September 2 – October 2, 2010 | Space: Entire venue | Open to the Public

111 MINNA GALLERY presents:

EVERYDAY

Recent Works by:
Mike Davis, Mike Giant, Ryan Scott Shaffer, Juan Puente, Regino Gonzales, Daniel Albrigo, Shawn Barber, Henry Lewis, Don Edward Hardy and Edu Cerro

Opening Reception Thurs, September 2, 5pm-late 21+

111 Minna Gallery is proud to present “Everyday”, an exhibition showcasing new works by group of Californian tattoo artists including Shawn Barber, Mike Giant and Mike Davis. The gallery will be hosting an ARTIST-ATTENDED opening reception on Thursday, September 2, 2010, 5pm-late. 21+

‘Everyday’ is an attempt to shine a different light on a group of artists who have been involved in the tattoo practice and part of the shop culture. A variety of other media, not simply tattoo designs, will be on display to capture another side of the tattoo culture, the everyday lives of these artists, which can be viewed as a unique subculture in itself. Viewers will gain a different insight to the artistic commitment, nature and practice through this unique and candid exhibition.

The exhibition has been curated by, for 111 Minna Gallery, by Andres Guerrero (owner and director of the Guerrero Gallery, in San Francisco) with assistance from 111 Minna Gallery Curator Jay Howell and Gabe Scott.

Please join us!

111 MINNA GALLERY | 111 Minna Street (Minna & 2nd) | San Francisco, CA. 94105
415-974-1719

(Artist Attended) Opening Reception: Thursday, September 2nd 5pm-late. 21+

Opening Reception | Thursday | September 2 | 5pm-late 21+ | Space: Entire venue | Open to the Public

111 MINNA GALLERY presents: EVERYDAY

Recent Works by:
Mike Davis, Mike Giant, Ryan Scott Shaffer, Juan Puente, Regino Gonzales, Daniel Albrigo, Shawn Barber, Henry Lewis, Don Edward Hardy, and Edu Cerro

111 Minna Gallery is proud to present “Everyday”, an exhibition showcasing new works by group of Californian tattoo artists including Shawn Barber, Mike Giant and Mike Davis. The gallery will be hosting an ARTIST-ATTENDED opening reception on Thursday, September 2, 2010, 5pm-late. 21+

‘Everyday’ is an attempt to shine a different light on a group of artists who have been involved in the tattoo practice and part of the shop culture. A variety of other media, not simply tattoo designs, will be on display to capture another side of the tattoo culture, the everyday lives of these artists, which can be viewed as a unique subculture in itself. Viewers will gain a different insight to the artistic commitment, nature and practice through this unique and candid exhibition.

The exhibition has been curated by, for 111 Minna Gallery, by Andres Guerrero (owner and director of the Guerrero Gallery, in San Francisco) with assistance from 111 Minna Gallery Curator Jay Howell and Gabe Scott.

Please join us!

111 MINNA GALLERY | 111 Minna Street (Minna & 2nd) | San Francisco, CA. 94105
415-974-1719

(Artist Attended) Opening Reception: Thursday, September 2nd 5pm-late. 21+

August 5-29 | Space: Entire venue | Open to the Public

Hot [hot] adjective, hot·ter, hot·test, adverb, verb, hot·ted, hot·ting, noun
Freaks [freeks] noun Any abnormal phenomenon or product or unusual objects; anomaly; aberration.

Hot Freaks are coming to 111 Minna for the month of August. A group show of uniquely diverse, unusually creative and exceptionally inspiring artists from California, Seattle, Toronto, Nevada, and New York. We are proud to host these Hot Freaks for the summer, to display their new works and creative adventures.

Some info about our Hot Freaks:

JOSEPH ALOI
Joseph Ari Aloi, a.k.a. JK5, lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, where he relentlessly develops his visual, textual, and iconographic languages through a diverse range of media. JK5 is a highly respected custom tattoo artist and has been so for the last 12 years.

JESSE BALMER
Jesse was born in San Juan Capistrano, California in 1987. He has been drawing since before he can remember, which was really only much-less-than-the-blink-of-an-eye ago on the geologic time scale. He now resides in San Francisco, California where his dignity remains intact for now.

OLIVER HIBERT
Oliver Hibert is an American fine artist/illustrator/designer born in Seattle, Washington in 1983. From the age of 16, Hibert’s iconic psych-like style of art and design has caught the attention of numerous museums, galleries, big-wig companies and retail outlets around the globe. Hibert’s vivid and colorific artworks can be recognized on many mediums and media such as paintings, sculptures, shoes, skateboards, magazines, books, clothing, and much more. Currently, Oliver Hibert works and resides in Arizona on his desert farm of cacti and albino peacocks.

JUSTIN LOVATO
Rad dude, and killer artist from Sacramento, California.

LANGO NATOR

SETH SCRIVER
Seth Scriver, born and raised in Toronto, attended the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and received an interdisciplinary Bachelor of Fine Arts. He is currently living and working in Toronto. Most of Scriver’s art making is based on personal experience and stories told to him. His visual aesthetics push toward a type of fantasy world created through a stream of consciousness drawing style. The drawings present a believable view of a chaotic world in which unknown entities play out small dramas.

FRANCESCO DEIANA ARNOLD

CHRIS BRENNAN
Chris Brennan is a photographer, artist, designer, DJ, and engineer based out of San Francisco, CA.

With a focus on candid event & party photography, fine art, and editorial – Brennan is also right at home collaborating with stylists and makeup artists in the studio or on location. An insatiable appetite for travel has driven Chris to more than twelve countries and throughout most of the continental United States looking for the perfect shot.

DARYLL PEIRCE
Focused on exploring the connectivity within humanity and its claims of control over social systems, habitat, nature, and future, Peirce’s artwork pendulates between the satiric and esoteric, optimistic and pessimistic, scientific and spiritual, bold and poetic. Grotesquely exaggerated human forms, arterial-botanic city organisms, and flowering interconnected urban clusters currently inhabit his psyche and spew into his work. On a more intimate level, his influences instinctively stem from past and current environs, travel, exploration, skateboarding, surfing, dreaming, philosophy, and interacting with all forms of the human animal with a focused lens on the social outcast.

