Die Antwoord Installation at Fifty24sf Gallery

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Photos by Patrick Kawahara

Jeremy Fish New Works @ Fifty24SF Gallery & Upper Playground

STUDIO DROP-IN: JEREMY FISH “WHERE HEARTS GET LEFT” @ FIFTY24SF GALLERY

We did a check in with Jeremy Fish at his North Beach, San Francisco last night, just to chat and take a few snap shots of what he has in store for his show at our FIFTY24SF Gallery, Where Hearts Get Left. All we are going to say is, you will be very, very surprised… there is a ton of great work going into this show… from the installation each piece of work. The Lower Haight is in for a special night on July 14…

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Rico Deniro - Sculptures

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New works by Saner

Photography by Mike Miller

Opening Night Photos from Mike Miller's "West Coast Hip Hop: A History in Pictures"

photos by Patrick Kawahara

Mike Miller Preview @ Fifty24SF Gallery & Upper Playground

Francis Ford Coppola's Twixt

Press:

San Francisco Chronicle

Fecal Face

WWD

Juxtapoz Magazine

7x7 Magazine

Color Magazine

Preview of work from Saner's "Corazon Sangrante" Opening Friday

From Saner's Studio

Saner: Corazón Sangrante (Bleeding Heart) Opening March 16th

FIFTY24SF Gallery, in association with Upper Playground, is pleased to announce Corazón Sangrante (Bleeding Heart), an exhibition featuring new works from Mexico City-based fine artist, Saner. After showing at our sister gallery, FIFTY24MX in Mexico City, this will be Saner’s first exhibition in our San Francisco space. The exhibition opens March 16, 2011.

Saner is a leading member of contemporary muralists and fine artists working in both Latin America and Europe. His mural work has been inspired by the Mexican Muralist Movement and David Siqueiros, Jose Clemente Orozco, and Diego Rivera. For this exhibition, Saner will be presenting new paintings and drawings on paper, featuring his signature animal and human hybrid characters. His fine artwork is inspired and informed by research into Mexican custom and folklore, mysticism, masks, and skulls. The character’s most basic rituals are laid bare in each painting, allowing the viewer to see inside Saner’s personal symbology. As written by FIFTY24MX curator Liliana Carpinteyro, Saner’s “free and unpretentious spirit allows him to express a new Mexican vision.”

Saner (Edgar Flores) titled this exhibition “Corazón Sangrante” (Bleeding Heart), while reflecting on the things he saw around him: violence, anger, happiness, anxiety, and fear. Saner says these are the issues that most Mexicans deal with as part of a daily ration of “food”: junk food that is “consuming the body of a society that is getting closer to it’s destruction, unless the blood warriors awake,” he says.

Using the contrasts of lights-shadows and light-darkness, Saner reflects the eternal battle of men, his images referring to that absurd struggle of daily survival, exposing chaos as the background for resurrection. Those who see their reflection in these images will be reunited with the impossible dream, a utopia of mirrors that nobody wants to recognize and to which all escaped. Why change if the tide has not affected us yet?

Photos from Alex Pardee and Skinner Book Signing

Alex Pardee and Skinner Book Signing at FIFTY24SF Gallery March 3rd

This Saturday, March 3 from 2—4PM, in celebration of Skinner’s new book, Every Man Is My Enemy, Alex Pardee and Skinner will be signing books at our FIFTY24SF Gallery on Fillmore Street. Pardee’s Zerofriends helped publish the book, along with Upper Playground and Gingko Press. Get there early, come with a book. Or, better yet, Zerofriends will be selling copies of the book, along with other Zerofriends gear. Just a head’s up.