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Having "Live" Worms Gallery on Grant Avenue harkens to those thrilling days of yesteryear when the beatniks held sway and a casual spontaneity ruled over bohemian North Beach. The gallery serves not only the artists who exhibit there now, but as a link to that storied past many of us still hold dear.
You might consider that over the next few days as you drop in to check out the work of a couple of fine North Beach artists, Jeff Grove and George Long.
Grove's show, which runs from Tuesday to Thursday (with an artist's reception on Wednesday starting at 7 p.m.), features new work in a variety of styles: abstract/textural, figurative and something Grove calls provoka-pop. He's billing the exhibit as "evocation, provocation, invocation" (leaving out my favorite "cation" word, "vacation") and I'm looking forward to stopping by.
The following weekend -- Friday, Oct. 17 and Saturday the 18th -- it'll be Long's turn at "Live" Worms. I know George (no relation to yours truly except for our mutual fondness for the drink) primarily as an abstract expressionist, but his style has been evolving lately. He's doing figurative stuff as well, so it will be interesting to see what mischief he's been getting up to. The reception will be on the 17th, from 6 to 10 p.m.
Here's a chance to lose that Monet water-lily museum reproduction, and line your walls with some real art.
It was from Mr. Grove, incidentally, that I learned how the gallery came by its unusual name. Turns out the old Figone Hardware store, which occupied the space for years, used to sell worms -- "live" worms, as it happens -- as fish bait. The sign was still kicking around somewhere (yes, with the quotemarks around "live") when Kevin Brown established his gallery and, well, now you know.
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