Jay Watson Photography

You are invited to a California themed art show by Jay and Jamie Watson at the Gleeson Gallery in San Francisco. The show is a mash up of our favorite things about this place.

Opening reception:
Saturday, September 8, 2012
4:00pm until 6:00pm

Closing:
Saturday, November 17, 2012
12:00pm until 2:00pm

Directions:
Gleeson Gallery – 148 Precita Ave., San Francisco, CA 94110 (between Folsom & Mission)
This is a unique gallery in a great neighborhood. Enjoy dinner or drinks afterward at one of these places nearby. http://goo.gl/maps/uy3i0

We look forward to seeing you!

Jay Watson: www.jaywatson.com
Jamie Watson: www.cocobohemia.com

More photos of the show can be seen at: www.pineappleluv.com – San Francisco art show

Ammunition, a design group in SF, celebrated their 5 year anniversary with a very impressive private party at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. As with most event photography, it involved walking around with a camera and blending in with guests eating, drinking, in conversation, and enjoying themselves. We normally don’t look our best while eating and drinking, and it certainly made me worry as I tried to look invisible documenting Ammunition’s event. Above are 2 of my favorites from the night. An interesting part of the assignment was how the final photos were used. Ammunition posted the images on their Facebook page so people could comment and tag each other in the photos. Those folks sure like to party. Cheers to them for the gig, and to another 5 years in SF.

My wife Jamie and I have an art show together at The Little House Gallery, a Bay Area Community Center located in Menlo Park, CA. The work will be up through July 9th so please visit if you are in the area. We will not be having an opening reception since this is a community center, but I’d love to see your name in the guest book! You can view the work in person (art always looks better in person), play bingo in the auditorium, take a lesson on how to check your email, and have a cup of coffee with a plate of meatloaf. All of this is true.

Our work in the show is for sale. If you are interested in anything please send an email and I’ll let you know about prices. Jamie has (11) framed 11X14 original monotype prints. Each of my (13) photography prints are 16X24 C-prints, flush mounted on gator board, and protected with a transparent clear coat. We put a lot of love into all of it.

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California – An art show by monotype artist Jamie Watson and photographer Jay Watson. Little House Gallery in Menlo Park, CA.

(13) 16X24 prints of California lifestyle and surfing photography by Jay Watson at The Little House Gallery in Menlo Park, CA.

California lifestyle and surfing photography by Jay Watson. Each image printed 16X24.

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California themed monotypes by artist Jamie Watson. (11) framed 11X14 prints.

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Please stop by and write a comment in our guestbook at the Little House Gallery in Menlo Park, CA.

Art Show Announcement:
The Little House Gallery in Menlo Park, CA is currently showing California themed work by the husband and wife team of lifestyle photographer Jay Watson and monotype print maker Jamie Watson. The show will be on display until July 9th.

Directions
Little House Community Center
800 Middle Ave
Menlo Park, CA 94025
(650) 326-2025

Hours
Monday-Thursday: 8:00am – 9:00pm
Friday: 8:00am – 5:00pm
Sat & Sun: closed

Overheard at the gallery: “When I was in Hawaii for my wedding, the minister’s son was surfing. The waves weren’t as big as that and I don’t think he knew what he was doing.”

I donated a photo print to Surfindian’s art show to benefit Japan this weekend in San Diego. My wife Jamie sent one of her monotypes in the middle of teaching our 2 month old son how to rule. Looks like a great show with some really cool artists. We’d love to be there in person, but our hands are a little full. Thanks to Masa and Chris for the invite!