Opening Reception
Thursday, August 5th / 5pm-late | Space: Entire venue | Open to the Public

Hot [hot] adjective, hot·ter, hot·test, adverb, verb, hot·ted, hot·ting, noun
Freaks [freeks] noun Any abnormal phenomenon or product or unusual objects; anomaly; aberration.

Hot Freaks are coming to 111 Minna for the month of August. A group show of uniquely diverse, unusually creative and exceptionally inspiring artists from California, Seattle, Toronto, Nevada, and New York. We are proud to host these Hot Freaks for the summer, to display their new works and creative adventures. Please join us for the opening reception at 111 Minna Gallery on Thursday, August 5th – 5pm – late. Admission is free, however 21+.

Some info about our Hot Freaks:

JOSEPH ALOI
Joseph Ari Aloi, a.k.a. JK5, lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, where he relentlessly develops his visual, textual, and iconographic languages through a diverse range of media. JK5 is a highly respected custom tattoo artist and has been so for the last 12 years.

JESSE BALMER
Jesse was born in San Juan Capistrano, California in 1987. He has been drawing since before he can remember, which was really only much-less-than-the-blink-of-an-eye ago on the geologic time scale. He now resides in San Francisco, California where his dignity remains intact for now.

OLIVER HIBERT
Oliver Hibert is an American fine artist/illustrator/designer born in Seattle, Washington in 1983. From the age of 16, Hibert’s iconic psych-like style of art and design has caught the attention of numerous museums, galleries, big-wig companies and retail outlets around the globe. Hibert’s vivid and colorific artworks can be recognized on many mediums and media such as paintings, sculptures, shoes, skateboards, magazines, books, clothing, and much more. Currently, Oliver Hibert works and resides in Arizona on his desert farm of cacti and albino peacocks.

JUSTIN LOVATO
Rad dude, and killer artist from Sacramento, California.

LANGO NATOR

SETH SCRIVER
Seth Scriver, born and raised in Toronto, attended the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and received an interdisciplinary Bachelor of Fine Arts. He is currently living and working in Toronto. Most of Scriver’s art making is based on personal experience and stories told to him. His visual aesthetics push toward a type of fantasy world created through a stream of consciousness drawing style. The drawings present a believable view of a chaotic world in which unknown entities play out small dramas.

FRANCESCO DEIANA ARNOLD

CHRIS BRENNAN
Chris Brennan is a photographer, artist, designer, DJ, and engineer based out of San Francisco, CA.

With a focus on candid event & party photography, fine art, and editorial – Brennan is also right at home collaborating with stylists and makeup artists in the studio or on location. An insatiable appetite for travel has driven Chris to more than twelve countries and throughout most of the continental United States looking for the perfect shot.

DARYLL PEIRCE
Focused on exploring the connectivity within humanity and its claims of control over social systems, habitat, nature, and future, Peirce’s artwork pendulates between the satiric and esoteric, optimistic and pessimistic, scientific and spiritual, bold and poetic. Grotesquely exaggerated human forms, arterial-botanic city organisms, and flowering interconnected urban clusters currently inhabit his psyche and spew into his work. On a more intimate level, his influences instinctively stem from past and current environs, travel, exploration, skateboarding, surfing, dreaming, philosophy, and interacting with all forms of the human animal with a focused lens on the social outcast.

111 Minna Gallery  111 Minna Street, San Francisco, CA.
July 1st – July 31st, 2010 | Space: Entire venue | Open to the Public

Better Weather is in full-swing at 111 Minna Gallery for the month of July, which is why we are please to invite you to our first exhibit of the summer!  An array of colourfully bright and stunning pieces will be displayed, which will feel like we invited the sun into shine as well. Better Weather can be thanked for by the 4 talented, unique artists contributing to this month’s show:CHRISSY ANGLIKER
Born in Zurich, Switzerland, her earliest ambitions were to grow to to be a stunt-woman…and to make art.  From a very young age she experimented with stone, clay, and found objects among other materials.  Chrissy has developed a profound understanding of three-dimensional design, relationships between objects, and creating character through form. During her studies at Pratt Institute, Chrissy won many national and international design awards. She was selected for numerous juried shows, including ICFF.

Chrissy has been cultivating her own work in fine art and design, which continues to incorporate her political, spiritual and humanitarian perspective. Her work has been published in magazines and books world wide. Today, she lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

ERIN MCCARTY
My work embraces bold color, texture, and pattern to illustrate the radiant beauty of environments and creatures both real and imagined. Emotive, celebratory, and personal, my work reflects the honest enthusiasm I have for my subject matter. Above anything else, I communicate the excitement, grandeur, and terror of human life and the unknown. The marriage of seemingly opposing forces has always been of great interest to me (the earthly & celestial, adoration & violence, loneliness & communion), and much of my work explores relating themes of duality. Humans, plants, and animals existing as a single entity is another important ongoing narrative within my work.

BILL DUNLAP
Education: I can’t read or write.  I was raised by skunks and wolves.
Work Experience:  Oh, puleeze!

JESSICA DELORME
Jessica Delorme is a Vancouver based artist, with a combined education in both art production and curation.  She is inspired by the thriving city hugged by an ocean and mountains.

111 Minna Gallery presents: “Las Calles Electricas,” new works by Uriel Marin, Rene Almanza and Daniel Berman; working as part of the Oaxacan art collective Artecocodrilo.  Artecocodrilo’s space in Oaxaca, Mexico opened its doors in 2005 and has evolved into a dynamic hub for artists in that region to collaborate with each other and reach out to the larger community, both locally and globally.  We are please to welcome and host this unique collective of contemporary art, cutting edge illustrations, fluid sketches, street art, and graffiti to San Francisco to show their current work.

June 3rd – June 26th, 2010 | Opening Reception: Thursday, June 3rd, 2010  5pm-late.  21+111 Minna Gallery
111 Minna Street
San Francisco, CA.  94110
416-974-1719

May 6th – 29th, 2010
New Works by: Rob Reger, Mario Wagner, Chris Sullivan, Jason Vivona, Mildred, Will Laren, Tim Shaffer, Vladimir Kato, David Cook, Bo Heimlich, Cody Cochrane, and Graham Robinson ( Beaston ) , Audrey Erickson, Jake Watling, Andreas Trolf, Jim Dirschberger and more…

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Legendary underground publisher Last Gasp turns 40 this year and to celebrate, they are throwing a party and art show at 111 Minna Gallery.

