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My dear friend, do-it-all renaissance woman and quester in arms, Debra Koffler along with her Conscious Youth Media Crew (CMYC), bring the bay area the world premiere of their recently completed film Why I Ride: Low and Slow. The documentary, which tells “the untold history of San Francisco’s unique lowrider culture in the city’s Mission District”, screens free(!) along with other films, live music and art making at the de Young Museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.

From CMYC:

“Mission Media Archives in association with Conscious Youth Media Crew and Burning Wagon productions, proudly presents “Why I Ride: Low and Slow,” our recently finished film documenting the untold history of San Francisco’s unique lowrider culture in the city’s Mission District.

Join us for a night of memories, reunions, and celebration featuring the voices of Mission District street historians: Roberto Hernandez, Valerie Tulier, Felipe Velez, Mitchell Salazar, and Sandy Cuadra.“

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Pasadena’s master painter Mark Ryden heads north to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to sign copies of his book based off his sultry Snow Yak Show which opened in Tokyo, Japan last year.

From Ryden’s Porterhouse Fine Art Collectibles:

“Mark Ryden will be signing copies of his new book “The Snow Yak Show” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The book signing is free and open to the public.

The Snow Yak Show will be available for purchase at the SFMOMA Museum Store during the book signing.”

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Sister Corita Kent’s inspirational spirit continues to thrive through creative art making events curated by the Corita Art Center and in small part due to the short film we made about Corita, Become a Microscope: 90 Statements on Sister Corita (film excerpt below featuring Money Mark’s new school “ABC’s” song and Max Erdenberger’s awesome animation. You can also take an extended look at the Nowness.com).

This Thursday the bay area is invited to be a part of both as the Levi’s Workshop in San Francisco’s Mission district hosts the Corita Art Silkscreen Mash-Up as well as the Sister Corita Film Program featuring our film, directed by Aaron Rose and edited by yours truly, along with 60’s era films Sister Corita: Mary’s Day by Baylis Glascock and Survival With Style by Cal Bernstein, Alex Singer and Haskell Wexler.

Director Aaron Rose and the Corita Center’s Sasha Carrera will be in attendance during both events.

RSVP to the Corita Art Silkscreen Mash-Up here…

and RSVP to the Sister Corita Film Program here.

More on the sensational Sister Corita:

• SATURDAY (July 24): Sister Corita Art Silkscreen Mash-Up @ Blue Rooster Art
• Sister Corita is the Nowness
• FRIDAY (June 4): Los Feliz Art Walk Featuring Sister Corita’s Rebel Nuns & Aaron Rose
• THURSDAY: Viva Corita!
• Flux You Very Much!
• TONIGHT: Get Fluxed With Us and Sister Corita
• Flux You!
• SATURDAY: Love
• Chasing Corita
• Continuing Corita Coverage
• Sister Corita IS Your Valentine
• These Rules Rule
• A. Rose is A. Rose is A. Rose

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Get your Choe on in the bay as David Choe travels north to Giant Robot’s GRSF store to sign copies of his recently released, 10 year in the making, self-titled book as well as scribble doodles for the peoples.

From Giant Robot:

“Giant Robot is proud to host a reception and book signing with artist David Choe to celebrate the release of his 288-page, self-titled monograph published by Chronicle Books.  Raised on comic books, affected by street art, and inspired by crime, women, and music, Choe has developed a unique and restless style that is effortless yet meticulous and focused yet dirty. Since the artist contributed his first illustration to Giant Robot magazine in 1997, he has gone on to become an international fixture in the worlds of street art and indie comics, and has had hugely successful solo shows in high-end galleries in Paris, London, New York, Tokyo, and Los Angeles (not to mention all three Giant Robot locations).

In addition to signing his brand-new book, Choe will be autographing his newly released Munko figures, which are based on his whale paintings, made by Japan’s Good Smile Company, and distributed by Giant Robot.”

More on David Choe:

• FRIDAY (April 30): The Dirty Hands of David Choe Return to Theaters
• COVERAGE: David Choe’s Nothing to Declare
• FRIDAY (April 23): David Choe’s Nothing to Declare at LAzarides
• The Art of the Lost Art of Inglorious Basterds
• THURSDAY (Feb. 18): The Lost Art of Inglorious Basterds
• Giant Robot Biennale 2: 15 Years Final Weekend
  

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The always humorous and extremely talented trio of Albert Reyes, Matt Furie and Aiyana Udesen become one as they join forces and form an artistic Voltron for the show Future Colors of America at San Francisco’s Fecal Face Dot Gallery.

