The SG Project Space was full this past Saturday with people who came to see Mary Iverson‘s new solo show Tangle, while the Shooting Gallery put on Hard Time Mini Mall curated by the Red Truck Gallery. The artist included a large scale mural for the show, amidst the small, detailed pieces of shipping containers in natural landscapes. Iverson also attended the opening; she is currently based in Seattle, and has been traveling the world this year; she visited Singapore this past February to paint a public work, and it was wonderful to have her in our city. Come see Mary Iverson’s Tangle, which runs through Mary 4, 2024.

See photos from all of our openings on Saturday in this Facebook album.

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Mutie, “Love Potion No. 9″

Bryan Cunningham (a.k.a. Mutie) has a wall full of pieces in the Shooting Gallery‘s group show Hard Time Mini Mall, curated by the Red Truck Gallery. The artist hand-carves wooden frames, and suspends a painted canvas with grommets and beer pop-tops. The result are colorful, mixed-media assemblages based upon 1950′s advertising that offered inflated promises, and apotropaic amulets from New Orleans’ Vodoun culture and Mexican Catholicism.

The works feature a dazzling array of color, and an overall homespun aesthetic. All the pieces nostalgize a mythos of vintage Americana, where weird and magical concoctions were bottled and sold to the public through adverts in the back of comic books, and roadside signs. Hard Time Mini Mall will be showing through May 4, 2024. Come see the work in person or check out the full online exhibition here.

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Joe Decamillis is featuring 6 of his pieces from his Book Art Series in the Shooting Gallery’s Hard Time Mini Mall group show, curated by the Red Truck Gallery. ‘Book art’ has been gaining momentum in the contemporary art world, and Joe Decamillis is a prime example of an artist who transforms a functioning text into a l’objet d’art. Decamillis fuses the book together with bolts, and then cuts out a window in the cover where he places a small copper-plate painting. The artist has been recognized with awards such as the Winter Park Best of Show, and a top prize at the Boardwalk Art event. He travels nationwide exhibiting his work in galleries and festivals.

In the wake of a resounding death knell from the publishing industry, since literature is becoming increasingly digitalized, there is a comforting sentimentalism and antique warmth in the aura of old books. Decamillis weaves this literary nostalgia into his unique creations; while technology is replacing the utility of books, their aesthetic is more powerfully evocative today than ever before.

Hard Time Mini Mall
Opening Reception – Saturday, April 13, 7-11 pm
On View Through May 04, 2024
@ Shooting Gallery (shootinggallerysf.com)
886 Geary, San Francisco, CA

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This week, the Shooting Gallery was closed for the installation of Hard Time Mini Mall, a group show curated by the Red Truck Gallery. There will be a great spectrum of media and talent – from hand-stitched cloth paintings, moving automata in wooden boxes, art constructed entirely from denim, set within vintage books, and drawn on vintage matchbooks, and much more. The Red Truck Gallery is known for representing art that exposes the craftsmanship that went into it and we’ve been looking forward to working with them since we first became acquainted with the spirited Red Truck crew at art fairs in Miami and New York.

Hard Time Mini Mall
Opening Reception – Saturday, April 13, 7-11 pm
On View Through May 04, 2024
@ Shooting Gallery (shootinggallerysf.com)
886 Geary, San Francisco, CA

Don’t forget to RSVP.

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Hi Fructose ran a preview of “Tangle,” the latest show from Washington-based artist, Mary Iverson (featured in Hi-Fructose Vol. 21) set to open tomorrow in the SG Project Space. Online editor, Nastia Voynovskaya, accurately notes that Iverson’s new work pushes further into abstraction than the artist ever has before with an 8 x 14 foot canvas mural. In the smaller scale work, Iverson pitches nature vs industrial sprawl in elegant compositions with beautiful landscapes in bird-eye-view.

Check out the full preview here and RSVP for the opening tomorrow night at 886 Geary, 7-11pm.

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Mary Iverson will open her solo show Tangle in the Shooting Gallery‘s Project space this Saturday April 13, from 7 – 11 PM. The artist visited Singapore in January with the Chandran Gallery to paint a public work for the Goodman Arts Center and we loved these photos.

