A Mid-Summer’s Night Scream 2015

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The Col­lage Museum of San Fran­cisco presents

A Mid-Summer’s Night Scream 2015

Grant’s Tomb Crypt

Pho­tos by Matthew Kadi

http://winstonsmith.com/about/photo-gallery/

Friday, July 17th 2015

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The Col­lage Museum of San Fran­cisco Presents:

Win­ston Smith’s

17th Annual Mid-Summer Night’s SCREAM  Event

 

Fea­tur­ing Hand­made Col­lage Art by:

Hope Kroll • Miss.Printed • Michael Tunk • Dan Hart­man • kidswithscissors

The Human Wreck­age • Justin Ange­los • Frank Mori­son • Bowling4Rhinos

René Apal­lec • Win­ston Smith

Image:  Dan Hart­man    Ani­ma­tion:  Bowling4Rhinos

Fri­day,  July 17th  2015 • 7pm-10pm • Free Admission

This is a one-night event.  All sales must be final­ized night of show.

 

Grant’s Tomb Gallery

50-A Ban­nam Place, San Fran­cisco CA 94133                                                                                        (Near the cor­ner of Union Street and Grant Avenue in North Beach)                                               Click here for a map.

 

About the Show and Museum:

With this sec­ond group exhi­bi­tion at Grant’s Tomb Gallery we cel­e­brate the The Col­lage Museum of San Fran­cisco.  Our vision with this endeavor is to show­case local, national and inter­na­tional artists who work in the medium of col­lage, photo-montage, assem­blage and related disciplines.

There is a long and col­or­ful 200 year his­tory of artists and cre­ative indi­vid­u­als work­ing in this field from the early 19th cen­tury and through­out the 20th cen­tury as well as an explo­sion of collage-based artistry in these first decades of the 21st century.

The Col­lage Museum of San Fran­cisco serves to spot­light these artists’ works and to offer a resource for the artis­tic com­mu­nity that may let us explore the lim­it­less visions of cre­ative imag­i­na­tion and encour­age and expand the Art of Collage.

 

About the Artists:

 

Hope Kroll    @hopetikvah

Three dimen­sional col­lage using antique and vin­tage mate­ri­als. Hope was born in Skokie, Illi­nois and moved out to Cal­i­for­nia when she was 21 years old. She was first enrolled in art school at the age of seven where she trained in oil paint­ing. Hope received her Bach­e­lor of Fine Arts from the Uni­ver­sity of Illi­nois, Cham­paign– Urbana,IL in 1990. She obtained her Mas­ters of Fine Arts in 1992 from the San Fran­cisco Art Insti­tute. She has lived in Paso Rob­les, CA with her hus­band Gary for the past 17 years.

Miss.Printed    @miss.printed

Loca­tive Art and Paper col­lage. (you don’t have to call it col­lage if the term shocks you).

Michael Tunk    @tunkcollage

Michael Tunk takes pho­tographs and mag­a­zines from the 1800’s-1980’s and re-contextualizes them into some­thing beau­ti­ful. He takes refused detri­tus and spins a yarn of gold. He takes the weight from a hoard­ers home and fixes it into aes­thetic candy. His pieces are never pho­to­shopped, he uses only Xacto blades and what’s left of the bones in his wrists. Buy now before carpel tun­nel grinds his hands to an octo­ge­nar­ian pugilist’s paws.

Dan Hart­man

Dan Hart­man aka “Pan­creas Super­vi­sor” is a self taught col­lage artist from Min­neapo­lis MN. He uses reg­u­lar house scis­sors, spray mount glue, glue sticks and as many ran­dom books and mag­a­zines as he can get his hands on. Hart­man started out doing smaller dada inspired por­traits but has since moved on to much larger pop/surrealist style land­scape pieces. His main goal is to give peo­ple some­thing inter­est­ing to look at, some­thing with a lot of depth and seam­less flow, art that you could walk around in if you were only a few inches tall.

kidswith­scis­sors    @kidswithscissors

Cut and paste col­lage artist from south Texas with an obses­sion for weird­ness, pizza and jokes. Cus­tom art­work and screen print­ing from space.   Con­tact: kidswithscissors@yahoo.com.

Human Wreck­age    @thehumanwreckage

The artist cur­rently lives, cuts and cre­ates in NoWhere Fast USA.

Justin Ange­los    @justinangelos

Justin Ange­los was born in 1971 in Los Ange­les, Ca. After spend­ing many years on the road with a job in the tradeshow indus­try Justin now lives in Burlingame, Ca where he is a full­time stay at home dad and artist.

Life, death, loss and rebirth play a major role in the form­ing of many of his ideas. Inspired by the cur­rent state of our world and the debris man leaves in his wake Justin’s palette is often made up of found and dis­carded objects col­lected in aban­doned houses, vacant lots, road­sides and sec­ond hand stores. Prim­i­tive cul­ture, the ani­mal world and today’s fast paced and dis­pos­able soci­ety con­tinue to add fuel to his work.

