The Collage Museum of San Francisco presents
A Mid-Summer’s Night Scream 2015
Grant’s Tomb Crypt
Photos by Matthew Kadi
Punk Art Surrealist
A Mid-Summer’s Night Scream 2015
Photos by Matthew Kadi
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
This is a one-night event. All sales must be finalized night of show.
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 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.
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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June 6th — Dr. John Scholarship Benefit Concert at the Intimate Coventry Grove in Kensington, CA
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.
Ready for the TIME OF YOUR LIFE?
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,
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.
Exhibiting thru April 4th 2015
2315 Lincoln Avenue, Alameda CA
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: 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.
“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.
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.
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….
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 from Oblivion © Winston Smith 2014
11“x8.5″
350.00
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Greetings from Pathos © Winston Smith 2014
11“x8.5″
350.00
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Greetings from Pathos © Winston Smith 2014
11“x8.5″
350.00
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Greetings from Pathos © Winston Smith 2014
11“x8.5″
350.00
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Greetings from Heartbreak © Winston Smith 2014
11“x8.5″
350.00
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Greetings from Irrelevance © Winston Smith 2014
11“x8.5″
350.00
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Greetings from Delirium © Winston Smith 2014
11“x8.5″
350.00
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Greetings from Despair © Winston Smith 2014
11“x8.5″
350.00
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Bedlam Idol © Winston Smith 2014
8.5″ x 11″
250.00
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Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Crowd Club © Winston Smith 2014
8.5″ x 11″
350.00
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We All have our Cross to Bare © Winston Smith 2014
11″ x 8.5″
350.00
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Triple Vision © Winston Smith 2014
8.5″ x 11″
350.00
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The Tempest © Winston Smith 2014
8.5″ x 11″
300.00
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L’Alva © Winston Smith 2014
8.5″ x 11″
300.00
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The Firmament © Winston Smith 2014
8.5″ x 11″
300.00
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Bit God © Winston Smith 2014
8.5″ x 11″
350.00
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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!
Fine Prints and More by Winston Smith