Numskull "Strange as Fiction" solo show at Gallery on Waymouth

NUMSKULL

Strange as Fiction
2nd February - 21st February

Gallery on Waymouth is proud to present "Strange as Fiction", a collection of new work on canvas by Numskull.

Numskull is a Sydney based artist, who's bold work has become a favourite on the street and in the gallery for its epic mashes of text, pop iconography and stencil figures.




Often quite nonsensical, his work mashes together images which explore love, hate, mystery, fantasy and false heroes that dominate the airspace via advertising. Having grown up on a diet of graffiti, comics and cartoons, Numskull draws from this and a love of sign-painting to create original, humorous and often controversial pieces using screenprint, stencils and paintbrush.

Having no formal art education or training, Numskull's style and practice has evolved through experimentation and his involvement in the street art and graffiti culture. A short and somewhat frustrating involvement in the advertising world also led him to see and explore his surroundings in a different light.


Numskull's art practice comes from his experiences with people, average life and often the strangest of situations.

He has shown his work, painted walls and sold paintings throughout the world in such places as London, Singapore, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Paris and more.

Gallery on Waymouth
30 Waymouth Street
Adelaide, Australia, 5000

Sixpack France SS11 Collection "DUST TO DUST" - Teaser by // DIY part 2

Sixpack France SS11 Collection "DUST TO DUST"

Teaser by // DIY part 2

Coming soon on www.sixpack.fr

Sofarida - Beats & Drips #2 - Teaser

Sofarida - Beats & Drips #2

Inside the DVD boxset Beats & Drips DVD : Graphic Surgery, Horfé, Alëxone, Fulgeance, GaBLé and Ugly Mac Beer & Mister Modo.

On two axis, music and graphic art, Beats & Drips meets artists and accompanies them on their production grounds : the street, the art studio, the music studio or the concert venue.

To celebrate the release of Beats & Drips#2 dvd box, Sofarida invites Graphic Surgery to exhibit their work on a solo show at Celal gallery, in the center of Paris.

Music by Fulgeance : Impulsinfionetta
Video by SOFARIDA
Launching 26/02/11

Kevin Lyons "Red, Gold and Green" Drawings and Installations at Colette

Kevin Lyons
from January 31st to February 26th

Kevin Lyons exhibition from January 31st to February 26th

Kevin stands as the dirty cousin to Geoff McFetridge and Michael Leon. While he is embracing of their culture, he is forever pitted the opposite against their form. While Geoff has chosen success and money as well as artistic freedom, Kevin has stewed in mediocrity, retail galleries, and limited time spent on self. While Michael has chosen authenticity and hipster form making, Kevin has fallen into work so juvenile that it is never referenced nor stolen. In the end, Kevin might just well be the only ‘Beautiful Loser’ here.” - Jennifer Smith, Art Director, Art Papers International Art Magazine

Kevin Lyons is a 1992 graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design where he received a degree in film. After working for Nickelodeon/MTV as an Associate Producer, he co-founded the NYC based design firm, stereo-type which for two years was responsible for much of the graphic look of the New York City underground Hip-Hop and Acid Jazz scene. This included the logo design for the long standing NYC based club, GIANT STEP. Stereo-type’s client list also included Soul Kitchen, 555 Soul and the LA-based, Brass Recordings. After receiving his masters degree from CalArts in 1998, Lyons has gone on to work for Nike, both in and out of house, was the former Art Director of Urban Outfitters on two separate occasions, and had been the Art Director of Spike Jonze's,Girl Skateboards subsidiary, Fourstar. He was also the original US Art Director for TOKION Magazine and maintains long-standing freelance relationships with Nike, Jordan Brand, Adidas, Stussy and Stussy Japan, Beams Japan, HUF, Nieves Books, Stones Throw Records, Commonwealth Stacks, and long-time friend and collaborator NYC artist, SSUR.

A typographer, an Art Director, a designer, a teacher, and a father, in 2001, he was named as one of “The Top Forty Designers Under Thirty” by ID Magazine. His work has been published worldwide from Thrasher to The Face to Lowdown to Anthem and Refill. He has shown worldwide including solo shows in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tokyo, and now of course, Paris. Most recently, Lyons was the Design Director of legendary Stussy, Inc. and then Creative Director for the alternative retail giant, Urban Outfitters from 2003 - 2007. In 2010, he won an Emmy Award for Best Title Sequence for his work on the PBS show, Avec Eric.

