The Tree Show last Saturday at the Giant Robot store on Shrader/Haight in San Francisco didn’t feature many big names outside of Matt Leines, but overall was a pleasure. The crowd was the typical anime/toy collector crew with a few hipsters sprinkled about, but the show wasn’t your standard-issue post-graffiti street art scene.

Featuring something close to 40 artists, the show stays true to its name, featuring works depicting and inspired by trees and forests and donating a portion of proceeds to the San Francisco Friends of the Urban Forest. While the philanthropic and eco-conscious angles are surefire winners these days, one thing EMERGE really dug about this show was the diversity of the work and the inclusion of a lot of female artists, who tend to get short shrift, especially in the dude-centric world of street art.

Here are links to a few a notables among the artists as well as a ton of photos from the show:

Maxwell Loren Holyoke-Hirsch

PCP

Matthew Feyld

PCP "Stand By Me At The Balcony Scene"























Mollie Goldstrom














































Maxwell Loren Holyoke-Hirsch "The Holy Tree"


Matthew Feyld






























Matt Leines























Matt Furie "Fine Food and Literature"























Kathleen Lolley "Willow Wisdom"






























Joe Keinberger "Tree Spirit Gives Of Itself"





























Aaron Brown "Mommy, Where Do Hippies Come From?"






























Tree Show III Crowd



Written by Scott McFadden for EMERGE