Art in Mission

I hosted a ludic art show and brunch at Chez Poulet the other weekend in SF.

• Venue: The venue is run by the legend, Chickenjohn, who has anchored the underbelly of emerging artists in SF for long.  Support on site and photography: J. Astra Brinkmann.
• Food: Catering by Caroline Hummer of  Fogcutters.  Liquid Nitrogen ice-cream by Smitten. Wines from Big Basin Vineyards by Bradley Brown. Bartender was Anya Sollish whose recent project is This Kind of Love: A Film by Jeanne Hallacy. Beer growlers from Cellarmaker. Nuts  from Nut Kreations. 
• Kids: Storyteller phenom Michael Katz held kids and grownups alike spellbound. Electronic lego for child-parent play by Littlebits,  thanks to Phillip Torrone for pointing them out. Phillip, the Awesome, helped start the  Maker Faire. 
• Artists: 
• Sarah Bianco. I love her series of paintings of bodies in hypermotion. 
• Limor "Ladyada" Fried  is an electronics DIY pioneer and runs her manufacturing company in Manhattan! She presented the Wave Bubble: a self-tuning, wide-bandwidth portable RF jammer, disruptive electronics on the  edge of legality.  
• Ruchi Goyal is a mixed media artist who explores travel and texture. She is also a tech executive combining entrepreneurship and art. 
• Scott Graham and  Cristy Aloysi do extraordinary contemporary glass. Friends know I use the great Ron Arad's work as dining table in NY. I also use Viscosity Studio glass work in everyday life. 
• Dylan Hosey is a woodworker artist, he display his recent project: handcrafted skateboards  from up-cycled hardwood. 
• Crystal Liebold  is a superb leather artist from Santa Cruz mountains. 
• Lisa Neimeth is an exquisite ceramics artist. I will fill my place with her  poetic tableware. 
• Kyle Reicher is an industrial artist and superlative metal worker who built immense steel doors for me.
• Veronika Sramaty is a photorealistic painter and showed her remarkable ``Top 10'' series.