slot machine coins designed by Enrique Chagoya, minted by Electric Works (Click image to view larger)
What happens at Electric Works, stays at Electric Works. Play “2012” the "one-armed bandit" by Enrique Chagoya at the opening reception on Thursday, May 7 from 6-8 PM at 130 8th Street in San Francisco.
In collaboration with visual artist Enrique Chagoya, Electric Works is releasing an edition of eight fully functional slot machines, the latest release in their large-scale multiple series.
The machine has undergone a complete artistic revision rendered by the artist and will be a fully functional "one-armed bandit." The theme of this work is 2012, the end-year of the ancient Mayan 5125 year calendar, a time of great portent and change. Replete with imagery that crosses the US-Mexican border, subjects in the machine's graphics include materialism's discontent, environmental catastrophe and generally, the end of the world. Winners of the grand jackpot become eligible to "save the world." and are treated to coins, designed by Chagoya and minted by Electric Works, bearing the slogan, "Life's a Dream, Then You Wake Up." In typical Chagoya fashion, good humor abounds along with the serious and poignant message of our challenging times.
Other Chagoya multiples will also be on display.
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Monday-Friday 11 AM – 6 PM
Saturday 11 AM – 5 PM
Venues
Happening today
March 11th, 2010
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A Talking Art program featuring a discussion with printmaker Joseph Goldyne
Annual Monotype Marathon
7:00pm - 9:00pm at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
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Candida Höfer, Jennie Smith
Zoologische Gärten + New Works
through 4/10/2010 at Rena Bransten Gallery
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Mark Flood
Green Cube
through 4/11/2010 at Noma Gallery
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Theodora Varney Jones, Francesca Pastine, Marta Sanchez-Vasquez
Interdependencia | Interdependence
through 4/16/2010
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Kate Eric
Bug War Over Two Blue Mountain
through 5/1/2010 at Frey Norris Gallery
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Janet Bishop on Jeff Koons's Michael Jackson and Bubbles
6:30pm at SFMOMA
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Artist Talk: A Conversation with Renowned Printmaker Joseph Goldyne
7:00pm at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
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Youth Producing Change
7:00pm at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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Back in the Sleeve: Jews on Vinyl Closing Event
7:00pm - 9:00pm at Contemporary Jewish Museum
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Defiant Proclamations
7:00pm - 11:30pm at CELLspace
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Dave Eggers "Zeitoun" with Abdulrahman & Kathy Zeitoun hosted by Wajahat Ali
8:00pm at City Arts & Lectures
What’s new
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TGIT
3/25/2010 5:30pm - 7:30pm at Kala Art Institute and Gallery
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John DiPaolo
New Paintings
4/1/2010 - 5/29/2010 at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
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Sean McFarland, James Sterling Pitt
The Sea All Around Us
3/13/2010 - 4/4/2010 at Sight School
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Tom Bills, Caroline Cox, Mitra Fabian
New Cast Concrete and Steel Sculpture
3/16/2010 - 4/24/2010 at Don Soker Contemporary Art
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Group show
Cream, from the top
3/20/2010 - 4/18/2010
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pick
Performance Art in Front of an Audience Ought to be Entertaining
3/12/2010 - 3/13/2010
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At Bay
3/10/2010 - 3/20/2010 at Worth Ryder Art Gallery
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Security
3/10/2010 - 3/27/2010 at Root Division
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