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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Gina M. Contreras
Sola Chola
Park Life Gallery
July 12 – Aug 18, 2019
Opening Reception Friday July 12, 6 – 9pm.
Park Life is proud to present Sola Chola, a solo exhibition by artist Gina M. Contreras. Gina will be showing a series of new paintings in her first show at Park Life.
Sola Chola is a series dedicated to all the cholitas out there who lust, love and are lost.
These self-portraits, some detailed and others left bare, are deeper than the surface level.
Although inspired by real heartbreak, these portraits are about empowerment, self-love and overcoming ...
View Works HERE
Mark Mulroney
I'm so glad you came
June 7 – July 7, 2019
Park Life Gallery
220 Clement St
SF CA 94118
Opening Reception Friday June 7, 6-9 pm.
We’re excited to announce that Mark Mulroney will be returning for his 3rd show at Park Life.
Mark will be featuring an exhibit of paintings, drawings, sculptural curiosities and home goods that let you know that you are loved and appreciated.
Opening Reception Friday, June 7th with free hugs and all questions answered truthfully.
Mark Mulroney is a California native currently living on the East Coast. He has bad knees and loves his wife.
Please email for a preview ...
Ferris Plock and Porous Walker
Perris Plawker – A Solo Collaboration Show
Park Life Gallery
220 Clement St
SF CA 94118
Picture a seasoned, mild-mannered assistant director of the St Louis Zoo spending the day in conferences about upcoming and innovative technology and how it will assist the average patron's experience at his zoo in the years to come. Picture a gregarious marketing guy from Sun Microsystems (located in the San Francisco Bay Area) spending the day in conferences in St Louis, pitching his company's latest platforms and the robustness their technology has and how it ...
Martin Machado
Hove To
Park Life Gallery
March 15th- April 21, 2019
SEE WORKS HERE
SEE REVIEW by Matt Gonzalez and Tamsin Smith
We are happy to announce Martin Machado’s exhibit Hove To opens at Park Life Gallery on March 15th, 2019. This will be his first show at Park Life.
Being Hove To is a nautical term for having one’s forward sail intentionally backed to counter the pressure of a main sail. With the two opposing forces balancing themselves out, the boat essentially comes to a stop, save for the drift. Used by some to ...
FOG Art+Design Fair January 17th – 20th, 2019. Park Life will be exhibiting again at FOG Fair at Ft. Mason in SF where we will be releasing new Editions from artist that include Chris Johanson, Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough, Emily Prince, Lauren DiCiccio, Mark Mulroney, Davis Shrigley, Tucker Nichols, Lena Gustafson, and many more. We’ll also be hosting book signings with David Maisel, Catherine Wagner and Janet Delaney.
We are happy to announce that we will be hosting an Exhibit and Book Signing with Ed Templeton for the Publication of his new Book with Um Yeah Art, Tangentially Parenthetical. More details to follow.
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, ...
We are stocked and ready for the Holidays..over 1200 square feet of new Design Products, Books, Apparel, Stationary, Art, Prints, Editions, Jewelry, Toys, and Gifts. We've got some new Editions from some of our favorite collaborators..Chris Johanson, David Shrigley, Tucker Nichols, Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough, Jason Jagel, Lena Gustafson, Mark Mulroney, and many more..
Park Life will be open Everyday from 10am -8pm in December (Sundays Until 6pm)....
Park Life Gallery is proud to present Close Enough (How We Describe Books When We Can’t Remember the Name or Title), New Works on Paper by Marina Luz.
Park Life Gallery
220 Clement st
SF CA 94118
Opening Reception Friday November 30, 2018 6-9pm
November 30 – December 30, 2018
When you are trying to find a favorite book from your childhood, or that novel you read for a class years ago and now wish you had kept, but you can’t remember any specific details, what do you do? Turn to the internet, of course.
Close ...
Lena Gustafson
Sound of a Bloom
Park Life Gallery
September 14 – October 14th, 2018
“Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this ongoing interweavement: the terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain.”
- David Abrams
Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
Sound of a Bloom, Lena’s second show at Park Life, showcases a series of work which examines ideas around sound, time, memory, and reciprocity. The paintings were born ...
8.13.2018
Phone Culture
A Group Show featuring Chelsie Kirkey, Nathan McKee, Tara Booth and Pat Falco. Curated by Yarrow Slaps.
Park Life
San Francisco
August 3 – Sept 2, 2018
Opening Reception Friday August 3, 6-9pm
Phone Culture, curated by San Francisco native Yarrow Slaps is the product of his visit to New York last summer. Out of his element, in a big city, Yarrow found himself people watching and listening to passing conversations while walking down the Lower East Side/Bedstuy streets. He began thinking the words phone culture, noticing everyone immersed in their pocket sized technology. Whether someone is walking through an intersection immersed in Instagram, or ...
Chaz Bear
Watch Your Waste
June 29 – July 22, 2018
Park Life Gallery
Park Life is proud to be hosting an exhibition featuring the work of Chaz Bear. Chaz will be showing a body of prints created is his signature style; loose and immediate. Chaz has described the creation of these drawings as a type of meditative exercise or yoga with an URBNFit yoga ball, where his mind turns off and his hand does the drawing. Whereas ‘doodles’ are often cast aside as unimportant, or at best, used as reference ...
Park Life is pleased to announce that we are hosting McFadden and Thorpe's 10th Anniversary Celebration. This legendary Design Firm will be exhibiting their work in the gallery from April 20th to May 20th.
On St. Patrick’s Day, 2008, Scott and I started our first day at work in a studio that was just slightly larger than our own bodies, with one window, one door, and a minifridge. Now, amazingly, 10 years later, we have an incredible team that we love working with, thousands of projects have coursed through our hard ...
FIGURES
Ivan Uranga and Phil Goldwhite
January 19th - February 18th, 2018
Park Life Gallery
220 Clement st
SF CA 94118
Open Reception Friday Jan 19th 6pm-9pm.
Toy soldier packs used to come with wounded figures. Some of them dead. Their
predicament locked in plastic perpetuity. As kids we incorporated these cruel, yet
honest, forms into our daily game. War is hell. Complex issues of good and evil
debated by nine-year-olds. Eventually, the fallen figures disappear from the
platoons at Walgreens, along with candy cigarettes and decent cap guns. The
hunger for magic remains.
Further investigation. Reasonable obsession. A craving to be inside ...
1.8.2018
This will be our 5th year at this great event/
More FOG Fair details HERE
12.12.2017
10.26.2017
We're excited to announce that Kristofferson San Pablo will have his first Park Life show titled DOGS PLAYING POKER - opening reception Saturday Nov 11 7-10pm.
Kristofferson San Pablo is the Co-Founder of Vacancy Projects and lives in Los Angeles.
10.20.2017
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Joins us for a the opening of Lena Gustafson's first show, titled Loud Body, at Park Life. Opening Reception 6 - 9pm.
Lena will be showing Acrylic works on panel and paper. For inquiries contact info@parklifestore.com
Lena Gustafson, Visual Artist, Oakland,CA.
"My lens is often focused on the strength of femininity. I am interested in the private relationships women have with their bodies and with others. Much of my creative output is from the culmination of many observations of women being themselves, doing their thing. My hope is that this work can be used as a mirror to the people from whom ...
