- Location: unknown
Sametan: Don't Tread On Me
SAMETAN: DON'T TREAD ON ME PangeaSeed in collaboration with Tokyo-based vinyl toy designer Cometdebris (Koji Harmon), are pleased to announce our latest shark-saving effort: Sametan – Don’t Tread on Me For one weekend only, March 29-30, 2013, at the Spoke Art Gallery in San Francisco, we will host a one of a kind art exhibition featuring 30 custom Sametan vinyl figures designed by 30 global artists including Frank Kozik, Buff Monster, Jenn Porreca and many more. Through this unique event we aim to generate greater awareness for the global plight of sharks and the importance of our oceans via creative and entertaining avenues in order to raise critical funding to support PangeaSeed’s ongoing efforts and groundbreaking projects. Proceeds raised through the sales of the vinyl figures will help fund PangeaSeed’s 2014 “Year of Living Dangerously” art tour of Asia. Because Asia is ground zero for the trade and consumption of many endangered species, the 2014 Asian event will reach six major Asian cities extending our core message to critical audiences.
- Dates: March 29, 2013 | March 30, 2013
- Venue: Spoke Art Gallery
Fade and Finish
Spoke Art is pleased to present “Fade and Finish”, a new solo show by San Francisco-based painter Jessica Hess. Following her successful solo show last year at White Walls gallery, and two person show with Kevin Cyr there the year before, Jessica Hess will be debuting a new body of original paintings this September at Spoke Art gallery in San Francisco. Known for her photorealistic paintings depicting the sprawling graffiti-laden landscape, Hess’ work combines traditional and formal technique with contemporary subject matter. The result is a documentarian snapshot of her ever changing environment, a moment of time perfectly captured and recorded in between the flux and constant states of change that are an ingrained aspect of the street art world. In elevating the observation and celebration of graffiti and street art to a fine art medium, Hess’ work delicately balances the more stagnant traditional landscape formula with contemporary urban art, resulting in a compelling body of work that bridges stylistic and generational gaps for a dynamic and contemporary expression of the world around us. For “Fade and Finish” Hess has departed from the oil on canvas works for which she has become known, pursuing instead the medium of gouache, a notoriously difficult vehicle which when manipulated properly produces an unparalleled opacity and brilliance. The new body of work is crisp and vibrant, resulting in colors and scenes that pop with a flair of hyper realism. In addition to her trademark landscapes, “Fade and Finish” also presents the debut of Hess’ new body of abstract semi-figurative studies. Culled from her love of vintage radio and film and inspired by a wheat paste originally seen on the streets of New York, Hess’ pin up series presents a compelling study of texture, a geological survey of the landscape in which the layers of the street are peeled back to reveal the starlets and icons of a time gone by.
- Dates: September 6, 2012 | September 29, 2012
- Venue: Spoke Art Gallery
Sea No Evil : 2012
Sea No Evil, an art show benefit to raise awareness of the oceanic conservation needed through out the world, for the sole benefit of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society to continue their aggressive campaigns to end the illegal whaling in Antarctica, the bloody seal hunt in Canada, dolphin slaughter in Japan and illegal shark finning in the Galapagos. What started as a misguided whale watching excursion, has become a powerful vein of support to create change and awareness touching the entire world. By bringing together like minded artists and art enthusiasts, we hope to give each observer the opportunity to be apart of a something bigger then one. The action of many magnifies the voice of one.
- Dates: June 30, 2012 | Unknown
- Venue: Riverside Municipal Auditorium
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