February 27, 2011

Swampy









Mark Jenkins "Family Room" at VOLTA NY Art Fair


Carmichael Gallery invites you to

Family Room
A solo exhibition of new work by Mark Jenkins

at the VOLTA NY art fair in New York City,
March 3-6, 2011.

Mark Jenkins’ installation at VOLTA NY will transform Booth A1 into an unconventionally furnished family room. “I’ve been doing a lot of experimentation with resin and fiberglass,” says the artist of this new series, which includes five and a half life-size sculptures and a range of smaller pieces, “finding more original ways to make hand casts and improving structural solidity through new bracing techniques.” For the first time, Jenkins will present his works within a site-specific environment purposefully created to provide greater contextual authority and definition to his aesthetic and thematic considerations. “An empty space can feel sterile,” he observes, “as if a giant eraser has removed all context. The works become more like pinned butterflies. I have taken a different approach with (the presentation of) Family Room. This time it’s about creating a place for the sculptures to live in, so, in addition to clothes, I’ve been thrift store shopping for plants, drapes, rugs and chairs.” Both individual works and the installation as a whole will propose non-traditional commentaries on the institutions of family and home.

You must RSVP to rsvp at carmichaelgallery dot com by Sunday, February 27, 2011.

Booth A1
7 West 34th Street
between 5th and 6th Avenue / 11th floor
New York, NY 10001 USA

February 26, 2011

Clare Rojas "Inside Bleak" solo exhibition at PRISM


Clare Rojas
Inside Bleak


Feb 26 — Apr 02, 2011
(Extended through Saturday, April 23rd)

PRISM is pleased to present Inside Bleak, a new solo exhibition of San Francisco-based artist Clare Rojas that opens Saturday, February 26, 2011. Transforming the PRISM space, the exhibition features what Rojas calls domestic abstract interiors, the newest installment of her ongoing investigation of domesticity through a wide range of media, including painting, installation, and video. Her works – which share the guileless, homespun aesthetic that reveals Rojas’ origins in print-making, folklore – are nested within a larger site-specific installation that also serves as the stage for a set of videos and a performance by Peggy Honeywell.



Since 2000, Rojas has since participated in over 40 international exhibitions and several film festivals. Originally from Columbus, Ohio, Rojas earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design and her Master’s degree from the Art Institute of Chicago before landing finally in San Francisco. Rojas has received numerous accolades for her work, including the prestigious Tournasol Award and grants from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and Joan Mitchell Foundation. She has had solo exhibitions at Deitch Projects in New York City, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León in Spain, Museum Het Doemien in the Netherlands and various international group exhibitions. In 2010 an exhibition of her work titled We They, We They traveled from the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, UK to the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco. Inside Bleak is her first solo exhibition at PRISM.

PRISM
8746 W. Sunset Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90069

SAFEWALLS x High Roller Society


Royce Bannon Presents "The Unusual Suspects" group show at 17 Frost


Royce Bannon Presents: The Unusual Suspects

A group show celebrating the artwork of artist
Royce Bannon, Abe lincoln Jr., infinity, Chris RWK, Moody, Nose Go, Matt Siren, Sno Monster, Keely, Darkclouds, and Celso.
The show will run from Febraury 26th-March 26th.
The opening reception is Feb 26th at 6pm.

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17 FROST
17 Frost St
Brooklyn, NY

February 25, 2011

Dawn Tan






KID ZOOM - This City Will Eat Me Alive

KAWS x A Bathing Ape MILO


The KAWS x A Bathing Ape MILO will be available, February 25th at noon EST on www.kawsone.com.

Montana Shop & Gallery Lisboa limited edition mtn can Launch party at Odessa


MR.Cheeks Vs Dj Glue from 11pm - 4am
Free Mixtapes

- Launch of the limited edition can of Montana Shop & Gallery Lisbon
500 Units by Akacorleone

The cans will be selling signed and numbered (release price), the first purchases take home a print is also signed and numbered.

Come let's shoot for that beautiful show how to do a party here!
wooooord!

