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Linda Mar, 1999 Color spitbite and sugarlift aquatint with softground Somerset soft white paper Image size 18" x 12" Paper size 26" x 19" Edition of 30 Signed/Dated/numbered Please call for more info
Park Life has a few copies of a new letterpress book titled Extinction/Adaptation, an illustrated ABC book with images by artists Andrew Schoultz and Kyle Knobel and text by bestselling environmental author Adam Werbach. The book chronicles the elements of human behavior and culture that are going extinct, and the adaptations that humanity is making to survive.  Extinctions include Fax Machines, Yellow Pages and Jaguars.  Adaptations include Coughing into your elbow, Kale and Twitter.  The book, with 26 illustrated plates, was letter pressed and bound by ...
Faile Painting for sale.
The Seedstore recently opening next door to Park LIfe. Its a really great clothing boutique. Mens and Womens. Details: We're excited to invite you to our official Grand Opening this Thurs evening! Attached is the invitation but here are the details: WHEN: Thurs, August 26 TIME: 5-9pm WHERE: Seedstore - 212 Clement St. (btwn 3rd & 4th Ave.) Bring your friends for free drinks and 20% off your purchases all night... *RSVP to seedstoresf@gmail.com with your name and number of guests See you on Thurs! -- SEEDSTORE 212 Clement Street San Francisco, CA 94118 415.386.1600 seedstoresf.com
Compound Eyes on the World: new work by Andrew Schoultz

Solo exhibition at Marx & Zavattero, September 11 - October 23, 2010

Andrew Schoultz’s ambitious second solo exhibition at the gallery. Inspired by the shifting nature of history as record in the past, present, and future, Schoultz’s latest exhibition alludes to the tornado of information present today and the assumption that we are able to sift through the detritus to find clarity and meaning.

A new book of Andrew Schoultz's work entitled Crisis has been published by Jerome Zodo (Italy). We have them in stock at Park Life and you probably will not find it anywhere else in the states. Limited Edition. Crisis, 2010 Editing by Jerome Zodo Contemporary, 2010 Text by Glen Helfand Paperback - 70 pages - 22 x 22 cm - Text in English and ...
These two new prints were produced by Edition Copenhagen. Contact: Strandgade 66, DK – 1401 Copenhagen K www.editioncopenhagen.com $1800 each First one: Original lithograph printed on 250 gr. Velin d´arches paper 75 ex. Numbered and signed by he artist size: 76 x 56 cm Second: Original lithograph printed on 250 gr. Velin d´arches paper 60 ex. Numbered and signed by the artist Size: 76 x 56 cm

Here’s a peek at two works by Evan Nesbit that will be in our next show opening July 23.

Relative Isolation, 22" x 30", Acrylic and crushed glass on paper.

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We are very excited about the prospect of Seedstore, a vintage mens and womans boutique that is opening up in the space right next to us. It's going to stock a mix of men's and women's apparel and vintage goods. Read more about it here and here.
Have you seen this? I'm fucking incredulous. SF, your elected officials are totally incompetent. They are more concerned with handing out parking tickets. http://californiawatch.org/money-and-politics/unsupervised-city-workers-accused-brazen-theft-cheating-taxpayers
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We're excited to see one of our own editions available from Printed Matter
Excited to learn that in the wake of Jack Hanley closing his SF gallery, Bay Area's own Chris Johanson will be showing in SF again. Altman-Siegel Gallery.
Teeming with art.

Last chance to purchase your tickets online to Headlands’ Benefit Art Auction.

This is a real good opportunity to get some great art by some of today's most coveted artists..while supporting one of the most important non-profit art residency programs there is.

Online ticket purchase will be available through Monday, May 31 at 11PM. If you’d like to purchase a ticket after that, please join us on Auction night and you can buy one at the door. Hope to see you there!

6:30 Silent Auction Opens

7:30 Live Auction

9:00 Silent Auction Closes

Herbst

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Adobe Books and Backroom Gallery

3166 16th Street, San Francisco, California

Adobe Books: Not Long for this World? By Reyhan Harmanci on May 26, 2010 - 12:30 a.m. PDT If you've walked by the Mission District's Adobe Books in the past week, you might have seen a sign in the window: "Everything Must Go." It's not an uncommon sight in independent book stores these days — just up the street, Abandoned Planet recently closed up shop, adding to a list of Bay Area spots that includes (RIP) A Clean Well-Lighted Place

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Our friend Tucker Nichols is having a solo show at his NY gallery, ZieherSmith. They have a great new ground floor space in Chelsea and from what I've seen of Tuckers work made during his residency at the Headlands Center recently this show is going to be amazing.

