Party 2000 draws its inspiration from a trip to São Paulo, with a Brazilian cityscape shimmering in the distance. In the foreground is the future Syd spent his life advocating: egalitarian, epicurean, sensual. Its guests wear what he called “steel couture:” bionic arms, jeweled brooches, Daft Punk-esque helmets. Headdresses fan open like a peacocks tail for maximum glamour on arrival, then retract so the night can unfold. The rings the guests carry and touch to one another are “high-low rings,” a party technology of Syd’s invention that can raise or lower a person’s euphoric state. Hidden cameras turn the guests into performers; one attendee appears love, projected across the architecture of the party. Party 2000, 1977 Gouache on board 20 x 30 in

Opening tonight at sunset! Another work painted in 1983 for GRID, an unrealized film set in the Bay Area in the year 3000. Looking west across San Francisco Bay, beyond the Golden Gate Bridge toward the Pacific Ocean, we see a familiar landscape radically transformed. GRID Sunset, 1983 Gouache on board 8 x 20 in Syd Mead: Future Pastime Transamerica Pyramid Annex Gallery 535 Washington St., San Francisco 10/9 - 12/17, Weds-Sun, 11am-6pm Opening Night October 8th, 6-8pm futurepastime.net