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November 14 - December 21, 2008>

North Bay Artworks Holiday Showcase 2008 - Group Show

Featuring "Dreamscape" (2008 Acrylic on Canvas 36x48), "Peekaboo!" (2008 Acrylic on Canvas 36x36), and "Orbs" (2008 Acrylic on Canvas 36x36).

Artist's Reception> 6-8pm,  November 14, 2008

Exhibit> November 14 - December 21, 2008  (Thurs.-Sun. 12-4pm; closed Nov. 27-30 for Thanksgiving)

For directions, click here.

October 1-November 1, 2008>

Idea of the Body - Juried Group Show at Artisans Art Gallery

Featuring "Grace" (2008 7.5"x10.5" Archival Print, Self-portrait photographed at 25 weeks pregnant) 

Artist's Reception> 6-8pm, October 10, 2008

Exhibit> October 1-November 1, 2008 (Tues.-Sat. 11am-6pm)

September 27, 2008>

September 16, 2008>

Victory Over Darkness, a feature documentary about the first team of blind and visually-impaired Ironman triathletes that I helped shoot, premieres at Landmark Theater in Los Angeles. Above: Athlete Heidi Musser and Director Donnie Eichar meet a walrus during filming. Photo by A. Kao.

August 2008>

"Behind Pupumentary", a review of PUP with interview of Director Antonia Kao by Bondageboyhk, is published on www.thedoghouse.org.

April 10-12, 2008>

"An Installation" - A Site- and Moment-Specific Installation

November 30 - December 30, 2007>

North Bay Artworks Holiday Showcase 2007 - Group Show

Featuring three Dance Paintings + see Divine Eye Productions' new digs

Artist's Reception> 6-8pm, November 30

Exhibit> Thurs.-Sun. 12-4pm through December 30

For directions, click here.

November 4-14, 2007> I'm going to be holding regular Darshan's to offer Work coming through. The events will range the gamut from "conventional" exhibit-like gatherings where you have the opportunity to, if thus inspired, leave with a physical object; and more multi-media installation-type events where what you receive/give, and take away is purely experiential. Some events may be improvisational; some collaborative. Here's the first one:

"Sieve"  - An Installment Offering

Available for viewing at North Bay Artworks (first studio to the right when you enter) when it is open or by appointment.

October 10, 2007>

Pitzer Cinematheque

1.30-3pm Avery Auditorium, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
As part of Pitzer College's Media Studies program's monthly Cinematheque series, director Antonia Kao screens PUP and Straight White Men and Me, then does Q&A. Free and open to students and faculty of the Five Colleges (Pitzer, Claremont McKenna, Pomona, Scripps, and Harvey Mudd).

September 2007> Divine Eye Productions relocates from Belmont to its new, wonderful digs at Northbay Artworks in Novato.

September 2007> Sofiah Thom, a dancer and healer who has greatly touched and inspired me, is creating Bamboo, a sanctuary in Costa Rica "to explore and transform our deeper selves through expressive healing arts." A Divine Eye Productions photo shoot and print are available - along with many other services - for auction in support of realizing this vision here.

August 25, 2007> Penis Stories Shoot in Los Angeles

Saturday 12.30-4.30pm, LA Gay & Lesbian Center, The Village at Ed Gould Plaza, 1125 N. McCadden Place, Los Angeles, CA 90038

Project contains nudity. Click here to view if you are of age and OK with that.

August 19, 2007> Penis Stories Shoot in San Francisco

Saturday 12.30-4.30pm, OneTaste SF, 1074 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

Project contains nudity. Click here to view if you are of age and OK with that.

July 23, 2007>

The Chen Family announces the establishment of The Joannie M. Chen Fund for Education at the International Center for Photography on what would have been Joannie's 38th birthday. Joannie was a gifted photographer and friend who helped me make my first color, sync-sound film Dildoes & Oolong in the mid-1990s when I was at NYU's intensive summer film program. She passed away in December 2006 after a two-year battle with leukemia.

July 2007> Pix of Avalon Art & Yoga Center published in Yogi Times' 5th Anniversary San Francisco edition. Avalon is a beautiful, art-filled studio (worth visiting just to see the tilework in the bathrooms) where I did my first yoga teacher's training in 2003.

July 2007> Bad Boys of Summer, a feature documentary about the San Quentin prison baseball team that I field produced and helped shoot, sold out its 7/18 San Francisco Premiere at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and garnered a feature in the SF Chronicle. Six encore screenings have been added on 7/20, 21, 22, 25, and 27.

June 30, 2007>  Got married! :) For pix, click here.

June 2007> Pix of Azul Spa published in Yogi Times' June edition.

June 15, 2007> Straight White Men & Me, an autobiographical documentary integrating animation broadcasts on PBS (Thirteen/WNET) in New York. It won a Dore Schary Humanitarian Film & Video Documentary Finalist Award in 2001.

May 10, 2007> My first ever photography show, curated by Start SOMA, opens at the renowned Hotel des Artes in San Francisco. To view the gallery of Naked Project archival prints in this exhibit, click here. For details about the event, click here. The pix occupy most of the 5th floor and will be up for a bit so you can walk through whenever you're in the 'hood.

April 2007> Romance Feet selected for publication in art magazine Gentle Strength Quarterly's Spring 2007 issue.

March 2007> Production stills of performance artist Kristina Sheryl Wong hits magazine stands 3/27/07 in "Knit for Life", Vogue Knitting.