Lost For Words
Dave Kinsey, solo show
May 18 - June 16, 2012
@FFDG, SF

Last Friday we were pleased to open up Dave Kinsey's first solo show in San Francisco since before 2000 when Dave was doing a lot of work in streets with his then work partner Shepard Fairey. A lot of the smaller works are homage to that era, i.e., the titles are San Francisco street names. Love his new direction.

From the P.R.: In his new body of work, Kinsey continues his evolution into more abstract representation while still incorporating elements of the figures which gained him fame during his influential, early career, street art campaign, "Unlearn." In combining and reducing his visual elements, Kinsey has refined his communication with the viewer to a more concise manner within each work. In this body, Kinsey flaunts his skill to say just as much with sometimes less, at times using fewer brush strokes to get to the same place; we see his iconic heads explode and break apart in bold and energetic compositions that provoke emotion and reflection.

The ceiling banners, the original work on craft paper, will go on sale online here the week of May 28th for $200/ each. Check back.

After our Dave Kinsey opening last Friday, we made our way down Market Street for Luggage Store's opening of STREETOPIA. Ran into a lot of friends and was amazed at how transformed the gallery was. Multiple rooms built out to include a Free Cafe, a theater, a gallery/studio, and a library. Streetopia will host free performances, teachings, and talks in the city every day for the show's month-long run and, thus, will provide a temporary space that offers opportunities for participation, agency, critical thinking, learning, sharing of ideas, and tools for community building that will reverberate in the real city after the city we build in the gallery is long gone.

Streetopia, a large-scale group exhibition to take place in venues throughout downtown San Francisco this coming May 18 through June 23. Curated by writer, Erick Lyle, and artists, Chris Johanson and Kal Spelletich, Streetopia will bring neighborhood residents together with at least 132 artists, performers, writers, filmmakers, activists, thinkers, and public policy makers in venues in the heart of?the city, to address the show’s themes of Utopian aspiration for the city.

For the calendar of events that will be taking place throughout the month, check: http://streetopiasf.com/ --> and it should be noted that all those events are FREE.

Didn't recognize the gallery where we had our 10 yr. anniversay show.

Dave Kinsey, Kyle Ranson, and Breezy Culbertson.

Photo: Rimon Guimaraes (Brazil)

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Our buddies Travis Millard and Michael Krueger open up Digging a Hole, Looking for Something tonight, Friday, at San Diego's Double Break (6-10pm). If you're down there in sunny Whale's Vigina be sure to get to this hot hot hot opening! ~details

GRAVITY
Matt W. Moore
April 27 – June 16, 2012
SINCE.upian Gallery
Paris, France

From Matt Moore: A new series of (entirely spraypaint) canvas painting created during a 1-month residency in Paris. A true evolution from the purely geometric abstractions I have explored in my past few exhibitions : Sun Ray Ricochet (Moscow 2011) + XYZ Axis (Cincinnati 2011) + Crystals & Lasers (Paris 2010) + Parallel Universe (Sao Paulo 2009) + 20/20 (Barcelona 2008). An exciting new chapter.

Doug Neill emailed over a few photos from Barry McGee's opening last Friday at Prism in Los Angeles.

Speaking of Doug, he's hosting a party this Saturday on the roof at LA's Standard Hotel through his SurferxBlood.com

The Further Collective: Mario Martinez (Mars-1), Damon Soule & Oliver Vernon were in Flagstaff last week collaborating on an outdoor mural at The Flagstaff Brewing Company located in the historical district of downtown Flagstaff, AZ.

The mural was 10ft x 16ft organized by Brian Chambers & Tim Reuter. Photos: Julianne Yates

Damon Soule & Oliver Vernon

Director of the documentary film DRAGONSLAYER --> DRAGONSLAYER is a documentary about the skateboarder Josh "Skreech" Sandoval. He's a character and the film follows his many ups and downs dealing with young parenthood, competing, and relationships. However, rather then try and make some type of statement about him, it just presents him objectively in the way that he is through wonderful cinematography.

I spoke with Tristan Patterson, the film's director, over the phone and asked him some of the questions I had after watching his film.

ATTENTION: The following interview may contain SPOILERS -- so you may want to watch the film before you read it.

Skreech is what I describe as a crusty kid. He doesn't seem to shower often and often hangs around a semi-homeless group of friends. Anyways, midway through the film they all take a road trip together and all I could think about was how bad the van must've smelt.

"To be honest, I think we all smelt pretty bad," said Tristan "so I can't really be judgmental about it"

It's that approach to the filming that allowed Tristan to capture so many intimate moments though. Especially, in some of the scenes where he got footage of underage kids drinking and using drugs, which I imagine would've been next to impossible if he had started preaching at them.

"I wasn't witnessing anything that I wasn't doing at their age. So who am I to tell people about how to live their lives"

But what about when they would trespass onto peoples' properties to skate their pools? Wasn't he nervous?

"I figured that if anything happened, we'd be able charm our way out of it."

Remember Marty Machado's great feature he did here at Fecal Face called Life and Work on a Containership? Well, over the years he took a lot of video and has recently got around to putting together this 20 minute short below.

Marty is also a very talented painter, and his newest paintings are on display here in SF at Gallery Hijinks through May 26th for the show Too Far Gone. View the show here.

In this short documentary, I tried to answer some of the common questions that I usually get about shipping. The footage I took myself using fairly basic cameras that I could fit in my pocket while I was on the job as a deckhand. The story follows me on my six month journey around the world on a container ship which was on a run between New York and Singapore via the Suez Canal. Thanks for watching. -Martin

Great new work from Toronto based Winnie Troung who's in a group show that opened last night in NYC at Bold Hype Gallery.

Winnie showed in our group show 11.11.11 @FFDG this past fall and we interviewed her awhile back.

Got two new zines from Mildred and Pacolli for us to share with you. Pacolli's The Last Chance Kids is published through Volcom's Artist Series and is 40 pages and sells for only $7 printed on thick quality heavy stock.

Mildred's newest Whats This Bullshit not only has bad lanugage in the title, but is also 40 pages of black & white gloriousness and comes signed by the artist himself for only $6. You can purchase both zines here.

Whats This Bullshit
zine by Mildred
$6

The Last Chance Kids
zine by Pacolli
$7

Logan Crable emailed us the other day with an offer to view his Blow Job series. Normally we don't get offers to view someone's porn project, but we quickly learned that the blowing is more in the literal sense as opposed to the pleasuring form.

Logan Crable is a brooklyn based editorial photographer who specializes in creating surreal and thought provoking imagery.

http://www.logancrable.com