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2008-07-18T14:22:00.000-07:00

About Suite Jesus july 25th

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Friday July 25th 111 Minna San Francisco, CA Suite Jesus

Suite Jesus is a monthly party brought to you by ArtNowSF, an artist/musician promotion company who focuses on exalting local legends as well as bringing worldwide talent into the groundswell of culture for which the bay area is known. ArtNow also teams up with Juxtapoz magazine for a monthly issue release banger called Veni Vidi Vici.

This month:
ART
ArtNowSF presents two rooms of music as well as a prodigious parade of pictures and paintings.
The sensuous sirens of sensimillia will take the walls in a photo exhibit by Girls Gone Weed. Girls Gone Weed has produced a hardback book, has just launched it's new online community at ggdub.com, and will be giving away free memberships and prizes with admission. Also in the gallery is the Custom Culture celebration of the art of Garage Magazine. GARAGE MAGAZINE (garagemagazine.com), the foremost authority on the art, trends, styles and personalities of custom car and motorcycle culture, is launching the largest exhibit of photography, paintings, illustrations, cars, bikes and ephemera inspired by the past six years of publishing seen in more than a decade.

PERFORMANCES
In this edition of Suite Jesus we bring you a musical reality tv show diva, a bicycle-inspired dance team, a party pleasing lady rap group, and dj darlings to delight in dancing the night away.
The sumptuous siren Kelli Love (myspace.com/whoiskellilove) will be rocking the mic with the bubbly babes of Oakland rap group Hot Tub. Kelli Love, aka Lovechyld has been been featured on American Idol Season 3, Making the Band: Season 2, and Randy Jackson's Music Compilation Vol. 1, with a debut commercial release of her song, "Who's Gonna Love You Now?" in March 2008. Hot Tub is gang on spunky mc's who just shared the stage with M.I.A. at her last show at The Concourse. Speaking of spunky, The Bay Area Derailleurs (myspace.com/bayareaderailleurs) are turquoise and black betty's bouncing with bikes and bike accessories. They have taken the idea of velo-love and put it into a body of a "Fly Girl". They just performed with The Trunk Boiz (youtube "scraper bike") for the Bikes for Life campaign to get guns and violence out of the ghetto as well as to promote two-wheeled terror on trikes and other blinged out bikes. For more info on the new movement of bicycle inspired dance teams, check out (agentchaosproductions.blogspot.com).

Full Lineup:
Kelli Love (LA)
Hot Tub (Oakland)
The Rodan Brothers
The Derailleurs (SF)
Similak Chyld (FTC)
Daneekah (Coo Yah)
Green B (Coo Yah)
Samala (Burn It Down Sound)
Miss Watkins (Artnowsf)

flyer image:
http://a397.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/107/l_f503a2183c580ae296873fef4f76fd8c.jpg

A Bicycle Dance Team?

2008-07-02T14:00:00.000-07:00

That's right, this month's Suite Jesus Party will feature The Bay Area Derailleurs, a bicycle inspired performance troupe. The Derailleurs take hip hop pops and bouncy burlesque and apply the moves with bikes and bike accessories. The sexy cyclists will pump up the heat on the dance floor as they expose Frisco to the sparks of a new branch of dance. Their goal is to promote interesting ways to put the fun between your legs as well as increasing velo-love in our pre-apocalyptic era.

For the entire history of BikeDance Teams, Check out Agent Chaos' blog:
AGENTCHAOSPRODUCTIONS.BLOGSPOT.COM

Here is an early video of the first performance.

Jesus in July

2008-07-01T14:43:00.000-07:00

Portlanders on Parade

2008-06-12T15:20:00.000-07:00

Ashley Montague has not only been fighting with the Capulets, but has also kept his hands busy fending off bad art with his sensual hand styles.
He will be one of the 11 artists in the house of Backspace, bringing it to you live in PORTLAND'S first Veni Vidi Vici.
His website is eardrums4eyelids.com

Jesse Reno is also a local Portland fixture with his unkempt hair and long board. He has a Basquiat-like playfulness mixed with narratives pronouncing a new relation between mythical beasts and a colorful existence. He has been on an art rampage for the last few years, breaking out of the local scene with thousands of works circling the globe as well as circling your torso with a new t-shirt released by Upper Playground.

jessereno.com

Nosaj Thing like the lady from the sea...

2008-06-12T15:17:00.001-07:00

Check out this video by Free The Robots

2008-06-12T15:12:00.000-07:00

Free the Robots will be playing a glamorous set at Backspace Cafe Friday, June 13th in the land of green, Portland, Oregon.
Check out the first installment of Juxtapoz and Art Now World.

Veni Vidi Vici June 14th

2008-06-04T14:55:00.000-07:00

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BASEMENT

Tittsworth(T&A Records)

Blaqstarr (Mad Decent)

Sleazemore (Lights Down Low)

TAG TEAM SET

Morale & Shane King

(ArtNowSF, Blasthaus)

DARK ROOM

Megasoid (Turbo Crunk, Weaponshouse - Montreal)

Lazer Sword (Pish Posh of N. America)

Ghosts on Tape (Pish Posh of N. America)

Mochipet (Daly City Records)

215:The Freshest Kidz (Hype Beast Music)

WHITE ROOM

J-Boogie (OM records)

Romanowski (

AMPLIVE (Zion-I)

Justin Time (Mixer Friendly)

Artist showing

Trevor Traynor

Conor Burns

Lisa Solberg

Damian King

Josh Powell

Dave Crosland

brent mchugh

Plus more

SPECIAL TREVOR TRAYNOR ROOM COVER FROM FLOOR TO CEILING WITH HIS AMAZING PHOTGRAPHY. YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS!!!!

365 Thursday @ 111 Minna

2008-06-03T13:44:00.000-07:00

Each year, as the days heat up and the spawn of seeds grow and pollinate, we seek the same rapture. In a greenwashed world of confusing politics and vapid commercialism, searching for validation and companionship in ideas and alternatives heat up in the bustling summer months. The twenty somethings are in a common struggle to define our generation-after-x. Art Now Sf and Juxtapoz magazine hear your cries and have put together an art extravaganza for your visionary soul.
365 will be a concert, art show, and and avant-intellectual groundswell. With hesitations lifted this First Thursday is a night to be recognized. The music lineup alone is enough to get your booty and your brain to 111 Minna. Art Now SF is notorious for going above and beyond the expectations of a party, and they bring us the first ever live band set by electro-funk phenomenon Eliot Lipp. He has been producing music over the years with a start from Scott Herren of Prefuse 73. He is putting the live back into electronic sounds and we get to witness his birth. On the wow tip we also have Daedelus of Ninja Tune (LA) who is coming straight from a European excursion to bring us his cerebral IDM sound projections. He is a tinkerer and plays a prodigous amount of instruments, and is well known for his epic collaboration "Exquisite Corpse." 365 will be a connecting spot for indie rap and artistic visionaries. Let's not forget local art rap darlings Jel and Odd Nosdam of Anticon Records in Oakland. They have spent the larger part of a decade working on mindscapes and avant gard soliloquies. They have paved the way for sensitivity in the rap game, inspiring a whole genre of abstract hip hop. Odd Nosdam has been on the "far side of sound" with project cLOUDED and as co-founder of the Anticon Label. In the same vein we have LA's Free The Robots, a man against the case of the mondays. Free The Robots has been picked up by neo-media mogul Shephard Fairey's Obey Records. As Fairey's phenomenology has become commonplace in the above ground scene, his attention to details and attraction to groundbreakers lends Free the Robots extra momentum in this quest to be heard. Free the Robots has been ironing out his musings with long friend, Gas Lamp Killer, who will be bringing it down with us on first thursday as well. This duo released a record together called "Killer Robots" and GLK will be featured on the Low End Theory documentary due out this summer. Gas Lamp Killer just released "I Spit On Your Grave" May 20th with a party at Mardrone Lounge.

Here's what Art Now SF had to say about the event:

"An art show for the history books. We have brought together an amazing group of artists for a show that will open and close with explosions of creativity. ArtNowSF and Kris D had the great idea of taking some of the country's most amazing visionary artist and some stand out contemporary artist to bridge the gap between the two worlds. The show will dig deep into the soul and bring light to parts of the brain not yet discovered. To top it all off we are bringing you an opening of top notch musicians and live painters to set the mood. And to close it out we will do what ArtNow does so well, we body rock with Suite Jesus the uber freakish dance party we do every month. So fasten your spaceship seatbelts and get ready for a galactic creativity ride."

RSVP for FREE entry before 9pm on Thursday June 5th for the opening of 365

June 5th
$5 before 10 $10 After

Eliot Lipp *Live*
(1st time ever feat. Alex & Lane of the Pnuma Trio)
Mush Records, NYC/CO

Daedelus
Ninja Tune, LA

The Gaslamp Killer
Obey Records, LA

Deru
Ghostly International, LA

Free the Robots
Obey Records, LA

Alex Botwin
Pnuma Trio, CO

Odd Nosdam
Anticon, Oakland

Jel
Anticon, Oakland

DJ Centipede
CB Records, SF

DJ Pedro
Symbiosis Events, SF

Ludachrist video from March 8th Veni Vidi Vici @ Club 6

2008-05-31T13:25:00.000-07:00

For those of you lucky enough to be in attendance for the FIRST ever performance of Ludachrist can now reflect on the legendary night that it was. BIG UPS to Jake & Nick for making this happen!

Checka check it out!!! ArtNowSF & Juxtapoz are heading to PDX for a out of state banger with Abstract Earth Project for VENI VIDI VICI PDX...

