Shine On Heron Alley

Earlier this month Heron Arts hosted a New Orleans event in their gallery on Berwick Alley in San Francisco Soma. It spoke to the senses of hearing, smelling, seeing, and tasting featuring the Rebirth Brass Band, Cajun cooking and artists inspired by New Orleans. The artworks were open for several days for public viewing. Local artist Mike Shine provided live outside entertainment painting a mural in his characteristic color palette on the Heron Alley side of their building. While he was not the main entertainment at this venue it reflected his concept of art as an experience.

For Mike Shine art is alive. These past few years he has participated in the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival creating and performing in an outdoor installation revue. Since he transitioned away from his full time job, with BSSP a local ad agency he founded, he has become a fixture in the local art scene captivating art lovers with his interactive installations in galleries and on the street art with his nostalgic clowns and carnival themes.

For me art is a room, art is an area, not just what is on the wall. Because for me the experience is that when you walk into the room I like to create those rooms, those spaces, not just stuff to hang on someone else’s walls. I kind of just look at a museum or gallery as a blank canvas and go in there and make it look like something different.

This recently released video produced by Creative Lives features Mike Shine as he prepared for a 2010 installation he created at 941 Geary that included films, live music, games and interactive mixed media.

MIKE SHINE FEATURE – The Creative Lives Season 2 from The Creative Lives on Vimeo.

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