Hangar 18

It Takes All Kinds art exhi­bi­tion March 7th — April 12th, 2009
Open­ing Recep­tion Sat­ur­day, March 7, 2009 from 6:00 pm — 11:00 pm

Curated by artist Ken Davis, “It Takes All Kinds,” looks at how street artists have moved from the world to the gallery, and in some cases back again. All the artists fea­tured in this show have amaz­ing draw­ing and paint­ing skills, much of which were honed through graf­fiti, sign paint­ing, tat­too design and illus­tra­tion. Once these skills left the street they became focused on incred­i­bly beau­ti­ful works of fine art, rang­ing from del­i­cate burned wood draw­ings, (do not miss this work by Matt Richie), to large scale, three dimen­sional urban land­scapes by Task One. This show promises to be a cre­ative cir­cus, the likes of which have not been seen in Alameda before. Music will be pro­vided by invited DJ’s Wyatt Gurp, Har­bour and Tekasaurus R.rex, and there will be a live silk screen­ing demo by Polit­i­cal Grid­lock with prints avail­able for sale dur­ing the open­ing celebration.

Auto­body Fine Art
1517 Park Street Alameda, CA
phone: 510–865-2608
Gallery Hours: Thurs — Sun 12:00pm — 6:00pm

Artists include:
Polit­i­cal Grid­lock
These Oak­land Print­mak­ers have been leav­ing an impres­sion on the world with every­thing rang­ing from their to polit­i­cally charged pro­pa­ganda to their rock poster work.

Shorty Fatz
Shorty Fatz con­sists of San Jose artists Matthew Rodriguez and Samuel Rodriguez who are rec­og­nized for their state of the art orig­i­nal bicy­cle fab­ri­ca­tion and paintwork.

John Stu­art Berger
John Stu­art Berger is a North­ern Cal­i­for­nia artist who passes time by manip­u­lat­ing and mutat­ing var­i­ous forms of the nat­ural world. He is intrigued by organ­isms that tend to slither, crawl, ooze, fly, strike and usu­ally bite!

Matt Richie
Hail­ing from Hay­ward, Matt is known for his metic­u­lous wood­burn­ing and ball point pen work as well as com­pli­cated and seduc­tive shadowboxes.

Ken Davis
Cur­rently liv­ing in Alameda, Kenís work has been described as a com­bi­na­tion of old-school hand let­ter­ing com­bined with con­tem­po­rary themes. Skate­board com­pa­nies, stores, and bands have all com­mis­sioned him to pro­duce work for them.

Task 1
Street artist and sculp­tor who con­stantly is try­ing to blur the lines between dis­ci­plines of Graf­fitti, Fine Art and Visual Media.