Park Life Gallery is proud to present, HOW WE DESCRIBE BOOKS WHEN WE CAN'T REMEMBER THE AUTHOR OR TITLE: new sculptures from Marina Luz.
Opening Reception Friday July 14, 2017 6-9pm
July 14 – Aug 20, 2017
Park Life Gallery
220 Clement st
SF CA
When you are trying to find a favorite book from your childhood, or that novel you read for a class years ago and now wish you had kept, but you can’t remember any specific details, what do you do? Turn to the internet, of course.
HOW WE DESCRIBE BOOKS WHEN WE CAN"T REMEMBER THE AUTHOR OR TITLE examines the selective and often cruelly humorous ...
1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco CA 94107
Saturday, July 22nd - 11am – 6pm
Sunday, July 23rd - 11am – 5pm
Preview - Friday, July 21st - 6pm – 10pm
The 2017 SF Art Book Fair is an annual multi-day festival of artists' publications. This event is FREE and OPEN to the public and will feature artists’ books, art catalogs, monographs, periodicals, zines, printed ephemera, and artists' multiples. These works will be presented by over 100 independent publishers, antiquarian dealers, artists, collectors, and enthusiasts. Over the course of the weekend, the fair will be complemented by a diverse range of ...
3.4.2017
Please join us for an exhibition of Photographs by French Artist Fred Mortagne at Park Life Gallery. Fred will also be signing copies of his new Monograph - Fred Mortagne (French Fred) "Attraper Au Vol" published by Um Yeah Arts. Opening Reception Friday March 3rd 6-9pm.
This exhibit made possible by Element along with Thomas Campbell and Um Yeah Arts.
Details to follow.
Drought Resistant – New Paintings and Sculptures by Jonathan Anzalone
January 20 – Feb 20, 2017
Park Life Gallery
220 Clement st
SF CA 94118
Opening Reception Friday January 20th, 2017. 6-9pm
Drought Resistant is the circulation of materials and methods that yields a self-sustaining
practice. This practice is a hearty adaptation, consistently providing stimulation and surprise by
honoring the intrinsic qualities of common materials, whether work piece or waste, found or
fabricated. Each work freezes a moment that ordinarily exists as a fleeting glimpse. My
constructions are as much about haptic engagements with tools and materials as they are about
visual dialogues. Each plant is a literal metaphor that grows ...
We are excited to announce the opening of Serena Mitnik-Miller's new exhibition of paintings at Park Life Gallery. W I L D will open Friday Nov. 11 and run though xmas. View the works HERE.
Opening Reception 6-9pm Nov. 11.
Park Life Gallery
220 Clement st
SF CA 94118
inquiries @ info@parklifestore.com
We're exhibiting a series of graphic prints created by JP Stallard that are based on the Scots' reaction to Donald Trump.
Opening Reception Friday Oct 21 6-9pm.
See more Prints here: FUCK FACE
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New Works by Katy Kosman
Park Life Gallery
August 19 – Sept 25, 2016
Opening Reception Friday August 19th 6-9 pm
Katy Kosman is a 27 year old artist who lives in the Westlake neighborhood of Cleveland with her mom and her dog, Fox.
Park Life Gallery
220 Clement St
SF CA 94118
415.386.7275
info@parklifestore.com
Park Life Gallery is proud to present, IF I DON'T FIND THIS BOOK I WILL DIE new paintings from Marina Luz.
Opening Reception Friday July 8, 2016 6-9pm
July 8 - Aug 14, 2016
Park Life Gallery
220 Clement st
SF CA
When you are trying to find a favorite book from your childhood, or that novel you read for a class years ago and now wish you had kept, but you can't remember any specific details, what do you do? Turn to the internet, of course.
IF I DON'T FIND THIS BOOK I WILL DIE examines the selective and often cruelly humorous nature of memory by taking, unaltered, ...
We are happy to announce that Kristina Lewis' show SQUARING THE CIRCLE opens Friday June 3, 2016 at Park Life Gallery.
June 3 - July 3, 2016
Opening Reception Friday June 3 6-9pm.
Park Life Gallery
220 Clement St
“As the geometer his mind applies
To square the circle, nor for all his wit
Finds the right formula, howe’er he tries”
-Dante
Metaphorically, the endeavor of squaring the circle—a mathematical exercise that’s been proven impossible—came to represent any task beyond human scope—such as delineating the shape of the afterworld.
Firmly planted here on Earth and totally at the mercy of
...
5.13.2016
We are excited to announce that we are co-producing the first annual San Francisco Artbook Fair that will take place at Minnesota Street Project from July 22-July 24, 2016. The event will feature over 70 independent publishers exhibiting art related books...as well as a handful of retail exhibitors. There will also be signings, lectures, workshops, music where you will even be able to buy Soundcloud plays.
This event is being produced by Minnesota Street Projects, Colpa Press and Park Life.
Opening Reception Friday July 22 6-10pm
July 23 11:00 - 6:00
July 24 11:00 - 6:00
1275 Minnesota St ...
5.1.2016
Much thanks to the artist Jason Jagel for his beautiful new Mural at the Corner of Clement and 3rd Ave. ALso thanks to Supervisor Eric Mars office, The SF Arts Commission and the Clement st Merchants Association.
Park Life will be opening it's new gallery space on Friday April 15th, 2016 with a solo show from Mark Mulroney titled Mark Likes Baseball Part I. VIEW THE WORK HERE
"Mark Likes Baseball Part 1" is the first in an ongoing and sporadic series of shows about the history, graphics and social impact of baseball on our culture. Paintings, collages, wood-carvings, interactive sculptures and plenty of homemade baseball cards will be included along side written descriptions of the works. In an effort to communicate his enduring love for the game of baseball Mulroney has made all of the works ...
Please join us this Saturday night at Creative Growth in Oakland for a screening of Cheryl Dunn's much anticipated new film on NYC Street Photography - Everybody Street. Cheryl will also be signing copies of her new book Festivals are Good.
More Details:
Join us at home in the Creative Growth Studio, Saturday, February 6th at 6:30pm for a screening of Everybody Street a film by longtime Creative Growth collaborator, Cheryl Dunn (Q&A with Dunn following the screening). Also on view: short films made by the Creative Growth Video Production Workshop. Drinks and movie snacks will be available for purchase.
$12 ...
We're excited to be exhibiting at this years FOG Art and Design fair at Ft Mason Jan 13- 17, 1016.
Park Life will be installing a store that will feature a curated selection of objects, editions, books, design items, and art.
We'll have new editions and products from artists Todd Hido, Margaret Kilgallen, Barry Mcgee, David Shrigley, Jonas Wood, Paul Wackers, Alec Soth, Carissa Potter, and many more.
More info HERE
12.2.2015
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We also have expanded our hours for Decemeber. 10AM to 8PM everyday (sundays until 6)
We are excited to announce our upcoming exhibit OFFCUTS, new works by Jonathan Anzalone. Oct. 2 - Nov. 8, 2015.
View works HERE
Opening Reception Friday October 2 6-8pm.
