Cool Hunting

Catharine Clark Gallery Photo Exhibit
Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco started 2007 with a photo exhibit that opened yesterday, featuring the works of Aaron Plant (U.S), Ruud van Empel (The Netherlands), Ellen Kooi (The Netherlands), and Carlos and Jason Sanchez (Canada). All of the artists share an affinity for subverted imagery of childhood, though their approaches vary wildly. The exhibit makes for a somewhat eerie but fascinating compilation...

Start Mobile Call for Animated Submissions
Start Mobile, the online purveyor of art for your mobile phone, is taking the leap from static to animated content. Utilizing Flash Lite from Adobe (Macromedia), you can create animations that will run smoothly on devices from Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG and more. At the moment they don't have much content, which is where you come in. Go learn about Flash Lite, then...

Basco
He goes by Vasco, Bazko, Vasko or Basco. At 20 years old he still has some time to figure out what his tag should be. But he doesn’t have that much time. Due to his success at the Upper Playground in association with Fifty24SF. The show opens Thursday, 2 March 2006 and runs through 1 April 2006. Look for his simple yet expressive faces,...

Beautiful Crime
"Graffiti is not vandalism, but a beautiful crime," is one of the philosophical pillars that this guerilla gallery operates on. Now that we seem to have stopped arguing whether graffiti is art, we can start to enjoy some of the fine stuff collected by the folks at Beautiful Crime. The current exhibition by San Francisco artist Pure Evil chronicles how a tale of giant...

AfterModern: Out of Doors
AfterModern, a new gallery in San Francisco's up-and-coming South Park neighborhood (conveniently nearby the SFMOMA) launched with an inaugural exhibition last Saturday called "Out of Doors." Curated by Busy Being founder Amber Abramson, 27, who formerly headed up Los Angeles gallery and store, four x four, the show takes the outdoors as its theme. A line-up of mostly California-based artists, such as HunterGatherer, Deanne...

White Walls "Untitled" Show
The opening reception for the White Walls Gallery show "Untitled" starts tonight. The group show features artists: Caleb Neelon, Sylvia Ji, Ogi, Sage Vaughn, and Anthony Yankovic III. If you don't live in SF, poo for you. These artists are all amazing and just from looking at their portfolios I can tell this show is gonna kick ass. I already know that Ogi's got...