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Photo of the Day: 3/1/13
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Friday, 01 March 2013 01:00
Written by Trippe |
Photo: Justin Keena (Berkeley, CA) //////////////////~ submit your photos to: potd(at)fecalface.com ~ make sure they're at least 700 pixels in width. See more Photo of the Days
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The Moment for Ink @The Chinese Culture Center
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Thursday, 28 February 2013 14:12
Written by Rachel Ralph |
The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco opened The Moment for Ink on Saturday, just before the start of the Lunar New Year Parade downtown.
This show interestingly re-imagines ink outside of its Chinese domain and includes several American and female artists, like Kiki Smith. Each piece employs ink in a very different way, from traditional drawings to installations taking up entire walls, and the medium takes on new surfaces and meanings. This is one of the best shows I’ve been to recently and shows vast differentiation, even though each piece is essentially made in the same medium. Chinatown presents never-ending opportunities for experience, and this is not to be missed. Just make sure you make it there before it closes on May 18th.
Words & Photos: Rachel Ralph - rachel(at)fecalface.com
Toyin Odutola, Whenever the Occasion Arises, 2012, Pen ink and marker on paper, 9x12”
Hong Chun Zhang, Twin Spirits #2, 2002, Charcoal on paper, 5’x25'
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Matchbook Art by Joseph Martinez
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Wednesday, 27 February 2013 17:12
Written by Trippe |
Denver based Joseph Martinez is opening the show, A Little Piece of the Bay, on March 7th at Public Barber Salon (571 Geary) featuring his teeeny tiny matchbook oil paintings of his favorite San Francisco artists that inspire him like Kim Cogan, Henry Lewis, Sam Flores, Mike Giant, Barry McGee, etc.
Check out his other great matchbook paintings.
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Skate Ski
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Wednesday, 27 February 2013 10:58
Written by Trippe |
Some skate-ski with video workage by ol' Fecal Pal, Dan Wolfe who now handles video in house there at DLXSF.
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Barry McGee, Chris Johanson, & Laurie Reid @CCSF
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Tuesday, 26 February 2013 13:32
Written by Rachel Ralph |
Barry McGee, Chris Johanson, and Laurie Reid returned to their alma mater, City College of San Francisco, to open an unassuming art show and interact with students and the community.
After seeing McGee's Berkeley Art Museum exhibition last fall, this show was not what I was expecting, but it was perfect. Instead of a large-scale museum installation, the works were hung haphazardly on pins, just like any other student show which would take place in this gallery. A small crowd flowed into the gallery and then out into the hallway where they served cookies and popcorn, and where legends like McGee could look at student work hung in display cases. The artists were present, adding to the inclusive environment, and many students passed by on their way to class without realizing that there were stars in their halls. It was a great little show, and was probably highly encouraging to students who are just starting their art careers. It was as if the artists took a step back to show just how far they have come and, maybe, just how far they can go next.
Words & Photos: Rachel Ralph - rachel(at)fecalface.com
The geometric-ness of Barry McGee
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ROA in Bruxelles
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Tuesday, 26 February 2013 11:17
Written by Trippe |
Henrik Haven has been hanging with ROA for a week and brings us some work-in-progress shots as ROA was working on all the excellent pieces for the "Stop Over" show at BODSON-EMELINCKS in Bruxelles, Belgium.
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Photo of the Day: 2/26/13
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Tuesday, 26 February 2013 01:00
Written by Trippe |
The Tens got a photo of us Trippes at FFDG last week. Nice one.
Photo: The Tens //////////////////~ submit your photos to: potd(at)fecalface.com ~ make sure they're at least 700 pixels in width. See more Photo of the Days
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Photo of the Day: 2/23/13
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Saturday, 23 February 2013 01:00
Written by Trippe |
Photo: Tanner Ballengee (Topeka, KS) //////////////////~ submit your photos to: potd(at)fecalface.com ~ make sure they're at least 700 pixels in width. See more Photo of the Days
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How and Nosm's TL Massive Mural
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Friday, 22 February 2013 16:22
Written by Trippe |
Identical twin brothers How and Nosm (Raoul and Davide Perre) recently completed this huge mural in the TL here in San Francisco at Hyde St & Turk St. The duo were born in Spain, German in heritage, and currently residing in New York. Their show Late Confessions concludes Saturday in NYC at Jonathan Levine.
