Idea Board 3 Opening at Together Gallery

Idea Board 3

June 30th - July 24th 2011

The third annual "Idea Board." This years board members include new comers: Jay Howell, Benjamin Edmiston, Casey Grey and Doodles and seasoned veterans: Timothy Karpinski, David Wien, poppa Mark Warren Jacques, we are especially excited to be welcoming Mark home from his time on the road.

Together Gallery
2916 NE Alberta St Suite A
Portland, Or 97211

RAY'S A LAUGH Curated by Leo Fitzpatrick at Half Gallery

RAY'S A LAUGH
Curated by Leo Fitzpatrick

Artists respond to the work of Ray Johnson in a group show.

Exhibition includes Joe Bradley, Dan Colen, Leo Fitzpatrick, Ray Johnson, Hanna Liden, Nate Lowman, Adam McEwen, Josh Smith and Dash Snow.

August 1 - September 7, 2011
Reception: Monday, August 1, 6-8 p.m.

Half Gallery
208 Forsyth St
New York, NY 10002

Eric Kroll, Sex Objects to Fetish Girls and Sunset Etc... opening at PRISM

ERIC KROLL, SEX OBJECTS TO FETISH GIRLS
JUL 29, 2011 — SEP 17, 2011

PRISM is pleased to announce the opening of Sex Objects to Fetish Girls, a selection of photographs by Eric Kroll. The opening reception will take place from 7-9 PM on Friday, July 29th, and the exhibition will be on view through Saturday, September 17th.

Sex Objects to Fetish Girls presents a selection of work from two of Kroll’s famous publications. Published in 1977 with a grant from the New York State Council of the Arts, Sex Objects documents his travels across America photographing and interviewing the women who worked in massage parlors, strip clubs and sex joints. The photographs sparked controversy because of the stark reality depicted and because of the public art grant that funded the project. The book was a critical success and opened a sensitively documented window into a subset of taboo American culture.


In 1994 Kroll’s second book, Fetish Girls, was published by TASCHEN and has sold over 145,000 copies. The photos are playful and surreal images that explore a multitude of sexual fantasies. Drawing from his artistic influences of Man Ray, Eric Stanton, and Irving Klaw, Fetish Girls depicts the absurd, kinky, humorous and whimsical.


Recognized as one of the most acclaimed and controversial photographers working today, Kroll graduated from the University of Colorado in cultural anthropology in 1969. He has worked as a photojournalist for the New York Times, Vogue, and Der Spiegel as well as the photo book editor at TASCHEN. Photographing women for the last forty years, his work has been shown at LeadApron, Los Angeles, at Anna Kustera Gallery, New York City in June 2008 and in November 2003 at Shooting Gallery, San Francisco. There have been five books of Kroll’s photographs published, including Sex Objects, Addison House, 1977, Fetish Girls, TASCHEN, 1994 and Beauty Parade, TASCHEN, 1997. Kroll has edited numerous books including The Art of Eric Stanton, TASCHEN, 1997 and The Wonderful World of Bill Ward, TASCHEN, 2007. In February 2010 Kroll curated the exhibition Warhol: Dylan to Duchamp and edited the book that accompanied the exhibition at Eric Firestone Gallery, Tucson. This is his first exhibition at PRISM.


Also opening that evening will be the exhibition Sunset Etc... featuring works by seminal artists such as Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, Ed Ruscha, and Roy Lichtenstein.

Please contact the gallery for more information.

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PRISM
8746 W. Sunset Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90069

Montana Store LA + Art In Numbers Present Sunny Phono - POSSE UP!

MONTANA STORE LA & ART IN NUMBERS is pleased to announce POSSE UP, the highly anticipated solo show by SUNNY PHONO.

Opening Friday July 29th 6-9pm

The exhibition features the artist’s newest and most ambitious works to date. Sunny Phono explores the cultural elements that are the make-up of his persona, and creates art that is unique to his personal experience. In this collection, you will see mixed-media on canvas, acrylic on found wood, ink on paper, small quantity screen prints, and other creations.

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Montana Store Los Angeles
1528 1/2 West Sunset Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90026

Incase x Paul Rodriguez Signature Collection

Travel Right with the Paul Rodriguez Signature Collection

Since its introduction, the Paul Rodriguez Signature Collection has defined skate-travel through its skateboard-specific, yet versatile designs that meet the daily needs of skaters and travelers alike. New this Fall is the Skate Pack Lite and the Protective Sleeve for MacBook/MacBook Pro, providing your essentials complete coverage during your travels in Paul’s signature style.




