One of our favorite SF artists shows us some of his newest works.
We've been fans of Mars for so long now. When we were doing Low Gallery, he was one of the first that we asked to show. We carry everything he produces @Umbrella and hang out with him whenever we can, because the guy just plain rules it. He's talented as fudge. He's nicer than Gandhi... He's just the cats meow, and we're pleased to show you some of his newer works.

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San Francisco Ca

I moved here from Fresno in late '96 after graduating high school to attend the Academy of Art University... I am left Handed. You didn't ask, but I thought to tell you anyway.

It can take anywhere from 2-4 weeks depending on how much of a non-stop paint marathon I feel like going on. Like most things, Size matters and, of course, sleep is important.

The beginning stage consists of splashing around paint and something that might almost resemble finger painting . This is very fun for it's lack of control, looseness and opportunity experiment and try something new, with hopefully some happy accidents along the way. At this point, before I pick up a paint brush and start to render, I have a surface that gives off a similar effect of staring up into the sky on a cloudy day, letting the mind create recognizable "things" or objects out of abstract shapes. Once I start to paint, I keep my sketch book handy for elements to inject into the painting and usually a quick flip through it will yield new ideas or variations of older ones. Then one billion hours later, Walla! Finished painting. It's that EZ.

I haven't heard from him in awhile... He's lives in NYC now-a-days, doing God knows what, but I assume mostly working hard on some new art. Here are some links to pics (one - two) of our 2 person show @ linage gallery in Philly last June-->

She handled it pretty well. She's a champ. Hey, no one likes to lose, but making it to the semi finals not too shabby.

White Walls and Bucheon Gallery

It's all over the place. Before an exhibit, it starts to resemble a routine of wake, stretch, meditate, emails, run errands, go to studio, paint, paint, paint, emails, 6:00 am time to sleep. wake up, and Repeat.

This feeling of resurgence of interest in art and a younger generation of artist making headway, spreading their tentacles all over the place. With the Internet, letting it grow like wild fire, creating all these bizarre fractions of non-local subcultures. I am not a big fan of labels and love the fact that a lot of what our peers are doing is causing people to have a hard time categorizing or labeling what exactly is happening. For example, look how the ol' town fecal has grown into this giant fecal monster. I was surprised to find out some of my friends in Europe are fecal regulars.

I am really psyched on some of the breakthroughs in quantum mechanics and implications, and strange undertone connection quantum theory makes with human consciousness. That's always mind boggling. I have been very excited about http://www.pandora.com The Music Genome Project... My buddy, Brin, who I work in the studio with first told me about it and then also noticed you posted it on the blog the other day. The last few weeks I have been going ape shit, discovering all kinds of bands I have never heard of and brushing up on info of old favorites. It's cool because some of original labels only pressed a few hundred albums in vinyl and just in the last few years they started to release them on C.D. Here is a Quick laundry list: Bola, Starfire, Television, Plastic Cloud, MC5, Stalk-Forrest Group, Clear Light, The Misunderstood, 13th Floor Elevators, The Moving Sidewalks, Soft Machine, Robert Wyatt, John Surman, EGG, The Nice, Proto-Kaw, Blue Cheer, Tomorrow, Thomas Fehlmann, Solvent, Quicksilver Messenger Service, High Tide, Growing Concern, and Pete Brown

Well, I am definitely no expert on the subject. However, in my experience I've had much more luck selling work on the East Coast as opposed to SF. I believe it has to do with a wide range of factors. For starters just by default there is more money flowing through L.A. and New York. For me, selling work in SF has always been a hard sell, until recently. I thought we did pretty damn good when I showed with you at@ your gallery, LOW. With the Internet, it seems like more and more out-of-town collectors feel comfortable making art buying decisions over the Internet. I know some Gallery in S.F. that make a lot of their sales to people outside of the Bay area. I don't recall it being so much like that 3 or 4 years ago.

As far as Schools go in the Bay area, from what I have seen and heard, California College of the Arts seems to have a nice blend between conceptual and technical work. Like I mentioned earlier, I went to the Academy of Art College that had a Fine Art Department that focused on a classical style that teaches strong technical skills, but left almost no room for exploration outside of those parameters. One unfortunate side affect is, a lot of students who attended AAC left with a style that looked very similar to one another.

Not since I was like 6 years old, maybe some markers and spray paint along the way . But mostly, I hate thieves. And, my hatred grows. Recently while I was working in the basement, someone burglarized my apartment upstairs, not much to steal but my laptop my Fucking LAPTOP NO NOOOOO! "Die MOTHER FUCKER DIE!!!! "<---insert voice of Satan

Natural and Unnatural: Imagining Landscape a group exhibition at the Hunterdon Museum of Art in Clinton, NJ Opening reception: Sunday September 10th, 2-4pm hunterdonartmuseum.org

"Mescalito" a 3 person exhibit with Damon Soule and Oliver Vernon @ White Walls Gallery October 14th whitewallssf.com

And a Solo @Jonathan Levine gallery March 31st jonathanlevinegallery.com

Mikas & Mars {moscomment}

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