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May 27, 2011 By squirt

SFMOMA Artists Gallery Windows presents Chuck Sperry, Chris Shaw & Ron Donovan

Ron Donovan, Chris Shaw, & Chuck Sperry

June 11, 2011 — January 12, 2012

Bay Area rock poster art contemporaries Chris Shaw, Chuck Sperry, and Ron Donovan stand out amongst their predecessors in the Bay Area tradition of poster making that spans nearly 50 years. Through their prolific bodies of work, the masterful artists have brought inno­vation, invention, and new meaning to this art form. Each distinc­tively fuses propaganda, imagery, text, and historical art references with Pop and rock-poster art sensibilities to create accessible, relat­able imagery that is at once empowering and undeniably populist.

Minna Street windows

A collaborative art work involving three individually created window installations, Donovan, Shaw, and Sperry layer silkscreen, painting, collage, and mixed media to transform two-dimensional imagery into three-dimensional expression. Showing reverence for man’s commu­nicative nature, they reference the renewal of the idea that art has a purpose.

Natoma Street windows – Temporally Bound

Temporally Bound is a “visual improvisation” between Sperry and Shaw. Its form is drawn from the Asian accordion-style bound scroll to recognize the Pacific Rim as the gathering center of the art world and to emphasize post modern appropriated multiculturalism. Sperry and Shaw express a realization of the temporal, time-punctuated nature of street and poster art. By binding the panels together in monumental book form, the artists create a visual record of events through a modality of time. Additionally, through binding invention, the contextualization of visual imagery, and a reassigning of repre­sentational meaning, the artists transform ephemeral events and experiences by creating a lexicon of a shared cultural visual memory.

 

The “Windows Program” uses the SFMOMA Garage’s street-level win­dows located at 150 Natoma and 147 Minna Street (between Third and New Montgomery Streets) to showcase artwork. The program, organized  by Renée de Cossio of the Artists Gallery, invites some of the area’s most ambitious artists to transform these every day spaces into compelling exhibitions that the passerby can view round the clock.

 

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Artists Gallery, Chris Shaw, Chuck Sperry, Renée de Cossio, Ron Donovan, SFMOMA

May 5, 2011 By squirt

Make Tacos Not War

Friday, May 6th from 6:00pm — 9:00pm

This is a high-octane art exhibit intended to generate feelings of pas­sion and love for all mankind thru the medium of the printers’ ink. Revolutionary, thought provoking, highly flammable and very spicy, we will feed your mind with images intended to change the world thru the magic created when art and taco’s collide.

North Bay Artist and Printmaker Lawrence ‘El’ Colacion in collabo­ration with friends:

Jon-Paul Bail,
Jesus Barraza,
Melanie Cervantes,
Ron Donovan,
Xico Gonzalez,
Don Rock,
Winston Smith,
Julio Soriano, &
Chuck Sperry have created images on paper in response to war on planet earth.

Local Tiki Tycoon Jose Mendez will have his hand crafted Jivaro style shrunken heads on dis play for some skin crawling excitement.

Napa Chef Frank Hernandez will be slappin’ together some of the best taco’s this side of Juarez you’ll ever eat.

Live Musica by Sean Allan & The Mean Time Playboys!

Exercise your freedom to invite all your friends!!

Location:
Wildcat Loft
1210 First Street, Napa, CA

 

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Don Rock, Jesus Barraza, Jon-Paul Bail, Julio Soriano, Melanie Cervantes, Ron Donovan, Wildcat Loft, Winston Smith, Xico Gonzalez

April 7, 2011 By squirt

Free University Art School – Third Demonstration / Documentation

The first five week course offering for The Free University Art School was completed last Sunday, April 3, 2011, with Jon-Paul Bail’s presentation of a personal history of Oakland Street Art. Fitting perfectly into the Free University Art School’s step-by-step art of the street approach, the sweep and course arch of the four presentations:

1. Chris Shaw and I present Rock Art, and demonstrate printing techniques.

2. Blek le Rat – speaks to three decades of street art, defines the state of the art both high brow and low brow, and produces a stencil painting live.

3. Winston Smith – discusses his life and art, with me and Vale of RE/Search Magazine as moderator. Winston explored the long San Francisco tradition of DYI and punk art.

4. Jon-Paul Bail’s story of Oakland and San Francisco street art from 1980’s to present. I moderated and Ron Donovan printed JP’s street piece.

Jon-Paul culminates his class – and the Free U Art School first five weeks – by leading our class down Valencia Street in the Mission of San Francisco to make art on the street. We pasted Winston Smith’s Nuclear Scream, a reaction to the Japanese nuclear disaster.

Thanks everyone who came to learn, who came to teach, and for keeping the dream alive.

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Blek le Rat, Chris Shaw, Free University of San Francisco, Jon-Paul Bail, Ron Donovan, V. Vale, Winston Smith

March 2, 2011 By squirt

Steve Miller Band Poster Wins Award

My Steve Miller Band poster won Poster of the Week on Expressobeans. I appreciate it! A nice surprise for a rainy day.

Also, I’ll be happy to see everyone who can make the very first Free University Art School presentation at Viracocha, 998 Valencia at 21st Street on Sunday, March 6, 2 to 4 pm. Chris Shaw, Ron Donovan and I will be showing posters, discussing our work, and conducting a demonstration in silkscreen printmaking.

Filed Under: Events, News Tagged With: Chris Shaw, Expresso Beans, Free University of San Francisco, Ron Donovan, Steve Miller Band

February 27, 2011 By squirt

Free University of San Francisco, School of Art

The Free University of San Francisco aims to make the highest level of education available, completely free, to any individual who wants it, regardless of color, creed, age, gender, nationality, religion or immigration status—a university free of money, taught for free. The only requirement for membership is a desire to teach and/or a desire to learn.

We believe that the purpose of education is not to turn the student into a better consumer and profit-earner but to help him or her to discover the wealth of human culture upon whose shoulders she or he stands. What we share at the Free University of San Francisco is a passionate determination to see the restoration of humanity—warm, literate, democratic—to vibrant human life. And in order to achieve this aim we have taken hold of the very hub of our culture, which is education, in order to create a brand new kind of institution, one whose existence makes no sense in the current social order, one that stands in direct defiance of the privatized profit-oriented social engineering centers that pass for universities today.

We are the Free University of San Francisco and we are rebels of knowledge.

This course will offer courses, lectures and demonstrations in the field of  visual arts, those arts which seek to enlighten, inform and entertain with common sense imagination in populist mediums.

Sunday, March 6, 2pm – to – 4 pm • Chuck Sperry, Ron Donovan, Chris Shaw

Sunday, March 27, 2pm – to – 4 pm • Winston Smith

Sunday, April 3, 2pm – to – 4 pm • Jon-Paul Bail and special guests

 

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Chris Shaw, Free University of San Francisco, Jon-Paul Bail, Ron Donovan, Winston Smith

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