Park Life Gallery
3049 22nd st (@Shotwell)
SF CA
‘OFFCUTS’ is a celebration of the by-product. Shop waste, materials that would usually be discarded, and found objects often yield shapes and color relationships that would be missed in their original contexts. By taking such overlooked objects, transforming their color, and pairing them with contrasting materials, it is possible to appreciate their inherent qualities. Those qualities could be ...
Park Life Gallery is proud to present Groupings, an exhibit of new work from the artists of Creative Growth, Oakland.
July 31 – Sept 6, 2015
Opening Reception Friday July 31, 6-9pm.
Park Life Gallery
3049 22nd st (@ Shotwell)
SF CA 94118
Groupings represents a selection of a selection of works that communicate processes adopted by the artists at Creative Growth. Each work in the show provides insight into the mind and heart of an artist as they find their creative voice and outlet through painting, sculpture, collage, drawing, video, fabric and more. The biographical, nostalgic, and make-believe elements that these artists incorporate into their ...
Todd Hido and Marina Luz - Photography and Drawings.
Park Life Gallery
3049 22nd st SF CA 94110
The Perfect Measure is a one night only exhibit - on Friday July 24th, 6 - 9pm.
A gift from Marina Luz to Todd Hido was the trigger for the collaboration between the two artists. Between their work, there is a connection that is evident but not spelled out completely, based on the mutual recognition of gestures and expressions reaching a measure of empathy with which they both identify.
Working together and sometimes taking inspiration from the ...
7.10.2015
We are excited to be hosting an informal residency and workshop for the Belgium collective Atelier Pica Pica along with Francesco Deiana.
Duration - July 1 through July 20, 2015.
Opening reception Friday July 3 - 6-9pm.
Publication Release reception Wed July 15 - 6 -9pm.
The Gallery will be open on Saturdays 12 -6 during the duration.
Park Life Gallery
3049 22nd st. SF CA 94110
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Atelier Pica Pica is Boris Magotteaux (1978), Manuel Falcata (1979) and Jerome Degive (1980), all born and raised in Liege, Belgium.
The collective has a very distinct, personal and
Jug Life , New Contemporary Still Life. Featuring work from over 70 contemporary artists. Curated by Andrew Schoultz and Patrick Martinez.
Featuring:Dennis Mcnett , Cody Hudson, Joshua
Petker, Brian Willmont, Libby Black, Glen Baldridge, Tim Biskup, Ryan Wallace, Harley Lafarah Eaves, Adam 5100, Richard Colman, Dennis Kernohan, Michelle Blade, Hilary Pecis, Tracy Timmens, Ryan Travis Christian, Alex Nicholson, Andrew Martin Scott, Bill Mcright, Kevin Taylor, Alex Lukas, Ian Johnson, Jonah Olsen, Gin Stevens, Joey Piziali, James Marshall, Terry Powers, Kevin Chen, Erin Riley, Serena Cole, Osei Key, Beau Roulette, Juan Carlos Araujo, Kelie Bowman, Joseph Hart, Louise Sheldon, Louis Schmitt, Joshua Rubens, ...
VIEW WORKS
Park Life Gallery
Wave Pool
New works by Casey Gray
April 10th – May 10, 2015
Opening Reception Friday April 10 6-9pm
Park Life Gallery
3049 22nd Street @ Shotwell
SF CA 94110
San Francisco-based artist Casey Gray will present a new series of paintings for his first show at Park Life Gallery.
The show titled Wave Pool, will feature Gray's “wavy” paintings that depict universal symbols of everyday life in a wavy or rippled motif that communicates a feeling of uncertainty or mistrust; a general cynicism related to the current changing socio-economic climate and related identity crisis ...
The Facebook Artist in Residence program is excited to announce the release of our Season II catalog at Park Life Gallery on February 27 from 6:00-8:30 pm. Come to learn more about the artist in residence program, meet an artist or two, and pick up a catalog. There will be Drinks and snacks.
All proceeds from the catalogs sold tonight ($20!) will benefit the Headlands Center for the Arts.
The catalog features the work of artists Jane Kim, Barbara Holmes, Jessalyn Aaland, Paul Morgan, Val Britton, Chris Duncan, Tucker Nichols, Kelly Ording, and Jeff Canham.
Who: You!
What: The Facebook Artist in Residence program ...
Ajar, new paintings from Joe Ferriso.
VIEW WORK
February 20 - March 22, 2015
Opening Reception
Friday, February 20th from 6-9pm
Park Life gallery presents Ajar, a selection of recent paintings by Joe Ferriso. These modestly sized acrylic and latex paintings on panel unfold color sensitive spaces.
"All these doors leave one’s thoughts ajar. As if in wind or mind. What’s in there? Nothing, insofar as “art has no inside, nothing you can’t see,” to quote Hugh Kenner. But really, what’s in there, in those rooms the doors adjoin. It looks like one invitation after another, each opening into someplace distinct and different. So maybe ...
1.22.2015
1.6.2015
We are excited to be hosting Photographer Todd Hido for a book signing during our Pop Up Store at the FOG Art/Design Fair.
Todd will be signing copies of his new book Hido on Landscapes, Interiors, and The Nude published by Aperture Saturday Jan 17th at Noon at FOG Art/Design Fair at Fort Mason.
Buy a Signed Copy Here ..or stop by the store, there are a few left.
12.18.2014
We are excited to announce that Park Life has been selected to install a store at this year's FOG Art and Design Fair at Fort Mason the weekend of Jan 14-18, 2015.
FOG will be featuring some of the best galleries in the world; David Zwirner, Salon 94, Ratio 3, PACE, Altman Siegel, and many others..
We will be featuring a selection of Editions, Objects, Books, and Art by artists Tauba Auerbach, David Shrigley, Paul Wackers, Tucker Nichols, Robert Lazzarini, Jonas Wood, Todd Hido, and many others.
More info to follow.
Welcome to Park Life's Annual Holiday Season Update.
We've once again stocked the store with a shit-ton of new merchandise; Bags, Appearal, Books, Design Objects, Gifts, Toys, Artist Editions, Prints, Watches, Wallets, Stationary, Home Wares, Sunglasses, Journals, etc..
Including:
- New Limited editions from Artists David Shrigley and Tucker Nichols.
- Bags and Packs from Topo Designs and Alite.
- A Pop-Up Shop featuring editions from the Headlands Center for the Arts.
-Limited Edition Art and Design from Polite UK, Propaganda, Third Drawer Down, Areaware, Grey Area Foundation, IMM Living.
-The latest new books on Contemporary Art, Design, Typography, Food and Culture; including publishers Aperture Foundation, Steidl, ...
11.14.2014
Our New Gallery Website is now live. Thanks to our friend Samuel Shelton Robinson for the effort on finding the top web development companies to hep us. You can find it here at parklifegallery.com
Park Life is excited to announce the opening of Earth Wizard, an exhibit of ceramic sculptures and works on paper by Paul Wackers and Jessica Hans.
Opening Reception Friday, Nov 21, 2014. 6-9pm.
NY based artist Paul Wackers will be debuting a body of ceramic sculptures as well as new works on paper. Wackers' ceramic sculptures offer a new dimension to his work, giving life to elements found in his intimately painted compositions; potted plants, objects and personal collectables, and abstract moments.
Philadelphia based artist Jessica Hans' colorful, mishappen pots and sculptures are inspired by her love for plants, landscapes, and ...
