Featuring The Art Group Sniff: Scott Hewitt, Scott Meadows and David Ryan
Artist Reception: Friday,July 18th from 5 to 8 PM
Exhibit Dates: July 5th Thru August 3rd, 2008

Simply put, Sniff is a band of artist friends who decided to do group art together. They became known as the guerilla artists who decorated and transformed “The Albany Bulb” (a shoreline area on the eastern side of the SF Bay) into a found object and painting, outdoor museum. The Bulb is an old landfill area, (yes, we packed our garbage right into the bay...) and it was pretty much a free-for-all area. Part park, part dump, part wilderness area, with an awesome view of the entire San Francisco Bay Area. Painting on whatever washed up or was dug up, Sniff covered any and many surfaces with brilliant mural-style works, reminding one of Diego Rivera, Thomas Hart Benton and George Grosz all at once. A concoction of bawdy circus art, Mexican folk art and graffiti “lowbrow” art styles, all mixed into one.

Sniff has evolved, as all bands do, and it's current incarnation comprises Scott Hewitt, Scott Meadows and David Rayburn. Others have come and gone, leaving these original three. It’s amazing that even these three remain, given the struggle artistic egos must undergo to paint as one.
For the upcoming Eclectix Gallery exhibit, Sniff has completed a huge installation of paintings on panels which connect into a mural-like story of characters and their antics. Hunters, mountain men and women, fireworks, sensuality, travelers, carnival and circus freaks, Santa, bears, women in red, forest fires and gnomes; all this and more, comprise a stunning and fun body of work.