Tracy's piece from the Eleanor Harwood exhibition "ALBEDO" is mentioned with a photo on Artnet.com:

SAN FRANCISCO HAPPENINGS

by Brian Andrews

"...For last month’s "Albedo," Sept. 29-Oct. 26, 2007, a group show considering global warming, the Eleanor Harwood Gallery invited a diverse group of artists to respond to the looming crisis. While some artists simply presented landscapes -- a rather lazy take on the issue -- several others offered insight into what is arguably one of the more challenging political, economic and environmental issues of this century. Tracy Timmins Charms to Ward off Global Warming ($350) binds various knobs and thermostats to a wire charm reminiscent of bones on a shaman’s fetish. The necklace is presented in a vitrine, as if it were to be studied as anthropological evidence of a culture past."

photo from Artnet.com

Downy Bird Art Kingdom Book Release

The book DOWNY BIRD ART KINGDOM features Thin Ice members Tracy Timmins, Sham Saenz, Hilary Pecis, Catherine Ryan, Zefrey Throwell, Serena Cole, as well as:
Monica Canilao, Deth P. Sun, Ogi, Ferris Plock, Chris Fitzpatrick, Derrick Snodgrass, Kottie Paloma, Katy Zaugg Jeana Sohn, Daniel Duford, Mike McGovern, Stephen Slappe, Gavin Potenza, Tim Janchar, and Matthew Bowers
You can find out more and buy the book at www.downybird.com

re: Views @ Tinlark Gallery - - - June 2nd

Date: June 2, 2007 - June 30, 2007
The Opening Reception: Saturday June 2nd from 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM.
Tinlark Gallery
Address: Crossroads of the World 6671 Sunset Blvd. ,1512 , Hollywood , 90028
Cross Streets: Las Palmas / Highland
Phone: (323) 463-0039
Website: www.tinlark.com

Description: re:VIEWS features the work of award-winning emerging artists. Tinlark Gallery in Hollywood opens its new show, re:VIEWS, June 2, 2007 featuring artists Scott David Johnson and Catherine Ryan. Re:VIEWS, which investigates visual codes used to imply gaze, perception, and narrative, is Chicago artist Scott David Johnson’s second show with Tinlark. Johnson made his Los Angeles debut in Tinlark’s inaugural group show, MindFull, where collectors enthusiastically received Johnson’s abstracted narratives.

Re:VIEWS marks the second Tinlark exhibition for San Francisco artist Catherine Ryan. Ryan, who was included in Douglas Bullis’ 2003 Survey of West Coast Contemporary Artists, “100 Artists of the West Coast”, uses means of erasure and color to construct narratives featuring animals and humans.

In the project room, Tinlark presents the multimedia works of Megan Wilson exhibiting her installation Morning Glory. Wilson is inspired by a love of patterns and textiles and her work explores the intersections between fine art, design, architecture, and traditional crafts.

Red Dot Art Fair, New York 2/23-2/26

Bucheon Gallery will be featuring work from Billy Kroft, Serena Cole, Tracy Timmins, & Zefrey Throwell at the RED DOT New York art fair.

February 23-26 2007
ART FAIR at the PARK SOUTH HOTEL
122 East 28th Street - NEW YORK CITY

Faithfully @ Bucheon 2/16

Tracy Timmins, Serena Cole, and Zefrey Throwell will all have work in the group exhibition Faithfully.

Bucheon Gallery
389 Grove St.
San Francisco, CA

Opening Reception: Feb. 16 2007 @ 6-8pm
Show Runs: Feb. 16 - Mar. 31


This exhibition explores religiosity. Religiosity describes the numerous aspects of religious activity, dedication, and belief, through the act of practicing certain rituals, retelling certain myths revering certain symbols or accepting certain doctrines about deities and the afterlife. The artworks in this show suggest some of the ways in which contemporary artists use the iconography and narratives of various religious beliefs in order to express their own relationship to faith. Taking images and ideas that derive from a variety of religions the artworks on display both confirm and critique the spiritual and political position that faith, from Christian fundamentalism, to New Age Spirituality, occupies in today’s society. Philosophies are questioned as ancient myths and mysticism are reworked through the critical vision of contemporary art.