He is now the Design Director and Managing Partner of New York City based, Anomaly, a brand incubating, marketing juggernaut with plans on running the world. He also produces three clothing lines; Atlantis, We Free Kings, and the third under his personal namesake, NATURAL BORN. All are distributed globally. Currently, Lyons also maintains his own small experimental graphic project also under the namesake, Natural Born and often can be found collabing with his two daughters drawing type and bumping Twin Hype.


Colette
213 rue Saint-Honoré
75001 Paris - France

Corey Helford Gallery presents The Nursery group show

Corey Helford Gallery
presents a major group exhibition

“IN THE NURSERY”
A contemporary interpretation of classic American nursery art

Opening Reception Saturday, January 29, 2011 from 7‑10pm
On View January 29 - February 9, 2011

On January 29th, Corey Helford Gallery will unveil “In The Nursery”, its first major group exhibition of 2011. Following in the tradition of CHG’s renowned Bristol Museum exhibition, “Art From The New World” in 2010 and the star-studded paint-by-numbers exhibition in 2007, “Charity By Numbers”, this unique new group show continues the exploration and re-interpretation of Americana by twenty-six internationally acclaimed artists. The line-up features stellar new work by artists from the Street Art and New Fine Art Movements, including Aiko (formerly of FAILE), Shawn Barber, Ray Caesar, Sas and Colin Christian, Eine, Paul Frank, HUSH, Sage Vaughn, Michael Mararian and many more.


“In The Nursery” is a contemporary re-imagining of the lost art form of paintings and sculptures for children’s rooms and nurseries. Long before anime and Muppet posters, a number of noted artists concerned themselves with creating work for the one room of the household not usually decorated with fine art - the nursery. Frances Hook, who created the children’s portraits for the Northern Tissue labels in the 1950’s, and Margaret Keane, famous for her her wide-eyed animals and children, both created memorable and highly collectable works for children’s bed and play rooms. Prints taken from famous illustrated children’s books, such as Milne’s “Winnie The Pooh” and Jean de Brunhoff’s “Babar the Elephant”, and the beautifully detailed works of Edmund Dulac, Gustaf Tenggren and Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) also filled the nursery walls with the work of classically trained illustrators and artists.



Now, in a time when innocence is challenged and contemporary parents’ taste in art has significantly changed, “In The Nursery” examines the themes and styles of nursery and children’s art, both bitter and sweet. The works range from Ray Caesar’s exquisite digital painting in neutrals and rich chocolate browns capturing a young Victorianesque mother gazing adoringly at her very unusual baby in its carriage to street artist Aiko’s kaleidoscopic stenciled imagery of flowers, astronauts, Hello Kitty and spray cans surrounding a traditional Japanese woman.


Participating artists include: Aiko, Chris Anthony, Tom Bagshaw, Shawn Barber, Scott G. Brooks, Ray Caesar, Sas & Colin Christian, Eine, Korin Faught, Sarah Folkman, Paul Frank, Harma Heikins, Hush, Anita Kunz, Michael Mararian, Liz McGrath, Brandi Milne, Billy Norrby, Natalie Shau, Brendan Sharkey, Mike Stilkey, David Stoupakis, Sage Vaughn, Nick Walker, Martin Wittfooth, Chet Zar.

The reception for “In The Nursery” is open to the public and will take place on Saturday, January 29 from 7 to 10pm. The show will be on view until February 9, 2011.

Corey Helford Gallery
8522 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, CA 90232

KENOR & PEZ . Opening at GALO Art Gallery

GALO ART GALLERY presents: KENOR & PEZ

Amigo mucho fusion show

Matt Furie "HOT TOPIK ZINE" release + art show at Needles & Pens

Needles & Pens presents,

a zine release + art show for

MATT FURIE'S

HOT TOPIK ZINE

A With Music By Brooklyn's

DUB KNOW DUB

(featuring STO from CINDERS GALLERY)

January 28, 2010

7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Matt Furie teamed up with friend Sam Gaskin to create a new line of potential t-shirts to be sold at goth rocker life-style outlets in malls across America. Sam wrote phrases for the t-shirts such as, "I Only Smoke Weed on Days That End in ' - Day -'" and Furie illustrated them. The end result of the catchy phrases and drawings are captured in a 16 page zine entitled HOT TOPIK (which will be released this very evening).

