Category: Events
Mark Ryden’s YHWH Custom Toy Show at Toy Art Gallery
May 23, 2013The Mark Ryden-blessed YHWH Group Custom Toy Show stands apart in a sea of similarly intended toy art shows because of a) its thoughtfully curated artist roster and b) its somewhat conceptual, somewhat controversial nature. The former is pretty obvious: these … Continue reading
Camille Rose Garcia’s Down the Rabbit Hole at the Disney Museum
May 15, 2013This past weekend, Camille Rose Garcia gave an artist talk at San Francisco’s Walt Disney Family Museum. The chat coincided with Down the Rabbit Hole, a new exhibition of over 40 original concept artworks and murals Garcia created for the 2010 … Continue reading
Rat136 Art Infestation at Zerofriends!
April 8, 2013One hundred and thirty-six rats have infested an art gallery in Oakland, but there’s no need to call the Orkin® Man. This is the handiwork of local artist Matt Ritchie, aka rat136. You may recall Ritchie’s epic Retrospectacular exhibition and interview from … Continue reading
Mike Giant’s Metaphorical Suicide
March 26, 2013Local graffiti and ink art legend Mike Giant came to East Oakland for the inaugural show at Paco Excel’s new Manos de Oro gallery. Entitled Metaphorical Suicide (though the writer in me is compelled to point out that a mural … Continue reading
Dr. Seuss had a Secret Hat Collection!
March 25, 2013There once lived an artist who really liked hats. He had hundreds of hats—can YOU believe THAT? Throughout his lifetime, Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, quietly kept a hat collection in a secret closet behind a bookcase … Continue reading
A Rare Look at the Graffiti Inside West Oakland’s 16th Street Train Station
March 12, 2013West Oakland’s 16th Street train station was designed by architect Jarvis Hunt, and it opened for business (101 years ago) in 1912. In its early days, the station made Oakland a major transportation hub. In later years, Hollywood actors came … Continue reading
Organic Updates from David Choong Lee
February 28, 2013While I was in the area to see Frank Kozik and Winston Smith’s Seditions and Jay Howell’s Enthusiastic Person, I thought I could make the afternoon even more awesome by checking out David Choong Lee’s Organic Updates. Alas, Organic Updates … Continue reading
Jay Howell Sculptures and Enthusiastic Person at FFDG
February 25, 2013I’ve been totally enamored with Jay Howell‘s Super Sculpey characters since he began revealing them on Instagram. Lucky for me, the Los Angeles-based artist debuted the new 3D work as part of Enthusiastic Person, his current exhibition at Fecal Face in … Continue reading
Seditions: The Subversive Art of Frank Kozik and Winston Smith
February 25, 2013Frank Kozik and Winston Smith shared a double bill this past month with Seditions, a show of limited edition prints, original collages and resin and vinyl toy art at San Francisco’s Varnish Fine Art. The work in Seditions takes a critical … Continue reading
