This weekend Galerie Heiumcowboy will be celebrating their 5th year anniversary with a large 30 artist group exhibition. The gallery has pulled together a selection of regional and international artists who have shown with the Heliumcowboy over the last five years, all held within a bare 1,400 square meter space in the city center of Hamburg, Germany. The artists have all been given the freedom[…..]
Opening this Saturday at Nathan Larramendy Gallery in Ojai, California will be the new group exhibition Weekend Warrior. Curated by Beautiful/Decay, the exhibition brings together an exciting mix of artists including Tony de los Reyes, Ruby Osorio, Steven Shein, Vanessa Chow, Allison Miller, Robert Olsen, and the collaborative duo Simmons and Burke, whose work is pictured above. The show’s titled reflects Ojai Valley’s reputation of[…..]
In a time when gas prices are soaring and cavalier road trips are on a steep decline, the Indianapolis Museum of Art is paying tribute to the ultimate road trippers, writer Jack Kerouac and photographer Robert Frank. Both men were part of the nomadic, counter culture activity surrounding the Beat poets of the 1950s and 1960s and both were as dedicated to roaming as they[…..]
Indigenous Australian art has long been associated with traditional dot paintings. Such customary methods of art practice can be viewed as a system of keeping alive a culture otherwise threatened by assimilation. Contemporary Aboriginal artists are now charting new territory, creating works based in photo-media, video and film. The documentary nature of these mediums enhances a political agenda and evades ethnographic pigeonholing. The works displayed[…..]
Currently on view at Luhring Augustine Gallery in New York City is the new exhibition It’s Not Your Fault, works by nine Icelandic artists. The exhibition explores the artist’s irresolute feelings of the historical and geographic backgrounds and experiences within their home country. The result is a varied exhibition with works that confront the countries current conditions, ideas related Icelandic identity and the local tradition[…..]
This Friday, June 13th, Civilian Art Projects in Washington, D.C. will host a gallery talk and closing reception for Jason Zimmerman‘s solo exhibition Feel Better, Longer. Zimmerman graduated from the Corcoran College of Art and Design in 2003 and is moving to Oregon later this year to pursue his M.F.A. in Contemporary Arts with Harrell Fletcher in his new Social Practice program at Portland State[…..]
We Want a New Object, California Institute of the Arts‘ 2008 MFA show, recently opened in an L.A. art scene hot spot. A hefty handful of Chinatown galleries and venues are hosting the exhibition, which features work by 34 students. A sea of multi-media work, the exhibition is heady, youthful and vibrant, just like CalArts’ reputation. A sizable number of students – including Carlin Wing,[…..]
