Winston Smith

Punk Art Surrealist

Dr. John Scholarship Benefit Concert at Camp Winnarainbow

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June 6th – Dr. John Scholarship Benefit Concert at the Intimate Coventry Grove in Kensington, CA

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For more info and tickets, click here!

 Welcome to Camp Winnarainbow’s 40th Anniversary Year!

 

Sessions A & B are full. Limited space still available in Sessions C, D & E.

Register online here.

 

Ready for the TIME OF YOUR LIFE?

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Share our 40th year with us!

 

Stilts, trapeze, drama, juggling, unicycle, martial arts, swimming, singing, dancing, hot cocoa, the labyrinth, hanging out and much, much more!

 

Choose Camp Winnarainbow this summer and explore nature, enhance your creativity, begin lifelong friendships, and have BIG FUN. For over 35 years, kids (and adults) have run away to join our circus in the rolling foothills of beautiful Mendocino County in Northern California. Drawing from our knowledge of circus and performing arts, our well trained staff teaches timing, balance and as our founder Wavy Gravy says,

“Survival in the 21st century
or how to duck with a sense of humor.”

Camp Winnarainbow’s philosophy helps prepare campers to reach for the stars! We would love to have you join our community!

Be sure to take a look at our photos.

 

Paper Cuts Collage Exhibition, Alameda CA

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Paper Cuts Collage Exhibition

Opening Reception Friday, February 13  6pm-9pm

Exhibiting thru April 4th  2015

Redux Studios & Gallery

2315 Lincoln Avenue,  Alameda CA

 

Featuring:

Winston Smith  •  Jesse Treece  •  Hope Kroll  •  Bill Zindel  •  Adrian Velazco

Justin Angelos  •  Michael Tunk  •  Eric Case  •  John Hundt  •  Tres Roemer

David Delruelle  •  Katie McCann  •  Zach Collins  •  Frank Morison

 

Refreshments + Open Studios

Redux Studios & Gallery is Open Daily  11am-6:30pm

(510) 865-1109

 

 

Dead Kennedys: Alex Ogg, Winston Smith, Ruby Ray

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Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, The Early Years Author: Alex Ogg • Illustrations by Winston Smith • Photographs by Ruby Ray

Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, The Early Years
Author: Alex Ogg • Illustrations by Winston Smith • Photographs by Ruby Ray
Publisher: PM Press
Published: June 2014
Format: Paperback
Size: 9 x 6
Page Count: 224
Subjects: Music-Punk/Politics-Activism

 

Dead Kennedys routinely top both critic and fan polls as the greatest punk band of their generation. Their debut full-length, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, in particular, is regularly voted among the top albums in the genre. Fresh Fruit offered a perfect hybrid of humor and polemic strapped to a musical chassis that was as tetchy and inventive as Jello Biafra’s withering broadsides. Those lyrics, cruel in their precision, were revelatory. But it wouldn’t have worked if the underlying sonics were not such an uproarious rush, the paraffin to Biafra’s naked flame.

Dead Kennedys’ continuing influence is an extraordinary achievement for a band that had practically zero radio play and only released records on independent labels. They not only existed outside of the mainstream but were, as V. Vale of Search and Destroy noted, the first band of their stature to turn on and attack the music industry itself. The DKs set so much in motion. They were integral to the formulation of an alternative network that allowed bands on the first rung of the ladder to tour outside of their own backyard. They were instrumental in supporting the concept of all-ages shows and spurned the advances of corporate rock promoters and industry lapdogs. They legitimized the notion of an American punk band touring internationally while disseminating the true horror of their native country’s foreign policies, effectively serving as anti-ambassadors on their travels.

The book uses dozens of first-hand interviews, photos, and original artwork to offer a new perspective on a group who would become mired in controversy almost from the get-go. It applauds the band’s key role in transforming punk rhetoric, both polemical and musical, into something genuinely threatening—and enormously funny. The author offers context in terms of both the global and local trajectory of punk and, while not flinching from the wildly differing takes individual band members have on the evolution of the band, attempts to be celebratory—if not uncritical.

Praise

“We have a sense of humor and we’re not afraid to use it in a vicious way if we have to. In some ways, we’re cultural terrorists, using music instead of guns.“

—Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys

“It was obvious that the DKs weren’t just another band that was gonna come and go. They were something special. Biafra was an absolute talent. And he had a band behind him that were tight and good.“

—Howie Klein, concert promoter, disc jockey, and record label executive

“One day, this kid from my social studies class brought in a cassette tape of The Dead Kennedys’ Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables and I listened to it and my life was changed completely.“

—Adam Gierasch, film director

“One of my favorite rock ’n’ roll memories is of an after-party during the DKs’ first visit to Seattle. Recognize that bands like this for me—these actual guys being at a party in the same house that I was in—was like being in the presence of Led Zeppelin or Kiss.“

—Duff McKagan of Guns ’n’ Roses

“My education was punk rock—what the Dead Kennedys said . . . It was attacking America, but it was American at the same time.“

—Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day

 

Click here to go to PM Press Site.

Feature in Juxtapoz

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All year long, Juxtapoz is celebrating its 20th Anniversary by showcasing the pivotal figures in contemporary art over the past two decades. Some artists are blue chip, some are underground heroes, others are behind-the-scenes legends.

Winston opens his San Francisco studio for this special May 2014 issue. On sale now.

 

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May 2014 also includes

—A retrospective interview with one of the Mission School’s most beloved artists, Chris Johanson.

