Motif Card Pack by Lena Sjoberg

Please welcome Lena Sjoberg to Little Paper Planes! She has this wonderful set of prints available as well as a zine. If you choose to use this wonderful pack of multi-purpose cards to adorn your walls as framed artworks or to write your most highly regarded correspondence, the end result is "you got good taste!" The pack contains 8 cards, 2 cards of each design (4 total), all offset printed on 300lb heavy weight paper. Each card measures roughly 8 x 6 inches and is in an open edition. You can see more of her work on her website, lenasjoberg.com.

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Megarealms

Balancing forces of chaos, inclinations toward order, and the freedom to play, Megarealms is a dynamic equilibrium between tangibles and impossibilities. Operating in the space between principle fundamentals and measured restraint, Megarealms is at once architectural, sculptural, designed, and painterly. The interplay of color, form, scale, dimension, media and theme activates connections that redefine relationships and forge cohesion among seemingly disparate elements. Teetering on the edge of infinity, Megarealms bends the boundaries of perception, challenging supposed tensions between the everyday and the fantastical, the concrete and the abstract, function and form, restraint and inhibition.

An artistic superstructure conjured from experiences of happiness, despair, solitude and impossibility, Megarealms is as much a work of narrative as it is an experience of its own. Marking a year since my debut solo exhibition, Megarealms is first in an installment of ten exhibitions to be created over the next ten years.

Opening: November 5th 2009 (6-9pm)

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pictorial webster's

Pictorial Webster's: Inspiration to Completion from John Carrera on Vimeo.

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Today! Tara Foley at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery

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Christopher Russell's exclusive print

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Triple Canopy: online and in real life

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Accidental Contemporary Art

Salvatus writes: While walking around Santolan, Pasig, I spotted some well-arranged chairs that were being dried up after being submerged in water and mud due to typoon Ondoy (Ketsana)...

... and looked like an installation work of contemporary artist Doris Salcedo:

Some other of his examples are a little more of a stretch, but still punctuate the smirky crossover between "art" and "life." I think all of us who look at art have had the experience of watching part of the everyday rupture and suddenly become, say, the corner of a Rauschenberg, rather than part of the same ol continuous reality.

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Brice Bischoff

The quest of the unknown, the unexplained and natural phenomenon emulates within Los Angeles based, Brice Bischoff's photography. He is able to capture ephemeral moments which are eerily breathtaking while taking on different roles of the astronomer, geologist, anthropologist and art critic. Besides his careful eye of detail and capturing fleeting moments, he also lets us in on what he is doing. So often we, the viewers are left with endless amounts of images never truly knowing what the artist is in search of. Brice gives us little poetic descriptions, brief though to the point and sometimes just enough information to piece together the larger narrative or history. Though sometimes I like my own interpretation, I am fond of these gestures within the form of words highlighting his own investigations. Make sure to visit his website to view these descriptions.

www.bricebischoff.com

**All images are from Brice Bischoff's website.

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Dutch Door Press

Dutch Door Press has letterpressed a new bounty! Gradually being able to offer more and more of Dutch Door's "birds and blooms of the 50 states" prints at the Little Paper Planes store has been much more exciting for me than watching the state quarters roll out of the US Mint one by one (although I lost interest about 8 years ago). Click the following links to see knockout depictions of the official flowers and feathers of California, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, and Texas.

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Gluten-free?

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Vote for Cortney Cassidy's Skateboard deck!

LPP's Cortney Cassidy designed this skateboard which is super awesome!!! Vote for her design so she can win! I don't skateboard but I would totally hang this up in my house.

VOTE HERE

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Lascaux Caves

I came across this article that was printed in 2008 in The New Yorker, but I wanted to share it with people that may not have seen it. It talks about those first marks of art in the famous caves of Lascaux. I think it is a good read for any artist, just to think about the function and role of art especially when we think back of thousands and thousands of years ago. They did not make these paintings in a domestic setting, there was a possible ritualistic approach in creating these works. Of course we will never really know, but this article proves to be an interesting insight on our fellow artists of the past.

The New Yorker

**The image above is from the article, First Impressions

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Rebecca Ebeling at Maniac Gallery, Los Angeles

MANIAC presents *Bloodsugarsexmagik: To Infinity *new work by San Francisco based artist Rebecca Ebeling conjoining the spectacular and bizarre with the processed and manufactured to construct a binary alternative hosting visual segments of space, empty regions and atmospheres, (images and ideologies traditionally agreed upon) as an alternative to a consumerist adherence to ideas of the unfathomable.

I have seen Rebecca work on this show for some months now and it was exciting to see the process. She will not only have paintings but sculptures as well that are filled with shiny, beautiful pieces juxtaposed with grotesque shapes and colors. This show should prove to be a mystical space to encounter.

The show opens November 6th at 8pm.
For more information go to, Maniac Gallery

To see more of Rebecca's work go to, http://rebeccaebeling.com

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Birds on the Wires

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Call: Lights on SF public art project

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