ODESSA
Av. Infante D. Henrique Armazém B, Loja 9
Lisboa, Portugal 1900-282

Keith Haring: 1978-1982 exhibition at Contemporary Arts Center



Keith Haring: 1978-1982
February 26-September 5, 2011
Opening Celebration: Friday, February 25

The public has a right to art. Art is for everybody.
-Keith Haring

Keith Haring ranks among the most iconic, influential and popular artists in the world. Twenty years after his death, the Contemporary Arts Center and Kunsthalle Wien present a historic exhibition of rarely exhibited early work created during the years immediately following Haring’s move from his native Pennsylvania to New York City. His passionate immersion in New York’s dynamic downtown culture informed, inspired and cemented Haring’s language as an artist, as well as his politics, social conscience and open homosexuality.


This exhibition explores the vibrant and experimental years when Haring first enrolled at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, started a diligent and vigorous studio practice, began making public and political art on the city streets and enjoyed a frenetic social life. Joining an art community outside the institutionalized art system, Haring quickly befriended fellow artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Kenny Scharf, as well as many of the most innovative musicians, performance artists and graffiti writers of the period.



Comprised almost exclusively of works on paper and videos-the two media omnipresent in the artist’s oeuvre during this gestational period-the exhibition delves into aspects of the artist’s life and production that have received insufficient attention to date: Haring as a thinker and facilitator, and his work as highly experimental and performative. It traces the development of his visual vocabulary: His influences from Jean Dubuffet, Pierre Alechinsky, Jackson Pollock and Henri Matisse to William Burroughs as well as Dr. Seuss and Walt Disney; his iconographic inventions from the rhythmic, all-over interlocking geometric shapes to comic-inspired, enigmatic narrative storyboards and humor-infused homoerotic tableaux.


The show includes drawings and sketchbooks, videos, flyers, posters, photographs and subway drawings, as well as word collages, texts, and diaries. It offers an impression of the artist’s manifold maturing process and shows Keith Haring as a philosopher and untiring initiator of artistic and political activities; reflecting his collaboration with other artists, his interest in interdisciplinary aesthetic strategies and the pulsating culture of the time.

Keith Haring, born in Reading, Pennsylvania on May 4, 1958, lived and worked in New York, where he died on February 16, 1990 of AIDS related complications.



Curated by Raphaela Platow, Alice & Harris Weston Director and Chief Curator, Contemporary Arts Center. This groundbreaking exhibition of Keith Haring’s early work is co-organized by the Contemporary Arts Center and Kunsthalle Wien.

Contemporary Arts Center
44 E. 6th Street, Cincinnati, OH

Jimmy Baker "Remote Viewing" exhibition at Contemporary Arts Center


February 26 - April 10, 2011
Opening Celebration: Friday, February 25

This exhibition presents all new paintings from Cincinnati-based artist Jimmy Baker. In his signature style of synthesizing disparate images sourced from the web, his new body of work merges pictures of war with ones of everyday family life. By interweaving numerous unrelated sources into one composition, he addresses the role context plays in our understanding of images in the all-access world of the 21st century. Baker's arresting paintings oscillate between catastrophes, the glitz of popular culture and the joy of the mundane. He translates these onto canvas through a combination of digital printing and painting techniques. With this novel approach, Baker declares both techniques interchangeable tools in the continuation of the history of painting.

Contemporary Arts Center
44 E. 6th Street, Cincinnati, OH

Cockle Bay Wharf & aMBUSH Gallery for Project 5 Live Art Event


PROJECT FIVE
VOLUME 3

Live Art Event
25 February 6-9pm then Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 February, 12noon-3pm

Cockle Bay Wharf &
aMBUSH Gallery for Project 5
A thrilling three day outdoor sensation of live street art
and cranking tunes.

For the 3rd time, Project 5 is bringing street art to Sydneysiders.

See international and home grown street art legends KID ZOOM, GHOSTPATROL, JAMES JIRAT PATRADOON and DEB hard at play letting loose on four mural panels spurred on by Sydney's very own Future Classic Deejays

Project 5 proudly supports Information & Cultural Exchange (ICE) in a public art auction for charity at aMBUSH Gallery on 3 March 2011.

