Postcard Show 13 @ the Lab

Next weekend!
December 4,5, &6th 2009

A bit about the show/sale:
As The Lab celebrates our 25th year, we are pleased to announce the 13th annual Postcard Show. Everyone is invited to contribute a set of small format multiples -- whether that be a series of hand-made paintings or objects, or production run postcards. We're challenging artists to find new, exciting ways to use the postcard theme, and then from December 4 through 6, we're opening our gallery as a cabinet of curiosities, inviting viewers and buyers to experience the richness of the local arts community. We believe that collecting engaging, high-quality, beautiful artwork should be accessible to everyone.

Admission is FREE! Support your local artists!
More info at

http://www.thelab.org/events/406-postcard13.html

I've got 100 postcards in a tiny box just waiting to be found.

Above my Head, Below my Toes

Above my Head, Below my Toes

New Works by Gregory Bartlett
Showing December 2nd-31st
Opening Reception, Dec. 8th @8:30pm

Loving Cup
2356 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA 94109

Well I finally was able to get the shop owner of this lovely little pudding shop called Loving Cup, to give me her lovely little yellow walls to hang some work on for a month. Yep, a mini solo show of sorts up for this December, 2009. You should stop on by, treat yourself to some delicious pudding and take a look at what I've been photographing.
More information available at WWW.GREGORYBARTLETT.NET

chicken: Opening @ The Spare Room Project Nov20th 7-10pm

c h i c k e n .
curated by Emmett Ramstad

Opening Reception:
November 20, 7-10 pm
Open by appt. through Dec 4th.


pink and white. raw. flayed meat under plastic wrap, threaded along the grain like calico. tender juicy melt in the mouth. fast cars speeding toward the cliff’s edge, cowlicks and white t-shirts
stretched over hormone-inflated pectoral muscles. old mouths gripping young cocks. what are ya, chicken? twine wrapped around bald petite ankles. do you like breast or thigh? would you like to stuff that hole?

—aren aizura

chicken aims to peep at the intersecting definitions of the word chicken: cowardly, twinkie, poultry. chicken, features photos and writing by aykan safoglu, writing by aren aizura, sculpture by emmett ramstad, mixed media drawings by finley kipp, photos by james giotta, paintings by micah bazant and performance by qilo matzen.

The exhibition contains some artworks which may not be suited for young children.

More Information can be found @
http://www.thespareroomproject.net

The Spare room project is supported through Southern Exposure's Alternative Exposure Grant. www.soex.com

Phillip Maisel: Photographer

http://www.phillipmaisel.com/

Call For Art: Descry Magazine

Descry Magazine: Promoting the visibility of emerging photographers and artists one issue at a time.

SUBMIT: Issue no.1

Theme: Where do we go from here?

Descry's Website states:

the beginning is often a frightening, forsaken place to be; other times the beginning is absolutely organic and filled with beauty. the beginning might be an ode to our capacity or an ominous partaking brought on by death or decree.

the first issue of descry thus calls for your thoughts, visions, explanations of where we are now, where we were before, and where or how we go from here. this is a call for what inspires us to proceed, who we owe it all to, how we move with or without grace, what obstacles are in and around us, how we leap and bound over, around, and despite these walls.

all visual submissions accepted.

Deadline: November 30th, 2009

Guidelines available at www.descrymagazine.com

submissions blog: http://descrymagazine.blogspot.com/

A call for Space for Our Mini Tour!

My dearest friend and creative partner in crime, Brooke Brown-Saracino are beginning to gear up for a tour this coming January down the West Coast.
Brooke and I have callobarted in the past with her Albums, her most recent being Stranger's Story.
My intimate photographs will be a backdrop for Brooke's petite and plaintive songs.

BUT, we are looking for alternative spaces in which to share a night of live art and music. Do you know someone with an alt. gallery, café, or living room in California? Intimate is the operative word. We want cozy spaces with close listeners and sincere lovers of artistic collaborations.

