Steve MacDonald in Rollin' With the Z-Boyz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckIc2wrnBxk

Art For Sale

I have some art for sale!

For a limited time I am selling my art direct from my studio to you.
I don't have a gallery that represents me right now. Buy it now, before everything goes through the gallery again only.
Feel free to email me.
Steve@ramblinworker.com
Thanks,
Steve

Embroidered Mountain


Cargo Ship.
Sold


and
this is a small cargo ship
8 1/2 x 8 1/2in
Sold


Tiger and Flowers



White Snow Clock
Sold


Gold Wings Clock
Sold


Cuckoo Bird Clock
SOLD


Flower



Mission Card Board Truck
8 1/2 x 8 1/2in
Sold


skateboard alphabet



Mountain with Fog



Mountain with Fog 2



Rainbow_skulls
Sold



There is more art on my website.
http://www.ramblinworker.com/art.html

Modern Seamster Magazine

A Thin Red Line



Text; Linda Lagunas

Photos; Angela Scrivani



Interview with Steve MacDonald of Ramblin Worker



To read
A Thin Red Line

Swipple 5nd year anniversary commemorative "music" CD

Tracks by Ramblin Worker, Reuben Sohl, La Lus, Dirtclod, Three Faggits Suck, Precious Monkey, Wooden Nickel, and more!

To Buy
http://www.swipple.com/shopitem.php?id=143

Stumble It!

Winter Fest 13th Annual 2008 San Francisco CA

San Francisco Bicycle Coalition 13th Annual Winterfest member party on Sunday, December 7th. More than 1,000 SF bicycling advocates of all stripes — SFBC members, commuters, corporate sponsors, artists, and local politicians — will celebrate the growth of San Francisco bicycling at this annual member party, auction and fundraiser. Evening activities include a live auction, silent auction and art show featuring brand new bikes, cool gear, unique art and gift certificates from local favorites. Proceeds from the Winterfest fundraiser will go directly toward improving biking conditions in San Francisco so all cyclists have a comfortable, safe and dignified ride about town. Check out the Winterfest Auction Catalog as it grows and grows, preview the 60+ local artists in the Art Show and take a peek at the first ever SFBC Bike Quilt composed by 30 local crafters.

www.sfbike.org/?winterfest

JOY RIDE MILANO

Sto volando a Milano per il festival di pellicola della bicicletta. Ciao, Steve

SUPERSTUDIO PIÙ, VIA TORTONA 27

NAUGURAZIONE ALLE 19, APERTA FINO AL 30 NOVEMBRE DALLE 11 ALLE 20

Collettiva a tappe che riunisce opere di artisti affermati e nuovi talenti. Partita da New York nel 2007, è già passata per Parigi, Londra, San Francisco, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Toronto.

NAUGURAZIONE ALLE 19, APERTA FINO AL 30 NOVEMBRE DALLE 11 ALLE 20

ARTISTI
Kareem Black
Julia Chiang
Matteo Di Nisio
Camilla Candida Donzella
Stefano Dragonetti
Cheryl Dunn
Jessica Findley
Massan Fluker
Erik Foss
Michel Gondry
Jason Goods
Rich Jacobs
Taliah Lempert
Daniele De Lonti
Andrew McClintock
Steve MacDonald
James Newman
Wolfgang Paperchase
Tahiti pehrson
Andrea "Hekto" Schilirò
Tod Seelie
Peter Sutherland
John-Taki Theodoracopulus
Swoon

bicyclefilmfestival.com/2008_site/milano/

Steve MacDonald by Nick Golebiewski

ART-I-SODE #1 Steve MacDonald from Nick Golebiewski on Vimeo.

Swipple: Max Fish 2008!!!

Swipple at Max Fish 2008



www.Swipple.com

works by affiliates of the Swipple artist collective



Swipple is a collaborative network of artists who exhibit artwork online through
the Swipple.com website. The primary motivation behind

the Swipple project is simple: to provide a forum and exhibit space for

high-quality artwork, in a setting that is broad enough in scope to

reflect a wide range of artists and practices, and yet is limited enough

to retain a sense of intimacy and cohesion among the artists.

Swipple is committed to uncovering and presenting artwork from the vast

pool of little known artists plugging away at the periphery of the

art-world proper, but exhibits the artwork of emerging and mid-career

artists as well. The aesthetic direction is dictated largely by chance,

and of course nepotism, and while in that way it parallels the art world,

we hope that it does so in its own unique and interesting way.

Visitors to the website are not required to have any background in the arts,

and are welcome to make their own decisions about what they like.

We suggest only that artists be taken as much as possible on their own terms.



