Park Life

These are now available for preorder. New Editions from Tucker Nichols, Chris Ballantyne and Andrew Schoultz.

admin — Wed, 09 May 2012 22:47:32 +0000

Park Life has produced 3 new editions with artists Tucker Nichols, Chris Ballantyne and Andrew Schoultz that are available exclusively through Park Life. (Images Below) Please email or call (415.386.7275) Park Life for more information or to place an order. These will be on view at artMRKT SF beginning May 17th.

Chris Ballanytne, Untitled (3 Buildings), 2012. 18×24in. Silk Screen Print. Ed. of 30. $225

Tucker Nichols, Untitled (Map), 2012. 16×22in. Silk Screen. Ed. of 20. $350

Tucker Nichols, Untitled (Sculpture), 2012. 16×22in. Silk Screen. Ed. of 20. $350

Andrew Schoultz, Porfolio Box, 2012. 17×23in. Suite of 6 different prints (Silk Screen and Pigment Prints) with hand-working, signed book, dvd, and more. Plus other surprises. Ed. of 13. $750

Invisible Relic Opens Saturady May 12 at Park Life

admin — Mon, 07 May 2012 20:21:14 +0000

Park Life Gallery

May 12 - June 10, 2012

Opening Reception Saturday, May 12. 7-10 pm

Historical works by:

Chris Burden

Paul Kos

Tom Marioni

Contemporary Works by:

Mauricio Ancalmo

Guy Overfelt

Josh Short

Curated by:

Andrew McClintock

The Park Life Gallery exhibition, “(Invisible) Relic,” curated by Andrew McClintock, examines works by two generations of California Conceptual Artists working with performative actions and re-appropriated objects in a variety of mediums including video, photographic, audio, sculpture and performance.

On November 19, 1971 at F Space in Los Angeles, a young Chris Burden stands in the middle of a white walled gallery. Not far from him, another man with a rifle exchanges a few words, takes aim, and a gunshot is heard. During the same period in San Francisco at MOCA [1970-84], Paul Kos arranges a vast array of microphones focused on two blocks of melting ice. At the same exhibition, in front of an attentive audience, distinguished conceptualist and curator Tom Marioni climbs a ladder and urinates into a metal washtub 5 feet below.

Forty years later, a new wave of Bay Area Conceptual Artists continue to explore the boundaries of art through performative actions. At the Park Life opening Josh Short will be frying fish outside with its amplified sound broadcast over the FM airwaves within the confines of the gallery. From 1998-2003, Guy Overfelt’s “relic” comes from his series of Trans Am performances that exhibit the sound and imagery of burnt rubber on pavement: using the classic American car as his performative tool. Mauricio Ancalmo’s kinetic sculpture challenges the use and product [relic] of the viewer’s experience by visualizing sound through light using discarded objects, questioning what is “out dated” technology, giving those objects new function and expropriating them for the purpose of art.

For centuries relics have been associated with religious activity. Only recently, at the advent of Happenings, the Japanese Gutai movement and Fluxus, have artists begun participating in performance art pieces that create no product but leave behind traces of the action, such as posters, programs, photography and video.

But do relics have to have physical properties? Can the sound of frying fish become the performative relic. Can it be a sense memory? And are these fleeting invisible memories more true to the nature of the action than mediated responses?. Gunshots, urination, burning cars, white noise, food frying, radio static, can now be manipulated by the artist for creative purposes.

Which is more important – the action, or spectator’s memory of said action? What happens when invisible relics are collected and “exhibited” in a gallery setting? “(Invisible) Relics,” addresses these concerns in a cross-generational reappraisal of the primacy of the art object.

*For any press and sales inquiries please contact Park Life Gallery at 415.386.7275

Headlands Benefit Auction Site is up an running…

admin — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:53:50 +0000

You can now buy tickets to the Bay Areas Best art benefit and biggest art party. HERE

Bid on any of over 100 lots that include some of the biggest names in Contemporary art.
Tauba Auerbach, Jonas Wood, Ruth Laskey, Chris Ballantyne, Larry Sultan, James Welling, Alex Soth, Kerry James Marshall, Solomon Huerta, Michael Light, Margaret Kilgallen,Thomas Campbell, and many others…

SF Arts Quarterly Issue #9 is in!

admin — Tue, 01 May 2012 22:55:01 +0000

Stop by Park Life and pick one up. I did an interview with Matthew Palladino for it.
Or read it online here .

