Respected Wizard's take on Art: Hashimoto Contemporary: Moleskin Project IV

Hashimoto Contemporary is located at 804 Sutter st. San Francisco, CA 94109. I had the opportunity to check out this nice little gallery before my departure to the Ai Wei Wei exhibition on Alcatraz. I originally was interested in seeing the artwork here because there's an artist that I follow and I have yet to see their work in person until now and that artist is So Youn Lee. She is a Korean artist that now resides in Los Angeles and paints in a style called "cute surrealism" which is very reminiscent of works by artist such at Takashi Murakami and Chiho Aoshima.

The Moleskin Project IV is a collective sketchbook show where artist are all given the same support which is a 5"x 8" Moleskin sketchbook and are free to create anything they desire using any medium. I was blown away by all the different aesthetics of the 80 plus artists, they ranged from hyper-realistic to gestures, from classical to pop. I was most impressed with how all the artists were able to produce high quality work given the size of the support, which was basically the size of notebook paper. I was also impressed with the Moleskin sketchbook because it proved to be a very high quality sketchbook to withstand the various mediums such oil paint, acrylic, watercolor, carving, and inking.

I have so many favorite pieces from this gallery and a whole of more artist that I must now follow.