Press / Mario Ayala in the New York Times

 

 

Credit…Philip Cheung for The New York Times

 

Read the article here online

Read the PDF version here

 


 

Press / Mieke Marple interviewed by Forbes

 

 


 

Press / Mieke Marple in the LA Weekly

 

 


Artist Drop / Mieke Marple’s Medusa Collection

 

The Medusa Collection is a set of 2,500 unique NFTs by artist Mieke Marple on the Ethereum blockchain launching December 6, 2021. The collection is a large-scale artwork + restorative history + fundraiser that dedicates 25% of all sales to Steven Van Zandt’s national education non-profit TeachRock.org

 

Don’t have ETH (Ethereum) but want to buy a NFT from Mieke Marple’s Medusa Collection drop?

You can buy through Ever Gold [Projects] here, and still get an officially minted NFT, through an “Off-Chain” payment process.

 

 


Gallery News/ Ever Gold [Projects] is now on Sotheby’s Gallery Network

 

Visit us on Sotheby’s gallery network, featuring works by Henry Gunderson, Christine Wang, Zio Ziegler, and Mieke Marple.

 


Weekly Meet-Up / NFTuesday Los Angeles  / Every Tuesday 7-9pm

For NFT Lovers and the NFT curious, come hang out at The Red Lion Tavern in Silverlake, 7-9 pm every Tuesday. Meet new people and listen to a different speaker each week talk about various NFT projects.

Organized by The Medusa Collection, Kenetic Capital, and Ever Gold [Projects]

Join the Telegram channel here

 

 


Book Release / Easy to be Hard / Mario Ayala and Henry Gunderson

Purchase here 

A limited-edition board book with a Chicago screw post binding and a screen-printed chrome cover, Easy to Be Hard is co-published by Ever Gold [Projects] and Copla Press based on the exhibition of the same name, and features an essay by Jeffrey Deitch.

 

 

 


Artist Drop / KATSU for Off White

 

As an experimental artist, KATSU became known during the early 2000’s for his graffiti and now focuses on art, vandalism, dark tech and more. “I’ve been a KATSU fan for a long time,” Abloh said in a press release. “And, more recently, I’ve seen just how ahead of the curve he is when it comes to fusing a kind of subversive tradition with a radical future. He crosses lines, and dissolves them. That thinking is a perfect adjunct to my ethos at Off-White.”

 

 


Passages / Dennis Kernohan (1948 – 2021)

 


Press / KATSU

 


Exhibition / KATSU

Ever Gold [Projects] is pleased to present BITS, an exhibition of four NFTs installed IRL from contemporary artist KATSU’s DARK TECH 1 series. As presented in our physical gallery space in San Francisco, these four works take on a material form through the use of custom sculptural projector units with internal digital media that carry on KATSU’s legacy as a critic of the tech industry and its titans. The multi projection-based installation presents four versions of a conjoined Elon Musk with a demonic second self, composed of four different rare earth elements.

 

“BITS” installation view.

 

 


Artist News / Mario Ayala

 

Mario Ayala featured in “Shattered Glass” a group exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles.

 

 

 


Gallery News / Upcoming Exhibitions

 

KATSU
BITS
March 31 – May 1

 

 

Mark Flood
Dominos 
In collaboration with The Museum of Crypto Art (MoCA)
April 14 – May 15

 

Mario Ayala & Henry Gunderson
Easy to be Hard
May 15 – July 10

 


Artist News /Mieke Marple

Mieke Marple was featured in an auction to support the Open Earth Foundation on Nifty Gateway, which raised a total of $6.6M to help support Climate Action

 

 

 


Artist News /Mieke Marple

 

Ever Gold [Projects] presents an exhibition of new paintings by San Francisco based artist Mieke Marple, on view from January 25 – February 28, 2021. The exhibition will be available through our website and via 8-Bridges during San Francisco Art Week, January 25 – 31. The paintings will also be available to view in person at the gallery by appointment.

More info here

 

Mieke Marple “Tarot Reckoning” installation view.

 

 


Artist News / Zio Ziegler

Zio Ziegler’s current solo exhibitions extended:

Part One Extended Through January 30 & Part Two Extended Through February  20

 

 

 


Press / Interview with Mieke Marple in Matrons & Mistresses

Read the full interview here

 

 


Press / Mario Ayala in Cultured Magazine Young Artists List 2021

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Artist News / Mario Ayala

 

Ever Gold [Projects] congratulates our dear friend Mario Ayala on his inclusion in the Hammer Museum’s biennial, Made in L.A. 2020, and the acquisition of his “Aqueduct Angel” into their permanent collection.

Made in L.A. 2020 is organized by independent curators Myriam Ben Salah and Lauren Mackler, with the Hammer’s Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi, assistant curator of performance.

 

Installation view, Made In LA 202, Hammer Museum. Photo by Joshua White.

 

 


 

Exhibition / 8 Bridges

Eight Works by Eight Artists

A group online exhibition on 8 Bridges

December 3, 2020 – January 4, 2021

Drew Bennett, Heather Day, Sandy Kim, Mieke Marple, Greg Rick, Adam Parker Smith, Christine Wang, and Zio Ziegler.

 

Mieke Marple
“Two of Swords (Choices),” 2020
24K gold and acrylic on canvas
40 x 30 inches [HxW] (101 x 76 cm)


Press / SF Arts Monthly

Zio Ziegler featured in the winter issues of SF Art Monthly

 

 

 


Artist News / Zio Ziegler

Part two of Zio Ziegler’s solo exhibition now open by appointment.

Find out more info here

 


Artist News / Zio Ziegler

 

Ever Gold [Projects] is pleased to open Part One of our two part solo exhibition with Zio Ziegler.

November 7 – January 22

Find out more info here

 

 


Press / Juxtapoz Magazine

Drew Bennett interviewed by Juxtapoz Magazine Editor in Chief Evan Pricco about his current solo exhibition at Ever Gold [Projects], on view until October 31.

 

Read the full interview here

 

 

Excerpt:

Evan Pricco: I’m not sure what triggered it, but I thought of your paintings when I saw that Robert Bechtle had passed away last week. I know you aren’t a photorealist, but there is something real about the world you are trying to capture. Do you think of yourself in the realms of classic Bay Area painters? Do you appreciate that era? 


Drew Bennett:
I’m very touched by this. When I moved to San Francisco in the spring of 2005, Bechtle’s retrospective was at SFMOMA. That show and that museum at that time in my life sent ripples into my life ever since. Bechtle pushed against the edges of what we can express as humans. In his photorealism, there are full psychedelic freakouts all over the place in mark and palette, they’re just woven into a whisper against the overall effect.

 


Artist News / Shaina McCoy

Shaina McCoy recently opened her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles with François Ghebaly Gallery.

Installation View, Shaina McCoy, “Father, Father”, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles

 

 


Artist News / Drew Bennett

Ever Gold [Projects] begins our fall program with a solo exhibition from painter Drew Bennett.

To make an appointment to visit the gallery – please visit here

To see the exhibition online – please visit here

 

 


Press / The Art Newspaper

Mieke Marple featured in Scott Reyburn’s new article in The Art Newspaper about artists reclaiming power.

“A big upheaval needs to happen to change the toxic environment that is the art world”

Read the full article here


Exhibition / Christine Wang

Christine Wang recently opened her solo exhibition Coronavirus Memes with Nagel Draxler in Cologne.

More information here


Artist News / Mieke Marple

Mieke Marple featured in Taschen’s new book on the history of Tarot, from her ongoing series on the subject.

Purchase the 2nd edition of her full Tarot deck here.

Mieke Marple, “Justice Tarot (Angela Y. Davis”, 2020. Acrylic on canvas. 30 x 40 inches.


Press / Architectural Digest

Zio Zeigler (upcoming solo exhibition, November 2020) featured in this months issue of AD, in a feature on interior Designer Nicole Hollis’ San Francisco home.


Exhibition / Christine Wang

Christine Wang is included in Hollywood Babylon: A Re-Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, a group exhibition at the Former Spago Restaurant on the Sunset Strip presented by Jeffrey Deitch, Nicodim, and Autre Magazine. A review by Los Angeles Magazine with mention of Wang’s work is now available online. Hollywood Babylon is now on view through February 16.

Installation view, Christine Wang’s Leo Baby (2020) on view for Hollywood Babylon: A Re-Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome at 1114 Horn Avenue, West Hollywood, 2020.