Check this awesome mural they did in LA with Dabs and Myla 2 years ago.
Photos & video by Merlin Jackson
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Hate to say that it took 10 years for us to finally check out the "new" location of the Asian Art Museum, and it's much more incredible than we all had thought.
Last night we attended the preview party for the Asian Art Museum's new show China's Terracotta Warriors: The First Emperor's Legacy (Feb 22 - May 27) featuring 10 life-sized terracotta soldiers which were hand-crafted in approx. 300 BC to protect China's first Emperor, Qin Shihuang in the afterlife... In 1974 they excavated this massive site where thousands of statues were discovered where these originated.
We waited in a long line for some drinks (later discovered the shorter cafe line), we listened to the energetic Extra Action Marching Band, we checked out the incredible terracotta soldiers, but the best part was taking in just a small piece of the museum's massive collection of Asian artifacts. With only 20 minutes before the night was to conclude, we raced to the 5th floor and tripped out on the Southeast Asia collection.
PHOTOS
Extra Action Marching Band going for it amongst the crowd. Love these guys and gals.
At the time they were buried, they were hand painted in bright colors but the paint almost instantly faded when excavated.
Easy, son.
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I Encourage Everyone to Barge.
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Thursday, 21 February 2013 15:45
Written by Tanner B |
What do I mean by "barge"? I mean "to do something without entirely thinking about or caring about the consequences, asking for permission, or being prepared." Which is exactly what Conner Morton and I did in Southeast Asia.
Over three months on the road (about six months for Conner) with nothing but a road in front of me, a motorbike under me, a backpack behind me, and a set of rules to live and die by. These are what made the "Harsh Barge" the grim and dirty adventure that it was. Rule #1: Never pay to sleep. That meant no hotels, hostels, motels, guesthouses, bungalows, etc. Rule #2: Only travel by motorbike (aside from necessary flights).
Those were the rules that defined the trip. The other rules—never wash white t-shirts or jeans, no shaving, no meat, no wasting beer, etc.—only made it more interesting. Sure, we got plenty of strange looks and into lots of odd situations, like when I woke up on the ground outside a hospital in Siliguri surrounded by a police officer and fifteen confused Indians; but it made the experience more real, more raw. Call us disgusting, call us over-privileged Americans, call us anything. (Just don't call us hippies.)
Illegal camping and getting drunk on beaches with prawn farmers in Vietnam, avoiding landmines and border patrol hassles in Cambodia, sexual assaults by a monk at a Buddhist temple in Thailand, sleeping in an abandoned building and waking up to AK-47's in our face in Nepal, and Conner getting hit by a car and run over by a truck in India is just a small taste of the fun that we endured on the Harsh Barge.
I'm not saying do exactly what we did—I wouldn't encourage anyone to do that. It's not for everyone, but it was for us. I'm just saying that you should go do what you want before it's too late. Before you have that career/marriage/child. Take some time off school. Quit your day job. Buy that plane ticket. Barge.
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Alexandros Vasmoulakis @Lebasse Projects
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Thursday, 21 February 2013 11:25
Written by Trippe |
Paintings by Alexandros Vasmoulakis are up at Lebasse Projects in Culver City through this Saturday, the 23rd. We've featured some of his massive fragmented murals he's done in China and Europe in the past here. Enjoy his style.
Alexandros Vasmoulakis was born in 1980. He studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
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Ferris Plock Friday at Benny Gold
Monday, 20 May 2013 11:07
Our buddy Ferris Plock opens a small show of drawings at Benny Gold on 3169 16th St this Friday, May 24th (7-10pm) featuring 31 drawings priced at 75-140 bucks.
