March 31, 2009
Special Edition b.monroe Box Set a new book of Brendan Monroe
Brendan MonroeSince graduating from the Art Center in Pasdadena, Brendan Monroe has been painting, drawing, and sculpthing a mythical world that is inhabited by blobbish, oozy, paint-chip, trash-laden life-forms interspersed with human figures.
Loosely based on the notion that studying smaller enviroments can help us understand the greater world around us. Although he has self-published a wonderful run of miniature artist-books, this is the first inclusive monograph of Monroe's work including over 70 paintings, 15 sculptures, and installation shots.
This volume represents the artist's progression as well as his most current body of work and it includes an interview with the artist conducted by Dr. Simon Park. Shana Nys Dambrot created an index of terms related to viewing and experiencing Brendan Monroe's work.
The Special Edition Box Set is now available through Park Life.
March 30, 2009
OS GEMEOS "Vertigem" CCBB Rio de Janeiro
Opens on Monday, March 23, Os Gemeos show “Vertigem” [Vertigo],
at Rio de Janeiro’s CCBB. Until May 24.
at Rio de Janeiro’s CCBB. Until May 24.
Vertigo exhibition twins Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo. It is a new installation of CCBB Rio de Janeiro, three rooms, with paintings, sculptures and sound objects. Human figures are yellow skin, eyes and clothing separately super colorful, painted wooden panels. His characters have the influence of folklore or everyday urban Brazil, reflecting the contradictions of the contemporary world.
One of the sculptures Vertigo head is a cube, suspended in the air, called luminescence, where the visitor is in line with his head and gives people a vision of the infinite. Inside the cube is covered with small mirrors and lights. The head is a mobile installation, which consists of a human torso with arms outstretched in a Volkswagen Beetle that goes really. The sound objects, musical instruments in the boxes are grouped on a wall, and can be activated by the viewer through a table.
CCBB / Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Os Gemeos.
One of the sculptures Vertigo head is a cube, suspended in the air, called luminescence, where the visitor is in line with his head and gives people a vision of the infinite. Inside the cube is covered with small mirrors and lights. The head is a mobile installation, which consists of a human torso with arms outstretched in a Volkswagen Beetle that goes really. The sound objects, musical instruments in the boxes are grouped on a wall, and can be activated by the viewer through a table.
CCBB / Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Os Gemeos.
[weAREtheIMAGEmakers] & Semi-Permanent presents NEW EYES OPEN
[weAREtheIMAGEmakers] and Semi-Permanent presents:
NEW EYES OPEN
a group exhibition featuring new work by thirty Australian artists.
Anthony lister, Timba smits, Regan 'haha' tamanui, Trent whitehead, Beastman, Jae copp, Ben frost, Webuyyourkids, Numskull, Kid zoom, Sam Smith, Ainslie Fletcher, Kareena Zerefos, Luke Taaffe, Twenty Eleven, Creepy, Bridge, Roach, John Doe, Ears, Jirat, James Patradoon, Nanami Cowdroy, Drew Funk, Seamus Heidenreich, Adam Paquette, 1337, Teagues, Max Berry, Adrian Knott, dr dboe.
Opening night wednesday 1 april 2009, 6pm-9pm showing daily until thursday 9 april 2009, 12pm-4pm / aMBUSH Gallery - 4A james street, waterloo (sydney)
Walrus TV Artist Feature: HVW8 Production House
HVW8 Production House is comprised of Tyler Gibney, Dan Buller and Gene Pendon. The trio create joint works of art featuring musical and political “heavyweights.” Their canvases started out as large format record covers, but now they portray political activists in addition to musicians. HVW8 Production House does live painting, often with musical performances and they have toured the world with their multi-media exhibit. Watch the HVW8 interview feature on Walrus TV to hear them talk about how it all started, and how they combine talents to create compelling works of art.
