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Shalo P @Adobe Books
Monday, 19 November 2012 /// Written by Rachel Ralph
The Adobe Books Backroom Gallery opened Valley a show of local Shalo P's new works on paper (through Dec 2nd). To get to the gallery, you have to go through the entirety of a bookstore, but this is a really great journey. The center of the store has a few couches, on which a lot of people were gathered and the first thing I noticed was the strong sense of community. These people weren't standing and having superficial conversations like at a lot of art openings, they were piled together with loving and deep connections between them.
As you stepped into the Backroom Gallery, which is demarcated by a small sign above the doorway, the ambiance was noticeably quieter, but people were still gathered closely when looking at specific works. These were all works on paper, with figures morphing in and out of one another, often in sexual relations and with hedonistic violence. This is a teenage boy's wet dream, but is much more complex than that. Because they were displayed on mostly yellow and white notebook paper, with a few on plain white, and because most drawings involved a fair amount of small text, viewers were really spending time with the work. It ranges from pen doodles to sharpie drawings, and the thickness of the lines in the works were very consciously decided. The column of sex drawings would not have worked had it been in sharpie, the pen allowed a more gentle approach.
The pieces which looked more like computer-generated drawings didn't really fit with the rest of the works displayed, although they referenced the small comic book that Shalo P also had on sale that night. These books are very nicely printed and I would like to buy one to spend some more time with these drawings. I don't know that I am finely attuned to his Robocop references, but I can feel the passion spilling out of the pages, which makes the work both endearing and inviting. However, I will make the disclaimer that once invited in, you may see some X-rated images, so don't bring the kids.
Words & Photos: Rachel Ralph ~ rachel(at)fecalface.com
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Shalo P @Adobe Books, Saturday
Friday, 09 November 2012 /// Written by Trippe
San Francisco artist Shalo P (our interview w/ him) opens his first solo show VALLEY at Adobe Books this Saturday Nov 10th. Don't know a whole lot of what to expect, but if this and the images he emailed us is any indication, it should be interesting indeed.
VALLEY is an ensemble of supple relationships, a climax of virtualization. Drawings, hand-drawn and digitally rendered, elucidate an affair with one SISTER SPREAD. Disconcerting, challenging, stimulating still images. As the eyes move over them, reception is comparable to the sensing movement of our consciousness, jumping back and forth between the various layers of reality, between past and present.
SHALO P - VALLEY
Adobe Books
3166 16th St.
reception 7PM-10PM
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Shalo P Interview
Friday, 30 July 2010 /// Written by Alex Braubach
Shalo P is a SF based audio-visual artist who recently exhibited a selection of 14 drawings at Ever Gold Gallery coinciding with the recent release of his self-published “LOVE IS SUCH A DANGEROUS GAME”. The zine, containing work created in a two year period chronicles memories, longing and catastrophic situations in post-modern copy/past collage fashion. They're meticulously wild drawings and really deranged ones at that. The zine comes in two limited versions and are available at the Ever Gold as long as supplies last. It's an absolute gem, so make sure you get yourself a copy. It’s probably the best $8 I’ve ever invested. -Alex Braubach
AMB: I’ve known you since our school days at SFAI and had plenty of opportunities to see your work evolve in the past years. It’s really interesting to see how you have developed from "The Tormentors" paintings you exhibited at Meridian Gallery years ago to what your up to with your video-based performances at New Langton and elsewhere. Your current show at the Ever Gold is an exhibit of drawings. It’s like you’ve come full circle with “Love Is Such A Dangerous Game”. Please describe your current work, the drawings, and how they relate to your previous work.
SP: The work is a barrage of symbols and signs. It’s dense stuff that also seems fit to just be “in the moment”, not only as some mutilation of the bizarre nature of things but also embracing the ways of seeing to varying degrees. You know, as drawings, comics strip and other visual forms. My current works are like celebrations to living at the start of a very weird age.
My conceptual framework hurtles into these different directions and they always seem organic and mine. I’m producing floorshows and farewell concerts with the FRIENDSHIP FRIENDS FOREVER (rainbow band), making videos under the TELEVISION FOR GHOSTS / 2084 FLOORSHOW umbrella, and making images that relay the totemic themes behind all the other work. I shuffle around in formats but the big difference is how close they are to me, personally.
Before I moved to SF I was just a writer, and words just made so much sense to me. Then they seemed phony, manipulative and limited in a world with hypertext in it, a world with so much goddamn subtext to what was lurking under in it’s big storm of changes, in its unconscious birthing of memes. Words were meaningless in the face of the connections between them, in the changing face of how books were produced, in the questions concerning the changes in information retrieval itself. This was big to me - the new ways of experiencing “stuff”, from how we communicated these changes to the part that images play with culture and memory. So I went from writing dialogues to making data maps.
