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Home News THIS IS NOT A TOY, An Exhibition of Contemporary Art + Collectible Design
Wednesday, 12 February 2014 12:30
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TORONTO --- Are you a fan of art toys? If so, you're going to want to get to Toronto to view the massive show This Is Not A Toy, guest curated by music and fashion mogul Pharrell Williams.
| | | THIS IS NOT A TOY An Exhibition of Contemporary Art + Collectible Design Celebrate the World's First Large-Scale Exhibition Dedicated to Designer Toys at the Design Exchange This Is Not a Toy at Canada's Design Museum, Design Exchange, featuring Better Knowing by KAWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - TORONTO, Canada - February 2014 - Design Exchange (DX), Canada's Design Museum, is proud to present a series of firsts with its playful, unprecedented exhibition This Is Not A Toy, guest curated by music and fashion mogul Pharrell Williams.
The first major original programming produced by DX. The first foray
into museum curation for cultural connector Williams. The first time
coveted artists, Brooklyn's KAWS and Japan's Takashi Murakami,
have shown their work in a design museum. Dedicated to exploring the
conceptual toy - a form made solely as an expression of an aesthetic or
idea - as a fine art and design object, as well as a contemporary
cultural signifier, This Is Not A Toy marks
the first time these vibrant collectible sculptures, figures and
paintings have collectively been on display in a museum setting. On view from February 7 until May 19, 2014,
the exhibition takes its name from the disclaimer found on packaging
for objects that may be called toys, but aren't meant for play. Ranging
in price from just a few dollars to thousands more, these figures are
part merchandise, part art. While the creators of these art toys may
utilize technical methods of mass production, they do so in a way that
produces variation, unique expression, and limited edition objects.
Instigator and co-curator John Wee Tom and DX Associate Curator Sara Nickelson, along with Williams, present a tightly-edited presentation of work from over a dozen of the most prolific toy designers and contemporary fine artists in the collectibles category.
The Simple Things by Takashi Murakami and Pharrell Williams*; Bubble Bench by Misaki Kawai This Is Not A Toy
transforms DX's Exhibition Hall into a candy-coloured space evoking
genuine happiness through exuberant, imaginative works. Visitors absorb a
multi-faceted sensory experience, as they are immersed in a vibrant
world filled with music, video, and vinyl via iPad Air, iPad mini with Retina display and iMac. Listen to in-depth interviews with artists such as KAWS, Huck Gee and Frank Kozik, see stop-motion videos created by fans of Kidrobot figures, and get an exclusive look at how vinyl toys are made and customized. The showstopper, The Simple Things,
is a striking sculpture created by a trio of trailblazing creatives:
Williams, Murakami and Jacob Arabo, a.k.a. "Jacob the Jeweler". The
fiberglass, metal and steel head features a wide grin that reveals
blinged-out ordinary objects, including a Pepsi can, a cupcake, and a
Heinz ketchup bottle. First unveiled during Art Basel in 2009, The Simple Things
has been exhibited at London's Tate Museum, Paris' Chateau de
Versailles, Qatar's Museum of Islamic Art, and now, Toronto's Design
Exchange. Among the full spectrum of paintings and sculptures on view are: FriendsWithYou's animated short film Cloudy and custom Rainbow Vortex; Misaki Kawai's tactile, comb-able animal-shaped fur paintings; and prized items from Williams' personal art collection, including Milo on Rocking Horse by Japanese fashion label A Bathing Ape; Be@rbrick representations of his Grammy-winning partners Daft Punk; and commissioned KAWS paintings that poke at pop culture, aptly named KAWSBOB 3 and KURFS (CROWD). Toronto's art and design shop, Magic Pony, presents Pon Pon Pony Jam,
featuring multifarious characters in their envisioned natural
environment from international artists Devilrobots (JP), James Jarvis
(UK), Junko Mizuno (JP), Michael Lau (HK), Nathan Jurevicius (AUS) and
Pete Fowler (UK). This diverse group of creators is recognized as
discernible pioneers within the designer toy field, communicating their
visual philosophies through the unconventional medium of the art toy.
