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THE G-BOX (THE ROOT)
SEMINAL FUNK-O-METRIC (FOM) COLLECTION
Jason Rhoades

“I want a revelution of FOM!”, Jason Rhoades, FOM zine, volume II, #1, August, 1990

23 relics from the personal collection of FOM co-founder Marshall Weber which document the birth and bloom of the Funk-o-Metric movement (and thus the origins of the installation strategies of FOM co-founder Jason Rhoades).

The G-Box, 1988-1990, 18” x 18” x 3” (assembled by M. Weber, 1995)

Funk-O-Metric Inaugral Exhibition at the San Francisco Art Institue, February 16, 1988

  1. 1 original exhibition silkscreen poster on craft paper
  2. 4, 5, 6, black and white 8” x 10” photographs from the opening performance/reception
  3. 1 original exhibition press release, 8.5” x 11”

This exhibition and accompanying events were produced by Jason.

Four issues of Jason Rhoades' and Peter Warren's  rare F-O-M (Funk - o - Metric) 'zine.

Volume I, 1989

  1. #5, February , 8.5 x 5.5, 14 pages
  2. #6, March, 8.5 x 7, 34 pages
  3. #7, May, 8.5 x 7.25, 38 pages

Volume II, 1990

  1. #1, August, 11 X 8.5 inches, 28 pages, with pencil notations by FOM publisher Peter Warren.

12, 13, 14, 3 - G Tablets, 3 Funk - o - Metric paintings by FOM spiritual leader Peter Warren

1989, 10” x 14”, acrylic paint, pencil, marker, (drawings on back), various collage material

15. Small-G-Box with 16, 17 , 18, 3 Mini-G Boxes and contents, by Peter Warren, 1988 -1995

19, FOAM postcard, 20, busy worker eagle painting booklet, 21, G-Soap, 22, Matias Jaramillo Lady Bug, 23, Clancy Cavnar, ceramic disc,

 

 “Rhoades received his MFA from UCLA in 1993 after studying at the California College of the Arts in Oakland, the San Francisco Art Institute and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. During the time of his studies at the San Francisco Art Institute he was one of the founders of a movement called "Funk o' Metric", also known as FOM or FOAM. The members of this group included Peter Warren, Bill Becchio, Laurie Steelink, Sebastian Clough, and Marshall Weber, among others.”

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Rhoades,

 

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