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Written by Trippe
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Thursday, 04 December 2008, 6:36am
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 Obsessive patterning, mutation, cutesie bootsie, shrouded characters, sad looking objects and so forth. I think the drawings are simple meditations that help me cope.
We get a lot of great emails from a lot of talented people introducing us to their work. From time to time we'll be sharing their work here in our mini interviews segment... To be considered for a mini interview send a few jpegs to: mini(at)fecalface.com Make sure the images are at least 600 pixels in width.
25. Tacoma, Washington. No website yet. I run a constantly struggling project space called "The Helm," it's sort of my website. Give it a look at www.thehelmgallery.com.
Tell us a little bit about your work.
I started drawing about four years ago while I was going to the Evergreen State College.
I was stuck in some sort of dark Olympia spell (anyone who has lived there probably understands) and was writing a lot of bad poetry and loading myself with booze and weed and then i just started drawing.
I remember laying out on my living room floor and drawing while the second side of The Plastic Ono Band record played over and over. The drawings weren't very good; lots of dots.
Dot blobs and dot mudpiles. I got really interested in fineness though. I think all of that time spent in Olympia has definitely carried over into what I am making now.
Obsessive patterning, mutation, cutesie bootsie, shrouded characters, sad looking objects and so forth. I think the drawings are simple meditations that help me cope.
Influences
I used to really like Devendra Banhart's drawings. That was how the whole small dot, small line thing happened. Also, I have bit the heck out of lots of people that
I have known throughout the years: Micah Tucker, Roshni Robert, Chris Baird, Matti Freeman, Rainen Knecht, Zachary Marvick, Whiting Tennis etc... I think that is was
unavoidable not to take from these people because I look up to them, or did at one time. I'm starting to hit my own stride though.
Describe your process for creating a new piece.
I make small thumbnails compositionals (usually while riding around on the bus). Lots of little stick people and scribbles. I take the most appealing of these small doodles
and work them to imagined size. When putting together a drawing I don't use any measuring tools and mostly avoid under-sketches, so all the lines end up wonky. Straightness/correctness
doesn't interest me. Recently I have been coming up with stronger compositions during the thumbnail phase. I think refining that part of my process is the next step along with
just learning, learning, learning about everything all the time from everyone.
Day Job
I am a projectionist. I also co-run The Helm with my good friend Peter Lynn. It's like 70 hours of work a week. I do all my drawing in the projection cabin under
a fluorescent light while the films are running. "Become a projectionist today. Double your time for making art."
Best thing that happened to you this week.
Sleeping. I had not been.
Tools of the trade.
micron pens, stonehedge paper, prismacolor pencils, and number 2 pencils.
Upcoming
I have a show up at Soil in Seattle from December 3rd until the 27th. After that I am taking a health break.
The best and worst thing about Fecal Face.
I love the community aspect of Fecal Face. User galleries, free fridays, support for other area projects etc...
well done.
I think the worst thing about Fecal Face is its dedication to fashion. I also think this is the worst thing about my own artwork.
www.thehelmgallery.com
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| Your SF Photos
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.
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| Hola from Tequisquiapan Mexico
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.
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| FFDG's Permanent Home
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!
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| Real Etheral by Evan Mann
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.
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| High 5s: As The World Turns
... we look forward to the new year.
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| Josh Peters Interview
Josh Peters is a La based painter/ curator/ cool guy/ I chatted with him recently about his work, here it is.
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| Scanner Photography by Sean Vranizan
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.
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| Interview w/ Alex Ziv & Quinn Arneson
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.
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| Post War Years - All Eyes
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.
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| Double Breaks @Double Break
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.
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| Dream Team in Sao Paulo - Part 2
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
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| Pseudo-Advertising by Alexandros Vasmoulakis
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.
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| Nick Howard
Got an email from Minneapolis, MN based artist Nick Howard with some works attached. Love the pieces.
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| Charles Martin for 11.11.11
Charles participated in the group show 11.11.11 at FFDG in Nov/ Dec 2011. He studies at Cooper Union NYC.
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| A Visit w/ Strange Bird
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...
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| A Visit w/ Rebel 8
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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| Steven Riddle @Water McBeer
Water McBeer Gallery is proud to announce its curent solo exhibition "Dinner Guest" featuring work by Steven Riddle
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| Nathan Brown for 11.11.11
Nathan is curently showing in the group show 11.11.11 up now @FFDG here in San Francisco through Dec 17th.
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| Sage Vaughn @Fifty24SF
Los Angeles based Sage Vaughn opened up Runaways at SF's Fifty24SF last Saturday.
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| BIG DEATH SPANK
Photos from Check Your Ponytail tour featuring Spank Rock, Big Freedia and the Death Set.
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| Chicago's Andrew Mongenas
Chicago based artist/ craftsman and Chicago Art Institue graduate Andrew Mongenas' sculpture works.
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Mark Whalen & Autolux
Wednesday, 08 February 2012, 10:59am
Mark Whalen (Kill Pixie), who's showing with Jay Howell at FFDG w/ an opening set for Sat., Feb 18th (6-9pm), did paintings for Autolux's new video for The Science of Imaginary Solutions which was animated & directed by Thomas McMahan. The video premieres online Feb 12th at midnight.