On Saturday, April 2, from 6 p.m.-10 p.m., Surfindian in Pacific Beach, CA will host a special event to benefit earthquake and tsunami-ravaged Japan. The fundraiser will include live and silent auctions, live music from The Red Fox Tails, food, drinks and other surprises. Surfboards, art and other items will be auctioned off from shapers, artists and businesses including: Skip Frye, Michael Miller, Steven Mast, Jim Phillips, Manuel C. Caro, Mike Hynson, Koji Toyoda, Yusuke Hanai, Damian Fulton, Devon Howard, Julie Cox, Skye Walker, Jay Watson, Jamie Watson, Cher Pendarvis, Elise Kirkpatrick, Meegan Feori, Seitaku ”Tak” Aoyama, Susan Wickstrand, Christine Brailsford, Kassia Meador, Tyler Warren, Taylor Dunfee, Sam Cody and many more.

All money raised from the auctions or otherwise donated will be given to the U.S. Japan Council, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Surfindian is a surf shop and gallery located in Pacific Beach, California. Surfindian features art-driven, small batch products that reflect an individualized approach to the art of surfing.

More information can be found at www.surfindian.com

This Sat I will have a piece in a group art show at 941 Geary in San Francisco. The Hell’s Belles Car Club will be hosting the 5th Annual Pinewood Derby Car Races & Art Auction Saturday, Sept 25th. Proceeds will benefit the SF Bay Area Women & Children’s Center. The piece I am showing, “Sinners & Jammers” (15″ X 20″) is mounted on aluminum courtesy of BumbleJax who kindly donated their services. A full review of BumbleJax will be posted here in the near future. The short answer is they are killer! Thanks to Jamie O’Keefe for the invite, and Corey Dwinnell from BumbleJax for the hook up.

• Free admission
• Silent Art Auction
• Pinewood Derby races
• Awards for fastest car & best in show
• REFRESHMENTS : Bring your own!

Saturday, September 25th: doors at 6 p.m, races at 8 pm

941 Geary
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 931-2500

Other artists include: Amandalynn, Ben Collison, Talbot DeVil, Josh Ellingson, Jeremy Fish, Frank Kozik, Michael Murphy, Jeremy Natividad, Jamie O’Keefe, TJ Rappel, Nicole Steen, Jeff Stevens, Sherwin Viray, and others. The auction artwork will be up during the entire event so come and check it out. You might be going home with something cool.

Irving Penn (June 16, 1917–October 7, 2009) lived to be 92.

photo by Irving Penn

“Beautiful and boring,” wrote New Yorker magazine’s Janet Malcolm in a review of an exhibit of the butts at the Museum of Modern Art in 1975.

“He considered himself a workman,” said photography historian Diana Edkins, a former curator of photography for Conde Nast Publications, including Vogue, now with Aperture Press. “His uniform was his way of saying, ‘I may be king of fashion photography but I’m not going to play that game.’ “

His unfailing courtesy and formidable reputation elevated him to a level generally saved for legendary figures in the arts. By mid-life most people who knew him called him, “Mr. Penn” as a show of supreme respect.

from the LA times Oct 7, 2009

“Aphrodisiacs.” Oyster shell by Irving Penn for Vogue 1997

Food stylist Kevin Crafts: www.kevincrafts.net

Hells Angles, San Francisco 1967. photo by Irving Penn

Hells Angles, San Francisco 1967. photo by Irving Penn

Goodbye Mr. Penn

This Sat I will have (2) 8″ X 12″ pieces in a group art show at the Shooting Gallery in San Francisco. The Hell’s Belles Car Club will be hosting the 4th Annual Pinewood Derby Car Races & Art Auction Saturday, Sept 26th 6:00pm at the Shooting Gallery. Proceeds will benefit the Bay Area Women & Children’s Center SF. One of the pieces I am showing is from a collaboration with artist and hombre Brian Bounds from Autoculture. Thanks to Jamie O’Keefe for the invite.

