Shoe Biz Adidas Store - The Shooting Gallery - San Francisco Art Galleries: February 10, 2005


SAN FRANCISCO GALLERY OPENINGS
SHOE BIZ ADIDAS STORE - THE SHOOTING GALLERY
02.10.05

The Curators and Shoe Biz: The 20 Yard Dash.

Artists: Slick, David Petralli, Ian Johnson, Ferris Plock, Greg "Pnut" Galinsky, Manuel "Gonz One" Gonzalez, Danny Boy, Romanowski, Shizuka Yamada, Bing Ji Ling, Miss Leema, Pila Sanchez, Kana Sugamori, David Lee, Honey, Markley, Ehyren Reed, Kelly Tunstall, Felicia Gonzalez, Dez Einswell, Brian Barneclo.

Comment: Artists customize, artify, gussy up, primp, pimp, and otherwise modify Adidas track suits in what, I suppose, is a marketing effort designed to increase foot traffic or brand loyalty or something like that. If you say to a group of artists, "Each of you take a track suit, and do something with it," offering little else in the way of guidance, you risk a nebulous outcome, which this outcome is, and although several of the suits are nicely reworked, the sushi downstairs was better.

Photo

Artwear.

Photo

Artwear.

Photo

Artwear.

Photo

Artwear.

Photo

Artwear.

Photo

Art.

Photo

Panorama.

Photo

Entrance.

Photo

Man on the street, artist David Choong Lee.

***

The Shooting Gallery: Cine Delirio.

Artists: Shawn Barber, Eric Joyner, Lee Harvey Roswell, Nathan Spoor.

Comment: I had a double biatch of a time trying to hack through the show statement, and it's not my machete 'cause I just had it sharpened last week. But from what I pieced together, the gist is something to do with surrealism updated. So there. The artists are good, name-brands even; the art is up to snuff, typical fare for the venue, and you don't need much more than that to end up with a show worth seeing. Price range is $750-$7000.

Photo

Art (Eric Joyner).

Photo

"Divine Intervention" (Shawn Barber).

Photo

Art (Shawn Barber).

Photo

Art (Nathan Spoor).

Photo

Art - artist (Shawn Barber, right).

Photo

Lee Harvey Roswell and associate getting their picture tooked.

Photo

Nathan Spoor - art.

Photo

Art - Eric Joyner.

Photo

Art (Lee Harvey Roswell).

Photo

Art (Nathan Spoor).








Articles © Alan Bamberger 2005. All rights reserved.