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 The current exhibition at Dean Project, "Guys & Dolls: Seeing Stars", is a two-person exhibition of photographs by Rose Hartman and Holger Keifel that juxtaposes revealing moments of boxing personalities with those of social celebrities. Dating from the 1970's through today, Rose Hartman and Holger Keifel's photographs include world known figures, such as Jackie O, Donatella Versace, Naomi Campbell, Oscar de la Hoya, Evander Holyfield, and Don King. Displayed in one room, the portraits raise questions about social class, beauty, power, and contemporary society. Moreover, Rose and Holger's photos capture intimate "behind the scene" moments that belie the idealized image represented to the public. Both photographers have had their work published and exhibited extensively worldwide. Rose Hartman's work has been featured in publications including the New York Times, Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Vogue, W magazine; she has also exhibited in group shows including The Museum of the City of New York, The Paterson Museum, and The Whitney Museum. Holger Keifel's work has been published in Playboy, The New York Times Magazine, Der Spiegel, The Observer Sports Monthly and his work has been exhibited at The Corcoran Gallery, The Butler Museum of Contemporary Art, Florida Atlantic University, his work is in several museum collections including The Museum of the City of New York. | |||
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 The Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria's current exhibit, "Undone," features artists Tim Holmes, Tony Matelli, Eileen Quinlan, and Heather Rowe. Each artist was commissioned to create a piece for the show in which identity, space, or form is defined by its own fragmented, unfinished, or unraveling condition. Hyper-realistic bronze weeds by Toni Matelli sprout from corners in the gallery, as if they were attempting to overtake the gallery and undo the white box environment. Architecturally driven artist Heather Rowe has created an architectural screen that at once uses and deconstructs the corporate surroundings of the 5,200 square-foot Sculpture Court. Eileen Quinlan produced photographs of smoke reflected in broken mirrors, and artist Tom Holmes constructed photo sculptural works that alter and distort the medium as a metaphor for the fracturing of identity as a contemporary condition. Four exhibitions are organized annually in the 900-square-foot gallery, with an emphasis on solo exhibitions by contemporary living artists. Each year, one or two projects are also presented in the Sculpture Court, a glass-enclosed atrium with public seating and an espresso bar. Lunchtime gallery tours are offered every Wednesday and Friday at 1 pm. | |||
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 Artist Ross Bleckner recently exhibited a series of new paintings at the Mary Boone Gallery Chelsea location. Bleckner employs a series of leaf-and-vine pattern in each of the works which optically seems to hover over the painting surface. The "Meditation" paints reference spiritual imagery such as mandalas. The paintings, which use both symbolic and organic forms simultaneously, operate on both a formal and conceptual platform. Bleckner was born in New York in 1949, graduated from New York University in 1971 and California College of the Arts 1973. He currently lives and works in NYC. Blecker began showing with Mary Boone in 1983, and since has completed a dozen shows with the gallery. Addition recent solo exhibitions include works at Ruzicska Gallery, Salzburg, Austria "Dialogue with Space", Esbjerg Art Museum, Esbjerg, Denmark and Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London, England. | |||
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 For its first exhibition opening in 2008 gallery PPOW in New York City will present "Islands," its seventh exhibitions featuring the collaborative works of Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz. For their recent body of work the two artists have created a series of fictional wintry island landscapes which are inhabited by small communities of people. It appears in the works that most of the planet has been swallowed up and the remaining tops of mountains are the last place for civilization to go. Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz have been working collaboratively for the past 14 years, and have exhibited internationally with works in the collections of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, La Caixa in Barcelona, Spain and the KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki. In addition to the PPOW exhibition in NYC, the artists will also be exhibiting at Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art in Vienna, Austria and at Cerealart in Philadelphia, PA. | |||
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The Annandale hotel, one of Sydney's most popular live music venues converted their unused top level into an art space to host Dead Galaxy, an exhibition of collage works by Paul "Presser" Towner, drummer from Sydney band, Gerling. The band formed in 1993, with a music career spanning almost fifteen years and four studio albums, their success has included an international tour, performances alongside burlesque act, the Suicide Girls and collaborative tracks with Kylie Minogue and Solex. Dead Galaxy is Towner's first art exhibition. DailyServing recently caught up with Presser to discuss the work.  | |||
