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Written by Michael Sieben
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Thursday, 05 April 2007, 5:27am
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 Michael Sieben blogs up the creation and work from his current show that's up right now @Art Palace Gallery in Austin.
When I emailed John (Trippe) and asked him if he'd post something about
my upcoming solo show (Smile Forever) at the Art Palace Gallery in
Austin, TX he suggested that I write a blog about the experience. I
agreed to it. But I have to admit that I do feel a little weird writing
about my own show vs. having somebody review it. But, I'm starving for
enough attention that I'm willing to push that thought aside and jump
in with both feet.
Here's the press release for the exhibition:
Fueled by nostalgia, Michael Sieben's work deals primarily with a loss
of innocence. Autobiography plays heavily into Sieben's first gallery
solo exhibition of drawings, painting and sculpture. Combining the
aesthetic languages of skateboard graphic design and children's book
illustrations, Sieben works in a style he refers to as "soft-core
gore." Monsters tread a fine line between sweet and grotesque, and
security cameras are there to record it all. The title of the show
refers to, on one hand, smiling in the face of adversity, and on the
other, the loss of privacy in our contemporary digital age, where
cameras, security, television and otherwise, are constantly recording
our images. Between these two poles, we might as well smile forever.
That sounds pretty good, huh? Risa Puleo is responsible for the press
release. I think what I sent her read something like: "Uh... like...
this stuff is about forgetting all the bullshit in your life and
smiling despite of it. Oh, and it's about how we're being recorded all
the time now." I think she did a really good job of making me sound
like less of a dummy.
I show more work outside of Austin than in Austin. Which means I
usually have to take shipping charges into account when I'm preparing
work for a show. Which means I usually try to create work that I know I
can ship for a reasonable amount. It sort of sucks to have to think
about that when you're generating work. But without a trust fund, what
can you do? That being said, when I was preparing for this show I knew
that I wasn't going to have to ship any work. Which made me want to try
to do something more ambitious. Something big. Something unexpected. So
I decided to work on a sculptural piece for the show. Something that I
normally would never be able to afford to ship. Something fuzzy, blue,
and hopefully awesome. So I called up my friend Chrissy Paszalek who is
a seamstress and we began to discuss how to make one of my dudes exist
three dimensionally. Cue the photographs, Trippe.
Monster barber shop
Did you know that you have to make a pattern before you make a huge
stuffed character? I had no idea. Luckily Chrissy had a really good
idea about what needed to happen. I thought I could just draw it and
she could sew it. It turns out it's a little more complicated than
that.
The following photos are taken at various stages of this dude's
construction. I'd like to take the opportunity to thank Chrissy, Brandy
Mac, Ryan Weibust, and Mike Parsons for their help. There is no way in
heck that I could have ever made this dude by myself. I'm sure
everybody out there knows how awesome it is to have friends, but I have
to reiterate. Friends, man... friends freaking kick buns.
I know, I know. It looks like a weiner at this point.
This was what came to be known as the "blood assembly line." Don't
steal that for your band name. We already trademarked it.
We were trying to figure out how to move the dude and Brandy suggested
carrying him in a sheet. Which was way better than my idea which was
taking him all apart and then sewing him back together at the gallery.
I don't know sheet. (Get it?... I'm working on my old man humor.)
It felt really good to load him up into the minivan. It's hard to tell
from the pictures, but it took many many hours (over many days) to
construct this guy.
This is where I was stockpiling my work at my house before the show.
Don't make fun of my carpet. We didn't pick it out.
Day 1 at the gallery. Nothing funny about that. I just like how
galleries look when you first walk into them to begin an installation.
This is a series of 40 drawings I did for the show. Each of these were
priced at twenty dollars a piece. I really wanted to have some work in
the show that would be considered affordable to anybody who came
through the door. Even teenagers.
Arturo Palacios owner of the Art Palace. If you ever visit Austin you
should definitely try to meet this dude. He's one of my favorites.
Here's how the sculpture looked after the installation. I was so stoked
to see him in the space. I think it really changes the way the
paintings are viewed. Oh, I almost forgot to mention this, but this
guy's name is Simon. Chrissy has a 3 year old son named Simon and we
asked him what we should name the huge blue dude that he'd been living
with for the past few weeks. Without a pause he said, "Simon." So Simon
it is.
"soft-core gore"
self-inflicted
I also made a cardboard video camera as part of the installation.
Sculpture is totally new to me so if you're looking at this thinking
that you can do better... well... you're probably correct.
The next set of images are photos of the paintings and drawings that
were included in the exhibition. Please feel free to scroll past them
if you don't like my work. I promise there's a few drunk people once
you get past them (I totally used this joke the last time I did a blog
for fecalface too.)
These two paintings are really new and are a new direction for my work.
These were the first two pieces I generated specifically for the
exhibit and I had intended to make a larger series of paintings in this
style. Unfortunately these two paintings took way longer to finish than
I had anticipated so I had to jump back to some simpler compositions in
order to have enough work to fill the space. I plan on making more work
in this style for upcoming shows now that I'm not in as much of a time
crunch.
The following seven images are details from these paintings.
My Stepmum bought this dude.
Sorry for the glare.
Sorry for the blur.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Dr. John T. Sieben (aka Dad)
Pettin' some chest.
Lo-Lo. Okay Mountain Intern.
Party people like to party. Just like in your town.
A portion of my "runnin' crew."
Seconds before being asked to "please stop."
During the opening these two guys just happened to be cruising down the
street and they stopped and belted out some tunes. They were freaking
fantastic. Thanks dudes. My camera battery died really early in the
night and I forgot to bring my charger with me, so I didn't get too
many pictures of my friends acting the fool. Which is okay I think,
because Dewar's sponsored the opening and dropped off a case of Scotch.
So needless to say, people really did end up acting the fool.
The next day (Sunday) we ate some Mexican food and had a dog pile.
This photo was actually taken about a week before the show, but I
wanted to include it because I like it. This is Simon and he's the guy
that named the sculpture. He's also my buddy. Check out Simon's dad's
(Mike Parsons) website here.
So that pretty much concludes the Smile Forever blog. I wanted to
mention that I have a new zine that I made specifically for the show
that will be available on my website in the next few days (shameless...
shameless.) Many many thanks to Chrissy, Brandy, Mike P. Ryan W.,
Rachel Reyes, Billie Jo, Simon, Arturo Palacios, Risa Puleo, and as
always, my lovely wife Allison. Thanks everybody.
msieben.com
MAR 31 - APR 28, 2007
MICHAEL SIEBEN: SMILE FOREVER
ART PALACE
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New Fish Print
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This drawing was inspired by that looming feeling that San Francisco is an isolated island from the rest of the country. As SF becomes more and more expensive, and the lower income creative folks that make this city pulse get squeezed off the island, "the city that knows how" will slowly transform into a sterile west coast Manhattan full of tech chads and internet gurus. —Jeremy Fish

