Event

08.19.10
Trouble Coffee Co. 3 Year Anniversary

Please come out and help us celebrate great coffee on the block for the past 3 years, Thanks Trouble!
08.09.10
Biomimicry Project and General Store Pop-up Shop

The Pop-Up Shop is done but the show goes on! Go check it out. Biomimicry Project by Zoe Alexander Fisher at the Eleanor Harwood Gallery.
08.07.10
General Store POP UP SHOP! tonight at Eleanor Harwood Galery

Tonight, August 7th from 7 to 10pm at the Eleanor Harwood Galery 1295 Alabama Street, San Francisco.

Featuring a carefully curated selection of items as part of the Biomimcry Project curated by our own Zoe Alexander.

The Biomimicry Project opens August 7th, 2010, 7-10pm. The show runs through August 28th.

Adriane Colburn
Zoe Alexander Fisher
Futurefarmers: Amy Franceschini + Michael Swaine
Phil McGaughy
Audrey Snyder

And POP-UP-SHOP Featuring The General Store + The Botany Factory

The Biomimicry Project asks its participants to think of their product as a process. Through the process of design, production, consumption and disposal, Biomimicry Project producers work to BIOMIMIC – to integrate, to honor, to open a dialogue with, to give visibility to, and to be inspired by – the natural processes which run parallel and play an integral part in their production. “We are a part of the natural world, not separate from it, and have a shared path with reciprocal actions: while we impact hard on nature, nature also influences us. Giving form to this connectedness and reciprocity is a key part of sustainability” (Sustainable Textiles). The Biomimicry Project utilizes nature’s solutions to illuminate the relationship between human and natural systems.

And as a bonus our new exhibit space in the back will be open! Please join us for the opening and to toast the newly improved space.

Warmly,
Eleanor Harwood
Read About the Artists and their work in The Biomimicry Project

Adriane Colburn has contributed her Episodes project, which were produced as an edition of ten hand-cut Digital prints with ink, published by Gallery 16, San Francisco.

Zoe Alexander Fisher curated the Biomimicry Project and created The Biomimicry Project coat. This couture coat is a product and a process; Hand felted with 100% organic undyed wool (which is an excellent nitrogen fertilizer for soil) and inlayed with vegetable garden seeds, this coat is meant to be worn during the winter season and then planted in the earth during the spring to create a food producing organic garden in the summer. The coat can be ordered in custom sizes and will be made to order.

Futurefarmers: Amy Franceschini + Michael Swaine
Erratum: Attempts to Reverse the Waste Stream
Erratum: Attempts to Reverse the Waste Stream is a new work by Futurefarmers’ Amy Franceschini and Michael Swaine. Erratum, expresses concern and critique of the logic of capital and its effects upon the people and things in our everyday lives through the medium of performance, sculpture and the printed word. In a short video the two artists transform a porcelain toilet into bricks in four movements. In quite brutal actions, they use sledgehammers to smash the toilet into small shards that are then reshaped to form a stack of bricks. This action builds upon their earlier work whereby they deconstruct food policies, public transportation and educational systems in order to create tools to understand and transform their intrinsic logics. Often through their disassembly they find new narratives and potential reconfigurations that propose alternatives to the principles that once dominated these systems. On display will be 4 stills from the video.

Phil McGaughy has a created an eight foot sculpture made from redwood and construction paper, acrylic paint which will be displayed in the center of the gallery. His use of organic wood combined with hobby shop wood construction is intended to call attention to two seemingly opposed forces – human nature, and natures limitations. The abstract milled wood exoskeletons should be considered as both viral predators consuming, and prosthetic appendages reinventing, the found organic forms. His intent is to have the two forms tangoing around each other in a kind of symbiotic tension.

Audrey Snyder included an artwork made of sugar that will melt and dissolve throughout the course of the exhibit. Audrey Snyder is an interdisciplinary thinker and builder from from San Francisco. She is currently pursuing a BFA from The Cooper Union in Manhattan, while trying to integrate her interests in food and agriculture with cities and traditional art processes.
07.12.10
Rachel Corry exhibit at General Store

Please do join us on Friday, July 23, 2010 from 6 to 8pm

to celebrate with works by Rachel Corry.
07.03.10
First Person #4 @ Levis Workshop

Saturday July 17th, 7-9pm

Featuring music by:
Laurel Halo from Brooklyn
Honey

Contributors to Issue #4 “Discomfort of Sculpture”
Ryan McGinley
Yoko Ono
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy
Lynda Benglis (image on flyer)
Maya Deren
Lee Bontecou
Louise Bourgeois
Daniel Arsham

Posters by:
Ara Peterson
Jim Drain
Karl Haendel
06.29.10
JOHN WARD AND FRIENDS BACK YARD JAMB

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO PLAYED AND MADE IT OUT TO THE MOST RECENT BACK YARD JAMB, IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL DAY AND WE WERE HAPPY TO SEE YOU.
06.28.10
Zoe Alexander Biomimicry Project
06.15.10
Live Music this saturday, June 19th 3PM
05.19.10
Kanoa Zimmerman

Head over to Mollusk this Saturday May 22nd for a showing of Kanoa Zimmerman’s amazing spearfishing photos and Mollusk turns 5! Yes! They will be having a bbq at 7pm followed by briny projections and music by Sudden Oak.

Mollusk is located at the corner of 46th ave and Irving St in the Outer Sunset around the corner from General Store.

mollusksurfshop.com
05.12.10
Thank you.

Britton Caillouette sent me these images from our last show…

We are having another show with BLACK BOW this Sunday 3pm!