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Park Life is pleased to announce our next gallery show - Esther Elia Khulta d’beta - a solo exhibit of new paintings.
Esther Elia
Khulta d’beta
June 26 - August 2, 2020
Park Life Gallery
View Work Here
Khulta d’beta roughly translates to “home food” or “food of the house” in the Assyrian language, Syriac. Khulta d’beta, a solo exhibition by Esther Elia, is a deep dive into the Assyrian identity through the Assyrian grocery stores and markets Elia grew up shopping at in her birthplace of Turlock, California.
Assyrians are a people without a country, a ...
5.30.2020
1.8.2018
This will be our 5th year at this great event/
More FOG Fair details HERE
12.12.2017
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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 ...
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.
To know more visit walkerstgallery .
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 ...
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. You can find their work on ...
Thanks San Francisco Magazine. Link
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. Visit bmtdesigntechnology and take a look of more such famous paintings.
"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 ...
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
5.28.2014
Get one.
Impress.
Meet Istanbul-based artist Seza Bali and pick up her new book of photographs, entitled One Man Show. The book documents a fascinatingly idiosyncratic business card collection amassed over decades by Bali's father. Printed in a limited edition, this is the second publication from ExtraCurricular Press. Photographs by Seza Bali, edited by Marc Weidenbaum, design by Boon. Bali is represented by Elipsis Gallery, Istanbul.
Drop by Park Life on May 3rd from 6–8pm and celebrate California Bookstore Day, a statewide celebration of all things books. Peruse One Man Show and many ...
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.
3.24.2014
Our friend Brain Scott just launched his own publishing imprint, Extracurricular Press. One of his first titles is "Don't Call it That" by Eli Altman, a work book for naming companies and products.
Here is a nice write from underconsideration.com. We are lucky to be the exclusive S.F. dealer of this book and other Extra Curricular Press titles. Pick up a copy at either our Clement St location or our new location in the Mission. Also available online here.
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 ...
Only one more week to view this great show. Shows closes Sunday March 9th.
Click for to view images
2.20.2014
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.
Scooter expert Jason May of MyProScooter reported that longboard by Quest are "quicker than most skateboards, and the ride is generally much smoother." Good thing is that both boards are good for anyone, and the designs can be replicated to one another.
We'll be giving away our New Coozies, Gift bags and Booze. Among other things. more info HERE
6-9pm.
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.
Well you can follow Best in Nashik to know about best businesses. Enjoy offerings from these amazing businesses:
Park Life offers refreshments in the form of drinks and snacks. They are also
10.31.2013
Join us for an art-filled evening of cocktails, food, entertainment, and community celebrating Headlands Artists and announcing our 2014 Artist in Residence Awardees. Performances and installations by Headlands Alumni, including Cloud Eye Control (AIR ’11), Kota Ezawa (AIR ’11), Chris Kallmyer (AIR ’12), and Camille Utterback (AIR ’09).
Buy Tix Here!
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Tees available HERE. Limited Edition Skate Decks available soon..
10.2.2013
The Black Oyster catcher needs your help. Proceeds from sales of this tee will help in conservation of this species.
Designed by Tucker Nichols.
Buy one here
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 ...
8.14.2013
8.1.2013
8.1.2013
In Process: Andrew Schoultz
July 5-November 17, 2013 MMA La Mirada July 5, 2013: Open to the public to view the mural in process July 12, 2013, 6-8 pm: Opening Reception Andrew Schoultz is a San Francisco-based artist who creates monumental public wall murals, paintings, sculptures, and mixed-media installations. He generates a high-energy impact with an overpopulation of meticulous renderings and controversial themes that resonate with cataclysmic force. Schoultz’s imagery is furious and fantastical yet deeply rooted with American historical symbols and contemporary metaphors ...
7.6.2013
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Matt Gonzalez
Things I Didnt Know I Loved
Opening 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
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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 ...
4.27.2013
4.27.2013
Come for the Art, Food, and People and Hank.
Come roam the various buildings of our campus, engage with Artists in their studios, experience new work and works in progress, see performances, hear readings, and stay for a homemade lunch in the Mess Hall. Let us know you’re coming on Facebook! Click here
Schedule of Events
Bubble-blowing, contemporary dance, a play about Stinging Nettles, and a not-so-typical yard sale. Only at Open House. Only at Headlands.
12:00 – 2:00PM Hands-on Activity, The Parade Ground
1:00 – 1:30PM Performance, Building 952 The Gym
1:30 – 2:30PM Readings, Building
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Get your VIP pass HERE.
We will Exhibiting new work from Tauba Auerbach, Christopher Baird, Anthony Discenza, Francesco Deiana, and others.
This is still my favorite Bay Area Art Benefit of the year. Details here.
3.21.2013
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(Director Tom di Maria pictured)
Good stuff.
3.11.2013
Aside from being a great resource for printed things, Adobe Books has opened the door for alot of artists, musicians, curators, etc in the the Bay Area. If you are a fan of the arts culture in SF then maybe you can help keep it going. info Here
The THING Quarterly Issue 19 will be a David Shrigley Edition. Some details on the issue HERE.
Park Life will be hosting the release Party in Early May. the artist will be in attendance.
More details soon.
2.15.2013
Back in stock.
Produced on the occasion of Barry Mcgee's exhibition at the Watarium Museum in Japan. 2007.
5.25 x 8, 120 pages, full color, paper back
First Edition. Very Limited and very hard to find..
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“Early Romantics” at New Image Art
Paul Wackers solo show Opening February 16, 7-10 PM. February 16 – March 30
You are invited: Silent Art Auction Benefit for Meghan Edwards
February 15th, 2013, 7 PM to 10 PM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE It’s not too often Los Angeles presents an open art experience featuring the work of both established and up and coming artists. Here, we’ve gathered international work from more than 60 notably talented artists—among them Cayetano Ferrer, Brendan Fowler, Thomas Jeppe, Chris Johanson, Barry McGee, Mark Mothersbaugh, Clare Rojas, and Sage Vaughn —spanning a variety of mediums, from painting to photography to sculpture to functional object, in a benefit for ...
2.4.2013
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Surround Yourself with 'Bad Company' at Park Life Gallery
By Sarah Hotchkiss | Jan 30, 2013
In a small exhibition at Park Life Gallery, local artist Chris Baird presents Bad Company, a cohesive selection of new works across a variety of media. Three large-scale enamel paintings and a satellite grouping of collages, a print, and one 3D work draw on text as object, image, and source material. The books of Baird's inspiration won't be found on the shelves of Park Life, making the aesthetics and installation of the back room gallery intriguingly self-contained and self-reflexive.
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Sadie is the Best. More info soon...
1.4.2013
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.
12.11.2012
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.
11.28.2012
11.28.2012
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..
$50
What you'll find in your box:
- A beautiful wooden bottle opener, designed by Brendan Ravenhill.
- Recipe cards from the chefs at flour + water, State Bird Provisions, Beast and the Hare, Bi-Rite Creamery, and 101 Cookbooks.