Click here for an interview with Aiyana and Matt as well as a preview of the Future Colors of America.

From Fecal Face:

“Fecal Face Dot Gallery is pleased to host Albert Reyes, Matt Furie, and Aiyana Udesen for their second showing as the art gang, Future Colors of America (show details here). Their display of drawing art gang-a-tude occured last year at Giant Robot where the trio covered the walls in numerous collaborative drawings on paper and Albert Reyes iconic book covers. In order to get a taste of what the duo are about we thought we asked Aiyana Udesen and Matt Furie what make them tick.”

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If you’re in the bay this Saturday stop by our dear old friend Pep Nguyen’s uniquely tasty steakhouse in the San Jose area as Grill ‘Em celebrates their two year anniversary in a truly classy fashion: with all day Jameson drink specials, Cabo Wabo girls and Pep’s delicious meats on and in your grill. Congrats to Pep, the fam and Grill ‘Em!

From El Pep:

“This Saturday (3rd of July), come celebrate Grill’EMs 2nd Year Anniversary with The Cabo Wabo Girls, Jameson Specials (All Day!) and Happy Hour from 2pm-7pm! Thank you all for your wonderful support, and we hope to see you there!”

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Barry McGee continues his previously mentioned art domination of California as he’s joined by the super smart and talented Clare Rojas (seen and heard playing beautiful music in Beautiful Losers) as they travel up the coast from their San Francisco homestead for their respective show Leave it Alone and Together at Last at the Bolinas Museum.

More on Barry McGee:

• TWIST From Oakland to LA with Barry McGee

• The Creative Life of Barry McGee
• SATURDAY (Feb. 20): 2k by Gingham Goes 2THEWALL at New Image Art
• Barry McGee in Miami
• Beautiful Losers Now on DVD!
• Art Talk With a Rose and a TWIST

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One of my all time faves amongst the graffiti greats who’ve gone gallery, Barry McGee (a.k.a. TWIST) is still producing at the top of his game as evidenced in his works on display at the Oakland Museum’s Gallery of California Art and at the Hammer Museum’s Outside the Box exhibition in Los Angeles.

Continually a force on the streets to this day, Barry’s style has evolved both organically and drastically over the years to incorporate mechanical beings, large scale installations and most notably his bold geometric patterns into his gallery work. Yet it all still somehow evokes the same sentiment his sometimes sad, anguished or perplexed characters personify.

The video below shows a master at work installing his California contribution in Oakland and is sweetly bookended with a tandem bike ride with Barry’s and the late great Margaret Kilgallen’s daughter Asha (who was last seen on film in our Beautiful Losers as a toddler).

Go see Barry’s art if you’re in the Bay (installation at the Oakland Museum)…

Or if you’re in LA (print portfolio at the Hammer Museum)…

More on Barry McGee:

• The Creative Life of Barry McGee
• SATURDAY (Feb. 20): 2k by Gingham Goes 2THEWALL at New Image Art
• Barry McGee in Miami
• Beautiful Losers Now on DVD!
• Art Talk With a Rose and a TWIST

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Keeping it in the Bay, Greg Gossel’s clever multi-layered mixed-media pop-culture messages walk their way onto the walls of San Francisco’s White Walls gallery in his solo show Sleepwalking.

From White Walls:

“Sleepwalking critiques mass media’s exploitation of specific groups of people: a consumerist practice that projects biased perceptions of gender, race, and culture. This collection points out specific imagery from collective memory of the past 50 years including the confederate flag, 1960s race riots, comic book superheroes, pro wrestling, the Reagan war on drugs, and 8 bit video games. Sleepwalking through this myriad of cultural fragments, Gossel questions how our visual culture has affected society thus far and how it will play out in the future.”

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What do you get when you combine two of the Bay Area’s most talented female artists with one of the grossest things you’ve ever seen on the internet? 2 Girls; 1 Show of course! Giant Robot presents Lisa Hanawalt’s and Aiyana Udesen’s latest works at their San Francisco based shop/gallery GRSF.

Click here for a preview of 2 Girls; 1 Show.

From the Giant Robots:

“Aiyana Udesen is a San Francisco based artist who promises “a bunch of ’80s celebrity/small animal/crystal mash-ups,” mostly in pencil and colored pencil.
Lisa Hanawalt is making approximately 30 drawings ranging from medium to postcard-sized and smaller, in watercolor, ink, and markers.”

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