Super7: Saturday, March 5th 2005 from 6-9pm opening reception for Ronnie del Carmen & Enrico Casarosa’s Fragments: an exhibit of drawings and art. Both artists work at Pixar Animation Studios for their day jobs. Casarosa has some very interesting work on his site—check out SketchCrawl. He describes it as: “Sketch irrevocabily for a whole day out in the city (San Francisco). Recording all I could of what I did and saw . A marathon of drawing. The day was a blast … here are the 19 pages of drawing I filled.’


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Gallery 1988 presents San Francisco’s Finest: Peter Gronquist, Damon Soule, and MARS-1. Opening reception is Tuesday, March 15th, 7-10 pm. Don’t sleep.

Kinda slept on this one…Fixins.com and Complex magazine had their 7th installation of Soled Out in SF in December 2004. Check out the cool Flash site.

ShuffleArt has vinyl stickers you can stick on your iPod Shuffle to make it cooler then it already is. If these designs aren’t cool enough for you, design your own. Checkout Shuffle Art Archives’ slogan,” All free. You only have to enjoy nothing not worrying. Will you also design?”

Three t-shirt designs you must own: The West Coast / Maya Hayuk / Oaklandish

Saiman Chow was an illustrator for Vibe magazine in 2002 to 2003. He now does stuff for VH-1 and Nike. He was born in Hong Kong, educated at Art Center, and is currently a freelance bladerunner. Check out this interview from Shift/Japan. Excerpt: I heard you were born in Hong Kong and moved to Los Angels. Does the cultural experience in Hong Kong and Los Angels influence your works?



Definitely, Hong Kong is a pretty unique place to be. It was a British colony, so we are pretty westernize. It borrow a lots of Japanese pop culture, and at the same time it maintain a strong Chinese tradition. It was a unique mixed cultural experience. When we were kid, everything around us were Japanese. We basicly grew up with Japanese cartoons ,comics and video games. Doraemon, Dr. Slump and Q Chan etc. Every kids love them. So my early works are all about Japanese pop stuff, Then later, as I live in the state longer, I discover more and more different genre of graphic art that I never thought I would be into, the whole 60’s stuff. They blew my mind. psychedelic, archigram and Keiichi Tanaami etc. I am really bless that I was able to get in touch with different kind of cultural experience and eventually apply to what I do.

Albert Reyes has a show up a Low Gallery in San Francisco up until March 12. If you’re in town, check it out. Here’s an interview with him on Fecal Face. Excerpt: Didn’t you tell me that some kid got stabbed?
Ya, one of the kids got involved in a fight there… Ya, all kinds of bad things went down in those neighborhoods while we were there… We’ll be in the art bus and someone will get shot right there in the street and everyone’s yelling to get down…. It’s crazy over there in Hunter’s Point. Hard as life… You gotta see Straight out of Hunter’s Point. That tells the whole story right there.

From SF Station: “Mr. Reyes rolls the ‘R’s hard in creep. Imagine a whole collection inspired by the afternoon Pee-Wee Herman was busted jacking off in a porn theatre. Gore, tits and white ponies abound. His iconoclastic sketches and paintings depict an imaginary underworld where Flavor Flav, Andy Warhol and Superheroes kick around the urban decay.”

I totally missed this show of Yumiko Kayukawa, Lisa Alisa, and Wanyu Chou at the SF Shooting Gallery in January. From the looking at the art work online, you can tell it was a good show. I’ve only heard of Kayukawa before—I read somewhere that all her work usually sells out on opening night or shortly there after. Lisa Alisa (is that her real last name?) has some nice pieces on her web site. Here’s an excerpt from an interview of Wanyu Chou on Pixelsurgeon.com.


WANYU: I was born and raised in Taiwan. I studied Chinese folk dance at the age of eight and then later received formal dance training at the National Taiwan Academy of Art. Due to dance injuries, I moved to California in 1992 and continued my art education earning an AA in Fine Art from Santa Monica College and a BFA in Illustration from California State University, Long Beach.

Michael Wolf’s photographs of housing projects and architecture in Hong Kong are insane. Hong Kong has an overall density of nearly 6,700 people per square kilometer. Some other projects he did about Hong Kong are “Flora in Hong Kong” and “Sitting in China: the bastard chair.”


About Wolf:
In 2002, the San Francisco Chronicle called Wolf’s work in Hong Kong “most improbable and humanly alert”. In previous series, Wolf described the vernacular culture of the street. His early vision of the region dwelt on personal aesthetic gestures left in back doors and alleyways, such as makeshift seating in the streets. In these photographs, small tokens of human presence took precedence over monumental architecture. Wolf continues to explore the theme of the organic metropolis- that which develops according to the caprice of its citizens as much as the planning of its architects. In Architecture of Density, his vision has evolved to evaluate the high-rises that shape the spatial experience of Hong Kong’s citizens. Wolf finds in each building a singular character, despite its functional purpose and massive form.

There are only 100 of these prints in the world. If you like Hecox’s work, you better get this before they disappear.

EVAN HECOX TRUCK PRINT
SILKSCREEN PRINT ON ACID FREE UNCOATED PAPER
SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE ARTIST
16” X 20” | EDITION OF 100