Exhibition Dates
November 7th – December 27th, 2014
Opening Reception
Friday, November 7th (5pm-6pm)
Oakland Art Murmur
Friday, November 7th (6pm-9pm)
Friday, December 5th (6pm-9pm)
Gallery Hours
Saturdays (12pm-5pm) for Saturday Stroll
Daily by appointment
Location & Contact
Slate contemporary
473 25th Street
Oakland, CA
info@slatecontemporary.com
slatecontemporary.com
Exhibition
November 5th – December 7th, 2014
Reception
Saturday, November 8th (7pm – 10pm)
Location
Campfire Gallery
3344 24th St
San Francisco, CA 94110
Bang!, a large-scale series comprised of 23 interrelated individuals pieces, references a collective of independents coming together to achieve mutual goals. An extension of my series Paint Politics (2012), Bang! (2014) was conceptualized by my discovery of C2 Paints, at a local San Francisco paint shop. I felt an easy affinity with their line of colors and was instantly drawn to their rich quality, as well as to the humor in their names – ‘Lavish’, ‘Cognac’, ‘Major Tom’ and ‘Ping Pong’. The super-sized works created for Bang! represent both an extreme in size and a direct reference to C2’s color palette and coding system. In accentuating the magnitude of the depth of these colors and ‘buttery’ tactile nature, Bang! brings a seemingly inconsequential color swatch into a larger-then-life context.
Art for AIDS, a juried live and silent auction, is San Francisco’s premier art event benefiting one of the nation’s leading HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ mental health organizations, the UCSF Alliance Health Project. Please join us and support the Alliance Health Project (formerly the AIDS Health Project) with your winning bid!
City View at Metreon
135 Fourth Street, San Francisco
Friday, September 19, 5:30 to 10:00 pm
800 sophisticated art patrons and buyers
170 modern and contemporary art pieces for sale
during an evening of silent and live auctions
Community-minded sponsors and supportive media
San Francisco’s finest purveyors of food and drink
Cocktails served all evening
Hospitality House’s 29th Annual Art Auction returns to White Walls, San Francisco on Thursday, May 8th. This popular event features pieces contributed by nationally-acclaimed and emerging artists in a live and silent auction that generates significant funding for the Hospitality House and individual artists utilizing the Community Arts Program, thus helping to ensure that poor, homeless, marginally-housed, and at-risk residents of the Tenderloin and South of Market continue opportunities for creative expression. Buy tickets here.
Date: May 8th, 2014
Reception: 6:00pm
Auction: 7:00pm
Silent Auction: 6:00-9:30pm
White Walls Gallery, 886 Geary Street, San Francisco, 94109
Article by Bernd Mand, December 2011
Mannheimer Morgan Newspaper, Mannheim Germany
Translation by Heike Guenette
“The American artist Lucky Kelly Rapp, returned to her original artistic place
exhibiting a variety of her artwork in her former gallery H7 35. The artwork
of the now San Francisco based artist can be viewed From December 10th
until January 29th, 2012.
The shiny surfaces are deceiving. Hidden below layers of resin and paint
there’s a genuine invitation for a dialogue. With striking phrases like
‘Versteckt in der Kunst sind die Träume” (“Hidden in the art are the dreams”),
or the simple, philosophical everyday phrase “There will always be coffee”
the American artist offers an intellectual pastime.
Rich in contrast, straight forward, and witty, with some tension between
decorative disturbance and a personal reflection, the artwork of the self-
taught artist creates scurrile and memorable views upon reality, fantastical
comments on life. The artist: Lucky Rapp was born in the San Francisco
surrounding Bay Area, and she studied sports medicine at the San Diego
University in California. After extensive travels to Asia, India, and
Europe, she was living in Paris and Mannheim. In Mannheim she successfully
developed window designs for a fashion department store. That time already
she was involved in other artistic projects, and she also set up her own
gallery in her apartment.
She initiated solo shows for local artists offering for each an individual
room design. In 2001 Lucky Kelly Rapp returned to her home country living
and working in San Francisco since.”
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Article by Bernd Mand, December 2011
Mannheimer Morgan Newspaper, Mannheim Germany
Die US amerikanische Künstlerin Lucky Kelly Rapp kehrt an ihre alte
Wirkungsstätte zurück und zeigt eine Auswahl ihrer Arbeiten in ihrer
ehemaligen Galerie in H7 35. Vom 10. Dezember 2011 bis 29. Januar
2012 sind hier die Arbeiten der in San Francisco arbeitenden
Konzeptkünstlerin zu sehen.
Die glänzenden Oberflächen täuschen. Unter den Schichten von Kunstharz
und Farbe in Lucky Rapps Arbeiten versteckt sich eine ernstzunehmende
Einladung zum Dialog. Hinter plakativen Sprüchen wie “Versteckt in der
Kunst sind die Träume” oder einem simplen, alltagsphilosophischem
“There will always be coffee” fordert die amerikanische Künstlerin
zum Gedankenspiel auf. Kontrastreich, direkt und mit blinzelnden Augen.
Immer im Spannungsfeld zwischen dekorativem Störmoment und
persönlicher Reflektion öffnen die Arbeiten der Autodidaktin
dabei skurrile und denkwürdige Blickwinkel auf unsere Realität.
Wunderliche Kommentare zum Leben.
Die Künstlerin: Lucky Rapp wurde in der Bay Area um San Francisco
geboren und studierte Sportmedizin an der San Diego State University
in Kalifornien. Nach ausgiebigen Reisen durch Asien, Indien und
Europa lebte sie in Paris undMannheim. In Mannheim erarbeitet
sie erfolgreich Schaufenster-Konzepte für ein Modekaufhaus. In
dieser Zeit arbeitete sie bereits intensiv an anderen künstlerischen
Projekten und richtete in ihrer Wohnung ihre eigene Galerie ein.
Sie zeigte lokale Künstler in Einzelausstellungen und verband
diese jeweils mit einem individuellen Raumkonzept. 2001 zog
es die Künstlerin zurück in ihre Heimat. Lucky Rapp lebt und
arbeitet seitdem in San Francisco.
