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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The Museum of Modern Art's current exhibition is a chromatic extravaganza. Color Chart includes an impressive span of artists, from ready-made deity Marcel Duchamp to young digital artist Cory Arcangel. Ann Temkin, who was appointed Department of Painting and Sculpture Curator at MoMA in 2003, is a curator with a penchant for early appropriation artists and seductive, culturally resonant mark-making. Temkin organized Color Chart, trying to capture the mass-produced, systematic, arbitrary and indulgent role color played in the latter half of the twentieth century. Duchamp and Warhol set the tone for the exhibition. Both artists took color out of the realm of spirituality and borrowed their hues from consumer culture and mass production. Ellsworth Kelly's straightforward color charts give the exhibition its name. Yet, while Color Chart certainly emphasizes the down-to-earth characteristics of color, it doesn't exclude natural, organic hues. Ed Ruscha's stains speak to the arbitrary nature of color - we don't necessarily have control over the shades of a thumb print or the way coffee yellows the table cloth. John Baldessari's Six Colorful Inside Jobs, on the other hand, has everything to do with the ways in which people control color. Carrie Mae Weems, on of the few women in the show, addresses color's relationship to race and adding a much needed consciousness to and exhibit that spans so many centuries.. The exhibition continues through May 12. | |||||
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Coinciding with the politically fueled Beijing Olympics, Body Language: Contemporary Chinese Photography is currently on show at The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. A collaborative exhibition consisting of works by seven Chinese artists, Body Language focuses on the human form while fusing contemporary art forms with traditional iconography, representing China's changing society. Zhang Huan's Shanghai Family Tree series uses the body as a canvas for calligraphy; Huang Yan paints traditional mountainous scenery upon torsos while Liu Wei's Landscape photographs use black and white images of contorted figures to resemble hanging scrolls. Within Chi Peng's evocative Consubstantiality series, gender boundaries are blurred, while Wang Qingsong's triptych Preincarnation depicts figures dressed as ancient statues with missing limbs. Artist Sheng Qi is said to have cut off his own left pinky finger in 1989 after the Tiananmen Square massacre. He then buried it in a flowerpot, leaving it in China while he fled to Europe. His Memories series, which appears in Body Language, portrays his disfigured hand holding a photo of himself, his mother and Mao. Qi studied at The Central Academy of Art and Design, Beijing and Central Saint Martin's School of Art and Design, London. He has exhibited widely on an international scale at places including N.O. Gallery, Milan, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland and Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver. | |||||
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 The group exhibition "The Ice Cream Show" at Loyal Gallery features artists Francine Spiegel, Katherine Bernhardt, Brian Belott, Brendan Cass, Jose Lerma, Bill Saylor, Mark Schubert, Cordy Ryman, and Guillermo Carrion, and emphasizes fluidity and the love of leaking and dripping. At some point, everyone has been fascinated by putting plastic in fire and watching it melt, cooking a s'more, or seeing ice cream liquefy under the sun. These sloppy gooey messes are portrayed by nine artists who capture the sprawling element inherent in these mutable conditions and poetically translate them into paint and other artist materials. The resulting works appear as if they are under the force of excessive gravity or as if they have just weathered a storm. Francine Spiegel works with photocollages, videos, mixed media assemblages, and freeform installations, as seen above. Her imagery is derived from feminine cyber subcultures and techno debris found on her studio floor. She combines this imagery with other found raw materials to present a massive eruption of color, paint, and texture. Spiegel graduated with a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1997 and has exhibited at the Silo Galelry and Deitch Projects in New York as well as Millicent Gallery in LA. "The Ice Cream Show" opening will be held on April 11th from 6-9 with special guest DJ Konichiwa Bitches and the show will remain at Loyal Gallery until May 25th. | |||||
