Street art legend and notorious shapeshifter BARRY McGEE (aka: Ray Fong) surprised San Francisco art fanatics last Friday nite when an unexpected show of his work appeared at RATIO 3 gallery credited to the artist “LYDIA FONG” (his dress-wearing alter ego). For the most part an assemblage of pieces from several recent smaller shows, “A Moment for Reflection: New Work by Lydia Fong” is an amazingly comprehensive survey of all of Barry’s recent stylistic modes with a few new geometric and abstract twists thrown in for good measure (and even an installation of drawings by his gearhead father). HAVE A LOOK: Read the rest of this entry »

Checking in on the City of Fog it’s nice to see Supertouch buddy SWOON getting her ups with this new piece at 24th & Hampshire…

Art sure attracts a crowd. Now someone take these people clothes shopping…

Necromantic jail bait never looked better…

One of our favorite young decorative/figurative painters SYLVIA JI has just debuted another collection of her iconic undead beauty queens at San Francisco hotspot gallery WHITE WALLS with portraits of enough hot zombie babes to raise a graveyard of dead sailors. The 26-year-old fogtown native has been on a hot streak the past few years steadily growing a large fan base by showing consistently high-quality work in key galleries coast-to-coast and stirring the loins of a nation of necromantic admirers in the process. Of course, if we had a few extra hundred grand lying around we’d start a strip club/art gallery in Vegas populated with Sylvia’s portraits and a slew of living babes outfitted in Ms. Ji’s trademark dia de los muertos makeup and not much else. Sylvia, if you somehow manage to make that vision a reality, we want 10% and our own private champagne room. HAVE A LOOK: Read the rest of this entry »

Geoff’s custom bike is easier to ride than it looks but parking’s a nightmare…

Graphic design & fine art powerhouse GEOFF McFETRIDGE is a force of nature, consistently pulling off incredibly compelling installations in an oftentimes-static art scene. Such is the case with both of the young artist’s current exhibitions (in radically different scales) at Seattle’s OLYMPIC SCULPTURE PARK and the fantastic MOLLUSK SURF SHOP in San Francisco. Creating a massive landscape of sculptural and printed works for the long-term installation “In The Mind” in Seattle that opened late last month, McFetridge’s bold imagery creates a playful environment—the centerpiece of which is a huge and amazing blue trumpet/bicycle sculpture—that is daunting in its scale. In contrast, the artist’s exhibit “Bury Me in the Sand” in San Francisco is a much smaller-scale but equally compelling one nonetheless. Featuring a large array of hand-drawn and printed works along with custom skateboards, McFetridge’s Mollusk show is a very intimate, personal affair, with the artist’s hand evident in all the works on display. HAVE A LOOK: Read the rest of this entry »

As the finale of SAM FLORES‘ new solo show “Senso to Heiwa” (War & Peace) at Philadelphia’s LINEAGE GALLERY draws near, we take a moment to catch up with one of San Francisco’s brightest artists for a closer look at the method to his madness. READ ON: Read the rest of this entry »