The Last Gasp 40th Anniversary Art Show assembles a top-drawer lineup of artists – the haut monde of lowbrow.  Over the past four decades, Last Gasp has published hundreds of artists in the underground comix and kustom kulture, to pop surrealism and street art movements.

Opening night photos

Artists in the show include:
Gary Baseman, Tim Biskup Glenn Barr, Robert Crumb, Richard Corben, Guy Colwell, Ron English, Tony Fitzpatrick, Christopher Felver, Camille Rose Garcia, Justin Green, Bill Griffith, Rick Griffin, Ed Hardy, Frank Kozik, Joe Ledbetter, Carol Lay, Adrian Lee, Michael Manning, Chris Mars, Scott Musgrove, Junko Mizuno, Liz McGrath, Laurenn McCubbin, Mitch O’Connell, Annie Owens, The Pizz, Mark Ryden, Michael Rosen, Trina Robbins, Spain Rodriguez, Dori Seda, Winston Smith, Eric White, Robert Williams, Attaboy, Aye Jay, and many more to be announced.

Writers, including San Francisco Poet Laureate Diane DiPrima will do a reading.  Design radicals GAMA-GO will produce a limited edition tee shirt for the event.

Last Gasp founder and publisher Ron Turner is available for interviews. Book covers, interior art, and other images available upon request.

Free and open to the public | (415) 974-1719
www.111minnagallery.com | Contact: Jay Howell  jay.howell@gmail.com
21 + over

About Last Gasp
Last Gasp is one of the largest and oldest publishers and purveyors of underground books & comics in the world, as well as being a distributor of all sorts of weird ‘n’ wonderful subversive literature, graphic novels, tattoo and art books.

Last Gasp was founded in 1970 by Ron Turner. Last Gasp’s first publication, Slow Death Funnies #1 came out on the first “Earth Day,” April 15, 1970. Subsequent comics included the all-women’s comic It Ain’t Me Babe, and Skull Comics. Over the years they have published, and in some cases brought to light, some of the most respected and talented artists working today, including such luminaries as R. Crumb, Mark Ryden, Justin Green, Bill Griffith, Frank Kozik, Todd Schorr, Winston Smith, Spain Rodriguez, and Robert Williams to name but a few.

Ron Turner’s enthusiasm for underground comics, and in particular their autobiographical aspect, has been the driving force behind many groundbreaking publications.  Last Gasp published Justin Green’s highly acclaimed confessional Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary in 1972, a book that became an inspiration to many artists now working in the autobiographical style. “Art Spiegelman, who won the only Pulitzer Prize for cartooning, has said he would never have started to do the autobiographical story of his family (in the graphic novel Maus) unless Justin had done it first. And Robert Crumb said the same thing,” said Turner.

Today, Last Gasp publishes 12-20 new titles per year, focusing on Lowbrow and Pop Surrealist artists, as well as graphic novels. The company has 18 full and part-time employees and is based in San Francisco. In addition to publishing, Last Gasp distributes for large and small publishers worldwide, providing a steady counter-cultural stream of books and other printed matter that spreads over six continents.

Last Gasp books have been glowingly reviewed in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, School Library Journal, Juxtapoz magazine, The Guardian (UK), Hi-Fructose magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Austin Chronicle, American Book Review, and The Los Angeles Times.

Co-publishing partners include La Luz de Jesus / Billy Shire Fine Arts, Porterhouse Fine Art Editions, San Jose Museum of Art, Grand Central Art Center, Smokemuse, JaPress, Moulinsart, Presspop Gallery, Ignition Publishing, NewSkool/Analog, Laguna Art Museum, and many more.

The readers of the San Francisco Bay Guardian named Last Gasp the Best Local Publisher in 2009.

First publications:
Slow Death, 1970 (comic); Breather’s Guide to Invisible Air Pollution (book) 1970.

111 Minna Gallery is proud to present “Fort Big Mountain”, an exhibition  showcasing new works by Oakland, CA painters Christopher Russell and Seth Armstrong. The exhibition will run from March 4-27, 2010. The exhibition has been curated by for the 111 Minna Gallery by Curator Gabe Scott with assistance from 111 Minna Gallery Curator Jay Howell.

ARTISTIC HIGHLIGHTS
Through his paintings, Christopher Russell explores his personal perceptions and connections with the natural world by ‘painting outside from within’. Russell’s images of nature communicate his reverence for nature, a ‘reverence tempered by notions of disconnection and disillusionment’. His landscapes are based both on his physical experiences as well as an alternate narrative based on fantasy and imagination. The fantasy is incorporated as an exaggeration of a real experience, allowing Russell to invent a new landscape that is based on the idea or experience of a place rather than sit in front of it in order to capture its essence. Christopher was raised in Boulder, CO, attended the California College of the Arts and is based in Oakland, CA.

Seth Armstrong, another former CCA student displays a compulsion to juxtapose hyper-realistic re-creations of his surroundings with various fantastical segments of his imagination. The resulting narratives contain elements of drama, mystery and humor that “accentuate the theatrical and fictitious characteristics believed to be apparent in everyday life”. He feels that “the actions of the subjects and the circumstances of their environments are often vague, only hinting at the events that are inherently taking place”.  Seth was raised in Los Angeles and currently lives and works in Oakland, CA.

111 Minna Gallery are proud to present WONDERLAND – the very anticipated group show, curated by award winning, multi-talented Irene Hernandez-Feiks; founder of Chillin Productions.  Throughout the past 11 years, Irene has provided a platform for thousands of emerging Bay Area artists with Chillin Productions, and watched them flourish into their careers.  Wonderland is a particularly significant project for Irene, as she began her art career at 111 Minna Gallery, in 1998.  Since then she has dreamed of curating a show here, and we at 111 Minna are proud and excited about this incredibly dynamic show she has put together.Wonderland features 60 of Irene’s all-time favorite artists, each have greatly influenced and contributed to the local art community.  This very special exhibition showcases a wide variety of exciting and diverse visual artistic talents, and true Bay Area art icons.

