“Colony” by Talia Greene

"Colony" by Talia Greene, a photo by electric works on Flickr.

The World Series, Dave Eggers Style

Go Giants

Dave Eggers took his sketchbook to the AT&T ballpark.
See his day at the ballpark sketch book in the Bay Citizen.

For a different kind of animal try the Eggers It’s Right to Draw Their Fur portfolio. Available online or at the Electric Works store.

Go Giants

Halloween Hats Here

You don’t have to be a dunce to don one of the William T. Wiley dunce caps this Halloween.

The do-it yourself cut-out hat was produced in conjunction with the Berkeley Art Museum’s What’s It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect this year. Gala goers were treated with the site of the hats as table favors.

The poster is available online or at the Electric Works store. Cut it out and: presto, you have your own dunce cap.

One size fits most!

Limited to 200 prints, buy one for the wall and one for your head!

Jägel Challenges with Cartoonish Complexity

The Daily Californian, October 18 features an article about Jason Jägel and his latest book 73 Funshine published by Electric Works.

This delightful, large-format monograph features over 200 images from Jägel’s career, spanning childhood sketches and family snapshots, but largely focusing on his current practice, his sometimes-loose, sometimes-tight narrative paintings and works on paper. Hip-hop influences, family life, and the humming buzz of the street are often found in a single work. Jägel’s work has been increasingly influenced by the music he listens to; this connection has been strengthened by his record cover designs for the LA-based hiphop label Stones Throw. One of Stones Throw’s major artists, Madlib, has three tracks that appear on a companion 10-inch vinyl record, an unexpected feature included in this artists’ book.

Essayists and contributors include Madlib; Jeff Jank of Stones Throw Records; Joseph del Pesco, independent curator; and Nate Denver, writer and musician.

First edition, 210 color pages, and includes a 10″ vinyl record by Madlib.

The Literary City

Ian Huebert’s beautiful, whimsical literary map – loosely inspired by one of St. Petersburg, Russia, by Vera Evstafieva and Andrew Biliter – fittingly evokes the colorful, free-form and text-rich rock concert posters from a music scene that put San Francisco on the map in the 1960s.

Of course, the map isn’t intended as a comprehensive collection of quotes about the city (apologies to Herbert Gold, Bret Harte, Khaled Hosseini, Fae Myenne Ng, Tom Wolfe and on and on).

“The Literary City” first appeared in the Books section of the San Francisco Chronicle and it maps the city’s landscape via a selection of quotes from novels, poems, and essays about San Francisco. Illustrated by Ian Huebert, the map is now available as a 18 x 24 poster.

Harvey Milk Day

Yep, first ever official Harvey Milk Day is upon us! And tweets and blogs abound, good people. We, however are trapped in the gallery on another beautiful and seemingly rarely so day! But, you know, we get Mondays off, so it’s not that bad. And. . . well, Pandora seems to be playing all the right things today, so we feel that the AI’s are on our side as well.

On to news, and it’s that our next show is right around the corner. Bur first: I’m going to show you some of our current show’s installation shots.

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Where were we? Harvey Milk Day. Plaques have been placed. Ribbons cut, and now we’re ready to show you our promo image from Dan NIcoletta’s first solo show in the Bay in almost 15 years. Long time coming, and it’s a beautiful, stunning show.

“More Glitter—Less Bitter” open June 4, 6-8PM. Click the image for complete press release.

Jason Jägel at Fifty24

Gallery artist, printmaker and general good man, Jason Jägel has a show up at Fifty24 right now. Joebob says check it out.

Eames Demetrios at Electric Works

Eames Demetrios at Electric Works

Originally uploaded by electric works

Please join us on December 7th for a book signing and reading by Eames Demetrios and others.

6:30-7:00: People arrive, drink, eat, watch a slideshow of images projected from laptop on the screen, listen to music.

7:00: reading starts

1. Michael Paul Mason
2. Michelle Tea
3. Eames Demetrios
4. Jeff Chang

8:00-8:30: more drinking and laughing and buying of books.

Join us, it’ll be a good time and extremely interesting.

Iva Gueorguieva, Robyn O’Neil, and Diana Al-Hadid

For all you good people in south Florida, check this out: gallery artist Iva Gueorguieva, recent editions artist Robyn O’Neil, and Diana Al-Hadid are having a three-person show opening this Friday at the University of South Florida.

The show promises to be amazing, so if you’re anywhere in the area, go, go, go and see it!

Here‘s some more info.

New Lithograph by Robyn O’Neil

Well, after five years in the making, we’re really pleased to tell you about the new prints we’ve released with Robyn O’Neil. Six prints, and essay, colophon and title page all enclosed in a clamshell box covered in heather gray jersey.

More info coming soon, but wanted to share this with everyone!



New Lithograph by Robyn O’Neil

Originally uploaded by electric works