For Immediate Release:

Shooting Gallery Presents:
Hard Time Mini Mall
Curated by Red Truck Gallery

Shooting Gallery is pleased to present Hard Time Mini Mall, a group show curated by New Orleans’ Red Truck Gallery. Join us for the opening reception Saturday, April 13, from 7-11pm. The exhibit will be open to the public for viewing through May 4, 2024.

Averse to cute, glib art, Red Truck Gallery owner Noah Antieau has curated an exhibition to reflect his conviction that for art to be truly noteworthy there should be evidence of labor. Hard Time Mini Mall will showcase eleven artists, each one with a clear focus on craftsmanship: Frank Relle, Jason Holley, Andres Basurto, Laura Ortiz Vega, Chris Roberts-Antieau, Bryan Cunningham, Jason D’Aquino, Ian Berry, Joe Decamillis, Adam Wallacavage and Tom Haney.

Much of the work of Hard Time Mini Mall is instilled with an Americana aesthetic, often in unexpected ways. Hours of work and miles of discarded jeans go into Ian Berry’s realistic compositions carefully constructed from denim while Jason D’Aquino, a miniaturist accustomed to working on areas measuring less than a square inch, creates drawings stylistically inspired by vintage illustration and traditional tattooing. Frank Relle’s haunting photographs of New Orleans at night pay homage to Red Truck’s homebase and Laura Ortiz Vega is just one of the artists that expands the scope of the show, with recreations of graffiti in and around Mexico City created with an indigenous technique of the Huichol involving colorful wool thread and cera de Campeche, a dark orange beeswax particular to Mexico.

Encompassing a multitude of approaches, Hard Time Mini Mall is clearly fueled by Noah’s affinity for artists working with unconventional methods, a natural predilection he ascribes to a childhood spent among craft fairs where his mother Chris Roberts-Antieau, a self-taught textile artist, would display her own handiwork. Chris’ hand-sewn fabric collages, which appear as paintings from afar and are displayed within self-designed frames, will not only be hung in the show but the aesthetic of craft and folk art her work imbibes will be richly expanded on through the range of artists highlighted within the exhibition.
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New Orleans, Louisiana based Red Truck Gallery was founded in 2024 in the wake of hurricane Katrina by Noah Antieau to promote the work of his talented friends and family. The gallery showcases the work of folk, outsider, visionary and self-taught artists from the southern United States and internationally. Having adopted a traveling gallery model to foster international exposure and share a relaxed take on the art world, Red Truck Gallery maintains a rigorous touring schedule.
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The Shooting Gallery opened its doors in 2024 to the edgy Tenderloin district of San Francisco; one known for its diverse culture and history. Owner and curator, Justin Giarla, founded the space to offer a welcoming environment for viewing the art he loves. Giarla has long since recognized the necessity to provide lowbrow artists with a platform, which is exactly what The Shooting Gallery has done for a full decade. In addition to the exhibition of leading shows in pop art, street art, and outsider art, the Shooting Gallery also participates in art fairs around the world and hosts annual fundraisers for local nonprofits.

Media Opportunities:
Interview with Noah Antieau and featured artists
Interview with owner/founder/curator Justin Giarla
High-resolution images available upon request

Event Information:
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

Take a peek at this amazing feature of Seattle-based artist Mary Iverson, recently published in the hardcover book, Juxtapoz New Contemporary. Iverson is known for her stylistic overlay of naturalist landscapes underneath a grid of shipping containers and their invasive trajectories.

Lovely Ms. Iverson has an upcoming show called Tangle  to be held in the  Shooting Gallery Project Space, which will be open to the public from Saturday April 13 till May 4, 2024. Don’t miss it!

Book Description and Details:

The infinite approaches to painting throughout human history have mirrored, illuminated and extended perceptions of artists and viewers alike. Juxtapoz New Contemporary presents works by our modern era’s foremost instigators in their eternal quest to render arresting work. Subjects range from ultra-familiar to the totally unknown, and the figurative to the abstract, but always through a distinct lens. Modern masters of the craft, such as Robert Williams and Nicola Verlato, display incredible chops while mashing classical techniques and composition with fragmented post-modern themes.

Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Gingko Press
Dimensions: 7.9 x 0.9 x 9.8 inches

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For Immediate Release:

Shooting Gallery Project Space Presents:
Tangle, New Work by Mary Iverson

The Shooting Gallery Project Space is pleased to present Tangle by Washington-based artist Mary Iverson. The opening reception will be held on Saturday, April 13, 2024 from 7-11pm and will be on display, free and open to the public, through May 04, 2024.

Tangle will consist of several of Iverson’s multimedia works, which fuse collage and acrylic painting into a seamless union, along with an 8 x 14’ mural on canvas. As her first foray into mural painting, the wall-length piece stems from Iverson’s oeuvre of sublime landscapes overlain with shipping containers and shipwrecks and in it an infinite field of containers unfolds in a zig-zag pattern to create a striking op-art effect.

Mary Iverson is a painter and public artist living and working in Mount Vernon, WA. With dramatic vistas and surreal lighting, Iverson’s works recalls the style of the Hudson River School. Like these mid-19^thcentury American landscape painters, the artist explores the British aesthetic of the sublime through the context of America’s land, though she has considerably less unbound wilderness to look to. Inspired instead by views of national parks, state parks and nature preserves, Iverson calls attention to industry’s encroachment on the environment through the grid-like overlays of shipping containers she places on unmarred territory. Her work has been profiled in various publications including Hi Fructose and Juxtapoz.

