| Barry McGee
A special exhibition at our off-site space
1717 17th Street, San Francisco
hours: Thursday – Saturday 11am -5pm
April 14th – May 19th , 2012
Reception: April 14th from 3:00 – 6:00 p.m
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 Barry McGee and Friends at 1717 17th Street, San Francisco CA |
| Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce a special exhibition by Barry McGee at the gallery’s off-site space at 1717 17th Street in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill district. Contemporary Arts Centre describes the community acknowledging its present and past: an installation featuring work by McGee and fellow invited artists.Moving easily across the boundaries of street art, historical High Art, private/anonymous art practices and museum-sanctioned collections, Barry McGee has created and collaborated on artworks appreciated by a broad audience. Acclaimed for his work as a graffiti artist and for his installations in galleries, museums and art festivals around the world, the artist crafts a language that resonates as a shared public experience as well as on a private intimate scale. Addressing social concerns of urban life, yet elaborating a unique personal style, McGee’s works focus on a shared humanity, one painstakingly hand-detailed, finely-painted image at a time.McGee’s work has been shown widely in the San Francisco community and internationally, includingThe Venice Biennale (2001) and the Biennale de Lyon (2009-2010,) the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA Los Angeles, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the BALTIC Centre in England and the Watari-um Museum in Tokyo. A retrospective exhibition of his work will be presented at the Berkeley Art Museum opening August 2012.A reception for McGee & the artists will be held Saturday, April 14th from 3:00 – 6:00 p.m.Please visit the gallery’s website at http://www.gallerypauleanglim.com |
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edit to add: what a cool little show the Barry McGee curated pop-up art show at 1717 17th. I shot photos of two bands that played in the parking lot but did not stay long enough to see if indeed a band would play on the roof of the building, which I was told had been condemned or at least set for yuppiefication of some kind. One band had former members of Tina Age 13 but not Chris Johanson, whose work was there if the person was not. I think someone said they were playing as Tina Age 43.
 tina age 43 And the other band someone said was The Mallard. I bought a Bobby Bonds baseball mitt for $5 from a guy who was holding a rummage and art sale in the parking lot but probably not part of McGee’s curation. I said “hey” to not Willie Mays but the new “Say Hey” kid Matt “Buddy” Gonzalez, who was not the M.Gonzales (sic) on the list of invited participants and was driving what he said was a borrowed pick-up truck and although he knows me by name greeted me as “Hey, Buddy”. Willie Mays got his nick name because he was bad with names and would say “Hey” or “Say Hey!” to people rather than address them by name. As a joke I am going to persist in calling Matt Matt “Buddy” Gonzalez. I told Matt he was represented because someone commandeered a newsbox and stuffed it with a 2005 zine called Scam that featured an interview with Matt. I said hello to Barry McGee and gave him an update about our discussion of having him tag a Palo Alto Train station and get paid not arrested. I ran this by Mark Simon the pr guy for CalTrain who I know going back 30 years when he was an advisor as Palo Alto Times and Peninsula Times Tribune to our Oracle editorials page. Actually we are looking for a place to do public art with a few more layers of red tape. The group show, which is near Whole Foods, continues for a month. |
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edit to add, a couple weeks later but thinking back about nine months, then search-injuning: I don’t think these two guys were there, but I did get gifted some stickers by a local artist, and wore one or part of one on my OBEY cap:
08/15/2011
Press Release
The City of Palo Alto
Public Information Office
250 Hamilton Ave
Palo Alto, CA 94301
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRESS RELEASE #08152011
Subject : Graffiti Suspects Arrested
Contact :
Sergeant Brian Philip, Palo Alto Police Department 650-329-2413
Palo Alto, CA
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On Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 12:30 AM, a Palo Alto police officer stopped an SUV in the 200 block
of Sheridan Avenue for a vehicle code violation.
When the officer looked into the SUV discovered that it was filled with graffiti related paraphernalia. It was also found
that driver, 20 year old East Palo Alto resident V__ T___, had a “no bail” warrant for vandalism. One of
the passengers, 21 year old Palo Alto resident R___ H____(the release had their names and their pictures, seemingly taken through the window of the patrol car, which were printed in some local papers), was on probation for vandalism. Further inspection of
the vehicle revealed boxes of “slap tags,” numerous spray cans, felt tip markers and several one gallon paint cans.
Both subjects were booked into the Santa Clara County jail on charges consisting of possession of vandalism tools. The
driver was also booked on the warrant and the passenger had an additional probation violation charge.
NB: at the McGee event, I was nearly apprehended for thinking impure thoughts about one of the artists. I am linking the McGee art show and the police report to make a point that while graffiti at its worst probably costs us money to clean up, I don’t think of even the worst artists and artistic utterances as being comparable to violent offenders and their ilk. Plus I find it remarkable that the two young men were not caught in the act, merely pulled over in a type of profiling and found with “goods”. I don’t know either of the men.
A follow-up investigation will be conducted to link the duo to graffiti currently located on property within the City of Palo
Alto.
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Here is the link, to the photos: x
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