Aaron Johnson
Alex Garcia Ferrá
Amandalynn
Andrzej Michael Karwacki
Angela Scrivani
Ben Collison
Brian Barneclo
Brooke Farrington
Chris Stokes
Christie Newman
Cinthia Dennis
Conor Burns
Daniel J. Valadez
David Rozelle
DEEPSI{X}
Erin Schroeder
Faith Allen
Ferris Plock
Fidel Lirio
Freda Banks
“elle”
Gianluca Franzese
GINNE
Hilary Williams
Ian Ross
Jaiv1
Jason Michael Aumann
Jeff Neugebauer
Jeffrey Nemenzo
Jenny Wehrt
Jeremy Mann
Jocelyn Meggait
John Patrick Campbell
Jonah Burlingame
Kelly Tunstall
Kimi Recor
Krescent Carasso
Kukula
Lady Millard
Lee Harvey Roswell
Manny Fabregas
Marcus Herrera
MARIAFATIMA URBI
Mary Syring
Merkley???
Misha Vladimirskiy
Natalia Gomez
Paul Trapani
“Ptah Amen”
Rebecca Peters
Robert Garcia
Romanowski
Samanta Tello
Slava Likhatchev
Spencer Hansen
Steve Javiel
Telopa
Ursula Xanthe Young
Yuri Psinakis
Yvette Buigues

ANDREW HEM, the exhibition’s sole Los Angeles artist, portrays thoughtful hipster geishas against the backdrop of iconic landmarks and exposes the urban landscape as fresh, real and complex.

SETH ARMSTRONG is a Bay Area artist whose painting layer diverse urban and exotic landscapes populated with citizens and tourists masquerading as nondescript superheroes.

My last solo show was Feb. of 2008; this next opening is pretty much my first endeavor since then. In May of 2008, I left on a year long travel through Central America, Asia, Australia, Africa and Europe. I decided to put down my brush during the entirety of the year and, instead, use a camera as my tool of creative expression. The idea was to inject myself with as many outside influences, experiences, and cultures as possible, over the course of the year. Let it all sink in and begin processing once I crawled back into my studio. What has transpired has been a difficult transition back into painting where I have ultimately found myself exploring several different avenues of development all at once or on top of one another. I’m beginning to see the influence of my travel encounters lacing itself through my current work.

Taking so much time away from painting has created a bombardment of ideas for me, that while processing, has given birth to this show, Resurface. Resurface, for me, is basically picking up a brush again, putting back out for the public, and reinventing techniques which I learned over a decade ago. Resurface offers a variety of  ’surfaces’ as well. The show consists of a series of intense portraiture of Cambodian refugees, much looser multimedia paintings, which have brought me into an open consciousness form of painting that I have been trying to accomplish for years. There will be work on glass, fine line drawing, charcoals, color studies and in addition, I will be debuting my photography. Basically, the pieces of Resurface have opened up a series of work that have grown beyond the borders of 111 Minna Gallery. Resurface is more than a body of work, but a new style of creating that will go beyond this opening. This show is an opportunity to view the beginning of my next journey.

111 Minna Gallery is proud to host NeighborhoodSF, a group show featuring some of San Francisco’s most exciting and prolific artists, co-curated by Ryan Malley of the ArtPrint.net and Martin Olive of sQuint. NeighborhoodSF is a collection of San Francisco’s finest artists who are each given the task of representing this City’s many unique neighborhoods, showing at 111 Minna Gallery from September 3rd through the 26th, 2009.

San Francisco is without a doubt, one of the most diverse cities in the world. Its neighborhoods are each legendary in their own way and it’s residents are iconic in their varied personalities.

NeighborhoodSF brings a visual life to the people, places and things that create our environment. With over 40 original paintings, illustrations and installations, the artists involved in NeighborhoodSF have created a body of work that is a worthy and relevant representation of of this great City.

To say the show is star-studded would be an understatement… With the likes of Mike Giant, Jeremy Fish, Sylvia Ji, MARS-1, Coro [Justin Kaufman], Nate Van Dyke and Adam 5100 just to name a few, this showcase of local, homegrown talent is going to be one for the history books.

Tattooed women combined with beautiful Black Sharpie line work are just some of the techniques that make up the signature style and imagery of Mike Giant [GIANT ONE]. Mike applies them adeptly to illustrate the best parts of what is dark and beautiful about the Mission. His original illustration will be accompanied by limited edition prints available throughout the show dates.

Jeremy Fish made the move from the Sunset to North Beach and never looked back. Whole-heartedly embracing the neighborhood that hugs him back. His medium of choice, painting on a large multi-layered wood cut that brings together all the best parts of San Francisco’s “Little Italy.” Jeremy sought to give something back to the neighborhood that has treated him so well, so he will also be showcasing limited edition silkscreen prints of a unique North Beach piece which will sell for an unprecedented low price of $40! Proceeds will go the homeless outreach organization; North Beach Citizens.

Coro has spent the last few years calling the Tenderloin home and he wouldn’t have it any other way. His dark vision of one of San Francisco’s most haunting neighborhoods will bring chills down your spine and have you begging for more like a TL junkie on Sunday morning.

Illustrations and an installation from Matt Furie will bring to life the psychedelic nostalgia of the Haight-Ashbury District. It’s definitely a fitting locale for his kaleidoscopic monsters and animals.

With all this San Francisco based talent; Adam 5100, Adam Flores, Akira and Helen, Brett Amory, Brian Barneclo, Collin Hill, Coro [Justin Kaufman], David Chong Lee, David Imlay, Eric Bailey, Ferris Plock, Jay Howell, Jeremy Fish, Lee Harvey Roswell, MARS-1, Micah Lebrun, Mike Giant, Nate Van Dyke, Romanowski, Ryan Malley, Sylvia Ji and Wesley Burt, NeighborhoodSF promises to be an amazing and inspiring showcase that truly represents the continuing story of this most wonderful of cities… San Francisco.

Limited edition prints of work by Mike Giant, Jeremy Fish, Sylvia Ji, Coro, and Brett Amory will be made available opening night and for the duration of the show.

Local band City Light and DJ’s Nick Andre and E da Boss will be performing throughout the evening.

The inhabitants of San Francisco make this city the great place that it is, so please come share great space with us.

111 Minna Gallery is delighted to present Ferris Plock+Kelly Tunstall’s SEA OF LOVE, a new body of collaborative works, from August 6 – 29 2009.