Before the online release, they're hosting a preview party Sat evening across from LACMA in LA to celebrate and screen the new video. ~complete details.
Mission Map Project
Tuesday, 07 February 2012, 12:46pm
A bunch of Mission district businesses here in SF (Mike Giant, Benny Gold, Joshy D, and others) got together to put together a Mission Map of businesses you should check out. Map and app release party goes down Saturday @111 Minna in SF (7-10pm)... We just moved FFDG to the Mission and didn't make the 1st version to be included. There are talks of a future V2 release.
Mike Giant talking about the Mission Map project
MCD Prints Online
Saturday, 04 February 2012, 4:25pm
We still have a few prints left from the MCD show @FFDG. 4 color silk screens from the likes of Jeremy Fish, Aiyana Udesen, Matt Furie, and others for $75.
Jeremy Fish 4 color silk screen print
Fecal Face's New Intern
Friday, 03 February 2012, 4:00pm
Say hi to Fecal Face & FFDG's new intern, Alexander Uhrich, who's in his last year at SFAI. He has to put in 90 hours of work, so you'll be seeing a lot of him.
Check his site to check his photography... Mucho eye entertainment to be viewed.
Photo by Alexander Uhrich
Fecal Face Tumblr
Friday, 03 February 2012, 2:31pm
Hey, if you're a Tumblr fan, Fecal Face is on there as well. We'll be posting a taste of what you see here on the site... Tumblr was nice enough to give us fecalface.tumblr.com since someone had it but never made a post on it... You know what? Wonder if we claimed it years back and forgot about it. Hum.
Ryan Wallace & Chris Duncan - Toronto Fri
Wednesday, 01 February 2012, 10:13am
Ryan Wallace & Chris Duncan open Transmission Lines in Toronto at Cooper Cole Gallery Friday, Feb 3rd.
Wallace and Duncan's linear variations of shape explore the margins of time and space while echoing the unstable tension between vision, perception, and reflection. Both artists explore a variety of materials to great visual effect. ~complete show details.
Polemic 5 by Ryan Wallace
The Story of Sue Nami
Tuesday, 31 January 2012, 9:36am
In the days following the Fukushima nuclear disaster, I was asked to make a poster for the Devo show at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco. The image was a Japanese girl, wearing a nuclear t shirt, with the kanji character for earth tattooed on her shoulder. She was dead. I called her Sue Nami, and much to my surprise, the band liked it. ~keep reading Zolton's story of Sue.
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Josh Short @Ever Gold, Tonight
Thursday, 02 February 2012, 11:18am
Ever Gold in SF opens a month long residency with Josh Short's Bomb Shelter Radio and Tenderloin Self- Defense Club tonight, Thurs (6-10pm). Check the video for a complete picture of what to expect.
Over the course of his residency at Ever Gold Gallery, Josh Short will build "Bomb Shelter Radio" and host several live sonic events that will include experimental noise transmissions, live metal and hardcore bands, and subversive FM radio interventions. This will also be aided by guerrilla public installations of radios installed around the Tenderloin bringing his interventions directly to the street as a form of audio graffiti. During the day the gallery will become the "Tenderloin Self-Defense Club", where Short will offer martial arts instruction to the neighborhood inhabitants, artists, and musicians. ~show details
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Poo's chillin' watching Tora Tora Tora tonight. -as of 10pm
| Your SF Photos
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.
|
|
| Hola from Tequisquiapan Mexico
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.
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| FFDG's Permanent Home
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 Etheral by Evan Mann
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.
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| High 5s: As The World Turns
... we look forward to the new year.
|
|
| Josh Peters Interview
Josh Peters is a La based painter/ curator/ cool guy/ I chatted with him recently about his work, here it is.
|
|
| Scanner Photography by Sean Vranizan
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.
|
|
| Interview w/ Alex Ziv & Quinn Arneson
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.
|
|
| Post War Years - All Eyes
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.
|
|
| Double Breaks @Double Break
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.
|
|
| Dream Team in Sao Paulo - Part 2
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
|
|
| Pseudo-Advertising by Alexandros Vasmoulakis
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.
|
|
| Nick Howard
Got an email from Minneapolis, MN based artist Nick Howard with some works attached. Love the pieces.
|
|
| Charles Martin for 11.11.11
Charles participated in the group show 11.11.11 at FFDG in Nov/ Dec 2011. He studies at Cooper Union NYC.
|
|
| A Visit w/ Strange Bird
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...
|
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| A Visit w/ Rebel 8
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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| Steven Riddle @Water McBeer
Water McBeer Gallery is proud to announce its curent solo exhibition "Dinner Guest" featuring work by Steven Riddle
|
|
| Nathan Brown for 11.11.11
Nathan is curently showing in the group show 11.11.11 up now @FFDG here in San Francisco through Dec 17th.
|
|
| Sage Vaughn @Fifty24SF
Los Angeles based Sage Vaughn opened up Runaways at SF's Fifty24SF last Saturday.
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| BIG DEATH SPANK
Photos from Check Your Ponytail tour featuring Spank Rock, Big Freedia and the Death Set.
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| Chicago's Andrew Mongenas
Chicago based artist/ craftsman and Chicago Art Institue graduate Andrew Mongenas' sculpture works.
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