2008-05-31T07:31:00.000-07:00

For more info go to www.abstractearthproject.com
Big up to Kieth & Ashley for putting together an amazing Art & Music lineup
Keep a look out for more masterpiece collabo shows in PDX.....

Art Now Store selling hot hot heat.

2008-05-30T15:06:00.001-07:00

Keep your eyes peeled for upcoming Fashion, Art, and Music.... We have tons of items coming up, check us ouuuuuttt!!!!!!

CLICK HERE

This just in from Last Gasp

2008-05-30T15:00:00.000-07:00

by Gary Baseman

< Click the cover for a preview.

$24.95

48 pages

ISBN-10: 0867196920

ISBN-13: 9780867196924

Publisher: Last Gasp

Dying of Thirst catalogs Gary Baseman’s solo show, "I Melt in Your Presence," at Modernism Gallery in San Francisco. Baseman's paintings reflect an oozing, sexual frenzy and dripping, cream-filled energy. This full-color, large-format, hardcover collector's edition features beautiful reproductions of Baseman's artwork. It includes nude studies in mixed media, and paintings such as Dripping With Desire, The Hills of Creamy Goodness, Dying of Thirst, The Battle for Independence and Creamy Fulfillment, The Rose, In the Presence of True Desire, The Goodness of Creamy Wonderment, The Battlefield of Glory and Desire, and Madonna and the Chou Chou. Named "One of the 100 Most Creative People in Entertainment" by Entertainment Weekly Magazine, Baseman blurs the line between toy culture and fine art with his strong iconic images, both playful and dark, childlike and adult, id-driven and thought-provoking.

LASTGASP.COM

Pacific Art Collective Brought It @ May VVV

2008-05-30T14:29:00.000-07:00

Pacific Art Collective hooked up a triumphant art show and live painting shazaam for May's Juxtapoz Release Party @ Veni Vidi Vici. The art exhibitionists worked long and hard in front of a scrutinizing crowd, winning the ultimate title of Tight as Hell. Thanks for your hard work and the comprehensive wall coverage.

Kris D on Juxtapoz.com

2008-05-28T16:19:00.000-07:00

This is a live painting collab with J. Garcia, who will be flicking brushes at the next Veni Vidi Vici, June 14th.

JUZTAPOZ.COM

The next level has been breached.

2008-05-28T11:45:00.001-07:00

From: blublu.org

Ethen B. Luce getiin' Loose, eh?

2008-05-21T13:58:00.000-07:00

EP by Free The Robots and Gaslamp Killer

2008-05-21T13:46:00.000-07:00

These dudes will be scooting their booties up here for:
365 @ 111 Minna
June 5th

http://www.myspace.com/freetherobots

Daedelus Video

2008-05-21T13:40:00.001-07:00

David Choong Lee & Mars-1

2008-05-21T13:30:00.000-07:00

David Choong Lee just had an art opening with Mars-1 at Bucheon Gallery. He will be featured in this next month's show, 365, At 111 Minna.
Check out some photos of the opening from his website:

2008-05-19T09:37:00.000-07:00

wow.

2008-05-19T09:20:00.000-07:00

Suite Jesus May 23rd

2008-05-15T17:13:00.000-07:00

June 5th ain't nothin' to eff wit!

2008-05-14T12:46:00.000-07:00

Some of the country's most visionary contemporary artists are showcased at this group show at 111 Minna; which will obviously go open and close with massive explosions of creativity.

A show for the history books. We have brought together an amazing group of artist for a show that will open and close with explosions of creativity. ArtNowSF and Kris D had the great idea of taking some of the countrys most amazing visionary artist and some stand out contemporary artist to bridge the gap between these oh so close worlds. The show will dig deep into the soul and bring light to parts of the brain not yet discovered. To top it all off we are bringing you an opening of top notch musicians and live painters to set the mood. And to close it out we will do what ArtNow does so well, we body rock with Suite Jesus the uber freakish dance party we do every month. So fasten your spaceship seatbelts and get ready for a galactic creativity ride.

Opening Music lineup

Eliot Lipp *Live*
(1st time ever feat. Alex & Lane of the Pnuma Trio)
Mush Records, NYC/CO

Daedelus
Ninja Tune, LA

The Gaslamp Killer
Obey Records, LA

Deru
Ghostly International, LA

Free the Robots
Obey Records, LA

Alex Botwin
Pnuma Trio, CO

Odd Nosdam
Anticon, Oakland

Jel
Anticon, Oakland

DJ Centipede
CB Records, SF

DJ Pedro
Symbiosis Events, SF

Closing Lineup

VinRoc (Triple Threat)

I-Vier (Jah Warrior Shelter)

Ren(True Skool)

Bootleg (Earthlings)

Adam Twelve (ArtNowSF)

Click the artist name to see more

Kris D

Damon Soule

Oliver Vernon

Gregory Euclide

David Choong Lee

Jason Alberto Garcia

David Hale

Ethen B. Luce

Rob Pellicer

Xavi

Adrien Robert (sane)

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