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Roll Call: Bay Area Arts and Culture
PLAYLIST
KRONOS QUARTET Howl USA: Sing Sing: J. Edgar Hoover,
Michael Daugherty (Composer) 1996
WINGS OF DESIRE Soundtrack 1991
COYLE & SHARPE: Audio Visionaries, Street Pranks & Put-Ons: Three-ism, 1960s (www.coyleandsharpe.com)
INTERVIEW
Dj Margaret is joined with artists LUKE BUTLER, CHARLENE TAN, and poet BRANDON BROWN to chat about their practice and current projects.
Poet BRANDON BROWN moved to San Francisco in 1998, finishing his BA and MFA at San Francisco State University. His first book, The Persians By Aeschylus, was published by Displaced Press in 2011. His second book, The Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus, is forthcoming from Krupskaya. He is the author of numerous chapbooks, including Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (Cy Press), Camels! (Taxt), Wondrous Things I Have Seen (Mitzvah Chaps), and the self-published trilogy: Tooth Fairy, The Orgy, and Your Mom’s A Falconress. He has curated and co-curated several literary reading and performance series’ in the Bay Area, notably Performance Writing at New Langton Arts (with Jocelyn Saidenberg) and The (New) Reading Series at 21 Grand (with Alli Warren.) He has also published several books under the imprint OMG! and edited the literary journal Commonweal in 2004. Poems and prose have recently appeared in Postmodern Culture, Peacock, and Try! He has also written for SFMOMA's Open Space blog and Art Practical, as well as the Poetry Project blog at St. Marks in New York. Brandon is also part of a collective the Poetic Labor Project with Steve Farmer, Lauren Levin, and Alli Warren. He lives in Oakland.
LUKE BUTLER's work contemplates masculinity and mortality in contemporary heroic figures and consists mainly of figurative painting and collage. Butler was born in San Francisco in 1971, and grew up in New York City. He attended the Cooper Union School of Art (BFA 1994), and the California College of the Arts (MFA 2008). He has had solo exhibitions at [ 2nd floor projects ] and Silverman Gallery in San Francisco, and Kantor Gallery in Los Angeles. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including “Now What?” at the Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, the 2010 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna, Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston; The Lexington Club and the Eagle Tavern Men’s Rooms in San Francisco. Luke Butler is represented by Silverman Gallery, San Francisco.
Artist CHARLENE TAN lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Born in Houston, Texas she spent most of her childhood in the Philippines only to return to San Francisco to begin her education. Her work has been shown at Intersection for the Arts, Marin Headlands Center for the Arts, [ 2nd floor projects ], Chinese Cultural Center, ampersand international arts, and Southern Exposure, among other spaces. Her practice is diverse ranging from sculpture to performance, investigating topics on assimilation, consumer culture, phobias, and socio-political passivity. Charlene’s work is on view in Chico & Chang: A Look at the Impact of Latino and Asian Cultures on California’s Visual Landscape at Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco.
For more information on
LUKE BUTLER: Silverman Gallery at silverman-gallery.com
BRANDON BROWN: SFMOMA's Open Space blog, and Art Practical, labday2010.blogspot.com, and critical prose about contemporary rap at brandonbrown.blogspot.com
CHARLENE TAN: charlene-tan.com
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