Archive for the Category San Francisco
Creature Heroes: Damon Soule, Nome, Matt Furie
June 10 – July 7
Gallery hours : Wednesday – Saturday 2pm-6pm, or by appointment by calling (415) 756-8890. Bar open most nights at 5pm Thursday-Saturday.
Lora and I bought this painting by Damon Soule about 3 years ago.
June 18th, 2005 | Art, Art for Sale, Artist, Gallery, Gallery Opening, Painting, San Francisco, Street Art | Tags: | Comments Off
In My Own World at GR2 Gallery, Sat June 18 – July 15 – reception Sat June 18 6:30-10p
The artist Bigfoot, a San Francisco Art Institute dropout, hails from New Jersey (“the armpit of America”) and now makes his living selling his acrylic paintings and day-jobbing at I-Path, the footwear company he cofounded in 1998 with Matt Field, a pro skater for Rasa Libre.
June 18th, 2005 | Art, Art for Sale, Artist, Gallery, Gallery Opening, Print, San Francisco | Tags: | Comments Off
NoMe’s work is hard to find, but it’s easy to identify. We bought a skateboard piece he did a few years ago at Cultural Cache in the Mission—but then we lost track of him. Buy this t-shirt before it disappears!
May 3rd, 2005 | Art, Art for Sale, Artist, Painting, Poster, San Francisco, Street Art | Tags: | Comments Off
Upper Playground is now show the work of Rob Mars and Adam Harteau. Show ends May 15.
May 3rd, 2005 | Art, Art for Sale, Artist, Gallery, Gallery Opening, Painting, Poster, San Francisco | Tags: | Comments Off
Ray Bender has a show at Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco. If you’re in the City, don’t sleep on this pornless porno partay.
“...Because of my continuing interest in how art is often perceived and valued in our society, I have recently begun to mine porn websites for explicit images where artwork is used as the backdrop. I have finally succumbed to the suggestive sideshow come-ons spammed to me daily (“Fucktastic Gushing Facials!!” “See Teen Anal Sluts take it all!” “Hairy, Hottie, Horny Housewives!!”) and have created pixilated, large-scale ink jet prints from small, digitally degraded jpegs. I use these images with no other manipulation than to crop them to call attention to the background artwork and minimize the sexual acts. This reversal of priorities is often funny as the original photos are taken in hotel rooms and other sites where the artwork is a utilitarian object, an absurd afterthought. In these prints, the sex is deleted and the bodies are incidental, intruding little upon our view of the art.”
April 29th, 2005 | Art, Artist, Gallery, Gallery Opening, San Francisco | Tags: | Comments Off
Tucker Nichols was born in Boston in 1970. He makes drawings, but what I like are his window installations.
“Tucker Nichols makes the world smarter and funnier. He brings it into focus with an awesome clarity and sense of humor, and any show that includes his work is worth seeing.”—Critic’s Choice: Art, SF Bay Guardian
April 23rd, 2005 | Art, Artist, San Francisco | Tags: | Comments Off
Be careful of what you ask for— San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Matt Gonzalez let graffiti artist
Barry McGee spray paint his City Hall office walls with the bright orange message: “
SMASH THE STATE.”
April 18th, 2005 | Art, San Francisco, Street Art | Tags: | Comments Off
Sylvia Ji is currently showing at Romeo 5, Asian Art Cafe & Bar in San Francisco’s Japantown. Checkout out some photos from her opening [via fecalface].
Romeo 5, Asian Art Cafe & Bar
Japan Center – Kinokuniya Building
1581 Webster St #225
San Francisco, CA 94115
1pm – 2am Everyday
21 and over
April 13th, 2005 | Art, Artist, Gallery, Gallery Opening, Painting, San Francisco | Tags: | Comments Off
If you’re in San Francisco for a visit and need a hotel, checkout Hotel des Arts, San Francisco’s newest boutique hotel. The Hotel des Arts presents the contemporary work of local artists—on the walls of 16 rooms. You don’t just view it, you sleep with it. Here are some of the artists: Apex, Brad Alder, Damon Soule, David Choe, Kelly Tunstall, and Sam Flores.
April 7th, 2005 | Art, Artist, Painting, San Francisco | Tags: | Comments Off
In the EA game “Need for Speed,” if you get to a certain level, you can get a Choe car. I’ll probably never buy the game, but the car looks cool.
April 6th, 2005 | Art, Poster, Print, San Francisco | Tags: | Comments Off