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 Artist Andrea Zittel held a holiday smock sale in Los Angeles last weekend. Her handmade, double wrap-around garments were available at Regen Projects on December 15th and at Young Art on December 16th. The smocks, meant to be attractive, utilitarian, and economical, are designed by Zittel but hand-sewn by collaborating artists. Zittel, who enterprises the A-Z Institute for Daily Living, has spent the last decade blurring the boundaries between daily life and artmaking. Most of her sculptures and works with fabric have both utilitarian and conceptual purposes. The A-Z Institute produces furniture and clothing, like the 8x5x7 ft living units meant to provide for a person's every physical need and the seasonal uniforms that can be worn every day for months at a time. These functional works ideally make life more manageable and aesthetically pleasing for individuals while also ensuring that people have adequate personal space. Zittel, who is primarily represented by Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York and Regen Projects in LA, plans to open a smockshop in LA's Chinatown sometime next year. | |||
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 M+B Gallery in West Hollywood is currently presenting Alison Jackson: Confidential. Alison Jackson, known for her unnerving depictions of celebrity look-alikes, has never before shown in the Los Angeles area. Confidential features charged photographs of public figures, often politicians or pop-culture icons depicted in less-than-flattering poses. Though Jackson uses 'look-alikes' rather than real-life celebrities, her photographic fictions closely resemble the figures they satirize. At first glance, Bush seems to be playing with a rubick's cube in the oval office, Bill Gates seems to be happily dancing around with his ipod, and Halle Berry seems to be intently painting her Oscar black. Jackson wants her audience to see what they imagine before they recognize the images as fictional. The artist, a graduate of London's Royal Academy of Art, gained notoriety when she staged a photo of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed fondling a mixed-race love child. Since then, Jackson has won a BAFTA for her work on the BBC Two series Doubletake and has also directed a film about Tony Blair, titled Blaired Vision. The exhibition at M+B runs from December 15th through Janurary 26th and will be accompanied by a monograph published by Taschen. | |||
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 Alber Oehlen, a German artist who currently lives and works in Bizkaia, Spain has been on the international radar for decades as a provocative painter. The artist studied with Sigmar Polke in the mid-seventies at Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst, Hamburg and emerged in the 1980's along side artist Martin Kippenberger. Oehlen challenges painting today by rigorously investigating and referencing historical painting from many periods, simultaneously. The scope of his painting references allows the artist to point out some of art's failures, something that Oehlen is very interested in revealing. The artist recently exhibited "Spiegelbilder" with Max Hetzler in Berlin, and "The Good Life" at the Nolan / Eckman Gallery in New York. Oehlen has appeared in countless publications, and in April of 2003 Artforum conducted an interview between Oehlen and Eric Banks. | |||
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 The Happy Lion Gallery, located in Los Angeles' Chinatown, is currently presenting a collaborative exhibition titled The Sundowners. Six emerging LA artists, Seann Brackin, Naomi Buckley, Spencer Douglass, Aragna Ker, Candace Lin, and Maeghan Reid participate in the exhibition, grappling with the terrain of history, memory and illusion. Performance artist Anna Oxygen also contributed to the show, performing at the opening on November 10th. Candice Lin received her MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute, but each of the other artists received an MFA from Claremont Graduate University. The exhibition's title is intricately related to its theme; the word "sundowner" refers to a vagrant or nomad and the art at The Happy Lion has a nomadic, searching quality. The Sundowners is a both foreboding and tender grouping of work: Ker's sculls and Lin's psychological portraits of young women contrast with Buckley's nostalgic sculptural assemblages and Reid's urban portraits. While each artist takes a distinctly different approach to image making, each uses unconventional materials, like duct tape, matchsticks, pushpins, or magnifying glasses, to create illusionistic landscapes. The Sundowners will continue through December 22. | |||
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 Glasgow-born painter Kaye Donachie bases her work on found imagery and film footage of rebellious members of counter-culture groups. The work directly confronts power structures and the dynamics of social groups to reveal patterns found in cultural references that have become a part of a collective consciousness. The artist also manipulates these references so that they operate as a narrative, building connections between the past and the present. Donachie is a graduate of the Royal College of Art in London and attended both the Hochschule der Künste (H.D.K) in Berlin and the University of Central England, Birmingham. She currently lives and works in London. Recent exhibitions include "Monte Verita" at Maureen Paley Gallery and Peres Projects, Los Angeles, and "Never Learn Not To Love" at the Artists Space in New York. | |||
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Recently on view in the Scion Installation art space in Culver City's Arts District in Los Angeles were works by Mark Mothersbaugh. The new 4500 square ft. warehouse space held Mothersbaugh's custom-printed rugs in an exhibition titled "Rugs During Wartime and Peacetime." Mothersbaugh recent spoke about his new works, time with the band DEVO, and making art today with ex-fashion & textile designer-turned-gallery owner; Freddi Cerasoli. Read article below.  Continue reading ""Spinning Yarns with Mark Mothersbaugh" " » | |||