Exhibition / Serge Attukwei Clottey

During Frieze Los Angeles, Serge Attukwei Clottey presents a pop-up exhibition at Platform in Culver City organized by The Mistake Room. Serge Attukwei Clottey: Routes includes an installation of Clottey’s plastic works in Space 108 as well as two public vitrines visible from Washington Boulevard. Serge Attukwei Clottey: Routes is now on view through February 29.

Installation view, Serge Attukwei Clottey: Routes, organized by The Mistake Room at Platform, Culver City, 2020.

Museum Acquisition / Petra Cortright

Petra Cortright’s webcam video work VVEBCAM (2007) has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art (New York) through their Department of Media and Performance. Read more about VVEBCAM on the Net Art Anthology website.

Petra Cortright, VVEBCAM, 2007. Webcam video, 1 min. 43 sec.

Exhibition / Cameron Platter

Solid Waste, a solo exhibition by Cameron Platter featuring new sculptures, drawings, tapestries, and ceramics, opens February 6 at Whatiftheworld (Cape Town, South Africa). Platter also presents a new video and web piece made in collaboration with Ben Johnson. Solid Waste will remain on view through March 14, 2020.

Business Day’s digital platform Wanted Online has published an interview with Platter in advance of Solid Waste‘s opening, available online now.

Cameron Platter, Solid Waste Khaos (Orange), 2020. Carved wood, paint, and rebar, 34 x 32 x 32 inches.

Press / Square Cylinder

Serge Attukwei Clottey‘s solo exhibition ADESA WE has been reviewed by Square Cylinder. ADESA WE remains on view through February 29, 2020.

Installation view, ADESA WE, Serge Attukwei Clottey at Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, 2020.

Exhibition / Mario Ayala

Mario Ayala has been selected as one of the thirty artists included in Made in L.A., the Hammer Museum’s biennial exhibition. This edition of Made in L.A. is co-presented with the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, and each artist will present work at both locations. Made in L.A. opens June 7 and remains on view through August 30, 2020.

Mario Ayala in his Los Angeles studio. Photograph by Grant Gutierrez.

Exhibition / Serge Attukwei Clottey

Serge Attukwei Clottey presents Softening the Borders, a new site-specific installation for Radical Revisionists: Contemporary African Artists Confronting Past and Present, a group exhibition at the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University (Houston, TX). Radical Revisionists opens January 24 with a reception from 6-8 pm and remains on view through May 16, 2020.

Serge Attukwei Clottey during the installation of Softening the Borders at the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, Houston, 2020.


Press / Hi-Fructose Magazine

Hi-Fructose Magazine has selected Kurobōzu/Dark Stranger, Nicola Roos’ solo exhibition currently on view at Ever Gold [Projects], as a featured exhibition. Kurobōzu/Dark Stranger remains on view through February 29, 2020.


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Public Program

During the 2020 edition of FOG Design+Art at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center, Ever Gold [Projects]’s Andrew McClintock will moderate a panel on Collecting in the Digital AgeThe panel discussion begins at 4:30 pm on Thursday, January 16.

The last decade has seen the emergence of many 1.0 digital tools and platforms for engaging with art online—everything from sales platforms for galleries, collectors, and auction houses to art-specific CRMs, logistics, data, and inventory systems. A panel discussion on the topic of these developments moderated by Andrew McClintock from [On Approval] and Ever Gold [Projects] will include Ken Maxwell from Gagosian, Sarah Wendell from Lobus, and Alexander Forbes from Artsy. The panelists will share their experiences navigating this new terrain as we enter a 2.0 version of the art world online. The discussion will cover Gagosian’s new online viewing room initiative, Artsy’s platform for discovering and collecting art, Lobus’s artworld data aggregator, and [On Approval]’s service which makes collecting art more accessible through subscription-based experiences. Panelists will discuss the demographics of online art collectors, the services that are available to them, and the implications these new tools have on the art market today and into the future.

Exhibition / Mark Flood

On January 11, Karma (New York) opens Protest Signs from 1992, a solo exhibition by Mark Flood featuring a series of paintings/protest signs made in 1992 in response to the Republican Convention held in the Houston Astrodome where President Bush and Dan Quayle would be nominated for another term. Protest Signs from 1992 will remain on view through February 23, 2020.


Press / The Art Newspaper

ADESA WE, Serge Attukwei Clottey’s upcoming solo exhibition at Ever Gold [Projects], has been featured by The Art Newspaper in their January 2020 print edition as one of their selections for must-see gallery shows opening this month. ADESA WE opens Saturday, January 11 with a reception from 5-8 pm and remains on view through February 29.

Serge Attukwei Clottey, Act of kindness, 2019. Plastics and copper wires, 192 x 264 inches.

Press / Dazed

A new feature on Petra Collins by Dazed includes a selection of images from her 24 Hour Psycho series, exhibited at Ever Gold [Projects] in 2016. Read the full feature on the Dazed website. An exhibition catalog for 24 Hour Psycho is available through the Ever Gold [Projects] online shop.

Petra Collins, 24 Hour Psycho series, 2016. Digital C-prints, 65 x 43 inches each. Each print produced in an edition of 2.

Press / HYPEBEAST

Mario Ayala‘s solo exhibition at Stems Gallery (Brussels), Shooby Doo Lang Doo Lang Dong, has been featured by HYPEBEAST in their Arts section. Shooby Doo Lang Doo Lang Dong is now on view through January 4, 2020.

Installation view, Shooby Doo Lang Doo Lang Dong, Mario Ayala at Stems Gallery, Brussels, 2019-2020.

Exhibition / Mario Ayala

Stems Gallery presents Shooby Doo Lang Doo Lang Dong, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Mario Ayala at the gallery’s Brussels location. Shooby Doo Lang Doo Lang Dong is now on view through January 4, 2020.

A painting by Mario Ayala on view for Shooby Doo Lang Doo Lang Dong at Stems Gallery, Brussels, 2019-2020.


Press / Autre

Mieke Marple’s solo exhibition Bad Feminist has been selected by Autre as a feature in their Art section. Bad Feminist has been extended and is now on view through January 19, 2020.


Exhibition / Mark Flood

Mark Flood is featured in Dirty Words, an exhibition at Mindy Solomon Gallery (Miami) curated by Bill Arning pairing Flood with Sam Jablon. Dirty Words is now on view through January 18, 2020.

A work by Mark Flood on view for Dirty Words with Sam Jablon at Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, 2019-2020.

Press / Kour Pour

Kour Pour has collaborated with menswear label Necessity Sense to produce a capsule collection, available now through Ne.Sense. The collection’s printed textiles replicate three large scale abstract paintings using a multi-color woodblock printing process from the artist’s Onnagata series.


Exhibition / Serge Attukwei Clottey

On November 15, the Mistake Room (Los Angeles) opens Solo Chorus, Serge Attukwei Clottey‘s first one-person institutional exhibition in the United States. Solo Chorus features new charcoal drawings, sculptural wall works, and sculptures in wood and bronze. Solo Chorus remains on view through January 18, 2020.


Exhibition / Christine Wang

For the inaugural exhibition at Nagel Draxler’s new Munich location, Christine Wang and Mark Dion present Climate Change is Real. Stop Procrastinating! Wang presents a new series of paintings, Leonardo DiCaprio Global Warming Memes. Climate Change is Real. Stop Procrastinating! is now on view through January 2.

Installation view, Climate Change is Real. Stop Procrastinating!, Christine Wang and Mark Dion at Galerie Nagel Draxler, Munich, 2019-2020.

Press / Mark Flood

Mark Flood’s Paintings from the Postwar Era has been reviewed by Tony Bravo for the San Francisco Chronicleonline now (appeared in print Sunday, October 20).

The following is an excerpt from the full article, available on the San Francisco Chronicle website.]

This brings us to artist Mark Flood’s “Paintings from the Postwar Era,” on view at Ever Gold gallery at Minnesota Street Project through Saturday, Oct. 26. One of the first pieces in the show, titled “Climb Pervert Mountain,” made me gasp, swear at the gallerist, then giggle.

The title alone says a lot. The piece is a photo-printed canvas painted over in places with acrylic. The photo-printed part of it depicts a kind of group bonding experience that Flood added some creative embellishments to with paint.

Other works of Flood’s inspired similarly strong reactions.

