We have three new tshirts in the online shop today from Oakland based Brendan Monroe for only $20.

Brendan Monroe is an artist who digs through science to find loose references for his paintings and sculptures. He highlights large blob-like figures, interconnected red cellular shapes and tiny imaginary organisms. Brendan lives and works in Oakland, California.

New Brendan Monroe tees available in our online shoppe'

San Francisco artist Shalo P (our interview w/ him) opens his first solo show VALLEY at Adobe Books this Saturday Nov 10th. Don't know a whole lot of what to expect, but if this and the images he emailed us is any indication, it should be interesting indeed.

VALLEY is an ensemble of supple relationships, a climax of virtualization. Drawings, hand-drawn and digitally rendered, elucidate an affair with one SISTER SPREAD. Disconcerting, challenging, stimulating still images. As the eyes move over them, reception is comparable to the sensing movement of our consciousness, jumping back and forth between the various layers of reality, between past and present.

SHALO P - VALLEY
Adobe Books
3166 16th St.
reception 7PM-10PM

We wanted to Highlight these two beautiful works by two talented ladies in the group show The Diamond Sea running @FFDG through Saturday.

The first is by Toronto based Winnie Truong whose solo show Double Twist is currently running at Montreal's Galerie Trois Points... The second is by LA based Mel Kadel whose solo show runs through this Saturday at Merry Karnowsky.

Excite And Repose, 2012
Winnie Truong
Pencil crayon on paper, framed
8" x 10"
pricing and availability, email
info(at)ffdg.net

Sister Lift
Mel Kadel
Ink on paper, framed
8" x 10"
pricing and availability, email
info(at)ffdg.net

Brooklyn based Hiro Kurata, now showing in the group show @FFDG, opens a solo show on Nov 9th at London's Ivory and Black
~show details

Jeffrey Cheung had some paintings up in Oakland this past weekend as part of the Total Trash event at Lobot Gallery where John Dwyer's (Thee Oh Sees) old outfit, S.F. legends the Coachwhips played a live show.

If you noticed the five paintings, each 8 by 12 feet, spells out the word "TRASH". For more on Jeffrey Cheung, check out his site.

The Coachwhips are down there at the bottom right in the above photo.

Last week we posted a few pics of the recent mural completed down the street from Fecal Face (20th and Mission) by Philadelphia-based artist Yis "Nosego" Goodwin. On the other side of the country he did this mural at NYC's Woodward Gallery Project Space (132 Eldridge St) which will be up through November.

Recent mural action in Brisbane from Australian artist Mik Shida who we interviewed last year.

You can view more of his work here.

This was the scene outside Fecal Face last night after the Giants swept the Tigers (photo via Mission Mission). Happy to find the gallery still standing this AM post fires and the insane amounts of tagging up and down Mission Street. Time to drink some water and get back to work... Well, after the parade.

Photo: Mission Mission

We're fans of their work and have been following it for a few years now. Highly enjoy their massive outdoor works.

Matt Medium emailed in this great drawing of Fecal Face Los Angeles contributor and artist, Michael Hsiung yesterday. Love it.

Matt Medium Is a Boston based Illustrator, Designer, Photographer, and Human Being. Matt is well known for his love of drinking beer while watching TV, he also makes art, He is kind of awesome. http://mattmedium.tumblr.com/

Michael C Hsiung is characterized by: large mustache (one of the few remaining facially hairy Asians surviving today) with all of the species capable of reaching one ton or more in weight; herbivorous diet; and a thin yellow protective skin, 1.5-5 cm thick, formed from layers of collagen positioned in a lattice structure; and a relatively small brain for a mammal of his size (400-600g).

The group show, The Diamond Sea, runs through Nov 10th in San Francisco at FFDG. We've been profiling the artists in the show and we contiue with one of our favorite painters who happens to reside in Vancouver.

Russell Leng is currently living in Edinburgh, UK, pursuing a MFA from Edinburgh College of Art and has been exhibited throughout North America and Europe, and awards include 1st Place Painting Prize from the Surrey Art Gallery, and a BMO Student Invitational nomination. He has been featured in numerous online and print publications including Gestalten, Chronicle, and the Globe and Mail.

