Jessica Snow "Multiple Plot Points" at Jen Bekman Gallery

Multiple Plot Points
Paintings by Jessica Snow

October 30 – December 5, 2010
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, October 30, 6–8 p.m.

Jen Bekman Gallery is pleased to present Multiple Plot Points, thirteen paintings by Jessica Snow. Multiple Plot Points is Snow’s first solo exhibition at Jen Bekman Gallery.

Created on linen, paper and board, Snow's colorful and geometric paintings play out as coy visual and conceptual struggles. Full of movement, the work seems right on the cusp of change. Tensions between the gestural and the meticulous culminate for fleeting seconds, only to morph and never be seen again. The viewer has the feeling of being a part of something alive and monumental, and at the same time intimate and private.


Of her work Jen Bekman notes: While Jessica’s work gives the initial impression of fluid motion, of unplanned organic gesture, the more time one spends looking, the more the complexities and choices surface. The exuberant, richly saturated paintings should not be underestimated based on their aesthetic appeal. An accessible palette and gestural manner belie the precision and rigor that Jessica brings to her work—an enormous amount of effort that results in a certain effortlessness upon first viewing.


Jessica Snow was born in Berkeley, CA and currently lives and works in San Francisco. Jessica has had solo exhibitions in Los Angeles and New York, and elsewhere across the United States. This year she will be included in exhibitions at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art and ParisConcret. She has received numerous honors including the Artadia Award and the Cadogan Fellowship Award, and was selected for the American Artists Abroad Program in Montevideo, Uruguay. Jessica studied at Mills College, UC Davis, the Sorbonne and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street New York,
New York 10012

Domy Books is pleased to present Monster Show Five

Domy Books is pleased to present

Monster Show Five

Saturday, October 30, 2010 at Domy Books, Austin

913 E Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX 78702

7-9pm, FREE ADMISSION

Exhibition runs October 30 – December 2, 2010

Above: Souther Salazar

Check out Monster Show 1-4

Ryan McGinley "Life Adjustment Center" at Ratio 3

Ryan McGinley: Life Adjustment Center

October 29 – December 11, 2010
Opening reception: October 29, 2010, 6-8pm.

Ratio 3 is pleased to present Life Adjustment Center, new work by Ryan McGinley, on view from October 29th to December 11, 2010.

For his second solo exhibition at Ratio 3, Ryan McGinley will exhibit two new distinct bodies of work.

The first is a series of new black-and-white portraits. Shot in McGinley’s New York studio using simple lighting and a plain backdrop, McGinley’s images capture incredibly intimate and seductive moments between the subject and the photographer. The pictures appear almost timeless, harking back to the history of classic photographic portraiture throughout the previous decades. In a large number of these works, McGinley adds a sense of improbability by posing the nude models with live animals, adding a further twist to what seems to be a complex depiction between the real and the imagined.

The second body of work on view continues McGinley's ever expanding oeuvre of road trip images. McGinley carefully orchestrates the scene, yet the results are entirely unpredictable. At times gritty and mysterious, these new pictures portray inconceivable actions awash with natural and sometimes implausible colors. The cinematic outside settings, the suspended human forms, and McGinley's acute eye for the sublime all add up to a fervent visceral experience.

With the works in this exhibition, McGinley has yet again captured the exuberance, optimism, and power of youth.

A 44 page monograph published by Dashwood Books will accompany the exhibition.

Ryan McGinley was born in 1977 in Ramsey, New Jersey. He has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain, and the Kunsthalle, Vienna. Recent solo gallery exhibitions include Team Gallery, New York, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, and The Breeder, Athens, Greece. McGinley's work is included in numerous museum collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. McGinley currently lives and works in New York, NY.

Ratio 3

1447 Stevenson Street,

San Francisco, CA 94103 USA

Andrew Pommier "At the Time of Fear" solo exhibition at Spacejunk Lyon

Andrew Pommier
At the Time of Fear

Spacejunk receives Andrew Pommier, a Canadian artist from Vancouver, British Columbia. The artworks depicts by Andrew are both dark and humorous, and describes us the collision between the nature and the man made world. His unique style draws from the world of comics, cartoons and skateboarding, which was his first inspiration because of the wealth of drawings that adorn the skateboards.


