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mé·lange...Sept 2nd

About six months ago, our good friend and rad artist Fred Gray kept talking about tiny things: tiny paintings, tiny works, everything tiny. It started as a broad idea for some artists to focus on--take a break from the big money, big kahuna works--and possibly find a humble approach, well, at least a humble size. Turns out, not only did Mr. Gray encourage at least fifteen artists from the city to adhere to his 8.5" x 11" maximum size, but b.u.s. Gallery is hosting a month long show of this art in a smaller dimension. Come check out the hard work he has put into curating the show, and the work of many artists--most of whom will be in attendance at the opening reception--with paintings you've never seen so small.

    mé·lange opens @ 5pm until 11pm
    Thursday, September 2nd
      same night as the Divisadero Art Walk.

      live acoustic set by Slow Trucks @ 9pm
      http://www.myspace.com/slowtrucksband

por Skunkey / oil / AUGUST 6th!!

TONIGHT!!!!

"por Skunkey" brings you abstract work from local artists and Big Umbrella Studios member artists. The show's name comes from the gallery's loving dog that eagerly, perhaps a little too much, greets patrons to the gallery (everyday but the show days). She is a painter at heart, or maybe a patron often spending hours lazily watching all the silly people draw their pictures in awful shades of grey (dogs are colorblind)...but none-the-less she supports us and this show is for her. for Mama Skunk.

Opening at the same time will be Big Umbrella Studios members interpretation of the BP oil spill in abstract ways. This show is a response--a response to something that shouldn't have happened and to something that we cannot change. Our abstract work about this tragedy might not look like anything, might not help anything, might not even look like oil but it WILL be about that fuel building up in the gulf. fuel.

Happy and sad. or is it thankful and mad??

This show is sure to have a lot of emotion.

Come Join us on Aug. 6th from 7-11pm for the opening of these two new groups of work.

from the Beginning!!!

Photos from our last opening, which was unpredictably beyond awesome: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=461509&id=331184930721&ref=mf

Food - Art of Living

I'd like to start a discussion about food. More specifically how it has an impact that should not be ignored. Universally food affects every living thing. What type of, how much, and the source of are different, but the life it sustains, the energy provided, the absolute need, remains undeniable. It is the only controllable thing, by human interaction, that has this ability (water is included, but food, defined for this post as things grown by humans and eaten). For this reason alone, I think that food is the only thing that will enable humans to come together for a common purpose and stop the hurt to Mother Earth we so irresponsibly are doing, and turn our the spirit of the human race to create an existence for all living things that is filled with less suffering.

This idea, I call,"our food solution"

Why bring this topic to B.U.S... because as you will see my art, life, and little world I live in are being drastically affected, and ias is my ability to provide nutrients to those around me. I'll start with salt and the recent oil spill. Do you think that I will have the opportunity to recreate and use such wonderful salts as in the photos below if we continue to spill water into the oceans. No is the obvious answer to me.

In the pictures below are: Atlantic Sea Salt, Black Hawaiian Lava Salt, Black Sea Salt, French Grey Sea Salt, French Lavender, Chinese Long Black Pepper, Red Peppercorns.

Think.

From the Open Studios

Here are some photos from yesterday's first open studios!! We had some kids & some grown up kids, some awesome art & Lego creations, and we are so psyched to make Big Umbrella Open Studios a monthly event for the rest of the summer!! Please pass it on to anyone who might be interested!!! July 11 & August 8 are the next dates...

I ART BIKE SF DISCARDED

ART FROM THE DISCARDED and the lower Divisadero edition of I BIKE SF open at BIG UMBRELLA STUDIOS thursday June 3rd- In conjunction with the latest DIVISADERO ART WALK!!!!!

IBIKESF = $5 off all Big Umbrella Studios Tshirts and a Free Bike Print with any other Purchase for those that Bike to the gallery -show your helmet, bike lock or point to your bike outside!

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http://www.ibikesanfrancisco.blogspot.com/
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http://divisaderoartwalk.blogspot.com/

Opening night of "bulb-out:" an exploration of construction, change, and space especially concerning the Divisadero corridor

Well, it's 1am and I'm proud to say I'm finally at home after spending several hours with most of the other member and guest artists installing what has turned out to be a really strong, colorful, cohesive show. Therese is still hard at work finishing her installation, Chance has cast aside convention and painted a white wall black to backdrop his pieces, and Chad will be throwing some of his usual sprinkles of magic over the entire space in preparation for opening night tomorrow (Friday night 7-11pm).

We hope you'll join us and enjoy free wine, art, music, and community amidst an ever-changing word!!

Artists include: Sarah Woodward, Chance Carstensen, Annamarie Pabst, Chad Kipfer, Therese Agnew, Beja Tinsley, Natalie Coblentz, Adrian Rasmussen, Andy Statt Miller, Angela Oswald & Tiffany Star

@ 1.0 - runs until May 2nd

"@ 1.0" our current show will be up until May 2nd!

The show features work by all of Big Umbrella Studios member artists as well as some special guest artists! Check it out while it is still up!

The Breaking In

Hello All,

As you know we've taken our time getting ready to print in 2010. This attributable to any of the following: laziness, the need to get our designs finalized and ready to print, and finally the need to have most if not all of our screens re-stretched with new mesh. But, we did do an inaugural run for local underground street food guru The Magic Curry Kart and it was an awesome printing experience from start to finish. We're happy to be where we are.