Park Life Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Stars That Shine Darkly, new works by Ian Johnson.
Ian will be presenting a new body of Paintings and Drawings in Park Life's new Gallery space in the Mission.
Please join us for the opening reception on Friday October 17, 2014 from 6-9 PM.
Ian Johnson
Stars That Shine Darkly
Oct 17 - Nov 9, 2014
Park Life Gallery
3049 22nd st. (at Shotwell) SF CA 94110
415.757.0107
Park Life is proud to present S W I R L, an exhibit of new paintings by Serena Mitnik-Miller.
Park Life Gallery
3049 22nd st. (at Shotwell)
SF CA 94110
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
...
Last week to see this great show!
View the works here.
Our current exhibit features work by Jacob Magraw-Mickelson and Rachell Sumpter. The show, titled Home Again Home Again runs thru June 22nd.
Jacob Magraw will be showing embroidery pieces on cloth along with painted, gouache works on paper. His paintings are vibrant slices of memory, the subject of which are left up to the viewer. Figures rarely appear, but their presence is everywhere. Tools, monuments, and shelters litter the paper. Each piece is drawn first in pencil to work out form and perspective then colored in. The paintings are small and ...
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We are excited to announce that we will be hosting a reception for Todd Hido at Park Life (22nd and Shotwell) where he will be signing copies of his and very limited edition B-Sides Box set titled 'Silver Meadows'
published by Nazraeli Press.
BUY ONE HERE
Park Life II
3049 22nd st (at Shotwell)
415.757.0107
Inquiries at info@parklifestore.com
Friday April 18th - May 18th, 2014.
Hilary Pecis
Crash
Park Life Gallery
April 18 – May 18th, 2014.
Opening Reception Friday April 18th 6-9.
Park Life Gallery is proud to present Crash, a new series of collages from Hilary Pecis.
For Crash Hilary Pecis presents a series of collages composed of large scale photos of high profile NASCSAR crash scenes that were cut up and reassembled in order to present a reinterpretation of the events. The reference scenes are familiar and widely circulated in digital form, and were chosen for their spectacular formal qualities. Pecis provides enough information for ...
4.5.2014
See images and details of the work on our Gallery Page.
The show is up though April 13th.
Please join us this Friday evening for our Grand Opening Reception. We are working with several artists to produce limited edition prints that we will be giving away while they last...including Tucker Nichols, Luca Antonucci, Dave Kasparzak, and more. There will also be Drinks and Snacks.
Friday March 21st. 6-9 pm
Park Life II
3049 22nd st (at Shotwell).
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When Jamie Alexander and Derek Song opened the first Park Life store on Clement Street nearly a decade ago, they knew they were taking a risk by moving into a neighborhood better known for its cheap eats than its appetite for left-field art and design. The boutique flourished in the Inner Richmond, ushering in like-minded retail spaces such as the clothing retailer Seedstore and eco gift shop Foggy Notion. Now the Park Life partners are hoping to repeat the formula with their second outlet of the same name, which opened this month at the corner of 22nd and Shotwell ...
Folding the Blanket of Time
March 14th - April 13th, 2014
Opening Reception Friday March 14th 6-9pm.
Folding the Blanket of Time is a three-person show of San Francisco artists Sarah Hotchkiss, Courtney Johnson and Maysha Mohamedi. One day Courtney told Maysha and Sarah a story about folding blankets after childhood sleepovers, chanting the phrase “folding the blanket of life” with her friend. Sarah misheard this phrase as “folding the blanket of time,” loved it and refused to hear anything different. Courtney and Maysha decided not to correct her.
With the misheard phrase as a ...
Image in the Object
Artists Include: Angel Jo, Daren Wilson, Peter McBride, Andrew Kontrabecki.
Opening Reception Friday Feb 21st. 6-9pm.
There is beauty in functional pottery in its potential to contain. A cup of tea, a homemade meal, a flower gathered from a walk all transform the object to take on a new image and role. With function, the object becomes a collaboration full of meaning, sometimes beyond the imagination and intent of the creator.
Image in the Object showcases the work of four artists in the bay area who use ceramics as a tool for creative usability. Each body of work has ...
Louis Schmidt- Cy Twombly Death’s Head. Through Feb 16th.
See images of the works HERE
Info: FOG Design+Art, San Francisco's premier modernism fair. Presented in collaboration with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, this new fair will feature important 20th-century and contemporary design dealers from across the country and beyond as well as a selection of leading modern and contemporary art galleries. Furniture, fine art, and design objects representing design movements from the last century to today will be presented in a dynamic layout designed to complement the exhibitor offerings.
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12.4.2013
Beginning in December we will once again be doubling our floor space for the Holidays..and this year we’ve stocked the store with more merchandise than ever before.
In addition to the normal inventory of art and design related products we will be stocking:
- New, Select Book Titles: cooking, design, typography, art, etc.
- New Bags and Packs by Topo Designs.
- New Design Goods and Editions from MAKR, Areaware, Grey Area Editions, The Thing Quarterly, Polite UK, Third Drawer Down.
- New Tee Designs by Tucker Nichols.
- New ...
11.29.2013
Gallery Shows for 2014
January -- Louis Schmidt --
February -- Group Ceramics Show --
March -- Courntey Johnson, Sarah Hotchkiss, and Maysha Mohamedi --
April -- Hilary Pecis --
May -- Jacob McGraw and Rachael Sumpter --
June -- RISD Group show --
August -- Andrew Paynter --
September -- Serena Mitnik-Miller --
October -- Ian Johnson --
November -- TBA --
December -- No show (Holiday Retail)
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David Shrigley, Politicians Make Me Sick Skate Deck. Exclusively for Park Life
7 ply skate deck. 4 color silk screen bottom image, Natural wood finish on top.
Dimensions - 33" x 8". Limited Edition of 150.
In stock now.
Saturday November 30. 4-6pm. Details to follow.
Book signing, talking, eating, wrastling, etc..
the BOOK
details to come..
Thursday, November 21st marks the Third Annual Clementime Microhood. We love the community and feel of the Inner Richmond neighborhood and can't wait to return! The Bold Italic and Google Local, in partnership with Park Life, are excited to bring you an evening of fun on Clement Street between 3rd and 7th Avenues.
Enjoy offerings from these amazing businesses:
Park Life offers refreshments in the form of drinks and snacks. They are also raffling off an original art piece by a
Tees available HERE. Limited Edition Skate Decks available soon..
These won't last long.
Order one HERE
Available in store on Sept 22.
Issue 20, by visual artist Tauba Auerbach, takes the form of a 24-hour wall clock. Auerbach is known for creating work about language and logic through a variety of media. Her training as a traditional sign painter often informs her text-based work. For this issue, the artist designed the clock face and its 24 numerals. The clock’s mechanism runs from midnight to midnight, meaning the hands circle the clock once every 24 ...
7.6.2013
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Matt Gonzalez
Things I Didnt Know I Loved
See the Work hereOpening Reception Friday June 28th. 7-10pm
June 28th - July 28th
For his first show at Park Life, Matt Gonzalez will be presenting new mixed-media collage works on paper and wood sculpture. Matt’s work is born from gathering the detritus we discard on a daily basis and giving it a second life by reassembling the pieces and presenting them in a new context using the the marketing, solo ads advertising and consuming that occurs every day in our society. Matt’s ...
