Los Angeles based artist Tabitha Morris is presenting her first solo show of hallucinatory watercolors titled, Predacious Panopticon, at the Happy Lion Gallery in Los Angeles’ Chinatown. The opening reception will be held July 12th and the exhibition will remain at the gallery until August 9th. Predacious Panopticon, an appropriate title for Morris’ seductive and repulsive landscapes, includes several large scale works, enveloping the viewer[…..]
Cerasoli Gallery director, Freddi Cerasoli, has curated a summertime exhibition of over 20 contemporary artists working in a variety of media, including Lena Wolff, Josh Peter, Jennifer Davis, Michele Carlson, David O’Brien, and Ria Brodell. Both new and emerging as well as more established artists are participating in Splash, and all works selected embrace a summer theme. Lena Wolff combines drawing, sewing, paper-cut, and collage[…..]
Os Gemeos, which translates to “the twins” in Portuguese, are identical twin brothers from Sao Paulo, Brazil, who began break dancing at an early age and later moved on to the visual arts. Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo transformed Brazilian street art and have since exhibited at museums all over the world including their first solo exhibition at The Luggage Store in San Francisco in 2003.[…..]
Holly Andres is showing her second major body of work, Sparrow Lane, at Quality Pictures Contemporary Art in Portland until August 2, 2008. Her first series, Stories from a Short Street, was exhibited at galleries in New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. as well as the Missoula Arts Museum. Her video work was included in the 2006 Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum.[…..]
Michael T. Rea crafts large scale wooden sculptures of various objects used in space, war, under the water, or to make music. Constantly incorporating ideas from motion pictures, television, time travel, and music, Rea likes to add a sense of humor to his craft as well. The artist told fecalface.com in a recent interview that his current interests included MIA, Soft Pretzels, Lost, thongs, Folkert[…..]
Randall Scott Gallery in Washington, D.C. is currently showing new photographs by one of PDN Magazine‘s “30 Under 30 To Watch” (2007), Sarah Wilmer. Influenced by 16th and 17th century Dutch painting as well as the more modern medium of film, Wilmer’s photographs evoke a sense of mystery and other worldliness. Her settings provide a vague framework for the imaginary story which she is documenting.[…..]
Ryan Trecartin casts, directs, films, edits, and often stars in full-length videos that are based on the proliferation of video documentation of today’s youth culture, primarily through the channel of YouTube. The artist has recently been acclaimed by Artnews as “the Matthew Barney of the digital generation,” referencing his surrealistic and sometimes disorienting use of scenery, costume, makeup, and characters. The artist successfully captures the[…..]
