COMMON DESCENT: A GROUP EXHIBITION OF NEW PAINTINGS

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Showing: August 7-August 31, 2008

 

111 MINNA GALLERY presents
COMMON DESCENT: A GROUP EXHIBITION OF NEW PAINTINGS

A DEBUT EXHIBITION WITH RISING STARS BRETTY AMORY, SETH ARMSTRONG, ANDREW HEM, JOHN WENTZ!

A group show featuring works by four emerging California talents. The Gallery will host an art opening Thursday, August 7th at 6pm. The art opening is FREE and open to the public.

The exhibition will be on view from Thursday, August 7th through August 31st.  In a debut Minna exhibit, the four emerging artists navigate both interior and exterior landscapes to contemplate the notion of journey and observance within the framework of a dynamic cultural matrix.

 

FEATURED ARTISTS
Consisting of a provocative collection of new works in a debut exhibition of four emerging California artists.

BRETT AMORY, a San Francisco-based artist, tackles the cacophony and estranged anonymity of urban life in his “Waiting” and “Passport” series and collection of new works.
www.BrettAmory.com

SETH ARMSTRONG is a Bay Area artist whose painting layer diverse urban and exotic landscapes populated with citizens and tourists masquerading as nondescript superheroes.
www.SethArmstrong.com

ANDREW HEM, the exhibition’s sole Los Angeles artist, portrays thoughtful hipster geishas against the backdrop of iconic landmarks and exposes the urban landscape as fresh, real and complex.
www.AndrewHem.com

JOHN WENTZ, a Bay Area artist, features grey-scale illustrations of post-apocalyptical scenes transforming iconic scenes of childhood by punctuating the atmosphere with vintage superheroes.

111 Minna Gallery

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111 Minna Gallery  |  San Francisco  |  CA  |  94105  |  415.974.1719
Gallery Hours | Tuesday-Friday 12-5 | Saturday 1-6 Viewing by appointment

21+  (includes babies) 

Art inquiries can be directed to: Gabe Scott
Event inquiries can be directed to: Michelle Delaney

FULL CUSTOM LIVING: THE ART OF GARAGE MAGAZINE

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111 MINNA GALLERY and Garage Magazine Present:
FULL CUSTOM LIVING: THE ART OF GARAGE MAGAZINE

July 3 - August 1, 2008

A Group Show & Opening Reception With Hot Rod Muscle!

111 Minna Gallery and Garage Magazine are delighted to present FULL CUSTOM LIVING: THE ART OF GARAGE MAGAZINE, a group show opening featuring a city block of custom hot rods and the subculture’s most visceral and definitive artists. The Gallery will host an art opening Thursday, July 3rd at 6pm. The art opening is FREE and open to the public.

The exhibition will be on view from Thursday, July 3rd through August 1st. 111 Minna Gallery is located at the corner of Minna and 2nd Streets in downtown San Francisco.

GARAGE MAGAZINE (garagemagazine.com), the foremost authority on the art, trends, styles and personalities of custom car and motorcycle culture, is launching the largest exhibit of photography, paintings, illustrations, cars, bikes and ephemera inspired by the past six years of publishing seen in more than a decade. The flamed, metal-flaked, pinstriped and white-walled world of the most vibrant American subculture will be on display— a grouping of machines and the art they’ve inspired that will all be under one roof for the very first time!

In addition to the surrounding block reserved for invited hot rods, customs and bikes, the Garage Magazine exhibit features special support from Jesse James’ West Coast Choppers and work from thriving subculture’s top artists, painters, illustrators and photographers.

 

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365

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365 - Presented by 111 Minna Gallery and ArtNowSF
June 5-28

A Group Show and Music Event

San Francisco— 111 Minna Gallery and ArtNowSF are delighted to present 365, a group show featuring an impressive selection of 14 of the country’s most visionary, contemporary and abstract artists. The Gallery will host an art opening Thursday, June 5th at 6pm. The art opening is FREE and open to the public before 9pm and $10 after.

The exhibition will be on view from Thursday, June 5th through June 28th. 111 Minna Gallery is located at the corner of Minna and 2nd Streets in downtown San Francisco.