“Firm Characteristics,” a photo-printed work that mashed up explicit, viral images with corporate logos, was difficult to fathom at first — until I squinted and was able to make out just what was going on in the top photo.

Then there’s “Triangle With Julia Roberts.” The picture on the lower corner of the piece, another internet-found image, is of Roberts with an orangutan holding firmly onto the Academy Award winner. The look on the actress’ face deserves another Oscar.

Both “Firm Characteristics” and “Triangle” are part of Flood’s 2014 Heath series, which specifically engage with images from the internet.

“I like taking mass media images and putting them together to make art,” Flood told me. “To me there’s a tradition of what I call image juggling. It goes back to the Dada collage, that’s sort of the dawn of it. Now we have, I don’t know if it’s a democratic process, it’s a weird selection process where things go viral.”

In other words, part of what the artist was engaging with in the Heath work were images that already brought with them a strong enough audience reaction that they had been further disseminated. The Heath works show the artist as both image consumer and creator.

Flood doesn’t mind strong audience reactions to his work, but he was quick to add he wasn’t explicitly trying to generate any. We had to cut our conversation that day short: Flood said he was on the way to see the film “Joker,” another work inspiring very polarizing views.


Exhibition / Petra Cortright

Petra Cortright, a solo exhibition by the artist at Danziger Gallery (New York), presents a suite of new works that Cortright describes as “domestic landscapes.” Petra Cortright is now on view through November 16.

Petra Cortright, rans aircraaaft (creating public amplifiers, 2019. Digital painting on anodized aluminum, 59 x 59 inches.

Exhibition / Petra Cortright

Petra Cortright is included in ACE: art on sports, promise, and selfhood, a group exhibition at the University Art Museum at the University at Albany with an emphasis on the social and cultural impact of competitive sports. Cortright’s video, footvball /faerie (2009), relays a personal narrative of the artist’s interest and pursuit of Olympic soccer. ACE: art on sports, promise, and selfhood is now on view through December 7.

Petra Cortright, footvball /faerie, 2009. Webcam video.
Installation view, ACE: art on sports, promise, and selfhood at the University Art Museum at the University at Albany, 2019.

Exhibition / Zachary Armstrong

Fish and Chicken, a solo exhibition of new work by Zachary Armstrong, opens at Carl Kostyál’s London location on September 30 and remains on view through October 31.


Exhibition / Mark Flood

Mark Flood is included in Texas Extravagant Drawing, a group exhibition at Fiendish Plots (Lincoln, NE) curated by Bill Arning. Arning served as director of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston from 2009 to 2018, and curated Flood’s first survey exhibition, Gratest Hits (2016) at CAMH. Texas Extravagant Drawing remains on view through October 13.

A drawing by Mark Flood on view for Texas Extravagant Drawing at Fiendish Plots, 2019.

Exhibition / Tom Sachs

Timeline, the first retrospective exhibition of work by Tom Sachs in Germany in over 15 years, opens at SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen on September 22. Timeline includes selections from the Schaufler collection, the multipart installation Tea Ceremony, and a new large format sculpture of the twin towers of the World Trade Center, among many other works. Timeline remains on view through April 26, 2020.

Tom Sachs, Ashtray, 2018.

Publication / Sandy Kim

Sandy Kim photographed Jennifer Aniston for a recent cover of The New York Times Culture section, as well as Kim Gordon for the Style section. More of Kim’s images of Aniston and Gordon can be seen on The New York Times website.

Left: Jennifer Aniston for the cover of The New York Times Culture section.
Right: Kim Gordon for The New York Times Style section.

Publication / Cameron Platter

Cameron Platter is included in Explore! Awesome South African Artists, a new children’s book by Cobi Labuscagne designed to introduce its readers to living South African contemporary artists like William Kentridge, Nandipha Mntambo and Penny Siopis, Banele Khoza, Zander Blom, and Billie Zangewa. Explore! Awesome South African Artists is published by and available through Jacana Media.


Exhibition / Marc Horowitz

If it’s not mine, it’s mine, a solo exhibition by Marc Horowitz featuring new paintings and assemblage, opens September 8 at Jonathan Hopson Gallery with a reception from 1-5 pm. If it’s not mine, it’s mine remains on view through October 13.


Exhibition / Petra Cortright

Petra Cortright is included in The Body Electric, a group exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco) featuring more than 70 works by an intergenerational and international group of artists who have seized upon the screen as a place to rethink the body and identity. Featuring video, sculpture, photographs, virtual reality, and more, from over 45 artists and collectives, the exhibition places a particular emphasis on gender, sexuality, race, and class. The Body Electric opens September 6 with an opening night party from 7-10 pm and remains on view through January 26, 2020.

Petra Cortright
Enterprise Products_HATACHI CDR-8334_Honeybees, 2018
Digital painting on gloss paper, face mounted
48.5 x 95 inches


Press / Bay Area Reporter

Shaina McCoy‘s upcoming solo exhibition at Ever Gold [Projects], A Family Affair, is included in Fall Preview: Bay Area Galleries, a selection of fall exhibitions by the Bay Area Reporter. A Family Affair opens September 7 with a reception from 5-8 pm.

Shaina McCoy, Maryann & Leila, 2018. Oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches.

The following is an excerpt from the full article, available on the Bay Area Reporter website.]

Ever Gold Projects: “Shaina McCoy: A Family Affair
In a new group of intimate portrait paintings, McCoy, a Minneapolis-based African American artist, summons her family heritage and legacy of closeness. Based on photographs from her family album and influenced by Impressionism, she creates suggestive afterimages of familiar, well-trodden places and loved ones with featureless faces. Mothers hold their children, a trio of friends in T-shirts and baseball caps link arms, a couple nestles close to each other: what shines through is the affection that binds them. Withholding just enough realism, her blur of emotional memories provides a canvas onto which we can project our own. (Sept. 7-Oct. 26) evergoldprojects.com


Press / San Francisco Chronicle

Mark Flood’s upcoming solo exhibition at Ever Gold [Projects], Paintings From the Postwar Era, is included in 7 Bay Area gallery shows to see this fall, a list of recommendations by Charles Desmarais for the San Francisco Chronicle Datebook. Paintings From the Postwar Era opens September 7 with a reception from 5-8 pm.

Mark Flood’s “NBC Prop Kid” is part painting, part photograph, no video. His show opens Sept. 7 at Ever Gold [Projects].
Photo: Ever Gold [Projects].
[The following is an excerpt from the full article, available on the San Francisco Chronicle website.]

‘Paintings From the Postwar Era: Mark Flood’

Mark Flood is not easy to categorize as an artist, and he goes to great lengths to keep things that way. A critic of contemporary culture, his favorite target is the structure of the art world itself. How could one miss an exhibition of the latest work from a painter who once sold advertising space on his canvases by the square foot?


Press / Architectural Digest

The beta launch of [On Approval] is mentioned in a selection of noteworthy design events by Architectural Digest; the [On Approval] Beta Launch exhibition includes an interior design installation by NICOLEHOLLIS featuring furniture from The Future Perfect.

Installation view, interior design by NICOLEHOLLIS for [On Approval] Beta Launch at Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, 2019.
Center: Andy Warhol
Car Crash, 1978
Screenprint on paper
32.5 x 42.5 inches

Exhibition / Christie’s

August 3, Christie’s opens Cut & Paste, an exhibition of works by Kour Pour paired with 19th century Japanese woodblock prints, curated by Shiva Balaghi. Cut & Paste remains on view through August 22.


Press / Artsy

Frédéric Bruly Bouabré is one of the artists included in collector Jean Pigozzi’s gift of 45 works of African contemporary art to New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Pigozzi, an Italian photographer, began collecting art from Africa after seeing the Centre Pompidou’s landmark 1989 show Magiciens de la Terre, in which Bouabré’s work was exhibited. The work by Bouabré included in Pigozzi’s gift is a 449-piece pictographic alphabet, Alphabet bété (1991).

Installation view, works by Frédéric Bruly Bouabré on view during Defying the Narrative: Contemporary Art from West and Southern Africa at Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, 2018.

Press / Cultured Magazine

Tom Sachs is featured in the latest installment of “Inside My Studio,” Anderson Ranch Arts Center’s second annual summer video series published by Cultured Magazine. All current installments of “Inside My Studio” are available for viewing on the Cultured Magazine website.


