California College of the Arts (CCA), has a long standing reputation for turning out some of the San Francisco Bay Area's finest talent. The annual MFA exhibition is a showcase for the graduating class. The show featu...

BLACK ROCK ARTS FOUNDATION

2006.3.5　 Text: Ammon Haggerty

Public art that's engaging, thought provoking, and socially energizing is, unfortunately, rare. Often cities contract big name artists for public art projects resulting in self important works out of touch with the...

YLEM FORUM: MULTIMEDIA FANDAGO

2006.2.5　 Text: Ammon Haggerty

In the spring of 1981 Trudy Myrrh began promoting a gathering for like minded artists - an event which she dubbed Ylem. "Ylem" is a Greek word used to describe "the material from which the universe emerged". Myrrh wa...

SCOTT DRAVES “ELECTRIC SHEEP”

2005.11.4　 Text: Ammon Haggerty

A curious question proposed by Philip K. Dick in his landmark 1968 book of the same title, later adopted to became the sci-fi epic "Bladerunner". The concept of computers evolving to obtain consciousness seems almost ...

THE EROTIC SHOW 2005

2005.7.4　 Text: Mark Buswell

The word "erotic" is powerful. It carries with it a mixed bag of meanings and connotations including sex, lust, beauty, taboo, desire, morality and danger. It rides the fence between oh-so-good and oh-so-bad, and exci...

JEREMY FISH “I’M WITH STUPID”

2005.6.4　 Text: Mark Buswell

I remember first meeting Jeremy Fish in the Think Skateboards Art Department a handful of years ago. He was designing graphics for them and I was a struggling freelance designer, working for a now defunct skateboard w...

NOME EDONNA “URBAN SURREALISM”

2005.4.4　 Text: Mark Buswell

Last Saturday night, the doors of Double Punch (one of the City's coolest places to buy toys, merchandise and art) were opened for the reception of NoMe: Urban Surrealism. Outside the rain soaked the streets a...

CCA SPUTNIK GRAPHIC DESIGN EXHIBITION 2005

2005.2.4　 Text: Mark Buswell

Sputnik is California College of the Arts' student graphic design group. Originally established by Bob Aufuldish in the fall of 1995, the goal of Sputnik is to give a select group of graphic design students real-world...

BENJAMIN MORGAN “QUALITY OF LIFE”

2004.12.4　 Text: Mark Buswell

Earlier this year I stumbled across a site though one of the major design-related portals. It was for a movie called "Quality of Life" - a movie about two graffiti writers who grew up in the Mission District of San Fr...

THOMAS CAMPBELL “SPROUT” PREMIERE

2004.10.4　 Text: Mark Buswell

On Saturday, September 18th, 2004, the Victoria Theatre in San Francisco hosted the premiere showing of Thomas Campbell's latest film, Sprout. Going to this event was like no other that I'd been to in the Mission Dist...

MONSTER DRAWING RALLY

2004.7.3　 Text: Mark Buswell

For most of today's emerging visual artists, drawing is where they got their creative start. You know, a Metallica logo penned on their binder, unicorns, puffy clouds, skulls and crossbones, a precious sketch of a gir...

EMERGENCE 2004

2004.6.3　 Text: Krister Olsson

Suzanne Olmsted From Thursday May 20th to Monday May 24th Suzanne Olmsted's senior seminar class at San Francisco Art Institute held a juried guerrilla show showcasing Bay Area emerging artists. Jesse Gottes...