Electric Works
130 8th St
415.626.5496
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Courtesy Electric Works
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Opens Friday July 16, 2010 (6–8pm)
July 17, 2010 – Aug 14, 2010
Tuesdays–Fridays (11am–6pm)
Saturdays (11am–5pm)
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“SF author Dave Eggers and Talking Heads musician David Byrne are buddies. They go on bike rides together in the Marin Headlands; Eggers' novel What Is the What inspired Byrne's single "One Fine Day"; and Byrne provided a blurb on Eggers' 826 Valencia website, stating that 826's Pirate Store is "one of the top five pirate stores I've been to recently." Today, the two Davids collaborate on their first art exhibition. Eggers used to be a cartoonist for SF Weekly. He busts out his china markers again to create It Is Right To Draw Their Fur, a menagerie of aardvarks, warthogs, and platypuses captioned with phrases like "Let's love each other as if we loved each other." Byrne pencil-sketches his stream of consciousness onto paper with Arboretum, a series of Venn diagrams and evolutionary trees about topics like Synaesthesia and When Good Lovin' Goes Bad.”
Joey Stevenson, Flavorpill
Electric Works says:
Electric Works is pleased to welcome Dave Eggers to the gallery for It Is Right To Draw Their Fur, his first solo exhibition. Working in the vernacular of political propaganda posters, these deftly executed grease pencil drawings feature an ongoing cast of fur, feather, and scale-bearing creatures. What seems like an extraordinary balancing act of good humor and earnest pledges of allegiance, Eggers creates a menagerie that speaks to our very human condition. The gallery will be hung with over 300 of these drawings, covering nearly every square inch of wall space. You'll laugh, you'll cry.
