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Rescued Cards Launch Party May 25, 2013 Come celebrate the launch of the greeting card line, which features photos of animals rescued across the U.S. Artist Monica Hoover also displays her large-scale photos and proceeds from beer sales and a raffle will go to animal rescue organizations. 50 other Art events on Saturday, May 25
 
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Wednesday, December 5,2012
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Bret Barrett's twisted imagination

Transforming trash into electronic sculptures is only part of artist’s repertoire

By Amy T. Granite
“The hardest part was getting the fur off,” Bret Barrett says, reaching for a cord attached to the electronic toy horse on top of his workbench.
Tuesday, November 27,2012
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Get lost in Jimmy Ovadia’s surreal paintings

This week’s cover artist is driven by music

By Amy T. Granite
Music is a driving force for Jimmy Ovadia, whose painting “Guilt by Association” appears on the cover of CityBeat this week. Not many artists can say that their first big break came from one their favorite bands, but that’s what happened when Ovadia pitched an album cover idea to Louis XIV via MySpace in 2005.
Tuesday, November 27,2012
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Ice Gallery melts away

One more show before artists behind North Park venue move on to the next thing

By Amy T. Granite
After six exhibitions, Ice Gallery is finished. On Monday, CityBeat was forwarded an email, dated Nov. 21 and sent to undisclosed recipients, with the subject line, “ICE Gallery is Dead. You get your money back! :)”
Wednesday, November 21,2012
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Omar Lopez’s motorcycle photo booth

Tintype-photography project ‘Relampago’ hits the road

By Amy T. Granite
Relámpago is Spanish for “lightning,” and it’s also what Omar Lopez has named his series of tintype portraits that document what he refers to as “the game”
Wednesday, November 14,2012
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I got pranked by Ube-Wan Kenobi

Street artist’s fake flyer frazzles a gallery owner and nearly pulls one over on CityBeat

By Amy T. Granite
Last week, street artist Ube-Wan Kenobi emailed me a flyer for an upcoming solo show, which he called “Sticky Situations,” at McNabb Martin Contemporary Art in Little Italy.
Wednesday, November 14,2012
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Michelle D. Ferrera’s emotion-packed artwork

Pencil-on-wood drawings reflect good times and bad

By Amy T. Granite
Michelle D. Ferrera’s artwork mirrors her emotional state. Whether she’s happy or miserable, she’ll take a series of self-portraits and use one as a frame of reference to begin drawing on wood that she buys from the scrap bin at Home Depot.
Wednesday, November 7,2012
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Abridged Gallery’s different view

Dennis Covey has a new studio and salon concept

By Amy T. Granite
When the San Diego Reader bought the Art Union Building on 23rd Street and Broadway in Golden Hill, its artist tenants were forced to move out.
Wednesday, November 7,2012
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Marc Sandoval’s work inside Gang Kitchen

Urban pop art decorates Downtown Asian eatery

By Amy T. Granite
Seven years ago, Marc Sandoval interviewed for a bartending job at Basic in East Village, and he left feeling pretty sure that he wouldn’t get a call back.
Wednesday, October 31,2012
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Kelsey Brookes gets trippy

Scientist-turned-artist will take you to a happy place with ‘Serotonin; Happiness and Spiritual States’

By Amy T. Granite
Kelsey Brookes is putting the finishing, trippy touches on paintings for Serotonin; Happiness and Spiritual States, his second solo show in San Diego that opens from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at Quint Contemporary Art in La Jolla (7547 Girard Ave.).
Wednesday, October 31,2012
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Lauren Siry embarks with Eighteen o Five Gallery

How the 24-year-old artist is making it work

By Amy T. Granite
At 23 years old, Lauren Siry has an unusual workload—interning at Downtown’s Meyer Fine Art while running her own gallery, Eighteen o Five, which opened last June in Little Italy.
 
 
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