Wednesday, May 25, 2016, 8:00 pm, $7-$10
Sean Smith
is a guitarist from San Francisco who has been releasing albums of complex and moving instrumental music for the better part of the last decade. He began releasing albums of solo acoustic guitar in 2003 and currently leads a power trio in avant rock excursions. https://seansmith.bandcamp.com/
Paul Clipson is a San Francisco-based filmmaker who often collaborates with sound artists and musicians on films, live performances, and installations. His Super 8 and 16mm films aim to bring to light subconscious visual preoccupations that reveal themselves while working in a stream of consciousness manner, combining densely layered, in-camera edited studies of figurative and abstract environments, in a process that encourages unplanned-for results, responding to and conversing with the temporal qualities of musical composition and live performance. His work has screened around the world in festivals and at sound & film events such as the International Film Festival Rotterdam, The New York Film Festival and the Cinémathèque Française. http://www.withinmirrors.org/
Chris Duncan is an interdisciplinary artist that employs the use of color, repetition, and reflections, along with a wide variety of materials to ponder ideas such as perception and balance, in both conceptual and physical forms. Often in flux between the overwhelming and the minimal, rooted in simple application methods, Chris chooses accessible means of making in hopes to make broader connections beyond the typical art viewer. With accessibility in mind, Chris has also been publishing books, zines and releasing records for over a decade. Under the moniker Hot and Cold, Chris co-published a seven year long, 10 issue series of hand-built art books including well over 100 artists. Under the current moniker Land and Sea, he has teamed up with his partner, Maria Otero, to release monographs and records of artists they believe in. Beyond constructing paintings, drawings, installations with string, and publishing he has also ventured into experimental sound making and people gathering. As THE SUN, under the same premise of his more traditional forms of art-making, Duncan creates sonic happenings that, by design, dismantle the idea of audience and performer, and offer a space for anyone willing, to contribute and participate. Duncan has performed, exhibited, or is the collection of institutions such as Museum of Modern Art, Berkeley Art Museum in California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Arts Commission, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and the Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis. http://www.artspace. com/chris-Duncan
Stephanie Sherriff is an interdisciplinary sculptor, performer, and media artist currently residing in the Bay Area. In her process she observes, collects, deconstructs, and recomposes plants, light, sound, video, and scents in order to create abstracted, ephemeral forms and experiences. She received her BA in Studio Art from San Francisco State University and has been the recipient of numerous awards including Best in Show, Excellence in Video, and the Christine Tambyln Memorial Scholarship. http://ssherriff.com/
Maggi Payne composes music for concert presentation, video, and dance, and is a video artist, photographer, recording engineer, flutist, and Co-Director of the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Her works have been presented in the Americas, Europe, Japan, and Australasia. She received Composer’s Grants and an Interdisciplinary Arts Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts; video grants from the Mellon Foundation and the Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowships Program; and honorary mentions from Concours International de Musique et d’Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges and Prix Ars Electronica.
Her works appear on Innova, Lovely Music, Starkland, Asphodel, New World (CRI), Root Strata, Centaur, Ubuibi, MMC, Digital Narcis, Music and Arts, Frog Peak, and/OAR, Capstone, and Mills College labels. www.maggipayne.com