Opening Photos From Mark McCloud's solo show

Wow! what a wild night. Thanks to everyone that made it out.

lots more photos to come over the next few days.

These photos by Kid Yellow

Artist talk and history of blotter art date TBA

Live music on Friday the 18th TBA

come by and check out the show

Friday and Thursday 4-7

Saturday 2-7

and by appointment

evergoldgallery@gmail.com

show closes on Wednesday the 24th

Mark in the middle with some heavy hittin' friends

its safe for the kids

a little taste of things to come

perf machine (note evidence labels)

installation in progress

Tony Labat and Mark McCloud

Interview with Mark McCloud

-Mark McCloud-
New Forms of Loafting Sour Dough

Thursday, November 4th, 6-9pm

Ever Gold interview with Mark McCloud

When did you move to San Francisco

I moved here after getting my MFA and a postgraduate year at U.C.Davis in 1978.

Where did you go on your first trip?

I am still ON my first trip!

Did you spend a lot of time with the likes of Timothy Leary, Jerry Garcia, or Aldous Huxley?

Tim and I tripped together!

I tripped to Jerry but more to Pig-Pen!

Huxley and I still trip together!

What time in the morning did the Feds first nock on your door and what transpired from that day?

The Feds came early last time, {at 2:00 P.M. the first time in "92} but I was up and out already getting my girlfriend breakfast!

When did you start collecting and producing blotter tab art?

I collected for 15 years and then started making it! I have made it for 20 years.

Your collection has over 40,000 pieces- would you say it’s the biggest in the world? What pieces are you putting in the Ever Gold show?

Size isn't everything!

The Ever Gold Show will have my next 1000 hits!

Can you talk about your adventures on the board at SFAI in the early 70’s?

Was there 10 years on the Artist's Board till I became Vice-Chairman under the great Mark Van Proyen in the late eighties! Not as old as I look.....They had the courage to show the first blotter show in 1987!

What can one expect at the opening reception?

At my show: always expect handcuffs and 20 to life! and i hope i can play some Marshmallow Overcoat for us all!

Mark McCloud

please join us for our next opening on November 4th

Mark McCloud

new forms of Loafting Sour Dough

"Mark McCloud was the head of an LSD conspiracy that gained a new generation to the cause of LSD," assistant U.S. attorney Mike Oliver said. "It is a cause that creates in people the capacity to make life-threatening and life-stealing decisions."

The artist continues to document the LSD hit or dose of blotter in minute detail as he comments on the state of the arts and politics in relation to psychedelics.

Juxtapoz Interview

National Geographic Interview

SF Weekly Interview

More interviews on Marks Website

This Thursday - John Held Jr.

Please join us this Thursday at 7pm for another event for

John Held Jr.

Debris from the Cultural Underground

“Withheld: A Conversational Memoir”

Performance: October 21, 2010 7pm

San Francisco playwright and actor Jeremy Greco will present excerpts from, “Withheld: A Conversational Memoir,” which resulted from the transcription of ten interview sessions between the artist and playwright earlier in the year. Greco's work is currently in development at The Marsh.

November Show!

Our ad for our November show in the new San Francisco Arts Quarterly.

Lecture this Thursday

“Forty Years Accumulating Debris from the Cultural Underground”

Lecture: October 14, 2010 7pm

Held will present a lecture on “Forty Years Accumulating Debris from the Cultural Underground,” commenting on his four decade history with an international network of cultural workers and interviews with such notable artists as John Cage, Ray Johnson and Alan Kaprow.