Other contributing artists include Veteran neo-pop artist, Yoshitomo Nara, Huck Gee, Coarse, Frank Kozik, and Bill McMullen.
Rainbow Vortex by FriendsWithYou; Master Control & Carne by DOMA alongside FriendsWithYou's Cloudy, an animated short film, & Misaki Kawai's Pink Arty
"The title of the exhibition, This is Not a Toy,
is important to us since we never set out to make toys, we make
purposeful sculptures and experiential art. We are extremely honoured to
be a part of this exhibition, especially alongside artists like
Murakami and KAWS, because their work resembles toys but they have much
broader concepts. We want to speak to people through fine artwork and
animism, for the purpose of helping people, healing people and
self-empowerment." - Samuel Albert Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III, FriendsWithYou With
its origins in 80s and 90s graffiti culture, the small release toy is
an underground art form that at once represents rebellion and
playfulness. At the same time a product of consumer culture and a
defensible piece of art, these works both reject and appropriate
familiar consumer imagery, and manipulate household names, cartoons and
cultural icons. The result is a powerful one, shifting control from
brand to artist and finally, to consumer. Some artists manipulate and
leverage familiar visual communication as tribute or provocation, while
others create their own original forms, characters and worlds to convey
their ideas of a more affected existence. This Is Not A Toy is on display at the Design Exchange from Friday, February 7th to Monday, May 19th, 2014. Additional web resolution images available HERE. TWEET THIS: Dive into the dream world of designer toys & fine art! #ThisIsNotAToy launches today at the @DesignExchange. Tickets: www.dx.org THIS IS MORE EXHIBITION CATALOGUE (Coming Soon) Looking both to the past and present as an assessment of the genre's growth, this one-of-a-kind custom chronicle of This Is Not A Toy features a diverse selection of artwork and commentary from the curators.In-depth essays and interviews from contributors including superstar Pharrell Williams, Canadian artist and novelist Douglas Coupland, Founder of KidRobot Paul Budnitz, and Toronto Star art critic Murray Whyte
touch on topics of aesthetics and concept, toys as commercial products
of the contemporary art world, collector culture, and the objects and
influences that have collided to manifest the designer toy into
existence. The special edition insert will show photographs and content
specific to the exhibition.
Julie Moon; Jeremy Laing; Bruno Billio; Sid Lee Collective; Doublenaut THE MUNNY PROJECT 10 of Canada's best art and design talents have been recruited by the DX to customize single edition 18" Mega MUNNYs. See creations by Jeremy Laing, who hand-applied scraps of pin-stripe linen to create a fluffy figure; Doublenaut embellished their doll with iconic motifs and symbols; and Rhed 3D-printed 210 indigo-hued components and assembled them by hand in the likeness of a MUNNY. Other participating artists and designers include Castor Design, Bruno Billio, Blok Design, Sid Lee Collective, Bruce Mau Design, Julie Moon, and Team Macho. MAGIC PONY POP-UP SHOP Love the toys? Take the magic home by visiting Magic Pony's pop-up shop in the DX Lobby. As Toronto's original designer toy store, Magic
Pony creates a unique art experience store for museum visitors with
a curated selection of designer toys, fashion, and art products, and
limited edition goods. THIS IS NOT A WORK PARTY PRESENTED BY INK ENTERTAINMENT Two parties for one price! Presented by INK Entertainment, Design Exchange will host a series of Thursday night events, from 6 to 9pm. Unwind at the museum with a complimentary signature TAG Vodka cocktail and
delectable treats. Each of the four events will host interactive
activities (think: DIY Kidrobot MUNNY customization stations). Continue
