Deviant and Fugitive Works- Art as the Outlaw
Revelation Gallery, Tu - Sat, 11am - 6pm
1114 Harrison Street
(Enter through Langton Street entrance)
San Francisco, California
(415) 551-1023
bigcrunch3@aol.com
Opening Reception: Friday, April 16, 8pm - 11pm
Featuring Winston Smith, Eric White, Craig Larotonda, Timothy Patrick Butler, Clay Kilgore. Suggested Donation: $2.00
Winston Smith is undoubtedly the modern master of montage/collage. He extracts imagery from the pages of what we blindly accept to be truth and cleverly rearranges their "safe" positioning into beautiful, thought-provoking artistry. His work exposes the political and socioeconomic conditions of the world as desperate and ridiculously surreal, peppered with ass-biting wit. Winston has been featured in numerous articles, exhibited both nationally and internationally and has two books published regarding his work, Act Like Nothing's Wrong and Artcrime. He is most notably recognized for his artistic contributions to Jello Biafra, Alternative Tentacles, Dead Kennedy's and Green Day.
Eric White graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1990 and since then has furrowed a successful artistic path. His meticulously rendered works provide a unique visionary experience absorbing the viewer into a modern-day trip through "The Looking Glass". Through the use of surreal, erotic and pop imagery coupled with intellectual fervor, Eric has managed to seduce both the Illustration and Gallery worlds. His work has appeared in Newsweek, Time, GQ, Entertainment Weekly and Mondo 2000, just to name a few. He has recently exhibited at La Luz de Jesus, Merry Karnowsky Gallery and Track 16 Gallery in LA where he continues to accumulate a number of famous collectors.
Craig La Rotonda holds a BFA from the University of Buffalo where he studied under the direction of nationally renown illustrators Alan Cober and Jerry Pickney. His tenacity and passion to create resulted in the long, joyous haul of many sizable paintings and supplies from Western New York to San Francisco. Since his arrival, the West Coast has embraced Craig's eerie and beautifully rendered figurative works. Following in the footsteps of Schiele, Freud and Klimt, his paintings display detailed texture, boldness of color and captivating subject matter reflecting the passage between life, death and the eternity of the soul. He has exhibited at 111 Minna Street Gallery, Lawrence Hultberg Gallery and La Luz de Jesus appealing to the eccentric tastes of Johnny Depp who collects his pieces. In September of 1998, Craig proudly gave birth to Revelation Gallery in the spirit of housing alternative art.
Timothy Patrick Butler holds an MFA in Printmaking from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco (1994). His small, detailed gouache paintings and pen drawings employ bizarre imagery that evokes Albrecht Durer, Monty Python and botched science experiments. His work has appeared in Hustler, High Society, Barely Legal and Answer Me! He has also exhibited in galleries and museums on both coasts, including the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara and Dark's Art Parlor in North Hollywood.
Clay Kilgore prefers alchemy above graphic design any day. He concocts, experiments, toils and "sickens the surface" within his laboratory to create abstract manifestos. His recipes are formulated and memorized after many delightful hours spent basking in the presence of innumerable toxins. The results of his experimenting are heavily textured surfaces displaying various red, rust and cobalt hues. The art community of San Francisco desperately rely on Clay's expertise and abundant supply (for a small fee, of course) of liquids to create their desired aesthetic effects. His current goals are "to show some of it" and "to store less" and "to say No at an expert level." His work appears everywhere you look in this wonderfully weird city.
