Sunday, February 22, 2009

zeroeightone 3 year anniversary

zeroeightone (www.reddot081.com)

in store exhibition of
a collection of 2008 and past livepainted works

February 28th - March 28th, 2009

opening reception & zeroeightone 3 year anniversary celebration
Saturday, February 28th, 2009
2pm - 6:30pm / livepainting with DJ Nisus (www.myspace.com/djnisus)
8pm - 11pm / 21+ / reception with DJ 8doors
Live set by Zaion (www.myspace.com/zaionbeat)

ShoeBiz SF, Adidas Concept Shop
1420 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA, 94117
415-861-3797
mon-sat [11am - 7pm] sun [11am - 6pm]

redeem this flyer and receive 15% off on all non-sale items your next purchase at ShoeBiz SF, Adidas Concept Shop during this exhibiton, Feb 28th- March 28th.
see yall there
posted by noa-

Monday, February 16, 2009

Colorless Spectrum

Thank you all for visiting Colorless Spectrum on Jan. 30th! Space Gallery was packed with almost 300 visitors, bringing good vibes to the special reception party night.



At the door, we distributed 'omikuji':
"Omikuji are sacred bits of paper that can be obtained at Shinto Shrines and Buddhist temples in exchange for the lucky bagel-shaped five yen coin. Selected at random, the receiver will discover a fortune about how lucky the coming year will be. From romance to education, business to health, a glimpse into your possible future can be found within this Omikuji."
We were hoping everyone experienced this Japanese custom at our show - getting omikuji is one of the 'must-do' things done around New Year's day.


How was your fortune? Some lucky ones won SIR T-shirts for free! I wish that was me...

-1st floor -


Yoshi - Film Screening (projected on the ceiling above the bar)


(from the left: Zaion , Yoshi)




Luk - Mixed Media

-2nd floor-




Hiroko - Textile Installation


Aoi & Akko -Collaboration: Japanese Calligraphy & Photography



Ai - Photography


Tadamasa Iguchi - Photography


Tae - Graphic Art


Aoi - Japanese Calligraphy / Stencil / A Tree installation


Noa - (in the middle) - Painting
(from the left: Aoi, Noa-, Akko)


Akko Terasawa - Photography


IxDxE - Painting


Lavit Sea - Illustration


Junko - Graphic Art


Keiko - Photography

Although there was some troubles with turntables, our Djs did a splendid job in painting the atomsphere of the gallery in various colors -

Tokyo Component


DJ Yusai


Zaion


DJ 8 Doors


Live Painting was started around 9:30pm. People surrounded the canvas, waiting to see what was gonna happen.


Aoi writes "Colorless Specrtum" on the canvas:
before the show, we cut the canvas into several pieces, painted them in various colors, and stapled all on the floor.


Noa- draws abstruct lines that flows like a galaxy:
we detached the canvas from the floor, rearranged and stapled them on the wall, and Noa- drew over Aoi's calligraphy.


Rearraging again-


Lavit Sea draws human figures in each canvas:
Various ethnicities. Both male and female. Different generations. All looking at the center of the canvas...


Did you all receive the message from us? We hope that you enjoyed the performance!


Look at my hands and foot - this is why painting is fun.


Be Colorless.
Be Colorful.
Be United.
See, there's no boundary.


THANK YOU!

Visit SIR Flickr to see the photos from the show!
We will see you in May.



posted by Aoi

Saturday, January 31, 2009

IxDxE




Q: What is medium of art you deal with?
A: All living things

Q: When did you start becoming dedicated to your means of artistic expression? What was the trigger?
A: The thing to play my making it from the corrugated cardboard etc, because parents were not able to buy the toy is a start of my art.