March 29, 2009
March 27, 2009
AMERICAN REALITIES Clare Rojas, Andrew Jeffrey Wright, and Lydia Fong
AMERICAN REALITIES
Clare Rojas, Andrew Jeffrey Wright, and Lydia Fong
Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Opening Reception 7 - 10 pm
Musical Performance by Peggy Honeywell & Comedic Act by Andrew Jeffrey Wright
Clare Rojas, Andrew Jeffrey Wright, and Lydia Fong
Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Opening Reception 7 - 10 pm
Musical Performance by Peggy Honeywell & Comedic Act by Andrew Jeffrey Wright
Clare Rojas, Barn with ghost
Clare Rojas:
San Francisco painter, singer, and filmmaker Clare E.Rojas is not a folk artist. In Clare Rojas' works, women, men, nature and animals are strong and weak caring and connected to one another in their struggle to find harmony and balance. She celebrates women for their traditional and most basic differences and strengths. While the characters are often imbued with feelings of loss and nostalgia, one gets the sense that they will not back down. They will ultimately beat their predators at their own game.
Rojas's appropriation of folk imagery addresses contemporary female social concerns "The feeling of loss in my work, is my feeling of loss of hope. The struggle to find the good and the beautiful and represent it is my challenge. Understanding the ugliness that finds its way into our culture is crucial." Rojas's beautiful uses of allegory and of an imagined cultural landscape in her paintings act to subvert our current accepted perceptions of women. It allows the spectator an engagement with an alternate evocative world that is both funny and sad and that points to the complexities of being a resilient female in the twenty-first century. Rojas often depicts women alone, standing amid a flattened forest landscape, but this is not to suggest that they are lonely. No, Rojas's women exist in their own reality, feeling peaceful, protected, and quiet.
Selected exhibitions include a group exhibition with the Luggage Store, San Francisco in 2003 for which she won a Louis Comfort Tiffany award. In 2004 Rojas had a solo show at the San Francisco Art Institute and at the Belkin Satellite Gallery in Vancouver. Her work was included in the travelling exhibition, Beautiful Losers. She has exhibited at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, and was most recently a featured artist at the Prospect.1 New Orleans Biennial.
*Partial Text Credit to : Dietch Projects, and Katie Geha Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.
AJW, triangles
Andrew Jeffrey Wright:
Andrew Jeffrey Wright is a current and founding member of Philadelphia's Space 1026 art commune. He has a BFA in Animation. The collaborative animation "the manipulators", which he made with Clare E. Rojas, has won the top prize for animation at the New York Underground Film Festival and the New York Comedy Film Festival. Wright's highly limited edition handmade books have gained an international following. His works include painting, animation, drawing, collage, photography, sculpture, video, installation, screen printing and performance. He has shown at Lizabeth Oliveria(LA), New Image Art(LA), Spector(Philadelphia), The Luggage Store(San Francisco), Lump(Raliegh), The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts(Philadelphia), ICA(Philadelphia), Giant Robot NY(NYC) The Corcoran(DC) and Foundation Cartier(Paris). He has shown with Barry McGee, Paper Rad, Leif Goldberg, Clare E. Rojas, Marcel Dzama and Michael Dumontier.
Lydia Fong: Lydia Fong is a multi-disciplinary artist from Shanghai.
New Image Art Gallery
March 26, 2009
The Combine and Royce Bannon of the Endless Love Crew Present “Work To Do”
NEW YORK, NY–112 Greene Street in Soho was the original home of 112 Workshop, a raw space open between 1970 and 1980, offering exhibition space for installation and performance for the new generation of conceptual and performance artists. An artist named Jeffrey Lew turned the ground floor and basement of his building at 112 Greene Street into a first-come-first-served studio and exhibition space. A spirit of collaboration and lively exploration returns to this incredibly creative space on March 26.
Royce Bannon, core member of the collective ELC (Endless Love Crew), is curating an audacious and boundless graphic cavalcade of street art styles. The currently active members of the ELC for this project will be Abe Lincoln Jr., Anera, El Celso, infinity, and Royce Bannon.