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 The 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art opened on April 5th, launching 63 days and nights of art, revelry, and entertainment. Adam Szymczyk and Elena Filipovic curate bb5, which is divided into daytime and nighttime events and titled "When Things Cast No Shadow". It brings together artists of various generations and nationalities in the experimentation and promotion of new art. The day part consists of 50 artists exhibiting at three main venues: the KW Institute for Contemporary Art (the organizer), The Neue Nationalgalerie, and Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum. These were thoughtfully selected for their cultural and historical significance. KW Institute for Contemporary Art, a former margarine factory, is showing films by Babette Mangolte, Michel Auder, and Patricia Esquivias. Founded in 1991, it has become a popular venue for contemporary art in Berlin. The Neue Nationalgalerie is an icon of post-war modernist architecture in the capital. Mies van der Rohe's glass hall showcases a film installation by Susanne M. Winterling. Above is a still from her 2006 video, Piles of Shade. Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum is an outdoor exhibition site located in an area formerly occupied by the Berlin Wall, an urban void developed by artists who began to host diverse exhibitions and cultural activities. It hosts a community-based project by Katerina Seda and a screening of Lars Laumann's film about a woman who marries the Berlin Wall. The night portion, "My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days", sweeps the city's main venues and other locations in an eccentric array of lectures, performances, concerts, workshops, and other presentations. This curiosity-driven experiment draws artists and thinkers from various fields. Neuro-scientist Olaf Blanke demonstrates an out of body experience and this year's Nobel Peace Prize candidate, Augusto Boal, runs a workshop according to his context-sensitive teaching method. The Volksbuhne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz screens Cameron Jamie's recent film, JO, with a live score by Japanese noise artist Keiji Haino, and many many more events, night after night until June 15th! | |||||
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 This week marks the beginning of the 2008 New York art fairs (complete list). The most notable of them, The Armory Show, features 150 of the world's top contemporary art galleries showcasing the latest in today's artwork. The show historically dates to 1913, where the first International Art Fair took place in New York's 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Avenue between 25th and 26th Streets. The vintage fair marked the first time in history that an American audience caught a glimpse at "Modern" art, which was predominately being made in Europe at the time. The Bridge Art Fair New York (which will take place in Chelsea) is an independent expose that runs in Berlin, London, and Miami simultaneously with the other fairs in those cities. Bridge is popular among up-and-coming art buyers, because they strive to cost-effectively sell the works of both established and emerging artists. Pulse: New York offers an alternative to the typical art fair. While approximately sixty galleries will be exhibiting their best artists and works, a number of performances, installations, multimedia and happenings are also scheduled as part of the "Impulse" segment where the winning artist receives a $1500 cash prize. Frere Independent, a not-for-profit arts organization whose mission is to provide artist awareness has organized two special additions to this year's fair agenda: DiVA, which is the first fair dedicated to digital and video artwork and Pool Art Fair, a "meeting ground" for collectors, dealers, and the general public to view works by emerging artists who have yet to gain gallery representation which will take place in the rooms of the infamous Hotel Chelsea. Most of the fair festivities commence on Thursday, March 27th and will continue until Sunday, March 30th. | |||||
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Restricting oneself to the exploration of "Interiors" could seem a bit stifling. But the current exhibition at gallery "Fifty One" demonstrates how much room one can force into a confined idea. It can certainly help when you bring together a group of internationally acclaimed artists. The limitless expansiveness of Interiors is clearly addressed in the work of Claudia Hoffer, Andreas Gursky, and Karl Hugo Schmolz. Interiors can be cleaned up, sterilized and sanitized as evidenced in the work of Kate Schermerhorn, or you can use the interior to reflect what's outside, witnessed by the inverted camera obscura of Abelardo Morell. But things get most interesting when we focus on the inner light, as in the work of Matthew Pillsbury. While the world outside is bright and light, it's the inner glow that focuses our attention. It's that same inner warmth that James Casebere focuses on, having pioneered the field of the constructed photograph. Casebere who graduated from California Institute of the Arts in 1979, here presents us with a zen like prison. Clearly illustrating that before we can venture out we must build an inner peace, only then are we able to explore the potential that lies before us. "Interiors" 24 January - March 8 | |||||
