Browsing “Art Shows”

The A.skate Foundation is once again looking for artists to donate work to their annual “1 in 91″ art show. For those unfamiliar, A.skate is a non-profit, grass roots organization that “allows children with autism to be a part of the social world through skateboarding. They hold clinics for children with autism at no cost to the families, give grants to children with autism for skateboard gear, as well as promote awareness and educate families about the skateboard industry”. A worthy cause for sure. I donated a piece to last year’s event and will definitely be participating in round 3.

This year’s auction will take place at The Lab in Costa Mesa, CA on Saturday, April 21st.  Email  info@askate.org for details of how to donate work.  Art is due no later than April 12.

The Friends of the Roc City Park are stoked to be putting on GET A GRIP III, a fundraiser for the Roc City Park. The Opening night is Friday March 2, 2012 from 5-9pm at The Yards in the Rochester Public Market.

The show runs March 3-25th, with open hours on Tuesdays, thursdays, and Saturdays from 10am-2pm.

If the shows anything like previous years, get there on opening night, because works sell quickly!

Find out more on the Facebook page for the event.

Brought to you by:
Roc City Skatepark
The Yards
Krudco.
1975
Etiket Clothing
DukSauce
Inside Skateboards
Mckay’s Photography

HIGHLAND PARK, LOS ANGELES: There’s a huge upcoming group show THESE FRIENDS 3 coming Friday, February 24th at THISLOSANGELES gallery in Highland Park.  Too many talented artists to name, so make sure to take a peek and drop by.  They’ll also be giving away some tote bags that I designed to the first 100 folks who arrive.

Sneak peek of the weird hairy hunter guy I did for the tote.

If you are on the Gold Coast in Australia, you’re not going to want to miss this.

NEW YORK, NY: I’ll be participating in an upcoming group show, Rabid, Wild & Docile, which opens at myplasticheart  NYC February 24th, from 6-9pm.   The show features various bear-inspired works from artists such as Luke Chueh, EVOKER, Tim Sullivan, Flying Fortress, and many more!

Rabid, Wild, & Docile
A collection of bear inspired artwork
February 24 – March 25, 2012
myplasticheartnyc
210 Forsyth St
NYC 10002

So, yeah, last summer I was curating a few chunks of that huge skateboard art show in Paris called Public Domaine… This one.  Among other things, I was in charge of a deck exhibit downstairs under the moniker Agents Provocateurs -an anthology of offensive/controversial/political/message-charged skateboard graphics from then (1990-ish) to now. So that could have been that.

But the venue in question bares a souvenirs-type of shop, and I thought it’d be cool to pick a few of the graphics exhibited and make super high-quality silk-screen prints of them, just a run of 100 prints for each. The two chosen ones ended up being the Sean Cliver “Charles Manson Brown” done for 101 in 1993, and Todd Francis’ “Nature’s Revenge” deck for Julien Stranger out on Antihero.

To make sure this awesome art was going to be treated right, I really wanted to work with Anagraphis/Les Freres Lumineux, whose outstanding portfolio print work for legendary alternative cartoonists (Robert Crumb, Gilbert Shelton etc) is mind-blowing, albeit of course not cheap at all.

Prints were made, they looked great, a bunch sold at the show… But the leftover was pretty much promised to rot in the shop’s basement once it was over. It killed me to see it going to waste. So in broke-ass, yet super-hero-ish fashion, I went and salvaged the about 50 prints of each graphic left. The only thing I forgot is that I might not have at all the money for it but fuck it, I bought them all back -scooped them up American Pickers-style, minus the profit. And here they are now, available exclusively on Memory Screened!

Dreamland, an Exhibition of Artworks by Claudio Kirac.

