HAIGHT & ASHBURY
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VASF is the first in a number of RVCA retail flagships to open around the globe. Launched in September 2007, the store, situated on the iconic corner of Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco, combines art, music, fashion and popular culture, offering an ideal platform to illustrate PM Tenore’s vision for the brand.
Acting as centre stage, VASF showcases the latest RVCA apparel collections as well as unique RVCA product collaborations with the likes of ANP Quarterly magazine, The Cobrasnake, Hamburger Eyes, Cinelli and Adam Wallacavage. Also supporting like-minded brands by members of the RVCA family, VASF stocks brands such as The Seventh Letter jewelry and Caleb Siemon glassware.
Complementing the RVCA product collection is an assortment of books, magazines, DVD’s, and music currated by RVCA Advocate’s Family. Family is Los Angeles’ leading underground book and music emporium, founded by Australian born owners, David Kramer, Sammy Harkham and Tahli Harkham.
VASF is the ultimate platform to share RVCA’s culture with the brand’s fan base. Showcasing the talents of RVCA’s ANP (Artist Network Program), VASF collaborates with ANP members on a wide variety of projects - Artist Josh Lazcano aka AMAZE executed a piece on the façade of the building prior to it’s opening while skateboarder come artist and ANP Quarterly editor Ed Templeton and ANP Artist Clare Rojas completed the window displays for the store’s opening. VASF also showcases world-renowned artist Adam Wallacavages’ unique chandeliers, which hang throughout the store.
The culmination of RVCA culture is the gallery space in VASF. The gallery is a special platform for ANP artists. Curating four key shows each year, VASF aims to become a new and exciting source of art culture for the local community, working alongside the ANP and local artists and personalities on special projects and events.
VASF | 1485 Haight St | San Francisco, CA 94117 USA
P: 1 (415) 701 7822
Store Hours 11am – 7pm daily
DESCRY: THE WORD IS “WORDS”
Descry Magazine, a bi-annual, SF-based publication which focuses on putting little known photographers and artists on center-stage is having it’s inaugural celebration later this month. The new, and beautiful, mag focuses on submissions from women, people of color and the queer population. It’s awful great. Anything in print is awful great. And at 14.95 an issue, you’re talking about 30 bones for an entire year of knowing about rad, new artists that you might never know about otherwise. Pretty good…
So go to Queens Nails (3191 Mission Street) on the 27th of March from 7-11 and see for yourself. Plus there’ll be a raffle and food.
JEN
READING IS A GOOD THING TO DO
And listening to people read their writing is good, too.
And Adobe rules.
And McSweeney’s authors rule.
And YOU rule, so I bet i’ll see you there…
JEN
2NITE 2NITE THE WORLD IZ YRZ 2NITE
New gallery opening up TONIGHT in SF called Guerrero Gallery…2700 19th Street. (NOT on Guerrero, folks)
For their inaugural show, they’re featuring fine art from these fine people: Brian Willmont, Christopher Russell, Richard Colman, Aaron Noble, Ryan Scott Shaffer, Tim Diet, Ryan Wallace, Rogelio Martinez, Adam 5100, Hilary Pecis, Mark Mulroney, Ala Ebtekar, Eric Yahnker, AJ Fosik, Mike Lesage, Allister Lee, Cleon Peterson, Ryan Travis Christian, Marissa Textor, Shepard Fairy and Bill McRight.
Bill McRight is tight. All of these artists are tight, actually but i got a special place for Bill in my heart.
Here is why:
He also makes shanks. Sweet, huh?
JEN
CAPTIAN TRIPS TO OUTER SPACE
Lemme tell you about an alright dude named Moses Rios.
He was born twenty five years ago on the East Side of San Jose, but for the past six or seven years he has been living in San Francisco, California. Since then, he has lived with two Communists, two poets, four song writers, one cat, one conceptual artist, three Czech women, three painters, ten women, and twenty men. M. Rios will only eat meat on weekends, enjoys walking up to Wizard Mountain, sleeping in, talking food (the true universal language), chuffing at Casablanca with Culture Kids, drinking in the Fabric House, surfing in a suit, eating all the soup, and this and that.
He is a part of Teenage Dinosaur Publication out of Portland Oregon (a green place),
and every once he dabbles in a bit of Teenage Witchery.
Moses is currently working on these upcoming projects:
Turning our Galaxy into a cube, for Kyle.
A coloring book for twenty six year olds.
A brief study on the present day Thoughtwave entitled “Thoughtwave: Thou Knoweth”
The first issue of “Good Stuff”, a Sicilian pizza slice shaped book of drawings.
You can find him at www.thebananaboogie.blogspot.com.
If he isn’t there, try Outer-Space.
-M.E.
WHY I LOVE SF
So a bunch of losers from the Westboro Baptist Church came to San Francisco to protest our hedonistic ways in late January. They’re the famous “God Hates Fags” people, easily the most backwards dopes since Red Scare McCarthyism. Anyway, a lot of us live in SF to get away from thumbless, devolved dorks like the WBC, so it makes a lot of sense that they would come here; you’re getting the most bang for your buck as the the population here is definitely full of the stuff the WBC says God hates.
