The latest exhibition by acclaimed Melbourne artist, Darren Sylvester is currently showing at Sullivan and Strumpf Fine Art, Paddington. The artist is primarily known for his ultra sleek photography, often depicting popular culture and people in seemingly ordinary situations, accompanied by lengthy, ambiguous, narrative titles. This current display, while including his signature style photography, also includes wooden masks that are almost tribal in appearance, making[…..]
The Broad Contemporary Art Museum officially opened to the public on February 16th. The museum is the ambitious new incarnation of the Broad Foundation’s mission to improve public education. Its opening on the campus of the Los Angeles Museum of Art is part of LACMA’s plan to expand and transform its facilities and programming. Now, with the addition of the Broad Museum, LACMA has vastly[…..]
No Wonderland in Winter at A.M. Richard Fine Art is a multi-media group exhibition with work by Joel Adas, Vanina Feldsztein, Andrew Garn, Jillian Mcdonald, Sacha Mallon, Stephen Mallon, Michelle Sholtis and Jessica Weiss. The theme of the exhibition, landscape and snow, was conceived on the conviction that winter is a time of desolation, decay, isolation. The eight artists presented all work in distinct mediums[…..]
For their first exhibition of 2008, Headlands Center for the Arts is presenting work by 45 of the Bay Area’s best emerging visual artists in an exhibition titled Close Calls: 2008. Included in the show is Joshua Hagler, image above, as well as Tournesol finalists Bianca Kolonusz-Partee and Kristine Branscomb-Fitzgerald. This is the sixth annual exhibition that takes place this time each year while the[…..]
The Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria‘s current exhibit, “Undone,” features artists Tim Holmes, Tony Matelli, Eileen Quinlan, and Heather Rowe. Each artist was commissioned to create a piece for the show in which identity, space, or form is defined by its own fragmented, unfinished, or unraveling condition. Hyper-realistic bronze weeds by Toni Matelli sprout from corners in the gallery, as if they were[…..]
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[…..]
“Figurative Pakistan” is a new group exhibition scheduled to open this week at Aicon Gallery in London. The exhibition features the work of four prominent Pakistani artists, Ijaz ul Hassan, Ahmed Ali Manganhar, Sana Arjumand and Naiza Khan, whose work is pictured above. Collectively the group is able to address several of the social, national and political issues that have impacted Pakistan over the past[…..]