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 No Wonderland in Winter at A.M. Richard Fine Art is a multi-media group exhibition with work by Joel Adas, Vanina Feldsztein, Andrew Garn, Jillian Mcdonald, Sacha Mallon, Stephen Mallon, Michelle Sholtis and Jessica Weiss. The theme of the exhibition, landscape and snow, was conceived on the conviction that winter is a time of desolation, decay, isolation. The eight artists presented all work in distinct mediums - be it paint, computer animation, line drawing, and photography. Small and intimate, Joel Adas' paintings offer glimpses of a hinted larger expanse of scenery, while Vanina Feldsztein eerily captures man-made, artificial winterscape sets and maquettes in her photographs. "Night Snow Flake and Tree," Andrew Garn's quasi scientific slide view of magnified snowflakes, morphs the familiar into an otherworldly abstract rendering, and conceptual situations in an artic landscape are communicated through the inter-active electronic language of Jillian Mcdonald's "Snow Stories." The artist uses appropriated and original film clips, images, animation, and sound to translate the viewer's written story into a visual narrative. No Wonderland in Winter is on display at A.M.Richard Fine Art until February 17th. | |||||
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 For their first exhibition of 2008, Headlands Center for the Arts is presenting work by 45 of the Bay Area's best emerging visual artists in an exhibition titled Close Calls: 2008. Included in the show is Joshua Hagler, image above, as well as Tournesol finalists Bianca Kolonusz-Partee and Kristine Branscomb-Fitzgerald. This is the sixth annual exhibition that takes place this time each year while the Headlands Residency program is not in session. The exhibition is split between two project spaces, each featuring work linked by conceptual approach. In the Eastwing space, viewers will find work that confronts the artist's physical environment such as the natural landscape and architectural structures, while the Westwing contains work that engages the artist's social environment such as family, urban community as well as larger global networks. In an essay for the exhibition, written by Headlands Program Director Anu Vikram, the work is described as being conceptually split by nature vs. nurture. The scope of the media explored in the exhibition is far reaching with varied approaches and results, and well represents the diversity currently taking place in the Bay Area. | |||||
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 On view from January 12 - February 10, 2008 at Gallery 94 in Soho is a group exhibition featuring James Brittingham, Devon Costello, Michael Greathouse, Jim Lee, Sylvan Lionni and Pete Pezzimenti titled CHANGECASE - curated by Steven Stewart and Yasha Wallin, co-directors of Freight + Volume. Bringing diversity and individualism while sharing common concerns in extending the traditions, language and possibilities of painting; CHANGECASE will aim to spotlight the properties inherent within painting as an art object and consider the interaction of painting with alternative media. By uncovering and combining essential characteristics from multiple modes of art making, the work challenges the notion of definability. | |||||
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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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 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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 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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 "Figurative Pakistan" is a new group exhibition scheduled to open this week at Aicon Gallery in London. The exhibition features the work of four prominent Pakistani artists, Ijaz ul Hassan, Ahmed Ali Manganhar, Sana Arjumand and Naiza Khan, whose work is pictured above. Collectively the group is able to address several of the social, national and political issues that have impacted Pakistan over the past several decades. All of the artists, with the exception of Ijaz ul Hassan, are of the same generation. Hassan, born 1940, has made major contributions to the development of Pakistani contemporary art for this political works which in 1970 caused his arrest and solitary confinement. Naiza Khan, has exhibited worldwide, and continues to explore society's view of woman and the female body through both Islamic and Western perspectives. Ahmed Ali Manganhar, has taken up the genre of "Company" painting, from the era of the East India Company, and Sana Arjumand investigates the role of religion vs. culture and what it means to be young, female and Pakistani today. | |||||
