Love from two twelve on Vimeo.

Cool Time Lapse Video

Pacific Art Collective (PAC) was asked for a third year to paint live murals at San Francisco Magazines Best of the Bay. PAC artists Denz One and Chris Cowan represented and did it up large! The event was held at The Metreon’s City View in SF.

This is a new series of 15 figures that Frank Plant has been working on. It falls in line with his earlier piece “Stay on Message”. According to Frank, “The signs normally carry proclamations/declarations of love, fear, social injustice, hate etc… Sometimes just the will to communicate is enough.”

Frank Plant is a Barcelona based American sculptor.

Series of Fifteen Quasi Identical Figures, Steel, cardboard, paint, 48cm x 24cm each unit, 2009

Full Deck: A Short History of Skate Art

Full Deck presents an anthology of skate-art from the 1960’s to the present. The skate artist’s aesthetic—raw, passionate and personal—is energized by a devotion to the act of skating and a DIY embrace of skate culture.

Since the first graphic was drawn onto a board, the culture of skateboarding has grown hand in hand with visual arts movements such as the Mission School (Barry McGee, Chris Johanson) and graffiti art. The skate culture’s embrace of individual style, approach and intention is, I think, what continues to draw new skaters to this renegade art practice—a hybrid in a realm of its own. And like the inclusive surf community, skaters and skate artists span several
generations.

The multi-media skate art community fosters the highly unique mix of painting, graphics, photography, filmmaking, music, stickers, magazines and clothing—the ever-growing creative by-products stemming from this alternative and popular mode of transportation. The colorful graphic paintings on the bottom of a skateboard are one of the purest forms of self-expression: highly personal and mostly created without artistic boundaries—just like skateboarding itself.

Carrie Lederer, Curator of Exhibitions & Programs

Featured Artists
James Barsness • Tiffany Bozic • Todd Bratrud • Steve Caballero • Sean Cliver • Lori Damiano • Corey Duffel • Phil Eggleston • Skip Engblom • Jeremy Fish • Todd Francis • Mike Giant • Mahtab Habibian • Damien Hirst • Faye Jaime • Ian Johnson • Bryce Kanights • Obi Kaufman • Mike Kershnar • Billy Kroft • Tom Ledin • Amanda Lynn • Holly Lyons • Chris Main • Gwen Manfrin • Marilyn Minter • Johnny Mojo • Takashi Murakami • Pushead • Matt Ritchie • Jenny Schmid • Kirk Shelton • Deth P Sun • Winston Tseng • Jake Watling • Derek Weisberg • Christopher Wool • Tobin Yelland

From the Collections of
Mark Aviles • Sam Cunningham • Marc D’Estout • Skip Engblom • Cari Herod • Myche Howe • Ian Johnson • Ryan Maddox • Chris Main • Steven Muegge • Eric Olsen • Jason Strubing • Ann Trinca • Gwynne Vitello • Tony Vitello • Mark Whiteley • Dan Worden • Catherine Clark Gallery • Consolidated • Element • Enjoi • Foundation • Playgrounded • Santa Cruz Skateboards • Santa Monica Airlines Skateboards • Skateworks • SLAP • Streetcorner • Thrasher • Toy Machine • Western Edition

Skateboards
July 5 - Septmeber 13, 2009
Opening reception, Thursday, July 9th, 2009, 6-8:00pm

Bedford Gallery
1601 Civic Dr.
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
925-295-1423

Great Group show at the SPACE GALLERY in SF this FOURTH OF JULY featuring Chloe Fortin, Kevin Barry, Chris Granillo, Lady Reni, Buzz Parker, Rob Reger, LiL Japan, Jon Nagel, Janell Francois, Jason Roberts, Jeramie Tolentino, Troy from LA, Akira Beard, Helen Bayly, Hassan Said, Nic Dematteo, Lucien Shapiro, David Young and many more

SPACE GALLERY 1141 Polk ST. san francisco CA
July 4th, 9pm-2am

Selected Works from Michal Tarka

Bryan Dalton is a multi-faceted artist creating a broad range of projects, from a website entitled “Sweet Gifs” devoted entirely to the increasingly popular early 90’s proto-web-wizardry of, you guessed it, sweet gifs, to a bi-annual independently published “pyschedelic field trip” ‘zine. On top of this all, he runs a freelance photo-illustration, design and animation firm in Portland Oregon. The unifying aesthetic that unites all his divergent practices is a playful irony and with a touch of kitsch-magic. Click here to read the full interview.

Avantgarden Gallery presents a video from the street intervention by Bo130 and Microbo . The performance is linked to the exhibition “Cut’N'Past and Dirty Fingers” at Avantgarden Gallery , via Cadolini 29 ,Milano.

The wall is visible at Via Palermo , Milano Italy.

“Here are some pics from the first day of work on the walls we (Reyes, Steel, Lango, Margaretta, Amanda Lynn) are painting for Hattar Motors in San Rafael.”

Thanks Amanda Lynn

Pics from Goodfoot’s Latest Show: Mario Robert & Matt Schlosky

Thanks Jason