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. Long a favorite of Hollywood insiders (John Waters can regularly be seen flitting through the stacks), Arcana’s selection is unparalleled and the staff is knowledgeable ...
Kristina Lewis Solo Show at Park Life Gallery. May 24 - June 23.
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4.29.2013
Get your VIP pass HERE.
We will Exhibiting new work from Tauba Auerbach, Christopher Baird, Anthony Discenza, Francesco Deiana, and others.
We are excited to be hosting an event for David Shrigley at Park Life in May for the release of The Thing Quarterly issue 19. More info here. The event will take place from 5;30-7;30 on May 10th.
David Shrigley will be in the Bay Area courtesy of Headlands Center for the Arts were he will be in residency this Spring.
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We've curated a show at Ever Gold Gallery.
Sadie Barnette.
"COMPOSED AND PERFORMED"
Sadie Barnette
February 16th - March 15th
Co-Organized by Ever Gold Gallery and Jamie Alexander of Park Life, San Francisco.
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 16th, 6-10pm
Ever Gold Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new work from Sadie Barnette. “Composed and Performed” brings together sculpture, installation, and photography to support the at-once boldly minimal yet complex language of Barnette’s work, within which she constructs a visual language system out of sub-culture codes and west coast vernacular, economic ...
2.4.2013
at MOCA's Geffen Center..Hosted by Printed Matter, NY.
more details to follow...
Evening Suite, 2012. Giclee Print on Archival Paper. Edition of 25. 11x17inches. LINK$80.
11.30.2012
The Holiday Season is here and starting in December, Park Life will be doubling its retail floor space and doubling the inventory of merchandise. We will also be extending our hours and opening at 11 am everyday.
Here are our expanded hours for the Holidays:
- Monday through Thursday 11AM to 8 PM
- Friday through Sunday 10 AM until 9 PM (Sunday til 7 PM)
For online shoppers we are offering free shipping for orders over $75. (domestic orders only)
Gift Guide
Park Life is teaming up with The Bold Italic to once again participate in the Clementime Street Night Shopping Event.
There will be booze, snacks, a raffle to win original art, free gift wrapping, events for kids, music, etc.. Block Party basically.
Thursday Night December 6th from 6pm to whenevers.
We double the size of our retail store for the Holidays per usual. That means twice as much merchandise for your holiday consumption. Gifts, Art, Tees, Books, Editions, Design Objects, Toys, Stationary, Prints, Tech Stuff, etc...
We will also be hosting a Headlands Center for the Arts Pop up shop at Park Life. Artists designed Merchandise that includes apperal, objects home-wares, gifts, etc..
See the work HERE
Park Life Gallery, San Francisco.
Ian Johnson
Straight Ahead
November 2 through November 31, 2012
Opening Reception:
Friday November 2nd, 2012 7-10pm
Park Life Gallery is proud to announce Straight Ahead, an exhibit of new paintings and drawings by Ian Johnson.
Ian Johnson returns to Park Life Gallery with a new body of work that builds on his well known style and visual language while achieving new heights in color, abstraction and composition. His subject matter continues to be informed by his connection to Jazz music ...
10.10.2012
Oct 13th - Oct 23rd
Opening Party, Saturday October 13th, from 5pm - 9pm
LA/SF based clothing brand, Farm Tactics will be setting up shop in Park Life's gallery space. Come check out F/T's new season along with custom pieces made specially for this event.
Check out this interview with F/T's lead creative Kyle Ng
View the facebook invite
10.1.2012
See the works on our Gallery Page
Some images here via Artbusiness.com
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 ...
Some images here via Artbusiness.com
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 ...
8.27.2012
Thanks everyone for coming out to Park Life for the Andrew Schoultz party. And thanks to BrEaKaRtS for a couple great sets. Most important thanks to Andrew Schoultz for everything.
Come by this week and see the show it will be up until Wednesday.
Coverage from Artbusiness
Coverage from ArrestedMotion
(photo courtesy of Alan Bamberger, 2012)
Come by this week and see the show it will be up until Wednesday.
Coverage from Artbusiness
Coverage from ArrestedMotion
(photo courtesy of Alan Bamberger, 2012)
We've produced a silkscreen print based on this drawing by Tucker Nichols.
It's a Two-color Silk Screen Print on Heavy stock archival paper.
Approx. 19x19inches.
Stamped Tucker Nichols on the reverse. Open Edition.
We will be selling them framed ($80) and unframed ($30).
They are available for preorder now.
It's a Two-color Silk Screen Print on Heavy stock archival paper.
Approx. 19x19inches.
Stamped Tucker Nichols on the reverse. Open Edition.
We will be selling them framed ($80) and unframed ($30).
They are available for preorder now.
8.13.2012
Quick update regarding the web store. Due to an update to our server the shopping portion of the site was down last week. Apologies. But good news we are back and running as usual. We will give some codes for EloBoost services as compensation in your next purchase. If you find any other errors or problems placing orders please let us know at info@parklifestore.com.
Thanks
-Park Life
Incase Introduces Limited Edition Collection with Artist Clare Rojas.
SAN FRANCISCO – August 6, 2012 – As a painter, illustrator, writer and musician, Clare Rojas has thoughtfully woven an intricate multimedia world. Incase is proud to introduce a capsule collection with the San Francisco-based artist who has infused a fresh and feminine perspective to signature Incase bags and cases with her colorful animal characters and abstract patterns created just for the collection.
Rojas’ visual artistry encompasses a broad spectrum from modern abstract to delicately detailed figures. Stark backgrounds emphasize carefully rendered geometric patterns, a part of what Rojas calls her current exploration ...
SAN FRANCISCO – August 6, 2012 – As a painter, illustrator, writer and musician, Clare Rojas has thoughtfully woven an intricate multimedia world. Incase is proud to introduce a capsule collection with the San Francisco-based artist who has infused a fresh and feminine perspective to signature Incase bags and cases with her colorful animal characters and abstract patterns created just for the collection.
Rojas’ visual artistry encompasses a broad spectrum from modern abstract to delicately detailed figures. Stark backgrounds emphasize carefully rendered geometric patterns, a part of what Rojas calls her current exploration ...
8.6.2012
7.25.2012
7.3.2012
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5.9.2012
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 or go to the shop link (415.386.7275) Park Life for more information or to place an order.
Chris Ballanytne, Untitled (3 Buildings), 2012. 18x24in. Silk Screen Print. Ed. of 30. $225
Tucker Nichols, Untitled (Map), 2012. 16x22in. Silk Screen. Ed. of 20. $350
Tucker
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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. ...
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. ...
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
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"Holz" is the German word for wood or timber. "Holz" is used for building, and as the opening line of the Bauhaus Manifesto reads, "The ultimate aim of all creative activity is building!" (Walter Gropius).
Anzfer Farms exhibition "Holz" draws inspiration from the art and design history of the Bauhaus and De Stijl movements. Parklife Gallery will become a unified work, a house of construction.
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Anzfer Farms was founded in 2009 by Jonathan Anzalone and Joseph Ferriso in rural Port Costa, CA and a year later moving to the Outer Richmond district of SF to
3.3.2012
Saturday March 3. 8pm. Free show. All ages. Come. Live performance by Mattson 2.