In addition to releasing the zine, N&P will be hosting a quickie weekend ART SHOW of works by Furie and friends, Aiyana Udesen, Sam Gaskin, Grant Earl LaValley, Dan Olsen, and STO, and also works by DUB KNOW DUB/Cinders fellow STO.

HOT TOPIK ONLY ON DISPLAY
FROM JANUARY 28th - 31st +
(zines will be available for $5)


Needles + Pens
3253 16th Street
San Francisco, CA

Street Artist Ben Eine Documentary

Eine Film - Street Artist Ben Eine Documentary

A short documentary shot in East London.

"Magic Fucking Kingdom" The D****Y Show At MF Gallery.

"Magic Fucking Kingdom"
The D****Y Show At MF Gallery.

Featuring: Anonymous Art, Nicola Alessandrini, Robert Bowen, Robert Craig, Jason D'Aquino, Fidia, Death Head, Emma Louise, Drew Maillard, Angie Mason, Max Papeschi, Frank Russo, Martina Secondo Russo, Joe Simko & more...

Opening Party: Saturday, January 29th, 7-10pm

Most of us remember growing up watching these movies and cartoons. The lovable anthropomorphic characters accompanied us in our games and imaginations. Love it or hate it, it is almost impossible to escape this titan's influence.


In honoring the impact these characters have had on our artistic lives, MF Gallery has curated a group show of art that is inspired by Disney's many characters and films. For the first time ever, MF Gallery has invited this group of Italian artists to show in NYC: Max Papeschi creates controversial images by juxtaposing smiling cartoon characters with images of war and destruction... He calls his art "Honest Advertising".

Fidia transforms cute characters into lovable anti-heroes. He takes old skateboards- trucks, wheels and all- and carves them into the shapes of the characters, before painting them in acrylics.

Elena Bertoni and Simone Romano are a husband and wife team who collaborate under the name "Anonymous Art". They create both large scale oil paintings in which chartoon characters and symbols appear over wallpaper-like backgrounds, as well as smaller acrylic paintings collaged over old religious texts.

Nicola Alessandrini uses themes from Rennaissance religious art and mixes them with cartoon characters and geometric shapes. He works both on paper and on large scale canvases. These Italian artists, most of which are regulars at the MF Gallery in Genoa, will be showing for the first time in New York City alongside MF Gallery Artists: Joe Simko, Drew Maillard, Death Head, Frank Russo & Martina Secondo Russo; as well as Angie Mason, Robert Craig, Emma Louise, Robert Bowen and Jason D'Aquino.

Please join us for the opening party on Saturday, January 29th from 7 to 10 pm. Refreshments will be served and many of the artists will be in attendance. Admission is free and open to all ages. During the opening party, there will also be a film crew working on a documentary about the Pop Surrealist Painter Robert Craig.

The art in this show will be on display until the beginning of March, but MF Gallery will be open by appointment only during this period. Contact Martina or Frank at (917)446-8681 or info@MFgallery.net to make an appointment to visit the gallery. The entire show is also available for viewing and purchasing online at: www.MFgallery.net.

MF Gallery

213 Bond Street

(b/w Butler & Baltic)

Brooklyn, NY 11217

New Borf Original Drawings at Paper Monster

For all you Borf fans out there, we have just released a couple original drawings today in the store section of the site. These oil pastel drawings are from a new series depicting the ghostly forms of abandoned automobiles engulfed in flames barely emerging from darkness, aptly named "Night Lights".

BORF, the infamous Washington DC based graffiti writer and artist has certainly made his mark on the greater DC area with his politically charged stencils, wheatpastes and tags. This young artists work is rebellious and emotional, fueled by the suicide of a close friend 4 years ago, BORF represents the artistic expression of not only this tragedy but of many social injustices of our world today.


