White Walls & Shooting Gallery Present:
"10 Year Anniversary Show" 
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RSVP to the Event White Walls and Shooting Gallery are pleased to present the 10 Year Anniversary Show, an exhibition of artists that have provided the backbone of our success and artists we look forward to growing with. Selections from Curator Justin Giarla's personal collection will be on display alongside new works. Join us for the opening reception Saturday, March 9, from 7-11pm. The exhibit will be open to the public for viewing through April 6, 2013. Directly following the grand opening of our new building at 886 Geary, the 10 Year Anniversary Show will be an expansive group exhibition, filling both White Walls and Shooting Gallery with influential artists that have changed the face of urban contemporary art, a scene that White Walls was created to give a home to a full decade ago. What was once an underdeveloped and oft-ignored part of the art world has grown into an incredibly diversified cornerstone of the contemporary market. The 10 Year Anniversary Show will reflect the breadth of talent that made such a change possible with range of work that will include everything from Russel Young’s ‘diamond dust’ screen prints on linen to Gronquist’s sculptural take on taxidermy.
Artists featured will be Shepard Fairey, Mark Whalen, Herakut, Augustine Kofie, Jet Martinez, DAL East, Faith 47, Fahamu Pecou, Robert Williams, Niels Shoe Meulman, Greg Gossel, ROA, Apex, Ferris Plock, C215, Casey Gray, David Grant, Peter Gronquist, Miss Bugs, Shawn Barber, Russell Young, Logan Hicks, Helen Bayly, Lauren Napolitano, Rene Gagnon, Gregory Euclide, Robert Christian Malmberg and Sean Murdock.
White Walls Project Space Presents:
"Cut from the Chase"
New Works from Max 'RIPO' Rippon 
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RSVP to the Event White Walls Project Space is pleased to present Cut from the Chase, a solo show by Barcelona-based artist Max ‘RIPO’ Rippon. Join us for the opening reception Saturday, March 9, from 7-11pm. The exhibit will be open to the public for viewing through April 6, 2013.
With 20 new works on paper, Cut from the Chase is RIPO’s continued exploration of wordplay and typography using ink, spray-paint, watercolors and 1-shot enamel on hand cut paper.
Handmade signage, calligraphy, and graffiti are obvious influences in Cut from the Chase, though the finished pieces are a new take on lettering. Through careful repetitions of cutting and layering many of the pieces begin to enter into a nearly sculptural field.
Born and raised in NYC, Max Rippon left for Barcelona in 2005, where he has since dedicated himself to painting and creating artwork both in the streets and the studio. In recent years his work has become primarily text-based, exploring typography, calligraphy and other hand-painted elements with a sense of humor that underlies much of the work. The artist has brought his work to over 36 countries across the world and has been invited to participate in numerous solo and group exhibitions in prestigious cities including Barcelona, Vienna, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, London, Basel, and New York.
Shooting Gallery Project Space Presents: Shooting Gallery Project Space is pleased to present Drunk on the Moon by Joshua Petker. Join us for the opening reception Saturday, March 9, from 7-11pm. The exhibit will be free and open to the public for viewing through April 6, 2013.
Drunk on the Moon will consist of six paintings, ranging in size from 12x12” to 36x36”, all incredibly bright and awash with color. Citing universal themes of the human condition such as love, optimism, rejection, and mortality as inspiration, Petker creates work with an easy appeal.
From the Artist:
My paintings are a process of layering: what starts out as obvious representational imagery becomes finessed into a reconstructed mess, leaving only a record of the undefined and a recapitulation of the human attempt at finding peace through process. My work combines my personal failures, human history, philosophy, romance, and tragedy all while eulogizing the unanswerable adventure: man’s search for meaning. My paintings straddle the modes of representation and abstraction, with layers of contrasting visual references, from historical portraiture, to abstract landscapes, to familiar philosophical representations like boats, the ocean, and chairs, all which allow the work to strike a balance between irony and introspection.
Joshua Petker was born in Los Angeles, CA in 1979 and received a BA from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. After studying abroad in 2001 at the Lorenzo de'Medici Institute of Florence, he decided to pursue a career as a fine artist upon completion of his studies back in the U.S. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and can be found in private collections around the world.
And be sure to join us next Saturday, March 16th, for
"Flotsam's Harvest" by Mike Shine at White Walls
 Please Contact Tova with Inquiries White Walls is pleased to present Flotsam’s Harvest by Mike Shine. Join us for the opening reception Saturday, March 16, from 7-11pm. The exhibit will be free and open to the public for viewing through April 6, 2013. We look forward to seeing you at the galleries! | |
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