365 features a provocative variety of contemporary art from a diverse group of 14 of the country’s most forward-thinking, contemporary, nouveau-surreal and abstract modern artists. Featured artists include co-curator of the event Kris D, known for live painting and inventive graphic landscapes; Damon Soule, a contemporary artist whose paintings have a galactic, future-forward sensibility; and Oliver Vernon’s furiously creative studies in color and perspective. 365 also showcases the amazing talents of David Choong Lee, Jason Alberto Garcia, Gregory Euclide, Ethen B. Luce, Des10, Rob Pellicer, David Hale, XAVI, Third Peak, Adrien Robert (Sane), and Joshua Mays
A defining element of the 365 group show is the music-fueled element of live art, allowing audience, musician and artist to intersect and ultimately integrate the creative process and widen the art’s communicative scope.

The auditory experience at 365 opening features a staggering mix of national talents in genre-bending sounds from electro to breaks to indie-jazz to house-soul to live music in Minna’s two rooms of art and music.

The OPENING PARTY line-up, from 6pm-2am, includes Eliot Lipp first ever live performance featuring Alex & Lane of the Pnuma Trio, Deadelus, The Gaslamp Killer, Deru, Free the Robots, Alex B, Odd Nosdam, Jel, DJ Centipede and DJ Pedro.

Then on Friday, June 27th, ArtNowSF brings you a very special edition of their monthly art & dance party Suite Jesus, from 9pm-2am. Performers include VinRoc, I-Vier, Ren the Vinyl Archaeologist, Bootleg, and Adam Twelve.

Interested parties may sneak preview the work at www.myspace.com/threehundredsixtyfivemay and RSVP to the opening and closing parties at going.com/365artshow.

365 SHOW ARTIST BIOS & ARTWORK (after the jump)

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May Exhibit | CIRCUS

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CIRCUS! | 
May 1-30, 2008

Plock+Tunstall’s CIRCUS, a new body of collaborative works.

The latest large-scale collaborative exhibition by San Francisco-based artists Ferris Plock and Kelly Tunstall, CIRCUS! is an entirely new body of work that uses circus life to inspect journeys, innocence and artifice.

Their previous, and first, collaborative exhibition at 111 Minna , Saints and Sinners, was well received, as was their Fall 2007 show, Subterranea, at Fuse Gallery in New York. Further integration of the two styles have resulted in an elegant and expanded view on the masculine and feminine dialogue, as well as evolving their concepts and separate artistic processes into a continually evolving combination of drawing and painting methods.

Working in acrylic, collage, spray paint, pencil, pen and ink, gold leaf (and some secret sauce), the experimental, yet classically grounded works live comfortably in a space between graphic expression, stylized representation, surrealism, and sketch. The simplicity of the messages is enhanced by the underlying vitality and complex layering within the work.

In her studied portraits, Tunstall renders stylized, leggy female figures and their pets, prey, powers, dreams and. Their physical forms and accompanying exteriors represent and mirror internal thought processes ad turmoil. For instance, frequent themes such as mermaids, twins, or extra limbs concede a desire, a reliance, an adaptation, or more simply, an aspiration to something greater than being a painting. Tunstall has gone on to exhibit internationally and nationally. This is Tunstall’s fourth major exhibition at 111 Minna.

In contrast, Plock’s work centers on the inner animalistic tendencies and reactions reflected by humans (transfigured into monsters, in some cases) in the context of modern life.  Disgruntled animals trying to capture clowns, animals teaching their young how to escape their predicament and even animals that don’t always socialize coming together to aid each other feature prominently in this new exhibit. Born in New Jersey, Plock has been showing his work for over eight years.

Established in 1993 in downtown San Francisco 111 Minna Gallery is in the business of Art & Leisure. The gallery showcases a unique blend of local and international artists, world class DJ’s, live performance, and film screenings in an elegantly urban and ever-changing 4,000 square foot space. The gallery is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday 12-9 pm and nightly on a rotating schedule for special events. 111 Minna Gallery is located at the corner of Minna and 2nd Street in downtown San Francisco. The Gallery offers a full bar and welcomes ages 21, and over.

Curator Contact: Gabe Scott, 415.974.1719 scott.gabe@gmail.com

For more information go to www.111minnagallery.com

Ferris and Kelly

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April Exhibit | STYLE SAVAGE

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Street Style Originator and Modern School Master

111 Minna Gallery is delighted to present Vulcan’s STYLE SAVAGE, showing new paintings exhibiting April 3-28th. The exhibition will be on view from Thursday, April 3rd through April 28th.

