SHARKBYTE ART
A Benefit for San Jose's Non-Profit and Art Foundations
Summer 2001

Corporate sponsors paid the expenses for various San Jose artists to decorate 100 sharks, which were displayed for a time in downtown San Jose, then auctioned off (Below are my favorites).

The sharks were delivered to the artists...

...who prepared them for painting

Arnold Schwarzenegger co-sponsored, then autographed "Shark and Stripes."
Some sharksamples.

Sharon and I went downtown in August of 2001 and I shot the following photos. The sponsor's name is in the lower left corner and the amount sold at auction is in the lower right corner of each photo. The sharks' names are given below the photos.

"Shark with Balls" and "Shark of the Nile"

"Saludo a Zurich" and "Squalo"

"Looking Around" and "Chinese Dragon Shark"

"Carmen Sharkana" and "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Shark"

"Shark Circuit" and "NEWS Shark"

"Monopoly in the Park Shark" and "The Sharks are Circling"

I picked this one up on the internet

"Sun on your Skin, Ache in your Bones"

And the rest of these were in a brochure I ordered from the San Jose Downtown Association.

First category (my definitions): SHARK DRESSERS

"A Hand-some Shark" and "Lex" (Luthor, from Superman, the Movie)

"Sea Ya" and "The Little Ballerina Shark"

BADASS SHARKS

"Hungry for More" and "Leopard Shark"

"Swimming Dragon" and "Megabyte"

"Tiger Shark" and "Hammerhead Shark"

CLEVER SHARKS

"How Sharks Work" and "Moo"

"Noah's Shark" and "Material Shark"

"YS2" (Yellow Submarine) and "Holy Shark"

"Do You Know the Way to San Jose" and "Sundial Shark"

PURE ART SHARKS

"Shark and Stripes" and "Glam Shark"

"Fire and Ice" and "Cabo Wabo Shark"

ARTBOARD SHARKS

"Shark World"

FINTASTIC SHARKS

"Tiburon" and "The Patriot 2"

"Mirror Ball Shark" and "Sharkquita"

"Landscape" and "Monarch Buttershark"

"Hot Rod Shark" and "Sky Shark" (I made this one)

"Taxicowb"

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