Park Life
220 Clement st.
SF CA 94118
3.2.2012
Follow this Link - Artbusiness. Thanks to Alan Bamberger.
More Light
A Two-person show of new works Francesco Deiana and Lafe Harley Eaves opens Friday February 24th, 2012.
SEE WORKS HERE
Opening Reception from 7-10pm.
Show runs though March 25th, 2012....
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1.18.2012
We've been waiting over 3 years for this book to get published and it's finally here!
Ryan McGinley, You And I, Twin Palms Publishers, 2011.
Ryan McGinley's first retrospective monograph. For this beautifully realized volume the artist has selected the best photographs from his first decade of work. The first edition is sure to become one of McGinley's most collectable books.
BUY HERE
9 x 12 Inches
90 Four-color Plates
196 Pages
First Edition
Casebound / HardBack
$75.00
Twin Palms Publishers
We just received the Shipment of Andrew Schoultz's new Book, Up In The Air, which was published by Park Life.
It's a really great Hard Cover Little book covering his work of the last couple years.
Andrew Schoultz
Up In The Air
64 pages, 5.5" x 8"
Debossed Hard Cover
Edition Size - 2000
2011
$22
12.26.2011
11.23.2011
The Holiday Season is here again and starting in December Park Life will be doubling its retail floor space
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11.22.2011
11.3.2011
Install shot. Images of works and other information available here.
Look for an interview with Courtney on KQED's Gallery Walk feature later this week.
10.21.2011
Park Life presents
See You Next Tuesday
New Paintings by Courtney Johnson
November 4 – November 27, 2011
Opening Reception
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10.21.2011
10.3.2011
To commemorate Andrew Schoultz's SFMOMA Show Park Life is releasing a new edition that will be available in two weeks. Now Available. Order Here.
info@parklifestore.com
9.14.2011
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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Please join us tonite at Paulson Bott Press in Berkeley for our opening reception of the Park Life temporary Pop-Up shop. There will be booze, music, food (Vik's Chaat House is catering). There will be shopping. See the new Tauba Auerbach Prints too.
A taste: (Images courtesy of Dan Carlson.)
8.23.2011
For Immediate release
Park Life (San Francisco) is happy to announce we will be forming a temporary Pop-Up Store in Berkeley at Paulson Bott Press. Park Life will be curating the Store and Gallery in the Paulson Bott Warehouse space in West Berkeley. We will be featuring a special selection of merchandise that will include Books, Design Objects, Editions, Artist Tees, Limited Edition Prints, Original Art and more. We will be debuting new works and editions from artist that include Tauba Auerbach, Andrew Schoultz, Tucker Nichols, Clare Rojas, and many more.
Please join us for the opening reception on Friday, September 9th
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8.5.2011
Park Life Presents
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
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Last Time It Was Gray
A two-person show featuring the work of
Sadie Barnette & Ian Johnson
Opening reception: Friday July 8th, 6-10pm
Show runs July 8th to August 14th, 2011
Park Life Gallery
220 Clement St
SF CA 94118
415.386.7275
www.parklifestore.com
Park Life is proud to present Last Time It Was Gray, a two-person exhibit featuring the work of Sadie Barnette & Ian Johnson.
Bay Area artists Sadie Barnette and Ian Johnson come together to exhibit a new body of work featuring their respective styles; figurative elements that they inextricably link to their own versions of ...
We had a great time this weekend at ArtPadSF @ the Phoenix Hotel. Was definitely a successful event for us and telling from the crowd that filled the place each day I think overall for most everybody else involved too.
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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This is happening
details to follow...
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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Park Life Gallery is pleased to present Metric: a two-person art show featuring the work of Dana Hemenway and Anthony Ryan.
Metric: Dana Hemenway & Anthony Ryan
May 20 – June 26, 2011
Opening reception: May 20, 6-9pm
Curated by Jessica Brier
Not unlike the way two old friends can finish each other’s sentences, Metric brings
together the work of two artists who each pick up and extend the ideas and
concerns of the other. Dana Hemenway and Anthony Ryan, both emerging Bay Area
artists with outstanding technical skill, share formal and material concerns that
effectively push forward the dialogue around fine art, design and craft. The work ...
go here to see the works from our current show
Park Life is proud to present Living Room, a group show curated by Joey Piziali and Vanessa Blaikie of Romer Young Gallery (formerly Ping Pong Gallery).
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
Park Life is proud to present Living Room, a group show curated by Joey Piziali and Vanessa Blaikie of Romer Young Gallery (formerly Ping Pong Gallery).
The exhibit opens Friday, April 8th, 2011. Opening reception 7-9pm
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
About the show;
Borrowing the words of Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, who recently curated an exhibition at Romer Young Gallery, Living Room is an exhibition that stumbles into 'broken lines ...
3.22.2011
Space Cake featuring the work of Thomas Campbell and Kyle Field.
go here
Line-up of events for Space Cake Featuring the work of Thomas Campbell and Kyle Field -
Schedule of Performances for the Month of Feb and March:
These:
Feb. 17th -- Little wings, Rustangs, Range of light Wilderness - covers night
Feb. 24th -- Mumlers variety show and Tomorrow's Tulips.
March 3rd -- Little Wings Record Release Party for "Black Grass" plus
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1.13.2011
12.18.2010
12.8.2010
The Holiday Season is here again and we’re once again doubling our retail space for the month of December. That means twice the amount of Park Life goods as usual. We’ve stocked the store
with more of everything including design and art books, design objects, tees, art, prints,stationary, home-wares, cameras, watches, gifts and everything in between.
Our Holiday hours are also in effect starting in December... opening earlier and staying open later.
Also, please join us on Friday December 17th from 6-9 pm for a Clement St. Holiday Shopping night. We’ll be offering 10% discount on all purchases. ...
11.12.2010
11.9.2010
Just catching our breath after a crazy weekend at the Printed Mattter's NY Artbook Fair at PS1. Huge success all around. Tons of people. We'll post more images in a few days.
(image of the Park Life space courtesy of Austin
Mcmanaman)
..and special thanks to everyone who pitched in and made our NY trip something to remember..Paul Wackers, Chris Ballantyne, Tucker Nichols, Tauba Auerbach, Sadie Barnette, Louis Schmidt, Marcus Lin, Marina Luz, Austin Macmanus, our SF peeps; John Hershend, Breezy and Needles and Pens, and especially Dan Carlson without whom we couldnt ...
We'll be exhibiting at this year's NY Art Book Fair at PS1.
We'll be offering Editions, Books, Prints and Original Works from artists including:
Shaun Odell, Chris ballantyne, Tucker Nichols, Tauba Auerbach, Barry Mcgee, Clare Rojas, Chris Johanson, Leslie Shows, Keegan McHargue, Andrew Schoultz, Dave Shubert, Simon Evans, Margaret Kilgallen, Paul Wackers, Orion Shepard, David Shrigley and more..
Come by and say hi. Park Life's space is on the first floor right around the corner from Printed Matter's space.
