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Dates: August 4 – September 18, 2016
Open Hours: Saturday & Sunday, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm or email for appointment
First Thursday Art Walk: August 4 & September 1 from 6:00 to 10:00 pm
At Ramon’s Tailor

These Are That presents objects and images that have been arranged into “piles” of information to create a relationship between part and whole. Each individual part has a specific identity, but the definition of the total work depends on a cumulative assessment—both in the works themselves, and also the installation as a whole.

Rope, jute, paper, sawdust, ink and polyester resin are the elemental building blocks for three sculptures installed at Ramon’s Tailor.

About the Artist:
Daniel Brickman is a Bay Area artist who is driven by material experimentation and the cyclical nature of matter and time. He’s interested in communicating ideas that arise through the process of making. He holds a BFA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a MFA from the University of California, Davis.

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Thursday, July 28, 6-9pm
At Ramon’s Tailor

Join us or a special night of live music and sound performances curated for 63 SUNRISES without a sun.

The evening’s performers will include:
Tom Weeks (Saxophone, Composer, Improvisor)
KYN (Electronic Music Duo)
David Katz (Improvised Voice)
Curt Brown (Modular Synths)

63 SUNRISES without a sun is a collaborative installation
inspired by the subterranean isolation experiments of Michel Siffre. Three artists—Sam Genovese, Sara Kerr and Rachelle Reichert—use Ramon’s Tailor to explore what it would be like to be in an underground cave disconnected from the natural rhythms of light and darkness that create discrete days for humans. Read more here.

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Dates: July 7 – July 28, 2016
Open Hours: Saturdays & Sundays (July 10 – 24), 12-4pm; or email for appt
Live Music & Sound Performances: Thursday, July 28, 6-9pm
At Ramon’s Tailor

63 SUNRISES without a sun is a collaborative installation inspired by the subterranean isolation experiments of Michel Siffre. Three artists—Sam Genovese, Sara Kerr and Rachelle Reichert—use Ramon’s Tailor to explore what it would be like to be underground and disconnected from the natural rhythms of light and darkness that create discrete days for humans.

About 50 years ago, Siffre ventured 375 feet down into a subterranean cave beneath a glacier and spent 63 days there. He saw 63 sunrises without a sun. He was cold and wet. He read Plato. He went mad for a day, sang at the top of his lungs and danced around in tights. Ice fell on him. He made friends with a mouse but accidentally crushed it to death. He contemplated suicide. He called the world above and counted for them. The days had no markers—no morning or night—only darkness. His body kept time, but his mind lost a month. Two minutes, for him, became five.

In this installation, the artists investigate the materials of a cave—salt deposits, bodies of water, rocks with cracks and crevices, and stalagmites and stalactites; they replicate the sounds of the underground, the echoes and the delays; and they simulate shafts of light and dancing apparitions on cave walls.

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Dates:  April – June
Open Hours:  Most Saturdays & Sundays, 12:00 to 4:00pm (email to confirm)
First Thursday Art Walks: May 5 & June 2 from 6:00 to 10:00pm
At Ramon’s Tailor

This tiny space always delivers a big surprise. WC Twelve is the first installation within our water-closet-cum-micro-gallery to use the material and sonic artifacts of bathrooms to playfully immerse our visitors. Come experience architect Andrej Dekleva’s giddy treatment of our W.C.

Collage by Joyce Nojima, with Olivia Romer, Samantha Morris, David Harding, and Wheeler Bills.

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Dates:  April 7 – May 22, 2016
Open Hours:  Most Saturdays & Sundays, 12:00 to 4:00pm (email to confirm)
First Thursday Art Walks:  May 5 from 6:00 to 10:00pm
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 16, 6:00 to 10:00pm
Closing Brunch: Sunday, May 22, 10:00am – 1:00pm
At Ramon’s Tailor

Join us for the San Francisco debut of the Round Table [Collaboration] Postal-Collage Project No. 5. Ramon’s Tailor is proud to again be exhibiting this annual international art project.

