Past Shows Of Merit and Delight
Dec. 13th , 2003
National Product, Market St. near Guerrero, SF
Nice people who wanted cookies came to the re-opening of UPTOWN, where we took down the art that'd sold (god bless you all) and put up new stuff like this and this! You guessed it, there's a little web flyer to share with a "special" friend.

Scrappy Local Underdog Wins, Even in Loss
I don't think I posted it here, but I was nominated for SFMOMA's SECA award, bafflingly. My excellent roommate Fred (here are some of his photos) took some slides of my paintings for me and I sent 'em in, but of 175 artists nominated, 30 made the cut, and I wasn't one of 'em. It's OK -- I'm honored to even have been considered (really) and, like Rocky, even making an cameo appearance in the bigs was an honor. Many huge thanks to John and Andrea of 66balmy gallery. And now I have some slides to send out to galleries to see if I can get shows outta town, and a nice thing to put on my artist's resume.

UPTOWN
Nov. 14th 2003-Jan. 4th, 2004
National Product
I had a show up the excellent and quirky gallery/shop National Product this past holiday season, thanks to the benificence of Doug Domonkos, the gentleman proprietor of this happening spot. Here's the preview! Also a little invite thingy for ER stalker archives.

Oct. 11-12, Open Studios
The Art Explosion, 744 Alabama (at 19th), SF
The kind and generous folks over at the Art Explosion once again consented to let me to stink up their joint for SF's Open Studios. Thanks, folks!

Budget Gallery's Home & Garden Show
Oct. 3-10/03
I am honored to have been in the Budget Gallery's Home & Garden Show on the front of a burned-out cafe at the corner of Valencia and Duboce streets (near Zeitgeist) in SF. They do this cool thing where they put up a show on a formerly underused piece of urban real estate; check out their site for more info.

El Rey's BARGANZA!
5/30-31/03
The show at 66balmy was a rip-snortin' good time. Thanks to all who came down! For your ephemera collection, here's the flyer and press release.

BUILD
12/23/02
Me and Angie of Deviant Goods and our talented photog pals Richard Kadrey and Dyche Mullins put on a little do at BUILD, on Guererro Street in SF, near 17th street, on Monday, December 23rd. MC Hesher caressed eardrums and Cakehaus SF hawked extra-stylish baking ware and tasty baked treats. As has tended to be the case with these things, there was a pulchritudinous flyer!

El Rey's Fiesta Plana at Nat’l Prod., SF
11/1-30/02
The opening party at Doug Domonkos' National Product, a new gift shop/gallery at 1845 Market Street, was a big ol' pile of fun. MC Hesher killed, the 99c Buds flowed, and everyone seemed to have a nice time. I sure did. Here's the flyer with some previews, and here's a gallery of the art, with a couple of party shots taken by Mr. Jeffrey.

Nov./Dec. 2002
66 Balmy's Just Bazaar
November 22 to December 23

The 7th Annual Santa’s Black Market
Sunday, December 15th
SomArts Gallery, 934 Brannan and 8th Streets, SF

Art Explosion Holiday Extravaganza
Friday, December 6th and Saturday, December 7th
www.theartexplosion.com

66 Balmy Redux: Thumbs Up, Say Masses!
July 27th 2002
Your humble acrylic-slapper returned once again to the sparkly and pleasant-smelling 66 Balmy gallery on Saturday July 27th to shill his imagery. MC Hesher once again rocked the wheels of aluminum, and the assembled masses seemed to have a swell time. I know I did. Thanks to anyone who came and had a good time, said hi, and/or wore a pair of Devil Bunny underpants outside of her trousers. The handsome, collector-quality flyer is still available for perusal. Here are the photos!

May 11th 2002
I had a panoply of ill-conceived scrawlings up at LoFi Customs (on Mission St. in SF, near 14th St.). Here's the flyer! They'll be making future E. R. tshirts and such for me, and I'll have some stuff in their store soon and into the future.

April 2002
The MELT show at The Art Explosion was fun, if humbling. There are some really talented (and nice!) folks there. Thanks again to Mr. Don Ross for not only letting me be a part of the show, but swapping for some amazing photographs!

April 2002
Monkeys and Cheap Beer Night at the 66 Balmy gallery was a resounding success. Thank all of you who came to the show, drank a toast in farflung locales, or forgot about the whole thing and watched TV.
Here are some pictures! (And here's the flyer for your collection of El Rey Memorabilia.)

Older shows, for which no snappy patter is currently available:
July-Sept. 2001 - The Attic, SF, CA - solo show
Dec. 2001 - 66 Balmy, SF, CA - group show

All images, characters, text, and miscellaneous foofaraw on this Web site © James Barnett,
except where otherwise indicated. Thanks for coming by.

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