For more info and/or to purchase these drawings click here.

Paper Monster
www.papermonster.net

Sixpack France x Tom of Finland Collection

Sixpack France x Tom of Finland Collection

After Hajime Sorayama and Robert Crumb, we are very proud to announce the launch of the Sixpack France x Tom of Finland collection.

Too often considered as an underground gay illustrator rather than an universal pop erotic artist without labels (he was a major reference for Andy Warhol!), Tom of Finland (1920-1991) has mainly influenced the contemporary representations of what we see in fashion, art, music or fetichism.





A new ode to Beauty with a painstakingly detailed technique.

A bridge between gay underground subcultures and 70's punk scene (Remember Sid Vicious used to wear Tom Of Finland tee!)

The micro collection is now available on www.sixpack.fr

Laura Ball and Ryan McLennan: New Works at The David B. Smith Gallery

Laura Ball and Ryan McLennan: New Works
January 28 – February 26, 2011

Opening Reception: Friday, January 28, 2011, 7pm – 10pm

The David B. Smith Gallery is pleased to present New Works by Laura Ball and Ryan McLennan. Please join us for the opening reception on January 28th from 7pm – 10pm, when both artists will be in attendance.

These two creative artists explore the struggles of human existence through animal imagery, which represent parallels to both the natural world and the world of the subconscious. While McLennan creates scenes which parallel the natural world, using a cast of North American mammals and birds to explore brief lessons in ecology, natural history, and evolution, Ball devises a world of internal dreams and monsters, defining the shadows that hold us back from healthy progression in our daily lives. Both Ball and McLennan tend to contrast their images against a stark, white background, inviting the viewer to delve more deeply into the meaning behind the image. While McLennan gravitates to acrylic and graphite while utilizing a subtle pallet of browns and golds, Ball uses watercolor to create softer but equally complex forms or more intense hues. While their aesthetic is similar, their styles and content are strikingly different - but each explores an examination of consciousness while capturing the struggles with which they are intrigued; whether it is the survival of the environment, or the survival of the human psyche. Both artists have received extensive national recognition, prestigious awards and grants.

An essay by Leanne Haase Goebel will accompany the exhibition.


Laura Ball received her MFA in 2004 from the University of California, Berkeley, and has taught at the University of California. She has received several awards and grants and has exhibited in galleries across the United States. Her work is in numerous important private and public collections. Laura currently lives and works in California.

Ryan McLennan received a BFA from the Painting and Printmaking Department of Virginia Commonwealth University in 2002. Since then he has exhibited work in Los Angeles, New York, Boston and Richmond, Virginia. He is a recipient of the 2008/2009 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship and was the 2010 recipient of the West Prize, Grand Prize. Ryan currently lives and works in New York.

Artists in Attendance
Free and open to the public

David B. Smith Gallery
1543 A Wazee Street Denver, CO 80202

NOVA The Film

NOVA the film

A DIY documentary film on new art and the young artists behind it. Directed by Isaac Niemand, and produced by ROJO® in collaboration with Bossanovafilms, it was all filmed on the heat of live action at ®Nova Contemporary Culture which happened in July and August 2010, in the Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo, Brazil.

Starring: Rebecca Ward, Tofer Chin, Base V, Yochai Matos, KRINK, Highraff, Kit Webster, Flavio Samelo, Lucy McRae, Shima, Matt W Moore, Mulheres Barbadas, Gustavo Gagliardo aka Defi, Quayola, Javier Longobardo, This Time, Sosaku Miyazaki & Lolo, Mark Jenkins, B.Fleischmann, Robert Seidel, Anna Taratiel aka Ovni, Ljudbilden & Piloten, Koen Delaere, Cristopher Cichocki, MOMO, Yusk Imai, Sin Fang Bous.

Babou + TANC "Earthbound Escape" at Skalitzers Contemporary

BABOU + TANC: 'EARTHBOUND ESCAPE'

Friday 28th & Saturday 29th January 2011, 19-22 HR

Skalitzers presents 'Earthbound Escape', in association with DAS Weekend - a live audio-visual art installation by Parisian artists Babou and TANC, exploring the visual and emotional boundaries between art, music and life.