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 "Girl Parade" is a collaborative exhibition involving a series of international artists. The upcoming exhibition is to be held at the Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington, and will explore various experiences and issues involving women. Through the use of photography and video art practices, the artists delve into the fears of aging, bittersweet encounters with motherhood and female sexual desire. ">Belinda Mason's digitally altered inclusions reflect the artificial nature of woman's obsession with beauty, while Pilar Mata Dupont & Tarryn Gill's collaborative efforts focus on the use of pin-up girls as war propaganda. The exhibition also includes works by Japanese artist Tomoko Sawada, US Photographer Kelli Connell and German-Australian, Tatjana Plitt. The exhibition will be accompanied by "Twirling the Baton for Post, Post-Feminism," a gallery talk given by some of the contributing artists and curator, Bec Dean. | |||||
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 Currently on view at The Lab 101 Gallery in Culver City, Los Angeles is the exhibition Replace 'Please' with 'Fast' 'Thank you' with 'Good,' featuring works by Australian-born artists, Anthony Lister, and Mark Whalen aka Kill Pixie along with San Diego-based artist, Kelsey Brookes. This will be the first time the three artists have exhibited all together, sharing their interest in the urban environment and the use of cultural and illustrative iconography in their work. Kelsey Brookes lives in Southern California, works as a both a painter and illustrator and is currently represented by the Lazarides Gallery in London. Mark Whalen is an artist living and working in Sydney, Australia, who has roots as a street artist. Now utilizing more delicate approaches, the artist still delivers the same uncompromising approach to his art making. Anthony Lister is an Australian-born painter has exhibited extensively through London, Europe, Australia, and the US. The artist explores his obvious childhood inspirations of comic characters in new ways to expose the underbelly of society. This exhibition marks The Lab 101 Gallery's third anniversary in their current space. | |||||
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 On view until January 2008 at SITE in Santa Fe in New Mexico is a group show titled "The Disappeared / Los Desaparecidos." The exhibition contains work by 27 contemporary artists from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela, Colombia and Guatemala. In the last decades of the twentieth century, disappear was used as a transitive verb to identify people who were kidnapped, tortured and killed by their own governments during the rule of military dictatorships. These artists' lives have been overwhelmingly affected by the politics in Latin America. Some of them worked in the resistance, while others had parents or siblings who disappeared and others were forced into exile. The youngest were born into the aftermath of those dictatorships. Below is the list of artists contributing to the show: Marcelo Brodsky, Luis Camnitzer, Juan Manuel Echavarria, Nelson Leirner, Sara Maneiro, Ivan Navarro, Oscar Munoz, Luis Gonzales Palma, Ana Tiscornia and Fernando Traverso. | |||||
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 "Don't Mess with Texas" is a new exhibition on view at the Nathan Larramendy Gallery in Ojai, California. The show features the work of seven emergent Texas-based female artists including Amy Blakemore, Kelli Connell, Libby Black, Zoe Charlton, Virginia Fleck, Francesca Fuchs and Laura Lark. The exhibition aims to highlight Texas as a place of geographic isolation, while simultaneously investigating female identity through the region. Photographer Kelli Connell creates images that are constructed using Photoshop, utilizes herself as the primary subject and explores the idea of truth as she questions her own sexuality and gender role. Artist Libby Black makes life-size sculptures and paintings which she states examines "issues of class and expectations of perfections," through brand-name luxury items constructed out of paper, paint and hot glue. The exhibition successfully represents a diverse look at the Lone Star state today through a multitude of artistic perspectives and media. | |||||
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 The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) is currently presenting the exhibition "Three," which features works by three leading artists from the IMMA Collection, Maria Simonds-Gooding, Charles Brady and Callum Innes. This is the beginning of an ongoing exhibition program by the IMMA which will bring three artists from the collection together for solo exhibitions that are placed in close proximity to one another. The new program allows viewers to experience the work alone or through a dialogue with the other shows as all three shows are physically linked. New-York born artist Charles Brady spent most of this life in Ireland and is recognized as a prominent painter known for his approach of treating everyday objects with grandeur. Maria Simonds-Godding works predominantly with plaster and fresco pigment referencing man's relationship to the land, and Scottish artist Callum Innes is an abstract painter who has developed an atmospheric aesthetic by removing paint with washes of turpentine. The exhibition is curated by Christina Kennedy, a Senior Curator and Head of Collections for the IMMA. | |||||