The Skate Pack Lite takes the fundamental features of the collection’s Skate Pack and distills them into a slimmer, trimmer version. Featuring a single primary storage compartment, exterior skateboard attachment with an adjustable Velcro strap and abrasion-resistant exterior, dedicated notebook compartment and an array of pockets for organization, the Skate Pack Lite is the ideal choice for day travel. Available in five colorways that run the gamut from the understated Moss Green to the striking, color-blocked Cobalt/Orange or Aqua/Fuchsia there is a Skate Pack Lite for every mood, whether you’re out cruising or shredding.




The Protective Sleeve brings Paul’s signature style to your most essential tech: your notebook. Featuring the same durable nylon construction as the collection’s packs, the Protective Sleeve features an abrasion-resistant binding and a custom exterior logo print. On the inside, a padded faux-fur interior secures your notebook with complete protection. The Protective Sleeve is available in 13” and 15” sizes in basic Black and the bright Aqua/Fuchsia.



The Skate Pack Lite and Protective Sleeve join the Skate Pack and Skate Duffel in the collection to provide an array of travel-ready options for the enterprising skate-traveler.

Paul Rodriguez Signature Collection

Mysterious Al releases 'KONG'! screen print at StolenSpace Gallery

Mysterious Al and Stolenspace Gallery present: 'KONG'!

"King Kong was the most mighty creature to ever walk the earth… And what was his downfall? A woman!"

Five colour, hand-pulled screen-prints in an edition of 20.
65cm x 65cm on heavy, white stock!

Signed, numbered and blind-stamped with Stolenspace and Mysterious Al official seals!

Saner "Sequestro Express" at Mid-City Arts Los Angeles

Mid-City Arts In Association
With MONTANA CANS & 33THIRD LA Present:

Sequestro Express (Kidnap Express)

Mexico City Street Artist
"SANER"
First Los Angeles Solo Exhibition

Curated By: Viejas Del Mercado

Mexico City Street Artist "SANER" brings the Outdoor Public Art Experience into a Private Gallery setting.

All Artwork pieces will be FREE to the Public.

Early Arrival is suggested.

Mid-City Arts / 33third L.A.
5111 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles Ca. 90019

Junk Food Art House Presents Anthony Lister at HVW8 Art + Design Gallery

JUNK FOOD ART HOUSE PRESENTS ANTHONY LISTER

Junk Food Clothing is pleased to announce Junk Food Art House Presents Anthony Lister, celebrating the launch of its innovative new platform Junk Food Art House. Following a 3-week teaser campaign of poster art throughout Los Angeles, this unique gallery exhibition at famed HVW8 Art + Design Gallery, will feature Lister’s street art on the subject of lost superheros. Complimentary food, beverage, and valet will be provided.


Friday, July 29, 2011

Public Reception
8-11pm

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HVW8 Art + Design Gallery
661 North Spaulding Avenue
Los Angeles, CA

Paul Wackers and Owen Schmit "burn off" at New Image Art

Paul Wackers and Owen Schmit

burn off

July 30 - September 3, 2011
Opening Reception Saturday July 30th 7-10pm

New Image Art is pleased to announce "burn off" opening July 30, 2011 featuring new paintings by New York based artist, Paul Wackers, and Los Angeles artist Owen Schmit.




Paul Wackers's work is rooted in inventive means of figuration. He uses a multi-method technique to support the subject at large. The formal quality and sincerity of his work walks between the lines of that of a 17th century Dutch still life painter a la Margareta Haverman or Willem Van Aelst, to atmospheric and broken down geometric landscapes, and sometimes to paintings on a single canvas that imitate diptych. Objects placed in the foreground of landscapes resemble hand-made sculptures and viewers may be tempted to wonder if they are not looking at the two-dimensional works of a very accomplished ceramicist! In this latest body of work Paul's paintings balance amazing confidence in his technique and structure with a spirited gentleness.