• Free admission
• Silent Art Auction
• Pinewood Derby races
• Awards for fastest car & best in show

Saturday, September 26th: doors at 6 p.m, races at 8 pm

Shooting Gallery
839 Larkin St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 931-8035

Poster Art by Julie Goldstein, designed by Mark Tesi

The surf/art communities have banded together to help the parents of the Mattson 2, a stylish mod duo formed by twin brothers Jonathan (drums) and Jared Mattson (guitar). The Mattson 2 keep a relentless schedule playing and recording their own music while also supporting various surf realted events, movies, art shows, and shops across the world. Their father Jan has been diagnosed with colon cancer, and their mother Arlene had surgery in February to remove a brain tumor. With both parents being self employed, a silent auction art benefit has been formed to help cover some of Jan and Arlene’s medical expenses.

For the past few months my wife Jamie has helped to organize art for the show. She has received work from both coasts and abroad. Our home is now stacked with some amazing pieces that we will be driving to San Diego next week to hang with Chris Rule of Surfindian. Road trip! Looking forward to June 26th. Hope to see some of you there.

Participating Artists:
Alberto Cuadros : Andrew Paynter : Andy Davis : Candace Anderson : Cher Pendarvis : Chivo : Ciro Bicudo : Christine Brailsford : David Hanson : Droog79 : Dustin Ortiz : Ed Fladung : Frank Cubillos : Heather Brown : Jair Bortoleto : Jamie Watson : Jay Watson : Jenny McGee Dougherty : Jessica Nichols : John Zane Zappas : Joseph Conway : Julie Goldstein : Justin Furniss : Kassia Meador : Katrine Hildebrandt : Keiron ‘Seamouse’ Lewis : Kim Nguyen : Kyle Lightner : Lindsay Preston : Liz Cockrum : Luke Taaffe : Maggie Marsek : Meegan Feori : Michael Singman-Aste : Morgan Maassen : Peter Jackson Hussey : Peter McBride : Renata Morrone : Rick Albano : Ryan Tatar : Serena Mitnik-Miller : Scott Massey : Scott Szegeski : Ted ‘Clayfin’ Gallup : Theo Hetherington : Thomas Campbell : Tiffany Campbell : Todd Stewart : Troy Dockins : Ty Williams : Yusuke Hanai. Special thanks to Kjell van Zoen and Kim Nygen from Plywerk for helping out so many of the artists in the show.

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Poster art by Cab. Originally posted on his blog Have You Seen Him.

For more info on June 21st’s “Go Skateboarding Day” and how you can get involved go to: www.goskateboardingday.org

This is the official holiday of skateboarding. You are never too old to ride and have fun!

If you’re in LA the next 2 weeks, I’ll be jealous!

April 2nd – 19th. NOIR CITY invades Hollywood. The historic Egyptian Theatre will host the festival’s 24 films, 22 of which are unavailable on DVD. The American Cinematheque co-presents with the Film Noir Foundation. The FNF’s own Alan K. Rode and Eddie Muller will present films along with a few surprise guests. For more upcoming events at the Egyptian Theatre subscribe to the AC’s blog here.

Playing Sunday April 12th 7:30 PM WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS (1956) Dir. Fritz Lang

“The streets and alleys keep getting darker, the tough guys tougher and the femmes more fatale. So to prepare you for dealing with the nocturnal netherworld out there (and hold you over till you can glimpse the light at the end of the tunnel), we’ll be screening more grand forays into the heart of darkness.” – Egyptian Theatre

Playing Sunday April 12th BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (1956) Dir. Fritz Lang

Why would a man frame himself… for murder? April 12th is a Fritz Lang double feature night, and Beyond A Reasonable Doubt is one of the most bizarre and original noir films ever made. Dana Andrews plays a willing sucker who takes on the challenge to frame himself for murder. Although innocent, he deserves what turns into a nightmare for being such a perfectly skilled criminal. The underrated bombshell Barbara Nichols (Sweet Smell Of Success), adds a charming highlight to this knucklehead plot. This just in…Peter Hayms directed the remake starring Michael Douglas and is due May 1st 2009.

Full movie schedule with descrptions of each film here.
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