10.13.2010
Park Life Gallery Presents
Unnatural Plans
A two-person show of new paintings
October 22 through November 28, 2010
Opening Reception Friday, October 22, 2010. 7 – 10PM
Unnatural Plans, an exhibition of new paintings from Masako Miki and Steven Lopez, is an exploration of the artist’s cultural identities and the influence that communities play in shaping these identities and the resulting narratives that define their work. These narratives manifest in paintings where intricate patterns and contradicting spatial elements such as flatness and illusion suggest a disoriented context, where dichotomy becomes integrated with visual reality. The ...
10.4.2010
ART PUBLISHING NOW
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
October 9 & 10, 2010
Two-days of events dedicated to the investigation and showcasing of art publishing practices in the Bay Area. It includes a day of presentations and critical discussions, an after party, an art publishers fair, library and web archive.
LOCATION
Southern Exposure
3030 20th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
www.soex.org
SCHEDULE
SUMMIT - Saturday, October 9, 2010, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
AFTER PARTY - Saturday, October 9, 2010, 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
ART PUBLISHERS FAIR - Sunday, October 10, 2010, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
All events are FREE and open to the public.
Registration is advised for the Summit.
REGISTER HERE
Organized by ...
9.29.2010
Passport 2010, on Sunday, October 10 from noon - 4 PM is presented by the SFAC Gallery is an affordable do-it-yourself art collecting experience. This annual public art event takes participants on a neighborhood stroll to collect artist-designed “passport stamps” in a special booklet that, once complete, becomes a limited-edition art book with original work by some of the Bay Area’s finest artists, both established and emerging.
Passport 2010 Participating Artists: Timothy Cummings, Richard Diebenkorn (courtesy of the estate), Jamaica Dyer, Ana Teresa Fernandez, Suzanne Husky, Jason Jägel, Ruth Laskey, Paul Madonna, Nigel Poor, Ricardo Richey, Lordy Rodriguez, Jovi Schnell, Travis ...
Shaun O'Dell Book Release Party
Thursday, September 30, 6 - 8PM Learn more
Park Life Gallery, 220 Clement Street, San Francisco
Published by Park Life and Headlands Center for the Arts. Design by Boon Design.
Book preview: Read an excerpt from Shaun's interview with curator Tara McDowell
Shaun O'Dell (Tournesol Awardee '09-'10) presents a new artist's book as the culminating project of his Tournesol residency. O'Dell is 7th artist to receive the prestigious award, which provides a Bay Area painter with a year-long residency at Headlands and a cash prize. The ...
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Strange and Constant
New works by Evan Nesbit and Marissa Textor.
July 23 through August 30, 2010
Opening Reception Friday July 23, 2010. 7pm to 10pm
Evan Nesbit’s paintings and sculpture can be viewed has highly abstract representations of his very real connections to the Sierra Nevada foothills where he grew up. From the counter-culture refuge to the mystique of the gold country, Victorian architecture, and seclusion inducing landscape, this environment largely shaped his notion of identity aside from the pure affects of cultural spectatorship.
Marissa Textor, a California based artist, makes photorealistic, graphite ...
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
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5.13.2010
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Park Life Gallery presents
Habitat
A group show featuring the artwork of Charlie Callahan, Jeff Canham, David Muller, Jeff Manson, and Serena Mitnik-Miller.
Opening Reception Friday, May 7, 2010
May 7 - June 6, 2010
Habitat displays residue collected, constructed, remembered and imagined by five artists whose lifestyles weave carefully chosen elements conceptualized in an idealistic environment. Through painting, drawing, and sculpture the work seeks to join imagined landscapes with details of day-to-day neighborhood living and the allure of the natural world.
The Artists:
Charlie Callahan's infatuation is with the global diversity
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4.16.2010
4.10.2010
3.20.2010
3.17.2010
Ian Johnson
"Of The Living Sky"
Opening Reception: Friday April 2nd, 7-10pm
April 2nd - May 1st
Park Life is pleased to announce the opening of Ian Johnson's newest exhibition of drawings and paintings titled, Of The Living Sky. This show will feature works on paper and wood panel. The show will run from April 2nd – May 1st.
The notable aspect of jazz comes from musician's ability to improvise within an established framework. Ian Johnson's art on the same subject is no different. His well-practiced work combines realistic and highly
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3.15.2010
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
3.2.2010
2.13.2010
Bro Palace
Skinner Porous Walker Jay Howell Deth P Sun Ferris Plock Opening Reception: Friday February 26th, 7-10pm February 26th - March 29th Now for something completely different... Bro Palace is the title of our upcoming art show featuring the work of Skinner, Porous Walker, Jay Howell, Deth P Sun and Ferris Plock. Although their work is mostly rooted in illustration, each artist has a very distinct and instantly recognizable style. From psychedelic mash-ups to ink drawings to sculpture this show promises to tickle the artistic fancy of a wide viewing audience. To further add a touch of mayhem, the SF based band ...
1.14.2010
1.7.2010
"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
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12.10.2009
11.28.2009
Once again we've expanded our retail operation for the month of December and doubled our floor space and retail inventory for your shopping pleasure. This means literally (figuratively) acres of new products: books, multiples, design objects, gifts, jewelry, prints, original art, kids stuff, tees, limited editions, etc.
We also will have expanded hours for the Holidays:
- Monday through Thursday 11AM to 8 PM
- Friday through Sunday 10 AM until 9 PM (Sunday til 7 PM)
For domestic online orders over $75 we are offering free shipping.
10.14.2009
Park Life is hosting a book release event on November 19, 2009, 6-8pm for this new Mcsweeney's title:
More Things Like This
By the Editors of McSweeney's Foreword by Michael Kimmelman Introduction by Dave Eggers Illustrated by Tucker Nichols More Things Like This -- Curated by the editors of McSweeney's, this unconventional book explores the intersection of text, humor, and illustration in art created by cartoonists, writers, musicians, and fine artists. A refreshing mixture of high, low, and sideways, the selection features nearly 300 images from dozens of contributors, including David Shrigley, Kurt Vonnegut, Leonard Cohen, Chris Johnson, David Mamet, Raymond Pettibon, Henry ...
9.23.2009
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 ...
Park Life Gallery is proud to present a collaborative exhibition by Andrew Schoultz, Chris Ballantyne and Mark Mulroney.
The artists will be working together on a site-specific mural in the
gallery and will also be presenting smaller, collaborative works on panel.
This show represents a unique opportunity for Park Life to showcase three
renowned artists for a collaborative project in a gallery setting.
Schoultz, Ballantyne and Mulroney are three painters who have made significant
contributions to Bay Area arts and whose influence is widespread. Though
these painter’s styles diverge greatly, they are linked by ...
7.17.2009
Park Life Gallery is proud to present..
You Are So Balanced; I Don't Want to Complicate Things."
New works by Christopher Russell
Chris Russell’s paintings explore his perception of and connection with the natural world and his interests in a spirituality that is connected to the cycles of nature, an infinitely complex yet entirely tangible world. He examines alternative outdoor lifestyles that appropriate ideas from indigenous cultures and infuse them with an emerging consciousness of ecology. While struggling to embrace a tradition of nature-based spirituality, he recognizes the incongruity of ...
6.10.2009
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 ...
4.30.2009
Park Life and Hallway Projects Present:
MUNDANE SHIFT SHAPE PLACEMENT
Friday May 22nd, 7-10pm
Please join us for our next art exhibition, Mundane Shift Shape Placement, featuring the work of Chris Corales, Andrea Myers, Matthew Rich, Brion Nuda Rosch, and Liz Walsh.
