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Tag: painting
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Brian Willmont
Wednesday, 22 February 2012 /// Written by Trippe
Brooklyn based Brian Willmont updates his site with new works which he describes as exploring new realms such as portals, abyss, sparks, and bullets. Interesting works worthy of your time.
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Stephen Hiam
Tuesday, 21 February 2012 /// Written by Trippe
I making this stuff with a customized Makita BBX7600 - Four stroke solid state ignition, custom paint delivery system. Dispersion capacity - 3 Ltrs of paint per second to a maximum distance of 15 meters. -Stephen Hiam (Berlin via London)
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Giuseppe Gonella
Tuesday, 14 February 2012 /// Written by Trippe
Giuseppe Gonella (b.1984) is a painter now living in NYC via Italy. We like.
Gonella Giuseppe (b.1984 Motta di Livenza, Italy) graduated in 2008 from the Academy of Fine arts in Venice (Italy), and lives and works between Venice and New York. Recent solo exhibitions include “Suspended Oscillation” at the 263 Bowery Gallery, New York, Usa (2011); “La Cosa Più Pericolosa da Fare è Rimanere Immobili “ Changing Role Gallery, Naples, Italy (2010); “Personal” Changing Role Gallery, Venice, Italy (2009); Wandering Stuff “ Changing Role Gallery, Rome, Italy (2009); “My space “ S. Gregorio Art Gallery,Venice, Italy (2008). Recent group exhibitions "The Kicking Boot", Le Sorelle Multifunctional Art Space, London,UK(2011); "Luci sorgenti 2" Museo Civico, Cascia, Italy (2010); "Liquida prewiew" Santa Caterina Museum, Treviso, Italy (2010); "Suspance" Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice, Italy (2010). Among the group exhibitions past, The Hockney Gallery, London, UK; The Bluetenweiss, Berlin; The Assab One, Milan, Italy; Permanente, Milan and the Am Roten Hof, Vienna.
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Matt Relkin's In Dark Trees
Thursday, 09 February 2012 /// Written by Van Edwards
Just finished my first new piece since taking off for almost 6 months to travel and be a bum. It's for a tribute show at BeepBeep Gallery in ATL. The show is a tribute to Brian Eno's Another Green World album, with a different artist interpreting each song off the album. I was lucky enough to get my favorite track, In Dark Trees. -Matt Relkin
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Mark Warren Jacques
Wednesday, 04 January 2012 /// Written by Trippe
Something About Everything About Something
Mark Warren Jacques
December 10 - January 7, 2012
We've been so busy getting our new space together, we haven't made it to many shows this last month. We're lucky enough to have a few images of Portland, Oregon based Mark Warren Jacques show at White Walls running through Saturday here in San Francisco to share.
Besides the show, Mark has a new print Still Dreaming of You available here for $35.
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Josh Keyes - New Paintings
Tuesday, 20 December 2011 /// Written by Trippe
Holy cow, Josh Keyes has been charging ahead with more incredible paintings. Just look at some of these recent ones.
The Collector -
20"x24", acrylic on panel, 2011
Tangled IV -
30"x40", acrylic on panel, 2011
Tangled III -
30"x40", acrylic on panel, 2011
Tangled II -
30"x40", acrylic on panel, 2011
Tangled I -
30"x40", acrylic on panel, 2011
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Josh Peters Interview
Thursday, 08 December 2011 /// Written by Ryan Christian
Josh Peters is a La based painter/ curator/ cool guy/ I chatted with him recently about his work, here it is. -Ryan Travis Christian
So Josh, tell me a little bit about yourself.....
I'm from Massachusetts.. moved to NYC after grad school at Rutgers, spent 10 years there.... about half of which was spent art-making and half playing in a band. It got to the point in NYC where I was spending too much time working to support myself and not enough painting...so I moved up to Northampton, MA where I was able to afford to take a couple of years just getting back into it. In 2007 I taught painting for a semester at an art college in Oslo, Norway and then did a 3-month residency in Los Angeles, wanting to be back amongst a larger group of artists and a more active gallery scene. The residency was sort of to test the water in LA, and I loved it so ended up moving out here.. where I've lived for two years now... teaching and making my work.
