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September 12 - December 14, 2013Info
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http://www.waltermcbean.com/
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(415) 749-4563
ENERGY THAT IS ALL AROUND features early and formative work by five artists - Chris Johanson, Margaret Kilgallen, Alicia McCarthy, Barry McGee, and Ruby Neri - who began their careers in the early 1990s in San Francisco's Mission District and, by the early aughts, had been identified and celebrated as key members of the so-called Mission School.
The Mission School has garnered cult-like status over the last two decades and is known for its celebration of social art-making, community, folk art, nostalgia for the obsolete, low-production values, and "street" aesthetics. These attributes are manifest in the artists' use of found and reclaimed materials, decorative patterning, cartoons, hand lettering, cluster paintings, and a crafty immediacy of materials. Mission School artists were strongly influenced by Bay Area Figuration, the Beat movement, Funk art, and punk.
The exhibition connects work and ephemera produced at the beginning of the artists' careers, much of which has remained in their personal or peer collections, with vibrant new work created for this show.