I always hear artists complain about the Downtown LA Art Walk being more of a party rather than about the art itself, but that's such phooey, because since when can't it be about both! Or maybe rather, they've never been to the Bluecanvas Pop-Up gallery inside the club, Exchange LA, on Spring Street. Unfortunately, they won't let you in unless you're 21 years old, but once inside you find yourself surrounded amongst paintings by Bob Dob and Van Saro as well as fantastic illustrations by JAW Cooper and Luke Berliner – who was also doing a live painting demonstration in another room. If you've ever been dissatisfied with the Downtown Art Walk in the past, you now have a healthy dose of pop-up gallery Zoloft to lift your spirits. -Daniel Rolnik
Thursday, 26 January 2012, 4:53pm Written by Trippe
Jud Bergeron emailed over a few recent sculptures. We like.
Jud Bergeron is a Bay Area sculptor residing in San Francisco, his sculpture has been exhibited through out North America with a focus on New York and San Francisco. Represented by Mark Wolfe.
With over 200+ individual and collaborative works, this year's Future Colors of America show is a visual blowout and the first full length show at FFDG's new space in the Mission... Comic/ street/ pop culture/ Lindsey Lohan/ horror/ illustrative influenced collaborations. Enjoy. There's a lot to see.
#112 - Matt Furie
mixed media on matt board, 12" x 9"
$600
#113 - Matt Furie
mixed media on matt board, 12" x 9"
$600
#130 - Albert Reyes
marker on book cover, 8" x 10"
$200
#132 - Albert Reyes
graphite on book cover, 11" x 8"
sold
#144 - Albert Reyes
graphite on book cover, 5" x 9"
$200
#145 - Albert Reyes
graphite on book cover, 9" x 10"
$200
#176 - Matt Furie & Aiyana Udesen
graphite on paper, 14" x 11"
$300
#36 - Albert Reyes & Matt Furie
mixed media on matt board, 12" x 9"
$400
#38 - Albert Reyes & Aiyana Udesen
mixed media on book cover, 10" x 7"
$200
#61 - Albert Reyes & Matt Furie
graphite on matt board, 20" x 6"
$400
#96 - Matt Furie
graphite on matt board, 18" x 24"
$800
#99 - Matt Furie
india ink on matt board, 12" x 9"
$300
Tuesday, 24 January 2012, 11:00am Written by Bryan Derballa
I shot a campaign that trolled through a few cities last month. These are the after-hours photos. In Miami we got a glimpse of Art Basel. Then stopped off at the aquarium in Boston. Spent most of our time in Austin at the Whole Foods. Blew through SF only slowing down to catch the sunset. And bombed hills in Echo Park in a minivan. -Bryan Derballa
Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 2:55pm Written by Trippe
Last Friday, we swung through Fifty24SF to check out their current show coinciding with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola's newest feature/ horror film, Twixt (art directed by Jimmy DiMarcellis aka Porous Walker).
The show references many scenes from the film, which Coppola wrote himself, and which struggles to win over critics (ouch).
Incredible set design complete with a heavy duty fog machine, it certainly was photo worthy. The bird houses were priced very inexpensively with many sold by the time we arrived... Didn't even recognize the gallery is was so reworked.
A $75 donation gets you a collab print featuring the aforementioned artists... Here, check the vid below so Mike Aho of Sounder can tell you all about it.
LA based artist/ designer Tony Larson updates his portfolio site with loads of eye candy... We've known Tony for years. You may know him through the many years he designed boards for Girl Skateboards. --> Want to get to know him? Check this interview for a taste of Tony.
The Eames Office - Producer and Editor Daniel Ostroff, talks about two Girl Skateboard decks in the Collecting Eames.
I designed the Modern Chair Series for Girl in 2001. They have, by far, been the most asked about boards I've ever done. Pretty funny to see how they've survived. -Tony Larson
University of Georgia, Athens teacher and past Headlands Center for the Arts resident, Adriane Colburn, opens Of Darkness (drawings, sculpture, video, photographs and large scale cut paper in an installation) at The Luggage Store on Feb 3rd (6-9pm) here in SF. ~show details
Of Darkness combines drawings, sculpture, video, photographs and large scale cut paper in an installation that looks at the tension and complex beauty born out of the collision of wilderness and human industry.