At the Time of Fear is the first European solo show of Andrew Pommier. You will discovera world that mixes the cute and ”it’s funny because it’s sad”... His works are solitary figures,who chose to abandon their costumes - those that give meaning to their lives - but they areunsure of how to live without them! With this new exhibition, Andrew Pommier wants to ”twist the obvious” and uses the maskto explore the idea of concealment and deception of self.

OPENING (with Andrew Pommier) on Thursday 29th, starting from 6.30PM.

Spacejunk | Lyon
16 rue des Capucins - 69001
Metro Hôtel de Ville (Lignes A & C)

TEAM MACHO "Hibernation Sickness" Solo Exhibition at Narwhal Art Projects

HIBERNATION SICKNESS
Team Macho Solo Exhibition

Opening reception:
Thursday Oct 28th
7-10pm

Artist will be in attendance.
Runs October 28 – November 28, 2010

Narwhal Art Projects is pleased to present Hibernation Sickness, a solo exhibition with Toronto collective Team Macho. Hibernation Sickness celebrates the collective’s notable return to fine art after a two year sabbatical dedicated to their individual pursuits. A term used to describe the side effects associated with awakening from a period of suspended animation, Team Macho related similar type symptoms when returning to their group practice. Although their creative environment has remained virtually unchanged for the past six years with all members continuing to create out of the legendary shared space, the dynamic within the collective altered as each member developed their individual practice. Embarking on solo projects ranging from classical oil painting to collage to airbrush and woodworking, the collective dedicated themselves completely to a specific practice allowing for a deeper understanding of both themselves and their techniques. Team Macho return to their collective fine art practice with five unique sets of sharply honed skills and a renewed passion for their shared creative dynamic. Steadfast in their loyalty and mutual appreciation for contemporary cultural references, Hibernation Sickness is an homage to rebel fighters, and celebrates the continued evolution of the Team Macho brotherhood.


Comprised of members Nicholas Aoki, G. Stephen Appleby-Barr, Christopher Buchan, Lauchie Reid and Jacob Whibley, Team Macho occupies a large studio in Toronto, where their collective efforts are focused on developing an art-making practice that spans the worlds of both fine art and illustration. With a penchant for using unconventional materials and subverted narratives, Team Macho playfully juxtapose styles and motifs ranging from the crudely rendered to the classically painted. Working with a wide range of media, Team Macho’s diverse offerings convey a decidedly unorthodox and individual approach where figurative painting, drawing, airbrush, collage and sculpture find harmony within the group’s infinite reserve of inside jokes and prolific banter.Team Macho have exhibited at Magic Pony and Narwhal Art Projects since 2005, with Friends for Life (June 2005), Team Macho is a Tough Man (May 2006), Fancy Action Now (May 2007) and Kitschy, Gay, And Over In a Second (September 2008). Magic Pony published their first monograph in 2007, entitled Fancy Action Now: The Art of Team Macho.

NARWHAL
680 Queen St. W, Toronto,

ON, Canada M6J 1E5

Kenny Scharf + Dearraindrop present "Hot Glue Hullabaloo" at The Hole

KENNY SCHARF & DEARRAINDROP

OPENING: OCTOBER 28, 2010 6pm-9pm
OCTOBER 28 – DECEMBER 4

The Hole is excited to announce our fourth exhibition at the 104 Greene Street Gallery: Hot Glue Hullabaloo, a collaboration between downtown art legend Kenny Scharf and Virgina Beach art collective Dearraindrop. Coming together to make paintings, sculpture and a mini blacklight disco, these artists will present a fantastic array of new work and a hot mess of glue gunning action.