Press / Vanity Fair

In an interview with Vanity Fair, Petra Collins discusses her new book, Miért vagy te, ha lehetsz én is? (translates in Hungarian to “Why be you, when you can be me?”), a collaboration with publisher Baron.

Petra Collins, Miért vagy te, ha lehetsz én is?, 2019. Hardback, 166 pages. Edition of 2000.

Exhibition / Adam Parker Smith

Adam Parker Smith is included in The Smiths, a group exhibition at Marlborough (London) featuring more than 30 artists, all with the surname Smith. The Smiths remains on view through August 2.

Installation view, The Smiths at Marlborough, London, 2019.

Adam Parker Smith, Fearlessly the Idiot Faces the Crowd, 2019, mixed media, 52 × 12 × 67 in., 132.1 × 30.5 × 170.2 cm. Photo: Luke Walker.

Press / office

Petra Collins has been interviewed by office about Miért vagy te, ha lehetsz én is? (translates in Hungarian to “Why be you, when you can be me?”), a newly released collaborative project for Baron Magazine.

Read the interview here: office
Purchase Miért vagy te, ha lehetsz én is? here: Baron

Press / The New York Times

Mario Ayala has been interviewed by The New York Times for ‘Latinx Artists Explain Their Process,’ an article highlighting Latinx artists and creative thinkers incorporating family history and cultural heritage into their work.

Mario Ayala’s work is primarily driven by his working-class upbringing in Los Angeles. “I airbrush a lot in my paintings, and I think of that machine or that material as really labor intensive,” he said.
Natalia Mantini for The New York Times.
[The following is an excerpt from the full article, available on The New York Times website.]

Mario Ayala, a painter who also lives in Los Angeles, shares Mr. Esparza’s interest in exploring manual labor in his art. (They have worked together on several projects, including a permanent installation of adobe columns decorated with paintings and tiles called “Puente,” which sits along the Los Angeles River.)

Mr. Ayala’s father was a truck driver who often doodled with a ballpoint pen during his downtime. He brought home drawings of everyday sightings like dogs, women or cars. Mr. Ayala started out trying to imitate them, and after high school he attended the San Francisco Art Institute, which he said opened up “a whole new world” in terms of broadening and deepening his artistic practice.

But his work is primarily driven by his working-class upbringing in Los Angeles. “I airbrush a lot in my paintings,” he said, a process he calls “really labor intensive.” The same machine is used to paint lowrider cars, which are a cultural marker for Chicanos in Los Angeles. Mr. Ayala hopes this overlap makes his work accessible to people who share his background.

For a long time, art like Mr. Ayala’s or Mr. Esparza’s was rarely seen in galleries and museums, more often “incubated by Chicanx or Latinx organizations,” said E. Carmen Ramos, the deputy chief curator of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Major art museums in the United States “did not invest in acquiring works by Chicanx and Latinx artists, and we see that when we look at the underrepresentation of these artists in permanent collections.”


Press / Juxtapoz

Mario Ayala is featured in the current (Summer 2019) issue of Juxtapoz. The feature includes a conversation between Ayala and Andrew McClintock, Ever Gold [Projects]’s owner/director, and a series of photographs of the artist and his studio by Grant Gutierrez.


Exhibition / Sandy Kim

Sandy Kim is included in Coming of Age, an exhibition presented by Virgil Abloh at Little Big Man Gallery (Los Angeles). Coming of Age opens June 1 with a reception from 6-9 pm.


Exhibition / Petra Cortright

At the 2019 edition of FEMMEBIT (a triennial festival uniting an all-female roster of Los Angeles based artists working in video and new media), Petra Cortright presents “Airsworld”, a collaboration with FLOAT. Cortright’s work will be presented on Saturday, June 1, 2019.


Press / Harper’s Bazaar Arabia

The current cover of Harper’s Bazaar Arabia features Serge Attukwei Clottey‘s installation at Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium (Vestfossen, Norway) for KUBATANA, an exhibition of contemporary African art curated by Kristin Hjellegjerde. KUBATANA remains on view through September 21, 2019.


Exhibition / Zachary Armstrong and Petra Cortright

Zachary Armstrong and Petra Cortright are both included in Malmö Sessions, a group exhibition at Carl Kostyál Gallery (Malmö). Malmö Sessions is now on view through June 16, 2019.

Installation view, works by Zachary Armstrong (left) on view for Malmö Sessions at Carl Kostyál Gallery, Malmö, 2019.

Installation view, work by Petra Cortright (left) on view for Malmö Sessions at Carl Kostyál Gallery, Malmö, 2019.

Exhibition / Adam Parker Smith


Meanwhile
, a solo exhibition of work by Adam Parker Smith, is now on view at Galería CURRO (Guadalajara). Meanwhile is Adam Parker Smith’s first solo exhibition in Mexico and remains on view through June 28, 2019.

Installation view, Meanwhile, Adam Parker Smith at Galería CURRO, Guadalajara, 2019. Courtesy of the artist and Galería CURRO.

Exhibition / Petra Cortright

On view nightly from 11:57 pm to midnight through May 31 on Times Square’s electronic billboards, Pink_Para_1stchoice is a fragmented self portrait by Petra CortrightPink_Para_1stchoice is presented as part of Midnight Moment, the world’s largest and longest-running digital art exhibition, synchronized on electronic billboards throughout Times Square.


Public Programming

In conjunction with #cryptomemes: women and Leo DiCaprio, a solo exhibition by Christine Wang, Ever Gold [Projects] presents Applied AI at Scale, a talk by Erica Lee, Director of WomenOfAI.org.

June 22, 2-3 pm — Applied AI at Scale

Erica will discuss how to apply the latest deep learning techniques to solve real-world business problems at scale. She’ll provide a high-level, non-technical overviewed of AI to educate the audience on fundamentals, followed by a few case studies highlighting useful business applications. Erica will focus on educating listeners on available AI tools that can scale, and best practices for using AI for industry. Learn more at ericalee.ai.


Public Programming

In conjunction with #cryptomemes: women and Leo DiCaprio, a solo exhibition by Christine Wang, Ever Gold [Projects] presents Digital Gold Rush, a talk by Olive Allen, technology entrepreneur and visual artist.

June 8, 2-3 pm — Digital Gold Rush

In the 19th century when gold deposits were discovered, fortune seekers from all over the world rushed to mine their “fortune.” Just like gold, digital currency has fueled wild dreams, grandiose delusions, and next level hustle. Tonight is the night to reveal some insider secrets and share unusual success stories. Viva la Speculatión!


Exhibition / Takis

The Tate Modern presents a solo exhibition of work by Takis, opening July 3 and remaining on view through October 27, 2019. Takis at Tate Modern will include more than 70 works and will be the largest exhibition of Takis’s work ever held in the UK.

Takis, Telelumiere 4, 1963–4.
Private collection, London © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2018.


Exhibition / Serge Attukwei Clottey

Serge Attukwei Clottey is featured in KUBATANA, an exhibition of contemporary African art curated by Kristin Hjellegjerde at Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium (Vestfossen, Norway) opening May 4. KUBATANA remains on view through September 21, 2019.

Serge Attukwei Clottey, NOKO Y3 DZEN – There’s Something in the World, 2018-2019. Sculptural installation, dimensions variable. Installation view, KUBATANA at Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, 2019.

Exhibition / Serge Attukwei Clottey

Current Affairs, a solo exhibition of work by Serge Attukwei Clottey, is now on view at Fabrica Gallery (Brighton), and remains on view through May 27. Current Affairs is organized in conjunction with the 2019 edition of Brighton Festival.

Related events:

TALK: Creative Catalyst: art for a sustainable future
May 22, 7 pm
Co-curated by Fabrica and University of Brighton Responsible Futures
Serge Attukwei Clottey’s twin role as a artist and community activist will be explored as part of a panel discussion.
ARTIST TALK: Serge Attukwei Clottey
May 23, 7:30 pm
Serge Attukwei Clottey will present a slide presentation about his work, his working methods and his motivation as an artist.
PERFORMANCE: Serge Attukwei Clottey and GoLokal
May 25, 7 pm
Co curated by Fabrica and University of Brighton Responsible Futures
In this one-off, improvised performance the artist and GoLokal will respond to the the site and context of Fabrica, the city and the politics of the current time.


Press / Serge Attukwei Clottey

The Voice has interviewed Serge Attukwei Clottey about his participation in the 2019 edition of Brighton Festival.

[The following is an excerpt from the full article, available on The Voice website.]

