 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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 Opening this weekend at the Richard Goodall Gallery in Manchester, UK will be a selection of posters, prints, paintings, drawings and etchings by Chicago-based artists Jay Ryan and Diana Sudyka. The two screen-print artists have been working in this medium since 1995, and own their own printing company The Bird Machine, in the Chicago area. Sudyka received her MFA from Northwestern University and currently works as a freelance illustrator and printmaker. Ryan's work incorporates children's book illustrations with hand drawn lettering. His designs have been used by The Flaming Lips, Sonic Youth and Stereo Lab among many others. His most ambitious project to date is "100 Posters, 134 Squirrels" which documents his artistic career over the past ten years. In regards to his work, Ryan has stated "One of the most important lessons I learned in school, from a teacher, was to lower my expectations of my work and be receptive to silliness, chance, and the development of a drawing in the process. Also, I think animals are funny." | |||
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 Opening today at Victoria Miro in London, in her first solo exhibition in the UK, Wangechi Mutu will be making a departure from her earlier collages and installations with their highly critical, dark and confrontational themes and stepping into a renewed optimism and positive energy inherent in this new body of work. The exhibition's title Yo.n.I is derived from yoni, the Sanskrit word for "divine passage" or sacred space rooted in the worship of female creativity and sexual organ. With layers of visual metaphor, Mutu likes to force her viewers to question assumptions about race, gender, geography, history and beauty. Mutu received her BFA from Cooper Union, New York and her MFA from Yale University School of Art. The artist was born in Nairobi, Kenya and currently lives and works in New York City. | |||
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 Lawrence Weiner is mounting a new body of work, "As Far As The Eye Can See", at the Whitney Museum from November 2007 through February 2008. The artist uses words to serve as the raw material for his art. Words are spoken, sung, painted, printed, stamped on coins and manhole covers, put to film, just about anywhere. The text is intended to help people understand their relationship to the objects in their world. Weiner is one of the key figures associated with the emergence and foundations of Conceptual Art and has defined art as "the relationship of human beings to objects and objects to objects in relation to human beings". Recent solo exhibitions of Weiner's work have been exhibited at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Museum Ludwig, Cologne. Weiner has produced various films and videos, including "Beached, Do You Believe in Water?", and "Plowman's Lunch". Weiner lives in New York and Amsterdam. | |||
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 On view at the Whitney Museum of American Art through Feb 2008, artist Kara Walker will be showing "My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love". The artist explores racism in the American psyche through large-scale silhouettes that tell a story as they spread from one end of a room to the other. Walker has created a repertoire of narratives in which she conflates fact and fiction to uncover the roots of racial and gender bias. Her imagery is haunted by sexuality, violence, and subjugation while depicting historical narratives of injury caused by the legacy of slavery. She's been featured in Art21 and was in Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World, Artists and Entertainers in 2007. Walker received her BFA from the Atlanta College of Art and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She now lives in New York and is on the faculty of the MFA program at Columbia University. | |||
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 In a new body of work titled A Castle Dark (For Cathy), artist Hilary Wilder tells the story of Cathy Smith, a former groupie to The Band also known for her troubled relationship with singer Gordon Lightfoot and her implication in the drug-related death of John Belushi. The series of paintings are constructed from the visual details of her life while paying homage to Canadian landscape painter, Tom Thomson. Wilder received a B.A. in Studio Art from Bates College and an M.F.A. in painting at the University of Wisconsin. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Visual Arts. Wilder is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Painting and Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University. The artist is also taking part in a group show titled "The Sirens' Song" opening October 11 at Rubin Center in El Paso. | |||
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 Blowing up on the rock-poster scene, Leia Bell is bringing a new show of posters and original paintings titled "The Business of Ferrets" to the Richard Goodall Gallery in London Sept. 29 - Oct. 25. After only seven years Bell has created 250 limited edition hand-printed silk-screened music posters for bands such as Echo and The Bunnymen, The Darkness, My Chemical Romance, and The Decemberists. Bell uses a camera to document people she knows at parties and shows. She later uses the photos as references simplifying the scene to something universal that anyone can relate to. The artist was recently featured in Print magazine's "20 Best Under 30" annual issue and Art of Modern Rock. Bell received her BFA in Print Making from University of Utah. | |||
