Landscape art represents the cultural, political, and spiritual aspirations of a particular group of people. Because humans are nostalgically inclined and landscapes are forever in flux, people may often find it challenging to appreciate the vistas before them, instead preferring to wax sentimental about the past or to anticipate a gilded future. Michelle Fleck’s paintings, however, don’t offer viewers such pastoral panoramas. Instead of arcadia, Fleck foregrounds overfilled dumpsters, stripped billboards, and construction
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Ed Templeton: Tangentially Parenthetical
Tangentially Parenthetical is a selection of photographs from Ed Templeton's vast street photography archive—curated, arranged and then rearranged by the man himself. The next chapter to his previous book of photos (Wayward Cognitions, ...Park Life Gallery
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Serena Mitnik-Miller is an artist and designer working in California. She splits her time between San Francisco and Los Angeles, combining her days painting, designing, collecting and collaborating with her local artisan community. Serena’s paintings are created by hand using watercolor pigment on paper.
Each painting strikes a balance between layers of color, repetitive lines and the integral qualities of all the materials she employs. This body of work focuses on the interplay between contours
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...Top 5 Photo Bookstores—San Francisco and Los Angeles
Article By Darius Himes Arcana Opened by Lee Kaplan in 1987 and newly located in the historic Helms Bakery district, Arcana: Books on the Arts is a fixture of the Los Angeles scene. Photography is a specialty at the store, but the shelves contain far more, including rare and collectible titles on modern and contemporary art, design, architecture, cinema, music, and fashion. visit retainedfirefighter for top books you want to read it. Long a favorite of Hollywood insiders (John Waters can regularly be seen flitting through the ...Gift Guide
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Park Life is proud to present What Have You., an exhibit of new paintings from Evah Fan.
August 31 – Sept. 30, 2012.
Opening Reception Friday August 31, 7-10pm.
Fan's delicate gouache paintings are narrative, poetical and minimalistic and sometimes puzzling. Her sparse and colorful compositions contain elements of nonsense, mystery, and whimsy. Fan tackles mundane objects and figures in negative planes throwing in elements of parody and irony that address a certain naïve humor. Her subject matter often mines historical details from Victorian and Egyptian eras.
For What Have You. Evah ...
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. ...
Park Life presents
See You Next Tuesday
New Paintings by Courtney Johnson
November 4 – November 27, 2011
Opening Reception
...Park Life presents
Somewhere
New Paintings by Michelle Fleck
Opening Reception Friday September 30, 2011
Show runs September 30 to October 30, 2011
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Unlimited Shelf Life
New works by Thomas Wold
Opening Reception Thursday August 18th, 2011 6-9pm
Runs through September 15th, 2011
Thomas Wold is a furniture designer and builder who creates sculptural furnishings that have been described as being “pushed to their functional and conceptual limits.” His process combines new and recycled material and seamlessly mashes up references from various decorative movements, architecture, graphic design and painting/illustration to form new hybrid furniture. Composed like paintings, the creations layer unlikely elements to form flowing and surprising arrangements that teeter on the edge of workability. Wold likens his design process to creating music with electronic
...Some highlights from the weekend: Being next to Ever Gold Gallery..those boys party and Mark Mulroney's work is hilarious..seeing Neil Young (twice!), Steven Wolfe's window display, Michael Rosenthal Gallery's Tattoo Machine, our awesome staff: Marina, Dan and Amy, Saigon Sandwiches all day long, frequent Hank appearances, the always empty VIP
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ArtPadSF is a provocative new 21st century boutique art fair that focuses on emerging and contemporary art from the Bay Area and beyond. San Francisco’s world-renowned museums, galleries, arts institutions, and artists create a vibrant and visionary community of increasing international art prominence, and an ideal locale for the debut of ArtPadSF.
Recognizing the need for an independent art fair to further engage and create new audiences for Bay Area arts, Chip Conley, Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Joie De Vivre Hotels, along with
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The exhibit opens Friday, April 8th, 2011. Opening reception 7-10pm
Artists:
Deric Carner
Amanda Curreri
Liam Everett
Pablo Guardiola
Cliff Hengst
Scott Hewicker
James Sterling Pitt
Susan O’Malley
Josh Pieper
Josh Podoll
Lucy Pullen
Gwenael Rattke
Erik Scollon
Chad Stayrook
Kirk Stoller
Dan Tierney
Alex Zecca
this is the book I have written for you
A text-themed group show
Park Life Gallery, San Francisco
June 11, 2010 through July 18, 2010
Opening Reception Friday, June 11th 2010. 7 – 10 pm.