“STRIKINGLY BEAUTIFUL yet politically charged, Ghanaian artist Serge Attukwei Clottey’s large-scale Afrogallonism sculptures are meticulously fashioned from discarded 20 litre-plus yellow jerry cans.

The cans, imported into Ghana from Europe for carrying fuel, are often repurposed to carry potable water by people struggling with Ghana’s water shortages. This unhealthy practice was especially true during the era of president John Kufuor, giving them the nickname “Kufuor gallons”.

Attukwei Clottey’s use of the cans touches on global issues of plastic waste and access to basic services, but also promotes his philosophy of exploring personal and political narratives rooted in histories of colonialism, trade and migration.

The works will be on display at the Fabrica gallery as part of the Brighton Festival 2019, an annual curated multi-arts festival. Afrogallonism also takes note of the idea of space and territory. The artist has used his large yellow ‘tapestries’ to delineate or ‘re-territorialise’ space in new ways, both in Labadi, Ghana and in the space of the international art world.”


Exhibition / Brian Harte

X will mark the place, a solo exhibition of work by Brian Harte, is now on view at GNYP Gallery (Berlin). X will mark the place remains on view through May 25.


Exhibition / Tom Sachs

Smutshow, a solo exhibition of work by Tom Sachs, is now on view at Tomio Koyama Gallery (Tokyo). Smutshow remains on view through May 25.


Exhibition / Tom Sachs

Tea Ceremony, a solo exhibition of works by Tom Sachs, is now on view at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (Tokyo). Tea Ceremony remains on view through June 23.


Press / Artsy

Petra Cortright and Marc Horowitz are both featured in Get Lost in the Strange, Dizzying Websites of These Contemporary Artists, a list of unconventional artist websites compiled by Kelsey Ables for Artsy.

Visit Petra Cortright’s artist website.

Visit Marc Horowitz’s artist website.


Press / The Brooklyn Rail

Kour Pour‘s solo exhibition, Manzareh/Keshiki/Landscape, has been reviewed by Hadley Suter of The Brooklyn Rail. Manzareh/Keshiki/Landscape remains on view through May 4, 2019.

[The following is an excerpt from the full article, available on The Brooklyn Rail website.]

“At Ever Gold [Projects] in San Francisco, the Manzareh/Keshiki/Landscape is another such rebuttal—this one shedding light on the non-Western traditions of abstraction that go back centuries. This solo exhibition of the Los Angeles-based artist Kour Pour’s paintings and woodblock prints draws inspiration from—and demonstrates the parallels between—several Asian and West Asian practices. Manzareh/Keshiki/Landscape should be considered a direct rejoinder to the 2012 exhibition at MoMA; in fact, it represents Pour’s second such attempt to set the record straight.

Alongside a previous show at the same gallery in January 2017—Earthquakes and the Mid Winter Burning Sun (2017), which paired the artist’s paintings with works by Kazuo Shiraga—Ever Gold [Projects] put out a zine consisting of Pour’s reading of the MoMA show’s exhibition book. Pour re-titled the text Re-Inventing Abstraction 1910-1925, and systematically annotated each Eurocentric assumption and outright falsehood in the text. Written in a yellow highlighter, a black marker, and a red pen, Pour’s acerbic marginalia calls the MOMA show out for its willful ignorance of non-Western artistic traditions. “Bullshit!,” he writes in response to Lowry’s conjecture that Europe’s new mania for abstraction was so radical in 1912 that “comparison with the past was impossible.”2 To the claim that the MOMA exhibition took on a “transnational perspective” in its consideration of abstraction throughout the “Eastern and Western Europe and the United States,” Pour replies: “It doesn’t look far enough.”3 In subsequent pages, Pour follows up with examples of traditions left out of this cannon—most of which are reprised, through his paintbrush, instead of his pen, such as Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, tantric art, Chinese landscape painting, and Islamic art (which, in fact, was Lowry’s specialization before he became the director of MoMA).

Manzareh/Keshiki/Landscape continues Pour’s work of countering this discourse, this time through works that reference, and in turn unveil, the vast history of non-Western abstraction. The show spans both of Ever Gold [Projects]’s galleries, consisting of eight series of paintings and woodblock prints, for a total of twenty-three works. Pour sources his inspiration primarily from Persian and Japanese traditions, as indicated by his title—Manzareh and Keshiki both mean something close to Landscape, in Farsi and Japanese (they are often translated as “view” or “scenery”), though India and China are present, too. The result, though culturally variegated, is esthetically and chromatically coherent—and quite breathtaking.”


Press / SF Weekly

Kour Pour‘s solo exhibition, Manzareh/Keshiki/Landscape, has been reviewed by Jonathan Curiel of SF Weekly. Manzareh/Keshiki/Landscape remains on view through May 4, 2019.

[The following is an excerpt from the full article, available on the SF Weekly website.]

“Pour’s exhibit at Ever Gold [Projects], called “Manzareh/Keshiki/Landscape,” is an exhibit of patterns — and patterns of influence. On one wall are a series of new works that resemble Persian carpets. One work, Foreign Traveler, might as well be a brand-new carpet with its intricate floral patterns and panoramic scenes of turbaned men on horses. But look closely, and Foreign Traveler is faded in spots. And it’s paired with two works called History Painting (Fragment) that look like outsized segments of carpets — but have more obviously faded spots. Like Warhol’s paintings of Marilyn and Mao that repeat their faces in different colors and shades, Pour’s carpet paintings play with expectations and the idea of memory. The old becomes new.

But “the old” was never a fixed pattern, Pour says. “Traditions” always borrowed from other traditions, and Pour’s homage to Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, with his new block-printing works like Chopped & Screwed (Kuniyoshi), are also an homage to the influence of Ukiyo-e prints on European Impressionists. Pour created his new works using traditional Ukiyo-e block printing, but his art is at a much larger scale. It’s messy, time-consuming work, with inks that have to be monitored, replaced, and waited on.

“I don’t think of my work as ‘identity artwork,’ ” Pour says. “The friends I’ve made [in Los Angeles] are all from other places or have these different cultural backgrounds, but even though our identities may be different, our races may be different, and the languages we speak might be different, we’re all connected in this way of experience. It’s the experience of moving between cultures.”


 Exhibition / Petra Cortright

Petra Cortright is included in Extract, an exhibition by bitforms gallery at the ROW DTLA (Los Angeles). Extract opens April 13 with a reception from 6-9 pm and remains on view through May 12, 2019.

Petra Cortright, CHAT ROOM “Checkov” +dark +porn, 2018. Digital painting on gloss paper, face mounted, 59 x 59 inches. Courtesy of bitforms gallery.

Exhibition / Serge Attukwei Clottey

Serge Attukwei Clottey is featured in KUBATANA, an exhibition of contemporary African art curated by Kristin Hjellegjerde at Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium (Vestfossen, Norway) opening May 4, 2019.


Exhibition / Petra Cortright

Petra Cortright is included in Primary Directives, an exhibition at Marlborough Contemporary’s London location. Primary Directives is a small group exhibition with a focus on technology as accelerator and refractor of image and meaning, and remains on view through March 30, 2019.

Petra Cortright, “alcatraz puzzle” fat chicks nude_FF5, 2018. Digital painting on anodized aluminum, 48 x 94 inches.

Press / Kour Pour

Kour Pour’s solo exhibition, Manzareh/Keshiki/Landscape, has been reviewed by Charles Desmarais of the San Francisco Chronicle. Manzareh/Keshiki/Landscape remains on view through May 4, 2019.

“There is something beguilingly perverse about the artist Kour Pour’s working method. His show at Ever Gold [Projects] is composed of canvases up to 8 feet on a side. All of them are painstakingly created, all refer to traditions of Asian and Middle Eastern art.

Some are paintings of “Oriental” rugs that call into question the relative value of the utilitarian and the unique, and the difference between cultural and economic worth. Some reproduce fragments of great narrative works.

I am particularly drawn to the artist’s canny conflation of works on paper that were made for popular distribution with the high-art pretensions of paint on canvas. Fragments of images drawn from ukiyo-e woodblock prints by Japanese masters like Yoshitoshi and Hiroshige become abstract works for contemplation on the wall — half history, half modernity. Of course, French Impressionism drew heavily on the model of Japanese prints, a fact that hovers just below the surface.

