Unrest

Shooting Gallery is pleased to present Unrest by Ferris Plock. The SF-based artist’s fourth solo show with the Shooting Gallery will draw inspiration from the changing face of San Francisco, focusing on Western Addition/NOPA. Heavily influenced by Japanese woodblocks of the Edo period, Plock will show 20-25 new character portraits featuring imagery of knights with neighborhood-specific armor and flags, all painted with acrylic, house paint, gouache and gold leaf on panel.

“Western Addition has changed quite a bit in a very short amount of time. It used to be a neighborhood full of artists and musicians and now it’s lost a bit of that feeling. The mantra in my head is something like, “the new must respect the old and the old must respect the new.” Change is inevitable and both sides of my argument can be seen as gentrifiers so it’s more complex then just techies, or gentrification…it feels like there is this unrest in San Francisco, warring factions, with people on all sides very passionate about the city.”