Installing FOR THE LOVE OF COUNTRY, opens on Saturday Sept 7th!

Been having a fun week so far installing our newest show, For The Love Of Country.

Dale Erickson

Dale Erickson

Patrick St Clair

Alberto Ybarra

Leah Thomason Bromberg

Erika Meriaux

Bern Rauch

Driftwood Salon's 3rd Annual Emerging Artists Opening Reception

We had a great opening night for the 3rd Annual Emerging Artists exhibit.
I was really excited about this years show, as I always am, being an emerging artist myself, but also because it represented a milestone for me as a gallery owner and as a curator. Three years ago, when I hosted my first emerging artist showing, I was a little shaky and in someways, stuggling quite a bit with the decision of who to pick. We receive so many entries during these call for artists, but only have a limited amount of wall space.
This year however, though challenging, was approached in an entirely different way. I knew I wanted a broad range of  mediums, to have as diverse a show as possible. And just going into in with a clearer picture of what I wanted the show to look like, seemed to make all the right artists present themselves to me, seemingly out of thin air.
I'd like to give many thanks to everyone who submitted their works, and especially our participating artists, Steen Kjorlie, Gabrielle Curry, Joe Spear, Hugo Kobayashi, Ricardo Miranda, Charles Papillo, Joshua Coffy, Jake Kobrin, Alberto Ybarra, Patrick St. Clair, Johnny Ringo, and introducing Douglas Alan Struble. I couldn't have done it without you guys' amazing works filling the room!

Gabrielle Curry

Patrick St Clair and Hugo Kobayashi

Ricardo Miranda

Patrick St Clair

Alberto Ybarra

Joshua Coffy

Steen Kjorlie

Douglas Alan Struble

Heavenly Father by Ricardo Miranda

Chem Trails by Joe Spear

Chess Player by Douglas Alan Struble

Steen Kjorlie

Steen Kjorlie

Dulcinea by Alberto Ybarra

Grown Up Part 1 by by Charles Papillo

Remnant by Patrick St Clair

Schulgin's Dream by Jake Kobrin

The Weather Up There, by Joshua Coffy

Losing My Cool by Hugo Kobayashi

Hope you enjoyed this entry, and I hope to see you all on September 7th, from 5pm to 9pm for our FOR THE LOVE OF COUNTRY exhibit, featuring works by Mark H Campbell, Bern Rauch, Dale Erickson, Patrick St Clair, Alberto Ybarra, Erica Meriaux, Lean Thomason Bromberg, and Martin Zuniga!

3rd Annual Emerging Artist Exhibit 2013

Happy Spring time San Francisco!

I have been having a blast these last two months meeting some of our city's finest artists.
It's always such a treat getting to do what I do, curating art exhibits, but never so much as when it's with an emerging artist and getting to see them come to full bloom!

I think you will enjoy this lineup very much! The show opens on Saturday April 20th, at 5:00pm.
Come out and find some treasures!

Check out some images of some works that made it into the show below.
We will be featuring the works of Steen Kjorlie, Gabrielle Curry, Alberto Ybarra, Douglas Alan Stuble, Johnny Ringo, Patrick St Clair, Hugo Kobayashi,  Joe Spear, Joshua Coffy, Charles Papillo, Jake Kobrin, and Ricardo Miranda!!

Steen Kjorlie bronze

Steen Kjorlie bronze

Steen Kjorlie bronze

Douglas Alan Struble mixed media

Douglas Alan Struble mixed media

Patrick St Clair

Joshua Coffy mixed media

Patrick St Clair

Gabrielle Curry bronze

Charles Papillo mixed media

Gabrielle Curry bronze

New online store, www.driftwoodsalon.com

I am super excited about our new online store, please check it out! Just edited it last night.
http://driftwoodsalon.com/collections/robert-bowen

Come check out our new show, JUXSTAPOSSE

Hello SF!
I had so much fun at our latest opening party this past Saturday the 19th! Great start to what I know is going to be my best year yet! We are showing Carly Ivan Garcia, Albert Reyes, Lee Harvey Roswell, Renee Castro, Robert Bowen and Lisa Alonzo!
Here are some pics from opening night:-)

Renee Castro and her works

Lee Harvey Roswell and his works

We're open Thur-Sat from 11 am to 5pm, please drop by to check the works out in person, this is a must see show!

Happy 2013! We are please to open JUXSTAPOSSE, a winter group show

Hello and happy new year from Driftwood Salon!

After and amazing holiday break, we are back in action, and SO excited about our new show!
All week long we have been getting delivery after delivery, and I am so amazed and excited to be bringing you our newest show, JUXSTAPOSSE, opening Saturday January 19th from 5pm to 10pm.

We will have works by Carly Ivan Garcia

Albert Reyes,

Robert Bowen

Lee Harvey Roswell

 Renee Castro

and Lisa Alonzo!

Here is our press release for this event, to get a little background on this amazing line up!