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 British designer Peter Marigold's obsession with storage has led him to do several pieces where he studies how geometric phenomena can be the basis for creating structures. This year's Split Series was based on the 360 principle, splitting a form into angled pieces and then inverting them achieves a total of 360 degrees. While his work may be based in geometry, his pieces flow poetically and seamlessly. Marigold is among a group of emerging designers showcased in Grandmateria at the Gallery Libby Sellers in London. The exhibition was launched during the London Design Festival but will continue through October for the Frieze Art Fair. Part of the group at OkayStudio, Marigold has designed installations for the Paul Smith headquarters and was featured in the British Council's Great Brits: Ingenious Therapies exhibition. The Central St. Martins graduate has his MFA in design from the Royal College of Art. | |||
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 On Sept. 14 Belgian artist/designer Arne Quinze's latest work "Cityscape" will open on the suburban streets of Brussels, Belgium. The enormous wooden sculpture is 131-feet long, 82-feet wide and 39-feet high and will stand for year in Brussels' luxury district. Quinze, the artistic director of design company Quinze and Milan,says of his piece, "'Cityscape' resembles a frozen movement, speed caught in time." The piece encourages interaction, people are able to walk through and experience the changes in light as the sun comes through the wood. The aritst built a similar structure last year at the Burning Man Festival in Nevada. At the end of the festival the structure was set on fire. A self-taught artist, Quinze first found his creative outlet with graffitti as a homeless 15-year-old. Later this month Quinze has several pieces in Mutagenesis, a solo exhibition at the Abitare Il Tempo design exhibition in Verona, Italy. To listen to a discussion with the artist on WPS1 Art Radio click here. | |||
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Opening this Thursday at the RHYS Gallery in Boston will be an exhibition of several new works by Los Angeles-based artist Amir H. Fallah. On view in the gallery will be one of Fallah's signature fort/terrarium installations which will contain live cacti and music by Minor Threat. Fallah, who is also the founder and creative director of Beautiful/Decay Magazine, has exhibited internationally with the Third Line Gallery in Dubai and participated in the recent Rogue Wave exhibition at the L.A. Louver Gallery. DailyServing recently spoke with Fallah about his upcoming exhibition, new directions in his work and his pick of L.A. artists, read the full interview below. 
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 Brooklyn-based artist Peter Simensky's medium is money. By combining images from currency belonging to 50 failing world economies, he creates colorful collages that remain true to the scale of other notes. In 2005, Simensky partnered with the Swiss Institute to give his money/art buying power at the Armory Show in New York City where other galleries allowed pieces to be bought with what he calls "Neutral Capital." He himself uses his currency to buy work from an array of artists. He displays those pieces that he's bought in portable galleries that fold up into shipping crates. So far, his collection includes work from Yuh-Shioh Wong and Peter Coffin, among others. By assigning value to his mint, Simensky has found a way to participate in and critique the current art market. His solo exhibition "Cerca: Peter Simensky" will be at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego through September. The artist received his MFA from CUNY Hunter College in NYC. | |||
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 Gerwald Rockenschaub has been placed as one of the most internationally known Austrian artists working today. Since the early 1980s, the artist has created a complex array of works from computer animation to sculptural objects and painting. Continuity is found in the artist's work through his reductive imagery and mix of architecture, discourse and design. The artist is also a well-known techno DJ, allowing his experience with club culture to emerge and influence his works. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Salzburg, Austria, is currently presenting "My Machines," which features new works by Rockenschaub. Recently, the artist had a comprehensive retrospective at the Vienna Museum of Modern Art, which helped to fully launch his career. Just a few weeks ago, Rockenschaub received the Fred Thieler Award for painting at the Berlinische Galerie, and, last month, the artist presented a site-specific installation at documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany. | |||
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 Artist Mike Giant has reached international acclaim recently for his versatile artistic ability that spans graffiti, design and tattoo. Giant was born in Upstate New York and grew up in New Mexico. After studying architecture, he moved to San Francisco to work for Think Skateboards. In 2002, Giant traveled to Tokyo with fellow artists Sam Flores and Bigfoot to exhibit in a show presented by Fifty24SF and Beams T, and, in 2003, that artist founded the now infamous "Stay Gold" tattoo shop. Giant is currently exhibiting in the Fecal Face 7.5 Year Anniversary Show held at the Minna Gallery in San Francisco. He has upcoming exhibitions with Monster Children Gallery in Sydney, Australia, and White Walls Gallery in San Francisco and the Magda Danysz Gallery in Paris. | |||
