Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

8.26.2013

absolut makeover

Well, there goes the neighborhood.

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If you weren't en route to the playa, and were still slummin' in SF this weekend, you may have wondered what the heck was going down on Divisadero.

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Haighteration gave this write-up about the Absolut Vodka commissioned street art project.

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So is Western Addition the next Williamsburg?

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What do you think?

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Does it qualify as neighborhood beautification? Or yet another sign of gentrification? What about the art itself? Does it inspire or repulse you?

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Another example of how corporations have "bought" San Francisco? I have mixed feelings. And apparently, just like Black Rock City, it's temporary. Store owners and residents will be able to decide if the art/eyesore is here to stay.

7.12.2012

see and be seen

Ran into Chimowitz on his bike the other night.

Chimowitz

He thought he could impress me.

Chimowitz

But his silly tricks don't impress me.

Chimowitz

Although his art certainly does (here's a preview of his backdrop for tonight's event).
Roll on by and strike a pose for us. I'll be wearing a one-of-a-kind custom painted and silkscreened Chimowitz original dress.

VV_DFF_Nightlife

Thurs. 7/12 at 6 pm at California Academy of Sciences. Tix to the DFF/Nightlife $12.

www.calacademy.org/events/nightlife/?t=3

www.disposablefilmfest.com/events/

1.08.2012

Mona Caron - visionary cyclist


Mona Caron is a renowned artist, muralist and cycling advocate from San Francisco.

When I look at this image, I see myself, a native San Franciscan, a cyclist, an advocate, an activist, a dreamer. Liberated. Connected. Creative. In touch with life and her surroundings. I believe this image will carry similar meaning to many women (and men) just like me. Which is why I'm sharing it with you.

Dream on and ride on, friends! If we can imagine a better biking future, then together we can make that dream a reality. Starting today.

(In case you still need to buy that special bikey someone a holiday gift, you can purchase a print of this poster on the SOMA Fabrications website.)

12.28.2011

bicycle = style = art

Bicycle art belongs here. Prepare to be mesmerized.



Sorry for the silence lately, bikey peeps. I have been celebrating the holidays with friends and family. Been an intense year, I'm sure some of you know what I mean.

I've also been really obsessed with crafts, for example - these Jedi snowflakes.

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jedi_snowflakes

stormflake

Sometimes there's more to life than riding a bike!

Feel the force in 2012!

5.18.2009

Get your Bicycle Art this month


Earlier this year, I did a series of Vélo-Vogue-inspired monoprints. Two of them are now on display at CityArt Gallery. If you've walked down Valencia this month, you may have seen them in the window at 828 Valencia (x 19th Street). I like this one because it conveys the moody, foggy San Francisco air that many of us ride through in the summer time.

These prints are on display until the end of the month. For more information about my work, see my yahoogroup. You can view photos of my art and sign up for (very infrequent) announcements about my art showing activities.

4.13.2009

nopalita

I had just left the Rupa and the April Fishes' April Fool's Day concert at The Independent when I ran into this pretty girl returning home.

Even my measly phone decently captured her pretty smile and classic style. I told her how great she looked and she commented on my fishnets, probably feeling like she had to return the compliment.

On stage with Rupa and the fishes, to my surprise, was Mona Caron, the gifted muralist who has transformed so many of San Francisco's public spaces, including the wall behind the Safeway on Market into the iconic Duboce Bikeway Mural.

Thanks to Mona, Rupa (and the Fishes too) and this pretty girl on her bike for continuing to pump SF with their fabulously creative energies!

3.17.2009

New Mission Cafe Seeks Bike Art


We have a new bike-friendly cafe in the Mission, and it seeks local art to show. Artwork can be a range of mediums. Exhibition space includes walls and a couple of small shelf spaces. Artwork must be relatively small. If you are interested in maybe displaying a piece or two, please email a photo and message to Ben at beninsf08@yahoo.com.

The image above is a monoprint from my collection of Velo-Vogue-inspired artwork. My work will be on display at CityArt Gallery in April and May. For more information, join my yahoogroup or simply send a blank message to liliapiliaart-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.

12.12.2008

Art Break


Fernand Léger (1881-1955)
1943-48
Huile sur toile
H. 129 ; L. 161,5 cm
Musée national Fernand Léger, Biot.

Aux cours de plusieurs voyages aux Etats-Unis entre 1931 et 1939, Fernand Léger avait été impressionné, par New York, qu'il qualifiait "de plus formidable spectacle du monde". Exilé aux Etats-Unis pendant la seconde guerre mondiale, il enseigne à l'université de Yale, puis à Mills Collège, il croise les jeunes étudiantes qui s'habillent sans conformisme. La jeunesse adopte alors une mode osée aux couleurs criardes. Le mauvais goût est une caractéristique de ce pays, le mauvais goût, la couleur forte peut donner ici le plein usage de son pouvoir. Les filles en short, habillées comme des acrobates de cirque. Si je n'avais vu ici que des filles habillées avec goût, je n'aurais peint ma série des cyclistes... Les Cyclistes font partie de la série de peintures, appelées La Belle équipe qui se termine par La Grande Julie (MOMA, New York). Léger nous restitue plus exactement le choc des couleurs que la provocation de la jeunesse, il impose un style brutal, incisif qu'il préfère au "goût" sophistiqué français. Les Quatre cyclistes posent au cours d' une fête sportive. Le balayage des projecteurs, lui donne l'idée de séparer la couleur du dessin figuratif. Dans les rues de New York, il avait déjà été impressionné par le jeu des projecteurs publicitaires "je parlais à quelqu'un, il avait la figure bleue, puis vingt secondes après, il devient jaune.... cette couleur-là... elle était libre, elle était dans l'espace. J'ai voulu faire la même chose dans mes toiles

Google/T: In the course of several trips to the United States between 1931 and 1939, Fernand Léger was impressed by New York, called it "the greatest show on earth". Exiled to the United States during World War II, he taught at Yale University, then at Mills College, he crossed the young students who dress without conformism. The youth then adopt a fashion bold colors garish. The bad taste is a characteristic of this country, bad taste, color can give strong here full use of his power. Girls in shorts, dressed as circus acrobats. If I had seen here as girls dressed tastefully, I had painted my series of cyclists ... The cyclists are part of the series of paintings called La Belle team that ends in La Grande Julie (MOMA, New York). Light returns us more accurately the clash of colors that the provocation of youth, it imposes a style sharp, incisive he prefers to "taste" sophisticated French. Four cyclists pose during a sports festival. The sweeping headlamps, gives him the idea to separate the color of figurative drawing. In the streets of New York, he had been impressed by the play of advertising projectors "I was talking to someone, he was found blue, then Twenty seconds after he became the color yellow .... then .. . It was free, she was in space. I wanted to do the same thing in my paintings. "

Thanks to Didier Couval

9.11.2008

STREET MURAL PARTY, Sept 27


"Mona Caron, the creator of the San Francisco bike mural, will be launching her newest mural in San Francisco, amid much fanfare, on
September 27th, between 2 and 5:30 pm. The Mural is located at Noe Valley and 24th Street, at the scene of a farmer's market, to which the mural is dedicated. This section will be carfree in the future. Live music, a puppet show and more will be on offer. For more information contact Joel at noemural[at]earthlink.net or call
415-505-8255."

I'm hoping for a more pro-urban bike mural.