Bred in New York and based in San Francisco, Vulcan is now firmly entrenched in the modern school of street art and fine art convergence. Breaking out of stereotypical generalizations like “grafiiti” and “street art,” terms misused to denote a diluted or primitive art form, Vulcan empowers his work with color, rythym, grace, movement and style.

“I have always been fascinated by graphics in motion. Growing up in New York City, I would watch pieces go by on the subways. My brain would snap a picture and capture one particular detail of the whole piece. Now I paint with the same approach. I want to capture the color and energy of a particular moment in time.” –Vulcan

Starting his gallery career at New York’s FUN GALLERY in the mid-1980s, and with group shows in New York and Switzerland soon after, Vulcan is adept at making art both in public and for a gallery setting, viewing the diverse modes of exhibition as powerful ways to display his unique artistic vision to a wide audience. As a master of the modern school of street and fine art, Vulcan has guest lectured at such universities as NYU and Yale.

With commissions ranging from painting servers at Google’s Mountain View headquarters, creating wallpapers for a European mobile phone company, executing a mural for the Hall of Fame in Spanish Harlem and designing artwork for Twisted Sister’s Come out and Play album, Vulcan has an eclectic diverse patron base that mirrors his revolutionary and inclusive style.

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111 Minna Gallery Interview with artist Vulcan

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What is your genetic makeup?
My mother was both Native American and African American, my father was African American. My great-great-grandmother was a slave. I grew up in Spanish Harlem and the Lower East Side of New York.

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Butt-Rocking Sound Installed at the 111 Minna Gallery

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Qoöl SF’s Brand New Sound System Rocks Your Butt Harder Than The Old One Did.

Qoöl’s home of 12 years (yes, we’ve been doing it that long), the 111 Minna Gallery, has a brand new state of the art sound system, which is way better at rocking butts than the old one. The extremely butt rocking new sound comes from JK Sound, an outfit that has provided sound for some of the most butt rocking venues on the West Coast.  The butt rocking power of the new system is not only due to increased number of butt rocking amplifiers and speakers, but also due to the revolutionary new butt rocking speaker design of the EAW AX366’s which are installed in the main dance area. A forthcoming acoustic treatment of the space will complete this most butt rocking project.

We encourage you to come on down to to Qoöl and have your butt rocked. [source: qoolsf.com]

March Exhibit | PUNKS GIT CUT

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New works by JAY HOWELL
March 6-29th

Opening Reception: March 6th at 6pm

111 Minna Gallery is delighted to present Jay Howell’s PUNKS GIT CUT showing new paintings, photos and animations exhibiting March 6 - 29th. The Gallery will host an artist reception Thursday, March 6th at 6pm with San Francisco band, The Jizz performing live plus special guest DJ’s spinning tunes throughout the evening. The reception is FREE and open to the public. The exhibition will be on view from Thursday, March 6th through March 29th. 111 Minna Gallery is located at the corner of Minna and 2nd Streets in downtown San Francisco.

San Francisco’s raconteur of the arts and music scene - painter, cartoonist, publisher, DJ, cyclist, and dog lover, Jay Howell, will present his first major solo show.

"It sounds silly, but I just want people to laugh, it means so much to me and nothing else matters."
– J. Howell


 

As with all his endeavors Jay brings to the PUNKS GIT CUT exhibition the same spirit of invention and authentic outlook that characterize his zine of the same name that he has been publishing for the last twelve years.

After flunking out of Art School in only six months Howell, professing an “I don’t know what the hell I’m doing and I don’t care” attitude, kept drawing – gross cartoons, funny cartoons – going on to create skateboard graphics for Antihero and Consolidated. He exaggerates the eccentricities of the human character while simultaneously generalizing about our wide range of shared characteristics like boners and cute dogs.

Jay is the author of countless books and zines, most recently the instructional guides; Dog and Dog Information and Let Me Tell You Where to Stick It (with Audrey Erickson). Jay is also co-owner of the record label Mount Saint Mountain, who with partner Mark Kaiser, has continued to put out great records for the last several years. For more information go to: www.punksgitcut.blogspot.com or mtstmtn.com.

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