Hollywood, CA: Stereo Skateboards proudly present the release of Tim Kerr’s guest artist board series and Light In The Attic Records present the official reissue of “Where’s My Towel?” the debut full length LP from The Big Boys Saturday, March 9th (5 pm - 9 pm) at Ranch & Roll (5106 Fountain Ave. Hollywood, CA).

Artists include Jason Adams, Ashley Anson, Grant Brittain, Casey Brown, Karoline Collins, Lydia Emily, Brian Flynn, Todd Francis, Dan Gluibizzi, Jeff Ho, Jim Houser, Michael C. Hsiung, Jon Humphries, Jordin Isip, Rich Jacobs, Jason Jessee, Chris Johanson, Mel Kadel, Gregg Kaplan, Richard Kirby, Matt Leines, Dan Levy, Andrew Martin Scott, Mexi, Travis Millard, Mofo, O, Patrick O'Dell, Chris Owen, Clint Peterson, Chrissy Piper, Russ Pope, Ron Rauto, Steve Saiz, Roger Seliner, Emily Shur, Panhandle Slim, Jai Tanju, Deanne Templeton, Ed Templeton, Jeff Vales, Mark Whiteley, Clint Woodside, Tobin Yelland, and Yelley. The opening was filled with artist in attendance, skateboarders and fans, all of whom came out for free drinks, a raffle and to pick up a LP from The Big Boys.

Tim Kerr hanging his wall.

Tim Kerr original pieces displayed side by side with his Stereo Skateboard series.

Snuck in while someone was taking this rad photo of Jeff Ho, Tim Kerr and Chris Pastras.

Buckle up for "Cheese and Rice Sonic Rush," the newest exhibition of work from Andy Hadle, now up at Wonder Fair (Lawrence, KS). This multimedia show serves up a mash-up of sculptural installation, video and works on paper for the everyday consumer, critic and cynic. Enjoy!

Nestled away in Lawrence, KS in a place called Wonder Fair, a spectacularly perfect exhibition for the space was unveiled to the public. The official opening was pushed back due to a blizzard, but despite snow flurries, local art goers were not kept away from the first chance to see artist Andy Hadle return to his hometown to share his latest and greatest work in a show titled "Cheese and Rice Sonic Rush."

This multi-textural show has that tailgate/deep-fried/Walmart/Superbowl-Sunday/Nauseous/Funfaire/Americana-underbelly feel to it that Hadle pulls off so well. Hadle agrees that the Nacho-cheesier-essence of his ink and acrylic works on paper and sculptural installations is evolving to a new level in this show.

His newest work "investigates the absurd, yet tenuous, codependency of commodities and human survival. Inspired by Humour Noir and Bizarro Fiction, 'Cheese and Rice Sonic Rush' is an ironic composition of consumer culture banality, wherein the viewer is invited to empathize with sell-outs and hypermarkets." The characters that emerge in this show are extensions from the consumer ritual dynamic of today's American culture.

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Petits Fruits des Champs, 22" x 30", ink and acrylic on paper

The Shooting Gallery celebrated their 10th anniversary with a group show packed with people and work last Saturday night. The work is a sampling of the artists who have been with the gallery over the last decade and includes favorites like Ferris Plock, APEX, Robert Williams and Augustine Kofie. The space was stuffed full and people responded by coming out in droves. It was very difficult to get into the back project rooms, but that seemed to be an indication of the success of the night; too many people isn’t exactly a huge problem. The gallery really took advantage of their new space filling every room with work, and if this is what the first ten years looked like, I can’t wait to see what the next ten brings.