Frank Mori­son    @fmorison

Frank Mori­son is a col­lage artist based in Oak­land, CA. His work strives to exam­ine the polit­i­cal econ­omy of lived expe­ri­ence in America.

Bowling4Rhinos (Car­olyn Gair)    @bowling4rhinos

Car­olyn Gair has been a story artist in the ani­ma­tion busi­ness for over 20 years work­ing with such stu­dios as Dis­ney, Warner Bros and Uni­ver­sal. Strengths include abil­ity to cre­ate and board sequences with­out pages, work­shop gags and milk emo­tion as well as exe­cute good stag­ing and strong acting.

Rene Apal­lec

The works of the late René Apal­lec will be dis­played for the first time in the United States. Mys­te­ri­ous and obscure, his com­po­si­tions call out to us from a long van­ished world that has since been swept away by the tumul­tuous era of the Great War. Come and explore this rare glimpse into the mind of a lost and for­got­ten artis­tic genius.

 

 

The works of most of these artists are fea­tured on Instagram.

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For more infor­ma­tion on The Col­lage Museum of San Fran­cisco, visit:

www.CollageMuseumSF.com

 

 

Dr. John Scholarship Benefit Concert at Camp Winnarainbow

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June 6th — Dr. John Schol­ar­ship Ben­e­fit Con­cert at the Inti­mate Coven­try Grove in Kens­ing­ton, CA

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For more info and tick­ets, click here!

 Wel­come to Camp Winnarainbow’s 40th Anniver­sary Year!

 

Ses­sions A & B are full. Lim­ited space still avail­able in Ses­sions C, D & E.

Reg­is­ter online here.

 

Ready for the TIME OF YOUR LIFE?

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Share our 40th year with us!

 

Stilts, trapeze, drama, jug­gling, uni­cy­cle, mar­tial arts, swim­ming, singing, danc­ing, hot cocoa, the labyrinth, hang­ing out and much, much more!

 

Choose Camp Win­narain­bow this sum­mer and explore nature, enhance your cre­ativ­ity, begin life­long friend­ships, and have BIG FUN. For over 35 years, kids (and adults) have run away to join our cir­cus in the rolling foothills of beau­ti­ful Men­do­cino County in North­ern Cal­i­for­nia. Draw­ing from our knowl­edge of cir­cus and per­form­ing arts, our well trained staff teaches tim­ing, bal­ance and as our founder Wavy Gravy says,

“Sur­vival in the 21st cen­tury
or how to duck with a sense of humor.”

Camp Winnarainbow’s phi­los­o­phy helps pre­pare campers to reach for the stars! We would love to have you join our community!

Be sure to take a look at our pho­tos.

 

Paper Cuts Collage Exhibition, Alameda CA

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Paper Cuts Col­lage Exhibition

Open­ing Recep­tion Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 13  6pm-9pm

Exhibit­ing thru April 4th 2015

Redux Stu­dios & Gallery

2315 Lin­coln Avenue,  Alameda CA

 

Fea­tur­ing:

Win­ston Smith  •  Jesse Treece  •  Hope Kroll  •  Bill Zin­del  •  Adrian Velazco

Justin Ange­los  •  Michael Tunk  •  Eric Case  •  John Hundt  •  Tres Roemer

David Del­ru­elle  •  Katie McCann  •  Zach Collins  •  Frank Morison

 

Refresh­ments + Open Studios

Redux Stu­dios & Gallery is Open Daily  11am-6:30pm

(510) 865‑1109

 

 

Dead Kennedys: Alex Ogg, Winston Smith, Ruby Ray

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Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, The Early Years Author: Alex Ogg • Illustrations by Winston Smith • Photographs by Ruby Ray

Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rot­ting Veg­eta­bles, The Early Years
Author: Alex Ogg • Illus­tra­tions by Win­ston Smith • Pho­tographs by Ruby Ray
Pub­lisher: PM Press
Pub­lished: June 2014
For­mat: Paper­back
Size: 9 x 6
Page Count: 224
Sub­jects: Music-Punk/Politics-Activism

 

Dead Kennedys rou­tinely top both critic and fan polls as the great­est punk band of their gen­er­a­tion. Their debut full-length, Fresh Fruit for Rot­ting Veg­eta­bles, in par­tic­u­lar, is reg­u­larly voted among the top albums in the genre. Fresh Fruit offered a per­fect hybrid of humor and polemic strapped to a musi­cal chas­sis that was as tetchy and inven­tive as Jello Biafra’s with­er­ing broad­sides. Those lyrics, cruel in their pre­ci­sion, were rev­e­la­tory. But it wouldn’t have worked if the under­ly­ing son­ics were not such an uproar­i­ous rush, the paraf­fin to Biafra’s naked flame.

