Two Shows ending January 1: Part 1

Say what you will about Mr. Brainwash but after seeing him in person I realized why so many people have trusted him. This man is a ball of positive energy! The art show is a whole building of art/graffiti (3/4 floors, I lost count). My favorite was the top floor. All the walls were cover in writing and something really beautiful happen at sunset. Duh, the sun went down but being there you felt this weird awe moment of beauty. The show has been extended to January 1st & 2nd (Closed Dec 31).

RECESSION DEPRESSION, Part I

A smelly vision (above), Leili Harmon's work below:

Athena Kargeui:

Athena's art was stolen from an earlier show so it was taken down when the opening closed. Sucks for you because her watercolors are amazing.

Clockwise Brianna Meli, Victor Jonas (photographs), and again Brianna Meli:

William Lu:
Walt Gorecki, really good interviews about artist and musicians and "normal" jobs:

Joan Z (me): Flag and Recession Dream Catcher

Another flag about entrepreneurship in the Blue Line:

Wall of Diplomas...


More photos coming soon about the all mighty John Evans! And Recession Depression...duh!

RECESSION DEPRESSION group art exhibit

RECESSION DEPRESSION group art exhibit
curated by joan zamora

@ THE SMELL
247 S. Main ST
Los Angeles, CA 90013

Free opening reception Saturday April 30 @ 7pm,
$5 after 9pm so don't forget to cash that unemployment check!

Come and check out these brilliant artists dealing with the unemployment, underemployment, and even the funemployment of the current recession...

And join us later to hear these awesome bands to help you turn that frown upside down and damn that recession depression!

artist:
JOHN EVANS
WALT GORECKI
LEILI HARMON
VICTOR JONAS
WILLIAM LU
JOAN ZAMORA
PHILIPPE DE SABLET
ROXY PARRA
BRIANNA MELI
IAN MCINTYRE
ATHENA KARGEUI

plus music by:
CAPTAIN AHAB
DIVTECH
NVR-NDR
FLYBATSU

more info: www.moneyintrash.com

Blue V-day!

I been told I am pretty bad at reading in between the lines but what happens when everything in between the lines is grey? Huh, what happens then? Saw Blue Valentine this day at the mall in San Francisco by myself. WTF...I lived there three years and never realized the mall was that big!

Then I ran into myself thanks to Theodore Watson's interactive art installation called "Faces".

Walked some more in the cold, cold, cold to the TL to White Walls and Shooting Gallery... Saw a glimpse, and kinda fell in love: Morgan Slade, his art work.


I also met two sweet gentlemen. One who talked about art, the other one who told me story about getting mugged in Berkeley aka technically Oakland and how effed up the police precincts are. I heart this pic:



We talked art...


And getting mugged in Oakland technically Berkeley but legally Oakland.


Yeah "Snitches get Stiches"!
Went "home".



* Faces by The SF Gate

BFFing at Yerba Buena and the SFMOMA

Above and below, art work by Shizu Saldamando... at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Yoshua Okón's Hipnostasis (2009), "a collaboration with Raymond Pettibon which explores the subculture of old hippies and beach bums from Venice Beach"...



On to the SFMOMA...

"How Wine Became Modern", featuring Pop-Up Magazine...go check it out. It will be up until April 17.


pretty glassware.

Hotel Marqués de Riscal by Frank Gehry...omg I want to go!


I finally get the whole smelling of wine stuff...


Vino...La sangre de Cristo.

Silvia Ji: Shapeshifter

I was thinking about you the whole time hence, why they are both looking at me funny...


Art looking, people watching:

Packed house:

Lovely Lady I heart...

TRETICIDE! TRETICIDE! TRETICIDE!

Tetricide! This was my favorite;



Look ma'!





I heart this girl:


N this:
Blows my mind:


I heart u 2:

Not enough, detail:
My favorito:


Hmmm, bacon n hot dogs, and Downtown:


Parking hang out:
Inter-active:


The End;



Treticide closes this Saturday August 7, 2010 @ Pehrspace...