San Francisco Art Exhibit
SAN FRANCISCO ART EXHIBIT
August 15, 2006
UPDATE: Wednesday, July 12th at 6:00pm, Brad Brooks will be talking about the upcoming exhibit and his September 8th performance. Tune in at Towerpod.com.
A Skeleton Key Production:
Space Gallery
1141 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 377-3325
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday: 7:00pm-
Wednesday: 12:00pm - 6:00pm
August 15th - September 12th
There will be live entertainment on Friday and Saturday nights (starting at 7:00pm, unless otherwise noted) for this month long exhibit. Suggested donation is $5.00, please.
Friday, August 18th
Liz Ross
Che - (Carl Horne of Zen Guerilla)
John C. (comedian)
Paul Manousos
Robert Szeles (Kiss the Girl)
Saturday, August 19th
Bret Hagen (Electric Boogie Dawgz)
Dave Dalton "the pastor" (Cell Block 5)
Mykee (Ill Gotten Gainz)
Piss Pissedoffherson (The Devils Own)
Friday, August 25th
Exoneree Speaker: Chol Soo Lee (1983)
[Thanks to deathpenalty.org]
Chol Soo Lee was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. After suggestive procedures by police and prosecutors, which even included hypnotizing one witness, three witnesses identified Lee in a police line-up. Based on this eyewitness testimony, Lee was convicted and sentenced. In 1977, during a large prison yard brawl, Lee killed another inmate in self-defense. Because he was serving a life sentence for murder, Lee was sentenced to death. A supportive movement of Korean-Americans and other Asian Americans formed in response to publicity about the case. They filed a successful writ of habeas corpus overturning Lee’s first murder conviction. The second conviction and death sentence were then vacated. He was given time served for the 2nd murder and released in 1983 after spending ten years in prison, eight of them spent in the solitary confinement on death row. It is important to note that while Lee was in fact guilty of killing another inmate (in self-defense) while in prison, the crime could never have occurred had he not been wrongfully convicted in the first place.
Will Franken (comedian)
Lady Monster (spoken word)
Salvatore Amore (the WORLD's greatest romantic poet)
William Taylor, Jr.
Saturday, August 26th
Lady Monster (spoken word)
Will Franken (comedian)
Josh Fix
Don Miggs
Special Guest Speaker:
Lance Lindsey, Exec. Director of Death Penalty Focus
Friday, September 1st
Melinda Adams (spoken word)
Roadside Celebrity
Dave Dalton "the pastor" (Cell Block 5)
Castles In Spain
Sherilyn Connelly (spoken word)
Saturday, September 2nd
GFE
Dodo Bird (Meric Long)
Sherilyn Connelly (spoken word)
Friday, September 8th
Angela Darling
Face on Straight
Fred
Austin Willacy
Brad Brooks
Saturday, September 9th
Jeffrey Luck Lukas
Butch Berry
Dame Satan
Special Guest Speaker:
Matt Gonzalez, former San Francisco Supervisor
Other artists that will be participating (dates TBA):
Mary Lonergan
Tommy Guerrero
And more to come! I will have a calendar together soon with the dates everyone will be performing.
This exhibit is a WM3 exhibit. Damien Echols created pieces for the May 2006 SKELETON KEY exhibit which are still available. Folks will be able to purchase pieces by:
Damien Echols
Norman Reedus
As an actor, photographer, filmmaker and painter, his work encompasses many different mediums. Beginning as a fine artist, He exhibited in both solo and group shows in Los Angeles and New York before branching out into a secondary career as an actor. Accidentally discovered at a party, he was dared by friends to pursue the opportunity and was soon cast in the play "Maps for Drowners" at Los Angeles’ Tiffany Theater. Film roles in "8mm," "Mimic," "Six Ways to Sunday," and "The Boondock Saints" quickly followed. BigBaldHead is his new production company. He lives in New York City with his son, Mingus Lucien Reedus.
Mick Rock
Mick Rock is “The Man Who Shot The 70s”, the inimitable rock photographer who launched his career with an unknown David Bowie in 1972, following his rise and decent with Ziggy Stardust, collecting Iggy Pop’s Raw Power, the Ramones’ End of the Century, Lou Reed’s Transformer, Queen’s Queen II and many infamous Sex Pistols’ shots. His retrospective at Tokyo’s Metropolitan Museum of Photography in 2003 was hailed as “one of the most exciting exhibitions of pop culture imagery to ever reach these shores”. Mick has a new book, GLAM! and continues working with artists, including the yeah yeah yeahs, the Killers, Queens Of the Stone Age, Fat Joe, Jimmy Fallon and The Ravonettes.