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 Brazilian artist Jorge Mendes has created a group of work titled "Tide" for the Dennis Anderson Gallery, Belgium. It took place on the Saint Annake Strand, on Antwerps Linkerover, where the tide rose so high that part of the work was blown across the Schelde and landed in the gallery. What's left of the work will be on view in the gallery until Jan 19. The title, "Tide", is a reference to the unstoppable flow of water around the world; it's also a play on words for the Flemish word for time, "Tijd". The work explores the difficulties an emigrant faces trying to find his place in a strange land and nature vs. civilization, ecological issues, and arts place in society. | |||
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 Young Toronto-based painter Shauna Born has gained critical acclaim for her figurative paintings which intimately feature the artist's friends and acquaintances. Her quietly composed works focus mainly on the humanistic and expressive qualities of her subject's face and hands. Born renders each character with great painterly attention, formally constructing the surface to reveal a ghostly quality. Through these works, the artist is able to explore society's idealized notions and obsession with youth, glamour and beauty. Born was represented by Katherine Mulherin Gallery in the Aqua Art Miami at Aqua Hotel last week. Other solo exhibitions include "This Pretty Face" and "Stomach" both at the Le Gallery in Toronto. The artist is a graduate of Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD). | |||
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 Now showing at the Defiance Gallery, Newtown is an exhibition in tribute to the life of sculptor, Ian McKay (1936-2007). McKay was a prominent influence in Australian sculpture, with a career spanning almost 50 years. He studied at the National Art School, Sydney and later at the St. Martin's School of Art, London after traveling to Europe in the early1960s. The exhibition, "One Small Step for Mankind," includes the work of 80 local and international artists creating over 100 6x6x6 inch miniature sculptures. Artists whose works are included within the miniature show include Abby Parkes, Emily Bullock, Keld Moseholm and Michael Le Grand. All works on display are able to be purchased. | |||
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 Concrete Color is a new body of work by artist and photographer Sarah Charlesworth on view at the Baldwin Gallery in Aspen. Living with artist Joseph Kosuth during a greater part of the 1970's, Charlesworth has said that what was "gained from this period was a sense of the need for artists to reflect critically on their practice, acknowledging both the internal dialectic of art and the external ground of social and economic conditions" (Find Articles). With Kosuth, Charlesworth founded 7We Fox in 1975 , a magazine devoted to art theory; it only survived three issues. She received her BA from Barnard College and has shown with SITE Santa Fe and Margo Leavin Gallery. | |||
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 Curated by Thibault Sandret of Glam Trash Pop and hosted by Virginie Sommet's Studio/Gallery 173 on Canel Street is the exhibition "Don't Call It Street Art," which will be on open to the public beginning this weekend on Dec 15th. The group show celebrates Street Art through photography, painting, collage, graphic design and live body painting. By taking the art out of its urban context and hanging in a gallery the work becomes legalized as well as institutionalized. Sandret hopes that by placing the work in the space of the gallery, people will allow themselves to slow down and take a look in a way that may otherwise not happen when quickly passed on the streets. Artists included in the show include Ogi, COL & Veng, Nathalie Hamelin, Iris Arnaud, Gary St Clare, Hugo Martin, Jake Dobkin and Alexandra Zsigmond. | |||
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 The exhibition HUG: Recent work by Patricia Piccinini is on view at the Frye Museum of Art in Seattle until January 2008. Continuing her hyper-realistic sculptures of customized life forms, Piccinini examines the relationships between animals, nature, science, and technology. The artist challenges the viewer to embrace the unexpected consequences found in her creations, which examine both physical and ethical responsibility while experimenting with the natural and the artificial. Piccinini received a Bachelors' of Art from both the Australian National University and the Victorian College of the Arts and has been previously featured on DailyServing. | |||
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 Opening on Dec 14th at the Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco is "Introspective", featuring the work of London-based artist Gee Vaucher. The gallery will present a collection of works by Vaucher that spans the past forty years. The artist is known for creating controversial work rooted in protest and is an icon among the punk generations. She's completed work for the punk band Crass and continues to do design work for Babel Labels. Vaucher has also exhibited at 96 Gillespie and Gavin Browns Enterprise. | |||
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 Artist David Ambrose is showing this month at the Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta. Ambrose's abstract-oil paintings are rooted in the design found in architectural facades, interiors and floor plans. Created on pieces of lace and crocheted material that have been sewn together; the artist then takes the hand-sewn materials and stretches them like a canvas over stretcher bars. Ambrose received his BA from Muhlenberg College and his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania; he has also exhibited with Domo Gallery in Summit, NJ. | |||
