of incentives to invest on their Kickstarter page.

There's also a chance to participate in person this Monday at the Whistlestop Bar in South Park, just steps from Shepard Fairey's mural of a buddhist monk. Breadtruck will host a fundraising event and mini film festival on November 28th from 6-9pm.

*Update A second fundraiser event has been added on December 6th at The Pearl in Point Loma. Jeff's previous film Working Class will be screened along with a silent auction and drink specials.

Luce Loft : December Events

If you've been following Sezio for a while, you'll remember way back in 2008 and 2009 when we often inhabited a vintage downtown space called Luce Loft. Art shows, concert series, ASR pinata parties, you name it -- needless to say, we had a good time. Well, we're excited to announce that we've rented the space for the whole month of December and have a couple great events lined up!

On Thursday, December 15th Sezio will launch its 2012 Membership Program with a big art show & fundraiser down at Luce. This will be your first chance to get your hands on our twenty twelve membership kit, which was curated and designed by Wes Bruce. There will also be a big group show featuring a ton of our favorite artists. MIHO Gastrotruck will be parked out front on J St. and Starlite will be serving up Mules and Colonels at a pop-up bar. More details on this event very soon.

To close out the month and year, Sezio will host a black tie, projection-filled, New Year's Eve dance party on the 31st at Luce. This will be the best NYE party you've ever attended. The night will feature a projection installation from Charles Bergquist, which will be synced up with the evening's countdown, along with a vintage photobooth manned by Tommy McAdams and a DJ set by Jamuel Saxson. Pre-sale tickets for this extravaganza can be reserved now. 

What Happens in the Dark

*Update If you missed the opening reception, Charles' work will be displayed at Bottlecraft for all of December. Swing by for a beverage and a look see.

What Happens in the Dark will feature new works from director, designer, and photographer Charles Bergquist. While the artists at Yeller Studio are no strangers to putting on collaborative art shows, this will be their first purely curatorial effort. “This is the first show we’re putting on where we aren’t the ones making the work,” says Clarke Forrest, who is the longest standing member since they banded together around 2008. An intrepid attitude is synonymous with this collaboration as most of the work Bergquist will show is from his simple yet brilliant Everyday Project, a series comprised of images Bergquist creates in his off time when he isn’t working for a paycheck. The series is a testament to the importance of tinkering - being able to explore new techniques and styles that may benefit his commercial work but is done off the clock.

J Noland : Thank You For Being A Friend

San Diego artist J Noland isn’t messing around.

Known for his eccentricity and propensity to take things to the extreme, Noland’s work embodies a spirit of grandiosity and strangeness unique unto himself. Some may remember him as the fast talking guy smoking in the giant teepee at the Endless Summer exhibition at Habitat House. So it should come as no surprise that starting Thursday, Noland will take it upon himself to watch The Golden Girls series in its entirety while reclining in a La - Z - Boy chair at Helmuth Projects downtown.

The inspiration comes from a quote in a interview with artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres who said, “I don’t want to make art just for people who can read Frederic Jameson sitting upright in a Mackintosh chair. I want to make art for people who watch The Golden Girls and sit in a big brown La-Z-Boy chair.” Noland will do just that while, “investigating the passivity of television, representative forms/functions of friendship, and the ‘average’ against the backdrop of situational comedy and ground-breaking comfort technology.”  Thank You For Being A Friend runs November 17-21st at Helmuth Projects. You can sign up to watch an episode with him here.

Helmuth Projects is located at 920 E Street at the Library Lofts. Opening reception is Thursday Novemeber 17 from 6-10pm.