Where: Art Works Downtown
Event Date: March 14, 2014
Event Time: 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: 1325 - 1337 Fourth St, San Rafael, Ca
Exhibit Dates: March 14 - April 18
For more details: https://www.facebook.com/events/1456903424539890/
Art Works Downtown is proud to present: The “Hell Brewers,” a peek into the world of Dr. Flotsam brought to you by Mike Shine.
The exhibition opens March 14 and runs through April 18, 2014
This exhibition will have two receptions:
Opening Reception:
March 14, 5-8pm*
*Plus musical guest, Beso Negro performing in the Susan Kirby Place (back alley), past reception hours.
2nd Reception April 11, 5-8pm
In the main gallery and throughout the art center you will find the art of Mike Shine and friends.
Mike was invited to be a special curator for The Founders Lounge, The Underground & The 1325 Donor’s Galleries which will be featuring the talent of artists:
Helen Bayly, Joe Bender, John Butler, Ben Clarke, Colin M. Day, Blair Tom, and Calvin Wong.
Including Mike Bennett, Jake Cortez, Spencer Cunningham, Kim Dittrich, Jonah Elias, Leonardo Ferlinghetti, Maxx Moore, Kyla Neugebauer, Cooper Shine, Riley Shine, Sawyer Shine, and Oliver Whitcroft.
Mike Shine is an artist who lives and paints in Bolinas, California. With no formal art school training, his background instead includes fine woodworking, furniture and cabinet making: skills that often appear in his artwork. He typically creates using driftwood and found objects, and many of his works invite (and even require) the observer to handle and operate them, something he considers contrary to the sterile “please donʼt touch” world of museums and galleries.
For the last few years Mike has used painting to explore the metaphor of a childhood deal with the devil, recalled only through driftwood artifacts that he collects on the beach. In between surf sessions, Mike gathers this driftwood and slowly pieces together a dark memory. As a successful artist and family man, Mike suspects that the clown-devil of his childhood might be waiting to collect on
an ancient pact. Drawing from mythological characters, nautical themes, and unconventional portraiture, Mike unfolds the memory of an event that may have foretold his adult life.
Shine has been featured in The Museum of Craft and Folk Art’s Indoor/Outdoor exhibit and SFMOMA’s temporary outdoor installation, The Mike Shine Show.
Mike Shine will also be having an Art Talk Saturday, March 29, 11am so please R.S.V.P. to info@artworksdowntown.org
Don’t miss this special art center-wide event!