Pipeline: Art, Surfing and the Ocean Environment

SFMOMA Artists Gallery opened PIPELINE on Thursday, July 16, 2009 with multi-media works on display by artists and craftsmen using art, surfing and the ocean environment as a creative matrix. The exhibition curated by Rene Dicossio and Maria Medua features 22 surfers & artists from the California Bay Area and Hawaii who work in 3-d and 2-d including painting, photography, kinetic sculpture, natural & found objects, film & video and surfboard design and fabrication.

An educational resource library featuring books, videos, Surfer's Journal, and historical ephemera about Hawaiian surfing culture from the Duke Kahanmoku era is displayed along with photographs of Keone Downing winning the first Eddie Aikau Memorial surf contest in 1991 . Notable big wave pioneer Peter Cole presented a brief lecture on his recollection of the early big wave legends on Oahu's north shore in the early 1950's. Jeff Clark, one of the first to ride Maverick's displays his extensive quiver of surfboards from guns to fish designs that he hand crafted from his Half Moon Bay surf shop. To add sound waves to the event, The El Dorados, an original surf band played selections from their current CD. Local San Francisco animation artist Arnie Wong featured videos from the Kelly's Cove surf scene, circa 1965 to 1972 and clips from his classic cartoon 1968 animation Acapulco Gold.

Pipeline Artists and Surfers:
• Doug Acton, photography
• Anthony Bacigalupo, video
• Leo Bersamina, mixed media
• Charlie Callahan, painting
• Jeff Clark, surfer/shaper
• George Corzine, film & video
• Peter Shepard Cole, painting
• Keone Downing, surfer/shaper
• Jessica Dunne, painting
• Colin Gift, photography
• Terry Hoff, painting
• Dale Hope, surfer/art director for KAHALA
• Jack Y Ford, collector
• Ian Maclean, mixed media
• Reuben Margolin, kinetic sculpture
• Serena Mitnik-Miller, painting
• Linny Morris, photography
• Adrienne Keahi Pao, photography
• Christophe Piallat, sculpture/installation
• Frank Quirarte, photography
• Don Ross, photography
• Charles Valoroso, painting/multi-media installation

Join the Artists and Surfers who contributed works of art and creativity to the exhibition of PIPELINE.
Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 5:30 to 7:30 P.M.

SFMOMA Artists Gallery
Fort Mason, Building A,
San Francisco, CA 94123

Phone (415) 424-2264
http://www.sfmoma.org/pages/artists_gallery