‘The media is not important; only ideas build a plastic work.’ (Babou)
‘I see silence as a blank page… I place different rhythm and melody as forms and colours that change and are alternated by changing the frequency of my sounds.’ (Tanc)

Join us at Skalitzers for two nights only, two unique performances on 28th and 29th January, 2011.

Skalitzers Contemporary
Skalitzer Strasse 43, Kreuzberg
Berlin 10997 // U1 Gorlitzer Bahnhof

Serigraph 2011 at Vicious Gallery

Serigraph 2011

For the second time Vicious Gallery is proud to present it's screen- print and multiples group- show.

This year 11 artists will participate: Golden Green, Milk, Niels Buschke, Dave the Chimp, Mr. Nonski, Felix Schlüter, Form 76, Coconut Crew, Henning Weskamp, Klaas van der Linden and Dave Decat.

Last year this exhibition was a big success to both, the artists and the customers. While the artists have the opportunity to start the year with some smaller works, the customers appreciate to get their hands on high-quality artworks for a dcent price.

Vicious Gallery
Kleine Freiheit 46
22767 Hamburg/ Germany

Herbert Baglione - Lazarides Gallery

George Condo "Mental States" at New Museum in New York

New Museum Presents

First Major US Survey of Works by George Condo
From January 26–May 8, 2011

New York, New York... Since first bursting onto the scene in the early 1980s with his unique adaptation of the language of Old Master painting, George Condo has created one of the most adventurous, imaginative, and provocative bodies of work in contemporary art. Condo’s work has been deeply influential to two generations of American and European painters, who have felt the impact of the artist’s astonishing technical ability, stylistic versatility, and inventive subject matter. This January, the New Museum will present “George Condo: Mental States,” the first major US survey of over eighty paintings and sculptures from the past twenty-eight years of the artist’s career. Condo is famously prolific, and this tightly edited selection of works from 1982 to the present responds to his prodigious output with a unique conceptual approach. The exhibition is organized thematically and stylistically in “chapters” developed in close collaboration with the artist. Highlighting the breadth of Condo’s artistic exploration, the exhibition will focus on the specific ideas to which he has returned throughout his career, particularly his ongoing investigation of human physiognomy and its capacity to convey varied “mental states.”

“George Condo: Mental States,” will be on view at the New Museum from January 26 through May 8, 2011. The exhibition is organized by the Hayward Gallery, London and New Museum, New York. “George Condo: Mental States” is curated by Ralph Rugoff, Director, Hayward Gallery, and Laura Hoptman, former Kraus Family Senior Curator, New Museum. Following its premiere at the New Museum, a European version of the exhibition will tour to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Hayward Gallery, London and Schirn Kunstalle, Frankfurt.

“George Condo: Mental States” will be arranged in four groupings over two gallery floors of the New Museum. A dramatic installation of more than fifty portraits demonstrating a variety of styles and subjects will be featured in the soaring fourth-floor gallery as a centerpiece of the exhibition. This “portrait wall,” hung salon-style, will be populated by invented characters that often assimilate and appropriate elements from masterpieces by the greatest Western artists of the past 500 years, from Velázquez to Picasso to Arshile Gorky. This collection of imaginary characters is a blend of recognizable figures and archetypes rendered in Condo’s particular form of artificial realism: butlers, businessmen, saints, and historical figures are familiar in spite of their often fantastic or humorously grotesque features. Complementing the portrait wall will be a series of sixteen patinated gold sculptures.

On the New Museum’s third floor, visitors will find three galleries of paintings, each designed to reflect particular states of mind. Each room will feature a selection of canvases from various moments in Condo’s career, portraying lonely and marginalized figures as well as scenes of manic decadence that engage with the social and psychological undercurrents of our boom-and-bust era. The final room in the exhibition will bring together, for the first time in the United States, a major grouping of large-scale paintings created over the past thirty years that play with the boundaries between abstraction and figuration. For Condo, these paintings also depict a mental state—that of the artist. Condo recently stated, “Representational pictures are the artist’s body, abstractions are pictures of the artist’s mind.” Condo’s work provokes us to consider our own contradictory natures and often-extreme emotional states expressed through a cast of characters that are equally comedic and tragic.


