Next up after Open Studios is Unresolved: a group show at CELLspace with lots of guest artists from the famous residency program at SF Dump. I have a big one planned for this.
Here is a sneak peak of a new series of screenprinted cityscapes on cardboard I have been working on for open studios this weekend. They are experiments for part of a larger and presently secret public art project I am developing. I have to say, this is going to be a unique chance to get some painstakingly rendered artwork at absolute rock bottom prices. I will be offering have 4 new, different limited edition prints on trash; paper prints of most of my Valencia to Vermont work (24th Street cityscapes from the Mission); even a few remaining Temporary Spaces prints on wood; and some other surprises. I hope it’s a good year.
Cellspace Open Studios 2011
October 1 and 2
11-5:30
CELLspace: 2050 Bryant St in the Mission between 18th and 19th.
SF Open Studios is coming up. I will be practically giving away selling a new limited edition of screen prints on trash.
…If I don’t spend all my time organizing the event and designing promotional materials. Here’s the postcard:
CELLspace Open Studios
11-5:30PM | Sat-Sun October 1-2, 2011 | 2050 Bryant St
Did I mention Erin is starting a kid opera company?
By company I of course mean a struggling non-profit, and by starting I of course mean spending every weekday in a foul mood over municipal tax codes or something.
When she decided Little Opera needed a logo, I referred her to a few colleagues. When she decided she needed a free logo, I referred her to myself. Anyway I thought it would be fun to document the process, since I’ve never made a logo.
The idea was to build something around the image of a feather, which holds some kind of significance in opera that I forget. We found some beautiful gull feathers at Ocean Beach but they ended up being too detailed to make a good logo:
This failure made me realize how conspicuous a good logo really is, the perfect example one of those things that everyone else already knows about the world but I learn the hard way. (However I will add that this was much easier than the way I learned how to correctly pronounce the word spatula, by getting beat up in the sixth grade for standing up for my mom’s invented enunciation. “Spatoola.” Thanks, mom.)
My next idea involved experimenting with a fat brush and black ink. Over the last few years I have begun to understand the supreme power of a well made mark and my new instincts led me to believe that bold brush strokes would translate into a successful logo.
By the end, a few graceful gestures proved most effective and I was left in appreciation of how the process of making a logo was in essence a series of simplifications. It was a most enlightening lesson.
The final, vaguely featherlike logo:
These are a few urban panoramas I have shot in the last week or so. You may note that industrial construction equipment and freeway 280 have become the apples of my left and right eyes, respectively. Anyway the best shot or two might become raw material for new work. I think I know which ones I like but, hey, if you feel like it let me know if any strike you. It would be most helpful.
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