Kenny was born in Los Angeles and came to prominence in the 80s interdisciplinary art scene making sparkly, pop-ed and monstrous paintings and installations. With Keith Haring he created the first of his blacklight disco installations, called “cosmic closet” in the closet of their Times Square apartment. That project has grown and morphed into its most recent incarnation, “Cosmic Caver” with Scott Ewalt in Kenny’s Brooklyn building’s basement where he held amazing parties over the past 8months.



Dearraindrop are a Virginia Beach art collective coming from the exiciting art renaissance in Providence, RI at the turn of the last century and coming into prominence five years ago in their breakout solo exhibition at the now-defunct John Connelly presents. Since then they have brought their specific blend of dystopic pop explosion to Galleri Loyal, Deitch Projects, V1 Gallery in Copenhagen, Iconic Gallery in Lisbon, Portugal, The Arken Museum in Denmark, and the Dreamland Artist Club in Coney Island.

Kenny and Dearraindrop spotted each other across a crowded Deitch Art Parade in 2005 and have been collaborating through the mail ever since. They share a love of cartoons, thrift stores and street junk, underground comics and graffiti, customized clothing, technical painting, collaging and hot glue gunning.

The Hole
104 Greene Street
New York, NY, 10012
www.theholenyc.com

NECK FACE "Into Darkness" at OHWOW

NECK FACE

Into Darkness

October 30 - November 20, 2010
Los Angeles, California

A homecoming of sorts for the California native, Into Darkness will feature Neck Face at his nastiest - meaning of course, at his best. Following up 2009's now legendary performance-cum-exhibition in Miami, the artist sets his sights on Hollywood and brings with him the same energy and originality that has made him a cult favorite. Lock your windows and close your doors. He's on the loose and there's no telling what surprises he'll have in store this Halloween.

Neck Face is an artist who manages to imbue humor into violence, locate amusement in fear, and takes pleasure in rattling nerves. His work is simultaneously sinister and grim, genuine and playful. He toys with the sacrilegious, antagonizes phobias, and triggers insecurities, all with a measure of ambivalence. His distinctive style straddles the line between reckless and deliberate, yet the work maintains a sense of immediacy, and is always provocative. Neck Face posits nightmares, prompts anxiety, and conjures the devil. In doing so, he champions the urge to laugh, rather than retract, at the discomfort felt from the true absurdity of horror. Los Angelenos beware, the artist is (now) present.

Opening reception Saturday, October 30, 2010 7pm.

OHWOW
3100 NW 7 Avenue
Miami, Florida 33127

Kind Regards Presents FUZI WORLD Fuzi uv tpk

Kind Regards Presents Fuzi uv tpk

Fuzi (UV TPK) is a French artist whose trademark “ignorant style” embodies a naive, child-like approach. His work depicts violence, vandalism and sex which is a portrayal of his youth and influences. Throughout the 90’s, he was an active graffiti writer and was a founding member of the infamous UV TPK crew, well known in Paris for their graffiti on the streets, trains and subways.

The Fuzi Show will feature paintings, drawings and photography

Please join us for a drink on Saturday 30th October, 2010 from 5 -9 pm

Blaq Jacket Gallery
Heintje Hoeksteeg 8
1012 GR Amsterdam

CORN ON THE MACABRE III at SHOW CAVE

Friday, Oct 29 // 9pm
CORN ON THE MACABRE 3

The third in the series of creeped-out and disturbing seasonal horror Halloween art shows curated by Albert Reyes.

Featured artists in this years show include:

Matt Furie
Aiyana Udesen
Ruth Swanson
Ariana Papademetropoulos

Leslie Winchester

SHOW CAVE
3501 Eagle Rock Blvd
LA CA 90065

Phantasmagoria - Kathie Olivas, Brandt Peters, Travis Louie & Chet Zar at Yves Laroche Galerie

YVES LAROCHE GALERIE D’ART PRESENTS
PHANTASMAGORIA

Featuring recents works by
Kathie Olivas, Brandt Peters, Travis Louie and Chet Zar

October 27th – November 10th 2010
Opening Reception: Wednesday October 27th, 6pm-9pm

Yves Laroche Galerie d'art is proud to present Phantasmagoria, featuring new work by American artists Travis Louie, Kathie Olivas, Chet Zar and Brandt Peters. Celebrating the autumn festivities and closing the gallery’s 2010 season, the aptly named exhibition opens its doors to all on the evening of Wednesday October 27th from 6pm to 9pm.