The latest large-scale collaborative exhibition by San Francisco-based artists Ferris Plock and Kelly Tunstall, SEA OF LOVE is an entirely new body of work that explores relationships between sailors and mermaids, stories of lost love and misguided navigation, the diversity of creatures inhabiting the oceans and their individual roles as different vessels of possibility.

Plock and Tunstall share a studio space in San Francisco’s Alamo Square and their collaborative work for this exhibit exudes a playful, colorful and whimsical tone, with a fluid intermingling of each artist’s point of view.

Working in acrylic, collage, spray paint, pencil, pen and ink, gold leaf and some secret sauce, the experimental, yet classically grounded works live somewhat comfortably in a space between graphic expression, stylized representation, surrealism, and sketch. The simplicity of the messages are enhanced by the underlying vitality and complex layering within the work.

In her studied portraits, Tunstall renders stylized, leggy female figures and their pets, prey, powers, and dreams. Their physical forms and accompanying exteriors represent and mirror internal thought processes ad turmoil. For instance, frequent themes such as mermaids, twins, or extra limbs concede a desire, a reliance, an adaptation, or more simply, an aspiration to something greater than being a painting. Tunstall has gone on to exhibit internationally and nationally. Tunstall’s has been exhibiting regularly at 111 Minna since 2003.

In contrast, Plock’s work centers on the inner animalistic tendencies and reactions reflected by humans (transfigured into monsters, in some cases) in the context of modern life. Disgruntled animals trying to capture clowns, animals teaching their young how to escape their predicament and even animals that don’t always socialize coming together to aid each other feature prominently in this new exhibit. Born in New Jersey, Plock has been showing his work for over eight years.

On July 2nd, Hamburger Eyes presents EXODUS at 111 Minna Gallery. This exhibition will showcase black and white photography from regular contributors of Hamburger Eyes Photo Magazine. Photographs will range in size from large murals of 8 feet x 10 feet, to the traditional standard of 8 inches by 10 inches.

The shows title, “EXODUS” evokes not only the feelings of mass migration, but of transmogrification. Hamburger Eyes Photo Magazine, subtitled “The continuing story of Life on Earth”, has dedicated their pages to the study of the human condition. And, in this exhibit they intend to display their visions of transcendence from past, present, and future-kind. It is a mission of containing time by setting it free, thus shall begin the EXODUS.

This event will also celebrate the release of Hamburger Eyes Issue 013. Hamburger Eyes Photo Magazine is based in San Francisco. It is off-set printed in black and white on glossy stock, perfect bound with a cardstock cover, holding 150 pages at a run of 3000 copies. Hamburger Eyes is carried in shops, stores, libraries, galleries, and museums across the entire planet.

A new installation of epic proportions from Sacramento, CA artist Skinner | June 4- June 27th, 2009

Watch this: http://vimeo.com/4976900
Artwork & Music by Skinner TheArtofSkinner.com
Animation by Jim Dirschberger of EightyFourFilms.com

111 Minna Gallery is proud to present “Worship Thee Kindly The Dark Hand That Guides Me”, an exhibition showcasing new and recent works from Skinner. This full bore installation of sculpture, paintings and mixed media work will mark Skinner’s first major solo effort and will be available for enhanced 3-D viewing on the night of the opening reception.

Like some fantastical LSD nightmare, the art of skinner is a full bore visual assault that maintains a vicious stranglehold on one’s senses. Rivers of blood cut valleys out of crystal mountains that cradle the battleground of the war for evermore. From the ashes and dust rises one warrior, a very strange warrior, on a mission to destroy preconceptions of visual art and paradigm all the while maintaining a very very dark sense of humor.

Sacramento, CA resident Skinner has carefully crafted a balanced triad of impressive mural work, overwhelmingly intense wall to wall installations and a prolific commercial career. A product of 80’s pop culture, early skateboarding scenes, a broken home, dungeons and dragons and a lot of heavy metal, Skinner’s mind is one full of meyhem driven by a calculated chaos.

Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat, 12pm-5pm, Saturday, 1pm-5pm and viewing by appointment. 111 Minna Gallery is located at the corner of Minna and 2nd Street in downtown San Francisco. The Gallery offers a full bar and welcomes ages 21 and over.

Curator Contact
Gabe Scott
415.974.1719
scott.gabe@gmail.com

111 Minna Gallery is proud to present “Berliner Unkraut”, an exhibition showcasing and surveying recent works from some of the top artists from Germany working within the lowbrow / pop-surrealism movements as well as two of the country’s top street artists.The line -up consists of Mateo, Johan Potma, Evol, Pisa 73 and Tina Zellmer. The ARTIST-ATTENDED opening reception on Thursday, May 7, 2009, 6pm-late.

TINA ZELLMER was born in 1974 in the north of Germany. I traveled around Australia after graduating in illustration design at the Art and Design Academie in the Netherlands in 2000 (Academie Minerva) and have been working as an freelance illustrator and designer ever since. In 2002 I moved to Amsterdam and since 2003 live and work in Berlin. My work harmoniously blends dreamy textures and ideas with stark and graphic elements. The artwork combines the strengths of collage, painted textures, photography and handmade pencil drawings.

MATEO was born in San Mateo, California. From a young age he was addicted to the idea of creating his own world full of odd monsters. As it is now, in those days it was not uncommon to see Mateo with pencil in hand, fervently giving life to his next creation. At the age of 20 he had an epiphany. He realized he could continue creating his world of offbeat characters and do so without getting a dreaded desk job! That sounded too good to be true. So he went to school, learned to paint, became somewhat known in San Francisco, then he moved to Berlin, Germany. In Berlin he painted on whatever he could find (old boxes, windows, tins, etc.). He then secured a spot at the flea market, and soon he and his artwork became a well known fixture of the Boxhagener Flea Market and of Berlin. His world of freaks and monsters can now be seen in his gallery Zozoville, alongside the artwork of his colleague Johan Potma. Mateo can usually be found in the back room of the Zozoville Gallery covered in paint, creating new monsters.

