Saturday night’s opening reception for The Stencil Show, Upstairs Is Where the Magic Happens, and C3/KMNDZ/Akira attracted an amiable crowd. We didn’t miss the opportunity to snag the pretty ladies of the night for our second edition of Gallery Babes. Continue scrolling for a little art and a lot of lipstick.
One of our all time favorite blogs, My Love for You, is curated by the wonderful Meighan O’Toole. We always pay attention to what’s on her radar and now we have the chance to see her favorite Boston artists come together in an exhibition. Fourth Wall Project asked Meighan to curate None More Black, and she chose the following artists: Tony Bevilacqua, Chad Chesko, Bill Dunlap and Elisabeth Timpone. The show opens Friday, October 23rd from 7-9pm in Boston, MA.
The juice: NONE MORE BLACK brings together an eclectic mix of four East coast artists for the first time; Tony Bevilacqua, Chad Chesko, Bill Dunlap and Elisabeth Timpone. Exploring life, death, rebirth and metamorphosis, each artist interprets these subjects in their own unique way, with the use of intense color or completely devoid of it through sculpture, paintings, drawings and on-site murals and installation.
Meighan also posted more extensive preview to the show here. We wish we could be in Boston for the opening reception, but we trust that the blogosphere will keep us in the loop.
Despite his name, Ramblin’ Worker gets himself into some very ambitious projects. For example, he spent at least 16 hours painting this mural by brush (and on his birthday) in Gallery Three. Guinness and Lynnard Skynnard provided moral support while Ramblin’ Worker installed a threaded landscape of skate ramps, bikes, and brass knuckles. Opening reception: Saturday, October 10th from 7-11pm. Be there.
Soo Visual Arts Center
in conjunction with
White Walls and The Shooting Gallery present:
New Works by Greg Gossel
October 9-November 29, 2009
Opening Reception Friday, October 9, 6-9pm
Greg Gossel’s paintings are poignant tributes to the decades of history that is discovered when one peels back the layers of posters coating the time weathered buildings of urban decay. His work is a montage of pop culture history; cultural fragments ranging from comic book characters, pulp novel covers, tabloids and girly magazines. Beneath the vivid color palette there is a darker tone to Gossel’s work, which explores media manipulation and exploitation with a keen skill and polish that celebrates as it simultaneous condemns.
Click here to preview the complete exhibition.
Please contact the gallery for inquiries.
All the town is talking: what is this Stencil Show? Spray paint, hooligans, amateurs? We are here to nullify all rumors about the vandalizing nature of stencil art, and we have the artwork to back it up. David Soukup, Tes One, Casey Gray, Ernesto Yerena, Blek le Rat, and Chris Stain are in the house and you better believe they are pushing the boundaries of what a stencil can do. Check out a few detail shots below and join us this Saturday, October 10th for the opening reception of The Stencil Show.
We recently spotted some pictures taken at White Walls and The Shooting Gallery art openings on The World’s Best Ever. Their “Hot Chicks At Art Openings” is awesome!! So we are adopting the idea and adding our own monthly “Gallery Babes” album to the blog.
Kevin Cyr is a talented painter known for his objective portraits of vehicles. Worn and torn, these machines carry with them human stories through every hint of rust or paint. Cyr will be joining Jessica Hess in White Walls for a March 2010 show curated by Lainya Magana, and he is going above and beyond. Taking a step outside of his usual medium, Kevin is in the process of fundraising for his “Camper Kart” sculpture. Read his statement below or click here to watch him explain the piece on video.
I’m building the CAMPER KART: a pop-up camper affixed to a shopping cart. It’s a functioning sculptural piece that seeks to explore aspects of housing, mobility, and autonomy. It is also largely about self-reliance and making do with less.
I have always been interested in bikes and vehicles and for many years they have been the subject of my paintings. My paintings document odd and derelict vehicles: old delivery trucks inundated with graffiti and rust, well-traveled RVs, Indian rickshaws and Asian bikes.
Throughout the last year, I decided to build my own type of vehicles. On a trip to Beijing, I conceived and built a CAMPER BIKE: an amalgamation of a Chinese 3-wheeled flatbed bike with an American cabover style camper. Interested in building a series of mobile vehicles and inspired by Cormac McCarthy’s novel, The Road, I started sketching plans for CAMPER KART: a mobile unit built into a shopping cart—an ubiquitous urban object.