Anyway, SF rules because all these funny people showed up to their protest and began protesting with them with signs like this guys. Other fake protestors weilded signs saying “God hates kittens!” or “I love donuts” or “I have a sign” which were meant to poke fun at a protest that makes no sense, has no point, and will accomplish nothing. Ever.
JEN
HAND OVER FIST
San Francisco, CA - RVCA / VASF is delighted to present ‘Hand Over Fist’, a collection of new and recent work by 8 excellent emerging contemporary artists from around the west coast. The exhibition will run from Thursday, February 4th - March 26th. An opening reception will be held @ 6pm on February 4th with some of the artists in attendance.
RVCA / VASF is located at 1485 Haight St. at the corner of Ashbury, and is open 7 days a week, 11am-7pm.
Featured artists in this exhibition are:
Jason Jagel (San Francisco, CA)
Ryan Bubnis (Portland, OR)
Katy Horan (Austin, TX)
Derek Albeck (Los Angeles, CA)
Paul Urich (San Francisco, CA)
Jessie Rose Vala (Portland, OR / Brooklyn, NY)
Tahiti Pehrson (Nevada City, CA)
Marco Zamora (Los Angeles, CA)
Jason Jagel’s colorful compositions are a fabric woven from dreams, experience and memory. These individual narratives intersect to create wild, open ended stories full of rhythm flow exist without beginning or end, leaving endless possibilities of conclusions from the viewer’s perspective. Jason is both a graduate and faculty member at CCA and holds an MFA from Stanford.
Born in Madison, WI, Jessie Rose Vala’s beautiful pencil work has deep roots in western mythology and explores both real and imaginary physical and psychological landscapes. She is a graduate of CCA, has been awarded numerous national grants and scholarships and lives and works in Portland, OR.
Tahiti Pehrson’s delicate and steady hand produces some of the most remarkable paper sculptures in recent memory. A former student at SFAI, Pehrson has evolved from graffiti artist, stencil artist, skateboard graphic designer and painter to the 3-D paper skeletons that now represent his compositions. His ephemeral works focus on the memorialization of memory and are rooted in his childhood in the Sierra Foothills of California. Pehrson still lives and works in Nevada City, CA.
For more information please email:
Meghan Edwards
medwards@rvca.com
NOISE POP
So Noise Pop is upon us. That festival thing that we all completely forget about until it’s happening again even though it’s been happening for more than ten years.
See?
And since you may have no Noise Pop plans (or maybe you did? Maybe I am a loser?) I’m going to tell you how to do this shit correctly (aka which bars to stumble to and away from as you randomly end up at NP Shows).
PS, I’m not even a hater on Noise Pop, it just always surprises me that it’s back or that it is a thing. But really do people come here for this? From other States? What about Mission Creek? Is this stuff weird or am I old? Is 26 old?
OKAY. First things first things first.
Go to this website www.brokeassstuart.com (yes that’s 3 s’s) because if you live in the Bay Area, you are probably unemployed and/or broke. Anyway, this guys “broke ass Stuart” has a list of all the free Noise Pop stuff you can do. Some of it requires some rsvp-ing and stuff, but it’s pretty easy to get around for free. Now go buy a flask and you will be wasted and backstage at a Spency Dude and the Doodles (seriously playing on Friday) for under 8 bucks. There’s some great art and bands playing: Hunx and His Punkettes, Baths, Social Studies and other stuff. Plus you’ll probably get something free because Levi’s and Live 105 is sponsoring.
Second thing: Go to
Actually, never mind. You know how to work a computer. Go to their website: http://www.noisepop.com/the-2009-festival. That above suggestion is enough.
JEN
ED TEMPLETON
Friday, February 26th, 6-9PM
Ed Templeton
The Seconds Pass
February 26th thru April 3rd, 2010
Roberts and Tilton Gallery
5801 Washington Blvd. Culver City
Links:
IF YOU’RE IN LA.
GO TO THIS SHOW.
-M.E.
KNOW WHAT?
I like Tavi Gevinson.
She’s 13 and does this style blog called Style Rookie, which is epically well written and informed for a girl her age. She’s inventive and weird and I just plain dig her. You should check her out if you don’t know who she is. It’s kind of fascinating to watch young people do stuff right. Then you think long and hard about what you were doing when you were 13 (smoking pot out of a can) and dedicate the next few hours to doing something creative and productive (smoking pot and recording a new song). Right? Or are we on different pages?
Check out Tavi Gevinson’s blog here.
JEN
VEEDAY
Happy (belated) Valentine’s Day everyone! I hope your yesterday was nice and cute, or at least that you didn’t spend the whole day crying and feeling sad for yourself because of a Hallmark Holiday. I know that people get all bummer defensive and like feel like they have to go to the gym more and stuff because of Valentine’s Day, but I gotta say I’m glad it will be another year before I have to hear about it. Wah, made up holiday makes you blue. I say chill and try to be all lovey with your buddies, then.
JEN