Live Art Event

Where: The Promenade Level, Cockle Bay Wharf, Darling Harbour
When: Opening night Friday 25 February, 6-9pm then
Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 February, 12noon-3pm

Live webcast on www.cocklebaywharf.com.au

Auction Event

aMBUSH Gallery
4A James Street, Waterloo Sydney

Thursday 3 March, 6-9pm
More info: www.project5.com.au

Ambig BBQ / Skate Jam / Zine Release Party


Ambig BBQ Zine Release Party Feb 25th 4-7pm
February 9th 2011

February 24, 2011

KRK Ryden "The Ultra Glob Show " + Peat Wollaeger at WWA Gallery


WWA gallery Presents

"The Ultra Glob Show"
The art of KRK Ryden
Opening Reception: Friday, February 25th, 2011 from 7-10pm
On View: February 25th – March 26th, 2011

On February 25th, KRK Ryden is unleashing The Ultra Glob Show upon an unsuspecting world via the WWA gallery. Originating from a drug induced hallucination in 1969, the amorphous glob has been a representative icon and theme of KRK Ryden’s work and this Ultra show stands as the cream of the glob crop. (Try saying that three times fast)


With candy-pop colors, Ryden juxtaposes his globs with the artificially wholesome imagery of the uptight domestic life of 1950s America and various other surreal settings to redefine the way we think about nostalgia and retro pop culture.

Open to the public, The Ultra Glob Show gallery reception is from 7 - 10pm on Friday, February 25th. Ken the Magic Corner God (with possible special guest) will play Theremin live at 9:30. The exhibition will run until March 26th, 2011.


In our Project Space: Peat Wollaeger

Stencil Artist Peat Wollaeger is internationally known for his signature EYE , his raw, colorful characters, and his popping, funky stencil videos. Peat's work has been featured on Green Day's 'The Art Of Rock' Tour, in "Electric Windows" at DIA Beacon in New York, at "The Mad Artists Tea Party" in London, as a permanent installation in "Hotel des Arts" in San Francisco, as well as an installation at this past December’s Art Basel Miami.

WWA gallery will be featuring Peat's Latest "EYE" Installation, as seen at Art Basel, along with some of his incredible 3D stencil portraits.

WWA gallery
9517 Culver Blvd
Culver City, CA

▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ KAPTIKA ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲


KAPTIKA

a solo show by the artist in residence

TIKA

OPENING
Saturday 26/02/2011
7pm till late

LIVE
Oy (aka Joy Frempong)

DJ's
Remy Gold
Spoek Mathambo (hivip dj set)
Binary
Chiri Moya

27/02/2011 — 08/03/2011
monday — saturday
10am — 4pm


TIKA’s work is a reflection on today’s global society, as well as the forgotten traditions and sagas of the past. TIKA has visited many places around the world, not just to travel but to get to know the local people and learn about their current situation along with what histories and traditions they grew up with.

Born in Switzerland, TIKA grew up in Cairo, Brussels, Cologne, and Zurich, where she currently lives when not diving her time between Berlin and Rio de Janeiro. The name TIKA originally came from Antibiotika, the German word for antibiotics. It’s also hindi-slang for ‘tilaka’, the different blessing-signs that Hindus wear as a symbol of power to protect the third eye. When you’re asked “How are you?” in Hindi, you reply “TIKA!” to say that you’re fine. She studied at ZHDK but, as the artist explains, “it was learning about the D.I.Y. and cultural squat scene, reading a lot, living in a different places in the world, and painting on the streets that got me where I am today.”


“What occupies my mind most is the diversity of points of views on life,” says TIKA. “Like the development of cities, how this affects spaces for self-determined living and projects. How buildings full of history get ripped down to be replaced by glass cubes. The effects globalisation has on regional and traditional habits and architecture. Love, vanity and loss of people. How long and short at the same time a life can be and the before and after of it. I like to read about sagas and myth, about the written down and told to be true history and the actual circumstances in politics, economy and environment.

What inspires me is everyday life. Random people on the streets, how they dress and talk and, if I get to talk to them, what and how they think. Of course, in the days of Internet I pick up a lot of information and inspiration through there, as well. Still, I try to read and see and think as often as possible without a computer between. When I create, it's like all experiences and thoughts run through me and out again. The feeling of creating while I paint, draw, write or cook is similar: I forget time while I'm at it.”