Dead Kennedys’ con­tin­u­ing influ­ence is an extra­or­di­nary achieve­ment for a band that had prac­ti­cally zero radio play and only released records on inde­pen­dent labels. They not only existed out­side of the main­stream but were, as V. Vale of Search and Destroy noted, the first band of their stature to turn on and attack the music indus­try itself. The DKs set so much in motion. They were inte­gral to the for­mu­la­tion of an alter­na­tive net­work that allowed bands on the first rung of the lad­der to tour out­side of their own back­yard. They were instru­men­tal in sup­port­ing the con­cept of all-ages shows and spurned the advances of cor­po­rate rock pro­mot­ers and indus­try lap­dogs. They legit­imized the notion of an Amer­i­can punk band tour­ing inter­na­tion­ally while dis­sem­i­nat­ing the true hor­ror of their native country’s for­eign poli­cies, effec­tively serv­ing as anti-ambassadors on their travels.

The book uses dozens of first-hand inter­views, pho­tos, and orig­i­nal art­work to offer a new per­spec­tive on a group who would become mired in con­tro­versy almost from the get-go. It applauds the band’s key role in trans­form­ing punk rhetoric, both polem­i­cal and musi­cal, into some­thing gen­uinely threatening—and enor­mously funny. The author offers con­text in terms of both the global and local tra­jec­tory of punk and, while not flinch­ing from the wildly dif­fer­ing takes indi­vid­ual band mem­bers have on the evo­lu­tion of the band, attempts to be celebratory—if not uncritical.

Praise

“We have a sense of humor and we’re not afraid to use it in a vicious way if we have to. In some ways, we’re cul­tural ter­ror­ists, using music instead of guns.“

—Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys

“It was obvi­ous that the DKs weren’t just another band that was gonna come and go. They were some­thing spe­cial. Biafra was an absolute tal­ent. And he had a band behind him that were tight and good.“

—Howie Klein, con­cert pro­moter, disc jockey, and record label executive

“One day, this kid from my social stud­ies class brought in a cas­sette tape of The Dead Kennedys’ Fresh Fruit for Rot­ting Veg­eta­bles and I lis­tened to it and my life was changed completely.“

—Adam Gierasch, film director

“One of my favorite rock ’n’ roll mem­o­ries is of an after-party dur­ing the DKs’ first visit to Seat­tle. Rec­og­nize that bands like this for me—these actual guys being at a party in the same house that I was in—was like being in the pres­ence of Led Zep­pelin or Kiss.“

—Duff McK­a­gan of Guns ’n’ Roses

“My edu­ca­tion was punk rock—what the Dead Kennedys said … It was attack­ing Amer­ica, but it was Amer­i­can at the same time.“

—Bil­lie Joe Arm­strong of Green Day

 

Click here to go to PM Press Site.

Feature in Juxtapoz

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All year long, Jux­tapoz is cel­e­brat­ing its 20th Anniver­sary by show­cas­ing the piv­otal fig­ures in con­tem­po­rary art over the past two decades. Some artists are blue chip, some are under­ground heroes, oth­ers are behind-the-scenes legends.

Win­ston opens his San Fran­cisco stu­dio for this spe­cial May 2014 issue. On sale now.

 

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May 2014 also includes

—A ret­ro­spec­tive inter­view with one of the Mis­sion School’s most beloved artists, Chris Johanson.

—Catch­ing up at the Boston ICA with Soundsuit-pioneer, Nick Cave.

—Jux­tapoz stops by Win­nie Truong’s Toronto stu­dio to see her newest works.

—Ryan de la Hoz teaches us about col­lage and abstraction.

—Jux­tapoz gives a full recap of Jux­tapoz Projects dur­ing SXSW.

—Robert Williams remem­bers his friend, Mike Kelley.

—Thomas Prior con­tin­ues to be one of the great pho­tog­ra­phers of our time

AND MORE….

Greetings from Oblivion — Originals »»Pricing

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Thanks to all who attended the 30th year anniver­sary of 1984 with us.  We had a won­der­ful turnout with many of our favorite folks from near and far.

For those who couldn’t make it, or missed pur­chas­ing orig­i­nal art, we decided to offer them online.

These pieces are all orig­i­nal col­lage, unframed.  Sizes are approximate.