The 112 Greene Street space is christened The Combine with this inaugural show. Steve Loeb and John Robie, called the “inventor of hip hop” by the LA Times, writer and producer of seminal hip hop groundbreaking hit records “Looking for the Perfect Beat” , “Planet Rock”, are creating The Combine to provide a new environment for the exhibition of art; an alternative to the traditional gallery opening and exhibition, transforming static work into multi-media, performance oriented events.
So far the lineup for the show includes: Endless Love Crew, Moody AA, Cabahzm, Cake, 2Easae, Avone, Chris RWK, Veng RWK, Brando * Nev1 * Sinatra Smart Crew, AVOID pi, infinity, Deeker, Keeley, El Celso, Dain, Pufferella, Skewville, Royce Bannon, AnerA, Abe Lincoln Jr., Ellis Gallagher AKA Ellis G., Matt Siren, Overconsumer, Kosbe, Aiko, Abby Goodman, Hush, Alone art, Bast, Ben Jackson, Bobby Hill, Buildmore, C. Damage, Chris Brennan, Christopher Gordon, Dark Clouds, Deeker, Destroy and Rebuild, Erica Faulke, Keely, Pufferella, OHM, Smells, Stikman, U.L.M.
The show “Work To Do” opens March 26/ Opening reception is 6 - 10 with Africa Bambaataa and Soul Sonic Force performing live and then will run through April 16
112 GREENE STREET http://112greene.wordpress.com/The Combine http://www.thecombinenyc.com/
The Endless Love Crew http://www.endlesslovecrew.com/
PICA PICA solo show, Iguapop Gallery Barcelona.
Pica Pica
"BELLEFLAMME BAZAR: BACKYARD SPOOKS. Wandering bad, like lovers do"
INAUGURACIÓN EXPOSICIÓN: JUEVES, 26 DE MARZO DEL 2009
HASTA EL 25 DE ABRIL DEL 2009
Bajo el nombre de Pica Pica se esconden Boris Magotteaux (1978), Manuel Falcata (1979) y Jerome Degive (1980), originales de Liège, Bélgica.
De las paredes se su taller cuelgan pinturas que integran motivos o figuras con un estilo más bien neutro sobre fondo blanco o gris, dispuestas en columnas y retÃculas, que se tocan o no. Su mayor fuente de inspiración les viene cuando pasean por su ciudad, cuando salen por la noche a hacer graffitis o cuando van en bici; sus pinturas ordenan fragmentos de arquitecturas, de motivos abstractos que remiten a estilos pictóricos, objetos que flotan en una misma dimensión sobre piezas que dejan apreciar la fragilidad del soporte.
En su trabajo dicen adoptar una actitud de aficionado que experimenta, con un interés particular en el proceso creativo; sus trabajos son como un paisaje que se perfecciona con los accidentes. Su voluntad de liberarse de la composición, en contraste con su profundización en la repetición como modo de trabajo, deriva en un estilo espontáneo y fresco. Los tres se complementan en cada obra que realizan en diferentes formatos y técnica, aplicando en ellas un proceso de trabajo a seis manos. Usan sistemáticamente el cadáver exquisito, viejo juego de mesa ideado por los surrealistas franceses en 1925, respondiendo cada uno al otro en el mismo trazo. Proponen un repertorio de formas recurrentes en sus variaciones: obsesivas y democráticas. La creación es anónima y grupal, intuitiva, lúdica y, en lo posible, automática, revelando la realidad inconsciente del grupo.
Confiesan que les va lo oculto, lo fantástico, lo paranormal. Dicen caer en un trance sobrenatural en sus visitas al campo, lo que les lleva a realizar personajes escultóricos gigantes, más grandes que ellos, con pedazos de madera y telas que llevan allÃ. Entre sus trabajos encontramos también cabañas para las que utilizan mucho las fotos de sus paseos por la ciudad, fotos que tienen siempre un sujeto central: un objeto que haya atraÃdo su atención, un fragmento de arquitectura que vuelven a trabajar en su taller.