Andrea Aimi, Brion Nuda Rosch, Canton Belanger,

Gregg Woolard, Hank Swipple,

Jake Klotz, Jason Wright, Jeff Cashvan,

Jim Damron, Jocko Weyland, John Drury,

John Hoder, Joseph Nechvatal, Justin Pollmann,

Ky Anderson, Matt Crane, Ned Gedney, Rob Kolomyski,

Steve MacDonald, Tim Clinton, Zach Erickson, Ryan Groendyk and more.



www.swipple.com at Max Fish



DONT

MISS

THE

BIG

SWIPPLE!



5nd Annual Swipple art show

Oct. 14 - June Nov. 12

2008



Max Fish NYC

178 Ludlow St.

NY, NY



Opening reception Oct. 14, 6pm



http://www.swipple.com/

Joy Ride SF Opening Thursday July 24, 2008

Thursday July 24 - Joy Ride Opening 6-10 PM

RamblinWorker + Treatzone = LittleZero @ Echo Curio

San Francisco-based artist Steve MacDonald creates embroidered paintings on gilded canvases. His work draws inspiration from an eclectic array of sources including Japanese nature scenes, folk art, fantasy, mythology and elements from the urban experience. Taken together, his compositions provoke a variety of spontaneous references through the depiction of fantastical landscapes. A variety of images including tigers, rainbows, cityscapes, skulls and shipping containers act out elaborate stories against the backdrop of a traditional Japanese print form.

Matthew Davis is an artist and web-designer currently living in San Francisco. In 2002 he founded Treatzone.com, and this year he and his wife Sandy launched a full line of paper goods and art prints under the same name. Their collaborative work is inspired by vintage materials and imagery, and they strive to use repurposed and recycled materials whenever possible. Matthew's recent solo projects highlight his skills as an illustrator, and include everything from a series of narrative cat drawings called Cat Tales, to fanciful creature alphabets and whimsical landscapes full of talking pyramids.

MacDonald and Davis met while students at the Kansas City Art Institute and both made their way to the Bay Area independently. There they renewed their friendship and started collaborating on various projects, including t-shirt designs for Modest Mouse, Puma, and DC Shoes, as well as a float for the 2006 Deitch Parade. When friend and fellow KCAI alum Tim Clinton recommended they go into business for themselves, Little Zero was born. We are happy to be featuring both artists' unique work as well as selling their brand new t-shirt line along with this show.

Both artists will be joining us from San Francisco. Please join us opening night, Saturday August 9th 8-Midnight!

Echo Curio
Saturday August 9th 8-Midnight!
Echo Curio 1519 Sunset Echo Park, CA 90026

RamblinWorker + Treatzone = LittleZero @ Echo Curio

Little Zero, Summer Line!

LittleZero is a collaboration between Steve MacDonald (ramblinworker.com), Matthew Davis (treatzone.com) & Tim Clinton (Dawson-Clinton.com). The first project together as Little Zero was a new T-shirt for the SF track bike production "MASH" (mashsf.com).

+++++++++++++++++++


Steve and Matthew have made t-shirts for


Puma, DC Shoes, Bicycle Film Festival and Modest Mouse. After 3 years we have come out with a line for summer!!!


To Buy!

www.littlezero.net

Contemporary Textiles: The Fabric of Fine Art

From the loom to the white cube, textiles have been making waves on the fine art scene in greater and greater measure over the last fifty years. Beautifully illustrated, Contemporary Textiles: The Fabric of Fine Art is a stunning and comprehensive look at emerging artists from one of the most exciting mediums in the fine art world today, that profiles some of the most daring and innovative examples of textiles in fine art.

Drawing on the rich history of textiles as craft-art, Contemporary Textiles: The Fabric of Fine Art charts the medium's evolution through to contemporary fine art practices, with essays by Janis Jefferies and Bradley Quinn, a foreword by acclaimed artist Jann Haworth and profiles of over sixty groundbreaking textile artists.

Featured artists include, among many others, Matthew Barney, Maria Pineres, Jennifer Angus, Elaine Reichek, Jessica Rankin, Rosemarie Trockel, Yinka Shonibare, Tilleke Schwarz, Cosima von Bonin, Ghada Amer, Annette Messager, Mike Kelley, and Christo and Jeanne Claude. Contemporary Textiles culminates in an inspiring survey of the most important work taking place in the field today. The artists profiles are highly illustrated with photographs and examples of work portrayed making this an invaluable book for anyone interested in contemporary fabrics, art and design.

I am in this book.
It is coming out May 20, 2008
Thanks,
Steve

Paperback
192 pages
300 b/w and colour ills
25.0 x 21.0 cm
9.5 x 8.5 in

To buy

Steve MacDonald & Rachel Budde

April 24th, 2008
For immediate release:

Paper Boat Gallery
2375 S. Howell Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53207
414. 483. 8462
www.paperboatboutique.com

Work by Steve MacDonald (San Francisco, CA)
& Rachel Budde (Brooklyn, NY)








May 2nd- 31st 2008
Curated by Faythe Levine




Steven MacDonald, Cargo Ship 1, 2008
Canvas, Gesso, Thread 2' x 3'

Please join us for the opening reception May 2nd 7-10pm
Both artists will be in attendance from their respective coast!






Attached print ready images include:
Steve MacDonald, Cargo Ship 1
Rachel Budde, Eagle Pigeon Head
* For additional information & further print images please contact Faythe Levine

Curator's Statement:
I can't remember when I first came across the stitchery of San Francisco based artist Steve MacDonald, however, once I saw it, the bold lines and imagery was burned in my brain. MacDonald has shown his machine stitched wall based work in gallery's around the world, from Tokyo to Jerusalem and I am very pleased to bring his work to the walls of Milwaukee. Aside from his machine stitched gallery work, MacDonald has a creative resume that extends into all mediums and methods from film and music to fashion, including design work for Modest Mouse, Timbuk2 to name a few, of many, impressive clients. Since Paper Boat loves artists who cross the lines of the creative world we are happy to be selling a brand new line of MacDonald's t-shirts along with his show.

Along with MacDonald's wall based work will be the mixed media work of Brooklyn based artist Rachel Budde. Budde has recently been published in two books "Graffiti Women" by Nicholas Ganz and "Stencil Pirates" by Josh Macphee and has also assisted street artist SWOON from 2004-2007. For her upcoming exhibition at Paper Boat she will be installing a collection of her paintings in a way that references shrine building. Budde says "I hope to take the viewer into the paintings while also calling attention to the everyday objects outside of the paintings, creating a juxtaposition and a dialogue."

The combination of MacDonald and Budde's work will bring attention to urban landscapes, over-looked objects, and detail's of the handmade in innovative presentation and form. Both artists will be joining us from their respective coasts, please join us opening night, Friday May 2nd 7-10pm.


Steve MacDonald Artist Statement:
www.ramblinworker.com




Characteristic of Steve MacDonald's work is crimson thread, making its way across a sea of golden canvas and arriving at surreal destinations. A close-up examination of the red stitching is required in order to understand the laborious and compulsive nature of the process employed by nothing more than hands, paint and an old Singer sewing machine driving its red thread. The mood of the stitching varies from one painting to the next and many times within a single painting, describing the texture and lines of any given element; whether it be foliage, water, the grooves carved into a mountainside or lineament of buildings. Tailored patches of peaks, fog, superstructure and shrubbery adorn these unusually luminous vistas, a perfect backdrop for myth and magic.

Read an interview with Steve MacDonald on Razor Apple HERE

Rachel Budde Artist Statement:



In my work, I am attempting to express (through a multiplicity of symbolic images) a relationship between the ethereal and the mundane, the sacred and the profane. An individual's physical orientation can contradict that individual's ideological, spiritual or political orientation, one is able to exist on many levels within one space. I am interested in the places where art and the everyday meet, whether it be through adornment of a car, or through creating religious shrines in a home. Adornment and ritual infuse banality with a sense of transcendence. Symbols in our churches or on our billboards are a part of a continuum of evolving ancient symbols; symbols that maybe profane in a contemporary context may have at one time been sacred. Symbols flip and flop, and I am interested in a symbols ability to carry historical residue with it, creating vast complexities within each given symbol. My aim is to take my own interpretation and experience with a number of given symbols and activate them, adding yet another layer to a symbolic history.

Devotion To Thread

Devotion To Thread
May 17- June 14, 2008
Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee WI
Curated by Faythe Levine
Participating Artists:

Chris Niver, Milwaukee, WI
Diem Chau, Seattle, WA
Emily Eibel, Brooklyn, NY
Jenny Hart, Austin, TX
Kate Bingman-Burt, Mississippi State, MS
Kristin Loffer Theiss, Mount Vernon, WA
Lisa Solomon, Oakland, CA
Melissa Woods, N/A
Merrliee Challis, Birmingham, AL
Orly Cogan, N/A
Pippi Zornoza, Providence, RI
Rebecca Schoenecker, Chicago, IL
Shannon Rankin, Maine
Steve Macdonald, San Francisco, CA
Xander Marro, Providence, RI

www.devotiontothread.blogspot.com

Is it a Fiber Show?