JOHAN POTMA’s work is done is acrylic paint and usually consists of more then one material As a kid growing up he learned a lot from skateboarding. It was this sport that opened up my his eyes to his surroundings and see possibilities everywhere. The city was my playground and to this day still is. Also, the world of imagery, strongly connected to skateboarding has clearly giving me direction as where to go with my artwork. As a Dutch artist living in Berlin, Potma has always had a deep interest in old materials to work with and developed the style he works with today during his time at the Minerva Art Academy. The old materials are a big part of my artwork since they, in their own way, tell a part of the story Potma is trying to get across. Stories told through stains, cracks and bumps in the material  usually wood and old paper collage) Inspired by these materials Potma adds layer after layer of his own story, played out by all sorts of goofy, weird and crazy but lovable characters, that take on a central role in his artwork. Recent works by Pisa 73 and Evol will also be on display courtesy of the Wilde Gallery in Berlin. The opening is free and open to members of the public 21 and over.

The exhibition will run from May 7- May 30, 2009

Through the influence of both eastern and western cultures, philosophies, and practices, Ted creates paintings that explore the transitory nature of landscape. Drawing from his background and experience in eastern culture he uses industrial materials such as steel, aluminum, acids, and automotive enamel to create landscapes that simultaneously feel strong and illusive. The austere nature of his materials are softened and rendered into contemplative spaces.

Using sumi ink and rice paper each piece is begun employing a chance driven process based on a traditional style of Chinese landscape painting. The monk Wong Mo pioneered this method (the Pomo method) during the T’iang dynasty (618- 906 AD). To this foundation he adds various combinations of painting methods that include, but are not limited to, the use of acrylic paint, epoxy glazes and automotive paint to create a hybrid of Eastern and Western techniques. With the addition of other elements such as the bar codes, binary codes and geometric shapes, the modern is persuaded to co-exist with the ancient. The combination of the abstract organic spaces created by the ink, and the more formal modern elements, helps coerce a visual dialogue between nature and its filtration through technology. In doing so, Ted dissects ideas of censorship, diversion, and manipulation, which are themes that he continues to explore.This work manifested after an intensive study of landscape painting in China in 2000.

A graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, Ted is 35, lives in Gainesville, and when not in his studio he can be found riding or fixing his bikes and small engine vehicles.

Through the influence of both eastern and western cultures, philosophies, and practices, Ted creates paintings that explore the transitory nature of landscape. Drawing from his background and experience in eastern culture he uses industrial materials such as steel, aluminum, acids, and automotive enamel to create landscapes that simultaneously feel strong and illusive. The austere nature of his materials are softened and rendered into contemplative spaces. Using sumi ink and rice paper each piece is begun employing a chance driven process based on a traditional style of Chinese landscape painting. The monk Wong Mo pioneered this method (the Pomo method) during the T’iang dynasty (618- 906 AD). To this foundation he adds various combinations of painting methods that include, but are not limited to, the use of acrylic paint, epoxy glazes and automotive paint to create a hybrid of Eastern and Western techniques. With the addition of other elements such as the bar codes, binary codes and geometric shapes, the modern is persuaded to co-exist with the ancient. The combination of the abstract organic spaces created by the ink, and the more formal modern elements, helps coerce a visual dialogue between nature and its filtration through technology. In doing so, Ted dissects ideas of censorship, diversion, and manipulation, which are themes that he continues to explore. This work manifested after an intensive study of landscape painting in China in 2000.

A graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, Ted is 35, lives in Gainesville, and when not in his studio he can be found riding or fixing his bikes and small engine vehicles.

A fresh perspective on two-dimensional creations will be represented from the United States, Brazil, Germany, Slovenia and Australia and will encompass painting, collage, architectural design as well as street installations.Collection assembled by 111 Minna Gallery Curator Gabe Scott, 111 Minna Associate Curator Jay Howell, and Lainya Magana (former Upper Playground Associate Curator.

FEATURED ARTISTS

Robert Hardgrave (Seattle, WA)

Clynton Lowry (San Francisco, CA)[Gallery not found]

Nicole Hagen (San Francisco,CA)[Gallery not found]

Taska Cleveland ( Los Angeles, CA)

Kelly Ording (San Francisco, CA)[Gallery not found]

Mario Wagner (Cologne, Germany)

Sarah Spitler (San Francisco, CA)[Gallery not found]

Jacob Magraw (Los Angeles, CA)

Yellana James (Portland, OR)

Ryan Bubnis (Portland, OR)

Rene Almanza (Oaxaca, Mexico)

Fishnets, tarts and the art of the modern tease

An art exhibition created by Alice Stribling and Jessica Whiteside.
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The pinup girl holds a titillating place in history. She and her sister, the burlesque queen, have long been American icons, evolving with the changing tastes of popular culture.

The Gibson Girl of the Gay Nineties may have been fully clothed, but her poses in popular magazines were racy by the standards of the day. She became a superstar whose name is known even today. The Vargas Girl peeking over her shoulder in magazines of the Forties may have worn fewer clothes, but her popularity was perhaps greater than the Gibson Girl. Vargas Girls graced calendars in gas stations and on barrack walls. She flew hundreds of WWI missions on the noses of fighters and bombers. In burlesque houses across the country, the pinup pose moved to the stage with tauntingly slow strip teases and ‘oops-what-happened-to-my-clothes’ wardrobe malfunctions. The biopic about Fifties pinup star Bettie Page, released in 2006, highlights the current popularity of burlesque and pinup.

The spirit of pinup and burlesque continues to influence new artists. Lingerie clad ladies doing provocative burlesque bump-and-grind pinup poses inspired “Pin It up, Babycakes”, an art exhibition created by Alice Stribling and Jessica Whiteside. The show will hang at 111 Minna Gallery from February 5 -28, 2009.

Stribling and Whiteside met in January of 2008, and were excited to find that both were pinup inspired artists. Both artists made the transition from admiring pinup to performing burlesque, and found themselves dancing in Bombshell Betty’s burlesque class months later. Sometime between doing the hip bump and tassel twirl, the two discussed the idea of doing a show together. “Pin It up, Babycakes” is the result.

The work in the show ranges from sexily clad Samurai sword swinging chicks on hot rods, to charmingly naughty illustrations with a Victorian flourish. Shelves will be stocked with cheeky cowgirls on bowling pins, along with pinups ‘advertising’ products like Catwoman’s whipping cream, purrrfect on pie.

Opening night festivities will be MC’d by the fabulous Kitten on the Keys, and will include tantalizing burlesque performances. Vintage burlesque film clips hand crafted by Stephen Parr of Oddball Films Archive will be shown. And there will be Sexy Merchandise … just in time to make you or your Valentine sweetie squeal with delight.