The best works in the exhibition were made not with brush and paint but by employing traditional printmaking techniques on an overblown scale. Giant block prints of dense and vivid color read like inventive abstract paintings, yet they quote small fragments of antique visual narrative. They are offered, wryly, in a variety of tonal combinations, like commercial wallpaper colorways.”

“Kour Pour: Manzareh/Keshiki/Landscape”: Noon-5 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday. Through May 4. Free. Ever Gold [Projects], 1275 Minnesota St., S.F. 415-254-1573.
https://www.evergoldprojects.com


Exhibition / Petra Collins and Petra Cortright

Petra Collins and Petra Cortright are both included in FOR REAL, an exhibition at [Senne] (Brussels) during Art Brussels 2019. FOR REAL opens April 24 with a reception from 5-8 pm and remains on view through April 28, 2019.


Exhibition / Brian Harte

Brian Harte is included in Now is the Time, an exhibition opening March 24 at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (Wolfsburg, Germany). Now is the Time remains on view through September 29, 2019.

Installation view, paintings by Brian Harte on view in Now is the Time at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 2019.

Exhibition / Mieke Marple

Mieke Marple‘s first solo exhibition, God is an Audiobook, opens April 10 at the 1301PE Annex (Los Angeles). God is an Audiobook remains on view through May 10, 2019.

Mieke Marple, Eternal (Metamorphosis/Wildflowers), 2019. Acrylic and inkjet on canvas, 54 x 70 inches. Courtesy of the artist and 1301PE.

Exhibition / Cameron Platter

FR1000ID, an exhibition featuring Cameron Platter and Herman Mbamba, opens at blank projects (Cape Town) on March 28, and remains on view through May 4, 2019.

Cameron Platter, Untitled, 2019. Pencil on paper, 160 x 110 centimeters. Courtesy of the artist and blank projects.

Press / New York Magazine

New York Magazine has reviewed Nothing on the Other Side of the Slash, a solo exhibition by Marc Horowitz at Johannes Vogt Gallery (New York). Nothing on the Other Side of the Slash is now on view through March 30, 2019.


Exhibition / Marc Horowitz

Nothing on the Other Side of the Slash, a solo exhibition of work by Marc Horowitz, is now on view at Johannes Vogt Gallery through March 30, 2019.

Installation view, Nothing on the Other Side of the Slash, Marc Horowitz at Johannes Vogt Gallery, New York, 2019. Courtesy of Johannes Vogt Gallery.

Press / Ever Gold [Projects] at Art Los Angeles Contemporary

Ever Gold [Projects] presented a bohemian salon February 13-17 at the 2019 edition of Art Los Angeles Contemporary. The Ever Gold [Projects] booth was featured by ARTnews, COOL HUNTING, Galerie Magazine, and the Hollywood Reporter.


Exhibition / Petra Cortright

Petra Cortright is included in Now Playing: Video 1999–2019, a group exhibition at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Now Playing: Video 1999–2019 opens February 16 and remains on view through May 19.


Press / Hypebeast

Kour Pour has collaborated with menswear brand Necessity Sense for Conscious Creatures, their AW 2019 collection. Knits, shirts, and jackets are adorned with the artist’s Japanese woodblock print patterns.


Screening / Mark Flood

The Marciano Art Foundation (Los Angeles) presents a screening of Mark Flood‘s first feature film, Art Fair Fever (2016) on February 6 at 6 pm.


Exhibition / Cameron Platter

Cameron Platter, Untitled, 2018. Ceramic bottles, 16.5 x 4 inches.

Cameron Platter is included in A Higher State of Consciousness, a group exhibition at Éric Hussenot (Paris). A Higher State of Consciousness is now on view through March 2.


Press / BREAKER

“The painting “Bitcoin Princess” began life as a social media meme—a cartoon mashed up with ironic commentary designed for mass consumption on Twitter or Instagram. In the illustration, a knight is shielding a princess from a raging crowd. It’s a standard enough scene that could be cropped from a zillion anime movies or manga comic books. But this knight has the word “me” pasted onto his tower shield, the princess is labeled “bitcoin” and the crowd has been dubbed “Nobel Prize winning economists.”

Behold the brave knight defending the future of decentralized finance from a horde of fiat unbelievers!

But is it satire, or celebration, or a mixture of both?

The difficulty of answering that question is precisely why Christine Tien Wang, an artist who lives in San Francisco, saw the meme as perfect fodder for her “Crypto Rich” series of acrylic paintings. Wang thrives on ambivalence, on the murky territory between idealism and greed that is so essential to the blockchain movement. Her current mode of expression—painting exact copies of online memes into elite-gallery eligible flat-screen TV-sized artworks—is its own exercise in textual ambivalence, a recapturing, back into the offline world, of a mode of expression indigenous to the online playground.

It gets confusing. When she uses her phone to show friends photographs she has taken of her paintings, no one can tell the difference from the “original,” she notes, while laughing. And yet when you see the paintings up close in a gallery, you realize, once and for all, that cryptocurrency truly has come of age, because blockchain is now a text that modern artists are appropriating, recontextualizing, and, in Wang’s case, making hilarious.”

[Full article on BREAKER website]

Press / San Francisco Chronicle

“Saturday: Spider-Man’s Peter Parker exposed

My art week begins at the opening of “Gold Standard,” the Ever Gold Projects gallery’s 10-year anniversary exhibition at the Minnesota Street Projects in Dogpatch on Jan. 12. Ever Gold gallerist Andrew McClintock shows me pieces by big names like Guy Overfelt, Ed Ruscha and Barry McGee. Mark Flood’s acrylic-and-ink “Spiderman” provokes the strongest reaction: The image of the Marvel hero with “I hate you” and “want kill you” scrawled over it is a little jarring, as is the fact that Spidey is letting his Peter Parker hang out the fly of his costume. I post it with an adult content warning on Instagram, but it is later tagged as violating community standards by the company and removed.

Lesson: Forget Jerry Saltz, Instagram is the ultimate social media art critic.

Friday: Shabbat, S.F.-style

Friday, Jan. 18, is Ever Gold Projects’ official 10th anniversary party at Chinatown dive bar EZ5, co-hosted with McClintock by DJ Eug (Eugene Whang) and Adam Swig. The evening begins with a traditional Jewish Shabbat breaking of the challah, which has “Ever Gold” baked into it.

“Shabbat is supposed to be a sundown thing, but it’s San Francisco,” jokes Swig. “We do what we want.”

Swig continues, comparing the light of the Shabbat candles to the light that art shines on a community. McClintock originally started Ever Gold in a space in the Tenderloin before moving to Minnesota Street Project two years ago. It’s been quite the ride, he says, from publishing SFAQ and the Tenderloin to being a gallery that straddles the line between catering to traditional collectors and attracting the younger tech generation (Ever Gold even accepts cryptocurrency). Once the old-school hip-hop bumps up on the speakers, it becomes less an art week party and more a night at the club. McClintock later reports he was out until 5 a.m. celebrating.

“I think we need to have one of these every year, at art week,” he says.

Lesson: Sundown is subjective in the art world, bitcoin is forever (maybe?)”

[Full article on San Francisco Chronicle website]


Press / San Francisco Chronicle

“For gallerist Andrew McClintock, the week offered synergy too good to pass up when it came time to plan the opening of his 10th anniversary exhibition at his gallery, Ever Gold Projects in the Minnesota Street Project. The exhibition itself opened Saturday, before the start of art week. The gallery is also hosting a Shabbat dinner with Innovation Alley founder Adam Swig followed by a party with DJ Eug (Eugene Whang) at Chinatown bar EZ5 to close out the week.

“The fairs are beneficial to the whole ecosystem,” McClintock said.”

[Full article on San Francisco Chronicle website]

Exhibition / Petra Cortright

Petra Cortright, rgb,d-lay, 2011. Video, 0:23.

Petra Cortright is included in Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, a group exhibition at the Hammer Museum opening January 24 and remaining on view through May 19, 2019.


Press / San Francisco Chronicle

“Meanwhile, the ever-energetic Ever Gold Projects looks back on 10 years with a show that spreads across three spaces in the Minnesota Street complex. “Gold Standard” (Saturday, Jan. 12, through Feb. 23) has no tight theme, but it does a fine job of reviewing owner Andrew McClintock’s eclectic program of genuine discoveries, historic recoveries and collaboration with dealers outside the Bay Area.”