With its recurring netherworld spectres and spirited dimensions, Phantasmagoria is Zar and Louie’s first exhibition in Canada and a terrific occasion to re-connect with the powerhouse team of Olivias and Peters for a second time. Featuring medium-sized oil works on wood and paper and wooden sculptures, Phantasmagoria showcases a combination of Louie’s bizarre black and white monster portraits, Zar’s dark zombie tableaus , Olivas’s gentle-eyed creatures and Peters’s sideshow misfits.

Do not miss Yves Laroche Galerie d’art last exhibition of 2010 with this unique thematic four person exhibition. Continuing to mark new ground for the local creative community, Yves Laroche Galerie d’art and Espace 1 & 2 welcome all to the opening of Phantasmagoria scheduled for Wednesday, October 27th 2010 from 6-9 pm at Yves Laroche Galerie d'art. On view until November 10th 2010. Artists will be in attendance.

Galerie d'Art Yves Laroche

6355 Saint-Laurent, Montréal

QC H2S 3C3 CANADA

MENAGE A TROIS: Steve Olson, Susanne Melanie Berry & CR Stecyk III at New Image Art

MENAGE A TROIS
Steve Olson, Susanne Melanie Berry, & CR Stecyk III

October 23rd - November 13th, 2010

Literally translating to "household of three" New Image Art's latest exhibition "Ménage à trois" showcases the works of Steve Olson, Susanne Melanie Berry, and CR Stecyk III; three long-time comrades showing large-scale works, photographs and posters. Via underlying sexual innuendos this new show traverses the phenomenon of how the socio-cultural aspects of sex both influences and is derived from social norms, including the effects of political process and the mass media. Olson's bold imagery, layered textures, and deconstructed materials lend a playful dynamic between art and language while simultaneously critiquing contemporary society and our relationship with it. These processes are also reflected in CR Stecyk's showcard ad-style images which he typically installs on random telephone poles and abandoned buildings.

In response to their sexual referencing Susanne Melanie Berry presents a delicate photo series of women's under garments as still-life's. Using a Polaroid Land Camera and pull apart film, she creates one-off photographic documents that reveal the workings of an intimate relationship between the undergarments owner and the viewer as participating voyeur.

New Image Art
7908 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Hollywood
CA 90046

Sandy Carson "Paradise Has Relocated" at Okay Mountain

Sandy Carson

Paradise Has Relocated

October 23 - November 21, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 23, 7-10pm

"Paradise Has Relocated" attempts to capture the lifeless remains and emptiness of a once thriving and historic island devastated by Hurricane Ike in September of 2008. Ike was the third most destructive and costliest hurricane to make landfall in the United States, destroying and flooding 75% of homes and landmass. The project deals with the physical dead space and ghostliness of Galveston- post hurricane. Each image whispers of an ordinary past lost to the ravages of Mother Nature. The everyday objects left behind in haste suggest former human inhabitation. The unoccupied landscapes, fractured structures and mundane interiors I have carefully composed compel the viewer to look beyond cultural stature and financial complexities, and question geographical location.

The geographic anonymity of my photographs prove that such devastation is not reserved for the third world but stand right on our doorstep. This is important to remember given the current state of world climate change. Unfortunately some believe that this may be the final blow for Galveston. With an already anemic economy and population decline that predates Ike by 50 years, survivors who are re-building or relocating, feel that their mythical land never fully recovered from the first Galveston Hurricane of 1900.

Okay Mountain
1312 E. Cesar Chavez Ste B
Austin, TX 78702

INVADER "Roma 2010 and other curiosities" exhibition at Wunderkammern

Invader

Roma 2010 and other curiosities

Opening: saturday 23 october 2010 – 18.00pm

From 23rd October to 21st December, Wunderkammern exhibition space will host the first Italian solo show of Invader: "Roma 2010 and other curiosities".