- Nibble-worthy E. Guittard chocolates, complete with tasting notes.
- A coffee towel screen printed with brewing accoutrement.
- Foodie bingo for adventurous eaters.
- After-dinner prophecy cookies – these aren't your average fortune cookies.
- An Emergency Preparedness Hook-Up Kit, in case the host(ess) gets lucky.
Join them Sunday November 18, 12-5pm. Art, food, people, good times. More Details here
HOW WE SAVED THE POST OFFICE MARKS LAUNCH BY SELLING PRINTS
OF BLUE SOCK PUPPET MONSTER
November 2012— How We Saved the Post Office announced today the launch of
its groundbreaking strategy for saving the US Postal Service.
How We Saved the Post Office is an art project designed to rescue the postal
system from bankruptcy by selling a limited edition screenprint by artist Tucker
Nichols. All proceeds go directly to buying postage for this and other mail art
projects. Excess proceeds are donated in the form of stamps to other small nonprofits.
Tucker Nichols is an ...
11.2.2012
Purchase here.
D.A.P./UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE
Barry McGee
Edited by Lawrence Rinder, Dena Beard. Text by Alex Baker, Natasha Boas, Germano Celant, Jeffrey Deitch.
Featured image is reproduced from Barry McGee.
Published on the occasion of the first major survey of Barry McGee’s work, this monumental volume records more than two decades of incredible fecundity, over the course of which McGee has pioneered a new iconography of sharp street vitality and graphic snap. McGee began as a graffiti artist on the streets of San Francisco, working under such tags as Ray Fong, Twist and Twisto, and his ...
See the work HERE
10.24.2012
In Stock Now.
Issue 18 is by American filmmaker and visual artist Mike Mills. Entitled “The Fabric of Events”, the issue is a minimalist nod to the punk rock aesthetic of the 70s and 80s and serves as both a 2013 pocket calendar and a brief survey of historical events that have had cultural impact on each of us. Only 600 of these were created and designed by Mike Mills. Layout and production by MacFadden & Thorpe. Printed in Canada by The Prolific Group.
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 ...
10.12.2012
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
9.25.2012
See images here(courtesy of arrested motion.com)
9.1.2012
MCGEE, BARRY
Edited by Lawrence Rinder, Dena Beard. Text by Alex Baker, Natasha Boas, Germano Celant, Jeffrey Deitch.
D.A.P./University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Hbk, 6.75 x 9 in., 448 pgs, 450 color, 15 b&w.
10/31/2012
Published on the occasion of the first major survey of Barry McGee’s work, this monumental volume records more than two decades of incredible fecundity, over the course of which McGee has pioneered a new iconography of sharp street vitality and graphic snap. McGee began as a graffiti artist on the streets of San Francisco, working ...
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Saturday, September 15, 2012
CARRAVANIVERSARY: Headlands 30th Birthday Party
Free Admission | Buy tickets for games, bites, & goodies on-site
12 – 5PM
Celebrating 30 years of supporting art and artists, Headlands invites you to a family-friendly, artist-driven festival in the Fort Barry Parade Ground of the Marin Headlands, a part of the Golden Gate National Parks. An array of artist projects, games, musical entertainment, bike & surf activities, artist-led hikes, hands-on projects, and local artisan vendor booths will be on-site to delight and engage party-goers of all ...
Going to be pretty epic.
Barry McGee
August 24, 2012 - December 9, 2012
“Throughout his career,” writes Alex Baker in the exhibition catalog, “Barry McGee has continued to surprise and contradict expectations.” Including rarely seen early etchings, letterpress printing trays and liquor bottles painted with his trademark cast of down-and-out urban characters, constellations of vibrant op-art painted panels, animatronic taggers, and an elaborate re-creation of a cacophonous street-corner bodega, along with many new projects, this first midcareer survey of the globally influential San Francisco–based artist showcases the astonishing range of McGee’s ...
Barry McGee
August 24, 2012 - December 9, 2012
“Throughout his career,” writes Alex Baker in the exhibition catalog, “Barry McGee has continued to surprise and contradict expectations.” Including rarely seen early etchings, letterpress printing trays and liquor bottles painted with his trademark cast of down-and-out urban characters, constellations of vibrant op-art painted panels, animatronic taggers, and an elaborate re-creation of a cacophonous street-corner bodega, along with many new projects, this first midcareer survey of the globally influential San Francisco–based artist showcases the astonishing range of McGee’s ...
8.20.2012
8.17.2012
7x7 article
Seven Favorite Things: Quirky + Inspirational Homeware from Park Life
They say it's all about the location -- foot traffic, visibility, etc. Park Life is one store that begs to differ. The Inner Richmond gallery/boutique has long been one of my favorite places in San Francisco. They have a selection that ensues both laughter and inspiration upon each visit -- and our above
8.15.2012
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
13 previously unreleased recordings by some of San Francisco's finest, including:
Side A) Vetiver ‘Any & All’ / Chuck Prophet ‘Gotta Get Back To You’ / Hannah Lew (of Grass Widow) ‘Octopus Via Satellite’ / Kelley Stoltz ‘My Jacqui’ / ‘ Wymond Miles (of Fresh & Onlys) ‘Don’t Ask This Of Me’ / Papercuts ‘Hey Jaqueline’
New From Secret Seven Records: In A Cloud II: New Sounds From SF
Side B) Ty Segall Band ‘Swag’ / Bad Backs ‘Center Of The World’ / Will Sprott (of The Mumlers) ‘Under My Eyes’ / Paula Frazer ‘On The Way Back Home’ / Lucky Eyes ...
More details to follow.
Headlands
7.19.2012
7.19.2012
7.13.2012
7.11.2012
7.9.2012
Tucker Nichols recently opened a new show of drawings and paintings at Gallery 16. Definitely worth a visit.
He is also showing new work at the SFMOMA this week..in the Media Room.
7.7.2012
7.7.2012
Really good show. One of those most engaging and thoughtful displays of art in a museum i've seen in a while.
Of course, our resident art critic / fossil, Kenneth Baker found it to be "a forgettable romp" (article/review).
Didnt he get put out to pasture in the confines of the 49/77 Geary Complex? Somewhere there is a show of self-referential abstract color washes that hasn't been validated.
From UMMMM to DER Recent Works and Installations of Thomas Campbell. Produced by Gingko Press.
This finely produced monograph captures Campbell at home in the studio as well as out and about producing solo shows and installations around the world in Copenhagen, Sydney, Melbourne, Sao Paulo and San Francisco.
104 pages, Hardcover, 6 3/4'' x 9 1/2'' (171 x 241 mm)
95 color illustrations, English
A great deal too..
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is proud to announce a new limited edition woodblock print by David Shrigley. The print is 22 1/2" x 16 1/2" on Hahnemühle Copperplate 300gr paper in an edition of 250 signed and numbered by the artist. Price is $250. Available through Park Life. Buy one HERE.