the fun at your second stop, the after party hosted by INK Entertainment. On February 26, digital landscape artist Alex McLeod leads
a tour of the outstanding contemporary sculptures, figurines and
artworks on display created by international artists including Takashi Murakami, KAWS, and FriendsWithYou. Meanwhile, DJ's Body Interface spin beats and local design shop Magic Pony turns nails into canvases with its Nail Art by Artists drop-in. Admission to This Is Not A Work Party includes entrance to the after party at INK Entertainment's CUBE Nightclub (314 Queen Street West, Toronto). Dates: Wednesday, February 26th, March 26th, April 23rd, May 14th Time: 6pm to 9pm Tickets: $18 (including one complimentary beverage) FAMILY SUNDAYS Held once a month over the duration of This Is Not A Toy, Family Sunday
invites parents and children to explore and engage with the wildly
playful exhibit. Children can follow the exhibition activity book,
create bespoke Kidrobot MUNNYs, dress up in fashion facemasks and
personal accessories inspired by the designer toys on display, and get
in line for an exclusive This Is Not A Toy face paint design by
artist Jennie Suddick. The entire experience is not only made memorable
by guided exhibition tours, but with an exhibition-themed photobooth! Dates: Sunday, February 9th, March 2th, & April 13th Time: 12pm to 4pm Tickets: Free with museum admission or Family Passes can be purchased for $37 DX TALKS Cool and Collected 10 panelists, including gallerist Daniel Faria, designer Joyce Lo and artist Micah Lexier,
deliver rapid-fire presentations on the art of collecting everything
from rare Americana finds and one-of-a-kind furnishings to tiny
curiosities and contemporary art. Date:Tuesday, April 1st Time: 6:30pm Tickets: $16; $8 for DX members DESIGN EXCHANGE (DX) EXPERIENCE DESIGN AT CANADA'S DESIGN MUSEUM Established
in 1994, the Design Exchange (DX) is Canada's only museum dedicated
exclusively to the pursuit of design excellence and preservation of
design heritage. At a crossroads of multiple disciplines, from furniture
and architecture to graphics and fashion, DX exhibitions and talks are
curated to reflect the popular zeitgeist and contemporary culture, while
demonstrating the relevancy and importance of design to everyday life.
Under the leadership of President, Shauna Levy, and a renewed strategic
vision beginning March 2012, the DX has hosted renowned traveling
exhibitions from prestigious cultural institutions across the globe,
including Stefan Sagmeister's The Happy Show from the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia and the Christian Louboutin retrospective from Design Museum London. Educating
and awareness-building from its downtown Toronto location in the
historic and original Toronto Stock Exchange building, the non-profit
charity attracts thousands of visitors of all ages each year. W: www.dx.org T: @DesignExchange F: Design Exchange I: DesignExchange PUBLIC INFORMATION Design Exchange 234 Bay Street, Toronto ON, M5K 1B2 416.363.6121 Hours Monday to Wednesday - 10am to 5pm Thursday - 10am to 8pm Friday and Saturday - 10am to 5pm Sunday - 12pm to 5pm Admission DX Member Admission: $8 General Admission: $16 Student & Senior Admission: $13 Family Pass: $37 Kids 6 and under: Free Exhibition tickets are available for purchase via dx.org. |
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Alison Blickle @NYC's Kravets Wehby Gallery
Los Angeles based Alison Blickle who showed here in San Francisco at Eleanor Harwood last year (PHOTOS) recently showed new paintings in New York at Kravets Wehby Gallery. Lovely works.
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Interview w/ Kevin Earl Taylor
We haven't been featuring many interviews as of late. Let's change that up as we check in with a few local San Francisco artists like Kevin Earl Taylor here whom we studio visited back in 2009 (PHOTOS & VIDEO). It's been awhile, Kevin...