Personal Statement: "I caught one of the documentaries awhile ago on HBO it seems to me these three guys were railroaded because they looked strange to their community...this is supposed to be the land of the free. They need help and I'm more than happy to give what I can to get the word out and Damien Echols is clearly an artist of talent."
Ioannis
Ioannis was born in Athens, Greece. He is the cover artist of such classic bands as The Allman Brothers, Deep Purple, King Crimson, Blue Oyster Cult, Styx, Bon Jovi, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Fates Warning, UFO, Biohazard, and more. In 2001 he formed Dangerous Age Graphics to market his personal artwork, exhibits, posters, prints, videos, merchandising and stage design.
Chad Robertson
Chad Robertson, LA painter and West Memphis Three supporter. “With my paintings I am attempting to show my subjects' inner intentions, emotions, and motivations. The paintings have an emotional dialogue with the painted subject and viewer stripped of the conscious and unconscious facades.”
Jayne County
“Man enough to be a woman.” Singer, songwriter, actor, playwright, artist – punk legend. Beginning as Wayne County, finding fame singing with the group Electric Chairs, Jayne continues to perform all over the world and now creates incredible pen and ink drawings. What can’t she do?
Floria Sigsmondi
Her multi-disciplinary work encompasses film, video, photography and installations. Creating a hyper-surrealism based on the figure, using images derived from hallucinatory dream states. Born in Italy, emigrating to Canada, she now works with The White Stripes, David Bowie, The Cure, Leonard Cohen, Marilyn Manson & Bjork. Her photographs, film and sculpture installations have been exhibited in New York, Paris, Toronto, Rome, Los Angeles, Mexico City, London, Italy, Germany, Sweden and Copenhagen. She has a new book of photography, IMMUNE.
Jonathan Richman (The Modern Lovers)
John Suhay
Artist in residence at Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center in Pueblo, Colorado at 83, he continues photographing various scenes and landscapes in Pueblo. Freed from commercial restraints, Suhay's photographs are rough, edgy, immediate -- and powerful. He has an astonishing archive of more than 200,000 images, most created in and around Pueblo over the last half century. Some was the routine commercial work that had supported Suhay since he became a full-time photographer in 1964. Suhay has never taken a photography class or had any formal instruction. "No, I just looked at magazines ... belonged to a camera club, and listened to all that stuff -- what a bunch of bullshit!"
Grove Pashley
Grove Pashley is a Los Angeles based photographer whose work has been seen everywhere over the past decade - from the Focus On Aids Auctions in Los Angeles to the one sheet movie posters and video covers you have seen promoting countless popular films.
Grove has worked directly with many leading design firms as well as a number of major motion pictures studios including Paramount, Universal, Disney, Columbia, Miramax, MGM, Warner Bros, Fox, ABC and HBO. Grove worked on such films as Spiderman, Tomb Raider, Minority Report, Vanilla Sky, Fight Club, Run Away Bride, Mr. Deeds, October Sky, 13th Floor, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Man on the Moon to name a few as well as several Prime Time Television shows as X- Files and Temptation island.
Grove has photographed a variety of notable actors and musicians including Ozzy Osbourne and family, Thora Birch, Randy Travis, Tom Sizemore, Jenny McCarthy, Donnie Wahlberg, Jennifer Tilly, Bill Paxton, Lucas Haas, Luke Perry, Billy Barty, Henry Winkler, Linda Cardellini, Laurie Holden, Anthony LaPaglia, Rob Marrow, Doug Hutchison, Steven Bauer and Train. Many of these photos and many other celebrites can be found here on this web site.
Another stereotype that Grove is interested in dispelling has resulted in one of the most profound experiences of his life. Several years ago he became interested in a murder case which occurred in Arkansas. His interest began after having photographed Damien Echols who is now on Death Row...
Through his research, Grove has come to realize that the three young men who were imprisoned for the murders were falsely convicted. More information about this case can be found on Grove's other web site: www.wm3.org.
"Photographing these betrayed young men in prison has taken me into a place that I never expected to be. The photographs that I took on death row at Tucker Maximum Security Prison in Arkansas are definitely the most moving and disturbing work I've ever done."
ALL PROCEEDS go to the WM3 Defense Fund.
If you need more information or have any questions, please contact Anje at velaentertainment@yahoo.com.