Ferris also released the video Fingered! he produced with animator Jim Dirschberger. View it
Ferris Plock Friday at Benny Gold in SF
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Wednesday, 16 June 2010 17:39
SFAI's MFA Show "Currency" Opening Friday
Thursday, 16 May 2013 09:00
Wowzas, there's a lot of art happenings this weekend, and while you're making the rounds, be sure to stop at SFAI's MFA show Currency opening Friday, May 17th at the beautiful old SF Mint Building (88 5th Street).
SFAI's 2013 MFA graduates—working in painting, photography, printmaking, film, sculpture, installation, digital media, performance, and across media—will present work that embraces the Institute's signature spirit of experimentation and conceptual risk-taking.
Opening reception: Friday, May 17, 7–9 pm & running through Sunday 11-6pm daily. -- complete details
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Wednesday, 25 April 2012 11:56
Pedro Matos Friday in Los Angeles
Wednesday, 15 May 2013 11:52
London based Pedro Matos opens the solo show Building Castles Made of Sand this Friday in Los Angeles at the Martha Otero Gallery featuring a new series of oil paintings on canvas and azulejo panels - a traditional Portuguese medium of hand-painted, tin-glazed, ceramic tile work.
view a little taste
Pedro Matos Friday in LA
CCA's MFA Show Thursday
Tuesday, 14 May 2013 17:14
San Francisco -- CCA opens their 2013 MFA Thesis Exhibition this Thursday, May 16th at their SF campus. Every year another graduating class produces steller work. One of the best SF art events worth getting to, but be sure to get there early as there's always a long line. ~details
CCA opens their MFA show Thursday, May 16th
Skull & Sword at FFDG
Friday, 03 May 2013 11:37
FFDG will open a group show with the artists from the famed Skull & Sword Tattoo on Friday, May 17th (7-10pm). Artists: Grime, Henry Lewis, Yutaro, and Lango. ~RSVP on Facebook
Um, I'll Have The...
Thursday, 02 May 2013 09:00
I Used to do This Once...
Wednesday, 01 May 2013 09:08
Needles & Pens Celebrates 10 Years!
Tuesday, 30 April 2013 13:51
Our buddies at Needles & Pens celebrate their 10th anniversary on Friday, May 10th, and it's not to be missed with this steller lineup - all going down at The Luggage Store.
Check the details, mark it in the calendar, and we'll be seeing you there!
Needles & Pens celebrates 10 years!
"The Jangs" at Stephen Wirtz Thursday
Monday, 29 April 2013 11:07
San Francisco based photographer, Michael Jang, who's been shooting for decades and who has captured some great shots over the years (Reagan and Frank Sinatra is a good one) turned his camera on his family while growing up in the suburbs in the 70s. An intimate portrait of a Chinese-American family inside their Pacifica home living their lives. Sounds benign, which it is, but what also makes the images fascinating.
The Jangs - Opening reception, Thursday, May 2, (5:30-7:30pm) Stephen Wirtz
"The Jangs" photography by Michael Jang opening Thursday
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| Mark Mulroney at Ever Gold (+Photos)
Fertile Menace, a new show of Mark Mulroney's (NY) work opened at Ever Gold on May 4th and it's not one to be missed. It is intelligently hilarious, with jokes riffing off sex, Foucault, and the body, and while it makes you laugh it's also going to make you think.
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| Sanjay & Craig Premieres Saturday
Our buddies Jay Howell, Andreas Trolf, and Jim Dirschberger are hyped as their show, which they've been working on for like 2 years, premieres on Nickelodeon Saturday. From the trailers we've seen so far and from what Jay has told us about, the show is going to be pretty epic. Congrats to those radical fellas.
