“The Sniff Show”
Featuring The Art Group Sniff: Scott Hewitt, Scott Meadows and David Ryan
Artist Reception: Friday, July 18th from 5 to 8 PM
Exhibit Dates: July 5th Thru August 3rd, 2008
at Eclectix Gallery , 7523 Fairmount Ave.El Cerrito, CA 94530


Website: http://www.eclectixgallery.com
Simply put, Sniff is a band of artist friends who decided to do group art together. They became known as the guerilla artists who decorated and transformed “The Albany Bulb” (a shoreline area on the eastern side of the SF Bay) into a found object and painting, outdoor museum. The Bulb is an old landfill area, (yes, we packed our garbage right into the bay…) and it was pretty much a free-for-all area. Part park, part dump, part wilderness area, with an awesome view of the entire San Francisco Bay Area. Painting on whatever washed up or was dug up, Sniff covered any and many surfaces with brilliant mural-style works, reminding one of Diego Rivera, Thomas Hart Benton and George Grosz all at once. A concoction of bawdy circus art, Mexican folk art and graffiti “lowbrow” art styles, all mixed into one.

“On weekdays, 69-year-old Osha Neumann works as a defense attorney for homeless people at a Berkeley law center. On weekends, he changes into his torn jacket and builds brilliant sculptures at the Albany Bulb, a former landfill that pokes a mile into the San Francisco Bay.” – AlbanyToday

Film by Tomas McCabe
Osha Neumann & Jason DeAntonis
Off-Leash at The Bulb.