TUESDAY | JULY 20 | 6-10pm | FREE
Presented by 111 Minna Gallery | Space: Second Street Gallery
July 2010 edition of Sketch Tuesdays at 111 Minna Gallery
Live sketching/art making by local artists. Artwork is available for sale to the audience. Artists TBA Sketchtuesdays.com & Fecaface.com

Sketch Tuesdays at 111 Minna Gallery was founded by artist and curator Sacha Eckes in 2006, meaning this is the 45th one held. For history of artists who have participated in Sketch Tuesdays go here and type Sketch Tuesdays. Over eight hundred artists have participated in this event since it’s inception, and growing.
Please visit www.SketchTuesdays.com for more info.

TUESDAY | MAY 11 | 6-10pm | FREE
Presented by 111 Minna Gallery | Space: Second Street Gallery

May 2010 edition of Sketch Tuesdays at 111 Minna Gallery

Live sketching/art making by local artists. Artwork is available for sale to the audience.

Artists TBA on Sketchtuesdays.com & Fecalface.com

Tonight’s DJ: DJ Pre-K
Tonight’s film projection: tba
Tonight’s co-host: tba
Also a great chance for you to see the current exhibition at 111 – ‘Excellent Condition’.
And special lazer show at the end, of course.

Where: 111 Minna Street @ 2nd St., San Francisco, CA 94105
When: Tuesday May 11th, 6:00 till 10:00.

Admission is FREE, but 21+ (we have a full bar here.. mmm)
Gallery#: 415.974.1719

Web: http://www.111minnagallery.com-any further questions contact yr Sketch Tuesdays host: bka@bradkalder.com

Your 111 Minna Hosts/Curators are Brad K. Alder, Jay Howell & Angela Holmes. If you have any questions please find them running around during the event if you are an artist or a buyer.

111 Minna Gallery is pleased to announce the fifth ‘Sketch Tuesdays’ of 2010 and the 44th time we’ve held the event! Each month the gallery hosts an evening of live art making featuring both established and emerging Bay Area artists. Inspired by Southern Exposure’s Monster Drawing Rally, 111 Minna offers patrons the opportunity to see local artists at work and get acquainted with them. It is also a way for artists to meet each other and to be inspired by each other’s creative process.

Sketch Tuesdays offers the local arts community a place to congregate, to talk, to create and to be seen. There is usually room for artists to just drop in and start drawing, but the good seats are reserved for the invited artists.

Art is for sale at reasonable prices and will be displayed until the event closes. This is a great opportunity to become a collector and to meet some very
talented people!!

Check out video coverage here & in The Chronicle’s “Art Adventures”.

“..another example of really good value and the fun of collecting is the once a month Sketch Tuesdays at 111 Minna; 20 artists set up and draw or paint. Then they put it on the wall for between $5 and $30; the work is beautiful, cheap and plentiful” – Ron Turner, Last Gasp

“Once a month 111 Minna hosts Sketch Tuesdays featuring live drawing from local Bay Area artists. They drink and create and then sell their works for ridiculously low prices. I mean you can get some work from established artists for like $10. Granted the work isn’t one of their best, but shit, if you ain’t got the cash to buy a $1,500 piece by one of your favorites, $10 sounds pretty good to me. You can start collecting some of your favorites without breaking the bank… But besides all the art buying possibilities, it’s just a good time. Drink with your friends and watch talented artists create.” – John Trippe, Fecal Face Dot Com

“As evidenced by the endless hoopla surrounding Bob Ross’s television escapades, the artistic process is something people want to know more about. In response to this irrepressible need, 111 Minna Gallery offers up Sketch Tuesdays. The event itself intends to foster new relationships within the local visual art community, hopefully birthing dialogue, new ideas, and collaboration” – Michael Harkin, SF Bay Guardian

Check out Alan Bamberger of ArtBusiness.com for his great review of Sketch Tuesdays.

“The basic idea is that artists get together and hang out and make art and then they put it up for sale. The prices are exceptionally magnanimously marvelous, tonight ranging from $6 to $30, most under $20. And we’re talkin’ good art by good artists. So for those of you who love art, but who aren’t doctors, lawyers, investment bankers, shipping magnates, patricians, children of privilege, and so on and so forth, Sketch Tuesdays is very possibly the best option in town to jump start that art collection you’ve always dreamed of having.”

Thank you Alan for your mind-numbingly radical documentation of art in SF. Please visit: www.ArtBusiness.com

Sketch Tuesdays at 111 Minna Gallery was founded by artist and curator Sacha Eckes in 2006, meaning this is the 44th one held. For history of artists who have participated in Sketch Tuesdays go here and type Sketch Tuesdays. Over eight hundred artists have participated in this event since it’s inception, and growing.

Please visit www.SketchTuesdays.com for more info…

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