Invader is an artist working in anonymity. Born in 1969 in Paris, he is one of the most important and original international street artists and has exhibited in many prestigious galleries and museums across the world.


Invader is known above all for his public interventions inspired to the Arcade Game Space Invaders, created in 1978 in Japan. His operations are tied up to creative practices of "interference" through which he traces unique trails in the collective space, shaping new signs in the urban landscape. The naturally public formality of his interventions – suspended between visibility and anonymity and between real and virtual spaces – as well as the choice of icons present in the collective memory and practices of the youngest generations, offers a meaningful and original reading of our cultural patrimony.


With the invasion of Rome occurred over the summer, the artist has finally added the Italian capital in the list of the more than forty cities he has invaded so far: from Katmandu to Bangkok, from small urban centres to great city metropolises such as New York, Hong Kong, Los Angeles and above all Paris.


The exhibition at Wunderkammern will present various aspect of his work: from the alias replicating the space invaders of Roma to works made with his original RubikCubism technique, by means of the coloured modules of the famous puzzle, re-presenting images extrapolated from the realm of art history or popular culture, along with specific installations and curiosities. The invasion guide of Roma and the brand new 19th printed invasion map will also be presented in exclusivity at the opening.



On the occasion of the artist's presence in the city, Wunderkammern’s exhibition space opens once again to the dialectic comparison between ordinary and extraordinary, by drawing its own poetry closer to Invader’s narrative language. The artist revisits the urban space generating wonder and transforming daily routes into unique journeys.

Wunderkammern
via Gabrio Serbelloni 124, Roma

PETRO Too Big To Be Human

PETRO

Too Big To Be Human

PETRO has been an active graffiti writer since the early 1980’s, heavily influenced by British electric- boogaloo graffiti nostalgia and all that is off-key. Throughout this time, he has developed an unmistakable style and a solid reputation within this anonymous subculture.


For this exhibition PETRO has combined the traditions of graffiti lettering, the galactic funk, wonky pattern repetition, primitive drawings of fantasy characters and an unhealthy obsession with Ralph Lauren. As well as art concepts including installation and performance, and his detailed pieces, entitled 'Life of a Pencil'.

Despite the epic transition and employment of new forms, concepts and expression, PETRO stays true to his approach. Bringing personality to letter form and bending the laws of the alphabet, along with painting all over the world and remaining unidentified have elevated PETRO into a faceless yet prolific spotlight.


OPENS FRI 6-9PM, 22 OCTOBER

CONT'D DAILY 12-5PM UNTIL OCTOBER 24

CHINA HEIGHTS GALLERY

LEVEL 3, 16-28 FOSTER ST, SURRY HILLS

OPENS FRI 6-9PM, 5 NOVEMBER

CONT'D UNTIL NOVEMBER 13

BACKWOODS GALLERY

25 EASEY ST, COLLINGWOOD

V1 Gallery presents WHILE WE AWAIT THE UPTURN by HuskMitNavn

V1 GALLERY PROUDLY PRESENTS

WHILE WE AWAIT THE UPTURN
A SOLO EXHIBTION BY HUSKMITNAVN

RECEPTION: FRIDAY OCTOBER 22. TIME: 17.00 – 22.00
EXHIBITION PERIOD: OCTOBER 23. – NOVEMBER 20. 2010

On the occasion of the financial crisis, the real estate bubble, the art market crash, the high unemployment rate, the economic cut backs and the general depression, V1 Gallery has been turned into a waiting room. Visitors are invited to sit down and enjoy the art together while awaiting the upturn.


WHILE WE AWAIT THE UPTURN is HuskMitNavn’s (RememberMyName) fourth solo exhibition with V1 Gallery. It consists of 20 human figures in a waiting room hung with drawings, photo collages and paintings. The works all interact with each other and create a large-scale installation.


