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Home  Opening Photos Rico Deniro 'Native Expatriates' @ FIFTY24SF Gallery
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Written by Trippe
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Friday, 14 January 2011, 3:21pm
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Rico Deniro’s Native Expatriots show at FIFTY24SF Gallery opened up last Saturday here in SF. For the show, Rico has presented people that live outside of technologically based civilizations in the rural villages of Mexico with images of first-world pop culture icons and employed them with one task: to interpret those icons in a traditional Mexican wooden mask.
Estevan Oriol shot the preview photos for the show like the one above.
Rico Deniro's Native Expatriates is an artistic exhibition which could
also be considered an anthropological or sociological study of humanity
and cultures. Rico has presented people that live outside the
Twitter-Facebook fueled world of modern urbanity in rural villages of
Mexico with images of first-world pop culture icons and employed them with
one task: to interpret those icons in a traditional Mexican wooden mask.
The craftsmen of these masks have no reference point to these images, no
sense of importance tied to the celebrities that they were given, no
inundation of cultural significance by media sources - and instead
translate the images into form at a completely superficial and innocent
level.
The resulting masks show these idols at a level which we rarely see them:
exposed. Not in the way that the news media 'exposes' celebrities,
because in that case there's a symbiotic dependency - but in the way that
these idols are exposed for their lack of substance other than the media
and marketing that convinces us of their substance.
The masks created in Mexico will be on display at FIFTY24SF Gallery from
January 6th, 2011 - January 26th, 2011.
FIFTY24SF Gallery: http://www.fifty24sf.com
Rico Deniro: http://www.ricodeniro.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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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!
|
|
| 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
|
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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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