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Peter Gronquist @The Shooting Gallery
If you like guns and boobs, head on over to the Shooting Gallery; just don't expect the work to be all cheap ploys and hot chicks. With Make Stuff by Peter Gronquist (Portland) in the main space and Morgan Slade's Snake in the Eagle's Shadow in the project space, there is plenty spectacle to be had, but if you look just beyond it, you might actually get something out of the shows.
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Jay Bo at Hamburg's Circle Culture
Berlin based Jay Bo recently held a solo show at Hamburg's Circle Culture featuring some of his most recent paintings. We lvoe his work.
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NYCHOS @Fifty24SF
Fifty24SF opened Street Anatomy, a new solo show by Austrian artist Nychos a week ago last Friday night. He's been steadily filling our city with murals over the last year, with one downtown on Geary St. last summer, and new ones both in the Haight and in Oakland within the last few weeks, but it was really great to see his work up close and in such detail.
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Gator Skater +video
Nate Milton emailed over this great short Gator Skater which is a follow-up to his Dog Skateboard he emailed to us back in 2011... Any relation to this Gator Skater?
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Ferris Plock Online Show Now Online as of April 25th
5 new wonderful large-scale paintings on wood panel are available. visit: www.ffdg.net
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ClipODay II: Needles & Pens 11 Years!!
Congrats on our buddies at Needles and Pens on being open and rad for 11 years now. Mission Local did this little short video featuring Breezy giving a little heads up on what Needles and Pens is all about.
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BANDES DE PUB / STRIP BOX
In a filmmaker's thinking, we wish more videos were done in this style. Too much editing and music with a lacking in actual content. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
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AJ Fosik in Tokyo at The Hellion Gallery
Matt Wagner recently emailed over some photos from The Hellion Gallery in Tokyo, who recently put together a show with AJ Fosik (Portland) called Beast From a Foreign Land. The gallery gave twelve of Fosik's sculptures to twelve Japanese artists (including Hiro Kurata who is currently showing in our group show Salt the Skies) to paint, burn, or build upon.
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Ferris Plock - Online Show, April 25th
FFDG is pleased to announce an exclusive online show with San Francisco based Ferris Plock opening on Friday, April 25th (12pm Pacific Time) featuring 5 new medium sized acrylic paintings on wood.
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GOLD BLOOD, MAGIC WEIRDOS
Backwoods Gallery in Melbourne played host to a huge group exhibition a couple of weeks back, with "Gold Blood, Magic Weirdos" Curated by Melbourne artist Sean Morris. Gold Blood brought together 25 talented painters, illustrators and comic artists from Australia, the US, Singapore, England, France and Spain - and marked the end of the Magic Weirdos trilogy, following shows in Perth in 2012 and London in 2013.
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Jeremy Fish at LA's Mark Moore Gallery
San Francisco based Fecal Pal Jeremy Fish opened his latest solo show Hunting Trophies at LA's Mark Moore Gallery last week to massive crowds and cabin walls lined with imagery pertaining to modern conquest and obsession.
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John Felix Arnold III on the Road to NYC
Well, John Felix Arnold III is at it again. This time, he and Carolyn LeBourgios packed an entire show into the back of a Prius and drove across the country to install it at Superchief Gallery in NYC. I met with him last week as he told me about the trip over delicious burritos at Taqueria Cancun (which is right across the street from FFDG and serves what I think is the best burrito in the city) as the self proclaimed "Only overweight artist in the game" spilled all the details.
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FRENCH in Melbourne
London based illustrator FRENCH recently held a show of new works at the Melbourne based Mild Manners
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Henry Gunderson at Ever Gold, SF
Ever Gold opened a new solo show by NYC based Henry Gunderson a couple Saturday nights ago and it was literally packed. So packed I couldn't actually see most of the art - but a big crowd doesn't seem like a problem. I got a good laugh at what I would call the 'cock climbing wall' as it was one of the few pieces I could see over the crowd. I haven't gotten a chance to go back and check it all out again, but I'm definitely going to as the paintings that I could get a peek at were really high quality and intruiguing. You should do the same.