During the last nine years HuskMitNavn has exhibited extensively in his native Denmark and abroad. He works in a wide variety of contexts and media; in the public sphere, at galleries and in museums, on tee shirts, newspapers, books and his latest ventures, art playgrounds and furniture. His distinct style and subtle humor has made HuskMitNavn one of the most groundbreaking and treasured artists of his generation.

“Sort Arbejde” (Moonlighting) a new book by HuskMitNavn has just been published. Earlier this year in Brussels, HuskMitNavn and Barry McGee created the joint exhibition “The Last Night” together.

V1 GALLERY
Flæsketorvet 69
Kødbyen
1711 Copenhagen V
Denmark

Yellow Pants presents "Overseas & Undertones" Group Show at ABV

OVERSEAS AND UNDERTONES

Opening Reception: Friday, October 22nd, 2010 / 7-11PM
Exhibition Dates: October 22nd - November 16th, 2010

Yellow Pants and ABV is pleased to present "Overseas and Undertones", a collection of new work from 13 transatlantic artists.

AC Bananas, Dan Baldwin, Fefe Talavera, HuskMitNavn, Jaybo Monk, L'Atlas, Maria Imaginário, Microbo, Mr. Jago, Mudwig, Remed, Sickboy, Zosen.

ABV will also be hosting the official U.S. launch of the "Street Art Cookbook" by Benke Carlsson and Hop Louie published by Dokument Press who give insight to "techniques used within today's most creative and progressive art movement". We will have a limited amount of copies for purchase.

ABV
659 Auburn Ave #504
Atlanta, GA 30312

Carl Rauschenbach "WORKS/FIRST" at Known Gallery

WORKS/FIRST

by Carl Rauschenbach (CR)

Opens to public: October 23rd, 2010
Runs: October 23rd - November 13th, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, Oct 23rd, 2010 at 8-11pm

Known Gallery is honored to present "WORKS/FIRST", a collection of new abstract work by Carl Rauschenbach (CR) based on a continuation of a theme he has been developing since 2004.

Referencing Sign Painting, Typography and Graffiti as a point of departure, CR reinterprets the letterform into his own abstract language and now finds himself sampling his own work to create new bold and intimate forms within the picture frame. Influences include Josef Albers from the Bauhaus (1920 - 1933), Phase2 known as the originator of bubble letters or “softies” from New York graffiti in the1970’s.

In early 2010 CR met PUSH for the first time at Known Gallery while working on the installation of two major shows. Following the gallery’s inaugural Haze x Stussy show, the “Freedom Show”, is when CR and PUSH exhibit work together for the first time. Long time graffiti legend Eric Haze, who initially introduced the two, says: “I saw a lot of parallels in both of their styles and the economy of how they executed their ideas... Plus, I also had a strong feeling that they would connect personally, considering they both share the same quiet kind of dedication to perfecting the math of their own visions.”
As a result of the bond made during this period, CR was invited by PUSH and Known Gallery to participate in this show, for which he has responded with a new body of work to be unveiled this month.

CR has worked as a studio assistant for Ryan McGinness, James Marshall (Dalek) and Eric Haze, during which time he spent years of drawing and mastering the abstract style that he works in today. Rauschenbach currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Known Gallery
441 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036

House Call with Ed Templeton

Known Gallery presents “Divided Attention” PUSH’s first landmark solo show

PUSH - DIVIDED ATTENTION
Opens to public: October 23rd, 2010
Runs: October 23rd - November 13th, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, Oct 23rd, 2010 at 8-11pm

Known Gallery presents “Divided Attention” PUSH’s first landmark solo show

On October 23, 2010, PUSH's street-smart installations transform into gallery worthy paintings, celebrated by Known Gallery, Los Angeles until November 23, 2010. To mark the opening, PUSH will be painting larger than life feature installations both inside and outside on the façade of the gallery building.

A self-taught painter and sculptor, PUSH was inspired early on by skateboarding and the burgeoning west coast graffiti scene. He credits his friendship with fellow AWR/MSK crew member SABER as helping to define his path in life as well as shaping his art making work ethic.