Please email me with your recommendations: gregory (dot) e (dot) bartlett@ gmail.com

You can also check back here to learn more
about the event as we land more locations for our tiny tour.

Duplicate Location: Opening @ The Spare Room Project

Duplicate Location.

Friday October 23rd, 7-10pm.

Open by appt. through Nov 12th.

Collaborative works by Maggie Preston and Jason Kalogiros

Working as a collaborative, Maggie Preston and Jason Kalogiros approach the act of photographing as a dual author in their first exhibition Duplicate Location. The term photographer seems to imply an individual author since a photograph results from the single click of a button. The work of Preston/Kalogiros negates this singular methodology, instead they confound the issue by presenting a body of work conceived in unison.

While traveling together each artist responded to their own inclinations to document their surroundings; simply photographing what was of interest to them, later editing and assembling the images to be viewed and read as the work of one entity. Garry Winogrand once said, “I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs." Preston/Kalogiros use this credo as a point of departure, yet interweave two perspectives to produce a new version of the story.

Maggie Preston and Jason Kalogiros live and work in San Francisco, California. They both received their Master of Fine Arts degrees from The California College of the Arts in 2008.

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More Information is Available at

WWW.THESPAREROOMPROJECT.NET

Support for The Spare Room Project is provided by

Southern Exposure's Alternative Exposure Grant Program www.soex.org

An Outlaw No More.

It had been almost a year with it.

And with the season I lost the stache.
Stay tuned for updates.

A WHOLE LOTTA ROCK

Hey there faithful followers, Thought you like to know that my dear friend Vanja Torbica has started himself up a blog. YES, I know. Can you even believe it? He's been moving tons of rocks, literally and has a blog so that everyone can now follow his progress, trials and tribulations. A mighty feat and one worth checking out at

Work Boots and Safety Glasses

http://100tonsofrocks.blogspot.com/

Mysterious Seed Pod

This is my current favorite pod in the flower shop.
I don't even know the name.

Yes, Lets. Opening @ The Spare Room Project

YES, LET’S

Friday Septebmer 25th, 7-10pm.
Open by appt. through Oct 9th.
@ the
The Spare Room Project

This has to do with Millerama – the place I grew up, a near mythical family compound that my grandmother reigned over until her recent death. Millerama continues to exist. People float in and out – stay and go. Sleep in the garden or in a bed. There is always room for one more at dinner. I’m curious to see if I can transport some aspects of my home into The Spare Room. Can I build a place that many far-flung people can inhabit, where everyone can fit?

“YES, LET’S.” is an experiment in answering this question. Work from London, Egypt, Hanoi, Portland and Japan will join the Bay Area contributions to the project in a spare room in Bernal Heights. I've invited friends from here and everywhere to send something in. I want to see how they can fit in one place, and listen to what it sounds like.

Curated by Gabby Quynh-Anh Miller, featuring works by
Maren Abromowitz (San Francisco)
Lauren Anderson (San Francisco)
Allie Furlotti (London)
Scott H. Grenfell (Oakland)
Matthew Hunter (Oakland)
Yekaterina Konstantinovnaten (Mendocino/Oakland)
Sara Lafleur-Vetter (Luxor, Egypt)
Erin McElroy (San Francisco)
Michael McManus (Portland, OR.)
Gabby Quynh-Anh Miller (Bay Area)
Phuong Linh Nguyen (Vietnam)
Pattiann Koury (Bay Area)
Maya Kronfeld (Berkeley)
Lisa Yoshiko Radecki (Chicago)
Ruth Robbins (Millerama)
Clio Sady (San Francisco)
Nyssa Zinn (San Francisco


The Spare Room Project
www.thespareroomproject.net
thespareroomproject@gmail.com

Support for The Spare Room Project is provided by Southern Exposure's Alternative Exposure Grant Program

Appearing for one night only

My Neighbor Totoro

Kind of Amazing. If you have never seen it.
Simply, you should.

Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world

Ummm wow. Pretty amazing.

Correspondence Anyone?

Anyone interested?

I want to start some sort of art swap circle of sorts.
Any takers? Any input?
Lets chat!

gregory . e . bartlett @ gmail . com

New Site UP & Running!

Yep its true alright,
my new site is up and running, getting better every day.
Be sure to tell all of your friends about it. All of them.

www.gregorybartlett.net

As you can see, these two can't get enough of it.

Postcard Sets NOW available on my Etsy Shop!

I know you've all been waiting long enough for these bad boys to roll off the my mini homespun press. Well the time is now friend. So get 'em while they're hot... or at least available. More sets to come soon. www.gregoryb.etsy.com

I present to you, The Amazing Carly Goss.

She's an amazing fibers artist and sweet soul and it shames to end to think I haven't mentioned her sooner to you all, my faithful followers! Go now and check out her website at www.carlygoss.com and check out her etsy shop while you're at www.carlygoss.etsy.com!!!! XO

Successful Seed Collection!

For the past year I've had some pretty special flowers growing in my garden from seeds that were over at least 15 years old and once filled my grandmother's garden. My grandmother passed away many years ago and I am not really sure when she collected these seeds but I found them in her basement in a film canister when we cleaned out her house. I had been saving the seeds until I had a garden to plant them in. Thispast year I moved to San Francisco and am blessed enough to have space outdoors and so I threw them and sat back.
















I Patiently I awaited to see what the poppies would look like and let me tell you dear readers, I was not disappointed. The blooms did not last too long in the windy San Francisco climate but I was able to document the process.

I decided that I wanted to save the seeds from these flowers of my childhood back on the east coast so that I could continue to enjoy them.
















This morning while enjoying my morning cup of joe I took a peek at the poppy pods in my back yard and low and behold, I had poppy seeds!













If any of you would like a pack of them, send me your mailing address and I'll gladly share the love.

xo

Produce to the People Fundraiser

My dear friend and roommate Lauren Anderson is starting up an amazing youth fruit gleening summer program for local high schoolers and needs YOUR help with raising some funds for it.

Check out the website for the whole shebang at http://www.producetothepeople.org

DATE: Thursday June 11th, 2009 @ 5pm
WHERE: EL RIO (map here)
Invite your friends in the Bay Area!

Come out and celebrate with Produce to the People for our upcoming youth program! Hang out with your neighbors and friends in support of youth employment, local produce, and more sustainable and community oriented food systems. Enjoy delicious Straus Family Creamery Organic Ice Cream with locally harvested fruit and homemade herb syrups under the lemon tree on El Rio's lovely patio and win something wonderful from our raffle of creative and delicious things that happen by the hands of brilliant local artists, musicians, gardeners, food crafters, chefs, and restaurants of the bay area.

(A list of our generous donors will be up soon)

$5 - $20 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds), $3 for ice cream, $1 for raffle tickets

Please check our website for more info: www.producetothepeople.org

Apologies to our youth supporters and friends, this event is 21+

The Love of my Life

Mr. McSweeney my one true love.
He knew no other language than that of love.

My Mini Arrangement of the Week

I have been enjoying this bad boy
all week long. It sits next to my sink.

Artist: Peter Funch

I recently discovered a wonderful Danish photographer, Peter Funch who makes beautiful stitched photographs, these shown are of people on street corners. I think they are amazing.



http://www.peterfunch.com/
http://www.v1gallery.com/artist/show/3

www.gregorybartlett.net is on it's way!

I am in the process of getting a real website up and running. you should go check it out and tell me what you think. xo

http://www.gregorybartlett.net

My dear friend Michaela just visited a few weeks back. During her stay here we ventured out and discovered Grace Cathedral on the corner of Taylor and California by accident and were happily surprised with what we found inside. Check it out.