INSOMNIA / Claudio Ethos
FELIZES / Anderson Resende
December 4-31, 2008
Curated by Gabe Scott

INSOMNIA: Brazilian Street Surrealist Claudio Ethos

San Francisco’s 111 Minna Gallery presents the United Sates debut of Brazil’s Claudio Ethos with great enthusiasm as the artist comes off of sold out shows in Europe and South America. While a stop in NYC is on the calendar for 2009, the famous street surrealist of Sao Paolo brings an impressive collection of drawings, paintings and installations through San Francisco in order to formally introduce himself to American audiences.

Ethos’ unique blend of conscious and unconscious depicts a remedy for struggle within South America’s concrete jungle. The strain of urban anxiety is often visible in the large, deep set black eyes that reside within the tired faces of his characters. Formulated within a mind that rarely rests, these surrealistic creatures exist in a perpetual state of struggle as they have traveled from the artist’s subconscious to the waking world of the general public. The excessive and meticulous detail that is the hallmark of Ethos’ work is sure to transport the viewer to an examination of one’s own waking dream.

FELIZES: Anderson Resende

Anderson Resende’s rare technical quality and extremely energetic drawing portrays bodies bearing the marks of living. His drawings are like engravings, the paper scored with the same precision and power. Each drawing is unique, with no sketch or draft. The overlapping gestural features in Nanking ink create marks as definitive as the writing of time aging the body. Each line tells a story and leaves a wrinkle on the surface of the paper.  Resende portrays the outside, but shows us what is inside. He draws “aging” to look at “experience,” “death” to address “immateriality” and “body” to talk about “spirit.” The impact of his works is not in the theme, but in the meaning, as profound as the eyes of the figures portrayed. Figures showing vivid images charged
with the age of the soul. Happy because they have smiled and wept— liberated are those who do not fear death.

San Francisco’s 111 Minna Gallery presents the United Sates debut of Brazil’s Claudio Ethos with great enthusiasm as the artist comes off of sold out shows in Europe and South America. While a stop in NYC is on the calendar for 2009, the famous street surrealist of Sao Paolo brings an impressive collection of drawings, paintings and installations through San Francisco in order to formally introduce himself to American audiences.

The artists of “Freak of Nature” adopt natural imagery as a central point of inquiry in their work. Expressions of human, plant, animal, insect life and landscape range from the realistic, mutated, beautiful, cliché, surreal, psychedelic, romantic and kitsch. This reflects a range of responses to the current sentiment of ecological disaster and genetic modification; including appreciation of the elegance of natural forms as well as disenchantment with environmentalist ideals. The use of visual references to science textbooks and commercial illustration are utilized to comment on the commoditization of natural life as an abstract entity to
be manipulated.

November 6-29, 2008
Conceptualized by Lisa Ostanpinski
Co-curated by Lisa Ostapinski and Gabe Scott

These artists investigate the interaction between humans and the environment including both reverence and destruction of the natural world. This highlights the contemporary complexity of human response and interpretation of nature as well as global environmental crises. Many of the artists in “Freak of Nature” celebrate the inherent beauty of natural imagery as well as ask the viewer to consider the current implications of human lifestyle choices. In this context, the expression “Freak of Nature” serves both as a metaphor for the anomalous expression of nature as well as reference to consequences of human interference.

Artists:
Allison Kendall
Amanda Smith
Alexis Mackenzie
Henry Gunderson
Colleen Sanders
Andrew Schoultz
Hilary Pecis
Lisa Ostapinski
Hannah Stouffer
Casey Jex Smith
Josh Keyes
Jacob Tillman
Christopher Russell
Matthew Hart

Curated by Gabe Scott
Oct 2 – Nov 1

FEATURED ARTISTS

Keli Reule
Ms. Reule is a North Carolina born San Francisco resident who will be participating in her first major exhibit @ 111 Minna Gallery. Recently accepted to the St. Martin’s College MFA painting program in London, Reule will be teaming up with studio mate Henry Lewis for “Captain and Commander.”

With this body of work, Reule has chosen to focus on her relationship with the sea and how it relates to internal emotional losses and maintenance of one’s passionate energy. She has set herself adrift into deep, dark water in order to contemplate the effects death, emotional defeats, personal loss and the re-generation of self.  Reule’s sparse palette has been further reduced in order to aid in the alienation of a didactic representation, giving way to a slowness depicted in her blurred imagery.

The artist has long seen herself as a vehicle for narrative memory or as an emulsified canvas for the lapse of time and space. The viewer may feel as if on a train, watching cities pass by with lost monuments or
encountering individuals with displaced physical characteristics.

Henry Lewis
Subtle epiphanies and chance encounters are some of the factors and themes examined by Henry Lewis in his most recent body of work, currently on exhibition with studio mate Keli Reule.

This presentation provides a new angle for Lewis’ long running study of his view of the human condition. A sensitive and impressionable individual, Lewis’ ability to draw strength, an existential purpose and inspiration from his love for the meaningful, random experience is on full display within this exhibit. A slew of street encounters with cab drivers and other urban prophets has provided a significant and positive counterbalance to a dependency on familiarity for guidance. Lewis recently made a difficult decision to leave mentor Mike Davis and Everlasting Tattoo for Skull and Sword; a move geared toward personal evolution both as a tattoo and fine artist. Davis has been a key figure in Lewis’ mastery of oil painting and development of his highly unique baroque characteristics.

GOLDEN: Recent works by Serena Cole and Tahiti Pehrson, a show featuring works by two emerging Bay Area talents.

Curated by Gabe Scott
September 4-27

FEATURED ARTISTS
Consisting of a provocative collection of new works.

Serena Cole
Creates beautifully haunting imagery incorporating the lost gazes of fashionistas frozen in a moment of fantastical escapism. Within these portraits, the constructs of high art and fashion are re-examined in an elaborate deception between a broad sense of idealized beauty synonymous with contemporary pop culture and a desire for the sublime. The work hypothesizes that the result of a life spent in the pursuance of vanity ultimately leads to isolation, sadness and alienation. Her investigation into various forms of conceptual and stylized beauty through colored pencil, gold leaf and watercolor prompt the viewer to be captivated by the eyes in each picture as if examining oneself in the mirror.

