Project One Gallery presents:
entitled
curated by: Brooke Waterhouse and Mani Motarjemi
A summer exhibit focusing on sexuality, courage, design and culture - a fashion salon.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, August 10th. 7pm
August 10th - September 10th, 2011
Project One Gallery transforms into a modern-day salon, inviting avant guarde artists & designers to be entitled and courageous in their expression of culture, sexuality, and fashion. Through playful, provocative works, we celebrate our entitlement. This is the NEW age of entitlement. We deserve this, and we earned it too. So join us. Be brave. Be bold. Be brazen. Be Entitled.
It's our right to make beautiful art.
It's our right to make the world a better place.
It's our right to take what we've earned and make it bigger, bolder, better, more beautiful.
It's ours. And we're entitled to share it. Now it's yours.
We entitle you.
Entitled will feature both fashion pieces and fashion inspired artwork and sculptures by:
Jonathan Solo
Franc Fernandez
Gus Harput
Zana Bayne
Nick Flatt
Rachael Mann
Mackenzie Rieser
Mani Motarjemi
Terry T.
Domonique Echeverria
David Glamamore
Rene Garcia Jr.
Mozhgan Shariat
Samson Snowden
photo by,
Ryan Darcey
7pm
21+
**DJ's C LOVE and DAVI WILLIAMS**
*** 9pm performance by Paige Michele Sargent***
* Bradley Miller will be doing live makeup installation*
PROJECT ONE GALLERY
251 Rhode Island Street
San Francisco, CA. 94103
www.p1sf.com
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
JONATHAN SOLO
From a very early age Jonathan Solo culled imagery from fashion magazines, vintage family photographs, and the female iconography of Catholicism to create meticulously rendered figurative drawings.With the exception of one single unsatisfying semester of college, his highly nuanced skills as a draftsman are entirely self-cultivated.His drawings explore the intersections of male and female identities, queer culture, gender dysphoria, and transgender issues.Solo credits the work of Romare Bearden as the inspiration for his interest in digitally collaging his own photography in Adobe Photoshop—he also sites Diane Arbus’s photography as a key influence. Solo painstakingly hand renders his digitally collaged compositions in graphite pencil, cuts them up, and collages the drawings again to create meta-feminine/masculine figures from a fantastical assemblage of physical characteristics.
FRANC FERNANDEZ
Franc Fernandez is a designer located in the Los Angeles area. He has designed many outfits for Lady Gaga, like the Meat Dress, Meat Bikini and Diamond Princess Ensemble. Fernandez was born in Argentina and lived there until age eight. His family then moved to the outskirts of L.A. During high school he attended Art Center College of Design, but dropped out. He also attended architecture and art school, but dropped out of both. He also apprenticed for a milliner in London. Says Fernandez, "For the most part I’m self-trained. I’m not very good in institutions. I can sort of weed out what I like/dislike, need/not need."
GUS HARPUT
Where we are now is what happened before.
More than thirty years ago Harputs adidas first opened in Oakland, California. Over the years, business evolved; Harputs adidas gave birth to Harputs Market and we transitioned from slinging sneakers to providing San Francisco with an outpost for avant-garde and rare designers, stocking names like Martin Margiela, Yohji Yamamoto, and Stephan Schneider. This exposure to the industry made us wonder if we could produce clothing ourselves, but without the right people, right equipment, and right timing it was merely just an idea we entertained. It took additions to our team to get us going. Upon their arrival, we moved our industrial sewing machines out of storage and turned our upstairs loft into a working studio. At the same time, we discovered a local tailor who had shut down his operations in 1989, leaving his factory and, consequently, all of his fabrics and machines untouched for twenty years. As he was working to get out of the business and we were working to find a way in, he provides us with both the direction and resources to begin and grow.
The end result: an evolutionary collection we call Harputs OWN.
ZANA BAYNE
Born in Seattle, studied conceptual art in San Francisco, briefly lived in Berlin, and now residing in New York. All leather pieces are 100% hand crafted by Bayne out of her studio in Brooklyn.
NICK FLATT
I use photography as the basis for all of my paintings. I usually work with friends, but I had a professional model come in recently, and it really shows. I'm hoping to find people that would like to pose for upcoming series. It's a little tongue and cheek, it's called "Hot Chicks and Guns." I've been painting for about 10 years now, and have a few shows coming up.
RACHAEL MANN
www.littersf.com
MACKENZIE RIESER
www.littersf.com
MANI MOTARJEMI
Mani is a nightlife performer and trained illustrator with origins from Tehran, iran. He finds his inspiration through women, iconic and everyday females alike. His work always exudes a certain sensuality and fashion focus that carries through to his everyday life.
www.belledejour-untitled.blogspot.com
TERRY T.
Terry Tsipouras is an artist with training in a wide variety of craft including pottery, printmaking and drag. A NYC native who earned his BFA degree in accessories design from the Fashion Institute of Technology, Tsipouras won Elle Magazine’s Most Innovative Designer of the Year award in 2005. Born in 1981 of Greek decent Tsipouras is strongly influenced by his culture and it’s Mythology. With a passion for all things esoteric Tsipouras inspires critique through ancient imagery and symbolism.
DOMONIQUE ECHEVERRIA
Domonique Echeverria is a costumer and avante garde designer from San Francisco who is on a mission to bring elegance and sophistication back to the modern woman. Inspired by Erte, cabaret, past lovers, glamour, the shapes of bodies, and bleeding hearts, she takes the themes and concepts of her collections and runs with them, breathing new life into each piece as if it were the only thing she would ever create. With a nod to the past and a wink to the future, Domonique brings modern innovation to extraordinary people.
DAVID GLAMAMORE
Mr. David is a well respected and influential night life pillar, and costume designer/couturier in San Francisco.
RENE GARCIA JR.
René Garcia, Jr. was born in Los Angeles in 1973 and was raised in a rural suburb of Southern California’s Inland Empire. His formative surroundings were defined by immigrant ranchers, citrus groves, and low desert horse and motocross culture. Fine arts came naturally to him, and after studying film and literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz René moved to San Francisco and began a career in animation production. Working in animated film production led René from San Francisco to New York, to Berlin and back again, and presented him the unique opportunity of collaborating with exceptional artists of every caliber from around the world. With gained perspective came gained confidence and in 2001 René dedicated himself to creating his own art full time.
MOHZGAN SHARIAT
Mozhgan Shariat is a photographer living in San Francisco and working on both coasts, focusing mainly on portraits of musicians, models, and unique passersby.
SAMSON SNOWDEN
A San Francisco Based Painter and bay area native Snowden, uses references from his own personal past and popular imagery. Originally from Santa Cruz, he had a rather different childhood, from clothing optional school to Living in Mexico with his bizarre surfer Hippie Family. Snowden now utilizes those experiences as a driving language in his pieces. He feels that by using art as a sense of social communication documents his notion of “our” generation. Essentially each reference to the past can mean something completely different to the viewer, creating an inner-dialogue.
Snowden graduated from California College Of The Arts San Francisco in 2008. With a B.F.A., High Distinction.
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