Back That Ass Up – CANCELLED

This event has been canceled. The gallery owner has decided that he no longer supports Barack Obama.

WHO: Nancy Calef
Frank Garvey
Tim Kirkpatrick
Momo
Torrey Nommesen
Jack Perkins
WHAT: An event to support Barack Obama.An evening of art, pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey, speakers, poetry, voter registration and hope. T-shirts with the above logo for sale.

Nommesen’s 8-Bit Brew on tap.

WHERE: Live Worms Gallery
1345 Grant Street

(between Green and Vallejo)
North Beach, San Francisco
WHEN: Tuesday, July 15
2pm to 10pm
opening and speaker 4pm to 6pm
WHY: To show your support to Barack Obama. Proceeds go to the Barack Obama campaign.

My art on the walls of MR.

Chynna by Torrey Nommesen

WHO: Solo Show
WHAT: My are on the wals of MR. – a hip yet elegant barbershop for professional men to get groomed with luxury and impeccable service like you get at boutique hotels, trendy restaurants and chic lounges.
WHERE: MR.
550 Sacramento
The Financial District, San Francisco, CA
WHEN: For the Month of July
Opening Friday, July 11th 18th
6pm to 10pm

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WHY: Come check out my art. There is a good possibility that this show will sell out, in which case this will be my last show until I can get enough time and supplies to make some more art!

Torrey’s Nudes at Vesuvios until June 15th

My art on the wall of Vesuvio Caffe
My art of the wall of Vesuvios. Click to go to the Flickr picture with details of each piece.

WHO: Torrey Nommesen
WHAT: My nudes in various media through different stages of my life.
WHERE: Vesuvios
255 Columbus Avenue
North Beach, San Francisco
WHEN: May 15th June 1st until June 15th
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WHY: My work is truly mutli-media. I will display work using darkroom photography, digital manipulation, acrylic paint, photo copies and legos.I will be debuting my most ambitious Lego mosaic to date.

March show at Live Worms

Another show with the inimitable Jack Perkins/Yagubian II!

WHO: Jack Yaghubian II and me.
WHAT: Art show with Jack, the (in)famous bartender at Vesuvios, creator of Fast Cheap And Easy Graphics and author and illustrator of the Dim Light Bar Guide. He will be showing his photographs, I will be showing my mixed media work as well as a Lego Mosaic.
WHERE: Live Worms Gallery
1345 Grant Avenue
(between Green St & Vallejo St)
North Beach, San Francisco, CA 94133
WHEN: Wednesday March 12th and Thursday 13th.
Open from 1pm to 11pm.
Openings at 7pmish both nights.
WHY: Great art! My homebrew (if fermentation doesn’t take too long) on tap.

The Moon Art show

The Moon @ LIve Worms

WHO: Ned Millett, Susan Cervantes and me!
WHAT: Art show to celebrate the moon.
WHERE: Live Worms Gallery
1345 Grant Avenue (between Green St & Vallejo St)
North Beach, San Francisco, CA 94133
WHEN: Sunday, Monday and Tuesday
January 20th – 22nd.
Opening January 20th 7pm.
WHY:
  1. Great art!
  2. Celebrate the Full Moon!
  3. See honest to god local North Beach artists:
    – the reincarnation of William Blake!
    – a skeptical atheist!
    – the founder and director of Precita Eyes!
  4. My homebrew (if fermentation doesn’t take too long) on tap!

WHO: Jack Yaghubian II and me.
WHAT: Art show with Jack, the (in)famous bartender at Vesuvios, creator of Fast Cheap And Easy Graphics and author and illustrator of the Dim Light Bar Guide.
WHERE: Live Worms Gallery
1345 Grant Avenue
(between Green St & Vallejo St)
North Beach, San Francisco, CA 94133
WHEN: Wednesday August 15th and Thursday 16th.
Open from 1pm to 11pm.
Openings at 7pm both nights.
WHY: Great art! My homebrew (if fermentation doesn’t take too long) on tap.

13 Frisco Artists on the War & The War on the Arts

WHO: Blotner, Brightwolf, Brown, Ferlinghetti, MoMo, Hirschman, Falk, Whitehouse, Linder, Nommesen, Leonard, Lurie, Millet
WHAT: 13 artists show thier most political work
WHERE: Live Worms – 1350 Grant Street @ Vallejo
WHEN: September Thu 15 8pm on, Fri16 2pm on, Sat 17 2pm on, Sun 18 2pm on
Opening Saturday 17th 2005, 8pm

The Eye Mac at Electrohype ROM

WHO: The following artists and works are in the Classic II exhibition
Richard Bolam -HyperScape
Sebastian Campion – The Matrix 9×9w
Mogens Jacobsen – Classico Salz Bee Jul
JODI – ALRT#ID
Tore Nilsson – Inferiorator
Torrey Nommesen – ‘The Artist’s Eye’
David Rokeby – Liquid Language
John F. Simon jr. – Arrow Variations – Book 1
Magnus Wassborg – Auto
Stefano Marotta & Roberto Russo – OutPut
WHAT: The exhibition focuses and reflects on the development both in computer based art and the accelerating demands on hardware used to create and present art. Due to the characteristic design of the Classic II computer it will of course also focus on the software and hardware joined together as a work of art or maybe more precisely an art object.The exhibition is also an experiment with issues concerning buying and selling computer based art. Most artists working in this field are familiar with the various aspects of this issue. There has been endless discussions, proposals for solutions and so on but the fact still remains that computer based art is rarely or never bought and sold, at least not in Scandinavia.By implementing the artwork in a small stand alone unit it might be possible mobilize an interest for computer based art among art collectors and institutions. This might appear as a provocative issue to focus on, especially in Europe but maybe it is just time to try out an economic model in real life.
WHERE: Electrohype-ROM
Sodra Forstadsgatan 18
Malmo, Sweden
WHEN: December 20th to January 11th 2003/4
Opening reception December 12, 4pm to 8pm
WHY: In 1997 Tamas Banovich curated an exhibition called “Mac Classics (the immaculate machines)” at the Postmasters Gallery in New York. The exhibition is also sometimes mentioned as the “The Classic Show”. In his text from 1997 Tamas Banovich says:

In the rush to try to be on top of the minute-by-minute advances of the digital medium, there is seldom time for reflection. With the pace of technological change, the creative process becomes one of reacting to all the latest developments in programming. All too often, the exhilarating sense of freedom to communicate, coupled with the latest and showiest techniques, plug-ins and engines, seem to determine the concept and aesthetic of content.

These issues raised by Tamas Banovich seems just as applicable today as seven years ago, if not even more. Going to new media festivals today often means that you will see huge computer controlled installations and projections accompanied by 5:1 surround audio. Too many of these works tend to be more experiments with expensive hardware and new technology than actually dealing with art and artistic content. This is very unfortunate, not only for artists with a serious approach but also for the audience and the genre itself. If computer based art continues to move on this track we will quite soon be left with only a bunch of expensive theme park installations. On the positive side one can note that lately there have been some focus on software art and code. One could suspect that the reason why this topic suddenly is focused on, even at big festivals, is related to the problems mentioned above. Software art and coding is not something easily approached by new media art charlatans and low-end artists. It requires substantial insight and knowledge. The process of working with software art itself is also a kind of slow process allowing, or forcing, the artist into a different artistic pace, a pace different from the easily approached artworks that are generated by off the shelf software.

My art as displayed at Electrohype-ROM