Now in Stock! The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist

admin — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:45:06 +0000

Description:
Throughout his 25-year career, alternative cartoonist/screenwriter Daniel Clowes has always been ahead of artistic and cultural movements. In the late 1980s his groundbreaking comic book series Eightball defined indie culture with wit, venom, and even a little sympathy. With each successive graphic novel (Ghost World, David Boring, Ice Haven, Wilson, Mister Wonderful ), Clowes has been praised for his emotionally compelling narratives that reimagine the ways that stories can be told in comics. The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist is the first monograph on this award-winning, New York Times–bestselling creator, compiled with his complete cooperation. It includes all of Clowes’s best-known illustrations as well as rare and previously unpublished work, all reproduced from the original art, and also includes essays by noted contributors such as designer Chip Kidd and cartoonist Chris Ware.

Purchase one here.

We’ve re-Deployed our Tee Sale Rack and it is totally stocked. 40% off all sale tees.

admin — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:59:10 +0000

Graphic Magazine now in stock!

admin — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:14:06 +0000

Graphic Magazine out of Korea has finally arrived at the shop. Click here for more details.

Headlands Center now accepting applications for it’s Affiliate Studios

admin — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:10:18 +0000

Apply here

Affiliate

Affiliate Artists are part of an immersive studio practice program, competitively awarded to 20 Bay Area artists each year. Affiliates receive subsidized studio space, public presentation opportunities, and discounts on Headlands meals and public events. Affiliate Artists are active participants in Headlands’ peer-to-peer-driven creative community and benefit from engagement with local, national, and international artists participating in Headlands’ other programs.

Artists selected for this program work primarily in visual arts, film/video, writing, social practices, architecture, and design. Studios are located in Fort Barry Building 960, an artist-rehabilitated, former military building with three levels and 20 studios in total.

Award Period

Now accepting applications for 2012-2013 program (July 1, 2012 – June 30, 2013)

KQED coverage of Anzfer Farms show at Park Life

admin — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:49:17 +0000

Saturated Colors and Fractured Forms at Park Life

Anzfer Farms, a collaboration between Jonathan Anzalone and Joseph Ferriso, produces handmade furniture with an emphasis on reclaimed wood, strong design, and unexpected moments of color in familiar forms. In the current Park Life gallery show Holz, Anzalone and Ferriso exhibit works from their separate artistic practices along with items from the Anzfer Farms showroom. Whether the show achieves its advertised goal of becoming a “unified work, a house of construction” is debatable, but more interesting than that, it offers insight as to how two very different artistic styles can merge into concrete and usable forms.

Click here to read the rest of the article on kqed.org.

Park Life will be exhibiting at artMRKT SF in May

admin — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:37:44 +0000

We will be exhibiting new editions and original works by artists Andrew Schoultz, Chris Ballantyne, Tucker Nichols, Tauba Auerbach, Francesco Deiana, Ian Johnson, Orion Shepard, Anzfer Farms, Barry McGee and others..

Stop by the store for some free passes.

Info:

artMRKT San Francisco, the Bay Area’s premier contemporary and modern art fair will feature 70 highly reputable galleries from around the globe, bringing some of the world’s most intriguing artists and galleries to San Francisco. In showcasing historically important work alongside relevant contemporary pieces and projects, artMRKT will create an ideal context for the discovery, exploration and acquisition of art.

Quick Links: Tickets Hours Venue Hotels Shuttle Bus Parking Map Directions

Tickets:

Opening Night Benefit Preview Pass - $150 - includes:

Exclusive, first-access, catered Opening Night Preview Reception
benefiting the de Young & Legion of Honor - 6:00pm to 8:00pm, Thursday May 17th
Opening Night Party - Thursday 8:00pm to 10:00pm
VIP Lounge Access and Admission During Regular Fair Hours on Friday, Saturday AND Sunday

3 Day Ticket - $35 online / $40 at door - includes:

Admission During Regular Fair Hours on Friday, Saturday AND Sunday

1 Day Ticket - $20 online / $25 at door - includes:

Admission During Regular Fair Hours on Friday, Saturday OR Sunday

Hours:

Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Opening Night Benefit Preview Reception

Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 8:00pm to 10:00pm
Opening Night Party

Regular Fair Hours:
Friday, May 18, 2012 - 11:00am to 7:00pm
Saturday, May 19, 2012 - 11:00am to 7:00pm
Sunday, May 20, 2012 - Noon to 6:00pm

Venue:

Concourse Exhibition Center
620 7th Street at Brannan
San Francisco, CA