For more news on events go to: www.wm3.org
August 15, 2006
UPDATE: Wednesday, July 12th at 6:00pm, Brad Brooks will be talking about the upcoming exhibit and his September 8th performance. Tune in at Towerpod.com.
A Skeleton Key Production:
Space Gallery
1141 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 377-3325
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday: 7:00pm-
Wednesday: 12:00pm - 6:00pm
August 15th - September 12th
There will be live entertainment on Friday and Saturday nights (starting at 7:00pm, unless otherwise noted) for this month long exhibit. Suggested donation is $5.00, please.
Friday, August 18th
Liz Ross
Che - (Carl Horne of Zen Guerilla)
John C. (comedian)
Paul Manousos
Robert Szeles (Kiss the Girl)
Saturday, August 19th
Bret Hagen (Electric Boogie Dawgz)
Dave Dalton "the pastor" (Cell Block 5)
Mykee (Ill Gotten Gainz)
Piss Pissedoffherson (The Devils Own)
Friday, August 25th
Exoneree Speaker: Chol Soo Lee (1983)
[Thanks to deathpenalty.org]
Chol Soo Lee was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. After suggestive procedures by police and prosecutors, which even included hypnotizing one witness, three witnesses identified Lee in a police line-up. Based on this eyewitness testimony, Lee was convicted and sentenced. In 1977, during a large prison yard brawl, Lee killed another inmate in self-defense. Because he was serving a life sentence for murder, Lee was sentenced to death. A supportive movement of Korean-Americans and other Asian Americans formed in response to publicity about the case. They filed a successful writ of habeas corpus overturning Lee’s first murder conviction. The second conviction and death sentence were then vacated. He was given time served for the 2nd murder and released in 1983 after spending ten years in prison, eight of them spent in the solitary confinement on death row. It is important to note that while Lee was in fact guilty of killing another inmate (in self-defense) while in prison, the crime could never have occurred had he not been wrongfully convicted in the first place.
Will Franken (comedian)
Lady Monster (spoken word)
Salvatore Amore (the WORLD's greatest romantic poet)
William Taylor, Jr.
Saturday, August 26th
Lady Monster (spoken word)
Will Franken (comedian)
Josh Fix
Don Miggs
Special Guest Speaker:
Lance Lindsey, Exec. Director of Death Penalty Focus
Friday, September 1st
Melinda Adams (spoken word)
Roadside Celebrity
Dave Dalton "the pastor" (Cell Block 5)
Castles In Spain
Sherilyn Connelly (spoken word)
Saturday, September 2nd
GFE
Dodo Bird (Meric Long)
Sherilyn Connelly (spoken word)
Friday, September 8th
Angela Darling
Face on Straight
Fred
Austin Willacy
Brad Brooks
Saturday, September 9th
Jeffrey Luck Lukas
Butch Berry
Dame Satan
Special Guest Speaker:
Matt Gonzalez, former San Francisco Supervisor
Other artists that will be participating (dates TBA):
Mary Lonergan
Tommy Guerrero
And more to come! I will have a calendar together soon with the dates everyone will be performing.
This exhibit is a WM3 exhibit. Damien Echols created pieces for the May 2006 SKELETON KEY exhibit which are still available. Folks will be able to purchase pieces by:
Damien Echols
Norman Reedus
As an actor, photographer, filmmaker and painter, his work encompasses many different mediums. Beginning as a fine artist, He exhibited in both solo and group shows in Los Angeles and New York before branching out into a secondary career as an actor. Accidentally discovered at a party, he was dared by friends to pursue the opportunity and was soon cast in the play "Maps for Drowners" at Los Angeles’ Tiffany Theater. Film roles in "8mm," "Mimic," "Six Ways to Sunday," and "The Boondock Saints" quickly followed. BigBaldHead is his new production company. He lives in New York City with his son, Mingus Lucien Reedus.
Mick Rock
Mick Rock is “The Man Who Shot The 70s”, the inimitable rock photographer who launched his career with an unknown David Bowie in 1972, following his rise and decent with Ziggy Stardust, collecting Iggy Pop’s Raw Power, the Ramones’ End of the Century, Lou Reed’s Transformer, Queen’s Queen II and many infamous Sex Pistols’ shots. His retrospective at Tokyo’s Metropolitan Museum of Photography in 2003 was hailed as “one of the most exciting exhibitions of pop culture imagery to ever reach these shores”. Mick has a new book, GLAM! and continues working with artists, including the yeah yeah yeahs, the Killers, Queens Of the Stone Age, Fat Joe, Jimmy Fallon and The Ravonettes.
