Shooting Gallery

Pretty good for skateboard art and Adobe illustrator mass production prints for cheap prices. Great for enjoying a 40oz cheap beer in a brown paper bag. This is what their known for. SF best attempt at art galleries. Very often shows in fan art and pop culture spoofs.

Awesome. See review for White Walls.

Right next to White Walls Gallery is the Shooting Gallery. They were literally connected to each other as you could walk through the wall and stand inside another exhibit. All in all, the exhibit featured 10 large sculptures, 4 – 5 paintings and around 30 smaller sculptures. I couldn’t personally interpret the pieces in a simplified way but according to the artist the large sculptures explored «the evolution of desire through greed and consumerism with a bit of irony and humor. Whether somber or fantastical, the ornate sculptures are crafted through hours of meticulous care, evident in the elaborate details.» To my surprise Peter Gronquist is a visual artist living close to the Northwest in Portland, Oregon. This probably explains the influence of deers in his show. The exhibit runs till September 1, 2012.

Seems they always have great ART HERE!!! Sometimes sketchy area but worth a visit here, as well as White Walls (connected) and Gallery 941 around the corner on Geary!
Do a mini art crawl and get a great craft brew on tap at Amsterdam Café makes for a great afternoon! (Did for me!)
CHEERS!

A buddy of mine told me about an artist by the name of Olivia Charmaine who happened to have her pieces. no, MASTERPIECES displayed at the Shooting Gallery. Her art displayed intricate detail and a very accurate depiction of nude women which gave it a raw and visceral feel.
There were also other art pieces in another room that were also fun look. If you are into art and appreciate even the slightest forms of creative expression then this is the place for you!

In the middle of the city, come support your local artists! Interesting art, to say the least, can be found here.
All sorts of folks come to art openings here. Art connoisseurs, bloggers, magazine folk, hipsters and scenesters abound with brown bags, smiles, and jovial conversation.

I’ve been here for two openings. The first was not so crowded and free beer and wine were provided.
The second was packed and there were no beverages but the art was not to be missed.
I don’t understand the price on the reviews? Openings are free and likely come with free beer and wine and the few times I’ve been here the art is relatively inexpensive.

Went to an art show here. One of the best art shows ive been to in awhile. If you’re lucky Shawn Barber’s pieces are still up. Check him out. He’s a dope artist and his paintings are unbelievably life-​like. They look like pictures he took with a camera, but he actually painted them himself. And i love how he accentuates peoples tattoos. His attention to detail is astounding.
side note: keep an eye out for my cousin, he’s a very talented and well-​known graffiti artist who im sure will be showing at this gallery soon.

Shooting Gallery has a new exhibit «Until the Whistle Blows’ by Mike Maxwell & Paul Chatem.
Cool stuff that I saw the artist spin. Not sure if he allows others to spin the art but it’s really cool.
There’s a few w/​working clocks in the art.
Very cool.

Shoot me.
go ahead. You know i either have or will piss you off on Unilocal Talk. Or I pm’d someone about what an ass you are.
So take me out cos
The art gods have shown me what is waiting and it is a peaceful room in the Tenderloin with walls of sardonic woodland urban mash-​ups.
As I walk through I see
Forest creatures laden with gold chains and jeweled teeth staring at me or cavorting with fair tattooed maidens all classically posed as if sitting for a Renaissance Master. Painter Isabel Samara weaves fairy tale threads through her work, only this time the just-​right girl is an older wiser bleach blonde with bad jewelry, and the bears want some real honey’s honey.
All this on the same day I read the awesome Tsada’s review of squirrel gangmembers I mean at-​risk squirrels I mean Berkeley Marina
I stood in front of
What is scribed on Unilocal is now crawling up on walls and staring at me. I don’t do the crak and I ain’t got the shakes.
Don’t wake me though. This fantasy fits.
As for the «real» parts:
The staff seemed friendly. I was too stunned by the uh caliber ;) of the Shooting Gallery’s artwork to interact much.
Is that squirrel staring down my porridge?
thought so.

I had the opportunity to attend a special showing for a local Bay Area artist here last night. I walked away very impressed by this gallery, the combination of the lighting and the space made for an excellent experience and helped enhanced a great evening.

Great space with interesting established artist’s as well as up and coming artist’s. Currently featuring the fantastic art of MIKE SHINE! I attended the opening March 5^th it was great. His work is considered «craft/​folk art».
A rainbow of beautiful muted colors shapes and creatures. with gorgeous female imagery, pop art style dramatic signage, lots of wood and a congruent theme throughout all of his comfortable accomplished pieces. His work is impressive and original. If you can go see it!
In the other half of the gallery is a traveling show that started in NYC, of many different artists sketches, drawings, doodles, paint, watercolors, imagery, cartooning… a visual buffet of creativity and style. Something literally for everyone!!! CHECK IT!!! (if your looking to buy… some good prices are lurking about for sure!)

Today’s contemporary artwork is artwork that is largely influenced by the age of mass media. In today’s world we’re bombarded by imagery from all over the planet at a moment’s notice; this affects what artists who live in today’s world create. The Shooting Gallery, at Larkin and Geary, deals in contemporary art which begins as «underground» but quickly becomes well-​loved and recognizable due to its familiarity and right-​now factor.
Recently, I stopped in to see their current show. Joshua Petker’s «Water Lillies» sports a gallery filled with gorgeous canvases covered in layers of worked and stripped paints that shroud ghostly figures with somewhat phantomesque heads floating in a void. The piece on the card lured me in with the beautifully rendered, pensive, aching face floating on a dreamy background. In each piece, there are varying levels of want, desire, need, and whistfullness in the spectrous female subjects that haunt the layered cloudy backgrounds. Repellent, needy, greedy images of female subjects materializing through a cloudy haze and clear only in their varied expressions of need and pain. The painting with the red-​eyes was so sickeningly appalling, that I had to approach the canvas to seek some form of resolution in her vapid expression.
There was none.
All in all, a lesson in wanton emotion throughout the gallery which left me feeling as desperately lonely and in need of escape as I’m sure they were intended to make me feel.
Nothing I could live with, but just the thrill I was seeking on a Saturday night.