Owen Schmit is currently completing her final year of graduate studies at the Art Center in Pasedena, CA. Her work takes much of it's inspiration from her native California environment. Over the past several months Owen Schmit has been considering the intersection and overlap of the illusionistic space of painting and the objecthood of sculpture as a metaphor; sculptures containing emblematic, recognizable imagery often present themselves alongside environmental 'backdrops'-- images in the form of large-scale paintings-- that function as settings that relate to and inform the sculptural works. She utilizes her love of nature with such elements as the ocean and the over lapping shapes of the deep Redwood forests as structural divisions in her abstract paintings. In the two-dimensional, illusionistic space of painting, this work is an examination of light, illumination, concealment, and reveal through what the artist considers to be seductive qualities of color and form (or lack thereof) in abstraction. In examination of past experiences, fantasies and daydreams, Owen's work centers on a sense of separation between the euphoria and limitlessness of the imagination and the letdown and limits of reality. Evident in her recent sculptures of latex surfboards, she gives them an organic and almost biological appearance yet stripes them away of their functionality.

New Image Art
7908 Santa Monica Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90046

Deus Ex: Human Revolution Art Show at Wooster Street Social Club

NEW YORK CITY EXCLUSIVE: RENOWNED CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS DEBUT ORIGINAL WORKS FOR DEUS: EX HUMAN REVOLUTION ART SHOW

Thursday, July 28. 7pm - 10pm
Open to the public Friday, July 29 - August 7

Well–known artists from the U.S. and Mexico — Estevan Oriol, N8 Van Dyke, Sam Flores, Jeremy Fish and others — celebrate opening of NYC exhibition with creations inspired by Square Enix’s highly anticipated DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION video game

Square Enix brings the DEUS EX®: HUMAN REVOLUTION™ video game to life through the eyes of the world's best contemporary artists, with the opening of the DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION group show at the Wooster Street Social Club. Proceeds from the exhibition benefit art education in schools.

Contemporary artists from the U.S. and Mexico unveil original works inspired by the game’s futuristic storyline that explores the pros and cons of human augmentation: 3rassiere, Estevan Oriol, Eyeone, Jeremy Fish, Jorge Alderete, N8 Van Dyke, Rico Deniro, Robert Abeyta, Jr., Sam Flores.

Each artist will create one poster style image, inspired by either the pro–augmentation or anti–augmentation factions as seen in DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION. Patrick Martinez, art director for SA Studios, will transform the gallery space to an experience that aptly depicts what’s in the game. The show opens to the public on July 29 and will close on August 7.

RSVP: events@sastudiosglobal.com

Wooster Street Social Club
43 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10013

LA Record Presents... SKULLPHONE STRIKES AGAIN! at The Standard Hollywood

LA Record Presents...
SKULLPHONE STRIKES AGAIN!

... Celebrate Skullphone's new Box and 6th Street Mural Installations at The Standard, Hollywood!

ARTIST RECEPTION:
THURSDAY, JULY 28TH
8PM

RSVP: hollywoodrsvp@standardhotel.com

The Standard Hollywood
8300 Sunset Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90069

video & interview

Standardculture.com
Skullphone.com

Mark Alsweiler "Sundial" exhibition at China Heights Gallery

Mark Alsweiler
Sundial

Featuring a collection of new works by New Zealand artist Mark Alsweiler, influenced heavily by South American folk art, and a personal recognition of contrast.


Not dissimilar to traditional folk art, Alsweiler's Balsa wood sculptures, and acrylic paintings touch on opposition and difference. Through messages of 'old and new', 'past and present', 'living and dying', 'day and night' and'male and female', Alsweiler paints his distinction of living in a time past, in contrast with living in an accelerated present-day.


Alsweiler's softened colours and shapes, combined with hard lines and dots provoke an immediate awareness of the conflict within his works. Blurred faces with hardened eyes stare expressionless while threads of American Indian imagery and blotched hues blend calmly through the background.


An ode to the American Indian of old, and perhaps a personal struggle with 'then and now', Alsweiler's work sees the beautiful cooperation of opposites and a union where contradiction becomes complement.

OPENS FRI JUL 29, 6PM
CONT'D DAILY UNTIL AUG 7, 12-5PM

China Heights
3, 16-28 Foster St
Surry Hills 2010, AU

Boxi "Time Of The Signs" exhibition at Lazarides Rathbone

Boxi

Time Of The Signs

29 July – 1 September, 2011

Lazarides Gallery is proud to bring to the walls of their Rathbone gallery the UK␣s first exhibition of hyperrealist painter, Boxi.

