111 Minna Gallery http://www.111minnagallery.com Art and Leisure Tue, 13 May 2008 23:47:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Current Exhibit | CIRCUS http://www.111minnagallery.com/2008/04/30/current-exhibit-circus/ http://www.111minnagallery.com/2008/04/30/current-exhibit-circus/#comments Thu, 01 May 2008 06:55:34 +0000 Daniel http://www.111minnagallery.com/2008/04/30/current-exhibit-circus/

CIRCUS! | 
May 1-30, 2008

Plock+Tunstall’s CIRCUS, a new body of collaborative works.

The latest large-scale collaborative exhibition by San Francisco-based artists Ferris Plock and Kelly Tunstall, CIRCUS! is an entirely new body of work that uses circus life to inspect journeys, innocence and artifice.

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

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Street Style Originator and Modern School Master

111 Minna Gallery is delighted to present Vulcan’s STYLE SAVAGE, showing new paintings exhibiting April 3-28th. The exhibition will be on view from Thursday, April 3rd through April 28th.

Bred in New York and based in San Francisco, Vulcan is now firmly entrenched in the modern school of street art and fine art convergence. Breaking out of stereotypical generalizations like “grafiiti” and “street art,” terms misused to denote a diluted or primitive art form, Vulcan empowers his work with color, rythym, grace, movement and style.

“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.

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

]]> http://www.111minnagallery.com/2008/04/08/current-exhibit-style-savage/feed/ 111 Minna Gallery Interview with artist Vulcan http://www.111minnagallery.com/2008/04/08/111-minna-gallery-interview-with-artist-vulcan/ http://www.111minnagallery.com/2008/04/08/111-minna-gallery-interview-with-artist-vulcan/#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:35:02 +0000 Daniel http://www.111minnagallery.com/2008/04/08/111-minna-gallery-interview-with-artist-vulcan/ What is your genetic makeup?
My mother was both Native American and African American, my father was African American. My great-great-grandmother was a slave. I grew up in Spanish Harlem and the Lower East Side of New York.

Please describe your working environment and how it effects your process.
I feel lucky to have a real studio where space is not an object all the time. Without it I don’t know what I would do.

 

Do you believe that (as Peter Tosh expressed) that the United States’ fiscally generous policy of space exploration is a horrible waste of valuable cultural resources (money) that could be spent on the arts? Yes or No? How?
I would like more money spent on arts but I also would like to be an astronaut.

 

Please comment on the virtues and vices of being alone while you create art.
I can create in front of people, but I feel most comfortable painting alone.
With very loud music.

 

To what extent do you believe an artist manipulates the future or influences the present through their art?
If an artist becomes famous then their work will effect someone somewhere.
The work has to get seen. The world will not be changed by unseen work. I want to change the world. 

 

Please extrapolate here on your mastery of drip patterns, intended arc, achieved line, color harmonics, overt experimentation, etc?
Most of my work is mixed media. I don’t think great work is bound to any medium.

 

How does the physical context of your art work’s exhibition effect the meaning of your art? For example, how does your art speak in a "Google" context? In a 111 Minna Gallery context? In a studio context?
I paint things I like to look at.

What is the ideal context for your work?
I am still looking for the ideal context, but I probably won’t recognize it when if presents itself.

 

What technical perfection have you achieved that only experience has allowed you in your chosen medium? For example, if I were to pick up a can of spray paint and try to emulate you, what advice would you give me?
I try to improve my technique all the time with oil,acrylics and spray. Advice: practice, practice.

 

Do you associate yourself with any artist past or present? Whose studio would YOU like to visit? Who do you believe would appreciate YOUR studio?
I have been told I’m antisocial, but I would have liked to visit Andy Warhol’s factory.

 

What level of artistic expression do you aspire to?
Sculpture, metal, glass and oils.

]]> http://www.111minnagallery.com/2008/04/08/111-minna-gallery-interview-with-artist-vulcan/feed/ 111 Minna Gallery http://www.111minnagallery.com/2008/04/07/welcome-to-111-minna/ http://www.111minnagallery.com/2008/04/07/welcome-to-111-minna/#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:47:08 +0000 Daniel http://www.111minnagallery.com/2008/04/08/welcome-to-111-minna/ 111 Minna Gallery  |  San Francisco  |  CA  |  94105  |  415.974.1719

Gallery Hours | Tuesday-Friday 12-5 | Saturday 1-6 Viewing by appointment
Events Schedule see calendar

21 and up  (includes babies) 

Art inquiries can be directed to: Gabe Scott
Event inquiries can be directed to: Michelle Delaney

]]> http://www.111minnagallery.com/2008/04/07/welcome-to-111-minna/feed/ Butt-Rocking Sound Installed at the 111 Minna Gallery http://www.111minnagallery.com/2008/03/18/butt-rocking-sound-installed-at-the-111-minna-gallery/ http://www.111minnagallery.com/2008/03/18/butt-rocking-sound-installed-at-the-111-minna-gallery/#comments Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:53:10 +0000 Daniel http://www.111minnagallery.com/2008/03/18/butt-rocking-sound-installed-at-the-111-minna-gallery/ Qoöl SF’s Brand New Sound System Rocks Your Butt Harder Than The Old One Did.