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 The Moti Hasson Gallery in New York City is currently presenting "Waking the Dead," a new body of work by Canadian-born, New York-based artist Jillian McDonald. The exhibition will include a special performance on Halloween night. Within the show, the artist has produced several videos and a series of photographs which feature images that are derivative from a variety of horror films. In the work above, "Horror Makeup (2006), McDonald films herself transforming into a zombie as viewers gaze upon the transformation on an otherwise 'normal' subway ride. In reference to placing herself in the work, Mcdonald states "My presence in the work is not autobiographical. I think it's clear that my image serves as a deliberate subject who enacts shared fantasies or fears." McDonald received funding the exhibition in part by a grant from Pace University, and created the work through residencies in New York at The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Workspace Program, The School of Visual Arts, and The Western Front in Vancouver, Canada. The artist received her MFA from Hunter College in NYC, and has complete exhibitions worldwide including works with Jack the Pelican Presents, NYC, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, and upcoming exhibitions with 1708 Gallery in Richmond, VA, and Bjornson Kajiwara Gallery in Vancouver. | |||||
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 The word tattoo is said to have two major derivations- from the polynesian word 'ta' which means striking something and the tahitian word 'tatau' which means 'to mark something'. An all-star cast of rock and roll artists including Kaws, Dash Snow, Michael Bevilacqua, Dan Colen, and Brad Kahlhamer, whose work is shown above, present their "marking" skills at "Tattoo Flash," a group exhibition at Saved Tattoo in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The shop is owned and operated by Scott Campbell, a Brooklyn-based tattoo artist and designer known mainly for his laser-cut designs. The show celebrates art inspired by the visual legacy of tattoo flash and the rich history it encompasses. From sacred icons and tribal identification to jail tattoos and sensationalized association of tattoo design, "Tattoo Flash" explores how the tattoo has transcended all mediums and is no longer limited to markings on flesh but embraces an entire genre. The exhibited works include ink on paper, collages of reworked vintage books, lipstick-kiss-covered canvasses, and knife installations. As with other artistic mediums and cultural developments, the vocabulary of tattoo flash continually evolves, and the definition and boundaries of body marking in recent years has emerged to the forefront of popular culture as well as the art world. | |||||
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 New York University's 80 Washington Square East Galleries current group exhibition, "All is well that begins well and has no end," has that battle of the bands feel by offering a range of work by emerging artists. The show is co-curated by Jan Van Woensel, an independent curator, art critic, lecturer and film producer based in New York and Antwerp. Appointed as a Senior Studio Professor at NYU, Steinhardt School of Education, Van Woensel has been nominated for the 2007 Curatorial Fellowship at Art in General, New York. Other co-curators include artist Ernesto Burgos, a 2008 NYU Master's Candidate, and Jonah Groeneboer, NYU Master's graduate who currently shows at Bellwether Gallery. Van Woensel, Burgos, and Groeneboer chose emerging artists who they found to be "working with the language of abstraction and seeking to expand and re-contextualize previous modernist notions of geometry." Indeed, the work of artists such as Chris Duncan, Satoru Eguchi, collective Inverted Topology, Pepe Mar, and Michelle Hinebrook, whose work is shown above, continues to confront and challenge notions of geometry that have intrigued artists from Picasso to Sol Le Witt. Like artists before them, the participants in "All is well that begins well and has no end" use painting, sculpture, photography, video, performance, and every possible amalgam of these disciplines to create new possibilities for future discourse in abstraction. Line, form, volume, and anything else takes shape as cardboard masses coded with arcane directions, amorphous constructions wrapped in silver packing tape, vinyl wall paintings that collapse into cylindrical rolls on the floor, stop-time video, and paintings that warp two-dimensionality.