So let's get down to business. Tell me a bit about the characters and places in your pieces, they seem utopic, but with a underlying darkness. It also feels like the work is just out of reach from narrative...
The source material for the paintings are film stills... usually older ones where the sunspots and grain reference a previous era. In the newest work, the proportions of the canvas actually mirrors that of a widescreen cinema format. I choose the frames that strike an emotional chord with me, hoping that they will also resonate with viewers. So it's really done intuitively, without much thought to 'theme' but there are obviously common threads... groups of people isolated in nature and an ambiguity in terms of their identity and what exactly is taking place, as you pointed out in your question. So I would agree with that and say that it's intentional, as it hopefully creates a kind of compelling mystery and draws viewers in.
I should also say that the pieces that I'm working on now might well be the last that come out of this process; the process of finding a single, pre-existing image and translating it into paint.
I view these paintings as a kind of pop art because of this; they are pre-existing images in the culture, though of course not as recognizable as product packaging or celebrities.
The original image is also going through more of a transformation because the use of the materials is painterly and not deadpan, as in pop art, but just the same, I feel that with these paintings, once the frame has been selected, the die is cast and the work is half done... I'm hoping to start working more interpretively, more from the imagination, with chance and chaos coming into it more. I want to push beyond the nostalgia of these paintings.
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Charles Martin for 11.11.11
Wednesday, 30 November 2011 /// Written by Trippe
We met a young skater named Charles Martin, an interesting guy studying at SFAI, through our friend Henry Gunderson. Charles would stop in the gallery from time to time, and the last time he came through he told us he was off to NYC to study at Cooper Union where his brother also studys. Getting into Cooper Union is no small feat. They're one of the most selective schools in the U.S. Well known for their art and science programs, C.U. admits students based on merit alone and provides each with a full-tuition scholarship. A FREE top rate highly demanding education.
Charles Martin is now showing in the group show 11.11.11 running through Dec 17th at San Francisco's FFDG.
Age? Location? Website?
Twenty, New York City, I do not have a website.
Describe your work a little bit.
The things I make are a reflection of my ideas, coupled with a strong desire to make them tangible.
Our world is on my brain a lot; I like to think that if I'm conscious of what's going on that it will naturally filter into my work.
Most of my art is an investigation, sometimes about very specific content, and other work may strictly be about the medium.
I make work that references the past, and at the same time I like to read my imagery as futuristic. When I look at my paintings the first thing that comes to mind is making them, so in this way each becomes a mirror of the time in which they are created.
In a lot of my pictures I draw outer space, I feel that there is a strong connection between the universe and the mind. Both infinite in possibility and mass, I enjoy drawing from outside of the atmosphere because it allows me to explore.
Limitations exist with drawing from land, more recently I've been trying to make stuff that combines unbounded space with our flat world. Picture compositions that display an earth embodying characteristics of space, and then imagine the opposite.
Music heavy on your playlist these days?
A lot of hip hop, Jazz, Instrumentals, Nas Illmatic!
Favorite medium's to work within?
Printing, Painting, Drawing, Photo, Sculpture, Sound, Writing, Skating.
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Nathan Brown for 11.11.11
Friday, 25 November 2011 /// Written by Trippe
Nathan is curently showing in the group show 11.11.11 up now @FFDG here in San Francisco through Dec 17th. We've been interviewing the 10 artists participating in the show over the last couple weeks. Say hello to this talented Canada native.
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Age? Location? Website? And who do you think you are?
24, A West-coaster living in Montreal, Quebec, NathanAlexisBrown.com, No-Valleys
Romulus and Remus": Rice paper overlay, ink and acrylic, on paper, 4ft x 4ft, 2011.
Describe your work a little bit.