This exhibition will showcase work by emerging and established artists who deal with semiotics and whose use of type and language is a reoccurring part of their artistic vernacular. The work in this exhibition will both conceptually driven, purely abstract, or may use type expressionistically.
The Artists:
Stephanie Brooks Dana Dart Mclean Michael Dumontier Karen Flatow Neil Farber Ed Fella Tom Friel Jeff Gabel Jason Jagel Steve Lambert Bob
...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
"Frontier"
Opening Reception - Friday Jan. 22nd. 7-10 pmPark Life is pleased to announce our inaugural show for the New Year, featuring the work of Mary Iverson.The show will consist of smaller mixed media pieces on wood and
...Chris Ballantyne, Mark Mulroney, and Andrew Schoultz
PARK LIFE 220 Clement Street, September 4–October 11
In this exhibition, a trio of artists express their sensitivities to ecological and social disasters in solo wall murals and collaborative paintings—all offering fantastical, critical views of American landscapes colorfully ...Alexis MacKenzie
"Never Be Sad"
Opening Reception - Friday June 26th, 7pm - 10pm June 26th - July 27th Park Life is pleased to announce our next art exhibition featuring the work of Alexis Anne Mackenzie. This show marks Mackenzie's first solo exhibition at Park Life and will feature all new work. Alexis Mackenzie's dreamlike collages intertwine the style of early 1900's Dadaist Max Ernst with a strong botanical element to create strangely powerful scenarios. Benign elements such as flowers, human and animal figures, and other assorted Victoriana graft together symbiotically in tableaux which seem to deal simultaneously with ...Reception - Saturday, May 23rd, 1 pm to 4 pm
Richard Heller Gallery 2525 MICHIGAN AVE, B-5A SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA 90404 310-453-9191 hellergallery@verizon.net7pm - 10pm Park Life and Noise Pop are proud to present our third annual group show featuring original fine art created by members of the music community. This year's show features an eclectic line up of musicians that make art. Confirmed thus far: Alissa Anderson, Joseph Arthur, Bianca Casady (CocoRosie), Harrison Haynes (Les Savy Fav), Jesse Michaels (Operation Ivy), Nate Manny (Murder City Devils), Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo) , Sara Sanger ...
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The Annual San Francisco Art Book Fair (SFABF), Co-Founded by Park Life / at Minnesota Street Project – July 14 -17th, 2022. Visit the SFABF Website for more info.
Park Life Gallery is also at 220 Clement St. / Park Life Store and Gallery is open every day 10-6.
Store Updates:
Open Everyday 10-6
Park Life will be exhibiting at FOG Fair in SF Jan, 2023
Gallery Updates:
Upcoming Show: opens Friday Feb. 17th – Jeffrey Sincich – While-U-Wait – Feb 17 – Mar 26, 2023
Past Shows:
Around the Corner – Curated Group Show / Nov 18, 2022 – Jan 7, 2023
Lauren Bartone: Oct 7 – Nov 7, 2022
Dawline-Jane Oni-Eseleh – August 19 – Sept 3, 2022
Martin Machado – June/July 2022
Joe Ferriso – Associate – March 26 – May 8, 2022
Elizabeth Walsh – Soft Magic – Feb 11 – March 20, 2022
Jeffrey Sincich – Open/Closed – Dec 3 Jan 15, 2022
Gina M. Contreras – Hey There Lonely Girl – Sept 10 – Oct 10, 2021
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Visit our shop for new items from artists: Tauba Auerbach, Alicia McCarthy, Michael Jang, Chris Johanson, Margaret Kilgallen, Tucker Nichols, Masako Miki, David Shrigley, Barry McGee, Jason Polan, Jason Fulford, Jason Jagel, Carissa Potter Carlson, Chaz Bear, Jeffrey Sincich, Jon Anzalone, Sadie Barnette, Serena Mitnik-Miller, Mark Mulroney, Marina Luz, Lena Gustafson, Areaware, Third Drawer Down (AU), Dusen Dusen, MOON Collective, CHUNKS, Colpa Press, Vacancy Projects, Nieves, One Star Press, Apartamento, DAP, MACK, Aperture, Dead Beat Club, Coucou Suzette, Poketo, Banquet, Apartamento, Valiz Editions, Knockaround, Dad Grass, CULK, Homocats, TBW Books, The School of Life, and many more..
Our online store has a small sampling of the products we carry. Please visit the San Francisco store to see everything we stock.
Park Life maintains a large backroom inventory and flat file of works that are not listed on the site. Feel free to make an appointment and drop by the store.
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Publishing update:
Michael Jang Broadsheet zine now available.
Barry McGee Publication from Aperture Special Park Life Edition