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 Opening at the end of this week at The Lab 101 Gallery in Culver City, Los Angeles is "Wilting Wonder," an exhibition featuring the works of artists Travis Millard, Mel Kadel, Michael Sieben and Mike Aho. These artist often come together to present collaborative projects, the newest being "Wilting Wonder," an exploration of appropriated printing techniques and materials from commercially driven art, re-contextualized not sell a product but rather to explore themes present in the artists individual works. In addition, each artist will present recent works that have been created individually. All of these artists have been very successful in both the commercial and fine art world. Artist Travis Millard created Fudge Factory Comics operated in L.A, while artist Mel Kadel has been involved in projects for Volcom and Foundation Skateboards. Michael Sieben, who currently lives and works in Austin, Texas, operates Okay Mountain Gallery and illustrates for Thrasher Magazine. Mike Aho has recently united visual art, film and music into his work and has worked on commercial projects with Transworld Skateboard Magazine, Bueno Skateboards and Listen! Skateboards. This exhibition will be on view through October 24th. | |||||
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 In the exhibition "room x room," currently on view in the James Harris Gallery Project room in Seattle, international and emerging artists come together to investigate ideas related to the architecture of public and private space. Artists in the exhibit include Ralf Bruck, Candida Hofer, Matthew Jordan, Laura Letinsky, and Andrew Moore. Each artist investigates space through deafening images that offer the viewer clues of artistic intention through the formal concerns of style, composition, ornamentation, and light and shadow. In each work, the human element is absent only in that there is no figure present, while the photograph continues to allude to a human presence by revealing inherent social structures contained in each environment. Through the employment of sterile compositions and minimal gestures, the photographers achieve a heightened physiological view of architecture and its ability to shape social interactions. | |||||
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 "UNEASY ANGEL / IMAGINE LOS ANGELES, Artists from Los Angeles Addressing Intersections Between Reality and Fiction" is an exhibition opening tonight in at Monika Spruth Philomene Magers and Spruth Magers Projekte both in Munich, Germany. Artists such as Doug Aitken, John Baldessari and Barbara Kruger and shown along side the writers and filmmakers that are all living and working in L.A. The culture of L.A. as a city where the boundaries between reality and fiction are often blurred is explored in a variety of ways by each creator. As an artist in a city that is by hyperreal and to some degree post-historical, L.A has become a place of myth, where the entertainment and media industry can willingly shape and construct the city's own reality. The exhibitions are curated by Los Angeles-based Johannes Fricke-Waldthausen, and will be on view into the start of November.
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 GEISAI Artists at Giant Robot is an exhibition presented by Scion, Giant Robot, and Kaikai Kiki which features work by aspiring artists in Japan. The show which opens next week at GR2 was developed and organized by internationally renowned artist and curator Takashi Murakami and Eric Nakamura, publisher of Giant Robot Magazine. The two hand picked the artists to have their work presented in Los Angeles during this exhibition. GEISAI will feature the work of Yasushi Ebihara, Hisashi Kondo, Sashie Masakatsu and Rie Kawashima, Jaga Ichiro, Rieko Sakurai, Miki Taira and Erika Yamashiro through painting, sculpture and installation.
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 "Days of Being Wild," a three-person exhibition featuring artists Andy Kehoe, Kathleen Lolley and Evan B.Harris, opened yesterday at The Lab 101 Gallery in Los Angeles. Each artist brings a distinct yet cohesive aesthetic to the show, using elements of illustrative mysticism, fantasy and storybook narratives in darkly sparse landscapes. Kehoe, who lives and works in Pittsburgh, Pa., is a graduate of Parsons School of Design and is currently represented by Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York City. Lolley received her BFA from Calarts in experimental animation. She has worked on commercial animations such as Sponge Bob Squarepants and has been included in Elle Magazine and Japanese Vogue. Harris is a self-taught artist brought up in Medford, Oregon. Harris' work is largely inspired from fables, folklore and his own imagination. While each of these artists have diverse backgrounds and experiences, this show cleverly unites ideas and applications that are often saturated with American mythology, storytelling and humanistic illustration. | |||||