Herakut, So You Really Fear Me ‘Cause I’m Different?, Spray paint and acrylic on canvas, 6’x10’

Shepherd Fairey, Duality of Humanity, Mixed media on canvas, 10’x14’

Nudes Curated by: The Worlds Best Ever
March 09, 2013 — April 06, 2013
@Guerrero Gallery

Guerrero Gallery is proud to present Nudes, an exploration of nudity in contemporary art and photography is curated by the NY-based, worldwide culture website The World’s Best Ever and features a variety of artists including Asger Carlsen, Alfred Steiner, Chris Yarmick, Dave Schubert, Eddie Martinez, Eric Beltz, Faile, Geoff McFetridge, HuskMitNavn, Mark Gonzales, Mark Mulroney, Sandy Kim, Stephen Powers, Suzannah Sinclair, Taylor McKimens, Tomokazu Matsuyama, Troels Carlsen, and Victor Reyes.

The project room featured woven macomber floor loom with hand dyed wool yarn by Erin Riley whose series is inspired by the images produced by the internet generation.

Congrats to Guerrero Gallery for celebrating their 3rd year anniversary. Good people, good drinks, great art.

Our favorite piece in the show. Beautiful graphite work - Eric Beltz, Holy Fuck, 2010, Graphite on matte board, 60”x40”

Artists Mario Ayala and Curiot

Mark Mulroney, Untitled, 2013, Acrylic on poplar, 21”x25”

A couple weeks back Rachel Ralph made her way downtown for the opening of 111 Minna's newest shows SPECTACLE & FRACTURED MINDS. SPECTACLE featured works from Ben Walker, Emily Burns, Jaxon Northon, Nicomi Nix Turner, Monty Guy and Josh Thurman while the 2 person show FRACTURED MINDS featured works by N8 Van Dyke & Jonathan Way$hak.

Photos from the opening of Age of Omuktlans featuring works by Mexico City based Curiot @FFDG in San Francisco. Photos by Chloe Rice

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The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco opened The Moment for Ink on Saturday, just before the start of the Lunar New Year Parade downtown.

This show interestingly re-imagines ink outside of its Chinese domain and includes several American and female artists, like Kiki Smith. Each piece employs ink in a very different way, from traditional drawings to installations taking up entire walls, and the medium takes on new surfaces and meanings. This is one of the best shows I’ve been to recently and shows vast differentiation, even though each piece is essentially made in the same medium. Chinatown presents never-ending opportunities for experience, and this is not to be missed. Just make sure you make it there before it closes on May 18th.

Toyin Odutola, Whenever the Occasion Arises, 2012, Pen ink and marker on paper, 9x12”

Hong Chun Zhang, Twin Spirits #2, 2002, Charcoal on paper, 5’x25'

After seeing McGee's Berkeley Art Museum exhibition last fall, this show was not what I was expecting, but it was perfect. Instead of a large-scale museum installation, the works were hung haphazardly on pins, just like any other student show which would take place in this gallery. A small crowd flowed into the gallery and then out into the hallway where they served cookies and popcorn, and where legends like McGee could look at student work hung in display cases. The artists were present, adding to the inclusive environment, and many students passed by on their way to class without realizing that there were stars in their halls. It was a great little show, and was probably highly encouraging to students who are just starting their art careers. It was as if the artists took a step back to show just how far they have come and, maybe, just how far they can go next.

The geometric-ness of Barry McGee

Mark Mulroney lives and works in Syracuse, NY and has shown here in San Francisco at Park Life, Ever Gold and FFDG. His current and 5th show at Mixed Greens in NYC began with the simple vision of a man stranded on a desert island with a palm tree, two coconuts, and maybe a girl. Vintage Playboys and the idea that Tarzan was an asshole.

WE'RE NEVER GETTING RESCUED WITH THAT ATTITUDE runs through March 16th.

New Shooting Gallery & White Walls

For this show, White Walls opened with the grizzly paintings of Chad Hasegawa. I've been a fan of this local artist since I saw his bear in Clarion alley, and he used this opportunity to bring his bears to the space of fine art, titling them appropriately for the role. Several paintings are titled with the names of modernist masters and their styles are replicated in the bears themselves. While Motherwell has thick, black brushstrokes, Rothko has a washed background and a fluid texture.

