Rock Paper Scissors

View video of Rock Paper Scissor's February 2006 show, Skull, featuring the work of Jake Hout, Summer Bell and Nate Moore. (Running Time: 4:01)

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There are many things to appreciate about Rock Paper Scissors: it's a store selling handmade wares by local crafties, it's a learning center offering many creative classes from underwear making, old fashion fiddle playing, printmaking to bike repairs, and it's an art gallery -- all under one roof!

The folks at Rock Paper Scissors present Skull from February 3-27, 2006, a show of new work by local artists Jake Hout, Summer Bell and Nate Moore. The show examines the skull as a theme to explore how this iconic image been represented in many contexts from science and pirates, to witchcraft and spirituality, to the pop culture avenues of horror, punk rock and kitch. Hout presents the skull as the repetitive entity of pop culture in his oil on canvas works. Glass artist Bell's alter installation uses the skull to symbolize the marriage of creativity and self-destruction. Tattoo artist Moore uses illustration, installation and stencil to re-negotiate the skull in a variety of methods and forms.

Where: 2778 Telegraph Ave. (near 23rd St.), Oakland
Gallery hours: 11am-7pm everyday except Tuesdays
Phone: (510) 238-9171

Where: 2278 Telegraph Avenue , Oakland, CA, 94162, USA
Phone: (510) 238-9171