Tuesday, November 29, 2011

5 Books For Your Artistic Friends This Holiday


Didn't get anything for your friends on Black Friday or Cyber Monday? No worries. We got your back. We have everything you need in the store. What if your friend is interested in something fun and artistic? An art book would be a good idea. We picked 5 books, which cover different art fields, such as fashion, photography, sports, architecture, and interior design. We also have other genres in the store. Come in and find what you and your friends like.

i-D Covers 1980-2010 by Terry Jones

Dennis Hopper: Photographs 1961-1967 by Tony Shafrazi, Walter Hopps, Victor Bockris and Jessica Hundley

Freak Season by Deanne Fitzmaurice and Joan Ryan

 
Trespass: A History Of Uncommissioned Urban Art by Carlo McCormick, Marc Schiller, Sara Schiller and Ethel Seno

Neutra: Complete Works by Barbara Lamprecht and Peter Gossel

Monday, November 21, 2011

The Atelier at the 54th International Auto Show

The Atelier is going mobile!
This week we are going to join The AAU's yearly exhibit of our beloved founder, Richard Stephens, collection of classic cars at the Moscone Center Car Show. Thirty-one of his cars from the 1930's-1960's are going to be on display for the whole duration of the show.

Cars such as this 1954 Chevrollet Corvette from his private collection will be on display

The Atelier will bejoining the AAU exhibit by having a pop-up shop that will be selling our popular AAU merchandise- from hoodies to mugs and decals.


These hoodies are waiting to go!


Boxes that are ready to be brought to the car show!

So if you and your friends, or family, plan on checking the car show out come drop by the AAU exhibit and shop a little! See you there!


54th Annual International Auto Show
San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center
747 Howard St., located between 3rd and 4th Sts. on Howard St.
Exhibits are in the North and South Halls plus the Gateway and Esplanade Ballrooms.Saturday,

November 19 through Sunday, November 27, 2011.

Show hours:
Saturday, Nov. 19 – Saturday, Nov. 26: 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 27: 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
For more information, check out their website:
http://www.sfautoshow.com/

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Gordon Silveria's ‘Sinister Delights’ collection is embracing Atelier! Come and Check out!!

Gordon Silveria is an artist living and working in San Francisco. He’s a full time Faculty member of the illustration department at the Academy of Art University. Where he teach clothed figure drawing in color, traditional and digital illustration and flash for illustration.

He’s sinister delights collection is about a series of darkly narrative, editorial, interaction, and kinetic sculptures based on the iconography and memories of early childhood.
“Saint Theresa Weeps for George Tiller”, 2009, Mixed Media, 36”h x 12”w
This artwork is straightforward memorial to murdered women’s health provider Dr. George Tiller, using a traditional northern Japanese wooden kokeshi doll as the point of conception. This is such an ironic piece that links the connection between the Japanese infanticide substitute and abortion doctor George Tiller.



“My Eyes Will Follow You” 2011, Mixed Media, 18”w x 38”h
This art work is a mash-up of carnival clown, Satan and Jesus. The eye-sockets are recessed a few inches behind the head in order to create the optical illusion that the eyes follow you whatever you go in the gallery. The color-changing LEDs attract the viewer to the evil, staring eyes and enhance the carnival atmosphere of the piece. Paranoid, childlike, lovely, light and conflictingly sinister.



“No, You Shut Up! No, You Shut Up!” 2011, Mixed Media, 15”w x 30”h x 4
This is a fresh-faced explosion of the meme of the happy American family. Carved into the artist’s childhood universe was the fable of an American family: Mom, Dad, son and daughter, as seen in movie, on TV, classroom books, in church. All they scream at each other is “No, You shut up! No, You shut up!” as they spin and bobble. Like permanent toddlers they remain unstable and uncertain of the world and their place in it.





“The Cities We Live in Are like Distant Stars” 2010, Mix Media, 7’h x 3’x approx.
The title itself is after a lyric from the song “Suburban Wars” on the band Arcade Fire’s 2010 album “The Suburbs”. The artist embodies the sadness he feels then friends move away from San Francisco, a permanent woe, he feels, of a mobile society. The daisies represent the artist and his friendship he has lost to this tsunami of uprooted post-modern careerism.

Find out more about Gordon Silveria's works at Atelier!