Something For Everyone

March 16 – April 7, 2012
Opens March 16, 7-10pm

S A T E L L I T E 6 6 
66 6th Street
SF, CA 94107

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Population, 2011. By Fernando Orellana

more here: http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/6283

All works are currently available. Shipping is available. Please direct all inquiries to info [at] satellite66.org

You Must Not Blame Me If I Do Not Talk To Clouds

January 13 – February 4, 2012
Opening Friday, January 13, 7-10pm

at Satellite66
66 6th Street
SF, CA 94103

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All works are currently available. Please direct all inquiries to info [at] valerieleavy.com

Slideways

November 18 – December 31, 2011
Opening Friday, November 18, 6-9pm

at Satellite66
66 6th Street
SF, CA 94103

Press Release

Manifest Clandestiny

A speakeasy exhibition of large-format photography held in the shell of a famous public artwork- hidden but in plain sight.
Two nights ONLY and by special invitation.

November 5th & 6th, 2012

Victor Hugo Hotel
1001 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

CONTACT: Valerie Leavy
(415) 644-8614  |  valerie [at] satellite66 [dot] org

Satellite66 Presents:
Fernando Orellana
Slideways

November 18 – December 31, 2011
Reception: November 18, 6-9pm

SAN FRANCISCO, October 11, 2011 – Satellite66 is pleased to present Fernando Orellana’s new series of digital paintings, collectively entitled Slideways. The exhibition is on view from November 18 to December 31, 2011. An opening reception will be held on Friday, November 18, from 6-9pm.

The complex, multi-layered, and often humorous imagery in the series Slideways is produced somewhat automatically. “The initial drawings surface quickly, almost as if they already existed,” Orellana explains, “In many ways, I am just transcribing the images, allowing them to take shape on their own.” To achieve this, Orellana allows his consciousness to be distracted by external influences, which serves to remove deliberate mark-making from the process. Eventually, Orellana “sees” his subjects in the labyrinth of initial lines and embellishes them. The process is thus related to both the occult practices of automatic writing and Freudian ideas of free association.

Orellana uses a Cintiq Wacom Tablet and digital imaging software to create the paintings, which are then printed on a large-format, archival ink jet printer. The resulting paintings are rich with layers of line work and drenched in color.

Currently an Assistant Professor of Digital Art at Union College in Schenectady, NY, Fernando Orellana uses new and traditional media as a way of transmitting concepts that range from generative art to socio-political commentary. He has recently exhibited at Texas A&M University (Texas), the Cultural Center of Spain in El Salvador (San Salvador), Museu dʼArt Contemporani de Barcelona (Spain), Espacio Fundación Telefónica (Argentina), Exit Art (New York), The Tang Museum of Art, (New York), Glass Curtain Gallery (Chicago), The Ark (Ireland), and The Biennial of Electronic Art (Australia).

He is the recipient of a 2009, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Digital/Electronic Arts and a 2010 Full Fellowship Award at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. He received a Master of Fine Art from The Ohio State University and a Bachelor of Fine Art with honors at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was born in El Salvador, San Salvador and currently lives in Troy, New York.

Satellite66 is a gallery that promotes art with a technological element. We seek to enrich our neighborhood with regular art exhibitions, and engage in public discourse with experiments in new media. We like to jaywalk the intersection of Art and Technology.

Opening Reception: Friday, November 18, 2011
Exhibition Dates: November 18 – December 31, 2011
Gallery Hours: Fri-Sat, noon-4pm

Satellite66 Gallery
66 6th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
(415) 644-8614  |  satellite66.org

By Marion Anthonisen | Oct 09, 2011

Static electricity attracted Oakland artist Anja Leonora Ulfeldt partly because people don’t love it. No one wants static in their laundry hamper or winter hairdo, and the simple electric force can build up and destroy computers or — in super-rare cases — cause gas station fires.

The five interactive sculptures currently on display at three-month-old gallery Satellite 66 were built during Ulfeldt’s residency at the Exploratorium, San Francisco’s not-just-for-kids museum of science, art and human perception. Visitors to the show will turn small cranks on each piece, generating static electricity to ring chimes, illuminate tiny lights or make feathers float. Like exhibits at the Exploratorium, Ulfeldt’s pieces elicit surprise and delight in one’s ability to participate in a phenomenon inaccessible without the help of a device.

Ulfeldt’s focus on static electricity encourages the viewer to linger closely, to delve into various expressions of just one natural force. Participants are also pushed closer to the pieces by necessity in Satellite 66′s intimate gallery space. Part of a larger movement in business and the arts to revitalize the Central Market Corridor, tiny Satellite 66 shares an address with sister gallery the Maltese Embassy on a gritty stretch of Sixth Street between the Baldwin House Hotel and the San Francisco Barber College. The space may gain some foot traffic if the neighborhood becomes more of a destination for art seekers. Satellite 66 will likely draw those with an interest in both art and technology — the gallery specializes in the intersection between the two.

 While our growing dependence on smartphones is a topic of frequent discussion, casual conversation doesn’t often turn to our longer-lived attachment to less flashy appliances like refrigerators. Yet we’re totally inconvenienced by the failure of these basic mechanical aids, too. In order to maintain our normal way of life and avoid the feeling of helplessness associated with a power outage, we need our bedroom lights as much as we need our computers. By mimicking human behavior with simple machines, Ulfeldt intends to investigate our relationship with technology defined more broadly than the newest updates to iPhone and Kindle.

Animated Life (Influence Machine #1)

Ulfeldt’s intent to bring non-living objects temporarily to life gives the work a distinct melancholy. The feathers move only when the crank turns, and their human-like quality suggests that we’re plugged in, too — but this doesn’t feel like a dogmatic condemnation of human frailty in the face of machines. The structures are beautiful, and there’s simple pleasure in using an invisible force to make a feather curl, float and undulate. While tempered with a dose of gloominess, the work is ultimately a celebration of science and a small static-y window into a deep history of technological advancement.

Anja Leonora Ulfeldt runs through November 12, 2011 at Satellite 66, 66 Sixth Street in San Francisco. For more information visit satellite66.org.

CONTACT: Valerie Leavy
p. 415-644-8614 | e. valerie [at] malteseembassy.com

 The Maltese Embassy Presents: 

J.K. Wornson

Opening reception Friday, September 30, 2011
at Satellite66
66 6^th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 

SAN FRANCISCO, September 15, 2011 – The Maltese Embassy is pleased to present Brooklyn-based artist J.K. Wornson for an exhibition running from September 30^th to November 12^th, 2011. An opening reception will be held on Friday, September 30^th from 7-10PM at 66 6th Street in San Francisco, and is open to the public.

The exhibition features works on paper, selections from the artist’s Fire Paintings series, and an installation that can be experienced by only one at a time. Wornson’s textured, tactile, and layered artworks are meditations on the formation of identity, on how who we are is defined by ephemeral experiences, temporal relationships, and invisible influences. Always shedding bits of ourselves while picking up foreign parts; sometimes we collect more than we can carry and sometimes we shed faster than we rebuild. The pieces that we collect merge and morph within us, making us not so much individuals as individual manifestations of each other and of circumstance. Other Rooms, Near to Me considers that with which we surround ourselves- our temples, our art, our homes- as the perfect mirror of our ragtag selves and the implications this idea poses for the nature of humanity, society, and space.

The Maltese Embassy is an ongoing curatorial project by Valerie Leavy. A tiny ambassador of art in San Francisco, the Embassy is dedicated to showcasing emerging contemporary artists with a focus on craftsmanship, concept, and aesthetic. FOR GALLANTRY.