My work depicts scenes from a dripping, glowing, shifting world were a cast of delinquent characters struggle to unearth a greater understanding of my personal mythology. Springing from past, present and future the narratives of my work are entangled and multilayered, destruction and creation often become indistinguishable as the characters constantly chase their goals in circles: their quest for personal clarity constantly unfulfilled.
Music heavy on your playlist these days?
70’s punk, 80’s hardcore, weird rock n’ roll, random originals.
Fireside Installation (aka: "Smoke-Spirit") : Paint, weat-paste, and digital print, 2011.
"Hands-Off Houdini!": Rice paper overlay, ink and acrylic, on paper, 22in x 22in, 2011.
Favorite mediums to work within?
Paper: painted, inked, printed, cut, glued, sewn, you can make anything with that stuff!
Dream job other than artist?
Photojournalist, Cultural Documentarian? Something that would offer the opportunity for travel too, and immersion in, a multitude of places & cultures.
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Joyce Ho - Mini Interview
Tuesday, 15 November 2011 /// Written by Kid Yellow
Who are you and what do you?
I am an interdisciplinary artist with an emphasis in painting, sculpture and theater.
Location? Age? Education? Website?
I moved to the United States from Taiwan when I was 14. This experience of being transplanted from my home, family, and culture had a huge impact on me and my works. After receiving my M.A. in studio arts from University of Iowa, I went back to Taiwan for my solo exhibition and a few set design projects. I plan to move back to the states in 2012.
www.joycehostudio.com, www.joyceho-art.blogspot.com
How would you describe your work to someone?
The images that I paint all have some disturbing quality, whether it's the angle of the character's head or the awkwardness of the distorted bodies. But in order to complicate these unsettling images, I use strong yellow hues to create a warm overall lighting that emanates throughout the entire space. I like this idea of “peaceful violence,” of seducing the viewer with bright colours, while simultaneously confronting them with the damaged characters.
Describe your process for creating new work.
I normally spend a few months developing a series of images and then over the course of an evening take a number of photographs and experiment with different compositions and lighting. For my works in my house, I usually choose rooms with more angular architecture and multiple lighting sources. There is something cold and inhuman about many of the new high rise apartments in Taipei, with their cold, reflective marble floors, fluorescent lights, and long corridors. These apartments seem more like conference rooms or hotels.
Working routine? Music? Time of day?
I usually work at night. ( late, late night ). I like listening to music when I work, but I always forget to turn it on.
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Ryan Bubnis for 11.11.11
Wednesday, 09 November 2011 /// Written by Van Edwards
We're going to featuring some mini interviews with artists participating in the group show 11.11.11 opening up at FFDG's temporary gallery space at 248 Clement St @4th Ave in the Inner Richmond on Friday, Nov 11th (6-9pm).
Also opening that same night at FFDG is the solo show, Everything Under the Sun, with San Francisco based Mario Martinez (Mars-1).
Age? Location? Website? And who do you think you are?
35. Portland Oregon. http://www.ryanbubnis.com/ Son, brother, cousin, husband, friend, cat owner, griller, camper, artist dude.
Describe your work a little bit.
Modern folk art inspired by life, love, death, friendship, nature, our struggles and mistakes and the mesmerizing glow of the campfire.
Music heavy on your playlist these days?
Rolling Stones, Starfucker, Timber Timbre, Connan Mockasin, Boards of Canada, Camera Obscura, Club 8, Kool Keith, Blue Cheer, etc. It changes all the time.
Favorite mediums to work within?
Acrylic, ink, reclaimed house paint, old stained paper, found wood chunks, pinecones, papier-mâché.
Dream job other than artist?
Teacher or chef/owner of a restaurant.
When not creating work, you can be found doing...
Hanging out with the wifey, reading, teaching, camping, BBQing, running, walking and playing records in my garage.
How would you describe your work to a stranger who's never seen it?