Iverson has been fixated on the aesthetic beauty and global impact of shipping containers for years. It’s only fitting that she painted her geometric, pop-surrealist style onto an actual container, which will eventually be returned to circulation and shipped around the world. Her work is described in Juxtapoz’s post: “…it is the perfect shape and structure of the container that becomes a mystical, mythical figure in her paintings, juxtaposed by realistic landscapes of the last remaining American frontiers (the work harkens back to the Hudson River School movement, with the contemporary flourish of rectangular, tumbling containers and ships).”

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Iverson, “Nature 101″ Acrylic, Ink and Magazine Photo on Panel, 10×8″ (2012)

Mary Iverson is back in the Shooting Gallery‘s Project Space for her solo show Tangle, opening this Saturday April 13. Iverson is known for her op-art grids, representing shipping containers and their expansive trajectories, superimposed on naturalistic landscapes. The artist answered our questions about the geo-political impact of the shipping industry, her technical range of painting, and how ‘ugly’ representations can also portray beauty.

Tangle, by Mary Iverson
Opening Reception – April 13, 2024, 7-11 pm
On View Through May 04, 2024
@ Shooting Gallery Project Space (shootinggallerysf.com)
886 Geary Street, San Francisco CA 94109

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Interview from jason holley on Vimeo.

Jason Holley‘s macabre, gritty illustrations will appear in the Shooting Gallery‘s upcoming group show Hard Time Mini Mall, curated by the Red Truck Gallery. After watching Holley’s pseudo-biographical puppet videos, such as the one above, one naturally assumes that the art classes he teaches at the Art Center College of Design must be equally as entertaining. His pieces are deliberately dated and enigmatic compositions; they project the familiarity of old medical and visually descriptive nature books, while throwing in some surprising arrangements.

Jason Holley’s art was described in a glowing review by a previous student of his in Beautiful/Decay: “His illustrations have a sense of decay, as if he attaches the age of these styles onto his work as well. It appears dirty, but the close attention to detail, space, and color really pulls his work into something gorgeous.” He has also been written up in Fecal Face, as well as here in the academic website the Art of Visual Thinking.

Hard Time Mini Mall
Opening Reception – Saturday, April 13, 7-11 pm
On View Through May 04, 2024
@ Shooting Gallery (shootinggallerysf.com)
886 Geary, San Francisco, CA

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Relle, “Telemachus”

Frank Relle‘s photography has a haunting quality, and we eagerly anticipate his feature in Shooting Gallery‘s Hard Time Mini Mall group show, curated by the Red Truck Gallery. The artist started life as a writer, but after reading Tolstoy while working on a tugboat in the Caribbean, he realized that he “would never cut it.” His inspiration to become a photographer occurred during a more banal circumstance. He had moved back to his hometown of New Orleans, where he drove his grandmother’s 1986 Lincoln Town Car at night. He discovered that the wide, old windshield and low lighting framed the outside world in an uniquely theatrical way. Many of Relle’s photographs capture the spirit of this artificial staging; oftentimes there are several layers between fore- and backgrounds, as illuminated by the uniform, grating light. The dreamlike aura of Relle’s photography drew us in at first sight, giving a new look into both the beauty and the ruins of New Orleans.

Relle has been widely recognized for his photographs through winning the Photo Lucida-Critical Mass Top 50, and the Lucie International Photography Award. He has also been interviewed by the New Orleans Times-Picayune, as well as written up in Objects: Journal of Applied Arts.

Hard Time Mini Mall
Opening Reception – Saturday, April 13, 7-11 pm
On View Through May 04, 2024
@ Shooting Gallery (shootinggallerysf.com)
886 Geary, San Francisco, CA

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Andres Basurto, an artist featured in the Shooting Gallery’s upcoming group show Hard Time Mini Mall curated by the Red Truck Gallery, discusses his process of designing  mosaic glass skulls in the above video clip.

Basurto uses recycled glass and refashions them with epoxy resin, reminiscent of the skulls featured ubiquitously in Dia de los Muertos festivals. His exhibits have been written up in the Times-Picayune’s Nola section of New Orleans, Mosaic Art Now, and Inhabitat Design, and Basurto has also participated in the Outsider Art Fair. The skulls simultaneously exhibit power and fragility and we asked Basurtos to respond to a few questions his work raised for us. Check out his answers after the jump and make note that you can view his work, among a great spectrum of artists, featured in our upcoming group show Hard Time Mini Mall, curated by the Red Truck Gallery on April 13, 7-11pm. RSVP Here.

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