5.30.2012
Friend and Artist David Shrigley is having his first West Coast Museum show at SF's YBCA. Can't wait.
David Shrigley: Brain Activity
Jun 22 – Sep 23
The work of David Shrigley effortlessly infuses a comedic sensibility into a serious fine art practice. David Shrigley: Brain Activity showcases the diversity of the artist’s work — seemingly amateurish, crude drawings, sculptures made of unusual materials, and installations characterized by incongruities of scale—offering insightful and often surreal commentary on the absurdities of life, death and everything in between. Irreverent and ...
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...
Also up for bid is a trip to Marfa, Texas on a private jet and a trip to Belize!
5.17.2012
Check out the Park Life booth. Looking good.
5.1.2012
Stop by Park Life and pick one up. I did an interview with Matthew Palladino for it.
Or read it online here.
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 ...
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 ...
4.6.2012
Our Friend Sadie Barnett is having a solo show at Double Break in SD.
details:
Everything, All the Time, Always
New work by Sadie Barnette
Opening Reception: Friday, April 13, 2012 (6-10PM)
Double Break is thrilled to announce Everything, All the Time, Always, a solo
exhibition of new work by Sadie Barnette. Using drawing, photography, and
objects, Barnette constructs “a visual language system out of sub-culture codes
and West Coast vernacular, economic formalism, text, and abstractions.” Her
work stems from an investment in place and location, though it is the notion of
specificity itself, rather than any specific locale that she is most compelled by.
Projecting outwards from a place, ...
3.24.2012
Nat Russell at Mollusk Surf Shop. Sat night.
Yokonari Stone at Ever Gold Gallery.
Foggy Notion Grand Re-opening on Friday in the Inner Richmond.
Headlands Center Open Harvest Dinner Event. Next Thurs. Tix Still Available.
Joshua Pieper show at Romer Young Gallery on March 30th.
3.12.2012
Ssome really great works available. Barry McGee, Tauba Auerbach, Cindy Sherman, Ryan McGinley, etc..
Link
Released by Unpiano Books & Evergold Gallery
32 pages, Saddle-Stiched
Full Color Offset Printing
9" x 12”, Uncoated Stock
Limited edition of 250
$20 - Purchase one here.
Here.
Go Nuts. Ask Questions.
info@parklifestore.com
..more additions every week.
Now in Stock at Park Life.
Winter Issue
The Travel Almanac explores the topics of traveling and temporary habitation from the personal perspectives of innovative figures in the fashion, music, art, and film worlds. Addressing an increasingly mobilized creative community, it is the first publication of its kind to speak to this sophisticated generation of travelers. The plurality of this community inspires the magazine to focus on individual's personal experiences and the effects of travel on their lives and work. At Absolute Back Packers website you will see the different blogs related to traveling and packaging. ...
GRANDMA GRANDPA COOK
Grandma Grandpa Cook is a joyful photographic memorial to grandmas and grandpas, and their contribution to the cultural history of food in Hong Kong. Rich with childhood memories, and illustrated with Michael Wolf's photography, the authentic stories of over 40 grandparents tell of love, food, family and society. For such refreshing and nourishing variable recipes, visit this site here as well check this out. Alongside the stories, recipes for traditional Cantonese dishes like carrot and green turnip soup, taro in ginger and brown sugar, and sticky rice dumplings, are ...
Limited Quantities
Issue # 11 A Magazine
AN ODE TO THE WEST COAST
Californian designers Kate & Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte weave a vibrant tapestry of natural and built environments, featuring inspiring landscapes and the characters that inhabit those worlds - with artistic contributions from contemporary talents such as Jay DeFeo, John Baldessari and Joss Whedon.
Highlights of A#11 include two exclusively commissioned portfolios, featuring Kirsten Dunst in the Rodarte Autumn | Winter 2011 collection photographed by David Armstrong, and Elle Fanning in the Rodarte Spring Summer 2012 Couture collection photographed by Bill Owens.
2.6.2012
Partisan #1
Volume 1 features contributions from over 20 artists and writers and comes with a 12-track music compilation. $20 each. Limited edition of 500. Art/Essays/Fashion/Profiles/Interviews/Music With contributions by: Aaron Rodriguez / Alissa Anderson / Arp / Avalon Kalin / The Best Bits Cal Volner-Dison / Cameron Mesirow / Chris Fallon / Chris Lux / Claire Cichy Cody Frost / Daren Wilson / Devendra Banhart / Frank Lyon / Glasser Group Rhoda / Jack Sears / Jasmin Lim / Jennifer Locke Julia Leonard / Kathryn Anne Davis / Lloyd Center Mall Trick or Treat Band Marcella Faustini / Margaret Tedesco ...
2.3.2012
We are deeply saddened by the recent passing of Steven Leiber. A long-time institution in the Bay Area arts community, an expert in the field of contemporary artists books and publications, and the uncharted field of artists’ ephemera, Steven had a knowledge and enthusiasm for this too often marginalized material that was unmatched. His integrity and generosity will be greatly missed in our community and beyond. Our condolences to Steven's family.
2.3.2012
Issue 8 includes:
Paul Kos, Tony Labat, Carlo McCormick on the history of the Lower East Side, John Cage, Hammer Museum, Townhouse Gallery (Cairo), Art Etiquette by Tom Marioni, Contemporary Art in the Greek Economy, an essay from Mark Van Proyen, Needles and Pens, LEADAPRON, Swarm Gallery, Madrone, Bay Area listings for Feb, March, April, pull out double sided poster from Paul Kos and Tony Labat, and artist projects from
...
Headlands' 30th Anniversary Alumni Celebration is next Saturday, February 11 at 6:30PM. We hope you can make it.
The Party
...
We are awaiting stock of this new title. Should be here early March. Email us to preorder.
Tauba Auerbach Folds
Texts by Emmanuelle Dauplay, Edwin Abbott Abbott, and Italo Calvino
In connection with Tauba Auerbach’s exhibition “Tetrachromat” at Bergen Kunsthall, Folds presents Auerbach’s eponymous painting series for the first time in book form. In these paintings Auerbach twists and folds the canvas before applying the paint. In its stretched form the flat canvas conjures a trompe l’oeil rendering of its previous three-dimensional state. Transferred ...
Now in Stock at Park Life!
Issue 16 is by American writer Dave Eggers. Published on a shower curtain, with the idea that one would read it while showering, this issue is a monologue told to Dave Eggers by his shower curtain. It was produced in collaboration with Izola and is printed on a 72x72 inch PEVA (PVC Free) shower curtain.
12.26.2011
12.16.2011
The Bold Italic is proud to present the first event inside our brand spankin' new office space. For Holiday Indie Mart, we'll be joining forces with Kelly Malone and co. to bring you a holiday-themed party & shopping extravaganza that should make you very merry.
We'll be featuring
- A curated batch of local vendors. We're talking the 25 best of the best!