TUCKER NICHOLS

JUNE 3 - JULY 23, 2010

RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST: THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 6-8PM

In his third solo exhibition at ZieherSmith, San Francisco based-artist Tucker Nichols presents sculpture, panels, and works on paper created during a recent residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California. Recent projects include Temporary Storage

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SFMOMA SECA Award finalists were announced 5/14: Mauricio Ancalmo, Michael Arcega, Amy Balkin, Michelle Blade, Nate Boyce, Castaneda/Reiman, Sergio De La Torre, Anthony Discenza, Bruno Fazzolari, Rebecca Goldfarb, Michael Guidetti, Misako Inaoka, Colter Jacobsen, Jason Kalogiros, Pawel Kruk, Ruth Laskey, Bernie Lubell, Chris McCaw, Sean McFarland, Brion Nuda Rosch, Jennie Ottinger, Kamau Amu Patton, Alison Sant, Paul Schiek, Alice Shaw, Weston Teruya, Gabrielle Teschner, Richard T. Walker, Lindsey White, and Pamela Wilson-Ryckman.   These artists were picked from over 250 submissionsby Apsara DiQunizio, assistant curator of painting and sculpture, and Tanya ...
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I was able to spend some time at the SF Fine Art Fair at Fort Mason this weekend. SF has not hosted an Art Fair (like this) for nearly a decade which is kind of a bummer. This version was mildly entertaining. The people came out for sure..a lot more than I would have guessed..which was great. Though I didn't see too many red dots. The overall quality of work was not great. The notable highlights included works on view at Baer Ridgeway, Paule Anglim, Paulson Bott Press, Charlie James, Eleanor Harwood, DCKT, Gallery 16, Hackett-Mi...
Clare Rojas has a solo show that opened last night at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco.

Clare Rojas:

We They, We They

May 14 – August 22, 2010

Where neo-folk meets contemporary art, artists operate as ‘authors’ of the collective voice. The new exhibition Clare Rojas: We They, We They showcases the first San Francisco solo museum exhibition of the internationally acclaimed Bay Area artist who identifies and inserts herself in the folk art continuum. MOCFA is proud to present new work that has yet to be seen by the public.

More pics here

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Wow. This show is good. Sold out too. We are very excited about Matthew Palladino's solo show of new paintings that opens this weekend at Baer Ridgeway Exhibitions in SF. Details: Matthew Palladino: Wonder Box Opening Reception Sat May 8, 2010 Baer Ridgeway Exhibitions 172 Minna Street San Francisco, CA 94105
This is always one of my favorite art events of the year:

(and as usual some really great works up for grabs)

Space Odyssey

Southern Exposure's Annual Fundraiser + Art Auction

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Main Event: 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm

Live Auction: 8:30 pm – 9:15 pm

Silent Auction: Lots begin to close at 9:30 pm

Location: SoEx, 3030 20th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

Southern Exposure’s Annual Fundraiser and Art Auction, Space Odyssey, features a live and silent art auction, creative projects, delicious food and beverages, and music. This famously fun event provides direct

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Our friend Paul Wackers opened a two-person show at New Image Gallery this weekend.

Go here

Paul Wackers & Sean Cassidy : IT TAKES TWO TO MAKE AN ACCIDENT

April 24th - May 15th, 2010

7908 Santa Monica Blvd.

West Hollywood

CA 90046

P 323 654 2192

info at newimageartgallery dot com

Our friend Jason Polan is in town and hosting one of his famous Taco Bell Drawing Clubs In the Inner Richmond, two blocks from Park Life. Today, Wed, April 28th only.

Details:

There will be a special Taco Bell Drawing Club meeting today, Wednesday, April 28 from 7:15 to 8:30pm in San Francisco! Let me know if you need a ride from somewhere, my little sister and I are coming from the East Bay. I hope everyone is good!

Taco Bell Drawing Club

Taco Bell

4150 Geary Blvd

(between 5th Ave &

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Headlands Center for the Arts Benefit Auction.

Get your tickets for this event now.

Some really great art by some of our favorite artists: Barry McGee, Chris Ballantyne, Thomas Campbell, Uta Barth, Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Andrew Schoultz, Paul Wackers, Todd Hido, ANd Many more.

Click on the artists names in the link to see the works.

Serena Mitnik-Miller who is participating (and curating) our next show is featured in the upcoming release of Arkitip. Details: Serena Mitnik-Miller Issue No. 0054 Serena Mitnik-Miller executes her painting with watercolor on paper, employing transparent, all over repetitive shapes in vivid colors that reference nature specific to the sea. Mitnik-Miller associates these colors and geometries with organic vocabulary and palette, most importantly its complex dynamic. The paintings become increasingly disorienting with layered internal space and vortex like sensibility shifting the image beyond the paper. In her photographic work Mitnik-Miller both seduces and alienates the viewer ...
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I'll Fly (Into Your Heart), a solo exhibition by Jason Jagel. April 1, 2010 - May 26, 2010 FIFTY24SF, San Francisco, CA
This Paulson Press etching (Sloe, 1999) by Margaret Kilgallen is available, please call or email Park Life for details. info@parklifestore.com

Framed.

Our friend Andrew Schoultz had a really big show open last week at Jerome Zodo Gallery in Milan, Italy.