Moving further back brought visitors into Charmaine Olivia's Muses. This girl can paint with incredible detail and the works are undeniably beautiful, but this display was repetitive, they all kind of look the same. Her Muses are girly and pretty, which was seen in the audience attending, but they don't leave much room for anything but sexual femininity. But, that's ok. Sold individually, I can see any one of these works hanging in a girl's apartment anywhere in the city and it was great to see so much space devoted to a local artist.

Moving further back brought visitors into two project galleries, one by Sickboy and one by Word to Mother. Sickboy's installation, complete with a working coffin toy train, was my personal favorite of the night. The paintings are colorful and detailed, and I only wish that I would have been able to see them better. Moving around the train, it was really difficult to get to the paintings themselves, and I kind of wish they would have switched his gallery with Word to Mother, because that one is a little bigger. Word to Mother opened Fuck You Pay Me, a Giants-themed installation complete with baseball bats, foam fingers, and astro turf. Since there was only one painting, I popped in and out, but managed to score some cracker jacks and bazooka bubble gum before I left.

Saturday night really was more of an event than an exhibition, this is a new upscale version of the galleries, and I should but an emphasis on the plural, this place just keeps going and going. It was a suit and dress kind of night, fancy for any Tenderloin event, but frankly, the space is fancy and deserves if not your Sunday best, then at least Thursday's finest. These galleries have really transformed themselves in this move and I cannot wait to see what they do next.

Some installation photos of Guerrero Gallery's current two solo shows featuring graffiti writers REMIO and Tim Diet.

Vancouver based REMIO started VTS crew (Vandal Team Supreme, Vandal Travel System, Vandalize Till Sunrise, Very Top Secret) in 2002 and is a current member of two other legendary collectives, Twists’ DFW/THR and Os Gemeos’ VLOK.

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Tim Diet began painting in the 80s, sneaking out of his parents’ house at night to “tag” alongside his older brother. The graffiti lifestyle immediately drew him in and influenced not only his craft, but his persona and idea factory as well. Diet has traveled across the US, Europe and Japan, just to paint. His recognizable work can be found on streets across the globe, in numerous books & publications, and now in galleries as his unique style continues to develop. This is Me will be the first exhibition of Tim Diet’s full body of work.

The shows run through Feb 25, 2013.

Photo: Jeremiah McNair

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Robert Bowen's work never fails to disappoint, but it was Lisa Alonzo and Lee Harvey Roswell who stood out in this selection. Alonzo's paintings have so much texture it's almost unbelievable. It looks as though she sculpts paint and molding paste into hundreds of roses maybe in the same way bakers decorate their cakes. Paired with the stippled colors forming her figures' faces, these woks have a confectionary quality that makes you drool. But Roswell, man that guy can paint. I stood in front of Hhh for at least 15 minutes looking at the detail, and the more I looked, the more I found. The picture below does not do it justice and a trip in person is necessary.

On display through March 23rd, this show is definitely worth a visit. Every single piece of work is high quality with a lighthearted sensibility. We also made a trip to the SoMa Streat Food Park, and it's a great route for an afternoon stroll.

Renee Castro, This is not a Native American, Acrylic paint and ink on wood panel, 25”x31”

Robert Bowen, The Guardian, Acrylic on panel, 24”x48”

Albert Reyes, Give Collection, Ink on book covers

Thanks to everyone who came out to last Friday's opening of Enthusiastic Person @FFDG here in San Francisco. Such a fun evening to celebrate Jay Howell's newest works and sculptures.

Photography by Shaun Roberts

Jay Howell and Tommy Guerrero

Kelly Tunstall, Jay Howell, and Ferris Plock

LA based Jay Howell opened his current solo show in San Francisco's Mission district at FFDG last Friday to a huge crowd (pics later today) featuring over 40 new works including, for the first time, one of a kind sculptural works.

