Luggage Store Gallery, Ground Floor, 1007 Market Street, San Francisco

CAPITALISM IS OVER    
 

July 18 – August 28, 2010

Ground Floor Gallery open Tuesdays and Fridays at noon 

Installation can be viewed outside the Luggage Store Gallery on Market Street

           WHERE: public spaces in San Francisco including the financial and shopping  districts   downtown, other venues around the world, online, and a nightly projection series (starting the last week in July)

WHO:  Artists/Writers/Spaces include:

          WHAT:  Artworks in the media of performative interventions, stickers, posters, web presence, video projections and more. Specific project descriptions to follow in weekly press releases.

 WHY:  Capitalism Is Over! If You Want It is a series of interruptions/actions    launched in response to the need for a fundamental shift in our approach    to Capitalism and the negative impact it has on the environment, health,    and well being of all. The status quo is not sustainable. The title of the    project references John and Yoko’s powerful “WAR IS OVER If You Want It”   campaign.

Project examples include: 

This Little Piggy Went To Market (Megan Wilson) is a pink plush pig pushing a shopping cart through the financial district giving away hand made signs exposing economic inequities.

Together We Can Defeat Capitalism (TWCDC), a guerrilla art group fighting capitalism since 1996, sticks (it) to the system once again ferrying a hostage Piggy around downtown in “Das Vegetal” and offering stickers with the slogan Capitalism is Over If You Want it.

Consumers on Strike! hold signs and march around the shopping district beginning at Macys and ending in the park.

Daily Slots (Eliza Barrios and Paz De la Calzada) repurposes news stands located along Market and Montgomery Street with alternative messages focusing on the economy, consumerism and the un-sustainability of the capitalistic culture.

New York Times Action (Francesca Pastine) covers the NYTimes with graphite pencils, engaging with passersbys about the nature of censorship and the meaning of information.

upcoming at the Luggage Store Annex, 509 Ellis Street, San Francisco

Community Property

Featuring artists in residence Chris Evans and Ernest Jolly

September 6 - November 20, 2010

REHISTORICIZING ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM 1950s-1960s SYMPOSIUM

SEPTEMBER 10-11, 2010 AT THE San Francisco Art Institute

800 CHESTNUT STREET, Click see more for more information...

This large scale exhibition, which showed at the Luggage Store Gallery, creates and contextualizes an archive of women artists and artists of color who were undervalued because of the public and personal hegemonic social and aesthetic scrutiny at that time.

CARLOS VILLA, curator

featuring work by Nell Sinton, Barbaa Rogers, Bernice Bing, Deborah Remington, Mary O'Neal, Cornelai Schultz, Ruth Asawa, Dewey Crumpler, George Miyasaki, Jose Montoya, Luis Cervantes, Manuel Neri, Joan Brown, Jay DeFeo, Bob Closescott, Joe Overstreet, Allan Gordon, Arthur Okamura, Sung Woo Chun, Win Ng, Leo Valledor, Patricia Toro, Frank LaPena, Jimmy Suzuki, Esteban Villa, Arthur Monroe, Sonya Gechtoff, Gary Woo and Jim Marshall, Jerry Bruchard and ephemera, courtesy of the SFAI Library.

For more information see REHISTORICIZING

 at the Luggage Store Gallery, 1007 Market Street, SF 

10th Anniversary Fecal Face group show

curated by John Trippe

September 10th - October 9th, 2010,

OPENING RECEPTION:  Friday, September 10, 2010, 6-8pm

Gallery hours Wed-Sat, 12-5pm and by appointment

Featured Artists:

Corey Arnold (Portland), Tiffany Bozic (San Francisco), Kelsey Brookes (San Diego), David Choe (Los Angeles), Richard Colman ( Los Angeles) , Faile (New York), Jeremy Fish (San Francisco), Ian Francis (London) , Matt Furie (San Francisco) , Mike Giant (San Francisco), Henry Gunderson (San Francisco), Maya Hayuk (New York), Jim Houser (Philadelphia), Jay Howell (San Francisco), Sylvia Ji (Los Angeles), Mel Kadel (Los Angeles), Anthony Lister (New York), Mars-1 (San Francisco), Travis Millard (Los Angeles), Ferris Plock (San Francisco), Albert Reyes (Los Angeles), Jeff Soto (Los Angeles), Damon Soule (New York), Kelly Tunstall (San Francisco), Aiyana Udesen (San Francisco), Oliver Vernon (San Francisco), and Megan Whitmarsh (Los Angeles)

FECAL FACE DOT COM is a content-rich, comprehensive, multidisciplinary
art and culture website supporting the art scene in San Francisco and beyond since 2000.
With its roots in the stone-age of the internet, Fecal Face was the first of its kind - an onlinedestination featuring blogs, articles, interviews and awesomeness when the internet itself wasjust starting out. With almost ten years under its belt, the site now greets between 11,000-14,000 visitors a day, occupying a unique niche online and in the "real world," by chronicling andshaping the local, national and international contemporary arts scene.

In January 2008, Fecal Face opened Fecal Face Dot Gallery (66 Gough St, San Francisco), a physical destination for the website offering visitors the opportunity to experience, in person, the work they see showcased online. With a new installation each month and opportunities to meet the artists, it’s a way to merge what Fecal Face has been doing online since 2000 into the vibrant art scene of San Francisco.

About John Tripp

Fecal Face Founder and 10 Yr. Curator
Trippe moved to San Francisco in 1993 from the Midwest via the East Coast to immerse himself in the dynamic Bay Area skateboard scene of the 90s. While skateboarding semi-professionally John went on to work in all artistic fields within the industry from magazine layout at Thrasher Magazine to filming, directing and producing videos for a number of skate companies. While working at Thrasher in 1998 he created Fecal Face first as a homemade/ Kinkos produced zine to chronicle his friends' artworks and his own photography and writing. After teaching himself html in 2000, he moved the Fecal Face online to gain a wider audience and to satisfy his nerdy desire to learn web programming.