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 The opening reception of "Scion Presents: To The Masses" is curated by Giant Robot Magazine publisher/co-editor and owner, Eric Nakamura. The exhibition opens tomorrow tonight at 7 p.m. and is on view through Sept. 8 at the Scion Installation LA Gallery in Culver City, Calif. Artists from the U.S. include Caroline Hwang, Ben Woodward, Feric, Dan-ah Kim and Brian Ralph. From Japan: Eishi Takaoka and Kohei Yamashita. From Spain: Olaf Ladousse. Together this diverse group of artists delves into different mediums (including silk-screen printing, carved wood and pen-and-ink drawings) and styles. The new Scion Installation Gallery holds art shows and art-related events for cutting-edge artists from across the globe. Giant Robot Magazine began in 1994 as a small zine and has grown into a full-fledged bi-monthly magazine available at most stores and newsstands in the U.S. Giant Robot opened its first store in 2001 and formulated a combination of pop-culture goods, ranging from Japanese import toys, graphic design and art books, and monthly art exhibitions. Giant Robot has since opened stores and galleries in San Francisco and NYC and also operates a restaurant called gr/eats in West Los Angeles. | |||||
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 Five female artists working in the mediums of film and photography have been selected for the exhibition "Strange Magic," on view now at the Luhring Augustine Gallery in New York City. While each of the artist's ideas varies immensely, they are all unified through their interest in furthering the medium's formal and expressionistic potential through collection, assembly and manipulation. The photographic works of Anne Collier (whose image is shown above), Liz Deschenes, Amy Granat, Eileen Quinlan and Sara VanDerBeek will be on view until July 28. A review posted in The New York Times Magazine today mentions the show as No. 3 in an article titled "An Afternoon in Chelsea-Which Shows Are Worth The Sweltering Slog?" The exhibition was curated by Natalia Mager Sacasa, director of the Luhring Augustine Gallery. | |||||
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 "Bring the War Home" is an exhibition presented by QED in Los Angeles and the Elizabeth Dee Gallery in New York, organized by Drew Heitzler, artist and co-founder of Champion Fine Art, a two-year gallery project of 21 artist-curated exhibitions. The title of the exhibition not only refers to the current military situation in Iraq and abroad but goes further to reveal truths about the current social, political and economic state of affairs that drive the art world. The purchasing of art is a luxury and is most often held by an elite concentration of patrons, who, by default, benefit from President Bush's tax cuts and the luxury of life in the top income bracket. As a result of an art world dominated by market concerns, many shows are thought to be too conservative and safe and are actually self-censored by the artists themselves as a means of achieving greater sales. The artists chosen for this exhibition understand the paradoxical position from which they operate and carefully consider art created for profit and art made for the uncompromising idea. Countless artists will present new work in both exhibitions that investigates these ideas, including Craig Kalpakjian, whose image is shown above. | |||||
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 Opening today at the Heaven Gallery in Chicago is the fourth-annual Scion Installation Art Tour exhibition titled "It's A Beautiful World." This year includes new works based around the show's theme from more than 30 featured artists nationally, such as James Jean, Dalek and Jeff Soto, whose image is above. The exhibition, which will be featured countrywide in nine cities, kicks off this weekend and travels through next March. The show will have work completed in the mediums of painting, photography, sculpture and collage, an element of the show that Scion changes each year. Hosting galleries include RHYS Gallery in Boston, Mass., Gallery Lombardi in Austin, Texas, and Andenken Gallery in Denver, Colo. The final tour stop and auction will be in Los Angeles at the new Scion Installation L.A. Space in the Culver City Arts District. All of the artwork will be auctioned off to the public, and 100 percent of the proceeds will go toward art-related charities. | |||||
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 Within the current exhibition "Handcrafted Optimism" at the Tony Wight Body Builder and Sportsman Gallery in Chicago is the work of three young abstract painters -- Daniel Hesidence, Aliza Nisenbaum and Eric Sall. The exhibit, which is curated by John Henderson, an artist and recent graduate of the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, focuses primarily on the artists' attention and exploration of the materiality of paint. By using the medium's physicality, the artists are able to experiment more freely with the formal concerns of the painting, such as color, form and composition, by eluding concrete concepts and opening the painting to a wider interpretation. Through this approach to painting, the artists' work remains handcrafted and optimistic, just as the title states. Hesidence, whose image is shown above, received his M.F.A. from Hunter College in New York City (2001) and has exhibited with Feature Inc. and John Connelly Presents. Nisenbaum is a graduate of the School of the Visual Arts in Chicago (2005), and Eric Sall received his M.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University (2006). Both have exhibited across the U.S. with works at places like ATM Gallery in New York City and the Shane Campbell Gallery in Chicago. | |||||
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