Qoöl’s home of 12 years (yes, we’ve been doing it that long), the 111 Minna Gallery, has a brand new state of the art sound system, which is way better at rocking butts than the old one. The extremely butt rocking new sound comes from JK Sound, an outfit that has provided sound for some of the most butt rocking venues on the West Coast.  The butt rocking power of the new system is not only due to increased number of butt rocking amplifiers and speakers, but also due to the revolutionary new butt rocking speaker design of the EAW AX366’s which are installed in the main dance area. A forthcoming acoustic treatment of the space will complete this most butt rocking project.

We encourage you to come on down to to Qoöl and have your butt rocked. [source: qoolsf.com]

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March 6-29th

Opening Reception: March 6th at 6pm

111 Minna Gallery is delighted to present Jay Howell’s PUNKS GIT CUT showing new paintings, photos and animations exhibiting March 6 - 29th. The Gallery will host an artist reception Thursday, March 6th at 6pm with San Francisco band, The Jizz performing live plus special guest DJ’s spinning tunes throughout the evening. The reception is FREE and open to the public. The exhibition will be on view from Thursday, March 6th through March 29th. 111 Minna Gallery is located at the corner of Minna and 2nd Streets in downtown San Francisco.

San Francisco’s raconteur of the arts and music scene - painter, cartoonist, publisher, DJ, cyclist, and dog lover, Jay Howell, will present his first major solo show.

"It sounds silly, but I just want people to laugh, it means so much to me and nothing else matters."
– J. Howell


 

As with all his endeavors Jay brings to the PUNKS GIT CUT exhibition the same spirit of invention and authentic outlook that characterize his zine of the same name that he has been publishing for the last twelve years.

After flunking out of Art School in only six months Howell, professing an “I don’t know what the hell I’m doing and I don’t care” attitude, kept drawing – gross cartoons, funny cartoons – going on to create skateboard graphics for Antihero and Consolidated. He exaggerates the eccentricities of the human character while simultaneously generalizing about our wide range of shared characteristics like boners and cute dogs.

Jay is the author of countless books and zines, most recently the instructional guides; Dog and Dog Information and Let Me Tell You Where to Stick It (with Audrey Erickson). Jay is also co-owner of the record label Mount Saint Mountain, who with partner Mark Kaiser, has continued to put out great records for the last several years. For more information go to: www.punksgitcut.blogspot.com or mtstmtn.com.

 

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

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“The Bliss Of The Unknown, The Ignorance, And The Lies”

New Paintings by Micah LeBrun / Thursday February 7th – March 1st, 2008

111 Minna Gallery is proud to present new paintings by Micah LeBrun for his solo exhibition, HARMONIC SILENCE. The Gallery will host an artist reception Thursday, February 7th at 6 pm with a special sound installation and live performance by Bob America. The reception is FREE and open to the public. The exhibition will be on view Thursday, February 7 through March 1st. 111 Minna Gallery is located at the corner of Minna and 2nd Streets in downtown San Francisco.

For Micah’s fourth solo exhibition with 111 Minna Gallery, he has created a show inspired by “the bliss of the unknown, the ignorance and the lies…” with his reaction to the war in Iraq.

“I was in Thailand in 2003 when the United States invaded Iraq. It was surreal and somewhat relieving to be so far away from my country and it’s supposed preemptive strike against a country which may or may not have posed a significant and immediate threat to the U.S. Due to the major controversy surrounding all war, but more directly the current, I have felt I should paint about war ever since that time I was in Thailand. Being so far away, during such a chaotic and serious time, removed me from the initial concerns, protests, and reactions which stemmed from fellow Americans. I was in a bubble, as they say…and I returned home to yet another bubble.  As the war has raged on and given birth to so many different facets, I feel that I am more removed from war than ever. As I entered my studio to paint this next body of work about war, I realized that I don’t know the first thing about it. I felt that I couldn’t honestly portray anything real about a war; that I know nothing about it due to little access to any real truth regarding this war. I could not force images about something I no nothing about and quite honestly am growing more numb to on a daily basis; mainly due to just being a typical American. I’m not a soldier or a politician or journalist…I’m an artist…and I’m in the dark on the issue.

