PUNK MAJESTY underground art exhibition # 5
I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been invited to exhibit two of my paintings at Punk Majesty this November! To learn more about this exhibit and paintings, scroll down.
Dive into San Francisco’s underground! ⚡ Art, fashion, rock photography & rebellion collide at Punk Majesty’s Art Exhibition #5.
⚡ Punk Majesty Underground: Art Exhibition #5 — Opening Night ⚡
Saturday, November 8 | 6–9:30 PM
Punk Majesty Showroom | 1124 Sutter St, San Francisco
Step underground and experience a night where punk fashion, rock photography, and bold contemporary art collide.
The Punk Majesty Showroom—San Francisco’s only punk and rock-and-roll fashion showroom and art gallery—invites you to the opening night of Art Exhibition #5, featuring a powerful lineup of underground artists pushing the boundaries of art, rebellion, and self-expression.
This exhibition showcases new work by Patricia Araujo, El Ballot, Jayime Jean, Natalie McKean, Paige Ferro, Carros Antiguos, Vargas, Txutxo Perez, Nissen King, Abassi Dubiaku, Isaac Lee, and Raquel Lowell—a collective of visionaries whose styles span surrealism, pop art, punk, and dark contemporary expression.
🖤 What to Expect
⚡ Original art, fashion, and accessories
⚡ Iconic rock and roll photography
⚡ Curated vintage + upcycled pieces
⚡ Libations and community in a one-of-a-kind space
Merging the DIY spirit of 1977 London punk with 80s NYC pop-art influences, Punk Majesty brings together artists, designers, and rock history in a visually electric, unapologetically creative environment.
This is more than an exhibition—it’s an underground experience that celebrates art, fashion, community, and rebellion in equal measure.
💥 Our community events are always free—but if you love what we’re doing, donations are deeply appreciated to help keep this special underground space alive and thriving for artists, creatives, and rebels alike.
“Pacifica No. 10”, 15” x 11”, oil on canvas, by Araujo
About "Pacifica No. 10" by Patricia Araujo
”Pacifica No.10” forms part of an ongoing series inspired by the face of the statue of Pacifica, of the Golden Gate International Exposition of 1939. Pacifica was an 80-footer, originally built of plaster by Ralph Stackpole, that stood at Treasure Island. She was demolished after the fair ended in 1940.
Pacifica was the theme statue for the exposition, representing world peace, neighborliness, and the power of a unified Pacific coast. She was monumental; a spectacular statue, almost life-like, as if welcoming guests at the fair! She was, and continues to be, an iconic figure, and it is hoped that one day she will be rebuilt and brought back to the Island.
“Dnepr to Infinity, 16” × 20”, oil on canvas, by Patricia Araujo
About “Dnepr to Infinity” by Patricia Araujo
“Dnepr to Infinity” forms part of my Tomorrowland series that I developed in 2008 to 2010, and continue to paint over the years. The imagery is inspired by both Disney's Space Mountain (a favorite amusement ride) and a circus arena in the city of Dnipropetrovsk (also called Dnepr). Dnepr has been the major center of the steel industry from the beginning of the 20th century until the present. It has also dominated in the machine-building and aero-spacebuilding industry since the 1950s, and in a sense is a city of the technological future.
Through researching about this arena, I've made several paintings depicting this site with resemblance to a spaceship influence. For this piece, I softened the building facade and its atmosphere, in monochromatic bright green-blue tones, merging the two, seen as a memory of Dnepr!
“The original Tomorrowland opened at Disneyland in 1955. In later years, the idea of dedicating an area of each Disney amusement park to architectural visions of the future caught on, and each of the five Disney parks has one. But the architectural environment of the present day continues to change; as a Disney spokesman once said, the problem is to keep Tomorrowland from becoming Yesterdayland. The Anaheim Tomorrowland is now in its third version, and the other four are also carefully watched so that they can be brought up to date.
Araujo’s thematic building, which she knows only from photographs, houses a circus in Dnepr, a middle-sized city in Ukraine. The roller-coaster she has painted is depicted in Tomorrowland in the United States. The reality here is not that of any particular city or country; it is the parallel reality of architectural drawings. There is a long tradition of visionary architecture—designs for structures meant to look thought-provoking or amusing, but not intended to be actually built.
Even when the design is for a real building to be paid for by a real client, there is always the chance of a divergence between the architect’s intention, the client's wishes, and uncontrollable future events.
This series of paintings by Patricia Araujo is not a realistic depiction of any one Tomorrowland at any single point in time. It is, collectively, an artist’s fantasy, like a theme and variations in music, about the imaginative act involved in designing a representation of the future, seeing it built, seeing it get older. It unobtrusively reminds us that looking forward and looking back are closely connected,” taken from an excerpt written by Jerome Tarshis, Art Critic.