So… with­out fur­ther ado…

Greetings-Oblivion.500

Greet­ings from Obliv­ion  © Win­ston Smith 2014

11“x8.5″

350.00

 




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Greetings-Pathos.500

Greet­ings from Pathos  © Win­ston Smith 2014

11“x8.5″

350.00




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 Greetings-Tedium.500

Greet­ings from Pathos  © Win­ston Smith 2014

11“x8.5″

350.00




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Greetings-Futility.500

Greet­ings from Pathos  © Win­ston Smith 2014

11“x8.5″

350.00




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Greetings-Heartbreak.500

Greet­ings from Heart­break  © Win­ston Smith 2014

11“x8.5″

350.00




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Greetings-Irrelevance.500

Greet­ings from Irrel­e­vance  © Win­ston Smith 2014

11“x8.5″

350.00




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Greetings-Delirium.500

Greet­ings from Delir­ium  © Win­ston Smith 2014

11“x8.5″

350.00




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Greetings-Despair.500

Greet­ings from Despair  © Win­ston Smith 2014

11“x8.5″

350.00




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Bedlam-Idol.500

Bed­lam Idol  © Win­ston Smith 2014

8.5″ x 11″

250.00

 




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Sg-Peppers.500

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Crowd Club  © Win­ston Smith 2014

8.5″ x 11″

350.00




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We-All.500

We All have our Cross to Bare  © Win­ston Smith 2014

11″ x 8.5″

350.00





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Triple-Vision.500

Triple Vision  © Win­ston Smith 2014

8.5″ x 11″

350.00




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The-Tempest.500

The Tem­pest  © Win­ston Smith 2014

8.5″ x 11″

300.00




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L'Alva.500

L’Alva  © Win­ston Smith 2014

8.5″ x 11″

300.00




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 The-Firmament.500

The Fir­ma­ment  © Win­ston Smith 2014

8.5″ x 11″

300.00




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Bit-God.500

Bit God  © Win­ston Smith 2014

8.5″ x 11″

350.00





Greetings from Oblivion — This Friday

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Play»

The 30th Year Anniver­sary of 1984

 

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Atten­tion All Inner Party Members!

Pre­pare to Attend the Spon­ta­neous Demon­stra­tion in Cel­e­bra­tion of

Airstrip One’s 6th Five-Year Plan.

 

Pro­ceed­ings will com­mence at

19,00 hours (7pm-10pm)

in the Prole Quar­ter of North Beach at the

Chest­nut Tree Café located at

Grant’s Tomb Gallery in San Francisco.

Only Offi­cially Sanc­tioned Art­work will be on Dis­play from

the Min­istry of Truth

(Pro­duced and Curated by Inner Party Mem­ber 6079/Smith, W.)

 

Pro­le­tar­ian Prices.  Inner Party Art.   Non Com­pli­ance is Thoughtcrime.

Oblig­a­tory Two Min­utes Hate and optional Vic­tory Gin.

Long Live Big Brother.

 

Big-Brother.yellow

 

War is Profit.

Work is Slavery.

Igno­rance is Bliss.

 

2+2=5

Get Over It.

 

Crossed-Arms

Play»

 

Spon­sored by The Col­lage Museum of San Fran­cisco.

 

 

April-4

 

Grant’s Tomb Gallery is located at

50A Ban­nam Alley in North Beach

Click Here for a Map

Greetings from Oblivion

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Play»

The 30th Year Anniver­sary of 1984

 

Big-Brother.yellow

 

Atten­tion All Inner Party Members!

Pre­pare to Attend the Spon­ta­neous Demon­stra­tion in Cel­e­bra­tion of

Airstrip One’s 6th Five-Year Plan.

 

Pro­ceed­ings will com­mence at

19,00 hours (7pm-10pm)

in the Prole Quar­ter of North Beach at the

Chest­nut Tree Café located at

Grant’s Tomb Gallery in San Francisco.

Only Offi­cially Sanc­tioned Art­work will be on Dis­play from

the Min­istry of Truth

(Pro­duced and Curated by Inner Party Mem­ber 6079/Smith, W.)

 

Pro­le­tar­ian Prices.  Inner Party Art.   Non Com­pli­ance is Thoughtcrime.

Oblig­a­tory Two Min­utes Hate and optional Vic­tory Gin.

Long Live Big Brother.

 

War is Profit.

Work is Slavery.

Igno­rance is Bliss.

 

2+2=5

Get Over It.

 

Crossed-Arms

Play»

 

 

April-4

 

Grant’s Tomb Gallery is located at

50A Ban­nam Alley in North Beach

Click Here for a Map

 

Give the Gift of Collage this Season

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Check out the new store!

We are excited to offer 8“x10” prints mounted right onto bamboo.

Ready to hang.  Beau­ti­ful and convenient.

 

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Also, new to the store — metal prints!   Dyes are infused directly into alu­minum, caus­ing the images to take on a lumi­nes­cence with vibrant col­ors and detail. Comes ready to hang with back frame.

And don’t for­get the 12“x18” prints.  These are lim­ited edi­tion and make great gifts for art lovers and collectors.

Check back in occa­sion­ally.  We will be adding new items every­day for the next 7 days.

 

Happy shop­ping!

 

Red Door Studio

Fine Prints and More by Win­ston Smith

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