Through my frustration, I realized there is honesty in the images I paint during this time of war; that what I paint, weather I am consciously trying to paint about war or not, are affected by it. So, with war and what I feel the topic embodies, in mind, I have painted a body of work with less control than I normally exercise. For this show, I have further explored oil paint, which like war, I know very little about. I have placed images of iconic objects of war within the paintings, to somehow connect them with the viewer and my original intention. I feel that some of the work may be perceived as unpleasant and possibly controversial, but I wish to leave it’s purpose and intention open to interpretation. On the other hand, some paintings bear no visual or direct connection to war what so ever, but they may possibly serve as an unconscious retreat from an issue so severe.

The title of the show, Harmonic Silence, is in relation to the bubble of which I mentioned…the bliss of the unknown, the ignorance and the lies.” – Micah LeBrun.

“After painting with acrylic for twelve years, I am just coming to the completion of one year working w/ oil paint… I’m still learning so much about the medium w/ each new painting, but am beginning to see the paint portray the feelings, within my ideas, more clearly. The Harmonic Silence show will consist of seven major pieces, which all consist of one large focal point/painting, accompanied by small works to create series of works within the show. The show will be structured differently in this since and also financially, as all paintings will only be available for sale as a complete series..” 

www.micahlebrun.com

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

]]> http://www.111minnagallery.com/2008/02/05/current-exhibit-harmonic-silence/feed/ January at 111 http://www.111minnagallery.com/2008/01/03/current-exhibit-january-at-111/ http://www.111minnagallery.com/2008/01/03/current-exhibit-january-at-111/#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:42:33 +0000 Daniel http://www.111minnagallery.com/2008/01/03/current-exhibit-january-at-111/ 20 X 20 THE JANUARY SHOW

San Francisco, CA — 111 Minna Gallery is proud to announce its 2ndAnnual 20 X 20 - THE JANUARY SHOW exhibiting over 65 artists from around the world.

The exhibit runs January 3rd through February 2nd.

111Minna Curator, Gabe Scott and guest curator, Kelly Tunstall, have put together a stellar line up of established and emerging artists. The artists are asked to keep in a 20 x 20 format and represent a spectrum of mediums - painting,photography, illustration, and more. 

“The show is a celebration of the arts community the gallery reaches out to: 111artists, future, present and past are given the opportunity to exhibit together” states curator Gabe Scott. Guest curator, Kelly Tunstall “ is thrilled to kick off the New Year with an amazing line up of so many talented artists in a show where the old guard meets the new.” 

 


Abe Alvarez-Tostado

Adam J Ansell

Adrienne Yan

Aiyana Udesen

Alexis Mackenzie

Alice Stribling

Andrew Hem

Anthony Skirvin

Apex

Arlo Jamrog

Ben Mayorga

Bigfoot

Brad K. Alder

Brett Amory

Brian Barneclo

Brigid Dawson

Bryan Dawson

Camille Johnson

Carmen Sanchez

Chor Boogie

Christofer Chin

Chris Fitzpatrick

Clinton Lowry

Coral Silverman

Curve One

Daniel Leyva

Dennis Larkins

Deth P Sun

Empty Eyez

Erin Eisenhower

Ernest Doty

Ethos

Ferris Plock

Gabe Scott

George Pfau

Hannah Hooper

Hannah Stouffer

Hugh Leeman

Jay Howell

Jeramie Tolentino

Keli Reule

Kelly Tunstall

Lafe Eaves

Lily Lin

Maria Gillespie

Martin Olive

Mary Scott

Matt Furie

Maxx 242

Megan Shoemaker

Merkley

Meryl Theo Press

Micah Lebrun

Michael Page

Mike Bell

Michelle Blade

Michelle Guintu

Mike Maxwell

Munk One

Nate Hooper

Nate Van Dyke

Onesto

Phillip Killian

Pierre Merkl III

Rachael Ceretto

Rob Reger

Rogelio Martinez                    

Ryan Bubnis

Ryan Jacob Smith

Ryan Mcgavin

Sham Saenz

She Bible

Skinner

Stefan Simikitch

Steven Gordon

Tara Lisa Foley

Taska Cleveland

Ted Lincoln

Tracy Timmins

Zane Peach

Curator Contact: scott.gabe@gmail.com , Kelly@kellytunstall.com or call 415.974.1719

Media Contact: Moretta@111minnagallery.com or call 917.749.5578

 

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