This year, 100 collaborators from around the globe produced 100 collages over the course of six months. Assembled in working groups of five members each, with each group arranged in a ‘circular’ sequence, participants send and receive works-in-progress by mail. Each participant is the principal author of one collage, and a contributing author of four others. Each collaborator eventually finishes the collage they started. This unique project is the creative undertaking of Berkeley-based artist Marty McCutcheon.

Ramon’s Tailor is a space for showing alternative projects, like this one, that celebrate collaboration and engage diverse groups of people from all over the world. We’re excited to share this project with you.

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Dates: September – November 2015
Open Hours: October Saturdays & Sundays from 6:00 to 8:00pm;
plus Friday, October 30 from 6:00 to 9:00pm
At Ramon’s Tailor

Like a ‘Dear John’ video letter to architects, this installation created by Marc Phu and Julie Chang, is a curiously fun way to view some of the most destructive movies of our time. These two creative pranksters love to poke and prod, and it is no coincidence that their piece is showing at the same time as “City Blocks,” part of AIA San Francisco and the Center for Architecture + Design’s Architecture and the City Festival, which celebrates architecture and design each September.

As always, come have a great time in our W.C., but architects, please proceed with caution.

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Dates: September 3 – October 30, 2015
Closing Reception: October 30 from 6:00 to 10:00pm
At Ramon’s Tailor

Come play with City Blocks! Get your hands and mind ready to interact with light and shapes in this fun, three-dimensional video art installation by Bay Area artists Marty McCutcheon and Brad Wise. Cityscapes are projected onto three-dimensional forms made from lightweight recycled materials. Viewers are encouraged to arrange shapes as they please, producing their own city blocks of abstract lines, images and patterns. Come see your city in a different way.

Watch people playing with City Blocks in this fun video put together by the folks at Renegade Screen.

This project is part of AIA San Francisco and the Center for Architecture + Design’s Architecture and the City Festival, which celebrates architecture and design each September. For more information about the festival, please visit: www.archandcity.org.

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Dates: May 3 – June 27, 2015
June Hours: Saturdays 12:00 to 4:00pm
First Thursday Art Walk: June 4 from 6:00 to 10:00pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, June 20, 2:00 to 6:00pm
At Ramon’s Tailor

Announcing the San Francisco debut of the Round Table [Collaboration] Postal-Collage Project No. 4, an international art project that began in September 2014. Ramon’s Tailor is proud to have participated in this project and to be showcasing the final works.

This year, 85 collaborators from 12 countries produced 85 collages. Each of the collaborators started a collage, contributed to their groups collages in-progress, and eventually, finished the collage they had initiated. This unique project is the creative undertaking of Berkeley-based artist Marty McCutcheon.

Ramon’s Tailor is a space for showing alternative projects, like this one, that celebrate collaboration and engage diverse groups of people from all over the world. We’re excited to share this project with you.

Can’t make the opening, but still want to see the works?
Email us for a private showing

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Dates: April 15 – July 23, 2015
Closing Reception: Thursday, July 23, 6:00 – 9:00 pm with music by
Karen Less, The Good News, The Nothing, and The Brothers Amor.

At Ramon’s Tailor

Our W.C. is our micro gallery and the place where artists have big-time fun. W.C. No. 10 proves this point in an “enter at your own risk” kinda way. Juliana Raimondi and Christi Azevedo have hung dozens of water-filled balloons from the ceiling and we’re cautiously excited to see what happens over the next few months!

Step in and have a look — we dare you.

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Closing Party & First Thursday Art Walk: April 2, 6:00-10:00pm
Hours: Saturdays: noon – 4:00pm; weekdays by appointment
At Ramon’s Tailor

Artist Cara Levine’s work spans multiple media and philosophical intersections but ultimately, comes down to a single struggle: The struggle to keep the loop open between what we know and what we search to know, between fantasy and reality, the ground and what lays beyond.

For her show at Ramon’s Tailor, Cara has created a three-channel video installation from footage she captured during her fall 2014 residency at Kala Art Institute. For Cara, the windy and circumscribed nature of our interior walls referenced the similarly rare and delineated space in the photo shooting room at Kala. By superimposing this investigation of where the physical and metaphysical meet, contrast and overlap, onto the paneled walls at Ramon’s Tailor, Levine is in effect, merging the two kindred spirit spaces through this intervention.

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