Adam Donnelly at pure Beauty salon on haight st.

I am please to announce that the photographer Adam Donnelly will be showing at Pure Beauty Salon on Haight street Friday March 4th 6-8pm. Refreshments and booze will be served, if you do not prefer the delicate flavors of 2 buk chuk, then be proactive and BYOB. As you may well know, PB is at 1560 haight st, at Clayton st, the gallery is located in the salon above the store.

Adam says his work is about transitions, as in his own life, he has moved thirteen times, most recently from Boston, to San Francisco, each time he documents a new "home", he is trying to capture what he has established for himself, new friends, roots, familiarities. He chooses to hand hold the camera which for him best describes " quick ,fleeting, experimental moments, which coincides with the constantly moving transitional periods in my own life".

For his full artist statement see the posting on the Fecal Face website in the calendar postings for March 4th. Hope to see you all there!

-Leanne C. Miller da Fancie Mammal

"And It Felt Like a Kiss" 2011 at the Incline Gallery

Leah Brawley, Gina Contreras, and Nora Aogi at the Incline Gallery, run by San Pancho Art Collective, (SPAC)'s opening "And it Felt Like A Kiss" , feb 11th 2011. Murals, paintings and drawings from some talented artists! All the work was clean and illustrative, their color choices coincided beautifully as did their concepts. There was a great crowd as you will see in the photos below, enjoy! and if you haven't gone, go, it's well worth your time. They sold some work too! So proud of those lovely ladies!

pics from Believing is Seeing 2011

We had a great time thanks to all who showed up! Please enjoy the pics from Natasha Lowery, Homero Hidalgo and Brianne De John's "Believing is Seeing" Feb 2011

"Believing is Seeing" Friday Feb. 4th, 6-8pm (or 9pm) at Pure Beauty Salon

Please come see the paintings and scultures of Natasha Lowery, Brianne De John and Homero Hidalgo, three amazing SFAI grads at Pure Beauty Salon on Haight st. Friday Feb 4th 6-8 pm. Pure Beauty Salon is upstairs above the store, there will be refreshments, wine and snacks served, you may also BYOB. Please come and support them!

Dan Strombergs opening jan 2011 at pure beauty

Dan's Pure Beauty Opening! Jan 2011

Here are pics from Pure Beauty, Dan Stromberg's show of new drawings.

see his animation demo reel at chili bean.biz!

Dan sold a few pieces,

quite a few respected fellow artists came thru. Helen Bayly, fellow Mural artist, recently was awarded with fellow artist, Bo Heimlich a mural in the Polk street mural project!!! Wow! She also was a co-muralist in the 180 ft long mural on market street. Such a talented girl. Alex Braubach, awsome artist, and co-curator at the Evergold Gallery.

Back to Dan, his drawings, when covered in glass sort of turn it into mirrors. so there is no reason to try to take pics of it for the blog. Therefore these are just crowd pics. Please go and see, and look at these extremly low priced pieces for all their glory, and maybe even buy one, price point, $2.50-$60.00! No Joke!! thanks you all for reading my blog, pass it along, and come to the shows at both Pure Beauty and Incline Gallery!

-Leanne, Da Fancie Mammal

"Free to Fail" new Drawings by Dan Stromberg at Pure Beauty

Proud to announce Dan Stromberg will be having all new work up at the Salon at Pure Beauty. 1560 haight street, haight at clayton, upstairs!

curated by me,

Leanne C. Miller da Fancie Mammal

Dan Stromberg's (AKA Chili Bean Paste Bucket) Statement about what this work represents to him.

" This work is not about reinventing the wheel.

I just wanted to draw from a gut level. A good dosage of failure will help acknowledge the merits of a success. Jump off a cliff. Seduced by an evil nectar into a bloody pulp. If you have ever felt the cathardic relief of just sayiny "Fuck it", then you are free. You are free to fail."

-Dan "Chili Bean" Stromberg

Yuka's opening at Pure Beauty 2010

Yuka's opening was awesome! People came, we drank, we enjoyed her fun and curiouse art work! Love it! THankyou to all the people that made it out. Please go and see the show by the end of the month at Pure Beauty on haight st, she is also selling her awesome jewelry there too!!! I got some earrings myself. Enjoy the pics!!
-Leanne C Miller da Fancie Mammal