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| Skull & Sword at FFDG, Friday (7-10pm)
Here's a little taste of work by the artists of the world famous The Skull and Sword tattoo shop who open their show at San Francisco's FFDG on Friday, May 17th (7-10pm).
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| Amir H. Fallah Studio Visit
Following his solo exhibition "The Collected" at Gallery Wendi Norris, painter Amir H. Fallah is in the throes of developing more new works for upcoming international exhibits. We spent some time in his studio in Highland Park, Los Angeles recently, discussing his process and inspiration.
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| Bubi Canal's "Chrystelle" (+video)
We were first introduced to the photography of Spanish born NYC based Bubi Canal when he emailed us his great video Trust in Me a couple years ago. His solo show Special Moment recently ran at NYC's Munch Gallery in February, and he recently released his newest video Chrystelle below.
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| Michael Garlington & The Metaphysical Fundraiser at 111 Minna
Although I missed the opening of Northern-California photographer Michael Garlington's newest show, Constructed Realities, I was fortunate enough to see the work still up during the Metaphysical fundraiser a couple weeks back at 111 Minna. Metaphysical fundraiser, an auction to benefit Wayne Ernzer. --- The ghoulish photographs in their heavy, hand-made frames are reminiscent of photos from the old west, and the glass crucifixes, complete with fetuses and guns, emphasize the accumulated time within the works themselves. Whether you're looking at the frames, the photos, or both, this show deserves a visit, and a walk through the golden archway Garlington constructed around the front door.
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| John Felix Arnold III in Japan (Part 3)
Fecal Face contributor Rachel Ralph (rachel(at)fecalface.com) has been profiling this Oakland based painter as he travels about Japan. In this segment, we feature some photos as he prepared for this show and residency at Spes-LaB in Tokyo which opened last weekend. Arnold will be featured in SFMoMA's Minna Street windows on June 8th.
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| Alex Lukas & Richard Colman @Guerrero Gallery
Last Saturday, here in SF's Mission district, Guerrero Gallery opened two new shows with Philly based Alex Lukas and SF based Richard Colman respectively. Colman's work occupied the project space while Lukas' work and foliage was presented in the main space. Worth getting to if you haven't already.
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| High 5s: Mexico-Land
Just got back to SF after a little trip south to Sayulita, Mexico. After 10 years without a vacation, me and the Mrs. headed south for some mental time off sitting in the sun, swimming and enjoying the watery Mexican beer. Here are some photos as we get back into the swing of things again.
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| High 5s: Puttin' The Pee in the Pod
For 13 years I've been blogging up randomness. Here's more of it.
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| Dimitris Polychroniadis (+Greece)
Athens, Greece based designer, architect and artist Dimitris Polychroniadis emailed over more of his work which consists of mixed media, pop-humorous diorama sculptures that make a comment on the harsh realities my country and much of the world is facing at the moment.
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| Skull & Sword at FFDG Featuring: Grime, Henry Lewis, Yutaro, and Lango
FFDG will open a group show with the artists from the famed Skull & Sword Tattoo on Friday, May 17th (6-9pm). Artists: Grime, Henry Lewis, Yutaro, and Lango. Below are a series of videos on Grime for Vice's Tattoo Age produced in 2011. Fascinating look at one of the greatest tattoo artists alive today.
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| ARYZ at Fifty24SF
ARYZ (Spain) opened his newest gallery show at Fifty24SF last Friday and, if you live in the Bay Area, you need to go. This dude can obviously paint, and he doesn't need an entire building to show his impecable skill. The show has lots of small works on paper which contrast his highly-defined line work to his hard-edged painted objects. The contrast between the hard and soft was the most striking thing to me about his work, since I had never seen it in person before, and the washes blend with the thick paint seamlessly. The show also contains a larger work on canvas, a huge head suspended in the back of the room, and a big wood sculpture of a wolf figure. This diversity in such a small space was impressive, and those of us that went to the opening even got to meet the man in person. If you didn't make it out this weekend, check it out before May 31st when it closes and these works will be off to some very happy new homes.