A master of stencil culture, Boxi creates boldly intuitive life size works that he exhibits on the streets and the white walls of galleries using meticulous cutting techniques and an extensive pallet of muted colours. Turning away from the traditional anarchist use of stencils with simple designs and spray paint, Boxi challenges the norm through boldly heightened realistic figures within their own urban landscapes. With fear and the manipulation of fear as the underlying theme, his art channels a deeply disturbing voyeuristic experience for the viewer playing with the spatiality of the environment and the oscillating perception of the image.

Boxi␣s use of the greyscale within his paintings, sculptures and meticulously detailed stenciled works consciously filter the gloss and spin of the present to a muted bass sense of now. Amidst all the doom and gloom there is a concealed light. The works are camouflaged in a romanticism that wouldn␣t exist were it not for failed dreams and flawed excuses.

Lazarides Rathbone

11 Rathbone Place,

W1T 1HR UK

Мишка presents Stalley "Lincoln Way Nights"

ShoeZeum Guided Tour: 2,000 Pairs in 11 Minutes

ShoeZeum

www.sneakskicks.com

Asbestos Curtain "A new phase in Comic Abstraction" at Galleries Goldsteins at Goodhood

Asbestos Curtain
A new phase in Comic Abstraction

July 28th- August 26th

Opening Night: July 28th, 6 - 9pm

Edwin Burdis, Marten Daamgard, Horfe, Husk Mit Navn, Alec Kronacker, Rob Logan, Russell Maurice, Mark Mulroney, Andro Semeiko, Ken Sortais, Daniel Sparkes, Willem Weismann



In 2007, MOMA held a show entitled Comic Abstraction, this term remains the closest definition of this new genre thus far. Asbestos Curtain contributes significantly to the mapping of a new phase in Comic Abstraction.


“In the movies there’s something called an insert shot. When an object is central to the action but can’t be seen clearly in the frame where the actors are at work: a full house at cards laid down on the table; when time is of the essence and we see the clock; when that call comes through and we see the phone. Objects that had been seen, but not noticed, become underlined, emphasized, as if they were suddenly punctuated with an exclamation point. Objects become actors; nouns become verbs. This kind of narrative storytelling, that of honing in on small, seemingly insignificant, parts of the scene, was borrowed by comics – often in the strip cartoon, frames appear where all we see are the corners of empty rooms, objects on tables, the edges of something barely perceived. If the narrative is removed from around these objects they should return to their status as mere things – yet their framing, their pulling out of the narrative retains the life they once had, but now without purpose. The isolation of the insert shot has been used by artists Christian Marclay and Morgan Fisher within film to impressive effect – drawing the viewers’ attention to the insignificant, the forgotten aspects of film production; the mastery of the second unit film crew.






In the comic these objects – these underlined, or bracketed objects are freed from the shackles of narrative to run amok: to move, to change, to mutate. They can run the length of a canvas, climb the stretch of a wall, or break out into three dimensions. Yet these things, these objects, as they grow and move escape from the boundary of the frame, they are always held together by the line. The line is always in movement, always tracking and sniffing out where it can be most effective. The static lines of the works in this show have ambitions of the movement of the animated cartoon – durable, shifting, unbreakable. But these lines don’t tell straightforward stories of slapstick violence or easy comedy; they strip things back to the barest of forms. An old door, a ladder, a pipette, a rotting dead dog, mushrooms and mattresses – abandoned, left to their own devices, tell us as much about ourselves as the human face. Grotesque elastic forms emerge as lines move outwards over lines, objects become anthropomorphic. Abstracted from the most figurative, and relentlessly narrative of forms, these works offer a new language of affect in which to read. Steeped in an uneasy nostalgia for the detailed, crisp graphic style of the animators of Hanna-Barbera, Peyo, or Hergè, blended with the contemporaneous grotesque underground comix of Gilbert Shelton and Robert Crumb these are difficult works to digest. Yet their message is simple – sometimes derived from the kind of condensed storytelling essential to the single image Graffiti character. In the late 1970s the American Surrealist Franklin Rosemont suggested that comics provided a ‘hieroglyphic poetry’ for the day – these artists strip down even that sense of legibility. Yet these works are surreal in the sense that they find the marvelous deep within everyday sources and bring them to the fore in all their distorted, mutated majesty.”

James Boaden 2011.





Gallery Launch & Inaugural Exhibition

Please come down and celebrate the inaugural show of Galleries Goldstein at Goodhood. Drinks by Absolut.

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GAG
20 Coronet Street,

London, N1 6HD