Published on July 15th, 2012 | by greg

Jeremy Fish Unveils “Where Hearts Get Left” at FIFTY24SF Gallery July 14th

Jeez. The urgency of the Jeremy Fish “Where Hearts Get Left” show was lost on me while I was away from my computer. I guess that happens from time to time and I apologize. Regardless, FIFTY24SF Gallery in association with Upper Playground is pleased to announce a new exhibition by San Francisco-based artist, Jeremy Fish. “Where Hearts Get Lost” is Fish’s first gallery show with Upper Playground in 5 years and features 60 new works inspired by his love of San Francisco.

For nearly two decades, New York-born, San Francisco-based Jeremy Fish
has evolved from a leading skateboard artist to one of the most
praised visual storytellers of his generation. Each body of work he
produces becomes a running themed narrative, from the dark underbelly
of the Barbary Coast to the reinterpretation of friends and influences
stories. An artist in the same vein as Dr. Seuss, Fish has created
iconic characters that have grown through the years with the artist, a
familiarity that viewers identify as an entry point into the artist’s
own imagination and version of the world. Paintings are metaphors for
larger storylines, bunnies and turtles reflections of our own path
through life, and an embodiment that true folk storytelling is alive
and and thriving in the technological age.

For Where Hearts Get Left, Fish has prepared six paintings, four
statues, fifty drawings, six screen prints, and an installation
specifically created for FIFTY24SF Gallery. The concept for the
exhibition is the ever-changing social and physical landscape of San
Francisco. “I have lived in this city for almost 20 years, more than
half my life” Fish explains. “I have watched the tech boom come and go
twice, and the many changes the city becomes subject to as a result. I
wanted to focus on “what is it that I still love about this place?”
Fish spent six months creating a visual love letter to the greatest
city in the world. “I am begging her to not become a sterile West
Coast Manhattan any time soon. What are the constants? What are the
things I will always love about SF no matter what happens?”

As well as the original artwork presented in Where Hearts Get Left,
Fish has created 6 screen prints for the show, each in edition of 100
only available through FIFTY24SF Gallery. There will also be a limited
edition, hand bound book featuring 50 black and white drawings,
printed in an edition of 100 in a wood and leather cover, printed by
Edition One Books in Berkeley, California.

The exhibition opens on July 14, 2012, at San Francisco’s FIFTY24SF
Gallery. An afterparty will take place at Milk Bar in Haight Ashbury
on the night of July 14, from 10PM—2AM, featuring sets by DJ Aspect
McCarthy, Edison, and Zman. The afterparty is sponsored by Upper
Playground, the Vapor Room, and Tott Global.

Jeremy Fish is a San Francisco-based fine artist who has shown in
galleries around the world including Rome, San Francisco, New York
City, Los Angeles, Milan, Mexico City, Warsaw, Cologne, Hamburg,
Vancouver, Naples, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Zurich, Vancouver, and at the
Laguna Art Museum. He has collaborated and exhibited with Upper
Playground and FIFTY24SF Gallery for over a decade, the last
exhibition being The Ghosts of the Barbary Coast in 2008.