- Food carts, including Angry Man Eats and Rice Paper Scissors, selling their tasty treats.
- A recycled cardboard X-mas tree lot from The Arbory.
- Workshop DIY ornaments that don't ...
Utopian Slumps Gallery in Australia
“In the Gardens” Exhibition Curated by Misha Hollenbach
CHRISTIAN HIDAKA
MISHA HOLLENBACH
CHRIS JOHANSON
MISAKI KAWAI
BARRY MCGEE
KEEGAN MCHARGUE
CONSTANZE ZIKOS
In the Gardens curated by Misha Hollenbach will feature a series of rugs woven in Tibet from designs by Christian Hidaka, (Japan, UK-based), Misha Hollenbach, Chris Johanson (USA), Misaki Kawai, (Japan), Barry McGee (USA), Keegan McHargue (USA) and Constanze Zikos.
Christian Hidaka has an idiosyncratic style that borrows from the techniques and brushstrokes of traditional Japanese prints. This style, coupled with psychedelic designs and vibrant colour, creates futuristic landscapes and dreamscapes that ...
Our Friend Alissa Anderson is opening up a new store called Foggy Notion right near Park Life. We are very excited.
Foggy Notion Press Release 11/28/11:
Foggy Notion Pops Up in
San Francisco’s Inner Richmond
Alissa Anderson, photographer and designer, is opening a studio & shop on 6th Ave and Clement St. in the Inner Richmond.
Opening just in time for the holidays on December 6th, December will serve as a sneak preview of what’s to come in 2012. After a winter revamp, Foggy Notion will reappear in early 2012 and have a ...
For their Gallery Crawl Feature. LINK
11.8.2011
We're very happy to be hosting a show next Spring of art and design from Jonathan Anzalone and Joseph Ferriso, collectively known as Anzfer Farms.
Anzfer Farms is a workshop and showroom located in the Outer Richmond District of San Francisco. Started by Jonathan Anzalone and Joseph Ferriso ...
Here are a few images of the works that will be in the Luggage Store Benefit this Saturday. Some really nice pieces from Clare Rojas, Tauba Auerbach, Thomas Campbell, Tavaras Strachan, Date Farmers, Neck Face, Mickalene Thomas, Espo, Monica Canilao, Swoon, Ari Marcopolous,..and more pieces arriving tommorrow...including Barry Mcgee and Os Gemeos, etc.
...
10.29.2011
The Luggage Store Gallery is Hosting a Huge Benefit Art Show Saturday, November 5th. Over 60 artists will be donating works to be auctioned off to raise funds for one of the most important non-profit art organizations in the Bay Area.
Donating artists include: Tavares Strachen, Mickalene Thomas, Paul Wackers, Andrew Schoultz, Barry McGee, Tauba Auerbach, Steve Powers, Clare Rojas, Cheryl Dunn, Os Gemeos, Neck Face, Titus Kaphur...and many more...
Devendra Banhart will be performing at the VIP Reception.
More details and Tickets available HERE
More info coming soon.
10.18.2011
10.18.2011
SFAC Gallery presents Passport 2011 in the Castro!
3rd Annual DIY Art Collecting Event Comes to the Castro
Featuring Easily Walkable Route, Original Artwork by LGBT Icon Dan Nicoletta, Michelle Tea, Margaret Tedesco and many more. With an After Party at Q Bar!
The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery (SFAC Gallery) will host its signature Passport event in the Castro District this year on Sunday, October 23, 2011. Celebrating a ...
8.20.2011
Autre! Magazine
AUTRE: ISSUE 001: the REBELLION ISSUE: JAMES FRANCO/KAWS/ARIEL PINK/AND MORE….
Courtesy of Oliver Maxwell Kupper.
by Zachary Royer Scholz
Article from Art Practical
Image: Tom Marioni. The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends Is the Highest Form of Art, 1970; installation view, re-creation at SFMOMA, 2008.
San Francisco’s world-renowned art museums have made the region a highly visible art-tourist destination, but Bay Area artists have comparatively struggled to get the work they produce seen by international audiences or exhibited at the institutional level. Over the years, this disjunction has forced San Francisco’s artists to create opportunities for themselves. Their actions have given rise to alternative venues that ...
7.5.2011
at Paulson Bott Press. First weekend in August.
6.18.2011
6.14.2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Margaret Kilgallen: Summer / Selections
June 23 – August 5, 2011
Ratio 3, 1447 Stevenson Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 USA
Opening reception: Thursday, June 23, 2011, 6–8pm.
Ratio 3 is pleased to present Margaret Kilgallen: Summer / Selections, on view from June 23 to August 5, 2011.
Margaret Kilgallen (1967–2001) is considered by many to be one of the most influential, yet under-recognized, Bay Area artist of her generation. Kilgallen, along with a handful of other artists such as Barry McGee, Chris Johanson, and Alicia McCarthy, came to emergence in the late 1990s, as part of an art movement that is now ...
New edition by Anthony Discenza exclusively for Park Life. This Could Be About Anything At All, 2011.
Metal sign with vinyl and screen print.
18x24 inches.
Limited Edition of 25 (plus 5 artist proofs). Signed and Numbered.
It's really more of an art Object than a book. Get one from Printed Matter now.
Tauba Auerbach
[2,3]
New York, NY: Printed Matter Inc.. 2011
Synopsis: For [2,3], Auerbach has created an oversized pop-up book featuring six die-cut paper sculptures that unfold into wonderful, elaborate forms. While much of Auerbach’s work has previously dealt with compositions staged in the flux state between 2D and 3D, [2,3] represents an expansion for the artist towards a more sculptural medium. Engineered by the artist, each “page” opens into a beautifully constructed object, intricately conceived so that the large-scale paper works—some up to 18” tall—can be ...
From Artnet.com
Photos by Ruth Fruehauf and Lindsay McCrum
June 2, 2011
Out at San Francisco's three art fairs in May 2011 -- Rick Friedman's San Francisco Fine Art Fair, Max Fishko and Jeffrey Wainhause's artMRKT San Francisco, and ArtPadSF at the Phoenix Hotel. Photos by Ruth Fruehauf, Artnet's West Coast account executive, and photographer Lindsay McCrum, whose new book, Chicks with Guns, is forthcoming from Vendome Press.
This is a really fun event, my favorite art benefit of the year by far. And this year there are some great works up for grabs..Paul Wackers, Lindsey White, Libby Black, Thomas Campbell, Tauba Auerbach, Yoon Lee, Todd Hido, Michael Light, Shaun Odell..and a ton more. Come for the art..stay for the Great Food and Open Bar. Buy tix here
Image: Walter Robinson, Deal 2010.
5.9.2011
5.4.2011
TUCKER NICHOLS
May 13 - April 30, 2011
Opening Reception for the Artist, Friday May 13, 6-9pm
Gallery 16 is pleased to present an ambitious new exhibition by TUCKER NICHOLS. For this, his third solo exhibition at Gallery 16, Nichols will fill the entire gallery with his characteristic mix of objects, drawings, paintings and signs. He remains focused on the futility of the systems we devise to navigate the world, its overabundance of neglected things, and the messages we make to advertise nearly everything and seemingly nothing at the same time. This will be the first exhibition on the west coast to feature
...
