Fecal Face Dot Gallery goes solo with Kottie Paloma
Tonight seems to be the time to check out that storefront marked Fecal Face Dot Gallery - you know, right where Go-Ugh tears into Market, near the delish Brazilian meats playzone, Espetus Churrascaria. Tonight, "Kottie Paloma and the Daily Strangers," the space's first solo show, opens from 6 to 9 p.m. The Guardian rhapsodized former Low Gallery honcho and Fecal Face impessario John Trippe way back when (and we dug the art-opening photos he'd contribute to the paper), so get out and support his latest project. He e-mails:
"Featuring over 250 5-by-7-foot graphite portraits that San Francisco artist Kottie Paloma produced over the last 2 years (each titled A Daily Stranger), the work forms a survey of the strangers in Kottie's life.
"The Daily Strangers series is based on the idea of seeing the same person on a daily basis without ever getting to know that person. They are just a face in one's life. An interesting individual kept at a safe distance. To get to know these particular strangers could possibly ruin whatever fantasy one has made up in their head about these people.
"The reason these portraits are drawn in graphite as opposed to being painted is because the roughness helps illustrate how these strangers sit in a faded or obscure memory in one's head. It serves as a lack of information about the subject. These drawings are meant to be crude and rough, which is how these people look or act in real life. The strangers in this show are from the streets of San Francisco, the subways of New York City, and the clogged freeways of Los Angeles."
"KOTTIE PALOMA AND THE DAILY STRANGERS"
Opening tonight, Thurs/24, 6-9 p.m. (afterparty at Uptown, 17th and Capp streets, SF; 9 p.m.-2 a.m.)
Through May 7
Wed., 3-8 p.m. and Sun., noon-6 p.m.
Fecal Face Dot Gallery
66 Gough at Market, SF
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