Art Show
contact for art show: wendeekey@gmail.com
Art Show Participants:
Celeste Christie loves money, but capitalism ruins everything she loves. She is co-founder of the group Art for a Democratic Society and a recent graduate of California College of the Arts in Oakland in Jewelry/Metal Arts. You can see more of her work at www.celestechristie.com.
My name is Eric A Tartakoff. I was born in Brooklyn NY April 15th 1964. I spent 2.5 years at the school of visual arts for Photography between 1983 and 1985/6. I took up painting and multi medium art soon after dropping out. I don’t know why I do the art I do but it’s what comes out of me when I’m not looking
cctv
Not knowing how to speak, cctvs parents abandoned him at an early age leaving him nothing more than a pack of cigarettes, a backpack, some lighter fluid, and a few paper scraps. At the age of 8 cctv migrated to Latvia and worked in a huge carpet factory where he would crawl into the machines every time they broke, and used his small nimble fingers to mostly remove bits of thread that would get stuck between the moving parts of the machines. After loosing most of his fingers and an entire hand, cctv turned completely mad, and lost his head. He sooned recovered. His hand and fingers grew back, and he regained his bearings. Today he collects neglected metal scraps, throws paint on walls, and repairs shoes.
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James Harbison:His relentless globe-trotting stalled in San Francisco due inadequate funds, James Harbison has settled into making some sense of his travels by constructing a series of maps. “While I truly do miss my cave in Afghanistan,” Harbison laments, “San Francisco is not too bad a town to get stuck in. The opportunity to show a map has really been a helpful kick in the ass. How the rest of the world was explained to me as a kid, before I got around to getting up and traveling across slices of the globe myself, hardly represents the reality of what I was to see. Sometimes when you are traveling you feel like a big sponge soaking up one amazing sight before you have adsorbed-or processed-the last weird, marvelous thing. Before I jump the last freight train out of an imploding Bay Area, I wanta produce one chart, a document of a reality as of yet unrecorded.”
America Meredith is a Swedish-Cherokee artist who blends traditional styles from Native America and Europe with pop imagery of her childhood. Her influences range from the Bacone school of painting, the Arts and Crafts movement, 60s cartoons, to Moundbuilder shell engravings. She is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation and a hereditary member of Aniwodi, the Red Paint Clan. The Cherokee language and syllabary figure prominently in her work, as it is the strongest visual imagery unique to her tribe. She works in pen and ink, serigraphy, monotype printing, and beadwork, but her primary focus is painting – in acrylic, egg tempera, gouache, and watercolor. America earned her MFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute and her BFA from the University of Oklahoma. She has shown throughout the United States and in Canada and Europe in the last fourteen years and has won awards at the Heard, SWAIA’s Indian Market as well as at numerous competitive shows. She won the IAIA Distinguished Alumni Award for Excellence in Contemporary Native American Arts in 2007 and was voted SF Weekly’s Painter of the Year in 2006. Currently, she teaches Native American art history at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Joe Lubuskin
Joe Lubushkin, finally finished with his college education (dear SFAI, thanks), takes photographs. His most recent works involve the use of toy cameras, photographing landscapes that transform into dreamscape like sensations. Other than taking photos, he works too much, sleeps too little, and sometimes, he likes to ride bikes in San Francisco.
Check out some work at www.josephlubushkin.com 
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Will Atkinson: is a cyclist and photographer who lives and works in San Francisco. He has been concentrating on producing still-lifes with a 4×5 camera as well as co-directing San Francisco’s Evergold Gallery. Will is currently working with the Southeast Asian community to produce a documentary photo-story in East Oakland in conjunction with the San Francisco Art Institute’s City Studio program.
pez i grew up san francisco,ca….my dad taught me how to skateboard when i was about 7 or 8,and thru skating i became obsessed with skate graphics,and logos,started writing graff in middle school,my parents always encouraged me to draw and make art,they were my biggest influences,other influences include…francis bacon,barry mcgee,diane arbus,orfn,bozo texino
Beehive Collective
http://www.beehivecollective.org
Eleazar Lewis is originally from Atlanta, Georgia. Born and raised.Now he is living and working in San Francisco. Lewis is attending San Francisco Art Institute and is majoring in painting.His work embodies pop-culture, urban texture, and a hint of socio-political commentary. The best way to describes his work is “Pop-Primal”. to see more go and check Mr Lewis at www.myspace.com/elunicron
Lindsay Fromm is an artist native to California who creates art in the form of photography, fashion design, and installations of mixed media, in and of her residence of San Francisco. This years photography project is a portrait of working San Francisco Bike Messengers as an interesting element of the street landscape of San Francisco.
Michael Sheyashe is an enrolled Caddo Indian living in Yukon, Oklahoma. He creates art and educational material in the Caddo language, spoken by fewer than two dozen elders. Sheyashe works in digital art and animation, web design, and tradition drawing – combining his projects under the aegis of AlterNativeMedia.biz. McFarland Publishing recently released his book, Native Americans in Comic Books: A Critical Study.
Justseeds.org Justseeds/Visual Resistance Artists’ Cooperative is a decentralized community of artists who have banded together to both sell their work online in a central location and to collaborate with and support each other and social movements. Our website is not just a place to shop, but also a destination to find out about current events in radical art and culture. Our blog covers political printmaking, socially engaged street art, and culture related to social movements. We believe in the power of personal expression in concert with collective action to transform society.
Timothy Pickerill
As a child I was beaten regularly and remained a virgin for what seemed like for ever, spending my idle hours reading the dictionary and studying the death of stars. The good news being I remained relatively unprogrammed and became just crazy enough to be interesting. I’m a semi athletic red head, my sun sign is Sagittarius, red is my favorite color, I like beer, waking dreams, and staring at the wall until strange shapes and figures appear. www.omenproject.com
J Valentine Lahey is a mentally and emotionally challenged psychic-war veteran who runs five miles every day whilst flapping his arms like bird wings. He has taken up picture-making as means to occupy an immense solitude; itself being consequent to a profound and terrible, quite odorous sweat. He is 8 years old and lives alone by the Los Angeles River, where he is also learning to bathe.
Naka. During my time at the San Francisco Art Institute, the study of hand-painted signage, illuminated manuscripts, printmaking, painting and calligraphy have all been influential to my work. As many do, I had led a double life for many years conforming to the systems of education, jobs and fitting into the box for all appearance purposes. The more I studied what had been done to the world through capitalism, the more I just studied specifically about these problems in school, spent my free time in train yards doing graffiti, and lived my life by gleaning the “fat of the land,” and to continued my journey as an Outsider. The work is made from found and recycled materials usually found in my travels through homeless encampments, abandon buildings, train yards, flea markets, and other marginalized places and made in conjunction with traditional art materials. Out of respect for the cultures and communities that I identify and participate in, limiting my materials to a small number for each piece helps me keep the ideas simple and unadulterated by the mass consumerism provided for most “general purpose art-making,” available at your local art supply store.
Curator
Who is Wendee Key you may ask. She is the founder of the nationally syndicated Wendee Key demi-celebrity 10k bike a thon, a fundraiser for down and out ex-hot bass players. Wendee has recently returned to her native Kansas as the restraining order finally expired. Her work has been variously described as Fabulous, Fascinating and Fucked up. As a childhood subscriber to Vogue, The New Yorker and Tiger Beat Wendee has studied and reflects America in her work despite being an ex-pat San Franciscan. A meat eating vegetarian Wendee can run over your dogma with her Karma.
