Melissa Steckbauer – I, the hunter

Opening 29. Mai 2010 at 6 p.m.

After Show Party: DJ Stefan Havoc – 80s electro pop

Gallery Ulf Saupe presents the first solo exhibition in Berlin of the young American artist Melissa Steckbauer. The exhibition “I, the Hunter” showcases a new series of paintings on small paper formats and large canvases. Her paintings touch on intimate, sexually charged moments and fantasies. The opening takes place on the 29th of May 2010 at 6 p.m. in Ulf Saupe Gallery on Torstrasse 75.

Fable characters, people of daily life and exaggerated caricatures find their way into her works. The artist dramatizes and disarms the situations at the same moment. Through the infantilization of the main characters and through the tenderness in her paintings Steckbauer engages the human need for closeness.

Galerie Ulf Saupe
Torstrasse 75
D- 10119 Berlin
Tel : +49 (0)30 443 19 331
Tuesday – Friday : 12 pm – 7 pm / Saturday : 1 pm – 5 pm
Web: galeriesaupe.com
Mail: info@galeriesaupe.com

www.melissatheredpainter.com

I will be available to travel around Europe for bookings at art events and festivals, Pride, queer, and sex events.

I would love to exhibit/perform at art spaces/galleries/museums, speak on panels relating to art, sex, sex work, and porn, and present at universities or colloquia.

I am currently working on a cutting edge new performance series: Biological Clock, a part of Teaching Myself to Love that deals with issues of queer perspectives on time and fertility and the intersection of sexuality and parenthood. If you are interested in collaboration, let me know- particularly if you are an artist/sex worker/queer with sperm.

Contact me at sadielune (@) gmail.com if you would like to book me for your event!

Stay tuned for new visual art, writing, and performance archives related to Teaching Myself to Love.

The event, to be held at the Film Forum on Saturday, March 20, will include a program of short films, a panel discussion and reception with special guests.

Seattle, WA—Northwest Film Forum and the Bird Cage Collective are pleased to present LET’S DO IT! – A Night of Sex Worker Made Media on Saturday, March 20 at 8pm. LET’S DO IT! will include a program of experimental and documentary short films dedicated to human rights and advocacy for sex workers across the globe. The evening will examine the unique challenges and joys of being a sex worker. Following the screening will be a panel discussion and reception at Northwest Film Forum.

From the Sangli district in the rural south of India to the life of a New York City callboy, sex workers have reached out through the medium of film to share their myriad of experiences. To combat the misrepresentations in the mainstream media of those who trade erotic labor, sex workers and sex worker activists aim to reduce stigmatization by becoming their own authors, reporters and organizers. LET’S DO IT! includes films from Seattle filmmakers Kinsey Bell (Manicured) and Basil Shadid and billie rain (Humor Me), as well the performance film I Want You, with multimedia artist Sadie Lune, experimental work by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and Gina Carducci (All That Sheltering Emptiness) and the documentary shorts In Our Own Image and Taking the Pledge, among others. The evening’s program will highlight some of the artistic and political achievements of sex workers, and explore the complicated challenges unique to those in the sex industry.

Following the screening will be a panel discussion with local starlight Miss Indigo Blue (Academy of Burlesque), local writer and sex worker Sophia J. Russel and billie rain (dual power infamy), out of town guest Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Author of So Many Ways To Sleep Badly) and other special guests. The public is encouraged to join this discussion that will examine individual experiences with advocacy, work and empowerment

The evening’s event is a benefit to raise funds for a local resource guide by and for sex workers. The night’s frivolities will include food, beverages, music and a raffle.

LET’S DO IT! is sponsored by the Central Coop.

LET’S DO IT! – a night of sex worker made media at Northwest Film Forum

Saturday, March 20th

8:00 pm

Northwest Film Forum

1515 12th Ave. E. Seattle

Tickets cost $6 for Film Forum members, $6.50 for seniors and $9 for general admission. Tickets are available at www.nwfilmforum.org or by calling 1 800 838 3006.

Interview and image requests should be directed individually to panelist or to the bird cage collective at (birdcagecollective@gmail.com)

A plethora of videos from artists across California, FREE after the LA Art Walk. Curated by Marci Pinna.
Party with VJs and DJs, live musical scoring, Breakcore, IDM, Ambient/Noise until 2 am.
Featuring my short film, Yum.
I’d love to see you there!

Laura Hautala of the SF Appeal covered the opening of Voluptuary: Expressions of Eros at the Polk St. Good Vibes last Thursday. I talk a lot about sea creature’s turning me on. Slideshow of the exhibit is at the bottom of the article.

Description: Erotic ecosexual art by Sadie Lune, Apaulo Hart and Ana Bedolla.
Good Vibrations is proud to present an exhibition of multimedia visual works by
three remarkable erotic artists. Meet the artists and enjoy wine and nibbles at
this opening reception. Exhibit runs through March 15th.

When: Thursday, January 28th
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Free!
Where: Good Vibrations Polk Street Gallery
1620 Polk Street (at Sacramento Street)
San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 345-0400

http://events.goodvibes.com