Q: What / Where do you get your inspirations from?
A: Look back and laugh

Q: What made you join this SIR exhibition?
A: LOVE

Q: Tell us a little bit about your vision of your art work at the show"Colorless Spectrum."   How do you interpret the theme Colorless Spectrum?
A: My face is covered with the white cloth not visible. Colorless Spectrum is Fountain of aura

Q: Do you love Japan?
A: Yes I Do

Q: Do you have any message to the audience ..
A: Hello.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Tadamasa Iguchi














Photo by Keiko Moriyama


Q: What is the medium of art you deal with?
A: Typography, photography, and other simple ways of communication.

Q: When did you start becoming dedicated to your means of artistic expression? What was the trigger?
A: It all started when I was in high school when I first read this sub-cultural design magazine called "relax". My very first design on my own was when I was 20. It was a design for a flier of an event that my friend and I organized ourselves.

Q: What/Where do you get your inspirations from?
A: My inspirations do not come from concrete and objective ideas but rather from abstract concepts that happen to ponder into my head. Once I have the concept, I can begin to imagine and develop the design.

Q: What made you join this SIR exhibition?
A: I like the fact that through these SIR exhibits, I am exposed to so many different types of artists and an even wider range of styles and expression.

Q: Tell us a little bit about your vision of your art work at the show "Colorless Spectrum". How do you interpret the theme Colorless Spectrum?
A: "Colorless Spectrum" has some implications of both, a start and an end. I plan to further develop this concept and wish to present it in a very simple fashion.

Q: Do you love Japan?
A: Of course!

Q: Do you have any message to the audience?
A: At this show, you will be able to witness a gallery filled with genre-breaking experimental art. See you all at the space gallery!

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Ruk Short

Q: What is the medium of art you deal with?
A: All sorts. I prefer 'running into' my mediums like finding old stuff or to put it rather bluntly, I'll use whatever happens to be around me.

Q: When did you start becoming dedicated to your means of artistic expression? What was the trigger?
A: The start is hard to pin point but theres roots in the art lessons I took as a child in Japan. From there, it was just layers of exposure to various art experiences over the years.

Q: What/Where do you get your inspirations from?
A: I start with science, nature, and the city. Im also particular in the age of the information. Fond of old scientific illustrations, instruments, and so forth.

Q: What made you join this SIR exhibition?
A: Can't possibly pass up an opportunity like this to be work along with some of these experimental artists of SIR.

Q: Tell us a little bit about your vision of your art work at the show "Colorless Spectrum". How do you interpret the theme Colorless Spectrum?
A: Well, honestly, its still rather quite vague but it should be multi-dimensional. There will definitely be a sense of time and a warm tone to it all. Some lights maybe. The concept of Colorless Spectrum can be extracted in all sorts of directions it looks like; I see a circular spectrum not with a separate beginning and an end but connected. Colorlessness of the spectrum perhaps refers to the idea that theoretically with all colors combined gives you true white light.

Q: Do you love Japan?
A: Yes. The food, especially.

Q: Do you have any message to the audience?
A: Tell 'em its a show.

Monday, January 12, 2009

Hiroko Tsuchimoto














Q: What is medium of art you deal with?
A:Fiber & Nature

Q: When did you start becoming dedicated to your means of artistic expression? What was the trigeer?
A: Travel for Cambodia in 2005

Q:What / Where do you get your inspirations from?
A:Everything in my daily life

Q: What made you join this SIR exhibition?
A:The energetic activity!

Q: Tell us a little bit about your vision of your art work at the show "Colorless Spectrum." How do you interpret the theme Colorless Spectrum?
A:blank -Nothing means perfection. The perfection leads the end

Q: Do you love Japan?
A:Yes.

Q: Do you have any message to the audience...
A:I am really really looking forward to seeing u in San Francisco!!


Posted by Hiroko

Thursday, January 8, 2009

SIR BLOG LAUNCHED


Surreality in Reality aka SIR is proud to announce that we finally launched a blog site! We are going to introduce you the members of our crew every month, and keep you updated with what's going on in the world of SIR. To begin with, we would like to start introducing five new artists who are going to be join in SIR's upcoming exhibition "Colorless Spectrum"on January 30th.
Stay tuned!