WITH MUSIC FROM STEVE POLTZ, IRWIN CONSPIRACY 8 PM
MIHO GASTROTRUCK 6 to 9 pm

Space 4 Art and Loft 9 Gallery present a Pacific Standard Time exhibition exploring early surfboard design and how the use of surfboard materials influenced mid-century sculptors and designers.

The show was conceived and curated by Richard Kenvin, of Loft 9 Gallery. Kenvin is the director of the Hydrodynamica Project and has surfed in San Diego for over forty years. The exhibition focuses primarily on the work of two Southern California surfboard pioneers: Bob Simmons and Carl Ekstrom.

Simmons’ board design and early use of composite construction processes in board building from 1949 to 1954 parallels California’s post-war modern design movement and profoundly influenced modern surfing and skateboarding. Andy Warhol considered Ekstrom’s surfboards works of art and purchased two in 1968 for props in the campy surfsploitation flick “San Diego Surf.” The boards helped inspire an explosion of revolutionary surfboard design in San Diego that culminated with the designs of Steve Lis in the late 1960’s.

The exhibition will feature original Simmons planing hulls and other objects he made, including the boomerangs he used for experimentation. Boards from Ekstrom, Lis, and Nicholas Mirandon will also be exhibited, along with photographs and short film clips. Viewers will be invited to ponder the relationship of these designs to California art and design from 1945 to 1980.  Once overlooked, surfboard design is currently experiencing a worldwide renaissance that is changing surfers’ perspectives on the past and changing the way people ride waves today.

Pacific Standard Time is an unprecedented series of concurrent exhibitions throughout Southern California museums and galleries that highlight the significance of art in Los Angeles region in the post World War II decades. Exhibitions and related programs began in the fall of 2011 and conclude in spring 2012.

The first of 2012′s Long Story Short comes on the theme of “Lost.”

Have you ever been lost? geographically or otherwise?  Tell us all about it! Share your story about a time when you became confused or disoriented. Hopefully you found your way home and can tell us how you did it.

Open to one and all to tell a true, five minute story without notes to a room of story devotees on the theme.

We’re made of love and we would love you to join us.

7:30PM – 9:00PM

“SSWA Presents: Ugly Boogie’s self-benefit concert!”

Ugly Boogie is a blue-grass/klezmer punk band

This is a benefit concert to help them  raise money to release their first record.

Wednesday, Jan 11th, 8:30pm

$5 suggested donation

The best performance poets from Train of Thought and Abstract Form figure it all out through the arts. This is a collaboration of some of the finest poets, singers, songwriters, comedians in San Diego in a special showcase at Space 4 Art.

Sunday, January 8th @ 7pm

$5 suggested donation

Please join us for an “off the wall” art show & sale featuring work by Space 4 Art studio artists priced affordably at $50, $100, or $150.

50% of sales go to the artist
50% of sales go to Space 4 Art
100% of the art goes home with you or
becomes a gift for someone you love.

Champagne and hors d’oeuvres.
Live music early. Dancing late.
Casual to elegant attire.

December 10, 2011
7-10 pm

Sunday, November 27th

7:30pm – 9:00pm

It’s smack in the middle of the Holiday season, when the expanding nucleus of the family circle suddenly constricts back together in a claustrophobic choke-hold around the dinner table. Or maybe it doesn’t and you have a good relationship with them. Either way, November’s “Long Story Short” is back on the outdoor main stage and welcomes anyone who wants to tell a five minute or less story of note about their families, relations, or the holiday season.

Doors 7 pm     $8 and  $10(sliding scale)

Swarmius Duo

Swarmius is a sonic fusion of hip-hop, house-lounge-techno meets modern classical … catchy hooks, soaring melodies & multi-level syncopations that draw from rock, jazz, the Yoruba music of Nigeria, Eastern European Klezmer, Indonesian gamelan, electronica, hip-hop, vaudeville, European classical and more.

