Sezio

MoPA + Sezio

Sezio recently collaborated with The Museum of Photographic Arts on a new T Shirt line for the relaunch of their store.  The original illustrations by Joel P West were screen printed on 100% organic cotton shirts and are available for around $20. 

If you like what you see below, come out to Balboa Park tomorrow night (06.04) for MoPA's Pop Thursdays event.  Sezio will be screen printing on location, and is stocked with tanks, crews and v's with your choice of ink and blank color.  The event starts at 7 so get there early, we're expecting a line...

Know Hope opens in LA (06.04)

Previously featured, Tel Aviv street artist, Know Hope has a solo show opening this Thursday at the Carmichael Gallery in Los Angeles.  If you're within a hundred mile radius, I highly suggest you be there.  I've been borderline obsessed with his Flickr page, following not only his art, but also his writing for the last year.  Check out the shows poster and his description below.

the times wont save you (this rain smells of memory)

an installation and other moments

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in continuation of this storyline, or any storyline for that matter, we turn to become vulnerable to the times. these are the anytimes. the end of the world comes and goes, it seems, on a regular basis.

that said, this chapter, or episode functions as the embodiment of the signs of things to come- a telegram or bottle rocket from elsewhere, that in clumsy dialect is telling us that we must overcome.

the times are happening in real time.

the naturally inevitable dynamics of every fear, hope or premonition we could ever have.

and as we feel the times rising upwards like a flood, were standing here knee-deep with our fingers crossed while we hope-fully plea, "we'll be after everything someday".

this rain smells of memory. memories creating themselves in real time.

and so its written in the usual but eerily accurate headlines, its written all over our weary faces.

tattooed on our eyelids so when we sleep we are speaking dreams of elsewhere, and subtly and secretly confessing our desperate love for our busted surroundings, and anything or anyone inhabiting them;

and so in that same clumsy, but very eager dialect, we speak a born-again stutter, "the times wont save you, your embracing of them will."

this exhibition holds nothing but a reflection of where we are now, and offers us nothing but the suggestion of adaptation and (re)adjustment to the current tides.

this is a binding burden, and we're all in this together. 

- know hope

MVM : Passion Pit

This song has been in my head all weekend ever since Zack was bumpin Passion Pit during our install Friday. The video for "The Reeling" is what I imagined the after party for Thread would be like. Instead, we crashed our ink stained bodies on the comfy booths at the Corner and ate tots til it hurt.

Art @ Thread Show this Weekend

Today, Sezio will be setting up for this weekend's 2 day Thread Show at the old wonderbread factory. Besides the live screenprinting (and new screens!), we are really excited to be showing art from local artists Mike Maxwell, Wes Bruce, Brent Sandor, Andrew Heine, and Tocayo. All five artists have contributed work to be screened onto fresh, colorful American Apparel blanks, as well. Here's a sneak peak of the works for sale/display:

Mike Maxwell

Wes Bruce

Brent Sandor

Andrew Heine

Tocayo

Quint Contemporary Art : HOMING IN

I had a VIP moment this afternoon when I previewed HOMING IN: An Exhibition of 50 San Diego Artists at Quint Contemporary Art in La Jolla. VIP, that is, until I circled the block multiple times like a fool, unable to find said gallery. Word to the wise: it sits in the alley between Girard and Fay Avenues.

Today the space was empty save for artwork lining the floors and a few people carefully installing pieces. By Friday at 6 p.m., it will be brimming with in the know San Diegans. Among them will be the 50 local artists whose work provides the show’s focus. Naturally, no two pieces are the same. The show includes painting, sculpture, and photography, leaving no artistic leaning unfulfilled.

I already have my eye on Attractive Repulsion, the bright pink number above by Heather Martin. If I had fewer shoes and therefore more money, I might seriously consider the purchase. I didn’t ask the price, but pieces in the show range from $300 to $15,000. Never one to spot a bargain, I’ll settle for staring longingly at it from the corner.

Philip Custer’s Where You At? is another immediate standout. It’s colorful and dizzying and looks like a piece Marc Jacobs or Consuelo Castiglioni might hang in their homes. And, for anyone with a sense of humor, Wick Alexander’s piece speaks for itself.

The Opening Reception is Friday, May 29 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. There will be live music and Karl Strauss Beer will be on tap. The exhibit runs until July 11^th. 

- Laura Shingles