Next month David Marc Grant will be exhibiting with us in the White Walls Project Space. Suzanne Stroebe interviewed Grant in March for SF Station’s Spectrum Blog. For the White Walls and Shooting Gallery 10 Year Anniversary, Grant assembled a group of paintings that captivated viewers and we’re looking forward to his upcoming  show with us, My Magic Will Bring Them Back, which will open Saturday June 8th 7-11PM and be on view through June 29th.

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Nick Flatt’s exhibition “Control” with a crushed car covered in glitter as the centerpiece.

Last Saturday was the opening for two solo shows: Nick Flatt‘s Control in White Walls, and C3‘s Before the Sun Dies, Part 2 “Kingdom of Night.” This was Flatt’s first show with us, though C3 has exhibited with the Shooting Gallery before in a previous chapter of his current series. Gallery visitors were greeted by Flatt’s striking installation of a demolished car covered in silver glitter. The artist’s monolithic portraits, reminiscent in proportion to public adverts, were equally epic in scale. C3′s exhibition in the WW Project Space shared some formal aspects with Flatt’s in that his work is highly figurative and black-and-white. However, C3′s graphite sketches are  much smaller in proportion, where they mimic the size of antique photographs. The detail and realism in his drawings are so absorbing that they compel one to get as close as possible.

Both artists were present at their respective openings. The White Walls shows ran concurrently with Shooting Gallery‘s opening of Robert X. Burden‘s Toy Box and Van Arno‘s Tame Nor Sane in the SG Project Space.

All shows run through June 1, 2013 – make sure to swing by!

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Niels ‘Shoe’ Meulman, “Unknown” Carbon Acrylic on Belgian Linen, 144×80″ Inquire to tova@whitewallssf.com for price.

It’s not too long before Dutch artist Niels ‘Shoe’ Meulman is coming back to San Francisco for a solo show with us at White Walls. The exhibition Unism will open on July 6, and the artist’s previous show with us, Justified Scriptures, took place last year in 941 Geary. Juxtapoz Magazine features this prominent street artist and his pioneering brand of typography called calligraphitti, which is a stylistic conflation between calligraphy and graffiti. This recent post describes Shoe’s work as “a new art form for the twenty-first century, a contemporary expression of writing and design by hand in a predominantly digital age. Calling it ‘Calligraphitti’ Meulman launched his cutting-edge art movement in 2007 with a successful solo exhibition in Amsterdam, and he has continued his success with various international exhibitions and museum acquisitions of his images.”

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Today, Nick Flatt is putting on the final touches for the install of his solo show Control in White Walls, which opens tonight from 7-11 PM. Known for his largescale, black and white photorealist portraits, the show features eight massive canvases and a sculpture of a crushed car covered in glitter. The white-cube aesthetic of the gallery space, combined with the monochrome car installation and black-and-white portraits, lends a stark beauty to the exhibition. Nick Flatt, who was named one of Juxtapoz’s Top 20 Photorealist Artists last december, will show through June 1, 2013.

Come visit us tonight from 7 – 11 PM!

Control, a Solo Show by Nick Flatt
Opening Reception – May 11, 2013, 7-11 pm
On View Through June 01, 2013,
@ White Walls (www.whitewallssf.com)
886 Geary
San Francisco, CA

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C3 is now fully installed in the WW Project Space, and ready for the opening of Before the Sun Dies Part 2 “Kingdom of Night” from 7-11 PM. C3 draws graphite sketches of small portraits, reminiscent of Victorian photographs. The content is inspired by the artist’s fantasy narrative, and the models who sit for him are personal friends. The artist showed a previous installment of his series in the Shooting Gallery in late 2011, and he plans to showcase the final chapter of his trilogy at a later date.

Before the Sun Dies, Part 2 runs through June 1, 2013. Come visit us tonight!

Before the Sun Dies, Part II “Kingdom of Night”
Opening Reception – May 11, 2013, 7-11 pm
On View Through June 01, 2013
@ White Walls Project Space (www.whitewallssf.com/projectspace)
886 Geary
San Francisco, CA

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C3‘s solo show Before the Sun Dies, Part II “Kingdom of Night” opening in the WW Project Space this Saturday, May 11th, is a follow up exhibition to the previous installment that he opened last year in the Shooting Gallery. SF-based C3 draws detailed sketches that are based upon his invented dark narrative, which feature recurring characters who would suit the cast of an eerie Old Western. The result is the artist’s own brand of disturbing Americana, with images that share the same haunting quality of Victorian daguerreotypes.

One of C3′s most ominous figures is a man whose face is obscured by a roughly-hewn mask. We asked the artist to take some photos of his daily life – and were not disappointed with what we got. All photos were a collaboration with photographer Shaun Roberts: the two created a series based upon a protagonist who is an outsider in every social context, and the feeling of alienation pervades each snapshot. C3 adopts the mask on which he bases his most striking character in photos that range from despondent to menacing. A humorous undertone is definitely present in each, with the most awkward scenes serving to humanize the antihero because, let’s be real, who hasn’t felt a sense of forlorn hopelessness strike amidst the pedestrian reality of some corner store’s chip aisle?

