Farewell San Francisco

Dear SF, I am very happy to announce my 12 Year Retrospective Solo Art Exhibit titled “FAREWELL SAN FRANCISCO” at Heron Arts Gallery , Opening October 8th in SF. Works exhibited will be from 2004 (when I first moved to SF when I was 20) to 2016.
This will be my first ever solo exhibit in San Francisco. I have had solo exhibits in other countries and plenty of collaborative art exhibits here in San Francisco since 2004 but not a solo one. It ironically will happen as I am saying goodbye to the city but I am very excited about it. To all friends in SF come out on Saturday, October 8th from 7-10pm, Heron Arts, 7 Heron st San Francisco! It will be one for the history books.
Thank you Tova Lobatz , Noah Antieau , and Mark Slee at Heron Arts. Proceeds from many of my works will go directly towards helping fund the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s battle against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Below is the press release for the exhibit
Heron Arts Presents:
Farewell San Francisco: A Retrospective Exhibition by Spencer Keeton Cunningham
Opening Reception October 8th, 2016 7­-10pm
http://heronarts.com
September 22, 2016, San Francisco, CA — Heron Arts is pleased to present Farewell San Francisco: A Retrospective by Spencer Keeton Cunningham, an anthology of works by the prolific artist who has been wrongfully evicted after 12 years of residing in his San Francisco apartment. This show will feature a collection of works that must go. Cunningham has been on the road for the last two years, while maintaining his permanent residence in SF, and has come to say pack up his things and goodbye to the city with a farewell exhibition. Farewell San Francisco opens on Saturday October 8th, 2016 with an opening reception from 7-­10 PM. It is free and open to the public. The exhibition will be open by appointment until the end of October.
This farewell to San Francisco is a chance for people to view and purchase Cunningham’s large body of work before he closes the door on this chapter of his art career. The show will be an anthology of works the artist has created over the past 12 years, as well as his most recent paintings. This will be Cunningham’s first ever solo exhibition in the San Francisco. Along with his solo works, there will be paintings for sale from his close friends, painting collaborators and roommates, Erlin Geffrard known as Kreyola Kidd, Daisy Ortiz, and their son Daylin Ra Geffrard. The four lived together in their house in San Francisco for numerous year and exhibited frequently in San Francisco together and abroad, notable in 2013 at the Wenying Highland Art Museum in Guangzhou, China.
Born in 1983, Spencer Keeton Cunningham grew up in the road all over the west coast and in Portland, Oregon skateboarding and painting at a very young age. Cunningham graduated from the prestigious San Francisco Art Institute. After leaving San Francisco in 2014, the prolific artist began working from the road on a self proclaimed permanent painting tour which took him all over the world including Alaska, the Yukon, Mexico, Canada, the North and South Island of New Zealand, must of the 50 states of America, Hawaii, Tasmania, Melbourne, Sydney, and the outback of Australia.
Other places Cunningham has exhibited and painted in include China, Japan, Ontario, British Columbia, the Mexican Carribean, Mexico City, The Yucatan, The Netherlands, Cuba, and Hong Kong. Coming back to San Francisco to exhibit frequently, Cunningham has remained on tour for well over 800 days and is now forced to give away his belongings and head back out on the open road.
Heron Arts was founded in 2013 by Mark Slee, an active member of San Francisco’s creative community, who has been organizing events since the mid­2000s. Prior to Heron Arts, Slee was a member of Facebook’s product design and development team. He was joined in 2015 by directors Noah Antieau and Tova Lobatz, who are pursuing ambitious programming that will encompass installations and experiential interactive environments, alongside traditional gallery exhibitions.
Location: 7 Heron Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Gallery Hours: By appointment.
For inquiries email tova@heronarts.com
spencerkeeton@gmail.com
Interview Opportunities: Spencer Keeton Cunngingham, Artist / Mark Slee, Owner of Heron Arts