Highlights From The Fog Art Fair In San Francisco

photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Ed Ruscha and the Great American West @ De Young Museum In San Francisco

Ed Ruscha and the Great American West includes 99 works that reveal the artistโ€™s engagement with the American West and its starring role in our national mythology. This exclusive exhibition has been organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and celebrates the career of one of the worldโ€™s most influential and critically acclaimed artists. The exhibition will be on view until October 9, 2016 at De Young Museum in San Francisco. photographs by Bradley Golden

Mark Flood Gives An Obscene and Depraved Lesson On How To Become An Artist @ The SFAQ [Project] Space

Itโ€™s clear that Houston based artist Mark Flood has a love/hate relationship with the art world โ€“ with the scales often leaning toward the latter. It feeds him, clothes him and allows him to make his work, but what he hates is the politics, the obsequiousness of collectors, the hyperbole of the press, the endless โ€œbadโ€ art, and the rusty, death defying latter good artists put themselves through to get to the top. These are allow things Flood is exploring in Some Frequently Assked Questions โ€“ a show that is on view now at the exciting SFAQ [Project] Space in the gritty Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. A perfect place to stage Floodโ€™s vitriol, but nonetheless itโ€™s a brilliant, must-see show that may be one of the best of the year. Some pieces of note are two triptychs smattered with memes that read as a how-to-guide for making it to the top of the art food chain โ€“ the images are gruesome, pornographic, horrifying tidbits plucked from the netherweb โ€“ stand back and it spells out LOL and KEK, which is a World of Warcraft translation of the former. Some Frequently Assked Questions will be on view until August 15, 2015 at the SFAQ [Project] Space, O'Farrell, 441 O'Farrell St, San Francisco, CA. Text and photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper