On the night of Thursday, August 2nd EMERGE went to San Francisco's 111 Minna to check out the opening of the Fecal Face 7.5 Year Anniversary show. The size of the crowd was a testament to Fecal Face's pull around the Bay Area, and to the quality of the work- which ranged from high to quite-high.

A line snaked down the alley and around onto 2nd street. Inside was packed, which is good if you're trying to get hammered and bump and grind on some fine young thing, but not quite as conducive to taking in the tremendous range of visual art on display.

What made all this notable (aside from the work itself of course) is the fact that Fecal Face has gone from a made-at-Kinko's zine to an online institution over the past several years, galvanizing an international audience thanks to regional arts listings (LA, SF, and NYC), blogs, online forums and online galleries open to public submissions. With such a scatalogical name, FF may never become ArtForum, but its carved a remarkably engaging and democratic space for itself and the artists it features both on- and offline.

For a full list of the artists, as well as short interviews with some of them, go straight to the source : www.fecalface.com.

















































































































































































 
































By Matt Bernstein for EMERGE