Driftwood Salon Presents

“Juxstaposse”

A WINTER GROUP EXHIBIT SHOWING January 19^th to March 16^th, 2013

Hello and happy new year from Driftwood Salon! We are pleased to be starting 2013 with an amazing line up of artists, and we would like to invite you to our opening reception on Saturday January 19^th, from 5pm to 10pm.

For our winter group show we wanted to bring you some fresh and inspiring art that we think really captures this moment in our time, by a group of really talented, inventive and unforgettable artists.

We are proud to feature works by Carly Ivan Garcia, Lee Harvey Roswell, Robert Bowen, Albert Reyes, Renee Castro and Lisa Alonzo.

Carly Ivan Garcia “Bay area native, Garcia is best known for his abstract expressionist paintings which play heavily on color and a barrage of dreamlike imagery. Garcia’s style has been often referred to as “the next evolution of contemporary expressionism.” Carly Ivan Garcia is most definitely a breath of fresh air in the world of abstract art.” -Warholian.com

Lee Harvey Roswell is a self-taught artist from Freefall, New York, whose work is noted for its blend of angst and humor. Themes of death and entropy, tribulation and futility run amok in his distinctly surreal, often-slapstick/ often-nightmarish world. The result is at once mocking and melancholic. For the past decade plus his attention has turned almost exclusively to oil painting, though it's always a surprise what direction he'll steer things next. Lee now lives in San Francisco, and his work is shown, collected and published internationally.

Robert Bowen, The bastard son of 1000 maniacs, Robert Bowen is a San Francisco based artist who watched entirely too much TV. as a kid.  A connoisseur of bad habits and collector of all things wrong, this “artist” feels it is his duty to bombard you with whatever inane and juvenile imagery falls from his hand. Hell bent on world domination, he pauses only occasionally for Mexican food and Lindsay Lohan movies.  A visual artist living and working in San Francisco, Robert Bowen has been exhibiting his artwork throughout the US for over ten years.  Bowen got his start through graffiti and street art, and went on to attend art school and obtain a classical education as a painter.  Robert Bowen’s work is a strange, swirling brew of colorful contradiction that is not easy to define or even understand, but that seems quite the point. Throughout his body of work, Bowen takes familiar iconography and handily corkscrews it with his own unique brand of humor and distinct painting style. Bowen’s ability to reappropriate contradictory symbols into unsettling situations puts him in league with greats like Ron English, and Andy Warhol. He continues to walk the line between charming humor and blasphemous sarcasm with symbolic imagery that leaves the viewer both curious and confused. -Stacey Ransom
Albert Reyes. Reyes hails from El Sereno, L.A., and is a hugely influential young artist. He has an interesting and unique way of interpreting current events and the world we live in today that is unforgettable and unmistakably his own. Working with pencils and ink, and using reclaimed book covers is another clever way in which he incorporates the miraculous and precarious nature of life.

"Albert Reyes for us was an obvious and very natural choice for 'New Blood' as we have seen how his work has evolved, explored, and touched on a wide spectrum of light and dark issues that affect us all in a very unique way that is truly his own. Ranging from the political, social, the spiritual and sometimes the tragic; in a true, pure, and innocent approach that borrows from the iconic and familiar of everyday life, re-contextualized to create provoking situations that challenge the viewer to explore, think and participate." -The Date Farmers on Albert Reyes

Renee "Lady Reni" Castro is native to the Bay Area — really. Born in Oakland, Castro's heritage stems from the Ohlone Native American tribe. (You can't get more local than that.) Her background serves as inspiration for much of her art, especially her subjects' clothing and their deeply-rooted connections to the natural world. Her other influences for the work she creates include Mexican and Spanish folklore, broken-hearted femme fatales, disheveled muses, and erotic heroines.

Lisa Alonzo grew up on a Christmas tree farm in northern California. She spent her childhood painting trees, a mile long fence, and watching Bob Ross. After two years of studying design at Cal State Long Beach, she received her BFA in Fine Art from the Academy of Art "The swirls, curves, and patchwork of dots that comprise Lisa Alonzo's The Amuse Bouche 2.0 turn Alonzo's body into an illuminating road map of art history. Alonzo's arms, calves, and thighs intensely speckled with burgundies, reds, and magentas harken back to the pointillism of Georges Seurat. Her side is replete with sharp spirals that would easily fit into the psychedelic poster art of the 1960s. And the title? That's straight from the 21st century; a nod to the artistic ethos that says you can borrow from across disciplines, in this case food and technology, to create your own new language. It's art as a melting pot of ideas. It's art that comments on the artist and society at large. And its art whose composition- it started as a photographic self-portrait, then was manipulated by photo software, then was painted with acrylic- prompts you to ask, "Who else is doing work like this?" - Jonathan Curiel, SF Weekly
“Juxstaposse” will be on exhibit from January 19^th to March 23^rd 2013. Please join us for an opening party Saturday January 19^th and have a glass of wine and hear some good music. 

We would love to see you! For questions regarding this event please email Camille@driftwoodsalon.com. Thank you for reading!

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