Some of our friends and favorites have donated some really great works this year..some stand-outs include pieces from Thomas Campbell, Paul Wackers, Tauba Auerbach, Lindsey White, Ben Peterson, Libby Black and a bunch more...
Auction Site Tickets available now!
4.27.2011
Andrew is putting the finishing touches on works for his upcoming NY show at Morgan Lehman Gallery. The show called Unrest opens May 19th, 2011. The works are really great. DOnt miss this one.
4.16.2011
Purple Fashion magazine #15
Spring Summer 2011
with the free supplement:
Street Mouth, the Thurston Moore Purple Book
Cover
Laetitia Casta is photographed by Terry Richardon, styled by Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele
Purple News
Yaz Bukey by Caroline Gaimari
Wes Lang by Juliana Balestin
Vahakn Arslanian by Jade Berreau
Justin Lowe and Jonah Freeman by Jade Berreau
Rowboat by Arnaud Vivian
Kitsuné by Caroline Gaimari
Fuyuko Matsui by Fumihiro Hayashi
Story by Miltos Manetas
Richard Prince by Robert Rubin
Best of the Season by Terry Richardson and Mel Ottenberg Purple Interviews Laetitia Casta by Olivier Zahm Pierre Huyghe by Olivier Zahm Isild Le Besco by Olivier Zahm Apichatpong Weerasethakul by Chomwan Weeraworawit Isabelle
...
4.16.2011
4.6.2011
4.1.2011
idle/idol
New Works
by
Paul Wackers
Opening April 2nd 7-10pm
Show runs April 2nd - May 14th
Paul Wackers presents his third solo show with the gallery. The paintings in his new series explore aura and energy given off by objects in our everyday lives. He presents us with the interiors of rooms and still lifes placed in vitrines and in the outdoors thus drawing our attention to the collections we harbor in our homes and the objects we may encounter outdoors. You will view more information related to interior decoration tips. The internet is one of the best informational tools ...
"Parallel Bells"
Poetry Reading at Park Life in conjunction with the Space Cake the installation exhibition by Kyle Field and Thomas Campbell.
Who: Juliana Leslie and Nicole Mauro
When: Saturday, March 26, 7ish until 8ish
bios:
Juliana Leslie is originally from New York and currently
lives in Santa Cruz, CA. Her first book, More Radiant
Signal, was just published by Letter Machine Editions
in the fall of 2010. She is also the author of two
chapbooks, Pie in the sky (Braincase Press) and That
Obscure Coincidence of Feeling (Dusie Kolektiv.)
Nicole Mauro’s poems and criticism ...
Get one here
Chet Baker, 2011.
Ed. 50 (plus 4 artist Proofs)
8 x 10 inches
Archival Inks on Hahnemuhle Bamboo Paper 308 GSM (Heavy Stock)
Signed/Dated/Numbered
Price: $50.00
Article by Aidin Vaziri
The other day Kyle Field was doing a terrible job of attempting to relate why it took him so long - roughly four years - to release a new album by his band, Little Wings. "I just didn't get around to it," he said, leaning back and pulling at his wild gray-speckled beard. "It's unexplainable."
He paused to give it some further thought: "We'll probably figure it out someday," he said, before returning his attention to the drawing in front of him.
Field was sitting at ...
I was able to preview Sean McFarland's new show that open Sat March 12 at Baer Ridgeway and it's really great. Go See for yourself.
Details:
SEAN McFARLAND:
VIEWSHED
March 12th - April 16th, 2011
Opening Reception: March 12th, 4-7pm
Baer Ridgway Exhibitions is pleased to present a solo exhibition with Sean McFarland: Viewshed, March 12th - April 16th, 2011. Through a disciplined studio practice utilizing unconventional modes of photography, McFarland continues to investigate the not so often seen vantage points of the Western landscape. The result of the ...
2.21.2011
A tribute to our recent legal Victory.
Buy Here
From the NY Times
February 3, 2011, 4:18 pm
All Bark, No Bite: Settlement Reached in Balloon Dog Dispute
By KATE TAYLOR
2.2.2011
2.1.2011
1.19.2011
Thanks to everyone who came out Friday for the opening of Bitches Brew. And thanks to the Wax Idols for their inspired set sans PA. And Balloon Lady. And Kelly, Marci, Hellen, Becky, and Aiyana..gret works. MOre images and all the works from the show will be up in our Gallery page later this week.
(images courtesy of Fecal Face)...
In Twist, Jeff Koons Claims Rights to ‘Balloon Dogs’
By KATE TAYLOR Published: January 19, 2011
The artist Jeff Koons has developed a distinctive style, and made a lot of money, by appropriating pop-culture imagery and mass-produced objects, from inflatable toys to vacuum cleaners and kitschy greeting cards. Over his three-decade career that approach, while helping to make him famous, has also brought accusations of exploiting other people’s copyrighted
...
12.29.2010
12.27.2010
January: Bitches Brew featuring Kelly Tunstall, Marci Washington, Aiyana Udesen, Hellen Jo and Rebecca Ebeling.
Opening Reception Friday January 14th, 2011.
February: Thomas Campbell and Kyle Field.
Opening Reception Fri February 18th
12.21.2010
Park Life just received a very formal Cease and Desist Letter from Jeff Koons' Lawyers calling for an "Immediate Cessation" of selling our Balloon Dog sculptures. The matt gonzales will be presenting new mixed-media collage works on paper and wood sculpture.
Wait, I'm confused, isnt his ENTIRE FUCKING CAREER based on co-opting other peoples work/objects????
So going forward, just so you know; Jeff Koons owns all likenesses of balloon dogs. Get here the detail information from
robert huges.
...
12.16.2010
12.12.2010
12.7.2010
11.24.2010
Dont miss James Sterling Pitt's current solo show at Ping Pong Gallery in SF, it's really special.
Glowing review in the SF Chronicle today too.
In it's December Issue.
11.12.2010
Our friend Orion Shepard has a new show opening Sat Nov 13th at Mollusk. Should be good.
10.20.2010
10.9.2010
Courtesy of Skylite Snowballs
Come by Park Life on Sunday (Oct 10) from noon to 4pm and enjoy a delicious snowball delight.
Our friend Katie Baum will parking her new Snowball truck in front of Park Life and will be serving her Shaved Ice Treats with Natural Syrups.
10.3.2010
We produced a new Print Edition with Tucker Nichols that we will be releasing at the NY Art Book Fair in November. We are taking pre-orders now. Email info@parklifestore.com.
Details:
Guns Diptych, 2010. Screen Print, Brown Ink on Heavy Archival Card Stock. Printed at Bloom Press.
each piece 9"x12".
