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Warnock Fine Arts 49 Geary Street, Suite 211 San Francisco, California (415) 677-4001 hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11 - 5:30 Download a PDF list of all SF Bay Area Events. |
Alternative Voices - The Art of Democracy October 2 - November 4, 2008 Reception - October 9, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. |
Organizer: Larry Warnock |
 San Quentin Arts in Corrections |
 Great Tortilla Conspiracy |
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Warnock Fine Arts will be exhibiting prints that emphasize the democratic aspect
of the media. Based on the 2007 journal of the California Society of Printmakers, titled Prints in all the Wrong Places. The exhibit will emphasize street prints, prints in prison, steamroller prints
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| What do inmates at San Quentin, Revolutionary artists in Oaxaca, and poster artists
in San Francisco have in common? They share a tradition of printmaking as
the most democratic of art forms. Warnock Fine Arts presents an exhibition
called Alternative Voices - The Art of Democracy, in the last month leading
up to the
Presidential Elections. Many printmakers from the Bay Area have been active in political causes since the 1960s. The desire to make art that is relevant to political issues, and to spread that message widely, means that these works are more often seen on the street than in a gallery. This exhibition shows explores the intersection between fine art and message that inspires so many local artists. Katya McCulloch's San Quentin printmaking class produces a wide range of imagery from daily life in prison to imagery based on their own identity. Sales of their work helps to fund the Arts in Correction program. Anonymous works by the Oxacan Revolutionary group ASARO will also be shown. On October 9th, from 5:00 to 8:00 the Great Tortilla Conspiracy will be creating tortilla art in person. Mystical faces appear on Tortillas. The face of the Virgin Mary or maybe Barack Obama. During this event there will be sale of posters and prints to benefit San Quentin Arts in Corrections, The Revolutionary Artists of Oaxaca, the Western Regional Advocacy Project and others. |
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