Great gallery, one of the ones that I make sure to frequent in SF.
The lighting in the gallery is tops, very easy to take pics in. They also have some very good shows there, so you have the ability to see work from artists like Kris Kuski, Mercedes Helnwein, Ron English and more.
Right next door is the White Walls gallery, and all receptions are scheduled along with White walls, so when you see one show with Shooting Gallery, you can see another right next door.

I love this place. I don’t know whether it’s just my personal taste or whether this place really is just that amazing, but there is always a good show happening. You know, art I actually want to see. The openings are especially fun. There’s always a diverse and fun crowd that is genuine and, while stylish/​artsy, not pretentious.
There’s nothing stuffy about it, which makes it a nice interlude between bars on Polk St.
And I’ve expanded my love of several local artists due to swinging through here. I really like supporting both the local business and the local artists that they support. Win-​win-​win situation.

I was finally able to experience Shag’s art in person, after over four years of waiting for a show near enough for me to visit.
The exhibit was great, needless to say, and the staff were friendly and helpful as well (even to those broke bitches such as myself that could only hope to purchase art).
Mostly though, I’m just thrilled to have met the artist and blabbered some corny profession of my love for his art at him.

Support your local art galleries!
I went to the Shawn Barber exhibit and was reminded what alt art (and art galleries) is all about. It’s about connecting with the real world right now and seeing it through eyes other than your own and perhaps changing your own perception of reality and beauty.
The gallery is located in the heart of the Tenderloin in San Francisco, but, in my opinion, a fitting venue for the artists exhibited. These are not your stodgy Union Square artist types…

As a dedicated subscriber to Juxtapoz magazine and a frequent visitor of the
website, I’m glad to have the siamese-​twin art spaces of the Shooting Gallery and White Walls SF so close to home. Not a single opening is missed if possible, not when you can see artists like Paul Chatem, Sam Flores, Anne Faith Nicholls, Niagara, and more in your own neighborhood.
HOWEVER, I also agree with Coagula art zine in thinking that «most art sucks»…and the trendy, cutesy, self-​referential, and just plain pathetic elements of the so-​called Low Brow art world are also frequently on display here, with the despicable and predictable juxtaposed (no pun intended) with the inspired and inventive. You take a chance of being offended by unoriginal and untalented hipster bullshit every time you enter.
And speaking of hipsters, make sure you take a few tranq pills before attending any opening… packs of conformist fashion assholes descend on these two galleries like hyenas on a gazelle carcass. Note how they don’t bother to actually look at the art, only chatter at their friends with a plastic glass of wine in hand. That’s because they don’t care about art. They only care about The Scene. If the walls were empty, they’d still show up so they could have some social event to blog about the next day.
But all gripes aside, bookmark these two galleries on your browser. There’s bound to be something good coming up soon.

Mike Maxwell and Paul Chatem have a dual show up at SG this month called ’33 Knots’.
These two were a great choice for a group show: their work compliments each other well. Both have incredible line work and unique, fun subject matter.
Mike is a personal favorite of mine. I have to admit that I’ve been following this guy’s work on Fecal Face and Flickr for a while.
His black line work looks like old wood cuts or old printing plates from back when they used to hand etch metal plates to run in the newspaper.
He started this Civil War general series a year or so ago and it has really taken off. They are funny (ironic funny) in that no one (well, me) really pays attention to too many guys from that era these days. So here’s Mike painting Lincoln, Washington and General Robert E. Lee and they are fantastic! And I’m interested! And they have blue skin and crazy shit in the backgrounds and I love them.
Oh AND his paintings are reasonably priced. They start at $ 300 and go up to about $ 1000 or so. Oh and one more thing… Mike is into a bunch of secret society stuff and he painted a really sexy nurse, so if you are into that kind of thing, there is something for you.
Paul, I’m sorry that I can’t give you as much love because I am not as familiar with your work, but I did enjoy it. The real standout for me is Paul’s line work. And his color scheme… very noire and rich. With chickens. And boats. And I believe that there is a hot mermaid in one of the paintings.
Hopefully my enthusiasm will inspire you to get your ass to the Shooting Gallery this month.

I have mad love for my arty friends.
Throughout my life I’ve been surrounded by a juxtapose of wonderfully talented artists, musicians, jewelry makers, dancers and clothing designers. And more often than not I live vicariously through them.
Am I driving up with your camp?
I know I missed an awesome burn last time, but maybe next year.
Off to Harbin Hot Springs in the middle of the week just because it’s too foggy in the city today?
I have a busy day scheduled tomorrow.
Costa Rica for a month to chill out?
Sorry I um, have to work that month.
Upload the photos to flickr.
Which is why I have shooting gallery/​white walls.
Innovative young local artists rotate through the rooms
and captivate browsing art gazers.
Gritty, raw works designed by those with twisted views of that which is inspiring and beautiful.
I’ve coveted many pieces and become fans of various artists
I was first introduced to at their showings here.
Situated perfectly in the tenderloin.
Sweet honey in a grimey beehive swarming with some pretty f*ck’d up bees.
Not yo mamas art gallery.. .