Currently showing at Sarah Cottier Gallery, Paddington is a recent collection of paintings by Queensland based artist, Julie Fragar. Entitled Liar, Fragar’s works include depictions of people in a multitude of scenarios. These include children at play, people appearing ambiguously alone and families enjoying each other’s company. Often her paintings include an overlapping of imagery, with the inclusion of thin outlines of figures which appear[…..]
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, curated by DailyServing.com Founder and Editor, Seth Curcio. 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,[…..]
Grant Barnhart, a previous DailyServing interviewee, is preparing for an upcoming exhibition entitled “Spread Eagle,” on view from May 2nd – May 31st at Leslie’s Art Gallery in Luxembourg. This will be the Seattle-based artist’s first European exhibition. Barnhart investigates American archetypes of masculinity and heroism through wit and tounge-in-cheek humor. For his upcoming show, the artist will be using the images of cowboys and[…..]
Theresa Sapergia’s show, A Thousand Natural Shocks, opened March 15th, 2008 at Cerasoli Gallery in Culver City, Los Angeles. Drawings, mostly large-scale and monochromatic, of various animals and one monumental depiction of the artist as both nymph and satyr hang in the front section of the gallery. The drawings have a tranquilized or sedated vibe to them, and yet there is also a drowsy yearning[…..]
Through the medium of ceramics artist Kim Simonsson questions the role of the child and nature in the modern world. Often referencing Manga cartoon imagery, children and sometimes animals are presented in Simonsson’s work to challenge tradition, cultural habits and beliefs for both the East and West. These traditions are also challenged through the artist’s choice of material. Simonsson uses ceramics to draw a parallel[…..]
Opening tonight at James Cohan Gallery in New York City will be a collection of works by Japanese artist Tabaimo. The new work comes after her successful commission for the 2007 Venice Biennale, and continues the use of everyday Japanese imagery mixed with darker views of sex and violence. The main work at James Cohan is titled public conVENience, a five-channel video with floor to[…..]
Italian-born artist Angela DeCristofaro opened a exhibition entitled Wake, featuring a new series of paintings at Commissary Arts in Venice, California yesterday evening. The exhibition is continuation of ideas and images explored in her 2006 exhibition titled Totality Shaped Out of Nothing which was exhibited at the Metro Gallery in Pasadena, California. Freely appropriating images and ideas from contemporary culture, the artist often layers wedding[…..]