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Mario Wagner @Hashimoto
Mario Wagner (Berkeley) opened his new solo show A Glow that Transfers Creativity last Saturday night at Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco.
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Serge Gay Jr. @Spoke Art
The paintings in the show are each influenced by a musician, ranging from Freddy Mercury, to Madonna, to A Tribe Called Quest and they are so stylistically consistent with each musician's persona that they read as a cohesive body of work with incredible variation. If you told me they were each painted by a different person, I would not hesitate to believe you and it's really great to see a solo show with so much variety. The show is fun, poppy, very well done, and absolutely worth a look and maybe even a listen.
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NYCHOS Mural on Ashbury and Haight
NYCHOS completed this great new mural on the corner of Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco on Tuesday. Looks Amazing.
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Sun Milk in Vienna
With rising rent in SF and knowing mostly other young artists without capitol, I desired a way to live rent free, have a space to do my craft, and get to see more of the world. Inspired by the many historical artists who have longed similar longings I discovered the beauty of artist residencies. Lilo runs Adhoc Collective in Vienna which not only has a fully equipped artists creative studio, but an indoor halfpipe, and private artist quarters. It was like a modern day castle or skate cathedral. It exists in almost a utopic state, totally free to those that apply and come with a real passion for both art and skateboarding
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"How To Lose Yourself Completely" by Bryan Schnelle
I just wanted to share with you a piece I recently finished which took me 4 years to complete. Titled "How To Lose Yourself Completely (The September Issue)", it consists of a copy of the September 2007 issue of Vogue magazine (the issue they made the documentary about) with all faces masked with a sharpie, and everything else entirely whited out. 840 pages of fun. -Bryan Schnelle
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Tyler Bewley ~ Recent Works
Some great work from San Francisco based Tyler Bewley.
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Kirk Maxson and Alexis Mackenzie at Eleanor Harwood Gallery
While walking our way across San Francisco on Saturday we swung through the opening receptions for Kirk Maxson and Alexis Mackenzie at Eleanor Harwood Gallery in the Mission.
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Jeremy Fish Solo Show in Los Angeles
Jeremy Fish opens Hunting Trophies tonight, Saturday April 5th, at the Los Angeles based Mark Moore Gallery. The show features new work from Fish inside the "hunting lodge" where viewers climb inside the head of the hunter and explore the history of all the animals he's killed.
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The Albatross and the Shipping Container
Beautiful piece entitled "The Albatross and the Shipping Container", Ink on Paper, Mounted to Panel, 47" Diameter, by San Francisco based Martin Machado now on display at FFDG. Stop in Saturday (1-6pm) to view the group show "Salt the Skies" now running through April 19th. 2277 Mission St. at 19th.
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The Marsh Barge - Traveling the Mississippi River from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico
For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to quit my job, move out of my house, leave everything and travel again. So on August 21, 2013 I pushed a canoe packed full of gear into the headwaters of the Mississippi River in Lake Itasca, Minnesota, along with four of my best friends. Exactly 100 days later, I arrived at a marina near the Gulf of Mexico in a sailboat.
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Gone Fishin'
Tuesday, 13 October 2015 11:39
I don't think at this point it needs to be written since the last update to Fecal Face was a long time ago, but...
I, John Trippe, have put this baby Fecal Face to bed. I'm now focusing my efforts on running ECommerce at DLX which I'm very excited about... I guess you can't take skateboarding out of a skateboarder.
It was a great 15 years, and most of that effort can still be found within the site. Click around. There's a lot of content to explore.
Hit me up if you have any ECommerce related questions. - trippe.io
SF Giants' World Series Trophy & DLX
Wednesday, 04 March 2015 17:21
I'm not sure how many people are lucky enough to have The San Francisco Giants 3 World Series trophies put on display at their work for the company's employees to enjoy during their lunch break, but that's what happened the other day at Deluxe. So great.
