If you're in Los Angeles be sure to get to Corey Helford to view the current show La Catrina with Sylvia Ji featuring her Day of the Dead portraits. Looks wonderful.

Sylvia Ji now showing at LA's Corey Helford

NEW WORKS by JOHN WAGUESPACK @111 Minna Friday <-- Having just been selected as one of nine artists nationwide to be showcased at Art Basel Miami in December 2012, in conjunction with Russell Simmons' Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation and the Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, John Waguespack will exhibit his "New Works" at 111 Minna Gallery November 16, 2012 through January 26, 2013. Opening Reception is November 16 from 5 p.m. until late.
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John Waguespack @111 Minna

Do you do Spotify? We love it, and if you do too, check the Fecal Face playlist.

At Dolby Chadwick on Thursday night, a crowd gathered for the opening of John DiPaolo's new paintings. The crowd could be heard down the hallway, immediately after exiting the elevator, you were inclined to go to the gallery even if that wasn't your original destination. The crowd opened up to a divided space where DiPaolo's large paintings were given plenty of room to be enjoyed.
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Our buddy, the talented Mike Giant (his show), will be releasing new prints through his Skullz Press on the 18th, Sunday, here in San Francisco at the Buckshot on Geary &3rd Ave.

Prints are only $20 and only available at the release (3-7pm). Ride out, have a beer and buy a print.

SF artist Erik Otto is opening up his Mission home and studio to the public this Saturday afternoon (12-6pm) and feeding them FREE BBQ as well. In conjunction, Mullowney Printing will be showing off it's beautiful new print studio accompanied by recent work from it's fellowship of artists and beyond. 933 Treat Ave.

A Full Days Work - Open Studios + Backyard BBQ - Erik Otto Studios & Mullowney Printing (12-6pm). 933 Treat.
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Portland based AJ Fosik opens his second show with Guerrero Gallery this Saturday in SF (7-11pm) featuring new wood sculptural works.

Consisting of hundreds of individually cut pieces of wood, vividly varnished and strategically placed, each of Fosik's pieces undergoes full woodshop gestation, a trade he taught himself. Evocative of American Folk Art, drawing inspiration from a wide range of cultural backgrounds and religious iconography, his sculptures are "existential fetishes."

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AJ Fosik Saturday at the Mission's Guerrero Gallery

Be sure to get your drawing in for our weekly drawing contest FREE FRIDAYZ by this Friday afternoon.

This week's theme: Weekends

Submit your drawing to: freefridayz (at) fecalface.com, and be sure that somewhere in your drawing are the words "Fecal Face". This helps to obviously ensure that the drawing is yours.

Matt Caputo of Jersey City, NJ got his "Weekends" drawing in on time.

Ok, folks. The election is over, the Giants have won the World Series, and San Francisco's weather has returned to normal. So much celebrating. Too many days in the park. Time to get back to reality. Last week to view The Diamond Sea at FFDG. Hours: Wed thru Sat (1-6pm). 2277 Mission St @19th.

The Fecal Face softball team, Poo's On First, may have lost last night, but champagne flowed for Obama. A portion of the team celebrates above.

Be sure you get out there and vote today. Besides being the right thing to do, they also give you a circular sticker. with multiple languages on it!

Oh, and if you vote for Obama, you have the satisfaction of knowing that he'll most likely get to nominate the next supreme court justice who WON'T repeal a women's right to choose... you know, for starters.

Tony Marsh shared twelve new works with a very sophisticated financial district crowd last Thursday night @Hedge Gallery. Guests were immediately greeted with wine and hors d'oeuvres (which were very good, by the way) into the brightly lit space that seemed to be glowing from the street. The space is large, so there was room for guests, and there were quite a few who seemed to be enjoying themselves, including a little ballerina.
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Tony Marsh @Hedge Gallery in San Francisco

In 1971 a fisherman in Maine found an orphaned harbor seal. They named him Hoover after their vacuum cleaner 'cause he ate like one... He and his wife raised him, feed him and kept him in their bathtub till he grew too large for it and moved him outside to their pond.

Over the years Hoover began imitating people's voices...

When Hoover out-grew the backyard pond, the fisherman and his wife gave him up to the New England Aquarium. There at the aquarium he continued his human mimicking by telling visitors to "Get outta here!" or "Well Hello Deah" in a thick New England accent.

Hoover, the talking harbor seal

After hearing a story on this morning's NPR, we knew this would make an amazing ringtone. So we compiled a collection of his recordings we could find online, strung them together and created this ringtone, which you can download here if so inclined... Just knew we had to hear this guy on a daily basis.

Storm Sandy's destruction of Chelsea in NYC. Photo: NY Times

NYC -- The first thing you noticed walking through the streets lined with art galleries between 10th and 11th Avenues in Chelsea, on Wednesday, was the constant, undulating roar of generators, and the hoses, in clumps of three or four, snaking out of just about every gallery, from which cold water that had come flooding in from the Hudson River now gushed into the street. But if you peeked into the darkened galleries — no one here had electricity — you got a sense of the toll Hurricane Sandy has taken on the district, an important part of the arts economy. -continue reading

Ian Johnson, known for his works focused on classic jazz performers, opens a solo show at the Inner Richmond's Park Life on Friday here in SF (7-10pm). 220 Clement St. ~show details

Ian Johnson Friday at Park Life

John McGuire - as Kramer: artist, illustrator, pizza fan and certifiable crazy cat person. ~watch the video.