Wild Posting
Opening Gala Sunday August 25, 2002, 6pm to 8pm
Mission Street between 21st and 22nd Streets. Arrive early for best viewing.
About Wild Posting
The Budget Gallery’s “Wild Posting” show was the first organized effort to show and sell art on pre-existing temporary walls surrounding construction sites/abandoned buildings in San Francisco.
“Wild Posting” is an advertising term for poster sized advertisements that cover entire walls, plywood walkways, boarded-up windows, and temporary plywood walls — any space that is available and highly visible during the day. (In other words, great places for murals and other art.) Advertisers get away with what might otherwise be called “graffiti” or “vandalism,” because many cities do not have strict laws against such advertising. The goal of the Budget Gallery’s Wild Posting show was to demonstrate other possibilities for this space and promote art and art making. Through this, we hope art is seen by an audience who wouldn’t ordinarily view it in a conventional gallery or art space.
Viewing the Show
The Wild Posting Show opened on Mission Street between 21st and 22nd on Sunday August 25th, 2002. The art was shown in front of 2 abandoned buildings. One, an out of buisness movie theater called Cine Latino, the other a neighboring boarded-up store front.
Much of the work was sold at the opening, the rest stayed the night on Mission St. Viewers were instructed to remove the work and contact sales@budgetgallery.org regarding payment, so far no contact was made regarding the remaining work. Viewers were instructed to arrive early because work was removed when sold. Sale prices ranged from free, to one dollar, to $100 dollars. All sales were based on the honor system.
Artists
Over 30 artists from around the world participated in the show. A complete list is below. Some samples of artists work is shown on our Wild Posting artists page.
Wild Posting Artists: Garth Amundson, Kalim Armstrong, Claire Baker, Dale Dreiling, Anna Marie Benson, Cynthia (Burgess) Yardley, Rick Camire, Adam Connelly, Jessica D’Elena, Amy Jo Diaz, Sam Diephius, Sara Dierck, em!ly, Pierre Gour, Arthur Huang, Gina Kalabishis, Michael Kenny, Krouse, Steven Lambert, Mark Landes, Kent Manske, Richard Miller, Liz Oppenheimer, Francesca Pastine, Ben Prince, Rigo 02, Rodni, Dan Spencer, Jacquelyn Summel, Mason St. Peter, Jennifer Ryan, Scott Vermeire, and Nanette Wylde.
If you are an artist looking to submit your work, we are currently organizing other shows. Please send a letter of interest to info@budgetgallery.org.
Richard Miller
- “Isabel, Unconvinced”
- Exterior Latex Enamel on Board
- 16 ” x 32″
- $25.00
Acquiring a BS in Graphic Design at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1990 hasn’t prevented Richard from wasting his life on more fulfilling pursuits such as guitar building, motorcycle crashing, and the drawing of pseudo-gothic comic heroines. His work has appeared regularly on the cover of the SF magazine ‘Scoot! Quarterly’, among other places…places which may be perused at the following address: www.calyxdesign.com
Pierre Gour
Pinwheels $100
Pierre Gour metaphorically seeks to expose ideas that investigate issues of identification, classification, and categorization. This is achieved by creating a narrative of representational forms that are fragmented and dislocated to create tension. Curving tendrils combined with organic forms suggest an effect of freely growing nature as artifice.
Claire Baker
Baker incorporates urban fossils into her paintings, which collectively document her ongoing visual conversation with the street. She experiments with color and texture in her exploration of what society sees, what it ignores, and why. A native San Franciscan, Baker currently studies visual art at Brown University in Providence, RI. Her work can be found at the 66balmy Art Gallery.
Anna Marie Benson
- I’m Not Your Tight Little Sister
- Anna Marie Benson - 2002
- Fabric and Polaroid Photo
- True Genuis
- Anna Marie Benson - 2002
- Handmade Pin Cushion
Michael Krouse
- Untitled
- Krouse - 2002
- 21″ x 7″
- $1.00
M. Fredrick L
“Universal Pants” Acrylic on Pants
M Fredrick L’s “Universal Pants” series were designed “for the masses who love the absurd”.
Steve Lambert
- I CAN’T RELAX
- Steve Lambert - 2002
- Acrylic on Pre-exising Posters, 3′ x 21′
More at visitsteve.com
Steve Lambert works in a variety of media dealing with the issues of advertising, commercialism, public space and America. He is both a lover AND a fighter.
Sean McDonald
Sean McDonald (aka DSM)
Erin Madarang
- Untitled (knife)
- Erin Madarang
- $4
- Untitled (Rock)
- Erin Madarang
- $4
Bio: www.prittypie.com