San Francisco | June 9, 2012
S.F. Show: The Boards | The Artists | The Shapers | The Sponsors
Board Art Benefit – San Francisco
Where:
Driftwood Salon art gallery
39 Isis St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
(near 12th and Folsom Streets.)
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When:
One Night Only!
Saturday June 9, 2012
6-10 pm
What:
Art makers & Board shapers working together to benefit SurfAid International.
Live Music from Humboldt County’s Likwefi!
Kona Beers.
Come and enjoy a night of artwork infused with the clean lines of master craftsmen from the surfing world, set to the infectious rhythm’s of live music from Humboldt County’s Likwefi. Enjoy a Kona beer while taking it all in at the Driftwood Salon art gallery in the heart of San Francisco.
Building on our collection of boards from our previous event held in San Diego (over half of which have now sold to collectors) we recently invited well over a dozen new artists to team up with shapers of their choice to create unique objects of art with the surfboard as the common substrate. With styles of art ranging from pure abstraction to gritty realism, from surreal visions to the honest captures of a camera’s lens, with narratives both visual and verbal, we are excited to present to you perhaps one of the most unique quivers of contemporary collectable surfboards ever assembled for a single cause. Many of the boards in this collection have significant values of their own, just by virtue of the hands that crafted them. The artists we’ve invited bring their lifelong skills honed in creating one-of-a-kind works of art to the boards, resulting in boards that just can’t be found anywhere else in the world.
This will be the only chance for Bay Area collectors to catch a glimpse of these incredible boards in person before they are taken to Southern California for an Auction Event that SurfAid International will be hosting later this year. All of the boards will be available for purchase at pre-auction prices with at least 50% of each sale going directly to SurfAid International to support SurfAid’s humanitarian efforts on the Mentawai and Nias islands in Indonesia. You don’t want to miss your chance to see these boards in person and meet many of the artists and shapers who will be in attendance, learn more about SurfAid International, and have a great time. We hope to see you there!
List of Participating Artists and Shapers
Artists | Shapers
Christian Beamish | Christian Beamish
Greg “Pnut” Galinsky | Erik Baldwin
Jose Emroca Flores | Erik Baldwin
Robb Havassy | Rusty Preisendorfer
Wade Koniakowsky | Mike Hynson
Serena Mitnik-Miller | Marc Andreini
Aleks Petrovitch | Aleks Petrovitch
Spencer Reynolds | Jeff “Doc” Lausch
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Who Benefits?
From it’s inception the Board Art Benefit has been driven by the simple ethos of “Benefit Everyone”.
There are many events that aim to raise money for lots of great causes, but the underlying factor driving the Board Art Benefit is the idea that everyone involved should see a real and tangible benefit.
SurfAid International
We aim to benefit SurfAid International through raising funds for and awareness of their organization and the work they do. Many lives have been saved through the work of SurfAid International and we couldn’t be happier to help them continue their work.
The Artists
Professional artists often seem to be on “speed dial” for many non-profits engaging in fund-raising efforts. Many are stretched thin just trying to pay their own bills as working artists, and to be asked to donate their work to raise funds for a non-profit, no matter how wonderful they are, can be a soul-wrenching decision for an artist that wants to support the cause. The artist is painfully aware that often the art work is sold at far less than it’s full value, thus de-valuing the work of the artist as a whole. The non-profits effectively become discount clearing houses of artwork, competing directly with the artists for the very same buyers.
We recognized this tension and actively sought to make the Board Art Benefit an economically viable prospect for the artist as well as the organization, asking that the proceeds be split with the artists. The benefits of this decision were three-fold. For one, this made the event more attractive to the highest caliber professional artists we could find. Secondly, it created an environment encouraging the artists to put forth their very best work. And finally, with high caliber artwork from leading artists we maximize the fund-raising potential of the event.
Humans in Need
Organizations and artists are great and we are happy to support them, but ultimately we aim to benefit the people in need throughout the Mentawai and Telos Islands where SurfAid conducts the majority of it’s work.
What it comes down to? Kids living instead of dying… think about that. We did and here we are.
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