The New Inspirational Movement

The new thing is that there’s a mural project finally happening on my block in da mission… finally after all these years. i first got the idea in Rigo’s Public Mural class when i was his TA in 1998 at the San Francisco Art Institute. I tried to get it off the ground several years ago as a female graffiti mural project with crisaida and leslie, but we couldn’t get permission from anyone and it turned into a big headache. But now, finally, my neighbor’s Randolph and Lisa have begun to get permission from many of the building owners and the LILAC MURAL PROJECT is off the ground. it’s not what i originally envisioned, but it still has good energy and is full of plenty of great graffiti pieces (vs traditional brush painted murals). i’ll blog later with pics of all the pieces, but i wanted to share this one to start. this pic was taken a couple of weeks ago. it’s me and Jet (from Clarion Alley Mural Project) reunited. Jet was my student in Rigo’s class at SFAI. Jet’s doing something on Lilac, but not for a bit cuz he was in the middle of wedding plans. Anyhow, i just thought it was a great pic. Jet’s really cool and Randolph captured it in the photo. thanks Randolph for taking this flick!

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For the last month or so I have been working on my upcoming installation and exhibition entitled “IN TIE ONE WE TRUST” to be held at the bluedahlia’s Studio gallery, 3435 Cesar Chavez, #315 in San Francisco, and opening on August 19th, 2007, 4 - 9 pm. The exhibition is on view through August 31st by appointment only. For more information call 415.828.4418. Here are photos documenting my progress as i create the installation almost all from scratch and mostly using recycled materials. Thanks to the Sanitary Fill/Norcal Company, the SF Garbage Dump for the Spectator newspaper rack, the fake flowers, the Christmas lights, some of the wood, and most of the spray paint i used. A special thank you also goes out to Paula Goodman and Express Service Signs in Cincinatti for all of her wonderful recycled sticker vinyl scraps. And of course, I want to thank the anonymous donor who made all the copies of the “TIE warning” stickers from the original TIE made so long ago. Thank you. You know who you are, my other hero. A final thanks goes to Julie Blankenship of bluedahlia’s Studio gallery for hosting my show. I love you, Julie!

For months, the parking lot outside my apartment remained empty… preceding the new p.c. raza mural (also now in progress since these photos have been taken) and revamped parking lot, so i decided to make use of the space and spend some time making art outside in the nice weather and the urban landscape.

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here’s an except (plus a little extra) from a message that i wrote to crisaida 5.2.07…

“Catharine Clark asked me to paint her roll down doors on her new gallery at 150 minna (directly across from the messenger drop off entrance for the moma on minna) on monday in an email… but i didn’t actually talk to her till yesterday. i went down to meet her at 49 geary yesterday afternoon and we walked over to the new space. she gave me 100 bucks for supplies. i bought some paint. i came home ate dinner, changed clothes, and got all my stuff together and painted all night (began at 8:30 pm, went home @ 12:30 pm & took an hour and a half break and then went back to finish… got home at 4:45 am)… 2 roll down doors. she wanted them done right away for this moma hotsey totsey event going on tonight. santana is playing and they have a tent outside in the minna alley right next to my graffiti. it’s cool. it’s like a dialog between my graf and the moma. someone walking by said i was painting tomato soup in a can and i was really happy cuz they were comparing me to warhol. i was thinking about warhol when i did it. it goes big dice, js throw up, big dice, js throw up, with dots and tags in the background. the dots are stenciled and on the dice are stenciled hearts. i totally pulled it out of my ass cuz i had no time to plan. it was really like doing real graffiti cuz it’s like polished throw ups and it was so spontaneous, except for the permission part.”

here’s the pics…

next came champagne at the gallery and the party at the moma last night. i’ve never drank so much champagne… and good champagne at that. For all of you in SF, go see my doors sooner rather than later. they’re only temporary. they should be up thru May 14th or sometime afterward, until she replaces the roll down doors with glass windows, so that the gallery will look like a real storefront when it opens in June 2.

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super told me to join when this site began, time didn’t allow.

Just this week I signed up for netflix and right there on the screen was piece by piece dvd chronicling san francisco’s graffiti movement. I’ve really been wanting to see this so it was the first dvd queued.

netflix arrived today, pbp sits here on my desk, i hope to have it on throughout the weekend, i know there will be much to see. so it sits here and i think “i want to watch the trailer”. google, click, view. i hear Super credited and then see her work blow by, i jumped back and paused on it to see. cooool. i love super. i then decide to google “jocelyn superstar” (look out nicole, i’m a stalker, mwaaahhahaha) anyway, right there was this site, OH YEAH! New Inspirational Movement! the site I had viewed once and lost time to be frequent. well, here I am inspired and raring to go. I hope to visit in here more often and read, be inspired and maybe inspire back.

piece by piece, will view you later… any critiques on it??

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WOW! it’s all on Richard Kamler’s cool web site… i guess he updated it. Geez the NET is a wonderful thing… if you want to listen to my interview/conversation try clicking on my link to his site… well to my radio show with him and a link to his home page. It is a half hour interview on KUSF “Art Talk” in which we discuss graffiti politics… taped last october.

Jocelyn Superstar on Art Talk with Richard Kamler on KUSF 10/2006

“>Richard Kamler, Cool Bay Area Artist

gee, hope that link worked! never tried copying a mp3 before. Ps. there’s lots of great past interviews he’s got on his site. he’s gonna keep me busy. A really neat and fun artist to work with! My best art all year by far… dynamic collaboration… no editing.

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