Curated by Hallway Projects, this exhibition continues its stated aim of collaborating with both artists and participants in a series of exhibits, happenings, and exchanges.
- A complete list of words in alphabetical order; Arranged Assemblage Boundaries Chance Collage Color Contradictions Cutting Form Formal Geometry Installation Light Material Medium Method Mundane Monumental ...
Attention Southern California art enthusiasts , Brendan
Monroe will be signing copies of his newly released book
at Richard Heller Gallery located in Santa Monica. We will also have copies of the Limited Edition Book (edition of 55) available for purchase. Please contact us for more info regarding the signing or to reserve a special edition.
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.netEli Geiser and Kelly Lynn Jones
Opening Reception - Friday April 17th
7pm - 10pmPark Life is pleased to announce a two person exhibition featuring the work of Kelly Lynn Jones and Eli Geiser. Opening reception will be held on Friday April 17th. Both artists will be in attendance.
Language is defined as a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same
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Move:18 - Listen with Your Ears and Eyes Wide Open, This Time
Curated by Rich Jacobs
This art show promises to bring the viewer a little closer to that sound in their own head that won't stop going, even when it is quiet, wait - is it ever really quiet? The show is an attempt by curator Rich Jacobs, to bring a lot of different influences together, and show people that are open to it, that sound, noise and even music can all be neighbors. They don't have to get along, but they can be next to one another, ...
Please join us for a Brendan Monroe Book Signing and Reception at Park Life on Thursday March 12, 2009.
The special Limited Edition Book (edition of 50) will be available to purchase.
Brendan will also have original works of art available for sale.
7pm.
Please contact us for more info or to reserve a special edition.
2.18.2009
Please visit our Future shows page to see what Park Life Gallery has lined up for 2009. We are very excited about the line-up of artists for the year that includes Andrew Schoultz, Sean McFarland, Chris Ballantyne, Paul Wackers, Mark Mulroney and many more...
2.2.2009
Opening Reception - Weds Feb. 25th.
7pm - 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 ...
7pm - 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 ...
1.29.2009
Drawing Club - Paintings and Drawings by 7 CCA Graduates Opens Friday, January 23, 2009
Bryson Gill
Chi Birmingham
Casey Watson
Isaac Lin
Jay Nelson
Kyle Mock
Peter Scherrer
Rachel Kaye
Park Life's first show of 2009, Drawing Club, presents a group of artists that met and formed a tight-knit community while studying at California College of Arts and Crafts, now California College of the Arts (CCA).
The year was 2004, San Francisco, California. In the Mission District on Sunday mornings, Bryson Gill, Chi Birmingham, Casey Watson, Isaac Lin, Jay Nelson, Kyle Mock, Peter Scherrer and Rachel ...
Park Life December 2008 Update
We've expanded our retail space again this December and included a wall of new artists multiples and prints. Look for new multiples, prints and original works by Jason Jagel, Alexis Mackenzie, Zachary Rossman, Marina Luz, Paul Wackers (current Tournesol Award Winner), Ian Johnson, Tucker Nichols and a lot more. -------------
New Projects
We are excited ...
12.3.2008
Beginning December 1 Park Life is doubling its retail space.
We are also extending our store hours..
We'll be open 10 am to 9 pm Fri/sat..11 am to 8 pm the other days.
You can tell me if you liked this changes at Printsy .
9.26.2008
9.5.2008
Park Life is pleased to announce the opening of Ian Johnson's new show titled Other Rooms/Other Songs. Jazz greats are again the focus of Johnson's sensitively rendered, subtly nuanced figure drawings set against his distinctive backdrops of vibrant, graphically abstract color arrangements.
Opening Reception
Friday, July 18, 2008
7pm.
Park Life is pleased to announce a new exhibition of paintings by Holly Williams and Justin Gabbard.
This show represents some interesting differences from our past program. Although Holly and Justin's work are linked to past shows through the commonality of a narrative mode, their work differs in style and theme. Rather than representing ideas through well defined symbols, actions and characters, Holly and Justin use banal everyday images to convey their ideas.
Friday, July 18, 2008
7pm.
Park Life is pleased to announce a new exhibition of paintings by Holly Williams and Justin Gabbard.
This show represents some interesting differences from our past program. Although Holly and Justin's work are linked to past shows through the commonality of a narrative mode, their work differs in style and theme. Rather than representing ideas through well defined symbols, actions and characters, Holly and Justin use banal everyday images to convey their ideas.
8.1.2008
Saturday June 28, 2008 @ 7pm
This show represents some interesting differences from our past program. Although Holly and Justin's work are linked to past shows through the commonality of a narrative mode, their work differs in style and theme. Rather than representing ideas through well defined symbols, actions and characters, Holly and Justin use banal everyday images to convey their ideas.
7.29.2008
Matthew Palladino
Opening Reception - Friday 13th, 7pm - 10pm
June 13th - July 13th
Matthew Palladino's paintings allude to influences by early Mission School artists; colorful, flat, almost folky. From there his work diverges. His subject matter is raw, sexual, and violent; inspired by current media events and the rough edges of society. His shockingly honest portraits of American life expose all-too-real events in his ongoing narrative that tie his ...
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The 4rd Annual San Francisco Art Book Fair, Co-Founded by Park Life will take place July 19 -21, 2019. Visit the SFABF Website for more info.
Park Life Gallery is also at 220 Clement St. / Park Life Store and Gallery is open everyday.
Store Updates:
Open Everyday 10-7 (sundays til 6)
Gallery Updates:
Current Show: Mark Mulroney / June 7 – July 7, 2019
Upcoming Show: Gina Contreras / July 12 – Aug 18, 2019
Past Shows 2018:
Martin Machado / March 15- April 21, 2019
Lafe Harley Eaves / February 1st – March 3, 2019
Ed Templeton / Tangentially Parenthetical / Show and Book signing Jan 12 – Jan 29, 2019
Marina Luz / Nov 30 – Jan 5, 2018
Jonathan Anzalone / Oct 19th – Nov 25th, 2018
Lena Gustafson / Sept 14th – Oct 14th, 2018
Phone Culture – Curated by Yarrow Slaps – July/Aug 2018
Chaz Bear – June/July 2018
Visit our shop for new items from artists: Tauba Auerbach, Chris Johanson, Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough, Marcel Dzama, Chris Ballantyne, Paul Wackers, Thomas Campbell, Margaret Kilgallen, Clare Rojas, Tucker Nichols, David Shrigley, Jonas Wood, Barry McGee, Raymond Pettibon, Anthony Discenza, Jason Fulford, Tamara Shopsin, Jason Jagel, Carissa Potter Carlson, Joe Ferriso, Jon Anzalone, Ian Johnson, Serena Mitnik-Miller, Mark Mulroney, Marina Luz, Lena Gustafson, The Thing Quarterly, People I’ve Loved, Areaware Editions, Third Drawer Down (AU), Open Editions, Toilet Paper, Paul and Wendy Projects, Colpa Press, Vacancy Projects, Nieves, One Star Press, Group Partner, 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 back room 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:
We recently released new a publication from Mark Mulroney.