El poco tiempo que llevan juntos como Pica Pica les ha llevado ya a exponer en Bruselas, Amberes y San Francisco. Su exposición en Iguapop será su primera individual en España y su muestra de mayor envergadura hasta la fecha.
Todd Schorr "The World We Live In" Merry Karnowsky Gallery Los Angeles
Todd Schorr
The World We Live In
28 March to 18 April 2009
Merry Karnowsky Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition of new works by renowned American artist Todd Schorr. One of the most prominent pop surrealist painters working today, Schorr uses the exacting techniques of the old masters to paint colorful cartoon characters, corporate mascots and other pop culture icons in a unique style he calls "cartoon realism."
The Opening Reception on March 28 will be hosted by actor David Arquette, and a portion of the evening's sales will go to Feeding America, the nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity.
March 25, 2009
Ripo "... Is What I Meant To Say" Solo Show at MR-Ego
Originally from NYC Ripo now lives in Barcelona, Spain whose streets he uses as a canvas and a playground. His work is strongly text based, working heavily with typography and calligraphy and other hand-created elements. These have included painting, drawing, and other public interventions both small and massive.
There's usually a subtle but essential presence of sarcasm and dichotomy in his messages, as there is in all of our lives. His influences are rooted in his upbringing as a skateboarder and a NYC kid as well as his extensive travels and the large tours he has realized across Europe and Latin America. He has exhibited (mostly illegally) his work in over 36 countries across the world.
Mr Ego
No New Enemies
There's usually a subtle but essential presence of sarcasm and dichotomy in his messages, as there is in all of our lives. His influences are rooted in his upbringing as a skateboarder and a NYC kid as well as his extensive travels and the large tours he has realized across Europe and Latin America. He has exhibited (mostly illegally) his work in over 36 countries across the world.
Mr Ego
No New Enemies
March 24, 2009
Steven Harrington Mix "Bang-Ga-Wrong" x Incase and Arkitip
Curated by Arkitip artist Steven Harrington has put together an exclusive mix for Incase and Arkitip. Featuring hand picked tracks from Steven’s collection, Bang-Ga-Wrong is a 45-minute mix of early Jamaican dancehall, dub and roots reggae reworked and mixed with help from Andrew Miller. Enjoy!
Via INCASE
Extrabold presents RECONSTRUCT an exhibition by Graphic Surgery
EXTRABOLD OPENING this friday 27 march 2009 at 19h00
Exhibition: 28.03.2009 – 03.05.2009
Opening hours
Mo-Sa 10h00-18h00
Graphic Surgery are Erris Huigens and Gysbert Zijlstra, two Amsterdam based artists.
Both have been drawing, painting and assembling collages from a young age. They were both interested in the same visual language and taking similar photos of cranes, construction sites, docklands, typography and eroded, rusty surfaces.During their art and design studies at the art academy they started painting and screenprinting together. Now they run a graphic design studio under the name EHGZ.
They are also currently working on projects in collaboration with several interactive and multimedia artists. The exhibition will show recent works, screenprints as well as a video installation. Find out more about Graphic Surgery on www.flickr.com/photos/graphicsurgery, www.graphicsurgery.nl and www.ehgz.nl
Extrabold
Walrus TV Artist Feature: Hera Interview
Hailing from Frankfurt, Germany, Hera's spontaneous and unrestricted style derived as a reaction to her formal art background and education. Her painting skills became further developed as she began painting in large-scale in urban environments in 2001. Hera has also gained national recognition for her collaboration with the artist Akut and together they are known as Herakut.
March 23, 2009
Mid-City Arts Presents The First Solo Show From CHAKA, Los Angeles’ Most Infamous Graffiti Artist.
Mid-City Arts is pleased to present the first solo show ever from the infamous LA graffiti artist, Chaka. Resurrection opens April 25th and will feature highly anticipated new work from the mysterious Chaka. Daniel Ramos, AKA Chaka, was 18 when he was arrested and charged in 1991 with 48 counts of vandalism, trespassing and causing $500,000 in property damage.
