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On the main wall: Madrone Art Bar, San Francisco is pleased to announce Attitude Becomes Form: An Army of One Opening EVENT with the artist: Thursday, December 8th 6PM to 9PM, With Live Music by: Kitten on the Keys. ATTITUDE BECOMES FORM: AN ARMY OF ONE The individual can only exist in this world for a moment, a particular time place or culture, and so the individual must continually revise his or her conception to align with the changing world. And as these worlds come and go, each individual is pulled into their normal lives, between the influence the world has on us, and the influence we have in the world in which we live. This installation is about cultural signs, symbols, and icons that reflect a bizarre reality. With juxtapositions of what the world is about, and what it is becoming. THE AIM OF ART IS TRUTH, (it’s not always beautiful) In the Window: Dennis McNulty, August - January 2012 Plus rotations from the vault: Featuring Artists: Patrick Brennan, Cash Cowboy, Dave Eggers, Mik Gaspay, Matt Gonzalez, Theadore F. Green, Pete Gronquist, Jeremiah Jenkins, Nathon Koch, Michael Spike Krouse, Don Langson, Olivier Laude, Henry Lewis, Dennis McNulty, Albert Reyes, Micah Rivera, Larry Schorr, George Schroder, Slinger, Pat Templeton, John Vachon & Walker Evans.

Madrone Art Bar, San Francisco is pleased to announce; On the main wall: On the main wall: Madrone Art Bar, San Francisco is pleased to announce THE ART OF TAG TEAM Opening EVENT with the artists Wednesday September 7th 7PM to 1AM, With Live Music by: And a Live Public Drawing Performance of a sitter chosen at Random! In the summer of 1996, Walter Robinson and Tim Sharman were introduced by a mutual friend at a San Francisco gallery exhibition of Sharman’s paintings. When they met, Robinson was known in the Bay Area primarily for his cartoony, surreal wood sculptures. A self-taught painter, he had been drawing for years, filling journals and notebooks. Attracted to the images in Sharman’s fluid, diverse paintings in part because they evoked the biomorphic forms and eccentric characters that appeared in his own sketches, Robinson bought four pieces from the show. The two artists became friends, and began to talk regularly on the phone. Their discussions led them to initiate a series of collaborative mixed media drawings, which they sent back and forth to each other through the mail in a variation on the Surrealist’s writing game Cadaver Exquis. The constantly evolving pages that the two artists mailed back and forth across the San Francisco Bay were inhabited by characters and layers that appeared and submerged as Sharman and Robinson embellished and altered each other’s successive contributions. As their work accumulated, the two artists named themselves Tag Team—professional wrestling terminology for a situation in which one member of a team tags his partner to bring him into the ring. Their collaboration came to involve public drawing/performances, in which they worked simultaneously on portraits with live sitters during art fairs and fundraising auctions for Bay Area non-profits. Tag Team’s collaboration has resulted in a portfolio of over 300 hundred drawings as well as large mixed media work, sculpture and installations. Both artists continue to pursue their individual bodies of work. Robinson is represented by Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco and Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles; Sharman recently exhibited his ongoing text and installation project, The Doof Museum, at Studio Quercus in Oakland. And more than one hundred other publications. In the Window: Dennis McNulty, August - December 2011 Plus rotations from the vault: Featuring Artists: Alex Andreas, Patrick Brennan, Cash Cowboy, Mik Gaspay, Matt Gonzalez, Theadore F. Green, Pete Gronquist, Jeremiah Jenkins, Nathon Koch, Michael Spike Krouse, Don Langson, Olivier Laude, Henry Lewis, Dennis McNulty, Albert Reyes, Micah Rivera, Larry Schorr, George Schroder, Slinger, Pat Templeton, John Vachon & Walker Evans.

Madrone Art Bar presents: On the main wall: Madrone Art Bar, San Francisco is pleased to announce DAN DION: The Art of Comedians and Satiristas APRIL 1st to MAY 21st Opening reception with the artist: APRIL FOOLS DAY, Friday 6-9pm with entertainment by Punk Rock Piano Legend DJ Lebowitz Divisadero Art Walk Book Signing with the artist: Thursday, April 14th, 6-9pm with entertainment by Piano Mistress Kitten on the Keys Dan Dion is the world's premier portrait photographer of comedians. He has exhibited in solo shows in New York, Hollywood, Montreal, Edinburgh, Vancouver, Sydney, and San Francisco, and is the house photographer of the legendary Fillmore Auditorium. His photos have been published in Rolling Stone, Playboy, Time, Spin, Entertainment Weekly, People, Vibe, and more than one hundred other publications. For this show at Madrone Art Bar, the intimate photographic portraits by Dan Dion, comedy\\\\\\\'s Richard Avedon, are art pieces that move beyond the stand up routine to the person underneath, changing the way you look at comedians and the art of comedy. The new book, \\\\\\\"¡Satiristas!\\\\\\\" by Paul Provenza and Dan Dion is available now! www.dandion.com dan@dandion.com www.satiristas.com AND In the Window: IAN TREASURE: April 20-July 31, 2011 Exit Signs ART OPENING: Thursday, April 28, 2011 6-9PM Ian\\\'s sculptures & installations are influenced by modern mechanics, devices, & symbols -- ones we rely so heavily upon for function and meaning, but that have become almost ubiquitous through overuse. To draw attention to this excessive reliance on modern machinery, he incorporates simple mechanisms in tandem with household items (umbrellas, scissors, signage, etc.), questioning the validity & poignancy relative to the objects’ everyday function. The work is meant to occupy a space between humor & reflection, playfulness & precision, utilitarian functionality & absolute uselessness. Originally from London, Ian has exhibited throughout England and the U.S. He currently resides in San Francisco. Plus rotations from the vault: Featuring Artists: Alex Andreas, Patrick Brennan, Cash Cowboy, Mik Gaspay, Matt Gonzalez, Theadore F. Green, Pete Gronquist, Jeremiah Jenkins, Nathon Koch, Michael Spike Krouse, Don Langson, Olivier Laude, Henry Lewis, Dennis McNulty, Albert Reyes, Micah Rivera, Larry Schorr, George Schroder, Slinger, Pat Templeton, John Vachon & Walker Evans.

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