—Catching up at the Boston ICA with Soundsuit-pioneer, Nick Cave.

—Juxtapoz stops by Winnie Truong’s Toronto studio to see her newest works.

—Ryan de la Hoz teaches us about collage and abstraction.

—Juxtapoz gives a full recap of Juxtapoz Projects during SXSW.

—Robert Williams remembers his friend, Mike Kelley.

—Thomas Prior continues to be one of the great photographers of our time

AND MORE….

Greetings from Oblivion – Originals >>>>Pricing

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Thanks to all who attended the 30th year anniversary of 1984 with us.  We had a wonderful turnout with many of our favorite folks from near and far.

For those who couldn’t make it, or missed purchasing original art, we decided to offer them online.

These pieces are all original collage, unframed.  Sizes are approximate.

So… without further ado…

Greetings-Oblivion.500

Greetings from Oblivion  © Winston Smith   2014

11″x8.5″

350.00

 




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Greetings-Pathos.500

Greetings from Pathos  © Winston Smith   2014

11″x8.5″

350.00




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 Greetings-Tedium.500

Greetings from Pathos  © Winston Smith   2014

11″x8.5″

350.00




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Greetings-Futility.500

Greetings from Pathos  © Winston Smith   2014

11″x8.5″

350.00




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Greetings-Heartbreak.500

Greetings from Heartbreak  © Winston Smith   2014

11″x8.5″

350.00




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Greetings-Irrelevance.500

Greetings from Irrelevance  © Winston Smith   2014

11″x8.5″

350.00




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Greetings-Delirium.500

Greetings from Delirium  © Winston Smith   2014

11″x8.5″

350.00




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Greetings-Despair.500

Greetings from Despair  © Winston Smith   2014

11″x8.5″

350.00




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Bedlam-Idol.500

Bedlam Idol  © Winston Smith   2014

8.5″ x 11″

250.00

 




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Sg-Peppers.500

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Crowd Club  © Winston Smith   2014

8.5″ x 11″

350.00




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We-All.500

We All have our Cross to Bare  © Winston Smith   2014

11″ x 8.5″

350.00





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Triple-Vision.500

Triple Vision  © Winston Smith   2014

8.5″ x 11″

350.00




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The-Tempest.500

The Tempest  © Winston Smith   2014

8.5″ x 11″

300.00




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L'Alva.500

L’Alva  © Winston Smith   2014

8.5″ x 11″

300.00




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 The-Firmament.500

The Firmament  © Winston Smith   2014

8.5″ x 11″

300.00




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Bit-God.500

Bit God  © Winston Smith   2014

8.5″ x 11″

350.00





Greetings from Oblivion – This Friday

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Play>>

The 30th Year Anniversary of 1984

 

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Attention All Inner Party Members!

Prepare to Attend the Spontaneous Demonstration in Celebration of

Airstrip One’s 6th Five-Year Plan.

 

Proceedings will commence at

19,00 hours (7pm-10pm)

in the Prole Quarter of North Beach at the

Chestnut Tree Café located at

Grant’s Tomb Gallery in San Francisco.

Only Officially Sanctioned Artwork will be on Display from

the Ministry of Truth

(Produced and Curated by Inner Party Member 6079/Smith, W.)

 

Proletarian Prices.  Inner Party Art.   Non Compliance is Thoughtcrime.

Obligatory Two Minutes Hate and optional Victory Gin.

Long Live Big Brother.

 

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War is Profit.

Work is Slavery.

Ignorance is Bliss.

 

2+2=5

Get Over It.

 

Crossed-Arms

Play>>

 

Sponsored by The Collage Museum of San Francisco.

 

 

April-4

 

Grant’s Tomb Gallery is located at

50A Bannam Alley in North Beach

Click Here for a Map

Greetings from Oblivion

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Play>>

The 30th Year Anniversary of 1984

 

Big-Brother.yellow

 

Attention All Inner Party Members!

Prepare to Attend the Spontaneous Demonstration in Celebration of

Airstrip One’s 6th Five-Year Plan.

 

Proceedings will commence at

19,00 hours (7pm-10pm)

in the Prole Quarter of North Beach at the

Chestnut Tree Café located at

Grant’s Tomb Gallery in San Francisco.

Only Officially Sanctioned Artwork will be on Display from

the Ministry of Truth

(Produced and Curated by Inner Party Member 6079/Smith, W.)

 

Proletarian Prices.  Inner Party Art.   Non Compliance is Thoughtcrime.

Obligatory Two Minutes Hate and optional Victory Gin.

Long Live Big Brother.

 

War is Profit.

Work is Slavery.

Ignorance is Bliss.

 

2+2=5

Get Over It.

 

Crossed-Arms

Play>>

 

 

April-4

 

Grant’s Tomb Gallery is located at

50A Bannam Alley in North Beach

Click Here for a Map

 

Give the Gift of Collage this Season

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Check out the new store!

We are excited to offer 8″x10″ prints mounted right onto bamboo.

Ready to hang.  Beautiful and convenient.

 

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Also, new to the store — metal prints!   Dyes are infused directly into aluminum, causing the images to take on a luminescence with vibrant colors and detail. Comes ready to hang with back frame.

And don’t forget the 12″x18″ prints.  These are limited edition and make great gifts for art lovers and collectors.

Check back in occasionally.  We will be adding new items everyday for the next 7 days.

 

Happy shopping!

 

Red Door Studio

Fine Prints and More by Winston Smith

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