In 2007, PUSH’s early work caught the eye of media sponsor, LA Weekly: “Trying to define Push’s work is unfair, and nearly impossible. It’s easier to say it’s like nothing else: informed by postmodern abstract splatter paintings, yet rigid, neon and precise. Introverted and quiet, he’s the thinking man’s graffiti artist.”


After his many years of global graffiti writing invitations and participation in numerous group exhibits, DividedAttention brings together PUSH’s latest paintings, debuting an evolved style and introducing a new, sophisticated color palette. When asked why it took so long for the Seventh Letter’s man of mystery to have his own show, he demurs. “I want to show something that is natural, balanced, and thought out. And timing is everything”

Known Gallery
441 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Niels Shoe Meulman "Throw-Ups" at Project Space

Throw-Ups
Niels Shoe Meulman

21 October – 21 November 2010

Opening reception 21 October 2010, 19:00 – 22:00 PT

Born, raised and based in Amsterdam, Meulman began tagging “Shoe” in 1979 and became a graffiti legend by the time he was 18. In the eighties, he met New York graffiti artists like Dondi, Rammellzee, Haze, Quik and Keith Haring after which he then formed the Crime Time Kings with Bando from Paris and Mode2 from London. Together, they gave graffiti in Europe its own distinctive style.

In the nineties, he furthered his technique by apprenticing under Dutch graphic design master Anthon Beeke. Shoe proceeded to run his own design company, Caulfield & Tensing, and was a partner in advertising agency Unruly, which he later turned into a brand for silk scarves.

Shoe is recognized for revolutionizing the art of writing with Calligraffiti, an art form that combines masterful calligraphy skills with the speed and attitude of graffiti. He launched this movement in 2007 with a successful solo exhibition in Amsterdam. Since then, his Calligraffiti pieces, which he signs NSM, have been presented in various international exhibitions.

In 2010, the book Calligraffiti – The Graphic Art of Niels Shoe Meulman was launched in Berlin and Shoe has since been touring to present the book and his art.

The Project Space exhibition “Calligraffiti Throw-Ups” is a new series of carbon acrylic on linen canvas works inspired by Shoe’s love for baseball, mayhem and cosmic unconsciousness.

Project Space
603 North La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles CA 90036

Artist will be in attendance.

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aMBUSH Gallery presents "Beg, Borrow, Steal" by Tristan Still

BEG BORROW STEAL
Opens Thursday 21 October, 6-9pm
On exhibition until 30 October

‘Beg, Borrow, Steal’ is a photographic exploration of D.I.Y. skateboarding featuring the people, places and the creations of those skateboarders behind real ‘do-it-yourself’ skateboarding. Often synonymous with anarchic ideology – an affront to government, authority and corporate endorsement (we’ll tolerate skateboarding as long as we can make money from you) – D.I.Y. skateboarding has promoted autonomy and self-sustainability through the creative re-use and repurposing of the built environment and the refuse of society. Disused spaces – old factories, vacant lots, abandoned high-schools – are transformed anew into spaces of true creative energy. The dedicated transform their lounge rooms, kitchens and bedrooms into spaces of skateboarding. Why? To make, to create, to explore, to see what’s possible and because we can… and damn is it fun.

Beg, Borrow, Steal is dedicated to the memory of Daniel Lynch and Damien Scullin – and to all skaters loved and lost – gone but not forgotten.

aMBUSH Gallery
4A James Street Waterloo
Sydney NSW 2017

Doomslangers / A project by Casey Jex Smith at Allegra LaViola Gallery

Doomslangers
A Project by Casey Jex Smith

Ryan Browning, Jared Clark, Chris Coy, Tyrone Davies, Daniel Everett, Timothy Hutchings, Allan Ludwig, Gian Pierotti and Casey Jex Smith.

