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Hard Time Mini Mall: Tom Haney

We’re excited to include the talented artist Tom Haney in our upcoming group show Hard Time Mini Mall (rsvp), curated by  New Orleans’ Red Truck Gallery. Haney produces animatronic figurines that gesticulate on their own; the creation, of which, requires an unique assortment of skills like sculpting, carpentry, and mechanical prowess. The inner-workings of these devices are obscured from view to visually isolate the animated figure for effect. Haney has been written up in the Huffington Post, as well as featured in the Spruill Gallery and Detour Art.

Tom Haney is an important footnote in the long lineage of automata creation that mostly spanned from the 13th – 19th century in Europe. While there is a rich tradition of these mechanisms, it is soon becoming a lost art in the wake of the digital age. Haney explains how his work still holds a strong place in today’s culture, “Although some see my work as a reaction to today’s throwaway society, I approach it as a way to reconnect with the past. I cherish traditions, not trends. I love the old ways of doing things, old tools and traditional techniques. Working with one’s hands still has value. I believe there is a magical transformation that happens when mechanical movement is added to a static figure. This movement captures a viewer’s attention and holds it to the point where they are drawn into interpreting the stories the piece conveys. They are not merely observers but collaborators.”

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“Hard Time Mini Mall:” Ian Berry aka Denimu

In January, Denimu, aka Ian Berry, was featured in this video clip for an interview on ITV London Tonight. The British artist discusses his process glueing together collages with denim. His work has appeared in Artstormer, the Daily Mail, and the Huffington Post.

Denimu will be featured in the Shooting Gallery‘s upcoming group show Hard Time Mini-Mall, curated by the Red Truck Gallery from April 13 – May 4, 2024.

We sent Denimu some questions regarding the process and meaning behind his use of denim and were happy to get back such thorough answers!

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Hard Time Mini Mall: Laura Ortiz Vega

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The group show, Hard Time Mini Mall curated by Red Truck Gallery, is coming to the Shooting Gallery April 13, and it will showcase so many talented artists that we’ve been trying to give you all a heads up on each one.

Laura Ortiz Vega uses the traditional Huichol technique of knotting and binding thread with bees wax on wood boards. Her subject matter is based from photographs she takes of graffiti art in Mexico. The translation of large-scale, quickly executed art to smaller, delicate, handwoven pieces makes for a compelling and fresh way to view graffiti. From far away, Vega’s pieces resemble paintings; though upon closer inspection, one can detect the intricate hand work and meticulous execution of the design. The artist describes her appropriation of raw street murals into radiant miniature works: “I reinterpret the graffiti imagery to give the viewer the experience of intimacy and curiosity, transforming their encounter from aggressive, bodily and masculine experience into a more delicate, manual and feminine one.” via

Fellow artist Ian Berry(Denimu), who will also be showing in Hard Time Mini Mall, authored a post for Lost In E Minor describing Vega as paying “homage to this traditional art form while subverting it at the same time, transforming it into something new and fascinating. Paint becomes thread, an old technique gets new life, and something momentary gets woven into permanence.” Vega has been featured in the Arts Observer, Ahomina, and has shown in the Lyons Weir Gallery of 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

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Inside the Studio: “Sea” by Mary Iverson

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Mary Iverson in her studio working on her latest mural, “Sea.”

Mary Iverson has been preparing for her upcoming SG Project Space show Tangle, opening on Saturday, April 13, and we asked her for some shots from the artist’s studio, as she works on her first large-scale mural entitled Sea. We get an inside look into her process, where she has to draft preliminary sketches before translating the design to a larger dimension. Check out the reams of tape Iverson used to get her line-work as precise as possible!

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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Hard Time Mini Mall: Chris Roberts-Antieau

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Roberts-Antieau, “Ghosts of Birds”

Chris Roberts-Antieau is a successful artist by anyone’s standard, with a roster of celebrity clients that includes Oprah, Lyle Lovett and Bill Clinton. Her talent was not always so appreciated; early on she walked out from an art class where her teacher ridiculed her work and never went back.

Years after leaving the art class, the artist turned her attention to the ‘wearable’ art industry, designing clothes for mass industry after her prototypes were a big hit at the American Craft Enterprises expo. She then began a clothing business overnight, hired a fleet of workers, and was successful within the year. However, she felt unfulfilled with channeling her artistic ambition into fashion, and rerouted her life yet again. Now she creates ‘fabric paintings’ and has fully transitioned to the art world. Roberts-Antieau’s style is distinctively child-like, purposefully primitive, and deliberately coarse.

Having won numerous awards like the Ann Arbor and St. Louis Art Fairs, and the attention of HGTV and Mary Engelbreit’s Home Companion Magazine, Roberts-Antieau also has work in the permanent collection of the American Visionary Arts Museum in Baltimore. More recently, her work has been featured in the Huffington Post and American Style Magazine. Describing her own uplifting and whimsical pieces, Chris says ““My vision of the world is joy-based. Even when awful things happen to me, I’ve found wonderful things along the way. That’s what my art is about: the joy and wonder and humor that’s all around us, every day.” via

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

View more photos for Chris Roberts-Antieau’s past work after the jump. Read more »

Hard Time Mini Mall: Jason D’Aquino

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Vintage matchbooks that will be in “Hard Time Mini Mall”

Jason D’Aquino, one of the featured artists in Hard Time Mini Mall  curated by Red Truck Gallery, is a talented miniaturist, producing detailed drawings on matchbooks, antique vellum and old ledger pages. These tiny pieces are expansive in their ability to captivate; he inscribes his imagery in graphite on found vintage paper. In the contemporary art world, bigger so often seems equated with better, so its refreshing to see art that prides itself on diminutive proportions. The Huffington Post included a recent feature on D’Aquino, noting that they were “particularly impressed” by his matchbook portraits of famous artists: “The amazingly small and intricate illustrations depict graphite versions of everything from Mona Lisa to Marilyn Monroe.”

We are excited to host this established artist whose work has been acclaimed by Juxtapoz Magazine. Keep your eyes out for more news on his solo exhibit in the SG Project Space this July.

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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Hard Time Mini Mall: Adam Wallacavage

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Adam Wallacavage. Image from Inthralld.

Adam Wallacavage is an accomplished photographer who recently published the book “Monster Size Monsters” by Gingko Press, though the art he is most known for commonly take the shape of chandeliers. These elaborate light fixtures are written up in a multitude of interior design blogs such as Inthralld and Apartment Therapy, where his sculptural yet functioning pieces are crafted in a myriad of colors and designs. The artist has also decorated his own home with his work, as is shown in the Philadelphia Magazine‘s post here.

Inspired by the organic and free-flowing form of these cephalopods, the light fixtures also have a distinctly Gothic and Baroque air. Craft can no longer be separated from Fine Art in the wake of Modern discourse, just as Wallacavage’s chandeliers have both operative value and a high artistic calibre. Hi Fructose Magazine describes his work which is “as sumptuous as it is unusual” and “exquisite and bizarre” in their post.  The artist has also exhibited in the Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York City.

Wallacavage will be showing in the Red Truck Gallery curated  group show “Hard Time Mini Mall.” coming to the Shooting Gallery on April 13, 2024.

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

Follow the jump to seem more images of Adam Wallacavage’s work. Read more »

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