At the end of May, beloved San Francisco collage artist Winston Smith suffered a heart attack that stopped him in his tracks. At the time, he was due to premier a show of new and classic works on June 6 at North Beach’s Studio Fallout , a gallery that the artist also curates.
With characteristic good humor, Smith told his fans that while he would be resting for the foreseeable future, his “guardian angels were definitely working over-time,” and that the health scare made him feel “just a little bit pregnant.”
Smith’s planned show, I Saw But I Did Not See , will now go up for one night only at 111 Minna on Aug. 21, accompanied by a punk rock karaoke event. Alongside classic works capturing the pain and absurdity of modern living, there will be a number of new pieces that present