Jozefius (Joseph Waters), laptop and compositions

Saximus, saxophones

http://swarmius.com/

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Lisa Mezzacappa’s Bait & Switch

Bait & Switch is San Francisco bassist Lisa Mezzacappa’s rollicking garage jazz quartet, playing original music inspired by adventurous jazz masters like Ornette Coleman, Henry Threadgill, the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Eric Dolphy. The music funnels improvisational collectivity into finely honed compositions steeped in free jazz abandon, avant-Caribbean groove and garage rock attitude. The band was voted Best Debut in the 2010 Village Voice Jazz Critics Poll, and tours the West Coast this fall in preparation for recording their second CD.

Aaron Bennett, tenor saxophone

John Finkbeiner, electric guitar

Vijay Anderson, drums

Lisa Mezzacappa, acoustic bass

www.lisamezzacappa.com 

Photo by Myles Boisen

Wednesday, November 16th at 7:30 pm

Benjamin Van Dyke, MFA University of Michigan, BFA Kendall College of Art & Design. In 2006, Van Dyke was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to the Netherlands where he was artist-in-residence at NLXL in The Hague. During this time, he lent his talents to the implementation of experimental practices for the ministries of education and culture with an analysis on the cultural implications. He has continued his research through site-specific installations of experimental typography. He has been invited to exhibit his work across North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East

Following his work in The Netherlands, Van Dyke was invited to join the Visual Studies faculty at The State University of New York at Buffalo, where he is Head of the Communication Design program. He also serves as Vice President of DesignInquiry — an international design collective focused on design research and education.

Upgrade! International network of gatherings concerning art, technology and culture.

http://upgradesandiego.info/

The event is free and open to the public. There will be a cash bar!

For more information contact:

Arzu Ozkal - arzu.ozkal@mail.sdsu.edu

Leigh Cotnoir - lcotnoir@mail.sdsu.edu

Max Luera - vinyllogic@yahoo.com

guitarist-composer-sound artist

website: http://terrence-mcmanus.com

Guitarist Terrence McManus has made a name for himself in the improvised/contemporary music scene, with an unmistakable sound and truly new approach to the guitar. Described as “a visionary guitarist” by guitar icon Gene Bertoncini, Terrence’s unique style and approach have also been heralded by guitar greats Bill Frisell and John Abercrombie. He has performed with artists including John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Tim Berne, Don Byron, and John Hollenbeck. In 2008, Terrence was featured in the book State of the Axe: Guitar Masters in Photographs and Words, by legendary photographer Ralph Gibson.

Performance Notes

The common threads that are weaved through Terrence’s performance are the seamless blending of traditional guitar playing with a new direction in prepared guitar, industrial based sounds, and live sound manipulation, using old fashioned technologies and sensibilities. The music is performed by one person, using one guitar, in one signal chain, ending in one amplifier, but it is realized with a richness not usually associated with such limitations. The result is a music that lives and breathes, and touches upon something deep rooted and fundamental, which resonates with a wide audience.

Press Quotes

“McManus is one of New York’s latest guitar heroes”- All About Jazz

“…shifting from looming formations of rocky noise to a bracing, pointilistic spray…—DownBeat

“All great guitarists find a voice inside the instrument, but Terrence McManus hit on an entirely new language.” -Gambit (New Orleans)

“…rich, unconscious empathy……language that takes in everything…” -The Wire (UK)

“…an improvisational guitarist who’s constantly looking for new, unexpected ways to make music…He comes off like a 21st century extension of Brian Eno…” -The Trenton Times

“McManus is a guitar explorer, drawing on both traditional and extended techniques in a style that’s nonetheless distinctively pared down, at once emotive, intense and vocal.” -Point of Departure

Biography

Born in Brooklyn, New York, guitarist Terrence McManus grew up in New Jersey and Connecticut. He has performed or recorded with John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Don Byron, John Hollenbeck, Tim Berne, Ellery Eskelin, Herb Robertson, Mark Helias, Gerry Hemingway, Anthony Cox, Kermit Driscoll, Russ Lossing, Marty Ehrlich, Mat Maneri, Ben Monder, Matt Moran, Billy Mintz, Michael Sarin, and Gene Bertoncini. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, the New York Guitar Festival, the New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park, and the inaugural month at John Zorn’s The Stone.