‘Dreamland’ revolves around two key themes; the thrill of travel and the longing for home. While ‘on the road’ for periods at a time, and mostly without the leisure one would assume with travel or ‘holidays’, Claudio grasps the moments around him; wholly embracing local cultures and traditions, venturing ‘off the beaten path’ and stepping outside the comforts of everyday life. While befriending strangers and capturing those special moments one only encounters on ‘the journey’, work and play blur into one. Soon comes the challenge of missing the familiarity of home, the everyday norm, the common voices of close friends and the touch of a loved one. But it is this that makes us appreciate the everyday and helps restore our balance and soon we are home again where we can reflect on the journey and the places that became home for those moments in time. The works of ‘Dreamland’ express and investigate many of these notions.

Feb 23rd – March 6th 2012
Comb Space Gallery
Kirra Point, 23 McLean St, Coolangatta, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia.

Tomorrow night this opens in San Francisco. Last weekend I help art director, Porous Walker set up some of the installation and documented the progress. Photos can be seen over on my COLOR blog. More on Porous, the art department and the installation coming soon.

About the installation from the gallery:

FIFTY24SF Gallery, in association with Upper Playground and American Zoetrope, are pleased to announce TWIXT sc. 83, an exhibition and installation coinciding with legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola’s newest feature film, Twixt. The exhibition opens January 13, 2012 with a public reception at 7PM.

Over his past three films, Francis Ford Coppola, famed director of The Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now, has set-out to create self-written, self-financed, self-produced, and self-distributed films with his own intimate crew. Developed through personal experiences, a love of American Gothic, Edgar Allan Poe, and Coppola’s own trials as a horror genre author, Twixt is the story of B-list author Hall Baltimore’s process of writing his new mystery while researching an old murder case in a remote Northern California town. While Baltimore (played by Val Kilmer) is seemingly rewriting history with the help of the an eccentric town sheriff, he finds himself embedded in his most personal, demanding story he has ever written. Filmed around Northern California with locals as actors, as well as sets built on Coppola’s own property in Rutherford, Twixt examines the process of storytelling as it applies to personal experience, artistic influences, and the classic American genres that have become staples of modern cinema.

Working within their own self-financed restraints and freedoms, the team behind Twixt had the unique experience of researching and building sets in and around Coppola’s home in Northern California. Many of the sets were built in Coppola’s backyard, while some required the small town backdrops of Northern Napa and Lake counties. In keeping with the original spirit of American horror, some scenes were created with intentional kitsch, while some dream sequence were shot with highly-detailed, ornate sets and original post-production work.

For TWIXT sc. 83, members of Twixt‘s tiny tiny Art Dept, (Jimmy DiMarcellis, David Hopp, and John Paul Goorjian) will be rebuilding the set of the film’s dramatic climax sequence, scene 83. The center of the gallery will feature a remake and stand-alone installation of the film’s clock tower, shown in the film as an impromptu 3D experience. Also on display from Twixt, will be bat and birdhouses from Nice, California artist John Hathaway, whose front yard/gallery/shop “The Woodpecker”, was a key set in the film. TWIXT sc. 83 will also feature a series of other pieces from the film’s set department that were found around different locations in Northern California and in the Coppola archives, as well as behind the scenes photography by the film’s executive producer, Anahid Nazarian and set photographer, Kalman Mueller. The gallery will run trailers of the film, along with other enhancements to bring Twixt‘s horror scenes to life.

Joe Castro

This Saturday night in Philly is the opening for the Slingluff Gallery’s For Penn Treaty group show. Lots of great artists involved, including fellow Mumbler John Fellows, Jim Houser, Nosego, Shawn Beeks, Kevin Margitich, the Slingluff’s and more. Above is my contribution – a new painting entitled Iodine.

Anyway, the party’s from 6-9 pm with beverages provided by Art in the Age distillers and East Girard Gastropub. A portion from each sale will go toward helping maintain Penn Treaty Park in Philly, which is in need of a pretty serious face lift.  Should be a good time so don’t blow it – stop by if you’re in town.  11 W. Girard, Philadephia, PA.  You can also RSVP on facebook if that’s how you roll.

Jim Houser

NoseGo

I’ll be participating in my first group show of 2012!  At the First Annual Supersonic Electronic Invitational at Spoke Art in San Francisco. The show features a great line up and opens Thursday, January 5th.