APAture 2006 Kick-Off & Visual Exhibition Opening Reception September 19, 2006

APAture Gallery Opening / Festival Kick-Off



Kearny Street Workshop's space180
180 Capp St. @17th St., 3rd floor
$2-5 sliding scale
Featured Visual Artist: Kathy Aoki

Advance tickets available at manja.org.

Join us in celebrating the opening night of the APAture festival, and wander through the halls of 180 Capp to explore drawings, paintings, textiles, and installations from over 40 Bay Area visual artists, including featured visual artist Kathy Aoki, whose cheeky, pop-inspired pieces include carvings of little girls turned pirate automatons.

5:30-6PM Slideshow presentation by Kathy Aoki
6PM-9PM Gallery Opening with sounds by DJ Phatrick

EXHIBITING Artists
Kathy Aoki You're Mine (Battle of Kawaii) MIXED MEDIA
Mia Ante tuning in on creation PAINTINGS
Mark Baugh-Sasaki Reduction SCULPTURE
Brian Camarao The timid page turning ruler PHOTOGRAPHY
Michele Carlson It was too bright to be dark... DRAWINGS
Ian Cheng Physical Fiction INSTALLATION
Peikwen Cheng from Less Than Zero series PHOTOGRAPHY
Paul Escolar Sketches of Shitty Socialite Scenes MIXED MEDIA
Amir Esfahani Besme Allah INSTALLATION
Taiko Fujimura Avant Garde Ikebana #3 SCULPTURE
Iranshid Ghadimi The Adventurous Alice and other works PAINTINGS
Michael Goff Mr. Wu’s and other works PHOTOGRAPHY
Taro Hattori Beaut Brute INSTALLATION
Barbara Horiuchi Gaman; Untitled MIXED MEDIA
Phillip Hua De/construction Painting series PAINTINGS
Kaoru Kanai My Business Runs INSTALLATION
Laura Kim Dance with me and other works DRAWINGS
Lucien Kubo Japanese American Internment MIXED MEDIA
Susanna Kwan Tangled City DRAWINGS
Amy Lee Descent of the Wolpertingers and other works PAINTINGS
Anne Ming Leong Countryside; Blue Cavern PAINTINGS
Lucy Kalyani Lin Feeling Series VIDEO INSTALLATION
Andria Lo The Cluster Portraits PHOTOGRAPHY
Taro Masushio Untitled PHOTOGRAPHY
Elizabeth Moy from the Boundary Extension series PHOTOGRAPHY
Michael Namkung Various pieces COLLAGE
Susan Sue-Ah Park Before I Even Knew Your Name INTERACTIVE
Dinesh Perera Montana Landscape DRAWING
Han Pham Domesticated series PHOTOGRAPHY
Vikki del Rosario My Mother’s Maiden Name SCREEN PRINT
Mark Santa Ana AAMcBBM; Skyscraper COLLAGE
Shizue Seigel Buddhism in America PAINTING
Sandhya Sood Enchanted PAINTING
Amita Sreenivas Hao Hanoin Timor series PHOTOGRAPHY
Corinne Okada Takara Sixteen Hours Ago; Fear Kimono MIXED MEDIA
Vasanthi Victor Desi Woman 1 & 2, Woman 7 PAINTINGS
Patricia Wakida Various works POSTERS
Jenifer Wofford Nurse series DRAWINGS
Lauren Wong Matriarchal portrait series PHOTOGRAPHY
Mi Ran Yu Amnesia INSTALLATION
Joy Hae Yung Baby Blankets TEXTILES
Michael Zheng INSTALLATION

This event is part of KSW's APAture festival, that runs September 19 - 30, 2006.

Kearny Street Workshop's APATURE FESTIVAL is an annual multidisciplinary arts event presenting the work of emerging Asian Pacific American (APA) artists living and/or working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Now in its eighth year, APAture includes a visual arts show, film screenings, workshops, literary readings, performances in spoken word, music, dance, theater, and other performance genres, and an area for zinesters and comic artists to display and sell their work. Experience the sights, sounds, and spirit of over 100 Asian Pacific American artists at eight Mission District venues.

Full festival info at www.apature.org

Thanks to our 2006 partners and sponsors!

The Actors Center of San Francisco
Asian Art Museum
CounterPULSE
Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund
Hyphen Magazine
Intersection for the Arts
KUSF 90.3FM
The LAB
Locus Arts
Poetry Flash
The Make-Out Room
Manja.org
Potrero Nuevo Fund
Rainbow Grocery Cooperative
The Victoria Theatre
The Walter and Elise Haas Fund
Le Colonial
Wasabé

Official Website: http://www.apature.org