In 2008 Terrence was featured in the book, State of the Axe: Guitar Masters in Photographs and Words, by legendary photographer Ralph   Gibson, The book is published by Yale University Press and The Museum of Fine Arts, in Houston, TX.

Terrence is currently a member of the Gerry Hemingway Quintet, the Kermit Driscoll Trio and Quartet, the Herb Robertson Ensemble, the Gerry Hemingway/Terrence McManus Duo, and the John Hebert/Terrence McManus Duo. Terrence is featured on the 2011 Gerry Hemingway Quintet release Riptide, and the 2010 Hemingway/McManus Duo release, Below the Surface of.

In 2010 the Hemingway/McManus Duo toured the Midwest, performing and teaching in Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota. Also in 2010, the John Hebert/Terrence McManus duo performed and taught in New Orleans, LA.

Terrence’s own projects include Transcendental Numbers, with Mark Helias, and Gerry Hemingway, which has a recording entitled Transcendental Numbers, released in 2011, on the No Business Record label from Lithuania. He also leads a chamber quintet with Ellery Eskelin, Mat Maneri, Russ Lossing, and Gerry Hemingway. The quintet recently premiered a new sixty minute, multi-sectional, through-composed work titled, The Machine. The piece has also been performed in an trio configuration, and in a solo guitar setting.

An accomplished solo guitarist, Terrence performs his own compositions and arrangements, and has developed a unique style of improvisation, drawing on extended technique and prepared guitar. His first solo recording, Brooklyn EP, was released in 2010. In 2009 he was invited to perform in the 5th annual Electro-Music Festival, and that same year did solo tour of California, with concerts in San Francisco, Berkeley, Monterey, and San Diego. In 2011, Terrence completed a solo tour of the Northwestern United States, performing in Seattle, WA, Portland and Eugene, OR, and Anchorage, AK.

Actively involved in education, Terrence has taught at Loyola University, the University of New Orleans, the University of Nebraska, The New School in New York City and the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts.

OPENING RECEPTION

BRIANNA RIGG: IF THE OCEAN WAS WHISKEY

OCTOBER 29TH

6 TO 10 PM 

San Diego artist Brianna Rigg will transform the Space 4 Art galleries into an installation that examines the emotional content of historical artifacts. Rigg’s show will run October 29 to December 3, 2011 with an opening reception from 6 to 10 p.m. on October 29, 2011. While the reception is occurring inside the galleries of Space 4 Art, outside there also will be music, costumes, performance art and a Halloween themed exhibit, “Hell House.” Many of the 35 artists who live and/or work at Space 4 Art will also open their studios to the public.

About the show: Brianna Rigg’s installation, “If the Ocean was Whiskey,” is an immersive environment composed of artifacts that are reminiscent of the Old West, maritime culture, elementary school classrooms, and Southern Californian architecture. These artifacts, both collected and made by the artist, are arranged to create a mashup of vernaculars used to express Rigg’s imagined understandings of the historical narratives to which these artifacts refer. Driven by a desire to unveil the emotional aura surrounding the object, Rigg seeks to close the gap between the object and that which it represents by creating a contemporary mythology in the form of a blasted narrative that allows the viewer to dwell in the realm of fantasy. Objects are not on display in “If the Ocean was Whiskey.” Instead, objects inhabit the space. The environment mimics the objects within it, so that echoes of each form reverberate throughout the space to create a harmonious order that allows for the merging of the installation’s various themes.

About Rigg: Rigg was grew up in Ashland, Oregon. She attended The Evergreen State College where she received her Bachelors Degree in 2002. Brianna is currently an MFA candidate at the University of California San Diego. Recent exhibitions include; Grey Market, Fe Gallery, Pittsburg PA, 2011, Possessive/Obsessive, Art Produce Gallery, San Diego CA, 2011, Cross Disciplinary Productions, Deans Office, UCSD, La Jolla CA, 2011, Somatic Sensor, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica CA, 2011, Mourning California, Periscope Projects, San Diego, 2010, Never Took the Drugs I Meant to Take, solo exhibition, VAF Gallery, UCSD, La Jolla, 2009, and The Dark Tower, Compactspace Gallery, Los Angeles CA 2009.