[Full article on San Francisco Chronicle website]

Press / Guy Overfelt


Guy Overfelt‘s Sujet Poisson Bong (After Picasso) edition is the subject of an article on Artspace.


Public Programming / Tom Sachs

Tom Sachs appears in conversation with Adam Savage and Joseph Becker at FOG Design+Art on January 19 at 3 pm.


Exhibition / Petra Cortright

Lucky Duck Lights Out, a solo exhibition of work by Petra Cortright, opens January 19 at 1301PE (Los Angeles) and remains on view through March 2, 2019.


Exhibition / Zachary Armstrong

White Lines, a solo exhibition of work by Zachary Armstrong, is now on view at GNYP Gallery (Berlin) through March 10, 2019.

Installation view, White Lines, Zachary Armstrong at GNYP Gallery, Berlin, 2019.

Exhibition / Tom Sachs

Sandcrawler, a solo exhibition of work by Tom Sachs, is now on view at Vito Schnabel Projects (New York) through December 8, 2018.

The Pack, a larger solo exhibition by Sachs, opens at Vito Schnabel Gallery (St. Moritz) on December 28 and remains on view through February 3, 2019.

Tom Sachs, Sandcrawler, 2016. Pyrography on plywood, steel hardware, 26h x 58w x 20 1/2d inches (66. x 147.3 x 52.1 cm).
© Tom Sachs; Courtesy of Tom Sachs Studio and Vito Schnabel Gallery.

Press / Vogue

Mario Ayala‘s solo exhibition Give a Dog a Bad Name and Hang Him has been moved to May 2019.

Mario Ayala in a new lookbook for Come Tees, published online with Vogue.

Exhibition / Kour Pour

Abrash, a solo exhibition featuring new work by Kour Pour, is now on view at Shane Campbell Gallery (Chicago) through December 8, 2018.


Exhibition / Petra Cortright

Platinum Blonde Black Knight, a solo exhibition featuring a new series of 17 digital paintings by Petra Cortright, is now on view at Société (Berlin) through November 17, 2018.


Press / SF Weekly


Press / The New York Times

Andrew McClintock, owner/director of Ever Gold [Projects], was interviewed for The New York Times article “The Art World’s Elephant in the Room,” which is excerpted below.

LONDON — It’s one of the most celebrated graphs ever produced by economists.

The chart, first published in 2013 by Branko Milanovic and Christoph Lakner using data from the World Bank, shows global income gains from 1988 to 2008. The graph climbs sharply on the left, indicating how outcomes improved in the developing world from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the Great Recession. Further to the right, it shows how equivalent outcomes declined dramatically for the working and middle classes in the developed world, but soared for the planet’s wealthiest 1 percent. This arrestingly unequal pattern of global income distribution has become known, famously (at least to economists), as the elephant graph.

What does this have to do with the art market? Well, pretty much everything. A decade after the fall of Lehman Brothers and Damien Hirst’s era-defining “Beautiful Inside My Head Forever” auction at Sotheby’s, the art market remains one of the most glaringly visible symptoms of global income inequality.

… [View full article]

“People, particularly younger people, have much less desire to own stuff,” said Mr. Bayley, the cultural critic. “There’s consumer fatigue. And if you’re never going to be able to afford to buy a house, what’s the point of buying the stuff that goes in a house?”

And yet dealers and auction houses keep plugging away, coming up with new initiatives and strategies to keep the grass roots of the market alive, if not verdantly green.

“I show a lot of emerging artists, and under $20,000 is definitely the harder market,” said Andrew McClintock, director of Ever Gold [Projects] in San Francisco. “It’s always been a struggle.”

But unlike Berlin, the San Francisco Bay Area is awash with tech wealth, some of which is trickling to California’s contemporary art dealers.

Enigmatic drawings of tech-inspired tarot cards by Mieke Marple (who also formerly co-owned Los Angeles’s trendy Night Gallery) are currently among Mr. McClintock’s best sellers in the $3,000 to $10,000 range, he said, adding that younger collectors were encouraged by flexible payment plans and invoices payable in cryptocurrency. “Gallerists need to start thinking of themselves as entrepreneurs, not sit around waiting for a client to walk in the door,” Mr. McClintock said.


Press / The Daily Californian


Public Programing / Blockchain

Please join us at Ever Gold [Projects] on Saturday, September 22nd, from 2-3pm for a panel on Blockchain. Coffee and wine/beer to be served.


Press / Christie’s

Petra Cortright is featured in Christie’s Established names, fresh new talent — Part I, a list of 10 artists selected from the auction house’s online Horizon sale and Post-War to Present auction in New York.


Exhibition

September 12, Mizuma Art Gallery presents Pure Pleasure, a solo exhibition of new work by Kate Groobey. Kate Groobey recently became the the first female winner of the Daiwa Foundation Art Prize, which has been awarded to a British artist every three years since 2009; the exhibition at Mizuma Art Gallery is organized in conjunction with the Daiwa Foundation. Pure Pleasure remains on view through October 13, 2018.

Kate Groobey
Places unknown, 2018
Video performance
1 min. 39 sec.

Press / San Francisco Examiner


News / Expansion

January 2019 marks Ever Gold [Projects] ten-year anniversary and to celebrate we are doubling our exhibition space inside the Minnesota Street Project complex beginning this September.

This expansion is a direct result of the new and sustained collector activity we’ve seen developing throughout the Bay Area with increased local sales and enthusiastic foot traffic. Our additional 1,500 square feet of exhibition space, located on the ground floor and across the atrium from our current location, will allow us to organize larger and more comprehensive exhibitions by utilizing both spaces, or to host two exhibitions simultaneously.

The ongoing international spotlight on the Bay Area has enabled room for San Francisco to grow its cultural footprint and become a leader in contributing to global culture, not just in innovation and industry, which in turn has brought world-class institutions and collectors to support those efforts.

The first exhibition we open with as part of the expansion is Defying the Narrative: Contemporary Art from West and Southern Africa, a group exhibition featuring work by fourteen African artists which will be on view in both exhibition spaces from September 8 to October 27.

From November 10 to December 21, we will present concurrent solo exhibitions of new work by Mario Ayala and Joey Wolf, two young Los Angeles painters working with the figure in very diverse aesthetic and material practices.

In January and February, we are thrilled to be working with the Robert Graham estate to present the first solo exhibition the artist has had in San Francisco since the late ’90s. This show will be accompanied by a group exhibition of spherical influences on Graham by artists of California lineage from the ’60s, ’70s, and beyond.

In March and April, we will present an expansive survey of work by Kour Pour from the last four years, utilizing both exhibition spaces.

This will be followed by concurrent solo exhibitions of new work by San Francisco based artist Christine Wang and London based Kate Groobey, with more exhibitions to be announced in the coming months including the continuation of small presentations in our second-floor project space.

We look forward to seeing you at the gallery.


Press / MERRY JANE

As I See It, a solo exhibition of photographs by Sandy Kim organized in conjunction with the release of a photobook of the same title, is now on view at Muddguts (Brooklyn) through July 27, 2018.


Press / Elle


Press / Mental Floss

The Internet Archive’s 2018 Artist In Residence Exhibition, which features Mieke Marple, Chris Sollars, and Taravat Talepasand, is now on view through August 11, 2018.


Press / Fast Company

The Internet Archive’s 2018 Artist In Residence Exhibition, which features Mieke Marple, Chris Sollars, and Taravat Talepasand, is now on view through August 11, 2018.


Commission

Installation of a new commissioned artwork by Serge Attukwei Clottey has been completed at the new Frank Gehry Facebook building.


Press / ARTnews

Serge Attukwei Clottey is interviewed for an article by ARTnews.

Scenes from the Labadi nighborhood of Ghana, where performers and locals participate in Serge Attukwei Clottey’s Afrogallonism piece.

Exhibition

Petra Cortright is included in I Was Raised on the Internet, a group exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago exploring the various ways engagement with the Internet has affected our experiences, interactions, and perspectives. I Was Raised on the Internet is now on view through October 14, 2018.

Installation view, I Was Raised on the Internet (digital painting by Petra Cortright on right) at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2018. Courtesy of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Collaboration

Michael Swaney has collaborated with Belgian fashion designer Walter Van Beirendonck on a limited edition collection.

Micheal Swaney x Walter Van Bierendonck, Cubic Top, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.