Is it a Fiber Show?
a group show..New West Coast Design
January 4-February 16,2008
January 4, 6-8 pm reception for the artists..
Bucheon is pleased to participate in the city wide celebration for the

100th anniversary of CCA and New West Coast Design...Our participation
will be focused on Fiber art but as a fine art gallery, we’re
interested in showing artists that push the material and are intent on
making challenging work..
The show opens Friday January 4, 2008 with a reception for the artists

from 6-8pm and runs through February 16,2008
Artists who sew, paint, and build with non traditional materials  yet
fit into the fiber world. Several artists will create installations
like  Seattle based Mandy Greer who presents elusive interior
narratives using every possible material, including feathers, felt,
cotton and others..San Francisco based artist Rebecca Szeto experiments

with rust and brillo pad and Martha Sue Phillips likes the corners of
space and explores inhabiting these forgotten regions.
Steve MacDonald has discovered sewing and with help of an old sewing
machine has created colorful landscapes, inventive narratives and has
participated in the famous Dietch Parade  in Manhattan with a giant
sewn tank.
There will be colorful and exciting work from west coast artists who
will celebrate New West Coast Design.
Artists invited so far include...
Steve MacDonald, Misako Inaoka, Rebecca Szeto
Mandy Greer, Robin Margerin   Martha Sue Harris
Benjamin Whalen Nanilee Robarge Karen Olsen- Dunn
David Gremard Romero Ray Materson

www.bucheon.com

 Bucheon Gallery 389 Grove St.,San Francisco,CA. 94102

Winterfest Show Art SF CA

Poster art by Hugh D'Andrade. Download below.

It's our 12th Annual Auction, Art Show, Party & Fundraiser! Sunday, December 2 Note to members: Bring your membership card for quicker entry! Join us at Winterfest, presented by Rickshaw Bagworks and the SFBC The biggest and baddest bike party of the year brings you sweet items to bid on and buy -- from bags and bikes to restaurant gift certificates and dates with local celebrities. In addition, 60 pieces of incredible local art will be up for sale! Where: SOMArts Gallery (Brannan @ 8th St) When: Dec. 2nd from 6-10:30pm SFBC members: $10+/Sliding scale Non-SFBC members: $25 (includes new SFBC membership!) Note to members: Bring your membership card for quicker entry! But, Winterfest is not just an auction fundraiser, y'know. It's much, much more! Winterfest is the full-blown SFBC member party with all your favorite, bike-lovin' pals, complete with New Belgium Brewery beer, snacks, and, this year, entertainment by the Extra Action Marching Band! Drum roll, please! Proceeds from our fundraiser go directly toward improving biking conditions in San Francisco so all cyclists have a comfortable, safe and dignified ride about town. To make Winterfest a hell of a great party, we need you! SFBC is seeking 100+ volunteers--there's something for everyone. Sign up to volunteer today. http://www.sfbike.org/?winterfest

Cultivated Art Show Saturday Oct 6 @ Mars Bar San Francisco

Bay Area artist & architects to showcase the emergent culture between art and

landscape architecture/design, as a parallel event to the ASLA conference

landing this year in san francisco. The event will bring to light creations by
design professionals, artists and people involved in creating space.





The featured artists are: Adam Cruces, Astrid Diehl, Bryan Schutmaat,

Carolina Covers, Christina Lemon, Cyrus Tabar, Daniel Newman,

John Baran, Laura Bauer, Mike Likosky, Megan Roberts, Metagardens,

Rusty Lamer, Steve MacDonald, Steven Muzik, Swetha Gowri,

Terri Loewenthal, Wayward Plants, Willett Moss, Zach Tanner.






8 to 10Pm
@
Mars Bar
798 Brannan St @ 7th
San Francisco, CA




www.cultivatedevent.com

Not Your Grandpa's Embroidery

Modern men enjoy a craft that wasn't always thought of as "women's work."

Craftzine Volume 04:
Coming soon! On newsstands August 7!
http://craftzine.com/magazine/

MASH-SF / Honeyee Blog

Mike put up some of my new bags on the Honeyee Blog.

MASH-SF / Honeyee Blog>>>

Bicycle Film Festival, Joy Ride Paris 2007

JOY RIDE AT COLETTE


2 JUILLET - 1 SEPTEMBRE

Une exposition inspirée par l'émergence du v élo en milieu urbain.
Présentée par Brendt Barbur
en association avec colette

Vernissage | JEUDI 26 JUILLET | 18h00-20h00


colette 213 rue Saint-Honoré 75001 Paris

Swoon  |  
Phil Frost  |  

Michel Gondry  |  
Steve MacDonald  |  
DAZE  |  
Peter Sutherland  |  

Julia Chiang  |  
Ryuta Nakajima  |  
Lauren Silberman  |  
Kareem Black  |  

Fast Eddie Williams  |  
Cheryl Dunn  |  
Takuya Sakamoto  |  
Madsaki  |  
Ko Masuda  |  

Erin Nicole Brown  |  
Taliah Lempert  |  
Amy Bolger  |  
Tod Seelie  |  
Daniel Leeb  |  

Goods
  |  
Conrad Carlson  |  
Erik Foss  |  
Yohei Hanazawa
  |  
Jason Chaste  |  

Wolfgang Paperchase
  |  
Andrew McClintock  |  
Ginny Hwang  |  
MAKWA  |  

Pai  |  
Nik Ramage