The exhibition will be accompanied by a 190-page catalogue, produced by Hayward Publishing. George Condo: Mental States will feature essays by Ralph Rugoff, Director, Hayward Gallery; Laura Hoptman, Curator, the Museum of Modern Art and former Kraus Family Senior Curator at the New Museum; as well as the novelists Will Self and David Means.

New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002

FUTURA Canvas Art Prints "DA VINCI" Series

"FUTURA CANVAS ART PRINTS"

The new series of Fine Art Series "DA VINCI" was launched. Currently, FUTURA LABORATORIES accepting orders for the site, and you are trying to order now!

ALL GONE BOOK Launch at MADE

ALL GONE BOOK

LAUNCH

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MADE

V1 Gallery presents: STATUS - Somewhere Between Position and Condition

V1 GALLERY PROUDLY PRESENTS

STATUS
- Somewhere Between Position and Condition -

A group exhibition featuring works by:

Jacob Holdt, Wes Lang, Thomas Campbell, Matthew Stone, Søren Behncke, John Copeland, Brian Montuori, Jes Brinch, Misaki Kawai, Todd James, Ulrik Crone, Richard Colman, Anika Lori, DearRainDrop, Katherine Bernhardt, Andrew Schoultz, Andrew Sendor, Neckface, Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, Peter Funch, Shane Bradford, Asger Carlsen, Ashley Macomber, Jesper Dalgaard, Kasper Sonne, Mads Lynnerup, Thomas Øvlisen, Eddie Martinez, Ryan Schneider, Geoff McFetridge, Sarah Braman, Melanie Schiff, Misha Hollenbach, Pica Pica, Benji Whalen, HuskMitNavn, Stephen Powers.

RECEPTION: FRIDAY JANUARY 28. TIME: 17.00 – 22.00
EXHIBITION PERIOD: JANUARY 29. – FEBRUARY 19. 2011

It is our great pleasure to open 2011 with the exhibition STATUS – Somewhere Between Condition and Position -. The exhibition features an eclectic mix of artists and works in all artistic genres. The curatorial premises have been to ask the invited artists to present works, that they felt in someway reflected on their current position or condition. A seemingly innocent and straightforward proposition - but in actuality a rather tricky dilemma. We tend to perceive our current status as something permanent, a fixed point, a marker, while in reality status is subject to change. The exhibition aims to celebrate change, reflection, relation and new years resolutions broken in January. May 2011 bring change and positive uncertainty.

V1 Gallery
Flæsketorvet 69
Kødbyen
1711 Copenhagen V
Denmark

Ruina & Kid Chalao "INSIDE OUTSIDE" at ALL OVER

INSIDE OUTSIDE
An exhibition of RUINA and KID CHALAO

From 27/01 to 25/02/2011
Opening reception Thursday, January 27 from 18h

After abandoning a long and fruitful career of vagabondage and begging, brothers Ruina and Kidchalao are presenting their first collective exposition Inside, outside. These young antiheroes have arrived from the depths of the Spanish nation; weather-worn on the streets of cities like Bilbao, Barcelona or Madrid, heirs of a long tradition of Castilian myths and fables, lovers of pop culture, magic and absurdity, these two share an amazing addiction to the smell of aerosol and to painting their nails with White-out.

Their unorthodox, dream-like style stems from their utter adoration of colorful geometric compositions and their abomination of anything Cartesian, achromatic or lineal, together with their appreciation of the dirtiest and most colorful graffiti from the Barcelona Movement of the 90s. It’s a style equally as abstract as it is figurative, where color and abstraction combine with pop references to deepen in its own caustic and contemporary mythology.


It’s all of this combined with the conviction that the world is nothing but a dream of swarming signs and symbols, and the devotion to an incoherent, dirty style that give form to their art, an art that despite its singular nature, has been classified by some as an unfathomable tall tale.

Inside, outside takes us on a journey to the inside of the liquid world hidden under skin, under streets, under what the mind calls reality. Here the world is soft and drips extraordinary colors that wander through abstraction, creating never-ending stories and representing the most imaginative fables and myths, oozing of unreality so much at times, that could be drunk!

ALL OVER
41 rue des Tables Claudiennes
69001 Lyon, France