Edition 30. Signed/Numbered/Dated
$120 for the set.
9.24.2010
This Paulson Press etching (Sloe, 1999) by Margaret Kilgallen is available, please call or email Park Life for details. info@parklifestore.com
9.10.2010
There are some really big openings this week. A few that I'm excited about:
Andrew Schoultz at Marx gallery
Chris Duncan at Baer Ridgeway
Josh Podell at Ping Pong Gallery
Eamon O'kane at Greg Lind Gallery
Fecal Face anniv show at Luggage Store Gallery
Will Rogan at Altman Siegel Gallery
Ana Fernandez at Electric Works
Steven Wolf's new space..
sorry no links..
9.4.2010
Eamon O’Kane
Der Glasraum
September 9 – October 16, 2010
OPENING RECEPTION:
September 9, 5:00 - 7:30 pm
GALLERY HOURS:
Tuesday through Saturday, 10:30-5:30 PM
Email: info@gregorylindgallery.com
Gregory Lind Gallery is proud to present new work by Irish artist Eamon O’Kane. “Der Glassraum” is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and includes paintings and works on paper.
9.3.2010
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These two new prints were produced by Edition Copenhagen.
Contact:
Strandgade 66,
DK – 1401 Copenhagen K
www.editioncopenhagen.com
$1800 each
First one: Original lithograph printed on
250 gr. Velin d´arches paper
75 ex. Numbered and signed by he artist
size: 76 x 56 cm
Second: Original lithograph printed on
250 gr. Velin d´arches paper
60 ex. Numbered and signed by the artist
Size: 76 x 56 cm
6.26.2010
6.25.2010
The Hole
104 greene street
new york city, ny 10012
212 226 3000
theholenyc.com
6.13.2010
We're excited to see one of our own editions available from Printed Matter
6.6.2010
Excited to learn that in the wake of Jack Hanley closing his SF gallery, Bay Area's own Chris Johanson will be showing in SF again. Altman-Siegel Gallery.
Last chance to purchase your tickets online to Headlands’ Benefit Art Auction.
This is a real good opportunity to get some great art by some of today's most coveted artists..while supporting one of the most important non-profit art residency programs there is.
Online ticket purchase will be available through Monday, May 31 at 11PM. If you’d like to purchase a ticket after that, please join us on Auction night and you can buy one at the door. Hope to see you there!
6:30 Silent Auction Opens
7:30 Live Auction
9:00 Silent Auction Closes
Herbst
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5.28.2010
Our friend Tucker Nichols is having a solo show at his NY gallery, ZieherSmith. They have a great new ground floor space in Chelsea and from what I've seen of Tuckers work made during his residency at the Headlands Center recently this show is going to be amazing.
TUCKER NICHOLS
JUNE 3 - JULY 23, 2010
RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST: THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 6-8PM
In his third solo exhibition at ZieherSmith, San Francisco based-artist Tucker Nichols presents sculpture, panels, and works on paper created during a recent residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California. Recent projects include Temporary Storage
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5.25.2010
Available now in the store and online.
5.24.2010
I was able to spend some time at the SF Fine Art Fair at Fort Mason this weekend. SF has not hosted an Art Fair (like this) for nearly a decade which is kind of a bummer. This version was mildly entertaining. The people came out for sure..a lot more than I would have guessed..which was great. Though I didn't see too many red dots. The overall quality of work was not great. The notable highlights included works on view at Baer Ridgeway, Paule Anglim, Paulson Bott Press, Charlie James, Eleanor Harwood, DCKT, Gallery 16, Hackett-Mi...
5.14.2010
Clare Rojas has a solo show that opened last night at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco.
Clare Rojas:
We They, We They
May 14 – August 22, 2010
Where neo-folk meets contemporary art, artists operate as ‘authors’ of the collective voice. The new exhibition Clare Rojas: We They, We They showcases the first San Francisco solo museum exhibition of the internationally acclaimed Bay Area artist who identifies and inserts herself in the folk art continuum. MOCFA is proud to present new work that has yet to be seen by the public.
More pics here
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Wow. This show is good. Sold out too.
We are very excited about Matthew Palladino's solo show of new paintings that opens this weekend at Baer Ridgeway Exhibitions in SF.
Details:
Matthew Palladino: Wonder Box
Opening Reception Sat May 8, 2010
Baer Ridgeway Exhibitions
172 Minna Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
4.28.2010
Our friend Jason Polan is in town and hosting one of his famous Taco Bell Drawing Clubs In the Inner Richmond, two blocks from Park Life. Today, Wed, April 28th only.
Details:
There will be a special Taco Bell Drawing Club meeting today, Wednesday, April 28 from 7:15 to 8:30pm in San Francisco! Let me know if you need a ride from somewhere, my little sister and I are coming from the East Bay. I hope everyone is good!
Taco Bell Drawing Club
Taco Bell
4150 Geary Blvd
(between 5th Ave &
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Headlands Center for the Arts Benefit Auction.
Get your tickets for this event now.
Some really great art by some of our favorite artists: Barry McGee, Chris Ballantyne, Thomas Campbell, Uta Barth, Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Andrew Schoultz, Paul Wackers, Todd Hido, ANd Many more.
4.16.2010
Serena Mitnik-Miller who is participating (and curating) our next show is featured in the upcoming release of Arkitip.
Details:
Serena Mitnik-Miller
Issue No. 0054
Serena Mitnik-Miller executes her painting with watercolor on paper, employing transparent, all over repetitive shapes in vivid colors that reference nature specific to the sea. Mitnik-Miller associates these colors and geometries with organic vocabulary and palette, most importantly its complex dynamic. The paintings become increasingly disorienting with layered internal space and vortex like sensibility shifting the image beyond the paper.
In her photographic work Mitnik-Miller both seduces and alienates the viewer ...
4.16.2010
Our friend Thomas Campbell has a solo show of new paintings and sculpture opening at Greg Lind Gallery in SF. Can't wait to see it.
Thomas Campbell
YAR
April 1 through May 15, 2010
Reception: April 1, 5:00 - 7:30 pm
Gregory Lind Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by California artist Thomas Campbell. This is the artist’s first solo show with the gallery and will consist of multi-paneled paintings, sewn paper pieces incorporating drawings, bronze sculpture, and wood cut-out sculpture with paintings; and a limited-edition, hand-painted print series.
An artist ...
Thomas Campbell
YAR
April 1 through May 15, 2010
Reception: April 1, 5:00 - 7:30 pm
Gregory Lind Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by California artist Thomas Campbell. This is the artist’s first solo show with the gallery and will consist of multi-paneled paintings, sewn paper pieces incorporating drawings, bronze sculpture, and wood cut-out sculpture with paintings; and a limited-edition, hand-painted print series.
An artist ...