C9, Edinburgh. B.A. from Trinity Western University, and currently pursing a M.F.A. from Edinburgh College of Art.

I'm interested in opposites and finding ways to negotiate between them. Inquiries into natural vs. fabricated environments, chance vs. control, and digital vs. firsthand experiences have all been recent investigations that aim to articulate contemporary in-between states I find myself in. In my paintings I have been focusing specifically on the conglomeration of natural and man-made environments melding together through rigid shapes interacting with loose marks.

The good ones and the bad ones.

Toss up between Indonesia and Colombia.

RIPO emailed over some pics from a recent wall he painted in Tudela de Navarra, Spain. It reads Surreal But So Real and was painted as part of the Avant-Garde Urbano Festival, curated by Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada. Other artists in the festival were Escif, C215, and JCHM IX.

Philadelphia-based artist Yis "Nosego" Goodwin emailed over some photos from a recent mural he did just a block down the street from Fecal Face at 20th and Mission. How we missed it is beyond us, but here it is and we're feeling it... Be sure to check out Nosego's painting work here.

What a journey this has been! Me and my girlfriend had such a good time in Grottaglie, Italy at this years Fame Festival. Tasty food, good coffee, great people, lots of sunshine and last but not least, we saw a bunch of excellent public art pieces in the streets of the town. We spent many days walking around the whole town to find most of the pieces, just like a treasure hunt.

Anyway, here's a photo documentation of some of the new murals in this neck of the woods which are all from 2012 (I think?). The excellent lineup included artists like Erica Il Cane, Vhils, Interesni Kazki, Conor Harrington, Cyop & Kaf, Momo, Lucy McLauchlan, Bastardilla, Moneyless, Boris Hoppek and the local artist Giorgio Di Palma, who creates beautiful handmade ceramic objects like the telephone/phonebooth in this album.

Words & photos: Henrik Haven

Momo

Cyop & Kaf

Conor Harrington

Illustrator Jack Pearce emailed over a series he calls "Bromance".

As the group show The Diamond Sea approaches the opening this Saturday, Oct 13th (6-9pm) @FFDG in San Francisco, we wanted to introduce, or in most cases "reintroduce" you to the artists who will be participating.

Curiot is a Mexico City based artist. Born in Sahuayo Mich. Mexico and raised in the States, he studied visual arts at EPBA in Morelia, Mexico. Curiot´s work has been exhibited with galleries and museums across Mexico.

Mexico City, 30, BFA / Escuela Popular de Bellas Artes, www.flickr.com/elcuriot

Colorful wild beasts

Indigenous art, nature, skateboard culture

California Redwoods

Usually try to get all my errands and emails done first, then to work until 3 or 4am. Anything that sounds good. 3 am, peaceful moment.

Hope to see you on Saturday. We're hanging the show today, and it's bonkers... To be added to the preview going out today, email: info(at)ffdg.net

As the group show The Diamond Sea approaches the opening this Saturday, Oct 13th (6-9pm) @FFDG in San Francisco, we wanted to introduce, or in most cases "reintroduce" you to the artists who will be participating.

France based artist working on pop-surreal illustrations. Nicolas Le Borgne aka Odo usually works with watercolor, pen & ink or acrylic.

Bayonne in France, I'm 28, I am autodidacted in art, and a license on visual communication school five years ago. www.odora.blogspot.com

An idea global, a lot of details, a lot of characters inside the character, simple media like watercolor, ballpoint pen... and a surreal result of that.

Everything, life, movie, contemporary art, music, lowbrow scene, street art, friends...

In my brain.

Short essay chronicling this year's San Francisco Folsom Street Fair, one of the City's most interesting and eclectic events. Series is a mix of portraiture and candid scenes. All images were snapped with a Ricoh GRD III, a small, pocket-sized compact camera released in 2009 that I recently swooped off eBay for $370 delivered. Though I already owned the film version of this camera (Ricoh GR1s) and love it, this was my first time really shooting with the GRD III. I'm really diggin the "Snap" feature Ricoh offers, where with the push of a button you can preset the focus for various distances: 1m, 1.5m, 2.5m, 5m and Infinity, which is ideal for shooting fast on the street.

Any other Ricoh shooters on here? If not, what cameras are you shooting with on the street: digital, film, mobile?