May 2011
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HIGHLIGHTS FROM ART PAD SF
Guerrero Gallery had the strongest “booth” at the Phoenix Hotel last night by showing a tight few artists who made tapestries of girls puking, taking bong rips and this handcrafted quilt on the bed made from metal tee shirts to form a goat head. The spread, by Ben Venom, came decorated with bleached out pentagram pillows. Very affordable: $3500 quilt, cheaper than a Jessica Ogden...
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John Maus … all the time musicians are saying, “I’m not an artist like a painter”. And for me, for first person, we identify artists as those who are aware. Aware of the machinations of systems and defiant of them. It’s not a medium within four walls. Making new statements, taking risks, looking back but looking forward. Otherwise, there’s no point. Everyone...
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Thanks goodness for Altman Siegel Gallery SF
One of the director’s for David Zwirner gallery NY opened shop here last year, and the programming’s been a breath of fresh air. The air in there gushes with clarity and a pulse of newness that San Francisco desperately needs. Let’s face it, San Francisco’s “Mission School” hasn’t been shadowed since and the art market’s painting stride hasn’t...