Award

The 2018 Daiwa Foundation Art Prize has been awarded to Kate Groobey. The Daiwa Foundation Art Prize offers a British artist their first solo exhibition at a gallery in Tokyo, and Groobey is the first woman to win the prize in the history of the award. Her solo exhibition will be held at Mizuma Art Gallery.

Kate Groobey, Pure Pleasure Films, 2018. Performance stills.

Exhibition

Nahmad Projects presents Pail Coil Cold Angel, a solo exhibition of new work by Petra Cortright. The exhibition includes of digital paintings, marble sculptures, and a video installation. Pail Coil Cold Angel is now on view through July 20, 2018.

Installation view, Pail Coil Cold Angel, Petra Cortright at Nahmad Projects, London, 2018. Courtesy of Nahmad Projects.

Exhibition

1301PE presents Teen Non_Fiction, an exhibition of new work by Cameron Platter. Teen Non_Fiction is now on view through June 9, 2018.

Installation view, Teen Non_Fiction, Cameron Platter at 1301PE, Los Angeles, 2018. Courtesy of 1301PE.

Los Angeles Times: Marvelous or maddening? In Cameron Platter’s show, it depends on which way you face

June 9, Galerie Hussenot presents You Look Like Your Face, an exhibition of new work by Cameron Platter. You Look Like Your Face remains on view through July 21, 2018.

Installation view, You Look Like Your Face, Cameron Platter at Galerie Hussenot, Paris, 2018. Courtesy of Galerie Hussenot.

Press


Exhibition

Wexner Center for the Arts presents Inherent Structure, an exhibition featuring work by a multigenerational group of 16 artists, including Zachary Armstrong. Inherent Structure is now on view through August 12, 2018.

Installation view, paintings by Zachary Armstrong in Inherent Structure at the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.

Museum Acquisition

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has acquired The Issues are Too Important to be Judgmental, a 2016 painting by Christine Wang.

Christine Wang, The Issues are Too Important to be Judgmental, 2016. Courtesy of the artist.

Public Program

Petra Cortright is featured in the 10th edition of Rhizome’s Seven on Seven event, which pairs leaders in art and technology to create collaborative projects. Cortright has collaborated with Carl Tashian, an engineer and entrepreneur. The projects are revealed on May 19 at a day-long conference at the New Museum, and a publication by Wieden+Kennedy New York is forthcoming.


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Tilton Gallery presents Zachary Armstrong: George, an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Zachary Armstrong. Zachary Armstrong: George is now on view through June 28, 2018.


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Jane Hartsook Gallery (at Greenwich House Pottery) presents Chawan, an exhibition of new ceramics by Tom Sachs. Chawan is now on view through June 28, 2018.

Theaster, 2017. English porcelain, high fire reduction, Temple white glaze, NASA Red engobe inlay, and gold luster, 4H x 4.75W x 4.75D inches. S/N: 2017.102. Photograph by Genevieve Hanson. Courtesy of Jane Hartsook Gallery.

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GNYP Gallery presents Polypainting, an exhibition of new work by Kour Pour. Polypainting is now on view at the gallery’s Hardenbergstraße location through June 24, 2018.

Installation view, Polypainting, Kour Pour at GNYP Gallery, Berlin, 2018. Courtesy of GNYP Gallery.

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UTA Artist Space presents CAM WORLS, a survey of video work from 2007-2017 by Petra Cortright organized in collaboration with 1301PE. CAM WORLS includes 50 works and is now on view through April 7, 2018.

Installation view, CAM WORLS, Petra Cortright at UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, 2018. Courtesy of UTA Artist Space.

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Serge Attukwei Clottey presents new work in Differences between, a solo exhibition at Jane Lombard Gallery (New York), opening February 15, 2018, with a reception from 6-8 pm.

Serge Attukwei Clottey, My family made me, 2017. Plastic, wire, and oil paint, 60 x 72 inches.

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Cameron Platter presents new work in Salami, a solo exhibition at GNYP Gallery (Berlin), now on view through April 15, 2018.


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Kour Pour presents new work in a solo exhibition with Pearl Lam Galleries (Hong Kong), now on view through March 16, 2018.

Kour Pour, Multi-Love, 2017. Acrylic on canvas over panel, 165 x 135 centimeters.

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Kour Pour is included in Decoration never dies, anyway, a group exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum. Decoration never dies, anyway is on view through February 25, 2018.


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Adam Parker Smith presents Kidnapping Incites Years of Murderous Doom, a solo exhibition at The Hole (New York), on view through November 19, 2017.


Publication

On October 31, 2017, Rizzoli releases Petra Collins‘ first monograph, Petra Collins: Coming of AgePetra Collins: Coming of Age includes contributions from Marilyn Minter, Alessandro Michele, Karley Sciortino, Jamia Wilson, Barbie Ferreira, and Diana Veras.


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Petra Cortright presents “human sheep brain “alice in wonderland” Americana”, a solo exhibition at Foxy Productions (New York), on view through October 8, 2017.


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Marc Horowitz presents “A Discord in Our Material and Spiritual Harmony”, a solo exhibition at Johannes Vogt Gallery (New York), on view through October 7, 2017.


New Edition

Guy Overfelt / Sujet Poisson Bong (After Picasso) Edition

Now available through the SFAQ [Projects] online store, the Sujet Poisson Bong is a new edition by Guy Overfelt.

Guy Overfelt, Sujet Poisson Bong (After Picasso), 2017.
Partially glazed red earthenware clay bong with decoration in englobes (black, white). Hand blown glass bowl and stem.
Stamped and marked “Edition Picasso Bong / Madoura Plein Feu / Edition Picasso” (underneath).
5.5 h x 8.5 d x 3.75 w inches.
Edition of 50.

Available through the SFAQ [Projects] online store.


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Petra Collins solo exhibition at the Contact Photography Festival, Toronto. April 29 – June 24, 2017

Petra Collins, Anna and Kathleen (Rainbow), 2016. Archival digital photograph. 65×43 inches. Edition of 2.


Performance

Petra Collins performance at MoMA on March 18th


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San Francisco Chronicle on our Kazuo Shiraga & Kour Pour exhibition 


Art Fair

Ever Gold [Projects] is pleased to present a two person booth with Cameron Platter and Kate Groobey, at the 2017 NADA New York. 


Art Fair

Ever Gold [Projects] is pleased to present a two person booth with Petra Cortright and Petra Collins, at the 2017 ALAC (Art Los Angeles Contemporary) at the Barker Hanger in Santa Monica.

All inquires please direct to info@nullevergoldprojects.com

Petra Collins
“Bundle”, 2016
Archival digital photograph
65 x 43 inches
Edition of 2 / (2AP)

Petra Cortright
“CalamariKontractsCAJUNsmokerDisease_on_MainboardLXProII.MajikTheGathering”, 2016
Vibrachrome and digital painting on anodized aluminum
56 x 40 inches


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Gallery artists Kour Pour and Petra Collins both on the Forbes 2017, 30 under 30 lists for Art and Culture. Kour in Europe, Petra in the US.


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Within Minnesota Street Project’s first building and central hub located on its namesake avenue are about a dozen other galleries, including the last gallery to sign in that space, Ever Gold Projects — run by a San Francisco native, Andrew McClintock, who grew up riding his bike in the Dogpatch. When Ever Gold’s previous lease became unaffordable in the Tenderloin, just under a year ago, McClintock relocated. “Conceptually, there is much more space out in the Dogpatch — space to think and breathe in this ever-encroaching city,” he says. “I saw my sales more than double last year, and our shows are being seen by thousands of people.” This Saturday, McClintock will open a show that puts Kazuo Shiraga, a master of the Gutai group, and the current market darling Kour Pour in dialogue. 1275 Minnesota St., Suite 105, evergoldprojects.com


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Mark Flood’s solo exhibition reviewed by the SF Weekly


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Mark Flood’s solo exhibition, “Paintings From The War For Social Justice”, reviewed by the Creators Project.


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Petra Collins interviewed by Artnet: Why Everyone Is Talking About Millennial Artist Petra Collins

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Petra Cortright in the New York Times feature on Rhizome’s work saving Internet based video art.

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Serge Attukwei Clottey solo exhibition at GNYP Gallery, Berlin. October 22nd – December 3rd, 2016


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Petra Collins feature in an October issue of the New Yorker magazine.

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Petra Cortright solo exhibition at Carl Kostyal, London.

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Tom Sachs solo exhibition at YBCA, San Francisco.

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