Personal Statement: "I caught one of the documentaries awhile ago on HBO it seems to me these three guys were railroaded because they looked strange to their community...this is supposed to be the land of the free. They need help and I'm more than happy to give what I can to get the word out and Damien Echols is clearly an artist of talent."
Ioannis
Ioannis was born in Athens, Greece. He is the cover artist of such classic bands as The Allman Brothers, Deep Purple, King Crimson, Blue Oyster Cult, Styx, Bon Jovi, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Fates Warning, UFO, Biohazard, and more. In 2001 he formed Dangerous Age Graphics to market his personal artwork, exhibits, posters, prints, videos, merchandising and stage design.
Chad Robertson
Chad Robertson, LA painter and West Memphis Three supporter. “With my paintings I am attempting to show my subjects' inner intentions, emotions, and motivations. The paintings have an emotional dialogue with the painted subject and viewer stripped of the conscious and unconscious facades.”
Jayne County
“Man enough to be a woman.” Singer, songwriter, actor, playwright, artist – punk legend. Beginning as Wayne County, finding fame singing with the group Electric Chairs, Jayne continues to perform all over the world and now creates incredible pen and ink drawings. What can’t she do?
Floria Sigsmondi
Her multi-disciplinary work encompasses film, video, photography and installations. Creating a hyper-surrealism based on the figure, using images derived from hallucinatory dream states. Born in Italy, emigrating to Canada, she now works with The White Stripes, David Bowie, The Cure, Leonard Cohen, Marilyn Manson & Bjork. Her photographs, film and sculpture installations have been exhibited in New York, Paris, Toronto, Rome, Los Angeles, Mexico City, London, Italy, Germany, Sweden and Copenhagen. She has a new book of photography, IMMUNE.
Jonathan Richman (The Modern Lovers)
John Suhay
Artist in residence at Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center in Pueblo, Colorado at 83, he continues photographing various scenes and landscapes in Pueblo. Freed from commercial restraints, Suhay's photographs are rough, edgy, immediate -- and powerful. He has an astonishing archive of more than 200,000 images, most created in and around Pueblo over the last half century. Some was the routine commercial work that had supported Suhay since he became a full-time photographer in 1964. Suhay has never taken a photography class or had any formal instruction. "No, I just looked at magazines ... belonged to a camera club, and listened to all that stuff -- what a bunch of bullshit!"
Grove Pashley
Grove Pashley is a Los Angeles based photographer whose work has been seen everywhere over the past decade - from the Focus On Aids Auctions in Los Angeles to the one sheet movie posters and video covers you have seen promoting countless popular films.
Grove has worked directly with many leading design firms as well as a number of major motion pictures studios including Paramount, Universal, Disney, Columbia, Miramax, MGM, Warner Bros, Fox, ABC and HBO. Grove worked on such films as Spiderman, Tomb Raider, Minority Report, Vanilla Sky, Fight Club, Run Away Bride, Mr. Deeds, October Sky, 13th Floor, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Man on the Moon to name a few as well as several Prime Time Television shows as X- Files and Temptation island.
Grove has photographed a variety of notable actors and musicians including Ozzy Osbourne and family, Thora Birch, Randy Travis, Tom Sizemore, Jenny McCarthy, Donnie Wahlberg, Jennifer Tilly, Bill Paxton, Lucas Haas, Luke Perry, Billy Barty, Henry Winkler, Linda Cardellini, Laurie Holden, Anthony LaPaglia, Rob Marrow, Doug Hutchison, Steven Bauer and Train. Many of these photos and many other celebrites can be found here on this web site.
Another stereotype that Grove is interested in dispelling has resulted in one of the most profound experiences of his life. Several years ago he became interested in a murder case which occurred in Arkansas. His interest began after having photographed Damien Echols who is now on Death Row...
Through his research, Grove has come to realize that the three young men who were imprisoned for the murders were falsely convicted. More information about this case can be found on Grove's other web site: www.wm3.org.
"Photographing these betrayed young men in prison has taken me into a place that I never expected to be. The photographs that I took on death row at Tucker Maximum Security Prison in Arkansas are definitely the most moving and disturbing work I've ever done."
ALL PROCEEDS go to the WM3 Defense Fund.
If you need more information or have any questions, please contact Anje at velaentertainment@yahoo.com.
For more news on events go to: www.wm3.org