SF skateboarding icons Jake Phelps, Mickey Reyes, and Tommy Guerrero with the 3 SF Giants World Series Trophies
Alexis Anne Mackenzie - 2/28
Wednesday, 25 February 2015 10:21
SAN FRANCISCO --- Alexis Anne Mackenzie opens Multiverse at Eleanor Harwood in the Mission on Saturday, Feb 28th. -details
The Death of the Artist—and the Birth of the Creative Entrepreneur
Wednesday, 21 January 2015 10:34
When works of art become commodities and nothing else, when every endeavor becomes “creative” and everybody “a creative,” then art sinks back to craft and artists back to artisans—a word that, in its adjectival form, at least, is newly popular again. Artisanal pickles, artisanal poems: what’s the difference, after all? So “art” itself may disappear: art as Art, that old high thing. Which—unless, like me, you think we need a vessel for our inner life—is nothing much to mourn.
Hard-working artisan, solitary genius, credentialed professional—the image of the artist has changed radically over the centuries. What if the latest model to emerge means the end of art as we have known it? --continue reading
"Six Degrees" @FFDG
Friday, 16 January 2015 09:30
"Six Degrees" opens tonight, Friday Jan 16th (7-10pm) at FFDG in San Francisco. ~Group show featuring: Brett Amory, John Felix Arnold III, Mario Ayala, Mariel Bayona, Ryan Beavers, Jud Bergeron, Chris Burch, Ryan De La Hoz, Martin Machado, Jess Mudgett, Meryl Pataky, Lucien Shapiro, Mike Shine, Minka Sicklinger, Nicomi Nix Turner, and Alex Ziv.
Work by Meryl Pataky
In Wake of Attack, Comix Legend Says Satire Must Stay Offensive
Friday, 09 January 2015 09:59
Ron Turner of Last Gasp
"[Satire] is important because it brings out the flaws we all have and throws them up on the screen of another person," said Turner. “How they react sort of shows how important that really is.” Later, he added, "Charlie took a hit for everybody." -read on
Solidarity
Thursday, 08 January 2015 09:36
SF Bay Area: What Might Have Been
Tuesday, 06 January 2015 09:36
The San Francisco Bay Area is renowned for its tens of thousands of acres of beautiful parks and public open spaces.
What many people don't know is that these lands were almost lost to large-scale development. link
1/5/14 - Going Back
Monday, 05 January 2015 10:49
As we work on our changes, we're leaving Squarespace and coming back to the old server. Updates are en route.
The content that was on the site between May '14 and today is history... Whatever, wasn't interesting anyway. All the good stuff from the last 10 years is here anyway.
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Jacob Mcgraw-Mikelson & Rachell Sumpter @Park Life (5/23)
Friday, 23 May 2014 09:22
Opening tonight, Friday May 23rd (7-10pm) at Park Life in the Inner Richmond (220 Clement St) is Again Home Again featuring works from the duo Jacob Mcgraw-Mikelson & Rachell Sumpter who split time living in Sacramento and a tiny island at the top of Pudget Sound with their children.
Jacob Magraw will be showing embroidery pieces on cloth along with painted, gouache works on paper --- Rachell Sumpter paints scenes of colored splendor dropped into scenes of desolate wilderness. ~show details
NYPD told to carry spray paint to cover graffiti
Wednesday, 21 May 2014 10:37
NYC --- A new graffiti abatement program put forth by the police commissioner has beat cops carrying cans of spray paint to fill in and cover graffiti artists work in an effort to clean up the city --> Many cops are thinking it's a waste of resources, but we're waiting to see someone make a project of it. Maybe instructions for the cops on where to fill-in?
The NYPD is arming its cops with cans of spray paint and giving them art-class-style lessons to tackle the scourge of urban graffiti, The Post has learned.