Chaka’s signature tag had appeared in a staggering 10,000 locations from Orange County to San Francisco. At the height of his notoriety Chaka was demonized by mainstream media and culture as being little more than a prolific vandal. At the same time he was celebrated by street artists who admired the ability of a teenager from the projects to literally make his mark on the vast, glitzy LA cityscape in such a ubiquitous manner.
He is credited with breaking away from the New York “wildstyle” popular at the time and introducing clearer, more blockish lettering into tagging. Chaka was one of the first to create a reputation as a recognizable individual tagger, and spawned many imitators. However Chaka was not just a lone operative. He was part of the LOD crew and as such, his work in reclaiming hard to reach places of the cityscape (freeway overpasses, walls, trains etc) on behalf of his crew is recognized by fellow taggers as a selfless achievement for LA’s graffiti scene as a whole.
After spending a year tracking down the once unavoidable Chaka, Mid-City Arts presents his first solo show. For Chaka’s fans as well as street art collectors, this will be a rare opportunity to revisit the nostalgia of the early 90’s, and own a piece of LA’s cultural history. Chaka himself will be in attendance and there will be a limited number of signed posters in addition to his works available for sale.
The opening reception will take place April 25th, 7:00-9:00pm at Mid-City Arts, 5113 West Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90019.
March 22, 2009
Big Geezers Tour "A paint trip through Scandinavia and East Europe" Book & DVD
Carhartt presents Big Geezers Tour: A paint trip through Scandinavia and East Europe.
Eight respected artists are hitting the road in a giant nightliner to join forces and spread love, peace and friendship across the cities: Microbo (Italy), Joska (Germany), Jeremy Fish (USA), Wayne Horse (Netherlands), Bo 130 (Italy), The London Police (UK), Galo (Italy) and Will Barras (UK) – all part of the Big Geezers family.
In the last years Carhartt has supported and worked closely with many artists and therefore it seems naturally to pay tribute to the Big Geezers and initiate this one time road trip. Carhartt now discovers the North and the East: Copenhagen, Oslo, Warsaw, Budapest, Vienna, and Bratislava – 6 Stops and 5500km in 3 weeks. This unique road trip, will start on the 11th of August 2007 in Cologne/Germany and then head towards Copenhagen/Denmark where the Geezers will paint the Carhartt Shop and the Indoor Skatepark, then they head towards Oslo/Norway to run riot on the walls of the Stress store and the walls at the Brennerieveien. Afterwards the Big Geezers family heads East towards Warsaw/Poland to paint the at the Frontline store and another secret spot that will not be revealed yet… From there it goes to Budapest/Hungary to the newly opened Carhartt Shop and Tuzoltu Vida, to Vienna/Austria to the Rag store and Wienerwall (Wienerwand); and finally to Bratislava/Slovakia to paint the Tukame Store and under the Lafranconi Bridge.
The term “Big Geezers” stands for a group of artists doing something together. Originally the idea comes from Chaz, the man behind the London Police...
The book has 108 pages and an edition of 1,500 copies, with photos by Landry Ajavon in full color and black and white and text of the daily trip written by Harlan Levey shows "Big Geezers Tour" of different cities. This edition includes a DVD that collects all the details of this experience. Published by Work in Progress Textilhandels GmbH.
Air Jordan 1 Retro "Do the Right Thing"
The movie Do the Right Thing by Spike Lee has impacted many in different ways, even though the movie released in 1989. Fast forward to 2009, it is the 20th anniversary of the movie, and Spike’s right hand man Michael Jordan will launch a special Air Jordan 1 Do the Right Thing Pack.
The Air Jordan 1 Retro Do the Right Thing will drop in two colors, the pair on hand is metallic red (other pair is metallic green). Inspired by the original Jordan 1 and Do the Right Thing, utilizing multiple colors from the movie on the inside tongue and heel. Jordan Brand will also drop clothing matching the DTRT Jordan 1, some from the original movie. Releasing July 2009.
Via Weekly Drop, thanks Johnny!
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