TIKA has left traces on the streets of Zürich, Bern, Basel, St. Gallen, Glarus, Berlin, Potsdam, Dresden, Munich, Cologne, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Salvador da Bahia, Belo Horizonte, New York, L.A., San Francisco, Paris, Praha, Biarritz, Marseille, Barcelona, Madrid, Milano, London, Vienna, Sofia, Amsterdam, Istanbul, Cape Town, Buenos Aires, Mexico D.F., Cuernavaca and Puerto Escondido. She has put on solo exhibitions in Amsterdam, Vienna, Berlin, and Rio de Janiero, and participated in various group shows around the world, including New York, L.A., Sofia, Mexico D.F., Milano, and Madrid.


TIKA is currently participating in a three month residency in Cape Town through Pro Helvetia, /A WORD OF ART, One k, and the Woodstock Industrial Centre.“I'm learning a lot about South African history and current effects of Apartheid,” she says. “I will take these imputs and let them go as the view of someone who is not grown up here into my solo show ‘KAPTIKA’ (a mix of the German word KAPSTADT and TIKA). All of the work included will be made during my stay in Cape Town.”

/A WORD OF ART

TOO FAST TO LIVE, TOO YOUNG TO DIE Exhibition at Subliminal Projects


TOO FAST TO LIVE, TOO YOUNG TO DIE
February 25 - March 26, 2010

Opening Reception:
Friday, Feb 25th 2011 / 7 - 11 p.m.
Musical performance at 9pm

FEATURING WORK BY EDWARD COLVER, SHEPARD FAIREY, GLEN E. FRIEDMAN, JENNY LENS, DAVE MARKEY, RAYMOND PETTIBON, JORDAN SCHWARTZ, WINSTON SMITH
Original flyers, posters, set lists and more from Bryan Ray Turcotte
(Fucked Up + Photocopied)

Curated by Katherine B. Cone and Jon Cournoyer


TOO FAST TO LIVE, TOO YOUNG TO DIE is a selection of photography, art and ephemera from the California Punk & Hardcore scene with an emphasis on the explosive period of the late 70's and early 80's. This exhibition features both photographers and artists who were present for the detonation of the Southern California scene and whose imagery helped capture and craft it's angles, attitudes, music, fashion and sub-culture. Reflections of other punk scenes throughout California are included as well as contemporary collaborations inspired by one of the most potent and important periods of free expression in the California story.

Subliminal Projects
1331 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Wilow Amsgood - Mythomania

UNLIKE U-Trainwriting in Berlin - Premiere in Amsterdam


UNLIKE U-Trainwriting in Berlin

The film makers Henrik Regel and Björn Birg dive deep into the universe of the trainwriters. Next to first class interviews, they received material, which has never been screened before. The film investigates background information to specific actions and historical material from the legendary corner on the Friedrichstrasse. The place to meet for sprayers since the 90ies. The place where the legend of the Berlin Writerculture had its origins.

In this sense, UNLIKE U is not a normal Spray Painting Video, in which action after action and train after train get shown, rather the Video is a sympathetic portrait of a scene which has never been shown like this before. This film writes the fascinating story of a culture, which usually aims to exist undercover, but exhibits all the characteristics of an art historical movement with all its spacial and periodic developments. The film makers have worked on this documentation for over 7 years and have thus established a good relationship in the scene, which can be decribed as a 'closed party‘. Never the less the film makers never loose the required distance to the topic and demonstrate the flipside of the sprayer existence, one of social isolation, loss of reality and even suicide.



A fascinating film about the writing train in Berlin by Henrik Bjorn Control and Birg.

From 22.00 on the canvas with a short interview with the creators of this film. Free admission.

Canvas op de 7e
Wibautstraat 150
Amsterdam, Netherlands

DANCE RIGHT presents MISHKA 1 Year Anniversary


DANCE RIGHT PRESENTS: MISHKA 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

MISHKA IS TURNING 1 YEAR OLD ON THURSDAY! So we thought that there is no better way to bring in the Birthday then with some serious party time. Dance Right style.