The show Enthusiastic Person runs through March 2nd and can be viewed in person Wed thru Sat (1-6pm). Works can purchased online: ffdg.net

FFDG is pleased to present Los Angeles based artist Jay Howell in his third highly anticipated solo show with the gallery entitled “Enthusiastic Person” featuring over 25 new mixed media cartoon-styled works on paper. Currently in production on the first season of the animated children’s show “Sanjay and Craig”, which Howell is Executive Producer, Co-Creator and Art Director, Howell will exhibit recent colorfully bright and whimsical drawings featuring the cast of characters, patterns and geometric shapes so recognizable as Jay Howell works. The 2013 Noise Pop music festival will feature Jay Howell's artwork on all their promotional materials.

Jay Howell is an all around kind dude that lives in Los Angeles with photographer girlfriend Ruth Swanson and a dog named Street Dog. When he's not illustrating for Vans or drawing skateboards he can be seen on the streets fuckin' around and sayin' classic shit. Jay designed the main characters for Fox's hit show, "Bob's Burgers". He is currently working as an Executive Producer, Co-Creator and Art Director on "Sanjay and Craig" an animated children's show for Nickelodeon.

View complete show: www.ffdg.net

While We Were Away at 941 Geary is a great show. That's almost enough to say, other than the fact that you should go see it. Curated by gallery director Tova Lobatz, the show features artists from the US and Europe (except for Chanoir who is from Columbia) whom Lobatz encountered in her travels. Along with their works, most of the artists included a suitcase with all the necessary items for their creative process. Whereas How & Nosm obviously carry stencils, Poesia carries a camera and paint-stained T-shirt. Eachartist's label was also in the form of a passport page, giving both biographical information and a quotefrom them. This personal insight, literally seeing into the internal objects of their reality as artists, givesthe show an intimate relationship between curator and artist, and therefore artist and viewer. Now, that is enough to say. Just go see the show before it closes March 2nd.

Miss Van, Sol y Luna, Acrylic on canvas, 28.5”x36”

Hebru Brantley, My Secrets Keep Secrets, Mixed media on canvas, 56”x56”

Jaybo Monk, I Lay Deaf to Death, Spray paint, acrylic and charcoal, 59”x1.5”x59”

Sten Lex, Untitled 3, Acrylic and stencil poster on wood, 28”x40”

The current exhibition "Points of Entry," a solo exhibition by LA artist MartinDurazo at Luis de Jesus in Culver City, Los Angeles, stimulates the senses ina high-art-meets-hessian-smoke-den vein that demonstrates where the artist iscoming from and how far he can take it.

The aptly titled exhibition "Points of Entry" includes a series of several large-scale (ranging from 9 ft x 6 ft. to 9 ft x 12 ft.) acrylic paintings and a black boxconstructed installation room where viewers can literally find a point of entry intothe world of the paintings and get immersed in their pigment and energy.

This constructed black light filled installation, of which the show is titled after, spills its incense smoke and fringe classic playlist out into the white cube of thegallery. Once inside, viewers find themselves in a pulsing, smoke filled, neoncolored cave fully festooned with black lights, LED lighting effects and garage-party paraphernalia including bean bag chairs, lava lamps, fetish gear, waterbongs and a smaller version of one of Durazo's paintings found on the whitewalls of the gallery.

After emerging from this installation, which feels a bit like falling down the best possible dreamscape rabbit hole, the two-dimensional works in this exhibitiontake on a different life. With titles ranging from "Slayer" to "Post Punk" theabstract pieces come alive with Richter-esque sweeping neon, metallic andblack swaths of color, reminiscent of rock concert posters. Technically takingnods from the continuum of modern abstract painting, Durazo takes these works further, infusing them with his fringe-culture influence, and a neon grittiness that feels fully LA.

Michelle Blade in front of her work.

(All 366 paintings can be viewed in detail on Blade's tumblr page.

Here's my complete photo coverage of HuskMitNavn, (RememberMyName) Danish artist, b. 1975, lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark, "One Of These Days", which opened on the 18th at V1 Gallery in Copenhagen. -Henrik Haven

Bryan Schnelle,
Prepare to Die, Paper collage and enamel on canvas, 72"x72"

John Felix Arnold III, Mixed media on wood panel