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[…..]
Young Toronto-based painter Shauna Born has gained critical acclaim for her figurative paintings which intimately feature the artist’s friends and acquaintances. Her quietly composed works focus mainly on the humanistic and expressive qualities of her subject’s face and hands. Born renders each character with great painterly attention, formally constructing the surface to reveal a ghostly quality. Through these works, the artist is able to explore[…..]
Artist Jon Brumit produces socially-based collaborative projects that investigate interaction through tools, instruments and loosely structured scenarios which by default have unpredictable outcomes. Neighborhood Pubic Radio is a collaborative artist-run radio project featuring Brumit that aims to give people a forum via local radio to voice their opinions, concerns or interests as artists, activists, musicians and community members. NPR has been featured in Punk Planet[…..]
Currently on view at OKOK Gallery in Seattle is Exact Change, new works by artist Grant Barnhart. For his fourth exhibition with the gallery, Barnhart has completed a series of paintings and a site-specific installation in the space. Barnhart has a forth coming exhibition scheduled in 2008 with Leslie’s Art Gallery in Luxembourg and will be represented in Miami this month at Aqua Wynwood, Art[…..]
“Surface Works” is a new series of paintings and wall sculptures by the artist Eliza Geddes opening this weekend. Found Gallery in Los Angeles will present Geddes’ new works in her first exhibition in L. A. which will continue through the New Year. Geddes is interested in the formal qualities of painting, investigating surface, texture, balance, speed and shape as she creates both two and[…..]
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[…..]
