STREETOPIA, San Francisco, CA

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STREETOPIA (the book),
2011, variable edition of 30, 40 pages, 8.5 inches by 11.5 inches, each book is sub-titled with the name of a different San Francisco neighborhood.A Booklyn Publication benefiting the Streetopia exhibition, a large group exhibition that opens at the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco in May 2012, curated by writer, Erick Lyle, and artists Chris Johanson and Kal Spelletich. Proceeds from the sales of the Streetopia (the book) will be the primary funding source for the Streetopia exhibition. Streetopia (the book) is an assembling of original artworks by 24 current and former San Francisco artists and writers tentatively associated with the San Francisco Bay Area “Mission School” or, “New Mission School” art movements, perhaps the last coherent schools of contemporary American art in the 20th Century.

Streetopia exhibition artists, besides Johanson, Spelletich, and Lyle, artists already committed to participate include SWOON, Barry McGee, Emory Douglas, Sara Thustra, Rigo 23, Monica Canilao, Ivy Jeanne McClelland, Sy Loady, Spy Emerson, Christine Shields, Annie Danger, Arnold Kemp, Tim Kerr, Tobin Yelland, Marshall Weber, David Kennedy Cutler, Rebecca Giordano, Laurel Braitman, Bill Daniel, Greta Snider, Mike Brodie, Veronica Majano, Sam Green, Kari Orvik, and more