October 20 – December 3, 2010
Opening reception: October 22, 2010 from 6-9PM

Allegra LaViola Gallery is pleased to present Doomslangers: A Project by Casey Jex Smith. The exhibition includes drawing, painting, installation, performance, video and sculpture all related to the group Doomslangers, and their Dungeons and Dragons adventure to protect the city of Dingershare, root out evil, and make sure the Silver Noni Fruit does not fall into the hands of Lord Ricaek. Dungeons & Dragons is a tabletop role-playing game that allows players to immerse a created character into a fantasy world of fighting, magic and adventure. A Dungeon Master moderates the player experience and creates the story line to which the players react to using dice rolls, statistics and structured yet free-form system of play that is derived from miniature war games. The original game was published in 1974 and created by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.


Over the last 5 months, theses eight artists have been invited by Casey Jex Smith to play this D&D campaign from various parts of the country using videochat and in turn, make art that reacts to their experience. As the artists negotiate the day- to-day realities of an adult “responsible” life in the real world, the need for a community in which they can participate becomes stronger. The ability to communicate and play the game over the Internet frees the participants to live how, and where, they like while still offering a defined structure to create narrative, meaning, magical weapons, and monsters that hoard treasure.


During the first 3 days of the exhibition, visitors to the gallery can create a free, personalized character sheet that allows them to begin playing D&D. On Wednesday, 20th October the Doomslangers will finish their 5 month long campaign in the Gallery basement. The next day, NYC resident Tavis Allison will be the Dungeon Master in a campaign that visitors can participate in. For the opening on Friday, 22nd October visitors are invited to come dressed as their favorite D&D character or monster, participate in the final battle against Lord Ricaek, drink heal and mana potions, and hear music by acclaimed bard, Lark Dreambow. Beholders are welcome.


Daniel Everett's work is an exploration of the pursuit of meaning within anonymous space, both physical and virtual. His multimedia work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and featured on rhizome.org. Jared Clark combines found kitsch into hybrid objects that blur the line between sculpture and painting, narrative and non- objectivity. Ryan Browning combines elements of the traditional Romantic landscape, formal abstraction, and the simplified forms of digital representation to investigate a possible mythology where the virtual and the real are forced to evolve a new and sublime natural order.

Gian Pierotti makes ceramics that will function in an inevitable post-apocolyptic society with limited resources. Tyrone Davies explores questions of mediated spectacle and mass culture either through the reuse, re-appropriation, and re-contextualization of recorded material and industrially produced objects. Timothy Hutchings is a gamer and visual artist who often betrays the viewers’ sympathies and trust while delving into the history of film, minimal aesthetics, and chance based conflict resolution. He has shown work at the Kunsthalle Wien, The New Museum of Contemporary Art and Socrates Sculpture Park. Chris Coy works with the activities and escapist strategies of the suburban (usually white and often teenage) male. He has shown work at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, Sundance Film Festival, and the Netherlands Media Art Institute. Allan Ludwig regards his painting practice as related to ideas of magic, power and the unknown.

Casey Jex Smith addresses personal identity in finding meaning between three seemingly disparate worlds: religion, sci- fi/fantasy and “high-art”. He has shown his work at the Drawing Center, Yerba Buena Center of the Arts, and Swarm Gallery, Oakland. This is his second show at Allegra LaViola Gallery.

Allegra LaViola Gallery
179 East Broadway
New York, NY 10002

MUDWIG + RUSSELL MAURICE: Meta Snout Print Release

MUDWIG + RUSSELL MAURICE

Meta Snout Print Release

This screen print has been exclusively released for the META SNOUT exhibition, and can be purchased together with 'Snout' for To coincide with META SNOUT, our new exhibition featuring the works of Russell Maurice and Daniel Sparkes (Mudwig), we are pleased to announce the release of 2 very rare and limited edition collaborative screen prints. From a small edition of only 13 each, these extremely detailed prints together form a set. Each print has been hand-pulled by the artists and printed on Somerset paper, with dual signatures on the lower right-hand corner. Meta Snout prints can be purchased from our online shop or at High Roller Society for £60 each, or £100 for the set.

High Roller Society