It came down to the last game of the second season for the Fecal Face softball team, Poos on First, to get their first and best victory.
It's been a long road of missed flies, strike outs, and sad faces, but a hard fought victory for the Poo's that could. 18-6 was the final for the seminal moment in Poo history, and happily, this editor was able to participate with a grand slam... Post game beers at Thee Parkside never tasted so good.
Her work explores the construction of identity and meaning by proxy: how personal narratives form through film, literature, ephemera, and reconstructed memories.
Haroshi is a Japanese sculptor known for his work made from compressed skateboards. It was held at Huf's Headquarters in downtown L.A. and featured the music of Tommy Guerrero's band. The house was packed, tacos were eaten, and tricks were landed over the art. A successful night all around." -Douglas Neill
More than three months after a fire forced FFDG Gallery owner John Trippe out of the Haight, he's opening a new space at 2277 Mission St., near 19th... "We found this place on Craigslist and on December 8 it was ours," Trippe said of the 700-square-foot gallery where works from several Brazilian artists will hang on the walls for tonight's opening.
"I've wanted to have a gallery on Mission for a long time [because of] its energy, respect for art — and I love the burritos from Cancun, which is right across the street. You can’t beat that." ~read on
Last week we did our first themed Photo of the Day asking you to email in your quintessential San Francisco photos. We got so many great entries and couldn't squeeze them all in. So, here's a bit of overflow from the images emailed in.
Hey there, I just got back from a short residency down in a small town two hours north of Mexico City called Tequisquiapan. I was asked to come down there to meet some of the crew of the Clipperton Project, which basically is going to be a crazy boat trip in March with scientists and artists going out to a very remote atoll in the Pacific called Clipperton Island. Anyways, I thought you might like to see some photos of the town and the graffiti that I was surprised to find there.
We can finally shut up about FFDG's fire, about FFDG's temp space, about all the transitions, because we signed a 2 year lease on a new space in the heart of the Mission District last night!
Real Ethereal embraces our mysterious relationship with life. It blends the physical with the metaphysical on a journey through an ever-transitioning space where common interactions become extraordinary and perception ventures into the otherworldly. Real Ethereal examines possibilities of unseen realities and metaphorically represents the winding path that reveals before us and conceals behind us; the future remains a mystery while the past fades quickly into the recesses of our mind. We are left with the present: the mysterious reality of our existence; the hair of time difficult to grasp.
Recent UC Santa Cruz photography graduate Sean Vranizan emailed over this series of images he creates by using a scanner as a camera, upon which found and collected objects, both two-dimensional and three, were used in collage format.
SF based artists Alex Ziv & Quinn Arneson are in their final year at the San Francisco Art Institute and open the two person show UNIBROW: BRIDGING THE GAP Thursday, Dec 8th at Gallery Heist.
Great new video by Philadelphia based director Tobias Stretch whose videos feature his puppet work - If you have some time, browse his other great bizarre dreamlike videos.
A few November weekends back, I headed down with Travis Millard and Jim Dirschberger for o Breaks, a group show curated by Jay Howell and Louis Schmidt, which opened 11.11.11 at Double Break store and gallery in San Diego, CA.
Before the show it was pretty much just me and Pacolli painting the whole gallery and doing all the instalations and hanging all the work. lots of shit to be done. I also painted the front of Choque the week after the opening. And we had a little concert at Choque in which I played keyboard and two other folks played guitar and sang. Ephameron went there the day before the opening and did a tape installation as well. During the month we also had a zine/print/shirt sale at Choque as well. It all went very well and we had a blast! -Mildred
I am dealing with a new series called "Pseudo-Advertising", where I focus upon the relationship between today’s muralism and the contemporary outdoor advertising.
Last week, after swinging by Rebel 8 clothing's HQ in San Francisco, we swung by the HQ of Strange Bird Distribution distributors of Low Card, Think Skateboards, Hubba Wheels, etc...
Stopped through Rebel 8 clothing HQ last week to see what their up to. We've known Joshy D. 10 plus years back when he was doing the SF graffiti site, HiFiArt.com in the early days of the internet when Fecal Face was just getting its start. Nice to see Mike Giant, whose designs adjorn many of Rebel 8's clothing, and Josh doing so well.
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