Sights of Sound
Monday, March 3, 2008
Category: Arts & Entertainment > Arts & Books
For those who have wondered what happens when musicians create visual art, head to Park Life at 220 Clement St., San Francisco, for your answer: It's striking and it's strange.
Last year, in collaboration with Noise Pop, the "Sights of Sounds" show at Park Life was a space for art only by musicians. This year it was open to anyone in the music industry, including photographers who have worked with musicians, like the polaroids of punk rockers by Jim Jocoy, and two stunning pictures by Alex Tehrani.
Tehrani photographs everything from Hillary Clinton, to boxers fighting, to women in Iran, but his two pieces at Park Life, "Kid on Car" and "Bikini Freak" are clearly inspired by art that is heard.
Another piece is a self-portrait by the late punk rocker Wesley Willis, scribbled on a board with marker and ballpoint pen. Some musicians weren't born to draw, but every work exudes creative energy, simply channeled through a new outlet.
The main attraction for some people may be the work by Yoko Ono-although "work" may be an inaccurate description. A tree sits in the middle of the gallery with tags and a ballpoint pen, with instructions to visitors to write their dearest wishes and hang them from the branches. "All my works are a form of wishing," reads a quote from Ono. Wishes on the tree range from health and happiness to world peace to "a good plague to clean things up."
"I wish that Yoko Ono did not make art," reads another response.
Even if you can't make the exhibit, or have nothing to say to Yoko, the Park Life Store itself is a place all hipsters should visit. It is a paradise for everyone and everything indie, complete with coffee table books by obscure artists and ironic t-shirts. The show runs through March 25.
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