In July, the Polymorphic Plastic Parade rolledinto town and(in cooperation with Austin Green Art) set up camp in Republic Square Park, spent the night, and then headed over to our beloved MASS Gallery to explain themselves and their purpose to the people.
What is the Polymorphic Plastic Parade?
If you haven’t noticed, Art can be quite useless at times. Installation Art more or less is not only useless it can be quite wasteful, usually consisting of mostly waste itself; a big ass mess waiting to be disposed of after the show closes. These facts weighed heavily on the minds of installation artists Ian Gamble and Sarah Witt, so much so that they, like Diego Rivera, set out to make Art that was useful to the public, but unlike ‘Digs’, did so with by using my favorite non native invasive sustainable material, bamboo, and unlikely to be recycled tarpaulins, nicked from lumber yards, creating a village of tepees.
Fuggin Tepees y’all!!! I know right?! They managed to create affordable native housing out of non native materials. Afterwards, Ian & Sarah and some friends, loaded it all into a school bus to tour North America and spread their awesome outdoorsy gospel. This project became known as the…
Matthew Rodriguez, Tim Kerr, Michael Sieben, & Russ Pope…. Three Austin Knights, and some dude from Southern California.
Opened October 3rd, 2009 and shows through November 1st, 2009
Needles & Pens
3253 16th Street
San Francisco, Ca. 94103
http://www.needles-pens.com
Ph: 415.255.1534 • Open Daily 12-7
Circus Gold’s own, Matthew Rodriguez, with fellow Austin Artists, Michael Sieben and Tim Kerr have teamed up with the Pope of Southern California to create a special Art show, for you, the people, but in SF, so I guess you, the people, got to go there to see it.
Inevitably balleresque, this Artshow is worth your heart felt gaze and if, then maybe, your hard earned Cheddar. Check it out or just spend yet another afternoon eating ballpark nachos and yelling at little leaguers…
Postscript:
Previously known facts about Needles and Pens are sparse in my mind other that Monica Canilao painted there exquisite sign and that a drawer that may or may not have been from the blow laden desk of Sherlock Holmes which I purchased with artistic intentions and then gave to famed Canadian Artist, Other, who then painted a dreaming hobo on it and hung it in his show, at Needles and Pens.
Good Morning Children, jolly ho, eat your meat or can’t have any pudding etc, etc…Weekly Saturday Morning Cartooned goodness before we go back to telling you about the Jolly Ol’ Apocalypse (it’s comin y’all, for reals)…
Quick Boopity-pa-doop to awaken your soul:
Then a Long (one) Lenny Bruce’s Masked Man (Long Live Lenny):
In the past here on Circus Gold, we’ve talked about the importance of Friendship (Friends, buncha bastards) and how beneficial it can be to one’s on well being.
Well, Tim Kerr, concurs. In fact, he orchestrated an Art Show around this belief, and even named it….
The Show included Friend Artists Rich Jacobs, Bill Daniel, Michael Sieben, Cynthia Connolly, and Kerr himself. The show took place at Domy Books, in East Austin. Yeah, that’s right, ‘took place’, so there is no way in hell you can see it now, except for here, on Circus Gold, and various other web outposts whom we will not mention.
“This exhibition was conceptualized by Tim Kerr, one of the five exhibiting artists. Simply put, we have been friends for years and our friendship was struck by the admiration of the other by the artwork they had done and the vision we each have.”
