Oakland based artist Deth Sun has a show at Gallery 1988 in LA. If you haven’t seen his shit, check it out here.

From his site:
“I’m from California. I grew up all over Southern California, and graduated high school in San Diego. I lived in the Bay Area for 7 years, and I spent most of that time in Oakland, where I received my BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Painting and Drawing in 2002. I got a lot of scholarships but still ended up with a lot debt.

I paint, draw, and sometimes illustrate for other people (mostly giving permission for drawings for t-shirts, covers, ect). I should seek out more of those jobs, but I don’t really know if I like them.
I don’t have any career objectives and I don’t really know what I want to do with my work. I think it’s cause I’m 26. I want to make honest work. I think about this a lot.
For now, till hopefully February, I live in Los Angeles, California, where I sit in my house with two cats, painting, and missing my friends.”

We almost bought Rex Ray’s work from Zinc Design in SF until we saw the price tag. Apparently, we’re just some broke ass parents. Or is it that a new flat screen monitor, treo, digital camera, or a Noguchi table are higher on the priority list. Someday we’ll get it all!

Steven Skov Holt, Fluid Blobs in Motion describes Ray’s work:

“The artwork of San Francisco graphic designer Rex Ray has become a prolific mediation on the abstract and dynamic nature of fluid forms. Begun at night simply as a personal and therapeutic visual antidote to his highly self-edited, computer-based commercial work during the day, his art projects (small-scale paintings and collages now numbering in the thousands) came from humble origins; scissors, paste and fashion magazines. But Ray brings an unusually tight sense of craft and precision to the compositions of these smallish, highly colorful, and always playful artworks. The result is a fusion of art and design sensibilities. Biomorphic-, teardrop-, and nature-based forms comprise the bulk of Ray’s vocabulary. Its immediate communication of the joy of movement is balanced against its momentarily arrested state; the delight of composing just for the sake of composing is immediately apparent. Ray creates forms of indeterminate origins—familiar but not identifiable—that offer the viewer a sense of spontaneous liberation. The question is not why Ray does such things, but why most other graphic designers and painters do not.

David Choe for sale at Upper Playground in SF:

Artist: David Choe
Artist – David Choe – “Falling from Grace” – Oil,spraypaint,chalk pencil,ink,acrylic on wood. Size 48×48. All sales on artwork are final. No Returns. Artwork can only be purchased within the Continental United States.

I might just have to get one of these Bigfoot pieces:


Bigfoot

*Sale ends August 10, 2005

All artwork will be sent via UPS Ground. All work sent is insured and packaged to protect against any damage. If you have any questions, please let us know either by phone or email…

(415) 552-4057

contact@lowgallery.com

Checkout the trailer for this indie film about San Francisco’s underground graffiti movement. SFC 415 representin.

If you’re in SF, checkout Rex Ray’s work at Zinc Details on Fillmore. We almost shelled out 600 bucks for a small collage. Now we’re green with envy.

If you’re in SF on July 9th, check out Brendan Monroe at GR-SF.



Giant Robot SF Presents:

Momentary Murk

New works by Brendan Monroe

622 Shrader Street, San Francisco, CA 94117



Saturday, July 9th – Monday, Aug 22nd, 2005

Opening Reception: July 9th, 6:30 – 10pm

Giant Robot SF is pleased to announce LA artist Brendan Monroe’s first solo exhibition in San Francisco, Momentary Murk. Monroe will transform GRSF into one of his “off” realities using paintings, sculptures and prints as his primary tools. These daydream worlds Monroe creates feature a menagerie of creatures that look like experiments gone wrong but are flanked by backdrops of serene stillness and beauty.

His focal medium is paint on maps, blue prints and canvas. These paintings touch classic themes of “natural beauty,” which is in obvious contrast to his life in the urban landscape. He credits Michael Parkes and Derek Hess as influences.
The rich flora of his recent work can be compared to the nouveau stylings of Alphonse Mucha. His figures tend to be somewhat anonymous, even masked in some instances, yet still full of personality and emotion.

Lisa Alisa painting, Sara Perche Ti Amo, for sale at SF Shooting Gallery: $1600. She’s one of the artists in the 3rd Annual Erotic Show.