To All The Graduates
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| Dave Kinsey @FFDG
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.
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| STREETOPIA @The Luggage Store
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.
 |

 |
| Matt Moore in Paris
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.
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| Barry McGee at Prism LA
Doug Neill emailed over a few photos from Barry McGee's opening last Friday at Prism in Los Angeles.
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| Further Collective Flagstaff Mural
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| INTERVIEW with Tristan Patterson
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| 2 New Zines by Pacolli & Mildred
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| Logan Crable's Blow Jobs
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| Michelle Ramin & SFAI Grad Show
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| Interview with Jeff Depner
Whether conceptually motivated or intuitively created, the process of painting has been a main attribute in art for sometime now. Controlling the surface of a canvas is at the root of most contemporary painting. Vancouver native Jeff Depner's work creates avenues for visual discovery through a process based aesthetic. Layers upon layers of paint each relating to the next. Masking some, if not all, of the past creates a visual history within. The work ebbs and flows between graphic qualities and thick painterly styles with muted but contemporary feeling colors. The constant process of 'improvised moves' allows some of the work to be based in grid like structures. It allows some of the smaller paintings a chance for inquiry in constructive qualities and aspects of painting, inserting his work into the long history of painting.
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| If Bill Murray was a Triple Bacon Cheeseburger
Bay Area artist Cahill Wessel emailed over a couple gems- food/human hybrids with wonderful titles. Made our morning.
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| Michael Miller @Fifty24SF
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| Marissa Textor - Mini Interview
Marissa Textor and Ryan Travis Christian are currently showing together at Cooper Cole Gallery in Toronto. Gerald interviews the LA based Marissa Textor. Check out her detailed graphite drawings.
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| Richmond Virginia Street Art Festival 2012
A couple weeks back Jeff Soto flew out to Richmond, VA for their street art festival to do some mural action. Artists included the likes of Hense, Richard Colman, Dalek, Hamilton Glass, and many more.
 |

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| Dave Kinsey @FFDG, May 18th
Mark your calendar: Dave Kinsey opens Lost For Words @FFDG in San Francisco on Friday, May 18th (6-9pm).
New mixed media paintings and installation. This will be his first show in San Francisco in 12 years and his first on the West Coast since 2007... We're very excited. Below is a lil' taste of what's to come.
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| ROA at Stolen Space, London
Massive show from this prolific Belgium based sreet artist.
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| Hamishi in Melbourne
Hamishi emailed over some photos from his current show Nothing Special running at Melbourne's Paradise Hills through this Saturday, May 5th. If you're in Melbourne, view it in person as we're sure it looks even better in person.
Hamishi participated in last November's group show 11.11.11 @FFDG back in November with Mario Martinez showing a solo show... Man, that's was a nutty opening before the cops showed up.
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| Opening Pics @FFDG for C.P.H.
Alex Uhrich & Gerald Anekwe got some photos from the recent group show at FFDG, Cigarettes, Phone Cards & Hip Hop Clothing.
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| Spoke Art Thursday
Spoke Art here in SF opens the group show Synergy curated by LA's Thinkspace this Thursday, May 3rd (6-10pm) featuring works by a slew of artists that Thinkspace works with. Spoke Art sent us a taste for you to sample.
 |

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| Ludo's Palynology
Ludo who we've featured many times emailed over a recent piece from Katowice in Poland called "Palynology".
 |

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| Murals by Flavio Samelo (Brazil)
We had the pleasure of meeting Flavio Samelo when we were in Sao Paulo last summer (blog). He's a skateboarder/ photographer and talented artist. Here are some photos from some of his recent mural done in Rio de Janeiro, also in his words.
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