The Shooting Gallery opened its doors in 2024 to the edgy Tenderloin district of San Francisco; one known for its diverse culture and history. Owner and curator, Justin Giarla, founded the space to offer a welcoming environment for viewing the art he loves. Giarla has long since recognized the necessity to provide lowbrow artists with a platform, which is exactly what The Shooting Gallery has done for a full decade. In addition to the exhibition of leading shows in pop art, street art, and outsider art, the Shooting Gallery also participates in art fairs around the world and hosts annual fundraisers for local nonprofits.

Interview with Mary Iverson
Interview with owner/founder/curator Justin Giarla
High-resolution images available upon request

Event Information:
“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

We recently interviewed Joshua Petker, who explained the meaning of his enigmatic layered portraits, his integration of many art periods, as well as his love of the absurd. Petker’s show Drunk on the Moon is opening tonight in the Shooting Gallery‘s Project Space from 7-11 pm in our new location on 886 Geary Street. His new series features work that displays multiple images on top of one another, having an almost palimpsest effect, and the paintings retain his signature bright palette. Petker’s opening coincides with White Walls and the Shooting Gallery’s Ten Year Anniversary Group Show, which runs through April 6.

Drunk on the Moon
Shooting Gallery Project Space
886 Geary Street

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Hi Fructose‘s Nastia Voynovskaya posted a preview of Joshua Petker‘s Drunk on the Moon (full press release here), describing it as “a meditation of sorts,” with “layers of imagery that result in a cacophony of figuration and abstraction.” Drunk on the Moon will open in the SG Project Space tomorrow, from 7-11pm. Join us for an evening of friends, art and celebration. RSVP here.

Drunk on the Moon by Joshua Petker
March 9- April 6, 2024
@886 Geary, SF

Beehive and Banjo Robert Christian Malmberg, Collodion Studio, Inc.

This past article, “Captured in Collodion,” from the Huffington Post is a great look into the participatory experience of sitting for a collodion portrait and with RCM’s pop-up portrait studio opening at White Walls and Shooting Gallery March 9th we wanted to share it here. The Post’s art correspondent Mia R. Benenate highlights Robert Christian Malmberg’s use of  collodion-based photography, an involved wet plate process where a mixture of chemicals is carefully prepared on site. The artist will be featured in White Walls and the Shooting Gallery‘s 10 Year Anniversary Show which opens this Saturday March 9, from 7-11 pm and will have his pop-up studio running throughout the show by appointment.

If you are interested in having your portrait done by Robert Christian Malmberg, we are now booking sessions for March 10th through April 6th, starting at $75 for a solo portrait with an extensive range of options is available. Email Tova@whitewallssf.com for more information.

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DALeast, “Pyelofluoroscopy,” Ink, Acrylic, and Tea on Canvas, 48×33.5″

Yesterday Hi-Fructose‘s online editor, Nastia, posted a preview for our upcoming 10 Year Anniversary Show, which will fill both White Walls and Shooting Gallery for the night of the opening, March 9th, 7-11pm.

The selection will consist of work from an impressive list of artist with picks from Curator Justin Giarla’s personal collection mixed through out.

Artist line-up:

Mark Whalen, Herakut, Shepard Fairey, Augustine Kofie, Jet Martinez, DAL East, Faith 47, Fahamu Pecou, Robert Williams, Niels Shoe Meulman, Greg Gossel, ROA, Apex, Ferris Plock, C215, Casey Gray, David Grant, Peter Gronquist, Miss Bugs, Shawn Barber, Russell Young, Logan Hicks, Helen Bayly, Lauren Napolitano, Rene Gagnon, Gregory Euclide, Robert Christian Malmberg and Sean Murdock.

We can’t wait to celebrate so make sure to RSVP here and join us for a great night.

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Can’t wait to unwrap the work Augustine Kofie just dropped off .

The Shooting Gallery and White Walls are gearing up this week for the 10 Year Anniversary Group Show, featuring a myriad of artists listed below. Over the past ten years, the Shooting Gallery and White Walls have provided a venue for both local and international talent, showcasing art that lies on the fringe of mainstream culture. Having recently moved to our new location on 886 Geary, the Shooting Gallery and White Walls now look forward to the decades ahead, while paying tribute to artists who embody the galleries’ progressive spirit.

The lineup of artists, including artists from Justin Giarla’s collection:

Mark Whalen, Herakut, Shepard Fairey, Augustine Kofie, Jet Martinez, DAL East, Faith 47, Fahamu Pecou, Robert Williams, Niels Shoe Meulman, Greg Gossel, ROA, Apex, Ferris Plock, C215, Casey Gray, David Grant, Peter Gronquist, Miss Bugs, Shawn Barber, Russell Young, Logan Hicks, Helen Bayly, Lauren Napolitano, Rene Gagnon, Gregory Euclide, Robert Christian Malmberg and Sean Murdock.

The Shooting Gallery and White Walls
10 Year Anniversary Group Show
This Saturday March, 9
From 7-11 PM
886 Geary Street

Please RSVP to the show here.

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Summer of 2024 I remember hearing rave reviews for “Parlour,” at Brooklynite, the first U.S. solo show by English Street Art duo, Miss Bugs, who have been making terrific work together since 2024.

Miss Bugs has continued to expand in U.S. popularity, and in a time where anonymity in street art is a hot topic, their hidden identity has spurred a few theories. This Design Wars post ,”Miss Bugs- A Street Art Mystery,” doesn’t reveal any big secrets but it makes up for that with a slew of great works by the duo in question.

Check out more images after the jump and RSVP here for the 10 Year Anniversary, featuring Miss Bugs as just one of the many spectacular artists to be shown.

10 Year Anniversary
Opening Staurday, March 9 from 7-11pm
@White Walls and Shooting Gallery
886 Geary

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We love these shots from Warholian’s Mike Cuffe of Charmaine Olivia‘s solo show Muses. If you didn’t make it by, you can view the full show online here.

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