December 28, 2011
Amateur Magazine 009 NYC-Special
Amateur Magazine 009 NYC-Special
“The Shot was taken in the summer of 1986… West Broadway… SOHO… NYC from the “Frozade” (Frozen Lemonade) stand…”.
Jean-Michel Basquiat. Cover by Ricky Powell
The issue contains: GROTESK, RICKY POWELL, ASVP, BLANDA EGGENSCHWILER, LNY, GREG LAMARCHE, JEFF STAPLE, ANTHONY PONTIUS, DAVID GENSLER, FREI FILMS, JOSHUA LINER GALLERY, THE FEATHER FACTORY, METAL HEADS – ERIC VOGEL, MAKEM ERICH, NUMBER ONE MAGAZINE – SMASH 137, THE ART OF WHEEL BUILDING, ANTENNA DESIGN, NIKEiD BESPOKE, …
"Amateur" guys have been in the city of New York, 30 days, yellow taxis, subway ride along the line L, a day in the MoMA, shopping in Manhattan, swimming in the ocean, eating at Rockaway Taco, a Sunday afternoon in Brooklyn...
They have not seen the Statue of Liberty, but have found great people like Grotesk, Ricky Powell, Jeff Lamarche staples or Greg Lamarche.
They have not seen the Statue of Liberty, but have found great people like Grotesk, Ricky Powell, Jeff Lamarche staples or Greg Lamarche.
Make sure to grab a mag on distribution places or subscribe here.
Amateur Magazine
Amateur Magazine
Charlie Immer "Slippery Removal" Print
Limited Run of 50
Available Ready To Hang in a 1.5" Black Wood Frame
Framing includes UV blocking glass, archival backing, frame spacers, back paper mounting to guard against dust along with ready to hang hardware.
"This print is of a painting that was a part of my show, “Bone Jiggle”, at Roq La Rue this past October. Sometimes I like to think that this painting involves a surrogate for me who gets to touch gross juicy stuff without throwing up or dealing with any bizarre smells. I also have this fear that under my skin my organic processes are just a mess and I would like a more direct way of sorting things out." - Charlie Immer
December 27, 2011
Erik Parker "Other Side of Morning and Bermuda" at Patricia Low Contemporary
ERIK PARKER
Other Side of Morning and Bermuda
Patricia Low Contemporary is pleased to announce Other Side Of Morning and Bermuda, a solo exhibition by American artist Erik Parker.
Over the past decade, Erik Parker has forged a reputation as one of the most radical painters of his generation. His works – which veer from graffiti-inspired text compositions, garishly trippy portraiture, lurid ultra-pop still-lifes, to obsessively illustrated graphic fields – aren’t united by genre or style, but rather cohesively reflect Parker’s distinctively idiosyncratic sensibility. Influenced as much by outsider art and sub-cultural memes as by pop, surrealism, and early 20th c. abstraction, Parker describes his approach as “blue collar formalism”: his canvases epitomise a punk-ethos redress of art history, thoroughly infused with urban grit.
Featuring new works from his still-life and jungle series, Other Side Of Morning and Bermuda takes its cues from Parker’s childhood fascination with the Bermuda Triangle; a real life nether-zone of the bizarre and inexplicable. The canvases, each a chaotically balanced myriad of toxic-hued exotica, unsettle with the sense of skewed familiarity. With their homage references to Rousseau, Picasso, or Lichtenstein, the hallucinogenic landscapes and vases of radioactive flora brazenly stake claim on hallowed territory: the archetypal subjects reworked, reinvented, and authoritatively re-owned through Parker’s exhaustive process of drawing before they’re improvised afresh on canvas.
At the heart of Parker’s paintings is a drive towards innate semiotic instinct: the font fetishism of graffiti, the compositional rhythms of Matisse, or the op psychedelia of head shop posters all provide a model of ‘typography’ – a primal impetus of mark-making, gesture, and form as intuitive universal referents. Works such as Bermuda, a swarthy tropical night scene framed by a mass of lusciously venomous vines, can be conceived less as painted than written: each detail of its mandala-like patterning is individually rendered with calligraphic flourish, a unique script within the whole of an epic.
With his high-velocity palette, acid trip perspective, and flat screen graphics, Parker’s is an extreme take on painting, deceptively proffering pure visual aggression and sublimating beauty through the most contemplative and considered means: an intensive, whollistic, and extraordinarily ambitious devotion to visual craftsmanship and its possibilities of excess.
The show starts 27th December and runs through till 31st January.
Patricia Low Contemporary
10, rue de l’Arquebuse
CH-1204 Geneva
Switzerland
Patricia Low Contemporary
10, rue de l’Arquebuse
CH-1204 Geneva
Switzerland
December 24, 2011
December 22, 2011
Buff Monster - Tea Cup & Saucer Set
Buff Monster
Sweet Dreams
Limited Edition Cup & Saucer
This Is A Limited Edition in the UK just released this awesome tea cup and saucer set! The bone china cup & saucer are made in Stoke-on-Trent, England in an edition of 250 sets. The cup (Full sized for Tea/Coffee drinkers) stands 60mm (2 1/2") high and 87mm (3 1/2") across and the saucer is 160mm (6 1/4") across. The set comes packaged in a special box with an artists signed and sequentially numbered print, and costs a mere £39. They’ll even ship ‘em out super quick for the Holidays. Get yours here!
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