3.20.2010
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
1.28.2010
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12.10.2009
Available only at Park Life
Tucker Nichols, Unsolicited Advertising Section from McSweeney's Panorama
Silkscreen on heavystock paper, Edition of 50
Signed and numbered $60
Designed as a full page of unsolicited ads for the just released McSweeney's Panorama, this limited print is a tribute to some of San Francisco's greatest (and obscure) institutions. Ever had a slice of Arinell's pizza? Seen a movie at the Balboa? Then you know just what we're talking about. An affordable way to own some of Tucker's work. Published by Park Life in conjunction with McSweeney's.
Available through Park Life..New Tauba Auerbach Edition
Buy Here
One Deck of Playing Cards..Slipcased and embossed.
A series of playing card designs designed by Tauba Auerbach, released in two iterations, Shapes and
Functions. Each deck is produced in a hand numbered edition of 250
Designed by: Tauba Auerbach
2009
Edition: 250 for each deck + 10 Artist Proofs
Cards: Graphite center card stock with plastic coat
Case: linen, cardboard, blind deboss, grosgrain ribbon
Dimensions: 2.75 x 3.75 x 1 in.
11.28.2009
11.17.2009
Stick It Up :: Instant Installations
Park Life is excited to carry Bodega's curated selection of large scale, eco-friendly, die-cut adhesive vinyl art. With Barry McGee, Rostarr, Mike Giant, and Cleon Peterson, Clare Rojas, Jeff Canham amongst their first contributing artists. Being distributed to several specialty shops including The New Museum (NYC) and Colette (Paris) and Park Life (San Francisco)
Park Life favorite Tucker Nichols is having a new show that opens Fri. I've previewed it and it is exceptional.
TUCKER NICHOLS
NOVEMBER 6 - DECEMBER 11, 2009
Opening Reception this FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 6-9PM
Gallery 16 is excited to present our second solo exhibition of artist Tucker Nichols. Tucker will be presenting new drawings, sculpture, text pieces, and his first line of experimental wallpaper.
"We each find our own strategies to cope with the growing deluge of information--I use drawing as a filter. This is the stuff that gets through, vague representations of items on display: buildings and found text and rocks and the ...
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
Slime the Boogie, Dash Snow. 1st edition of 300. Signed. Peres Projects.
Polaroids, Dash Snow. 1st Edition. Peres Projects.
Go to the Store
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8.20.2009
Strange things await in the woods in Christopher Russell's oil paintings
By Traci Vogel
Published on August 17, 2009 at 1:49pm
"You Are So Balanced; I Don't Want to Complicate Things."
Park Life Gallery, 220 Clement (at Fourth Ave.), S.F.
Through Aug. 25. Free; 386-7275 or www.parklifestore.com.
When we head into the forest, we pack along our own personal mythologies. These influence whether we find trees inspiring or ominous, whether we expect to find babes or bears, fairies or foxes, in the bramble. The same can be said of the viewers heading into the art
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8.19.2009
One of our favorite artists is having a show in Sept.
Tauba Auerbach
September 03, 2009 — October 17, 2009
18 Wooster Street, New York
The collapsing of two conflicting states is the central theme of HERE AND NOW/AND NOWHERE, Tauba Auerbach’s new exhibition at Deitch Projects.
7.30.2009
Thanks to the editors at the SF Bay Guardian for acknowledging Park Life for this year's Best of the Bay Awards. Link
Park Life is pleased to announce the release of our newest shirt by Tucker Nichols, SF GARTERSNAKE. Referred to as "North America's most beautiful serpent," the San Francisco gartner snake is an endangered species that exists only in the Bay Area. Current estimates put the elusive snake at only 1-2000 individuals remaining in the wild. One critical habitat can be saved by decommissioning the problematic Sharp Park Golf Course and restoring it to natural marshland. Learn more at www.restoresharppark.org
Disclaimer: Tucker Nichols and Park Life share no official affiliation with the
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7.9.2009
Paul Wackers has completed his year at the Headlands Center for the Arts. His subsequent solo show at the Luggage Store Gallery opens this weekend. I've seen the work and it is exceptional. His work finally has the space it needs and it looks amazing on the vast Luggage store walls. I recommend highly.
Paul Wackers: 2009 Tournesol Awardee
New Work
Luggage Store Gallery
1007 Market St. SF, CA
July 10, 2009 - August 8, 2009
Opening reception, Friday July 10th 6 - 8pm
HEADLANDS ANNOUNCES SHUAN ODELL RECIPIENT OF THE 2009–2010 TOURNESOL AWARD
link
6.18.2009
PAUL WACKERS 2009 Tournesol Award Winner Show at Luggage Store Gallery
One of our favorite local artists is having his tournesol show at the Luggage Store soon
Paul Wackers: 2009 Tournesol Awardee for painting
Landscape and still life paintings
Opening Reception
Friday July 10, 2009 - Saturday August 8, 2009 at 6:00pm
the luggage store, 1007 Market Street (@6th), SF CA 94103
Tel. 1. 415. 255 5971
Gallery Hours: Wed-Saturday, 12-5pm and by appointment
6.13.2009
New York Times Review
For quirky objects with an artistic bent, check out Park Life (220 Clement Street; 415-386-7275; www.parklifestore.com), a shop that carries a well-curated cache of art books, clever housewares and limited-edition objects — like salt and pepper shakers inscribed with the words “cocaine” and “heroin” ($125). If that’s not creative enough, pop into the adjacent gallery, which features monthly exhibitions of emerging artists from San Francisco and beyond (priced from $20 to $2,000). Silk-screened T-shirt by the Bay Area artist Tucker Nichols: $28.
link...
6.3.2009
Mundane Shift Shape Replacement
The following is an interview conducted with Brion Nuda Rosch about the current group exhibition Mundane Shift Shape Replacement which Brion curated, as well as exhibited his own work. The show is on display until later this month and contains work from Chris Corales, Andrea Myers, Matthew Rich, Brion Nuda Rosch, and Liz Walsh. 1. Can you talk a little bit about the concept behind the exhibition and how these artists relate? This exhibit began with an invitation from Park Life. The ...
5.29.2009
Come see the new show curated by Brion Nuda Rosch. It's really great.
We've got new Artist Edition Shirts from Tucker Nichols, Chris Ballantyne, Wowch, and many more..
Pantone Mugs are back in stock.
Lots of new books.
Coming soon: A new color combo Limited edition San Francisco Print from Ork Design (the SF neighboorhood one).
Go See:
Matthew Palladino at Space 1026
Ian Johnson at White Walls
Hilary Pecis at Triple Base
5.6.2009
Friend and SF-based Photographer Sean Mcfarland is the recipient of the 2009 Baum Award
for Emerging American Photographers.
Celebrating the work of Sean McFarland, recipient of the 6th annual Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers and San Francisco’s first photographer to win this prestigious national award, SF Camerawork will feature McFarland’s series Pictures of the Earth. You can take guidance of touroftoowoomba to know more.
The Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers is one of the largest national awards available in photography, and the only award in the United States to single out ‘emerging’ photographers for support. Linton Studios guides many ...