Shootings are on the rise across the city, but the directive from Police Headquarters is to hunt down street art and cover it with black, red and white spray paint, sources said... READ ON
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Alison Blickle @NYC's Kravets Wehby Gallery
Los Angeles based Alison Blickle who showed here in San Francisco at Eleanor Harwood last year (PHOTOS) recently showed new paintings in New York at Kravets Wehby Gallery. Lovely works.
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Interview w/ Kevin Earl Taylor
We haven't been featuring many interviews as of late. Let's change that up as we check in with a few local San Francisco artists like Kevin Earl Taylor here whom we studio visited back in 2009 (PHOTOS & VIDEO). It's been awhile, Kevin...
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Peter Gronquist @The Shooting Gallery
If you like guns and boobs, head on over to the Shooting Gallery; just don't expect the work to be all cheap ploys and hot chicks. With Make Stuff by Peter Gronquist (Portland) in the main space and Morgan Slade's Snake in the Eagle's Shadow in the project space, there is plenty spectacle to be had, but if you look just beyond it, you might actually get something out of the shows.
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Jay Bo at Hamburg's Circle Culture
Berlin based Jay Bo recently held a solo show at Hamburg's Circle Culture featuring some of his most recent paintings. We lvoe his work.
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NYCHOS @Fifty24SF
Fifty24SF opened Street Anatomy, a new solo show by Austrian artist Nychos a week ago last Friday night. He's been steadily filling our city with murals over the last year, with one downtown on Geary St. last summer, and new ones both in the Haight and in Oakland within the last few weeks, but it was really great to see his work up close and in such detail.
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Gator Skater +video
Nate Milton emailed over this great short Gator Skater which is a follow-up to his Dog Skateboard he emailed to us back in 2011... Any relation to this Gator Skater?
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Ferris Plock Online Show Now Online as of April 25th
5 new wonderful large-scale paintings on wood panel are available. visit: www.ffdg.net
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ClipODay II: Needles & Pens 11 Years!!
Congrats on our buddies at Needles and Pens on being open and rad for 11 years now. Mission Local did this little short video featuring Breezy giving a little heads up on what Needles and Pens is all about.
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BANDES DE PUB / STRIP BOX
In a filmmaker's thinking, we wish more videos were done in this style. Too much editing and music with a lacking in actual content. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
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AJ Fosik in Tokyo at The Hellion Gallery
Matt Wagner recently emailed over some photos from The Hellion Gallery in Tokyo, who recently put together a show with AJ Fosik (Portland) called Beast From a Foreign Land. The gallery gave twelve of Fosik's sculptures to twelve Japanese artists (including Hiro Kurata who is currently showing in our group show Salt the Skies) to paint, burn, or build upon.
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Ferris Plock - Online Show, April 25th
FFDG is pleased to announce an exclusive online show with San Francisco based Ferris Plock opening on Friday, April 25th (12pm Pacific Time) featuring 5 new medium sized acrylic paintings on wood.
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GOLD BLOOD, MAGIC WEIRDOS
Backwoods Gallery in Melbourne played host to a huge group exhibition a couple of weeks back, with "Gold Blood, Magic Weirdos" Curated by Melbourne artist Sean Morris. Gold Blood brought together 25 talented painters, illustrators and comic artists from Australia, the US, Singapore, England, France and Spain - and marked the end of the Magic Weirdos trilogy, following shows in Perth in 2012 and London in 2013.
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Jeremy Fish at LA's Mark Moore Gallery
San Francisco based Fecal Pal Jeremy Fish opened his latest solo show Hunting Trophies at LA's Mark Moore Gallery last week to massive crowds and cabin walls lined with imagery pertaining to modern conquest and obsession.
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John Felix Arnold III on the Road to NYC
Well, John Felix Arnold III is at it again. This time, he and Carolyn LeBourgios packed an entire show into the back of a Prius and drove across the country to install it at Superchief Gallery in NYC. I met with him last week as he told me about the trip over delicious burritos at Taqueria Cancun (which is right across the street from FFDG and serves what I think is the best burrito in the city) as the self proclaimed "Only overweight artist in the game" spilled all the details.