I’m about one third through the construction process. I have a basic structure built into a found shopping cart—including a front and back door, side pop-out panels, and shell of the roof. My next steps are to design and construct the corner lifts then purchase and sew the canvas walls.
With your support, I can not only finish the construction, but document the piece through drawings, paintings, and a photographic print.
Thank you for your consideration,
Kevin
It’s Saturday, and that means time to peek over at the neighbors to see what they’ve been up to all week. Click each image for a recap of what we see from The Shooting Gallery across the way.
Casey Gray of our Stencil Show (October 10th) just dropped a line about his latest doings. As a student of San Francisco Art Institute, a curator, and rapidly improving stencil artist, he has a lot on his plate. Read below for the full scoop from Casey plus a video of his complex stencil process. Trust us, it’s worth watching to the end.
What up ya’ll,
Man the last week has been crazy. Monday was not the best of days to say the least, a classic case of the artist getting overly comfortable with his tools to the point of carelessness. This particular case landed me in Saint Francis Hospital with a slice the size of Texas in my arm all the way into the muscle from a rogue Exacto knife. But not to worry, two and a half hours and fifty stitches later (yes 50), I was back on my feet and out the door, good as new. My arm’s pretty weak and almost completely numb from my wrist up to the injury but luckily it’s not affecting my work in the least.
So that happened. On top of that, I am now the proud new tenant of an approximately 25,000 square foot live/work warehouse space in the Dogpatch. It’s literally a dream come true. Needless to say, I’m pretty freakin’ stoked on the whole thing. Moved my studio in last week and I am still moving the rest of my crap from my old apartment. I couldn’t be happier to finally have a studio with a loading dock and proper ventilation and proper space for that matter, so much so that I don’t know what to do with it all really. Well, I’ve got a few ideas.
With that being said, I just put the finishing touches on the new work for the Stencil Show. I’m really pleased with how everything turned out. The paintings are a highly narrative, exceptionally colorful blend of voyeurism, mischief, obsession, arousal, surveillance and humor. I’ve been really focusing on creating greater depth in the new work, which is challenging with only two layer stencils, but it’s a challenge that I’m really hyped on. By using soft fill colors in between various layers, the images really start to pop and give the work a more dreamy fantastical feeling that I like while still looking urban. I’m really curious to see what people think.
Okay so I think that’s it for me. I’m pretty much just chillin’ these days. Trying to get some new work ready for Miami, working on some new screenprints, toying around with some collaborative projects at school and possibly currating another show for the Spring. Exciting times.
Uhhh yea, cool…
Cheers,
Case
Tenderloin dwellers take pride in their eclectic, cultured and historical neighborhood of San Francisco. White Walls and The Shooting Gallery are no different, and our involvement in the community backs our feelings toward our lovely TL home.
From October 17-November 15, 2009, an entire program of arts related events in the Tenderloin will be hosted by Wonderland (an SF non-profit). All events are free to the community, calling on 74 artists to create 16 projects throughout the neighborhood. White Walls is getting in on the action with a stencil workshop and street art lecture on November 7th, details below:
Saturday, November 7th 2009
White Walls Gallery
835 Larkin St. San Francisco CA 94109
Stencil Workshop 3:00 pm-4:00pm
Street Art Lecture 4:00-5:30
Stencil Workshop From 3-4pm, Myrtle Alley will become the site of an impromptu mural project. A giant wooden panel will be installed in the alley, and we invite artists of all capacities to make their mark. All spray paint will be provided by Montana and participants are welcome to bring their own stencils, tee shirts to stencil onto, etc. This workshop is meant to bring together experienced spray can artists with those who are curious about the art form, whether they have tried it or not. It will be a fun, laid back event where artists and the community will have a chance to dialogue about spray can art.
Street Art Lecture After the workshop, a talk will be led by the local graffiti artists Apex, Vulcan, and Neonski. They will discuss the evolution of their signature “Super Burner” murals, which are known for being layered with 500 or more colors. (For more about these artists, see Juxtapoz) Get a glimpse of their styles below:
Apex (photo via Funkandjazz)
For more info:
Erik Otto‘s Wonderland project, Down the Rabbit Hole.