The images look impressive

Chris Johanson has career spanning solo show opening at Gallery Nicholai Wallner in Denmark.
check out the link for some really great older works. I can't believe they are available.
Our friend Thomas Campbell has a solo show of new paintings and sculpture opening at Greg Lind Gallery in SF. Can't wait to see it.
Thomas Campbell
YAR
April 1 through May 15, 2010
Reception: April 1, 5:00 - 7:30 pm
Gregory Lind Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by California artist Thomas Campbell. This is the artist’s first solo show with the gallery and will consist of multi-paneled paintings, sewn paper pieces incorporating drawings, bronze sculpture, and wood cut-out sculpture with paintings; and a limited-edition, hand-painted print series.
An artist ...
The Jack Hanley Gallery will mount its final show in the gallery’s San Francisco location, April 3 - 28, 2010. The show will include new work from a selection of gallery artists.
The Jack Hanley Gallery opened in downtown San Francisco in 1990 showing emerging international artists. After closing for two years, from 1996 - 1998, the gallery reopened in a new location in the Mission District of San Francisco. Continuing to focus on working with emerging international artists, the new incarnation of the gallery helped to establish the careers of a number of emerging San Francisco artists, ...
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You should do this.
Submission Deadline: Friday, April 16, 5pm Following three successful launches in the Central Market/Tenderloin, Bayview and Mission neighborhoods, the Art in Storefronts pilot program will venture into Chinatown starting in June. This time around, the Office of Economic and Workforce Development and the SFAC will collaborate with the Kearny Street Workshop, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco and Chinatown Community Development Center to implement the program which engages San Francisco-based artists in reinvigorating neighborhoods that have been hard-hit by the economic downturn. Applications can be downloaded off the Arts Commission’s website. Artists are asked to tailor ...
Park Life has partnered with the Royal Art Lodge to produce a limited edition tee. Soon available for purchase in our shop.
Clare Rojas has published a series of prints (Seven different Aquatint Etchings) with Paulson Press that are available at Park Life. We are taking preorders now and the prints will be ready in late April. Please contact jamie@parklifestore.com for more information..images and pricing.

A few of them are up now in our shop: HERE

Pictured is Boundry Lines, 2009. Color aquatint, spitbite aquatint & sugarlift etching 43 ½” x 35” Edition of 40

PAPER!AWESOME!

February 20 - March 27, 2010

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 20, 4-7pm

Baer Ridgway Exhibitions is pleased to present PAPER!AWESOME!, a group exhibition of new works on paper by over 100 artists. Curated by gallery artist Brion Nuda Rosch, this exhibition contains over 300 8.5 x 11 inch brand new works on paper by an incredibly varied group of artists. Works by internationally recognized artists will hang side-by-side with those by artists just emerging, all of whom have been asked to work with the most basic of canvases, an 8.5 x 11 inch piece of paper.

Baer Ridgway Exhibitions

172 Minna Street, San

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Tauba Auerbach: Chaos

FORMAT: Hardback, 9 x 11.75 in. / 64 pgs / 60 color. Cloth Cover.

PUBLISHER: Deitch Projects

PUBLICATION DATE: 2/28/2010

First Edition

BUY IT HERE

Ive said it before but ill say it again, people love lists. Here is a Juxtapoz readers review of fav spots to get some art into your life. Looks like we are in the middle of the pack. If you want to show some Park Life love, vote for ushere.
Our friend Chris Ballantyne has a solo show opening this weekend in San Francisco. Hosfelt Gallery 30 January - 6 March 2010 Reception: Saturday 30 January, 4-6 pm CHRIS BALLANTYNE Some Songs from the Shore
Marcel Dzama new book The Infidels is in stock at Park Life. This is a beautiful new book with a very small print run. Will not last. Published by DruckVerlag Kettler. FORMAT: Clth, 9.25 x 12 in. / 152 pgs / illustrated throughout.

CHris Johanson's new book Totalities has finally been released. Published by Deitch. Come get one. Both these titles will be available to purchase on our site soon...or you can just email or call the store.

Jordan Essoe, The Visitor (2B), 22
Front and Center FRONT + CENTER: Weather Streams January 17 - February 28, 2010 Jordan Essoe, The Visitor (2B), 22" x 28.5", watercolor and digital pigment print on paper, 2009 Date: 1/17/2010 - 2/28/2010 Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Location: 944 Fort Barry Ticket Info: FREE Admission *Opening Reception: Sunday, January 17, 2010 2PM – 5PM Regular Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday & Sunday 12PM – 5PM NEW AND RECENT WORK BY: Timothy Armstrong Elisheva ...
Neck Face - THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT, 2009. Published by OHWOW to coincide with his Miami show at the Gallery. Check our shop
Josh Keyes Sprout. Just released limited edition of 1000. Each copy includes a signed print. $85. Check our shop.

Visit our shop for new items from artists Barry McGee, Tauba Auerbach, Chris Johanson, Dash Snow, Marcel Dzama, Chris Ballantyne, Paul Wackers, Jules De Balincourt, Clare Rojas, Tucker Nichols, Josh Keyes, Jason Jagel, David Shrigley and many more..

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Publishing update:
We are currently working on new monographs for artists Chris Ballantyne and Shaun O’Dell.