Mission: school

my teeth hurt or the nerve ending that used to be attached to a tooth is hurting... a few months ago i was asked in LA what the differences were between LA and SF art. always the one to never like answering such questions i simply said, "there is more drawing in SF art" and quickly proceeded to running away. i may or not be right but when i think of SF art, drawings, and mixed media come to mind. you know, the whole Mission School bit insert goes here, whatever that means. so read this article (or not), Mission: school by Johnny Ray Huston, in it he talks about "Fer-ma-ta", the 37th annual UC Berkeley MFA graduate exhibition and Alicia McCarthy...and of course about art in the bay area...to bad i missed it. my favorite quote of the article:

"Here, as in other shows, her drawings are on already used surfaces: construction or packing paper and slabs of wood. The use of found material, while welcome in an ecological sense, has become cliche in Bay Area circles and beyond in the indie pop Found magazine culture".

here is a crappy picture i took of the art from the article, nerd? yes, but i'll remove if it bothers anyone. art above right, Alicia McCarthy, left(gray) Bridget Riley.

time for my pill.