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May 15, 2008 | | Tokion Magazine's Fifth Creativity Now Conference- May 17-18, 2008 |
Tokion Magazine presents the Fifth Creativity Now Conference in New York City at Cooper Union's Great Hall on May 17th-18th. The doors will open at 11 am on both days with the conference beginning at noon and finishing at 6:30 pm. Tokion is an innovative New York-based magazine that covers artists, fashion designers, people from the film industry, photographers, graffiti artists, designers, musicians, and new media artists on a global scale. Founded over ten years ago, Tokion has become one of the most authoritative anthologies on alternative emerging art and artists as well as featuring more established artists such as Bjork and Jeff Koons. Previous print covers have featured diverse artists and thinkers such as Isabelle Huppert, Jena Malone, James Franco, Natasha Kahn, Jarvis Cocker, and most recently Nate Lowman, who will be presenting at this year's conference.
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May 08, 2008 | | The Constructed Image |
 | | Artist Luis Gispert: All images courtesy Redux Contemporary Art Center |
Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston, SC is opening a new exhibition today titled The Constructed Image. The show features five contemporary photographers whose work challenges the very nature of truth as documented by the photograph. Through a variety of techniques, including digital and traditional photographic manipulation, set constructions, temporary sculpture, models and intricate dioramas, the artists create a very calculated visual experience. The exhibition includes works by artists Luis Gispert, Lori Nix, Daniel Gordon, Chris Scarborough and Nathan Baker, and will be on view through June 7th. Please read below for details on the exhibition and the artists.
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May 04, 2008 | | Epistemology of Polka Dots: Evan Holloway responds to James Turrell |
 | | All images Evan Holloway Project Series 35, 2008, Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer |
Polka dots aren't typically transcendental. They aren't autonomous and they aren't monumental. Yet in Evan Holloway's current exhibition, Project Series 35 at the Pomona College Museum of Art, polka dots take on some serious questions. Read below for the full article by Catherine Wagley.
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March 31, 2008 | | Destroying Prettiness: Wangechi Mutu and Kara Walker |
Wangechi Mutu will never experience the heated backlash that Kara Walker experienced. No one will call Mutu the "patsy of the white art establishment," accuse her of selling fellow black artists down the river, or launch a letter-writing campaign to keep her artwork from being shown. There are good reasons for this: unlike Walker, the Kenyan-born Mutu does not share the slavery lineage of African-American artists and she does not make work with a lucid historical context. Yet Mutu's work is often as disturbing as Walker's, reconfiguring sexualized representations of women and creating visceral collages that appear more pornographic than critical. Continue reading for the complete DailyServing article by Catherine Wagley.
 | | Article by Catherine Wagley for DailyServing - Photo Credit: Robert Wedemeyer |
"Eat Drink Swan Man", 2008 Watercolor and collage on paper Overall dimensions 43" x 63" (nine parts) Courtesy of Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects.
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December 21, 2007 | | "Spinning Yarns with Mark Mothersbaugh" |
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.
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