Geography | Stella Kalaw, John Mann, & Anthony Marchetti
MAIN GALLERY | 12.17.09 – 1.18.10 Opening: Thursday, December 17th, 6-8p
Reconstructed Memories | Liz Steketee | Artist-in-Residence
SIDE GALLERY | 12.17.09 – 1.18.10 Opening: Thursday, January 17th, 6-8p Reconstructed Memories is a unique print series that uses my personal family photographs to rewrite history from my vantage point. By choosing unrelated images and digitally manipulating them into unlikely combinations, I build new memories. I forge new relationships, address old confrontations, imagine different [...]
Family of Mine | Steve Bliss, Katrina d’Autremont & Jason Houston
MAIN GALLERY | 11.5.09 – 12.12.09 Opening: Friday, November 6th, 6-8p RayKo is proud to present a show that features the work of 3 artists who have been obsessively photographing their families for years. No cute kid pictures here. Instead, there are the documentary images of Jason Houston who works as a photojournalist and who [...]
City of Children | Monika Merva
SIDE GALLERY: 11.5.09 – 12.12.09 Opening: Friday, December 6th, 6-8p Monika Merva has photographed the children in and around their home, using a Contax medium format camera and natural light. The shots are not set up or posed, to avoid sentimentality and preserve the authenticity of what she has witnessed. As a photographer Merva has [...]
RayKo Open Studios | 10.23.09 – 11.1.09
Opening Weekend: Sat & Sun, 10.24.09 & 10.25.09 Carlos Arrieta, Mia Nakano, and Kira Sugarman-Shemano
Lightning, Lava, and Bombs | Ben Nixon Hendrik Paul, and Susan Seubert
MAIN GALLERY | 9.25.09 – 11.1.09 Opening: Friday, 10.02.09 6-8p RayKo is proud to present a show that features nine tiny bombs beautifully frozen, lightning illuminating the Polish countryside and landscapes that lava left transformed. Ben Nixon’s latest photographs focus upon the basic elements of the collodion process. The 19th century technique he has used [...]
Marketplace Artist Show | Nan Brown, Denise Fuson, Erin Malone, & Shane Powers
SIDE GALLERY | 9.25.09 – 10.23.09 Opening: Friday, October 2nd, 6-8p
It’s Still Life
MAIN GALLERY | 8.6.09 – 9.22.09 Opening: Friday, August 7th, 6-8p Image courtesy of Elaine Duigenan, from her series \ Net artwork on loan from Klompching Gallery Featuring work by: Elaine Duigenan & Meggan Gould RayKo is proud to present its first juried still life and interior space show which will feature everything from a [...]
21st Century Photography 2009
One night only reception: August 28th, 6-8p Sunburned GSP#308 (Oceano), Chris McCaw 2008 8″x10″ unique gelatin silver paper negative Jo Babcock: The Invented Camera | Martha Casanave: The Wet-Plate Collodion Process & the Work of Julia Margaret Cameron Susannah Hays: In/Visible Cosmo | Kerik Kouklis: A Tri-Century Photographic Approach | Chris McCaw: Optical Studies in [...]
We Are | Lisa Kanemoto
MAIN GALLERY | 6.25.09 – 7.31.09 Opening: Thursday, June 25th, 6-8p This show is dedicated to the Memory of Mary Dunlap and her fight for Justice. Twenty-five years after images from the photography publication ‘We Are…’ were featured on the cover of the gay community’s long-standing magazine The Advocate, and in the former Christopher Street [...]
Instar | Meghann Riepenhoff | Artist-in-Residence
SIDE GALLERY | 6.25.09 – 7.31.09 “The strange resonant word instar…implies something both celestial and ingrown, something heavenly and disastrous, and perhaps change is commonly like that, a buried star, oscillating between near and far.” -Rebecca Solnit Instar I (comparatively recent epoch) 24 x 20” c-print photogram, 2008
Becoming | Michelle Sank
MAIN GALLERY | 5.25.09 – 6.23.09 Opening: Friday, May 29th, 6-8p Michelle Sank was born in Cape Town, South Africa. She has been living and working in the UK since 1987. Her photography has always encompassed issues around social and cultural diversity. She has photographed young people in different social contexts with the portraits being [...]
Out of Site Retrospective
SIDE GALLERY | 5.25.09 – 6.23.09 A retrospective by photography students from the Out of Site Youth Arts Center. With performances by students from Out of Site’s The Booth: Hip Hop on the ever-turning wheel of the word – Poets, rappers, and MCs step up to the mic. A CD release party for this Out [...]
Portfolio Exhibition | City College of San Francisco
Side Gallery | 5.22.09 – 5.25.09 Opening: Friday, May 22nd, 6p-8p The Photo 130 class is designed to train the advanced photography student to design, build, perfect, and present a professional portfolio to future clients and galleries. This show will display all their hard work and effort. Each artist has designed their portfolio to match [...]
The Great Disruption | Jon Edwards, Sandrine Hermand-Grisel & Tempest NeuCollins
MAIN GALLERY | 4.0.09 – 5.20.09 Opening: Friday, April 10th, 6-8p These three artists are depicting their different views and experiences of society in three different photographic medium, all dark, all arresting, all beautiful. This is an exhibition of the current times by artists from three different generations and from three different parts of the [...]
Inaugural Artist-in-Residence | Michael Elsden
SIDE GALLERY: 4.0.09 – 5.20.09 While a borrowed term, Pogonophora has the literal meaning ‘beard bearer’ which encapsulates the notion that men carry or hold a beard rather than being defined by it. In these images, RayKo’s first Artist-in-Residence, Michael Elsden, was looking for a feeling of the reflective, classical, even ‘monastic’ quality seen in [...]
RayKo’s Second Annual Juried Plastic Camera Show
MAIN & SIDE GALLERIES | 2.26.09 – 4.1.09 Opening: Thursday, February 26th, 6-8p photography by Roy Berkowitz RayKo’s Second Annual Juried Plastic Camera Show includes strange and stunning images made by the winners of this competition. Photographers from all over the Bay Area as well as national and international entries are featured in this dynamic [...]
Nature/Nurture | Hiroyo Kaneko and Betsy Weis
MAIN GALLERY | 1.14.09 – 2.20.09 Opening: Friday, January 16th, 6-8p photography by Hiroyo Kaneko Picnics, people bask under the cherry blossom trees once a year; they gather and enjoy the flowers in bloom. The experience imparts a mixture of spiritual uplift and relief. Nature presents opportunities for us to share moments that become a [...]
SIDE GALLERY | 1.14.09 – 2.20.09
Carlos DaSilva | Vince Donovan | Jamie Krueger Margaret Mateskon | Saul Robbins
