We first became familiar with SPOKE ART around this same time last year.  Back then, the Bay Area art gallery/publishing house was still finding it’s footing and, without their own permanent space to call their own, they had just recently held their inaugural art show in Oakland and were now preparing to launch their next exhibit at the LOPO gallery in San Francisco.  What really peaked our interest about this follow up event, early on, was that it was a group show themed around the talents of filmmaker Wes Anderson.  The impressively curated exhibit was titled “BAD DADS“, in reference to the overwhelming number of family issues -and more specifically, father issues- which are consistently represented in Anderson‘s work.  The amount of quality pieces that were created for and featured in the tribute show made BAD DADS an instant success, helping to catapult SPOKE ART firmly onto the radars of the contemporary art world as a force worth keeping a close eye on.  Over the last year, they have continued to put out tremendously successful exhibits -including 3 separate installments of  “Quentin vs. Coen – An art show tribute to the films of Tarantino and the Brothers – introduced us to exciting young talents like Serge Gay Jr., and have locked down a permanent space in San Francisco to host regular showcases for this amazing art.  This coming weekend, that space will be utilized to it’s full potential, as SPOKE ART revisits the original concept that is responsible for first truly putting them on the map. Read the rest of this entry →