At the end of this journey there is the art object. Each painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, etc. becomes a location where belief can be identified in the creation of a concrete object. The artist’s commitment to producing an artwork is an act of faith in itself. This act and the objects in the exhibition are manifestations of the daily rituals, the hope, despair, and glittering moments of transcendence that fill the lives of everybody.

Fast Forward, Rewind @ Gray Area Gallery 2/10

Hilary Pecis will have work in the group exhibition Fast Forward, Rewind

Gray Area Gallery
371 11st St., 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA

Opening Reception: Feb. 10, 2007 @ 7-12 midnight
Show Runs: Feb. 10 - Mar.2

Fast Forward / Rewind is a group installation
exhibition featuring a medley of mediums from sewn
paper to live radio transmission, psychadelic painted
landscapes and multi channel video. The show draws
conceptually upon the themes of time and technology,
from obsolete prophecies of the future to a fluid
fictional archeology. Based on a show that was
exhibited in New York in the Fall of 2006, seven
artists from east and west coasts play with spatial
and temporal planes for the Gray
Area Gallery.

Hilary Pecis in New American Paintings

Check out the new Pacific Coast Edition of New American Paintings,
Issue #67 features the artwork of Hilary Pecis.
Preview it Here.

Billy Kroft- Remnants at CELLSPACE gallery

From ART BUSINESS
Artists recycle old magazines, street debris, snapshots, used clothing, furniture, junk wood, and more, transforming derelict remnants into memorable remnants. I gotta go with Billy Kroft here-- I liked his art carpentry before, I like it now. He elevates scrap wood by reconfiguring it into abstract angular geometric realms. Once so forlorn; now so fresh. Somebody give this dude a show. For purchase purposes, he's priced everything $285-- if I recall correctly-- eminently generous. Options include a stripped reincarnated swivelling vibra-chair that I personally tested and hereby proclaim to be a complete steal (also $285). Why I didn't buy it myself, I'll never know.
Crucible Steel Gallery at CELLspace presents:

REMNANTS II: the manipulative hand
Jan. 10th - Feb. 3rd, 2007

Reception: Thursday, Jan. 18th, 7-10pm

Lauren Anderson
Luke Butler
Kaliisa Conlon
David Huff
Billy Kroft
Carrie Minikel

curated by Matthew Searle

"Remnants" is a two-part show examining what is left over, whether it is a mark or some other trace.

In this show, each artist begins with some remnant of the past, whether it be old magazines, street debris, snapshots, used clothing, furniture, or disgarded wood. Through their investigation, they then leave behind a new sort of remnant, one that is a trace of their actions, of their manipulative hand.

Crucible Steel Gallery at CELLspace
2050 Bryant Street (at 18th)
San Francisco, CA 94110
www.cellspace.org
gallery@cellspace.org

"Mind Full" @ Tinlark Gallery

6671 Sunset Blvd. #1512, Hollywood 90028
Weds.-Sat., 11am-6pm; & by app’t.

(323) 463-0039
info@tinlark.com
tinlark.com

Showing:
January 13-February 24:
“Mind Full”, including Catherine Ryan, Marci Washington, Scott David Johnson, Gavin Bunner, Julianna Bright, Narangkar Khalsa, Nancy Baker Cahill, Michele Carlson.
Project Room--Shalene Valenzuela.

Representing:
Gavin Bunner, Amy Jean Porter, Grant Barnhart, Andrew Au, Catherine Ryan, Scott David Johnson, Dava Costello, Laura Normandin, Ann Wood, Golden Blizzard, The Hiberts, Deb Sokolow.