Tahiti Pehrson
Quietly obsesses over meticulous detail in the construction of his three dimensional paper structures. Originally enrolled at the San Francisco Art Institute for painting, Pehrson has painstakingly rendered his compositions and palettes to the bare skeletal remains. Graffiti, stencils and classical paining all maintain their influence on Tahiti’s work, but the resulting constructs are something entirely unique. This structure contains personal narrative quilted with romanticism, built on an insatiable desire to formulate a semblance of things. Pehrson, after a recent bout with yellow fever, has produced a body of work heavily laden with images from another consciousness, yet still addresses his appreciation of Californianism and all things he finds heartwarming.

Established in 1993 in downtown San Francisco 111 Minna Gallery is in the business of Art & Leisure. The gallery showcases a unique blend of local and international artists, world class DJ’s, live performance, and film screenings in an elegantly urban and ever-changing 4,000 square foot space.

Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat, 12pm-5pm, Saturday, 1pm-5pm and viewing by appointment.

111 Minna Gallery is located at the corner of Minna and 2nd Street in downtown San Francisco. The Gallery offers a full bar and welcomes ages 21 and over.

For more information go to www.111minnagallery.com

Curator Contact: Gabe Scott, 415.974.1719 scott.gabe@gmail.com

JOHN WENTZ, a Bay Area artist, features grey-scale illustrations of post-apocalyptical scenes transforming iconic scenes of childhood by punctuating the atmosphere with vintage superheroes.

BRETT AMORY, a San Francisco-based artist, tackles the cacophony and estranged anonymity of urban life in his “Waiting” and “Passport” series and collection of new works.

Curated by Gabe Scott
August 7-31

Featured artists:

Brett Amory
Seth Armstrong
Andrew Hem
John Wentz

BRETT AMORY, a San Francisco-based artist, tackles the cacophony and estranged anonymity of urban life in his “Waiting” and “Passport” series and collection of new works.

www.BrettAmory.com

SETH ARMSTRONG is a Bay Area artist whose painting layer diverse urban and exotic landscapes populated with citizens and tourists masquerading as nondescript superheroes.

www.SethArmstrong.com

ANDREW HEM, the exhibition’s sole Los Angeles artist, portrays thoughtful hipster geishas against the backdrop of iconic landmarks and exposes the urban landscape as fresh, real and complex.

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JOHN WENTZ, a Bay Area artist, features grey-scale illustrations of post-apocalyptical scenes transforming iconic scenes of childhood by punctuating the atmosphere with vintage superheroes.

The auditory experience at 365 opening features a staggering mix of national talents in genre-bending sounds from electro to breaks to indie-jazz to house-soul to live music in Minna’s two rooms of art and music.

Curated by: Gabe Scott
May 1-30, 2008

Their previous, and first, collaborative exhibition at 111 Minna , Saints and Sinners, was well received, as was their Fall 2007 show, Subterranea, at Fuse Gallery in New York. Further integration of the two styles have resulted in an elegant and expanded view on the masculine and feminine dialogue, as well as evolving their concepts and separate artistic processes into a continually evolving combination of drawing and painting methods.

Working in acrylic, collage, spray paint, pencil, pen and ink, gold leaf (and some secret sauce), the experimental, yet classically grounded works live comfortably in a space between graphic expression, stylized representation, surrealism, and sketch. The simplicity of the messages is enhanced by the underlying vitality and complex layering within the work.

In her studied portraits, Tunstall renders stylized, leggy female figures and their pets, prey, powers, dreams and. Their physical forms and accompanying exteriors represent and mirror internal thought processes ad turmoil. For instance, frequent themes such as mermaids, twins, or extra limbs concede a desire, a reliance, an adaptation, or more simply, an aspiration to something greater than being a painting. Tunstall has gone on to exhibit internationally and nationally. This is Tunstall’s fourth major exhibition at 111 Minna.

In contrast, Plock’s work centers on the inner animalistic tendencies and reactions reflected by humans (transfigured into monsters, in some cases) in the context of modern life. Disgruntled animals trying to capture clowns, animals teaching their young how to escape their predicament and even animals that don’t always socialize coming together to aid each other feature prominently in this new exhibit. Born in New Jersey, Plock has been showing his work for over eight years.

Established in 1993 in downtown San Francisco 111 Minna Gallery is in the business of Art & Leisure. The gallery showcases a unique blend of local and international artists, world class DJ’s, live performance, and film screenings in an elegantly urban and ever-changing 4,000 square foot space. The gallery is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday 12-9 pm and nightly on a rotating schedule for special events. 111 Minna Gallery is located at the corner of Minna and 2nd Street in downtown San Francisco. The Gallery offers a full bar and welcomes ages 21, and over.

Curator Contact: Gabe Scott, 415.974.1719 scott.gabe@gmail.com

For more information go to www.111minnagallery.com

April 3-28th.
Curated by Gabe Scott
“I have always been fascinated by graphics in motion. Growing up in New York City, I would watch pieces go by on the subways. My brain would snap a picture and capture one particular detail of the whole piece. Now I paint with the same approach. I want to capture the color and energy of a particular moment in time.” –Vulcan

Starting his gallery career at New York’s FUN GALLERY in the mid-1980s, and with group shows in New York and Switzerland soon after, Vulcan is adept at making art both in public and for a gallery setting, viewing the diverse modes of exhibition as powerful ways to display his unique artistic vision to a wide audience. As a master of the modern school of street and fine art, Vulcan has guest lectured at such universities as NYU and Yale.

With commissions ranging from painting servers at Google’s Mountain View headquarters, creating wallpapers for a European mobile phone company, executing a mural for the Hall of Fame in Spanish Harlem and designing artwork for Twisted Sister’s Come out and Play album, Vulcan has an eclectic diverse patron base that mirrors his revolutionary and inclusive style.ntinuum movie father

SO CLOSE TO BE TOUCHED | A SOLO EXHIBIT | March 1st – March 27th, 2007
ALEX HORNEST – (São Paulo – Brasil – 1972) | view his bio and artwork

Painter, sculptor and multimedia artist who in his work addresses urban, recreational and inward issues trying to discuss the relationship between cities and their inhabitants. Works on unusual materials, always looking to capture the essence of people and what move than in the midst of chaos, unrest and the routine of their day to day. Inspired by all that about, focuses its production in the interaction between work and a spectator where there is only the existence of the other.

Collage / Mixed Media
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