Spoke Art

“Bad Hostess” by Scott Hove - mixed media sculpture on wood. Part of Scott’s exhibit, “Guns and Ecstasy”, on view this month at Spoke Art San Francisco. Learn more here.

“Chocolate Uzi” by Scott Hove - mixed media on wood panel, 2013.

View the entire exhibition by Scott Hove, “Guns and Ecstasy” now on the Spoke Art website - http://store.spoke-art.com/

A very big congrats to artist Crystal Wagner for her feature today on the Hi-Fructose Magazine website! 

Learn more about the artist and check out the article and pics here - http://hifructose.com/2013/05/08/crystal-wagners-fluorescent-reflections-of-nature/

“Glamicide” by Scott Hove - mixed media sculpture, 2013.

Please join us this Thursday night at Spoke Art Gallery, San Francisco for the opening reception of Scott Hove’s new solo exhibition, “Guns and Ecstasy”. More info and RSVP here.

Oakland, CA based Scott Hove creates delicious and deadly mixed media sculptures. His work is either a baker’s nightmare or their greatest fantasy and is a wonderful study of juxtapositions. 

Here’s a look at an older piece by Scott which we exihibited at last year’s Artmrkt San Francisco Art Fair, stay tuned for a whole new body of work from Scott debuting this Thursday night at Spoke Art San Francisco. 

More info and teasers coming soon!

A really nice feature today on the sculptures of Spoke artist Ron Ulicny, featured on All Positive Creativity. Check it out here - http://allpositivecreativity.blogspot.com.es/2013/03/ron-ulicny.html

And be sure to follow the artist here on Tumblr as well! - ronulicny.tumblr.com

Stay tuned for Ron’s upcoming solo show at Spoke Art San Francisco in July! 

Here’s a look at “Bad Hostess” a new mixed media sculpture by Scott Hove, part of our recent exhibit at the Scope Art Fair in NYC earlier this month.

Stay tuned for Scott’s upcoming solo show at our San Francisco gallery space in May, and check out all the works from our recent NYC exhibit here - http://spoke-art.myshopify.com/collections/scope-art-fair-nyc-2013

Learn more about the artist here: http://mshove.com

Very excited to be showing Scott Hove’s latest body of work at this weeks Scope NYC fair. 

Known primarily for his taxidermy cake busts, Scott has taken a new direction this year with his work following the tragic recent events at Sandy Hook Elementary.

Here’s what Scott has to say about these new pieces:

“In American culture, a gun can serve not only as great equalizer of the powerful and powerless. Beyond the purposes of hunting and defense, having a gun can also serve as a surrogate identity of virility and empowerment. Assault weapons are the most rapidly evolving of these identity empowerment tools. They are fetish objects composed of high-capacity magazines, infrared scopes, flashlights, bayonets and laser sights, rendered in a sleek and angular matte black.

In this series of sculptures, I have given the hyper-masculinized aesthetic of the assault weapon a forced-feminization in the form of very pretty cake decoration. Each piece points out the ultimate fantasy of a violence and fear-based ethos.”