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Special Delivery 2012

October 22, 2012 The Kitchen Sisters

The setting: an abandoned ink factory in West Berkeley that’s been an epicenter of Bay Area street art over the past decade, slated to be refurbished into an office building.

But as luck would have it, the firm that recently purchased the building happened to be headed up by an art enthusiast who sits on the board of the Oakland Museum of California. He noticed that much of the extraordinary graffiti in the factory was done by artists also exhibiting at the Museum.

He invited Endless Canvas, the Bay Area graffiti culture blog and zine, to round up some of the artists to restore their pieces and host a week-long exhibit open to the public.

The exhibit included three stories of art (over 36,000 square feet of space) from more that 45 Bay Area artists. Take a look at some scenes in the video above.

Barry McGee

September 14, 2012 The Kitchen Sisters

When you walk by the Berkeley Art Museum, your eye is immediately drawn to the word, “Snitch” spray painted in huge letters on the museum’s Bancroft side and just like that you are swept into the world of Barry McGee. His current midcareer exhibit at BAM/PFA is open until December 9th and gives us a look into the complex and creative mind of McGee. Using various materials such as empty liquor bottles and surfboards and his extensive collection of drawings, paintings, prints, and installations, it seems like this man never stops creating. Here’s a look at what other street artists have to say about his work from the 2008 documentary, Beautiful Losers, directed by Aaron Rose and Joshua Leonard. Hopefully, we will be talking to Barry for The Making Of… in the future.

-Nora

Spray Paint, a Ladder, a Bicycle

September 6, 2012 The Kitchen Sisters

I’m Nora Kroopf and I just moved to San Francisco this week. I graduated from Harvard-Westlake High School in Los Angeles and am now interning with The Kitchen Sisters working on their new project “The Making Of…” I’m new to this city and have been looking for what people are making in the Bay Area and why. These three videos caught my eye.