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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
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
Devorah Sperber Recreates Iconic Art With Spools of Thread
March 5, 2013If you enjoyed yesterday’s iconic works of art recreated with balloons, here’s something from a similar “spool” of thought. Devorah Sperber breaks famous paintings down to their ‘pixels’ and then recreates them using spools of thread. On my way to see David Choong … 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
Donta Santistevan’s Self-Conscious Coffee & Skateboarding Monsters
January 14, 2013Donta Santistevan is a San Francisco-based artist and illustrator. Locals may know him from working at the Kidrobot store and drawing at Sketch Tuesdays. It was during the latter that I picked up the great drawing above. Not only is Donta’s … Continue reading
Misfit Toy Factory II at Root Division
December 10, 2012Root Division is a San Francisco arts organization that seeks to ”improve appreciation and access to the visual arts by connecting personal inspiration and community participation.” Among other cool things, they provide below-market rate studio spaces for 18 artists. Saturday night, … Continue reading
Jane’s Addiction and Sadobabies at The Warfield in San Francisco
October 19, 2012Jane’s Addiction played an amazing set at The Warfield in San Francisco last night. Jane’s is one of those bands I don’t listen to all the time anymore, but yesterday’s show reminded me why I once did. Thinking about the … Continue reading
Ransom and Mitchell’s Mesmerizing Portraits of Contemporary Artists
September 27, 2012So Bravo network has this new bottom-of-the-barrel reality TV show about truly abhorrent privileged girls with familial connections to the NYC art world. It’s called Gallery Girls, and since The Sucklord made an appearance, I tuned in for an episode. This is … Continue reading