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FRENCH in Melbourne
London based illustrator FRENCH recently held a show of new works at the Melbourne based Mild Manners
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Henry Gunderson at Ever Gold, SF
Ever Gold opened a new solo show by NYC based Henry Gunderson a couple Saturday nights ago and it was literally packed. So packed I couldn't actually see most of the art - but a big crowd doesn't seem like a problem. I got a good laugh at what I would call the 'cock climbing wall' as it was one of the few pieces I could see over the crowd. I haven't gotten a chance to go back and check it all out again, but I'm definitely going to as the paintings that I could get a peek at were really high quality and intruiguing. You should do the same.
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Mario Wagner @Hashimoto
Mario Wagner (Berkeley) opened his new solo show A Glow that Transfers Creativity last Saturday night at Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco.
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Serge Gay Jr. @Spoke Art
The paintings in the show are each influenced by a musician, ranging from Freddy Mercury, to Madonna, to A Tribe Called Quest and they are so stylistically consistent with each musician's persona that they read as a cohesive body of work with incredible variation. If you told me they were each painted by a different person, I would not hesitate to believe you and it's really great to see a solo show with so much variety. The show is fun, poppy, very well done, and absolutely worth a look and maybe even a listen.
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NYCHOS Mural on Ashbury and Haight
NYCHOS completed this great new mural on the corner of Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco on Tuesday. Looks Amazing.
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Sun Milk in Vienna
With rising rent in SF and knowing mostly other young artists without capitol, I desired a way to live rent free, have a space to do my craft, and get to see more of the world. Inspired by the many historical artists who have longed similar longings I discovered the beauty of artist residencies. Lilo runs Adhoc Collective in Vienna which not only has a fully equipped artists creative studio, but an indoor halfpipe, and private artist quarters. It was like a modern day castle or skate cathedral. It exists in almost a utopic state, totally free to those that apply and come with a real passion for both art and skateboarding
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"How To Lose Yourself Completely" by Bryan Schnelle
I just wanted to share with you a piece I recently finished which took me 4 years to complete. Titled "How To Lose Yourself Completely (The September Issue)", it consists of a copy of the September 2007 issue of Vogue magazine (the issue they made the documentary about) with all faces masked with a sharpie, and everything else entirely whited out. 840 pages of fun. -Bryan Schnelle
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Tyler Bewley ~ Recent Works
Some great work from San Francisco based Tyler Bewley.
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Kirk Maxson and Alexis Mackenzie at Eleanor Harwood Gallery
While walking our way across San Francisco on Saturday we swung through the opening receptions for Kirk Maxson and Alexis Mackenzie at Eleanor Harwood Gallery in the Mission.
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Jeremy Fish Solo Show in Los Angeles
Jeremy Fish opens Hunting Trophies tonight, Saturday April 5th, at the Los Angeles based Mark Moore Gallery. The show features new work from Fish inside the "hunting lodge" where viewers climb inside the head of the hunter and explore the history of all the animals he's killed.
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The Albatross and the Shipping Container
Beautiful piece entitled "The Albatross and the Shipping Container", Ink on Paper, Mounted to Panel, 47" Diameter, by San Francisco based Martin Machado now on display at FFDG. Stop in Saturday (1-6pm) to view the group show "Salt the Skies" now running through April 19th. 2277 Mission St. at 19th.
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The Marsh Barge - Traveling the Mississippi River from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico
For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to quit my job, move out of my house, leave everything and travel again. So on August 21, 2013 I pushed a canoe packed full of gear into the headwaters of the Mississippi River in Lake Itasca, Minnesota, along with four of my best friends. Exactly 100 days later, I arrived at a marina near the Gulf of Mexico in a sailboat.
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