I make paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints and installations. Sometimes I paint figures and sometimes I create these clusters of faces or heads using textures, patterns and line work. The work can be illustrative and sometimes it's completely abstract. They usually nod their head and say, “Oh, ok.” But they usually have no idea what I'm talking about until I show them the work.
Upcoming projects/ shows?
11.11.11 @ Fecal Face & a few other group exhibitions throughout the rest of the year. Super secret magic plans for 2012.
What gives you the right?
Um, I dunno. I just make sure no ones looking and then I just go for it. I'll worry about the consequences later.
Last words?
Trust your gut.
* FREE Tacos from El Tonayense
* Music from BLKTOP Project featuring Tommy Guerrero, Ray Barbee, Chuck Treece and Matt Rodriguez
* Vodka from Blue Angel
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Everything Under the Sun, Friday
Tuesday, 08 November 2011 /// Written by Trippe
Everything Under The Sun
Solo show with Mario Martinez (Mars-1)
Opening Friday Nov. 11, 2011, 6-9pm
@ FFDG, San Francisco
* FREE Tacos from El Tonayense
* Music from BLKTOP Project featuring Tommy Guerrero, Ray Barbee, Chuck Treece and Matt Rodriguez
* Vodka from Blue Angel
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Midnight at FFDG
Tuesday, 21 February 2012, 1:43pm
Thanks to all who came out last Saturday for the opening of Midnight on the Sun @FFDG featuring works by Jay Howell & Mark Whalen (Kill Pixie). We'll be adding pics from the opening along with the works online Wednesday after we get things cleaned up over here.
Hope you were able to pick up a copy of Jay Howell's newest zine Dark Wave. If not, don't fret as we'll have some up on the site in the coming days.
The opening of "Midnight on the Sun" at FFDG
More Light @Park Life - 2/24
Thursday, 16 February 2012, 11:00am
More Light --> New works from Francesco Deiana and Lafe Harley Eaves opening Friday, February 24th (7-10pm) at Park Life in San Francisco.
More Light features the work of two young artists that currently call San Francisco their home. These artists employ ink, graphite and mixed media on paper to illustrate abstract representations of varying themes that include socialization, behavior barriers, society and our relationship to the natural world. ~details
Travis Millard Podcast
Wednesday, 15 February 2012, 4:00pm
The podcast kicks off with Travis confronting me about something I did while visiting him in L.A. Maybe the weirdest controversy on the podcast to date. We chat about the importance of our teachers & tough critiques. Travis talks about reconnecting with our high school art teacher Pal Wright. We then meander thru his journey from Lawrence KS, moving to Brooklyn and his eventual home in LA! We roll thru zines, Spin Magazine, networking, The Get Up Kids, street art, the Taproom, insecurity & touch on the different things he’s learned about art life along the way. This episode has been a long time coming. A tour de force straight from Oooooolathe! Enjoy! ~Listen
New American Paintings Competition
Wednesday, 15 February 2012, 11:04am
 New American Paintings is hosting their Midwest competition with a deadline set for Feb 29th. Entry fee is $50, but if you think your work is good enough to win, go for it. 40 winners selected will appear in the Aug/Sept 2012 edition of New American Paintings. ~This isn't their only competition. They hold ones for all parts of the USA. ~Check
How Your Cat is Making You Crazy
Tuesday, 14 February 2012, 3:00pm
Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his science-fiction hunch into the lab. What he’s now discovering will startle you. Could tiny organisms carried by house cats be creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to schizophrenia? ~read on
Axel Brechensbauer
Tuesday, 14 February 2012, 9:00am
Nature is not evil, it's ugly. That's why we have gardens. It's like ok, but we can do it a little bit better by arranging everything. We are obsessed by Tetris, order and man-made systems.
Before nature was scary, then romantic. But now we feel sorry for it. But does it matter? It create shapes and we create shapes or are we it? Surely, we don't want to. I create shapes and so should you. -Axel Brechensbauer (Barcelona)
Sculpture by Axel Brechensbauer
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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.
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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 todays 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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