Helter Shelter opening 2

Jen, Josef & Pam

Carla, Jakub & Phoebe

Jen & Susan

Carla

Lise & Susan

Helter Shelter opening 1

Gallery co-owner Eve Mendelson has done a great job on the snack table. The bouquets are from my mom & my aunt.

Co-owners Eve & Lisa Mendelson & me

SFMOMA Shop

Merle's

Raccoon by Walter Logue

Collage by Jíŕí Hůla

INAUGURATION DAY

An 8.5" x 8.5" painting on matboard that I made for Strange Hope, coming up at Galeria de la Raza.

"Situation Room" installation at SFMOMA

Photo by James Gouldthorpe, SFMOMA

Photo by Scott MacLeod

Photo by James Gouldthorpe, SFMOMA

Photo by James Gouldthorpe, SFMOMA

SITUATION ROOM - installation at SFMOMA

My new installation "SITUATION ROOM" will be exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from this Thursday, January 15th through next Tuesday, January 20th, during SFMOMA's regular hours of operation.

You'll be able to find it up on the 4th floor as part of "The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now."

I've been slowly working on this piece for almost two years, so this sudden opportunity is a very exciting chance for me to actually put it up & see how it is coming together. Like most of my work, it is both amusing & disturbing. Unlike much of my work, this piece is sort of timely.

Technically, this exhibition opportunity is part of "Public White Cube," a project by Joachim Blank, Gerrit Gohlke and Karl Heinz Jeron that is in turn part of SFMOMA's "The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now" exhibit, and it includes concepts, designs & materials contributed by Ledia Carroll.

There is no opening reception for this show. I can arrange to get 4 people a day in for free, first-come first-served, with at least a day's notice. I also work at SFMOMA, so I can be make myself available to meet you at my installation during my lunch hour only, from 12noon-1pm, with a day's notice.

For more information about this project, please take a look at: http://publicwhitecube.com/pwc/?page_id=12

Once my work has been installed, there will be photos & commentary posted at http://publicwhitecube.com/pwc/

Mes Nous-Nous

Another scan from my postcard collection. This is my favorite & last remaining card from a typographically-enhanced alphabet set put together by Fritz Vogel in Zürich Switzerland. Some of you have received cards from this set from me over the years.

The Fox In Winter

Here's another scan from my postcard collection. It's of & by Franta Skála, the last one I have of what was a series of about 6 or 8.

Altiplano

Uschi

Playons

La Florida

Fog

Wingless White Angel

Shelter

Jakub Open Studio

My friend Jakub Kalousek is having an Open Studio this Saturday & Sunday the 13th & 14th, showing some new prints he made recently back in Prague. Directions to his studio are below.


He'll also be launching his new project wherein you can buy time-shares in his original paintings. Actually it is really space-sharing: you get to buy a portion of the painting & have him paint whatever content you want him to in that area that you have purchased. Check this scheme out at Jakub Kalousek “R-Evolving Timeshare” series

From Marin
East on San Rafael Bridge
Take Hwy 580 East-Hwy 80
West
through Berkeley
Bear toward the left
lanes ….
Go about 4 miles
At the major interchange known as the McArthur Maze
take 880 toward San Jose
Go 1/4 mile and take the West Grand Ave/Maritime exit
Make a right on West Grand
Go about 1/2 mile
Make a left on MaritimeTurn on first traffic lights left into fenced gates - 2419 Ukraine Street - see Kalousek, Ranahan Productions signs out front on the building....drive through the gate with guard waving at you - if padlocked by some mysterious occurence, call me at 225 5837 or open it - the combination is 1-3-5-7. and drive into Ukraine street/yard/parking lot - and keep to the left . Look for building 2420 Ukraine - the last building on the left as you drive through another fence gate at the end of the parking lot - It’s one of the old Army Base Warehouses - STEINHEIMER LIGHTING HAS SIGN OUT THERE out front and you can see a access ramp on the side off the building.SEE PICTURE BELOW of my building and Look for my red ford minivan, ... my door are the last sliding door on left
>From 580/Hayward
Go toward the Bay Bridge on 580
The last exit before the bridge is West Grand/Maritime
Do a rapid dive to the right after 580 merges with 80
The exit will take you over the approach to the bridge
and reverse direction
Make a right on Maritime
Make a left on MaritimeTurn on first traffic lights left into fenced gates - 2419 Ukraine Street - see Kalousek, Ranahan Productions signs out front on the building....drive through the gate with guard waving at you - if padlocked by some mysterious occurence, call me at 225 5837 or open it - the combination is 1-3-5-7. and drive into Ukraine street/yard/parking lot - and keep to the left . Look for building 2420 Ukraine - the last building on the left as you drive through another fence gate at the end of the parking lot - It’s one of the old Army Base Warehouses - STEINHEIMER LIGHTING HAS SIGN OUT THERE out front and you can see a access ramp on the side off the building.SEE PICTURE BELOW of my building and Look for my red ford minivan, ... my door are the last sliding door on left


>From 24/Walnut Creek
Go toward the Bay Bridge on 24/580
The last exit before the bridge is West Grand/Maritime
Do a rapid dive to the right after 580 merges with 80
The exit will take you over the approach to the bridge
and reverse direction
Go about 1/2 mile or 3 traffic lights
Make a left on MaritimeTurn on first traffic lights left into fenced gates - 2419 Ukraine Street - see Kalousek, Ranahan Productions signs out front on the building....drive through the gate with guard waving at you - if padlocked by some mysterious occurence, call me at 225 5837 or open it - the combination is 1-3-5-7. and drive into Ukraine street/yard/parking lot - and keep to the left . Look for building 2420 Ukraine - the last building on the left as you drive through another fence gate at the end of the parking lot - It’s one of the old Army Base Warehouses - STEINHEIMER LIGHTING HAS SIGN OUT THERE out front and you can see a access ramp on the side off the building.SEE PICTURE BELOW of my building and Look for my red ford minivan, ... my door are the last sliding door on left

Muddy Path Through Field of Yellow Flowers

Upcoming show at Room For Paint Room For Paper

(an excerpt from the catalogue essay:)

For the third installation in the room for paper, we’re showing early work—quite early in fact—of MacLeod’s, pencil and colored pencil drawings he did between the ages of four and six as a response to the world while living abroad with his parents. We’re treating the show as just that: early work by a mature artist. MacLeod defies easy categorization as a creative person. He is a maker of objects, a publisher of books, a performer, and a keen and compassionate social critic. A brief perusal of his bio will show that he has lived his life in such a way as to reach back and validate this precocious accomplishment in a manner few could. Any questions raised by showing a child’s art in a commercial gallery are assuaged by the fact that these renderings are simply very good drawings by any standards, from the deft sensitivity of the line to the economy of handling to the unhinged titles MacLeod later gave the works, such as Cowboy Jumps Statue, Angry at Snowman, and The Trouble I Had. Scott MacLeod’s unfiltered gestures in pencil on paper from 1960 and 1962 reveal an already differentiated perception of the world, presage a lifelong effort holding true to that vision, and underscore the best of what we hope to showcase here with future exhibitions in the room for paper.

George Lawson, Director
room for painting room for paper