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 Outlining sidewalk stains, skid marks and graffiti on the streets on New York City, Los Angeles and Las Vages is just a portion of what goes into the work of L.A.-based artist Ingrid Calame. What may look like a Pollock-style painting at first glance is more a method of controlling shapes and outcomes than personal expression. After the painstaking process of tracing each found stain, Calame returns to the studio and begins to cut out the forms and arrange them in what she calls constellations. She then creates a final tracing of the pattern in order to transfer them onto an aluminum panel as the underdrawing for a final painting. For her first solo show at Deitch Projects in 2000, Calame included three elements of her project: colored pencil drawings, enamel on aluminum paintings and an excerpt of a large constellation. Calame received her BFA from Purchase College in New York and her MFA from California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, Calif. The artist will be showing at the James Cohan Gallery in September and the Indianapolis Museum of Art in November. She also has a show scheduled at Galerie Schmidt Maczollek in Cologne, Germany, in 2008 and has served as a studio assistant for Harriet Schorr and Chuck Close. | |||
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 Conceptual artist and designer Andrea Zittel will be speaking on cultural imperatives and market forces in a public discussion between artists/designers Bruce Tomb, Mike Kuniavsky and Donald Fortesue held at The Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, Calif., this afternoon at 4 p.m. Zittel was the 2007 Headlands Artist in Residence, producing new work that further explores her interest in the intersection of sculpture, design, architecture and technology. The artist is known to address all levels of habitation in contemporary society, consistently evaluating the most effective and sustaining methods of creation and use. Zittel is influenced by modernist design, reducing all elements of her creations to necessity. As a result, the artist continuously changes her own home to suit her changing interests and needs. She founded A-Z Administrative Services, a one-woman organization that develops a variety of products such as clothing, furniture and even food, which has been called "an ongoing endeavor to better understand human nature and the social construction of needs." Zittel received her BFA from the San Diego State University (1988) and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (1990). The artist has shown her works internationally with exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), Venice Biennale and the Whitney Biennial. Her current traveling mid-career retrospective, "Andrea Zittel: Critical Space," has been featured in the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and several other major museums in North America. | |||
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 Chris Dent is a 22-year-old British illustrator and artist who explores the energy of urban street culture through densely informative drawings of cityscapes. Dent often captures his imagery with pen directly on paper, preventing any reworking and allowing the first mark-making instinct to dominate. The artist recently graduated from Camberwell College of Arts in London with a degree in illustration. Since his graduation, the young artist has been busy working on commissioned illustrations for Zoo York, Capitol Records and Swindle Magazine, among many others, and has also co-founded HYBRID BUNNY, a collective group of illustrators and designers. Dent has exhibited his work with the Subway Gallery and Notting Hill Arts Club, both in London. | |||
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 Dysfunctional Americana that uses familiar imagery to tell stories is how Michael Paige Glover describes his new body of work. Glover uses adults and children that are placed against backgrounds of anarchy, destruction and uncertain imagery that he relates to past memories and self-awareness. Pulling inspiration from '20s to '50s photos, films, magazines and personal photographs, the artist spends months combining, arranging and decoding metaphors that unravel a specific feeling contained within each piece. In the end, Glover creates personal symbols using iconic imagery that aid in the discovery of his process. After traveling to Vance, France, to apprenticeship alongside Nall Hollis at the N.A.L.L. Art Association and then to Florence, Italy, to study with Andrea Spinelli, Glover received his M.F.A. from the New York Academy of Art. The artist also received a one-month fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center and was recognized by the Queen Museum of Art for the Queen Artist Registry. | |||
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 Currently on view at Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York City is "E Pluribus Venom," a solo exhibition featuring new works by California-based artist Shepard Fairey. Fairey, who is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Art and Design, gained much notoriety even before attending school for his iconic renderings and street campaigns of former wrestler Andre the Giant. The title "E Pluribus Venom" translates as "out of many poisons" and is derived from "e pluribus unum," or "out of many, one," which was used as an early motto by the U.S. government on coins and dollar bills. Fairey's works investigate symbols that are associated with the ideologies of the American Dream. The artist organizes his imagery through a graphic language, employing the ideas of propaganda, advertising and anarchy. Fairey was born in Charleston, S.C., and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Fairey has grown a design empire that reaches into the markets of clothing, skateboards, publications, corporate icons, stickers, stencils and posters. In 2005, the artist co-founded Swindle Magazine, and, in 2006, he released his latest book, "Supply and Demand: The Art of Shepard Fairey," and was a resident artist at the Honolulu Contemporary Art Museum. Fairey's works have been exhibited internationally in numerous museums, including the Baltic Center for Contemporary Art in New Castle, UK, and the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art. | |||
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