George Pfau

Austria and beyond.

gpfau — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:29:34 +0000

I’m currently in Salzburg, Austria studying and working in the Festung Hohensalzburg, thanks to the American Austrian Foundation and Daisy Soros Prize for Fine Art.

August 27th: We are presenting our projects in an exhibition at the fortress.

Some upcoming shows in New York:

September 18th: The Last Supper Festival at the 3rd Ward in Brooklyn.

September 23rd: Short Term Deviation at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts

October 1st: The Big Screen Project

Wondrous Strange Summer

gpfau — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:18:59 +0000

Check out a review of Wondrous Strange by David M. Roth on Square Cylinder. The show runs through August 28th.

July 22nd! I’ll be back in San Francisco and showing work at the SFMOMA Artists Gallery in Fort Mason. Wondrous Strange: A Twenty-first Century Cabinet of Curiosities.

July 16th! I’m screening a new video piece at the 10th Annual T-10 Video Festival at 21 Grand in Oakland.

July 10th! Open Studios at the Wassaic Project.

Summer

gpfau — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:21:23 +0000

Wassaic Project Open Studios, June 12th.

www.tendertransmissions.com …designed by Hannah Ireland. This site is an archive of recordings made in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco, produced by Alex Beckman, Kaif Ghaznavi, Malak Helmy, Lynne McCabe, Mike Maurillo, Ranu Mukherjee, George Pfau, and Kris Timken for the Wonderland Exhibition, 2009.

My review of Jordan Kantor’s show at Ratio 3 in Art Practical, can be viewed here.

This August I’ll be headed to Salzburg, Austria as a winner of the Daisy Soros Fine Art Prize.

The Wassaic Project

gpfau — Tue, 11 May 2010 00:54:27 +0000

This summer I’ll be headed to New York and will be working as an artist-in-residence at the amazing Wassaic Project. Stay tuned for open studios events.

Thanks to everyone who came out to the CCA MFA Exhibition, and for all of your support over the last two years. I feel so lucky to have such great friends and to have had the opportunity to be at CCA. I was just given the Dennis Leon Award, and feel shocked and honored.

The show is up until the 15th… go check it out… 66 amazing artists!!!!

2010 CCA MFA Exhibition

gpfau — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:52:19 +0000

May 6th - 15th. 1111 8th St. 10am-7pm daily.
Opens Thursday the 6th, 6-9pm.
I’m so excited to be a part of this.

Thanks to everyone who came by Open Studios, and thanks to Franklin Melendez for this writeup: ArtSlant

Also, look for me in the current issue of New American Paintings

MFA finale, zombies approaching…

gpfau — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:17:19 +0000

I’m in the midst of writing my zombie MFA thesis, which has been a fascinating process thus far.

Upcoming things:
Southern Exposure’s Monster Drawing Rally: March 5th.
CCA Open Studios: April 4th
CCA MFA Exhibition: May 6th

Happy 2010!

gpfau — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:15:45 +0000

I’m totally excited about this new year, and I feel very lucky to be in these two shows:

TIP OF THE BLADE: Pamela Belknap, George Pfau, Jason Winshell
Opening January 7th at The SFMOMA Artists Gallery, at Fort Mason: Loft Gallery, 5:30-7:30pm
I will be exhibiting a new series of work about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

OBSTINATE FLESH:
Opening January 12th at CCA’s PLAySPACE Gallery, 1111 8th St. San Francisco, 6-9pm
Featuring: Mara Baldwin, Tiger Brooke, Nicola Buffa, Natalia Gomez, Isaac Grey, Emily Hoover, Liesa Lietzke, Monique Lopez, George Pfau, Indhira Rojas and Suné Woods.
Curated by: Matthew Alexander Post, Much thanks to: Rajkamal Kahlon

Fall

gpfau — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:03:40 +0000

Opening December 11th, I’ll be showing paintings at San Francisco City Hall, by Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi’s office.

Open Now!: Super Pop-Up Shop at the Alameda Towne Centre. Our most mall-tastic days will be Sunday Nov 22nd, and of course…Black Friday: Friday Nov 27th.

Currently you can see three of my newest zombie works in “A Universe We Can Believe In: An exhibition about sciencefiction” at the Tecoah Bruce Gallery at the Oliver Art Center, curated by David Huff, Jackie Im, and Josephine Zarkovich.

Thanks to everyone who participated in Tender Transmissions and Wonderland, especially Daryl at the Luggage Store, Chris at Bay Fitted, Mira at the Glide Foundation, and of course my fellow artists in the ScreenLab Collective. Please check us out on the Wonderland site.

Summer

gpfau — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:55:21 +0000

Summer is almost over, and I’m now in SF gearing up for year two of CCA MFA-extravaganza.

Take a look at http://wonderlandshow.org/ to read about the various art projects happening this October at this show throughout SF’s Tenderloin neighborhood. I’ll be working within the ScreenLab Collective on an audio project called “Tender Transmissions”

I’m also working on a piece for the first Playspace Gallery show of the season

Thanks to those who were able to check out my drawings at Brooklyn gallery: Charlie Horse (28 Marcy Ave)… keep an eye out for their next show.

sds closing reception Nov 15th!

gpfau — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:36:10 +0000

click the sds link above for more info.

Written about on the KQED site!