PASE ROCK

GRAHMZILLA

Grahmzilla F*ck Winter 2011 Mix (download link inside description) by grahmzilla

PAUL DEVRO

Mishka Echo Park

For more info and RSVP, please visit www.danceright.net

LA CITA
336 SOUTH HILL STREET ( Between 3rd & 4th)
Los Angeles, CA 90013

‎Montana Shop Lisboa Limited Edition can x Akacorleone




Limited Edition can x Akacorleone

SESPER "FxCK UPS" at Pure Evil Gallery


Antonio Cruz 'SESPER'

24Th feb - march 6th

This show is a week late because of UPS.

Opens tonight at 6pm.

108 Leonard st,
London EC2A 4XS

Zevs "Liquidated Version" exhibition at De Buck Gallery


ZEVS
LIQUIDATED VERSION
FEBRUARY 24-APRIL 7

Opening reception with the artist: February 24, 5 - 8 PM

De Buck Gallery is pleased to announce its grand opening show featuring Zevs, entitled Liquidated Version. In his first New York solo exhibition, Zevs (pronounced “Zeus”) interweaves unconventional street art methods with a pointed critique on high finance to create dynamic works on canvas and sculpture.

In Liquidated Version, Zevs presents a new body of work using his “liquidation” process for which he is known, as well as new conceptual techniques, to confront the financial crisis head on. By targeting the emblematic logos of financial leaders, Zevs questions not only the stability of the institutions, but also their branding strength as visual commodities. Drawing on Alfred Hitchcock’s famous thrillers, Birds and Psycho, as well as Breton Ellis Easton’s American Psycho, Zevs uses looming birds, bloody shower curtains and pristine hatchets to add an eerie element of foreboding and impending doom. Moody and psychological, Liquidated Version fills the space with a fresh look at the “greed is good” theme and the confusion between surface and substance of American high finance.


Zevs began as a French graffiti artist in Paris in the 90s, acquiring his pseudonym from a Parisian metro train named Zevs that almost hit him. Drawing on his namesake’s mythological attributes, Zevs began to see the street and the city as his canvas and his kingdom. Zevs body of work involves performances at its core, beginning with a series of performances entitled Visual Attack, where the artist attacked several public advertisements, leaving them with artistic bullet-holes and trails of blood. His next series of performances, Visual Kidnapping, built further on Zevs exploration of brands, advertising and consumer culture by literally kidnapping images from advertisements, emblazing the message “PAY NOW” on the victimized ad. The last series, Liquidated Logos, demonstrates Zevs growth in his body of work, as he “liquidates” the all-too- familiar logos of worldwide companies and makes them his own. Zevs experimentation with the pervasive symbols of pop culture and consumerism has proven to be a rich discussion in the art world and beyond.

Zevs lives and works in Zurich and New York.

De Buck Gallery
511 West 25th Street, Suite 502
New York, NY 10001

Group Show at Lebenson Gallery



GROUP SHOW
February 12 to March 5, 2011

OPENING February 24 7-9PM

ANDREW MCATTEE (London)
DAIN (New York)
EINE (London)
ATLAS (Paris)
LUCAS PRICE (London)
JEANNE Briand (Paris)
NICOLAS Fenouillat (Paris)
PURE EVIL (London)
STEN & LEX (Rome)
TANC (Paris)
WILDCAT WILL (London)
Yuval Shaul (Tel Aviv)

56 rue Chapon 75003
Paris, France

ABOVE "Here today, Gone tomorrow" exhibition at Lo-Fi Gallery


ABOVE
Here Today Gone Tommorow
Opening thursday 24th Feb from 6:00 pm – 10:00pm

Above’s debut Australian exhibition. A series of new arrow mobiles, stencils & wordplays.

Above is known for his consistent Globlal travels with his artworks. He weaves thru the world with a relaxed mantra of "Here today, Gone tomorrow". Above's endless travels have landed him on Australian soil this summer where he presents Sydney with his debut Australian exhibition.

*First 50 people through receive a limited editioned Above gift pack.




Lo-Fi Gallery
Floor 3, 383 Bourke St
Surry Hills 2010
Sydney Australia
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