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 On view at the Estel Gallery through Tag Art Gallery in Nashville is work by printmakers Valerie Lueth and Paul Roden, titled Assembling Utopia. Lueth and Roden are a husband and wife team who has started their own socially-responsible, image-based workshop called Tugboat Artist's Press; with a mission to foster progressive thinking in the arts. Lueth is employed as an educational videogame concept artist and interface designer. She received her BFA from the University of South Dakota. Roden who has moved into creating woodcuts received his BFA from Washington University and his MFA from University of South Dakota. The couple currently resides in Pittsburgh. | |||
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 Artist Jon Brumit produces socially-based collaborative projects that investigate interaction through tools, instruments and loosely structured scenarios which by default have unpredictable outcomes. Neighborhood Pubic Radio is a collaborative artist-run radio project featuring Brumit that aims to give people a forum via local radio to voice their opinions, concerns or interests as artists, activists, musicians and community members. NPR has been featured in Punk Planet magazine, Artforum, and the Chicago Reader, it will be included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Brumit has exhibited with the Lisa Dent Gallery in San Francisco, Space 538 in Portland, and the Richmond Art Center in Richmond, CA. The artist is also involved with the collaborative projects Van Boven and Sliv & Dulet Enterprises and has received funding from Creative Work Fund and CEC ArtsLink. | |||
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 Art Basel Miami starts today at the Miami Beach Convention Center with an exclusive selection of 200 leading art galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and South Africa and will exhibit 20th and 21st century artworks by more than 2,000 artists. On show are exceptional pieces by both renowned artists and cutting-edge newcomers. Expect to see projects by emerging artists, new artworks, public art projects, performances video and sound art. If you missed this one you can plan to attend Art 39 Basel which takes place from June 4-8 2008 in Basel Switzerland. | |||
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 Opening December 7 at Allston Skirt Gallery in Boston is a collaborative project by Joe Gibbons and Joe Zane simply titled "Joe". In a society infatuated with personal expressions, "Joe" explores the personal and shared effects of being known by only one, generic name. Gibbons, mainly known for his video work has exhibited with Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Centre Pompidou, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. Zane has exhibited at Allston Skirt Gallery in solo shows in 2004 and 2006, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Andrew Kreps Gallery, Kent Gallery and ArtSpace. Zane currently lives in Cambridge, MA where he works at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT. | |||
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 Opening this week in Seoul at the Gallery Hyundai will be Korean-born artist Sung Jin Kim's second solo show. Created in photorealism and exploring the mouth as the battlefield of the face, the artist's looks at the subject as a sensory organ as well as a means to consume and communicate. Using a large scale to present the lips while omitting the rest of the face in negative space the artist brings the viewer up close and personal with the only part of the human body we can see outside of as well as inside of. Sung Jin Kim received an MFA from Hongik University, Seoul and has also shown with doART Gallery. | |||
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Currently on view at OKOK Gallery in Seattle is "Exact Change," new works by artist Grant Barnhart. For his fourth exhibition with the gallery, Barnhart has completed a series of paintings and a site-specific installation in the space. Barnhart has an forth coming exhibition scheduled in 2008 with Leslie's Art Gallery in Luxembourg and will be represented in Miami this month at Aqua Wynwood, Art Now Fair and Gen Art. The artist recently spoke with DailyServing about his current body of work featuring tinkling tanks, rockets and portraits in multi-colored leotards.  | |||
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 Richard Deacon's new exhibition at LA Louvre in Los Angeles opened on December 1st. Dead Leg, Deacon's monumental new sculpture, will span LA Louvre's first floor gallery. In collaboration with his associate Matthew Perry, Deacon made his massive new sculpture out of twisted oak and stainless steel. Dead Leg is 8 ft high, 28 ft long and 9 ft wide and, following its premiere in LA, it will travel to the Portland Museum of Art. Richard Deacon has enjoyed prominent success over the past three decades. He graduated from the Chelsea College of Art in 1978 and has since worker in sculpture, painting and drawing, dance, and literature, compiling what has become a staggeringly multifaceted portfolio. Deacon won the Turner Prize in 1987 and was also named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by France's Ministry of Culture in 1997. Deacon lives and works in London but also teaches at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He has shown in countless galleries and museums, including the Tate, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. | |||
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