Don Ed Hardy is one of the most important figures in the United States who works in the integration of pop culture and fine art. He is a first-rate painter and by general consensus, is the most important tattoo artist of his generation. 2000 Dragons is Hardy’'s masterpiece, conceived in 1976 and finished in 2000. The work is an installation of some 500 feet in length, that winds snake-like through its site. In Cuenca, where he represented the United States at the Bienal, the site was a 16th century cathedral, the oldest in the Western hemisphere.

Whipper Snapper Nerd was an exhibition at Yerba Buena based on the work of Harrell Fletcher and Elizabeth Meyer at Creativity Explored, an art workshop for developmentally disabled adults. The title came from a series of zines that Fletcher published featuring interviews and sample work by individual artists. The image was the work of David Jarvey who conflated the Three Stooges and Star Trek. This was also the first exhibition by Michael Loggins, who has gone on to national attention in Harper's, and on NPR, among others, for his Fears of Your Life series.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 1996
Fifty two Halls of Fame from around the US contributed representative displays from their collections. The argument was that Halls of Fame are populist museums of visual culture curated from the grass roots up rather than from the top down. Pictured: the Burlesque Hall of Fame costumes and the Phrenology Machine from the Questionable Medical Devices Hall of Fame.

New Langton Arts, 1990
Working with guest curator Randy Hussong this exhibition included t-shirts, model kits, record albums and related artifacts and culminated with a personal appearance by Roth silkscreening and signing original t-shirt designs.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 1998
As part of a multidisciplinary festival titled Ecotopia, we organized a large bicycle show in collaboration with the SF Bicycle Coalition and guest curator and bicycle activist Slimm Buick. Exhibited was a history of the mountain bike (developed in Marin County), a display of low rider bikes from the Mission, art bikes, and a prison made bike. Other elements of the festival included an installation by Mark Dion and a performance collaboration between Axis Dance Troupe (including dancers in wheelchairs), and bicycle messengers.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 1994
I had obtained a $25,000 fellowship for Barry to spend time in Brazil. He had extended his visit there, and on his return, for the first time, incorporated the picture frame collage into this work. This was based on display he had seen there, in particular I believe from churches. Note that this was McGee’s first museum one person exhibition.