Artist Darina Karpov will open an exhibition titled “New Work” tonight at Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn, N.Y. The drawings exhibited contain elements of both abstraction and figuration as forms take on multiple connotations. The organic compositions are comprised of images from art history and advertising and images archived from the artist’s life. These images are combined to create a mini-world of activity. Karpov was born[…..]

The characters found in artist FPAC Gallery in Boston, Mass., and “New Works” with Boontling Gallery and OKOK Gallery in Seattle.

Photographer Chris Scarborough creates hyper-real portraits of his family and friends. The artist alters the digital photos, leaving the subject exaggerated and the viewer asking whether the image is even real. Each subject is modeled from the principle of ideal beauty found in Manga and other Japanese animation. Scarborough alters each piece pixel by pixel, fabricating a reality that exists in between fact and fiction.[…..]

For their first exhibition in 2008, 2×2 Projects in Amsterdam will present a new video by artist Raymond Taudin Chabot. The videos, like many of the artist’s other works, focus on men of power and the projection of stature through visual signs such as facial expressions and gestures. In the exhibited film “That Place,” Chabot depicts a man riding around an industrial estate, quietly disconnected[…..]

Using the framework of children’s drawings, Korean artist Yeondoo Jung has created a series of photos titled “Wonderland.” In this series, the artist takes a literal approach in translating information between actual children’s drawings and staged photographs. Space and distance are distorted as the artist’s photographs offer a mix of reality and fantasy in the interpretation of a child’s view of the world. Yeondoo Jung[…..]

The artist duo “Os Gemeos” are identical twin brothers from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Os Gemeos gained international notoriety from their ambitious campaign of visual characters in the city of Sao Paulo. Some of these characters are painted six stories high or more. In 1993, while only 19 years old, Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo (Os Gemeos) met with young American graffiti writer Barry McGee. The three[…..]

“True Fiction Two” is a new photographic series by artist Sandy Skoglund. The original series” True Fiction” was created in 1986 but the edition was never officially finished due to discontinued photo chemicals needed for production. Now updated digitally the artist has created a new series, maintaining the emotion of her once elaborate room-sized installations depicting absurd domestic scenarios. Skoglund received her MFA from the[…..]