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| David Bayus @Water McBeer
Water McBeer is please to announce its latest exhibition "Precious" a solo exhibition by David Bayus (April 6 - May 4, 2013) -- David Bayus born 1982 holds his BFA from the Savannah College of Art and his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. David lives and works in San Francisco and is a founding member of the basement collective. This will be his first exhibition with the world renown Water McBeer Gallery highlighting his most recent achievements with paint and digital media. David Bayus will be exhibiting 5 relatively large-scale mixed media works along with a collaborative object featuring Hungarian sculptor H.R KOONS.
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| Hard Time Mini Mall @The Shooting Gallery
The Shooting Gallery handed over the reins to the Red Truck Gallery (a New Orleans based gallery) which curated their new show, Hard Time Mini Mall and opened the it on Saturday night. This is my favorite show (so far) in the Shooting Gallery's new space and was packed full of art, a mini bar, and cowhide rugs. The Red Truck Gallery chose works with clear craftsmanship and it was easy to see in Ian Berry's denim assemblages and Chris Roberts-Antieau's awesome quilts. The space was completely packed, making it hard to see each piece individually, but this show deserves a second trip anyway. I look forward to spending more time with the chandeliers, automatons, and paintings before the show comes down on May 4th.
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| "Ayre (of Distances)" by Nathan Cyprys +Toronto
Toronto based photographer Nathan Cyprys emailed to let us know about his newest series "Neighbour State", and we were about to post it when we spotted this series on his site entitled "Ayre (of Distances)" and had to post this one instead. After you view this one, view "Neighbour State" on his site. Both are visually enjoyable.
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| Alex Ziv & Mario Ayala at FFDG +Opening Pics
Photos from the opening of Going Nowhere featuring works by San Francisco based artists Alex Ziv & Mario Ayala which runs through May 4th at FFDG.
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| Recent Works by David Lyle
Working from found photographs, Lyle's paintings are created through a reductive painting process where each piece is rendered using only black paint and turpentine. Lyle begins this process by priming a panel with white gesso. He then paints a thin, rich, oily black veneer over the primed panel, slowly and systematically developing his images by removing some of the black paint with a cloth. In doing so, Lyle renders layer upon layer of various values of black paint resulting in his signature-style of luminescent works.
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| +London - David Shillinglaw Mural
London based David Shillinglaw who's blogged it up for Fecal Face in the past recently completed this mural in London as he prepares for his solo show at Stolen Space opening on April 26th.
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| In The Streets of Copenhagen (Part 2)
Our buddy Henrik Haven, who brings us some goodies from his native Copenhagen, has been shooting some of his city's graffiti and street art. Last week we brought you part one of his camera's explorations.
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| Just The Two of Us at Adobe Books
San Francisco based artists Raphael Villet and Sean Vranizan are currently showing Just the Two of Us at Adobe Books through April 21. Here are some photos from the opening and works.
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| Skewville & Mark Warren Jacques @White Walls (SF)
Two twin brothers from Brooklyn, Skewville brought the fun to their opening at White Walls last Saturday night with their new show, Amusement. After all, you can't take a show that starts with a sign reading "Sucks either Way" too seriously. Besides the simplistic yet detailed paintings, visitors got to ride on a bike-powered merry-go-round and throw bean bags at bottles like a carnival game. Even the works made of found materials, like the Battleship boombox and the suitcase made of tin lunch pails, brought a sense of humor to the night. After seeing the work in the back of the gallery, which was much more crowded, Skewville provided a light-hearted atmosphere in which viewers could drink beer, play games, and see some really great artworks.
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| The Yok & Sheryo
Brooklyn based artists Sheryo and The Yok recentely completed the mural "Pipe Dreams" in Long Island City at 5 pointz. The Yok also emailed over some photos fom a recent trip to Mexico for the Festival Anonymous held near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico from this past January... Awesome, we're heading to Mexico in a couple weeks.
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