Then I got into imagery again, especially the Medusa, the representation of the incomprehensible. That’s what got me into The Tormentors – relationships - the walls between things breaking down. It was car crashes. Have you ever seen one? It's like that Raymond Carver story "Popular Mechanics", it's a raw moment of chance and horrible corrupted beauty. Things change irrevocably. Well, the drawings... They're my landscape of these feelings - the innate vile beauty of car crashes, the taste of sweat, the medusa's gaze, sexual fantasies, self representation, time and memory - that whole gag. What's the personal side of a good sinner?
AMB: Freddy Krueger.
SP: Hey man, are you going put some cool hyperlinks?
AMB: I can try. I don’t know.
SP: It’ll make it all so much clearer.
AMB: Well, maybe just that last paragraph.
SP: Cool.
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Dream Summer @Ever Gold
Wednesday, 07 July 2010 /// Written by Trippe
ALEX HEILBRON,
HOMERO HIDALGO,
PETER HURLEY, and
CHRIS LUX
Project room: Shalo P
@Ever Gold Gallery
Opening July 1st, 2010
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Enthusiastic Person
Tuesday, 05 February 2013, 11:36am
Thanks to everyone who came out to the opening of Enthusiastic Person, Jay Howell's solo show at FFDG in SF's Mission. We'll be adding the works online and photos from the opening this week.
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Monday, 04 February 2013, 3:00pm
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Wednesday, 16 June 2010, 4:39pm
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Johanson, McGee, and Reid @CCSF
Thursday, 31 January 2013, 10:58am
City College of San Francisco to Host Three Critically Acclaimed Artists who are Former City College Students --> Exhibition: (Almost) Free Formed: Celebrating Old Days and Hoping for New Times at CCSF: Chris Johanson, Barry McGee, and Laurie Reid.
Reception: Thursday, February 21, 6 to 8pm
City College Art Gallery, City College of San Francisco
~complete show details
Work by Barry McGee
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Wednesday, 25 April 2012, 10:56am
Scott Bourne's "A Room With No Windows"
Thursday, 31 January 2013, 10:52am
Hey skaters and people who have lived in San Francisco in the 90s, our ol' friend Scott Bourne (aka Black Arm) is due to release the new book A Room With No Windows through 1980 editions with cover art by Jeremy Fish.
Scott Bourne was a pro skater who moved to Paris many years ago to work on this book - Based around the author's real life adventures, A Room With No Windows possesses deep erotic tones, as well as the idea of soul searching through sex. Heavily plot driven it is a first person narrative that takes you on a historical roller coaster ride through a turbulent San Francisco of the 90’s. A powerful, urgent, electric tale of comradery and perilous true love set in a city that’s being pulled out from under its’ characters by capitalism, AIDS and the isolation of modern life. Gritty and unflinching language sprung from Southern roots relays heists, petty scams, genuine friendship and finally the transformative loss of the person you didn't realize was your home.
Release party for it tonight in London. Being London is 8 hours ahead, it's going on right now.
Scott Bourne's "A Room With No Windows"
Podcast ~ Jay Howell on Live Free
Thursday, 24 January 2013, 11:37am
Check out artist Mike Maxwell's Live Free Podcast #88 with guest Jay Howell whose solo show Enthusiastic Person opens February 1st at FFDG. They talk No Stress, Echo Park, Surrounding Influence, Feeling Good, Jim Dirschberger, Bob's Burgers, Nickelodeon, Street Dog, Fecal Face, Collaborative Work, Succeeding, Character Development, and San Francisco.
~Listen here
Jay Howell & Mike Maxwell
Kehinde Wiley @Contemporary Jewish Museum
Wednesday, 30 January 2013, 10:34am
Kehinde Wiley is coming to the Contemporary Jewish Museum here in San Francisco with the show The World Stage: Israel opening Thursday Feb 14th. ~show details
A special launch party is being held the night before on the 13th featuring with world-class performances, gourmet bites inspired by the artwork, specialty cocktails, and a first look at the exhibition. ~details
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Tuesday, 29 January 2013, 5:25pm
Collage by Kayle Whitham, an illustrator and designer from Melbourne Australia.
Jay Howell Sculptures
Monday, 28 January 2013, 1:50pm
Along with 25 new works, Jay Howell will have 11 new sculpture works in his upcoming solo show Enthusiastic Person opening Friday, Feb 1st (6-9pm) @FFDG in San Francisco.
RSVP on Facebook | preview inquires: info(at)ffdg.net
Jay Howell sculptures on display Friday
Trystan Bates
Friday, 25 January 2013, 12:17pm
People are sometimes confused as to if the pieces are paintings or not. In actuality the pieces are collages that are composed from fragments of destroyed paintings.
Great work by Buenos Aires based Trystan Bates.
Congotropolis by Dave Kinsey
Thursday, 24 January 2013, 11:26am
Dave Kinsey's Congotropolis. It's a 4/c process screen print on heavy rag paper created from the original painting. 18 x 18 inches, stamped, numbered and signed by the artist. Edition of only 100. $85 ~details
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