25th Anniversary Silent & Live Auction
The Lab
2948 16th Street · San Francisco CA 94103 · 415.864.8855
Saturday, March 21, 2009, 6:30-9:30 PM
Live auction at 7:30 PM
Silent auction sections close every 15 minutes from 8:30 - 9:30 PM
$10-25 sliding scale admission (includes snacks and refreshments)
Preview gallery hours: Wednesday, March 18 - Friday, March 20, 1-6PM (free admission)
Sale continues: Sunday, March 22, 1-6pm (free admission)
Art lovers, join us for our biggest fundraising event of the year. Incredible local, national, and international artwork will be available via silent auction with starting bids at $25 and up (cash, checks, VISA/MC accepted). Over ...
3.17.2009
We were featured in the SF Chronicle this weekend.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/15/LVLR160SVJ.DTL&type=living
Gallery owners reveal their Bay Area gems
Aidin Vaziri, Chronicle Staff Writer
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Jamie Alexander and Derek Song are the founders of Park Life, the combination gallery and store space that has brought everything from high-design housewares to lo-fi local artists to the city's Inner Richmond neighborhood. They tell us about the places they like to frequent.
Images
Jamie Alexander's picks:
Triple Base, 3041 24th St. "This gallery is a real asset to the Bay Area arts scene. More than just a showroom, they are really building a community around the art and artists they ...
3.8.2009
The Bay Area's most polarizing art critic, Kenneth Baker, has registered his disdain for this year;s SECA show.
Read Review
Love him or not this review is hard to argue with.
Love that he crushed Jordan Kantor.
2.20.2009
Two artists that we've worked closely with are having a show at White Walls Gallery.
Strong effort all around. These boys can paint.
HELFAND'S 2008 TOP 10
Excerpted from sfbg.com
1. "Oranges and Sardines," Hammer Museum
Returning SFMOMA curator Gary Garrels' current "conversations on abstract painting" exhibition in Los Angeles is one of the most satisfying, artist-friendly shows ever.
2. Philippe Vergne, lecture at San Francisco Art Institute
The recently-appointed director of the Dia Art Foundation offered incisive, inspirational, and witty takes on the melancholic state of the arts.
3. Speed Racer: The IMAX Experience (Andy and Larry Wachowski, USA, 2008)
This color-drenched amusement park ride of a movie lacks coherence and features the world's most irritating child actor, but two-plus hours of nonstop electric rainbow CGI at IMAX scale ...
10.25.2008
Park Life is looking for an intern. The position requires around 15 hours a month. Student would be good. Knowledge of photoshop/Illustrator/basic HTML is good too. Basic galleries skills hanging, archiving, shipping, posting, documenting...
email jamie@parklifestore.com
10.15.2008
Jason Jagel's show at Electric Works is coming down soon. Shouldn't be missed. You can also pick up a copy of his beautiful new book 73 Funshine. (we should get the book in stock November 2008).
Glen Helfand wrote about the show in art forum recently. Review
10.9.2008
The Secret Life of Plants
Johanna St. Clair, Sean McFarland, Paul Wackers & a garden installation by Dan Carlson
All 4 artists in this show have great work. I want the Wackers diptych on paper.
Show Runs Sept. 27th - Oct. 31st
10.7.2008
- Swoon's first and only monograph.
- New Paul Schiek book.
- New Tauba Auerbach book, 50/50.
- New Leslie Shows book.
- New Hank Willis Thomas book.
- Signed copies of Mail Order Monsters.
9.8.2008
Hilary Pecis at Receiver Gallery. From the Paradigm Shift, opens Sept 6.
Great show. Here work has really grown. The big pieces are amazing.
Group show at Hosfelt. Vocabularies of Metaphor opens Sept. 6.
Including Amy Cutler, Shazia Sikhander, Henry Darger...three of my favorites.
Andrew Schoultz, In Gods We Trust, runs thru October at Heather Marx Gallery. His best show yet.
Lydia Fong, A moment of Reflection at Ratio 3. Barry always puts on a good show.
Jason Jagel at Electric Works opening Sept
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8.28.2008
Andrew Schoultz has his first solo show in the Bay Area in a couple years...I've seen some of the work and it's going to reset the bar. Amazing work.
Andrew Schoultz, In Gods We Trust.
Opening Thurs. Sept 4 @ Heather Marx Gallery
Jason Jägel is releasing his long awaited monograph, 73 Funshine. A large hardcover book that comes with a record. He's also going to be showing new works on paper.
Electric Works Gallery, Opening Reception: Friday, September 12th, 6-9pm
Hilary Pecis has a solo show opening Sept. 6 at ...
8.28.2008
Tauba Auerbach has produced some new prints (Aquatint Etchings actually) with Paulson Press. I have previewed them and they are beautiful. These will be available from Park Life this fall. Please email to get more info or to preorder. (This one is amazing (pictured...Yes and No/Yes or No, 2008))
8.23.2008
8.13.2008
Fecaface.com has posted a new interview with Matthew Palladino following his solo show with Park Life last month. Expect big things from this kid.
Image: Stay Out of the Rose Garden (Body pile), 2008
Park Life Store and Gallery is Open. Come by we are open Daily from 10-6. Masks Required.
Instagram: ParklifeSF and ParkLifeGallery
The Annual San Francisco Art Book Fair (SFABF), Co-Founded by Park Life / at Minnesota Street Project will be back in 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
Gallery Updates:
Upcoming Shows:
Gina M. Contreras – Hey There Lonely Girl – Sept 10 – Oct 10, 2021
Bijan Berahimi – Oct 22nd, 2021
Past Shows:
Chad Hasegawa – Sandy Beach Parking Lot – August 6 – Sept 4, 2021
Risa Iwasaki Culbertson - Next Best Thing - June 18 – July 25, 2021
Lena Gustafson Curated Print based exhibit featuring Night Diver Press, Sun Night Editions, Tiny Splendor, Floss Editions. May 2021
Caitlyn Galloway – Be in Touch – Jan 29, 2021 – March 15, 2021
..visit our gallery page for more information
Visit our shop for new items from artists: Tauba Auerbach, Alicia McCarthy, Chris Johanson, Margaret Kilgallen, Tucker Nichols, Masako Miki, Evah Fan, David Shrigley, Jonas Wood, Barry McGee, Jason Polan, Jason Fulford, Tamara Shopsin, Jason Jagel, Carissa Potter Carlson, Chaz Bear, Jon Anzalone, Sadie Barnette, Serena Mitnik-Miller, Mark Mulroney, Marina Luz, Lena Gustafson, The Thing Quarterly, People I’ve Loved, Areaware, Third Drawer Down (AU), Dusen Dusen, CHUNKS, Colpa Press, Vacancy Projects, Nieves, One Star Press, Apartamento, DAP, MACK, Aperture, Dead Beat Club, Coucou Suzette, Poketo, Banquet, Apartamento, 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:
We recently released new a publication from Mark Mulroney, Sketch Books. Available in our webstore.