Before the Sun Dies, Part II “Kingdom of Night”
Opening Reception – May 11, 2013, 7-11 pm
On View Through June 01, 2013
@ White Walls Project Space (www.whitewallssf.com/projectspace)
886 Geary
San Francisco, CA

RSVP.

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C3‘s show Before the Sun Dies, Part II “Kingdom of Night” is coming to the WW Project Space this Saturday, May 11th, and the artist has been preparing since his last exhibition Before the Sun Dies, Part I “Tempest Horizon” in the Shooting Gallery. With these photographs from Shaun Roberts, we get a glimpse into the studio of the provocative artist, who draws macabre depictions of cult-esque figures with an antique twist. The images capture the same grainy, moody atmosphere also present in C3′s graphite sketches.

An excerpt from the press release:

Many of the works for the show fade into drawn line, hinting at the process involved in works which otherwise could appear to be photographs preserved from an earlier era. The aesthetic of faded Victorian snapshots and old Westerns is transformed into something entirely new in the hands of C3, whose uniquely compelling vision continues to unfold through beautifully detailed drawings.

Before the Sun Dies, Part II “Kingdom of Night”
Opening Reception – May 11, 2013, 7-11 pm
On View Through June 01, 2013
@ White Walls Project Space (www.whitewallssf.com/projectspace)
886 Geary
San Francisco, CA

RSVP.

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Last year, Nastia Voynovskaya from Hi-Fructose posted this on C3‘s upcoming show Before the Sun Dies, Part II “Kingdom of Night,” which will be hosted in the WW Project Space this Saturday, May 11 (we have switched venues from the Shooting Gallery to the WW Project Space since this post was written). She toured the San Francisco-based artist’s studio to catch a glimpse of his upcoming work for our exhibition. C3 creates meticulously rendered graphite compositions based on antique photographs and portraits of his friends. Each piece is a ‘screen-shot’ from a film that only exists in the artist’s imagination. The artist’s invented narrative draws inspiration from Old Westerns, the Wizard of Oz, and horror films, “He culls his compositions from antique photographs, portraits he shoots of friends and found objects. Using the same friends’ faces for recurring characters, the works tie the surreal scenes to personal aspects of the artists’ life.”

C3′s latest show is a thematic continuation of his earlier exhibition with Aron Meynell, entitled Before the Sun Dies, Part 1 “Tempest Horizon,” which took place in the Shooting Gallery at the end of 2011.

C3′s haunting, surrealist imagery will be showing this Saturday in the WW Project Space. RSVP.

Before the Sun Dies, Part II “Kingdom of Night”
Opening Reception – May 11, 2013, 7-11 pm
On View Through June 01, 2013
@ White Walls Project Space (www.whitewallssf.com/projectspace)
886 Geary
San Francisco, CA

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Mark Warren Jacques X Meryl Pataky Installation from White Walls SF on Vimeo.

Our lovely gallery girl Dora Tsui shot this video of Mark Warren Jacques preparing his show Small in a Big Way for the WW Project Space at the beginning of April. Check out the video above for a look at the installation of “Someday,” which upcoming project space artist Meryl Pataky lent her neon talents to. Today is the last day to see the show so make sure to stop by before 7pm to check out the beautifully detailed and vibrantly colorful work.

“While working on the pieces I’m continuously thinking about the small moments that make up a day or the many small parts it takes for a machine to function, or the infinite subtle reflections of light on a single wave in the ocean. As humans we sort of exist in the middle somewhere between big and small, where the world and universe are so much larger than us yet we are made up of a million blood cells, a million memories, a million thoughts each day and it’s our decisions and only our decisions that give us meaning.” -MWJ

If you can’t make it in, view the full exhibition online here.

DALeast in Honolulu, Photo by Brandon Shigeta

The Chinese street artist DALeast paints murals of animals that appear disembodied; their form defined by a three dimensional rendering of interwoven lines. In some parts of his figures, these lines are interlaced tightly, giving the impression of a voluminous body underneath. While in other parts, the linework appears to be unraveling to reveal an immaterial space, “The technique of the sketch becomes the matrix through which DAL has developed a new visual alphabet. The choice is clear, to describe the breath of life, the physical energy hidden in the relationships between elements, being it dark omen or intimate glow.” via

The website SteetArtNews reports on where DALeast has traveled lately, from the tropical isles of Hawaii to England’s overcast capital, London. His frenetic line-work enlivens the animal figures as they pounce or take flight. DAL East was recently featured in White Walls and Shooting Gallery‘s 10 Year Anniversary in March, and we love to see what he’s capable of out on the street.

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