June 6th, 2002.
49-1/2 Geary near Market
Downtown San Francisco
Our third annual event!
Read about Art Liberation 2001
Read about Art Liberation 2000 (it
was in the chronicle!)
Announcement
The first Thursday of the month is here, and you know what that
means. The downtown galleries will fling open the barn doors at
the stroke of six to force feed San Franciscans middling mass-consumption
art at Helmsleyesque prices. The orgy of consumerism it provokes
gets a few people obscenely rich, but the rest of us are left scratching
our heads wondering where the hell the good art is in this city.
So, we're holding the third annual...
San Francisco Art Liberation Day
As we demonstrated last year in our own irreverent way, ArtVanSF
has a mainline to the best emerging artists in the Bay Area. We
don't have a snooty address, so we'll be parking our art rig right
outside the front doors of the major galleries (49-1/2 Geary) at
6pm on the 6th. Just to subvert the gallery paradigm, we'll be liberating
truly valuable art, bestowing fabulous, valuable, original pieces
upon those who truly love them. Because that's what art is for,
dammit.
In keeping with the Buddhist Philosophy of dana prajana paramita,
which means, "to give is to crossover", ArtVanSF will engage in
selfless and spiritual acts of art sacrifice, providing admirers
with gifts of visual endowments. The goal is to create room for
more creativity in the world by emparting art lovers with empowering
acts of beauty and transcendence... and frankly, we love to mess
with the heads of the downtown galleries by defying their consumerism
and arbitrary value system promoted by the collusion of their old
boy network. And we're going to do it on their own turf, too.
For more information or to donate, contact us at: mailto:artvansf@yahoo.com
To read about the Art Liberation 2000 irreverence, check out this: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/06/05/MN14935.DTL
