New Orleans’ Red Truck Gallery “Hard Times Mini Mall” Rolls Into Shooting Gallery
New Orleans’ Red Truck Gallery‘s group show “Hard Times Mini Mall” brought a burst of an Americana aesthetic to San Francisco’s Shooting Gallery, ranging from installations made of denim and fabric collages that resemble painting, to wool thread embedded in wax, and miniature drawings on matchbooks, as well as painting and more!
CARTWHEEL has been following Red Truck for several years now, and their art fair booths are colorful and lively (they were one of the high points at the SCOPE Miami and the LA Art Show and definite standouts during Armory Arts Week, as our related post below show). Red Truck Gallery founder Noah Antineau has been going to art fairs since he was a kid–his mother Chris Roberts-Antineau is a textile artist (you can see her work below) and Noah would travel with her to fairs. Opening a gallery was a natural for him, and Red Truck’s focus is art that is blends traditional American folk art styles like textiles and carving with photography, drawing, and painting. There is a a sense having wandered in a a roadside museum of curiosities and oddities, one with a focus on bold and peculiar art like Adam Wallacavage’s octopus chandeliers (you can see one in hanging in Jon Halperin’s house in our interview), art that embraces bold individualism and innovation, while emphasizing perosna vision, craftsmanship and skill.
We love that they bring artists with them, and create a exciting, welcoming party atmosphere
Tenderloin resident Beau Brady isn’t sure which way to go upon entering….
Artist Bryan Cunningham has a beer with bartender, Red Truck’s Nik Sin
Laura Ortiz’s recreation of Mexico City graffiti art adorns the walls of The Shooting Gallery alongside Jason Holly’s work. In the foreground Andre Basurto’s Green Skull is an example of recycling gone creative. He used broken bottles and epoxy.
Chris Roberts-Antieau, The Cycle of Kitties. Hand-sewn fabric collage. Chris would take her son, Red Truck gallery owner, Noah to art fairs as a child.
Chris Roberts-Antieau’s hand-sewn fabric collages appear as paintings from afar.
Chris Roberts-Antieau, The Invisible Man
Jason D’Aquino, Enematray. Graphite and chalk on found vintage surface.
Ian Berry, New York News Stand. Denim on Denim.
Summer Shannon who lives next door to The Shooting Gallery, checks out a postcard at Ian Berry’s New York News Stand.
Jason Holley Swan Gouache and collage on paper.
Frank Relle’s haunting photos of New Orleans
Tom Haney’s work was captivating to many who attended the opening.
Photographers Ransom & Mitchell (left and right respectively) with Red Truck Gallery’s Nik Sin and Noah Antineau
The Shooting Gallery, the scene of the crime.
All photos: Sherri Durrell, except Ransom & Mitchell with Red Truck, courtesy of Ransom & Miller
Hard Times Mini Mall, a Group Show Curated by New Orleans’ Red Truck Gallery
April 13 thru May 4, 2013
Shooting Gallery
886 Geary Street
San Francisco, CA94109
Open Tuesday – Saturday 12pm – 7pm