Free.  Books $50, Signed

Join Artist and Author Valentin Popov for a spoken word discussion and in-person signing of his latest book, FACE.

About the book:

FACE

Hardcover: 320 pages

Publisher: Soft Skull Press (August 29, 2017)

Dimensions: 1 x 11 x 11.2 inches

from Amazon.com:  Face chronicles the development of artist Valentin Popov’s traveling exhibition of the same name—a suite of 100 uniformly-sized portraits surveying a social subset of selected friends, acquaintances, and celebrities. Popov explores the mystique of the face not only as the primary organ of human individuation and the immediate modulus of interpersonal recognition, but with respect to such intriguing intangibles as the eternal dialectic between objectivity and subjectivity and the face’s ambiguity as both mirror and mask.

In his latest series, Popov revisits an idea once put forth by Andy Warhol who documented the faces of his friends and acquaintances through photographs and silk screen paintings, many of which were produced at a uniform scale of 40 x 40 inches. Warhol once spoke of mounting an exhibition of these portraits in which the walls would be filled from top to bottom with faces. Face re-examines the portraiture tradition and frames it in postmodern perspective.

Featuring lush, full-color plates and insightful text by Peter Selz and other noted critics, curators, and commentators, this exquisite volume is sure to delight the eye and take pride of place among contemporaneous chronicles of cutting-edge portraiture.

About the Author

Valentin Popov was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1956 at the height of the Cold War era. Afforded a classical education of the highest order, he built a burgeoning career in the fine arts but, as a Soviet citizen, found himself chafing under state doctrine which proscribed any art which didn't conform to the officially approved style of social realism with its propagandistic depictions of patriotic factory workers, farmers laboring in the fields, and other cliches of post-revolutionary zeal. After emigrating to the USA during the late 1980s, Popov quickly assimilated the heritage of western modernism and threw himself into a frenzy of multifaceted artistic production. A past master of pictorial, plastic, and performance media, Valentin Popov is a postmodernist par excellence, combining classical and modernist traditions in a style distinctly his own, at once poetic, technically dazzling, and wryly ironic.

Book release party for Terbo Ted's Artificial Intelligence Sci-Fi Novel "D". The story is set in the San Francisco Bay area, including scenes in Silicon Valley, Ashbury Heights and SOMA, not far from Arttitud where the book release party will be held.

"An Artificial Intelligence attains self awareness and becomes obsessed with a disgraced tech journalist who had previously coded computer screen savers for a living. The two fall deeply in love and build a robot to become sex partners. Mayhem ensues."

The author will be reading from the book and having a discussion about topics covered in the story, including artificial intelligence, robotics, sex robots, digital surveillance, virtual reality, SOMA tech culture in the 1990s and more.

$20 admission price includes one copy of the book. Couples enter for $30. Additional paperback copies of the book will available for sale for $15 each and the author will be autographing copies on site. Digital fine art prints by the author- that relate to the story's main narration- will also be available for purchase.

Drinks will be served, covered by admission cost.

Space is very limited please RSVP.

This is also a public celebration of Terbo Ted's 49th birthday.

The book is available in paperback and kindle versions at amazon: Link:http://a.co/0FKMN5l

"5.0 out of 5 stars AI sex bot turns man into sex toy in shocking role reversal!"

"It's one of the best books on Artificial Intelligence that I've ever read! Funny. Thought provoking. Sexy. Smart. Extraordinarily realistic plot. This is one of the first AI books where the AI is not trying to take over the world, but rather, primarily wants to be left alone. Sort of a non dystopian, non malthusian, but rather, is a free market perspective at an AI that just wants to be liked and learn and grow and be free and not be turned off, but rather, be turned on."

Based on a true story.


About the Author

Multimedia artist Terbo Ted aka Theodore Terbolizard was born in Mountain View, California as Theodore Jonathan Hommel. A family friend was art director at Atari- the video game company- in the early 1980s. Young Teddy used to come up with ideas for video games that were too complicated to build at the time. As a young man, Terbo lived in SOMA, San Francisco, where he worked on countless interactive and/or animated promotional presentations for various software and hardware companies, including multiple projects for Macromedia, Apple Computer, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard and many others. In the 1990s, coinciding with the early ‘dot com’ boom in the Bay Area, Terbo’s multimedia contributions to three different websites were among the very first added to the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Original paintings and fine art prints by Terbo Ted are available exclusively in San Francisco at Arttitud, 1121 Howard St. in SOMA.

$20 at the door Terbo Ted drink and book is included. Books can be signed by the author.

Please stop by to have a Happy Friday, meet and greet and see beautiful Arttitud's collection Art...old and new friends, music, refreshments and more. Arttitud's second floor will be open for the first time.

We would like to welcome you to celebrate the amazingly talented and loved by Arttitud artist, Jerry Frost. For his birthday Arttitud will be hosting his solo art show.

Refreshments and appetizers provided. 

And per request of Mr. Frost, no gifts please!

Chief of San Francisco Police Greig Suhr to speak about public safety, discussing issues facing San Francisco with Russian- American community.

RSVP to the event on Facebook here!

Celebrating 30 years of impeccable style, Matrix is taking the iconic Arabesk chair on tour, and it's stopping by Arttitud! 

Be part of the event celebrating Matrix International's 30 Years of Design.

Arabesk Collectors’ Edition will be the special guest of the evening.

Take a creative self-portrait on the Arabesk chair and send it to us for a chance to win the beautiful ashtray designed by Eero Saarinen!

The one reaching 100 likes first will win! There are 3 simple steps to enter:
1. Like Matrix International page on Facebook
(https://www.facebook.com/Matrixinternational)
2. Send us your selfie in a message (we'll add them to the selfie contest album)
3. Share this status with your friends!!

Let’s see those selfies!!! Good luck.

Supervisor Wiener looks forward to discussing issues facing San Francisco such as housing, transportation, education, and parks.

Artist Valery Yershov in person, with a collection of new and curated works. Yershov traveled to San Francisco to debut an exclusive collection of ten paintings never before shown to the general public. Yershov's work has been collected by Gianni Versace, Mikhail Prokhorov and Museums across Europe.

San Francisco Bay Area painter Patricia Araujo, steps beyond the scope of her 2008 book "SOMA SEEN" with a new solo show titled, The City from SOMA Grand.