Nashville-based photographer, painter and draftsman Chris Scarborough creates a diverse range of works, which reference the archetypes of Eastern pop culture, art history and science fiction. The cultural concepts of cuteness and beauty mixed with the playful violence of Japanese cartoons inform Scarborough’s imagery and process. While working in graphite, painting or photography, the artist painstakingly renders his subjects with absolute precision in an exploration into the nature of reality and ideals.

Scarborough’s drawings were recently featured in Hi Fructose Magazine Vol. 10 this spring. The Savannah College of Art and Design graduate recently completed solo exhibitions at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana, and the Foley Gallery in New York City. The artist is currently exhibiting Portraits of Aftermath at the Curator’s Office in Washington, D.C.

San Francisco-based artist, Christina Seely will present new works from her ongoing series photographic series Lux at the 1000 DAYS exhibition opening in LA this week at the Scion Installation Space.

Seely’s interest in nature and the changing environment is reflected in her vivid photographs of night-lit cityscapes. For an artist with a strong mind and an innovative way of translating her message, her photographs are remarkably reserved and still. Seely’s scenes are familiar, yet evoke the sensation of jamais vu –where the commonplace becomes eerily unrecognizable — inviting the viewer into a place of investigation. Seely’s images illustrate the world’s reliance and connection to modern technology while creating a tension between the surface documentation of a photograph and the complex reality that lies beyond. Her works investigate how inherent beauty often has the power to both reflect and obscure a darker and more complicated truth.

This year, Seely will exhibit works from her ongoing landscape project, Lux, at Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle, The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and the Country Club Gallery in Cincinnati. The artist is also a principal member of Civil Twilight, a design collective that is pioneering Lunar Resonant Streetlights, which dim and brighten in correlation with the brightness of the moon.

For the upcoming exhibition, 1000 DAYS, curated by DailyServing, Seattle-based artist, Tivon Rice will present three new media sculptures that are activated by the viewer’s response.

Rice is a new media artist that explores how traditional methods of learning are influenced by mass media and digital technology. His videos and sculptures create a dialogue between the distanced, purely optical domain of the tele-visual and a sensual awareness held in the body and mind. The artist embraces digital media as a vehicle for modern communication while experimenting with both video and sculptural objects that examine visual perception and temporal awareness. The artist typically calls for the viewer’s participation in order to activate the work, thus confronting the passive function of receiving information from digital media.

Rice is currently pursuing his PhD at the University of Washington, Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media in Seattle. Recently, he had solo exhibitions at the 911 Media Center and Lawrimore Project in Seattle, as well as a solo show with the Portland Art Academy. In 2006, the artist received a Trust Fellowship from the Joan Mitchell Foundation for his sculpture The History of Television: 1974-2006.

For the 1000 DAYS exhibition, artist Mark Mulroney will present a new site-specific wall painting. The images shown are studies from the artist’s sketchbook in preparation for the new piece, which is being created at the Scion Installation Space in Los Angeles over the next few days.

The artist’s work is linked together by an unmistakable humor and graphic sensibility. Mulroney moves seamlessly through several types of media, including installation, painting, drawing and photography, not allowing any one medium to define his practice. Similarly, the artist freely selects pop-cultural sources to serve as inspiration for his works, pulling from magazines, cartoons, and advertisements. Synthesizing these sources with disconnected personal memories, Mulroney’s work results in an array of irreverent imagery infused with unsurpassed wit.

Mulroney is a graduate of Casino and Gaming Management Degree Program at Morrisville State University. This year, the artist has exhibited Follow the Nosebleeds with Mixed Greens in New York City and Wet With Glee at ArtSpace in New Haven, Connecticut. Mulroney has also participated in countless group exhibitions including works at Evergreene Gallery in Geneva, Switzerland, RAID Projects in Los Angeles and the National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Poland.

All this week, DailyServing.com will feature the artists of 1000 DAYS: Selections from the DailyServing Archives, opening this Saturday May 23rd at Scion Installation Gallery in Los Angeles. 1000 DAYS marks the first curated exhibition for DailyServing, and celebrates a milestone as we quickly approach 1000 daily features. If you are in L.A this weekend, come out and celebrate with us!!

Artist, Michael Rea, creates large-scale, highly imaginative, technological objects out of obsessively constructed wood. However, the very material used renders the objects useless, opening a dialogue about a world of possibilities that simply can never be. The artist often utilizes fictitious objects related to pop-culture movies and television shows, allowing the work to recreate the essence of the object while forcing its reality to remain only a dream. The large, insensible objects construct an absurd story that couldn’t exist in real life, similar to the movies from which they are sourced, offering a sense of humor and wit that allows the work to be accessible and imaginative.

Mike Rea is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He recently completed a solo exhibition at The Co-Prosperity Sphere (C-PS), an experimental cultural center in Chicago, and participated in the Wisconsin Triennial at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Madison. The artist’s work was also recently acquired by the West Collection and will travel internationally though the SEI Investment firm.

Now on view at the Chicago Cultural Center is The Big World: Recent Art From China. The exhibition focuses on art in various media by approximately 20 artists living and working in China today. “The Big World” alludes to the vast, almost unimaginable scale of contemporary Chinese art in the international art scene, but the title also references a large and storied Shanghai amusement park. The attraction became a general reference for Shanghai and China’s urban centers to the East by those in Western rural China. Various aspects of the changing Chinese landscape and daily life are analyzed in this selection of some fifty works by artists who range from emerging talent to fairly celebrated international artists.

The exhibition examines contemporary Chinese art’s dissemination to the world and museums’ interest in new art from China. Unlike several recent exhibitions based on private collections from the United States or Europe, this project engages directly with the artists in China. Beyond the “super stars” of the Chinese art market, this exhibition highlights the emerging artists of significant artistic accomplishment, including: Bu Hua, Chen Bo, Jin Shi, Liu Bolin, Liu Ding, Liu Wei, Ma Jiawei, Qiu Xiaofei, Rong Rong & inri, Shi Yong, Wang Chengyun, Wang Qingsong, Wang Wei, Xiong Yu, Yin Xiuzhen, Zhou Liang, Zhou Tao, Zhou Wenzhong, and Zhou Yi.

Courtesy Nicelle Beauchene Gallery

Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in New York City’s Lower East side opened Ruby Sky Stiler’s first solo exhibition, High and Low Relief, on Saturday, May 9th. For the show, the artist has transformed the gallery into an attic space by shortening the headspace and installing distressed (and creaky) wooden floor boards. This altered space houses four of Stiler’s recent sculptures: An Earlier Vessel, A Second Hand Market, Stretch, and No Legend, all constructed of utilitarian materials such as foam, wood, nails, acrylic, and resin.

The converted gallery space reframes Stiler’s objects, which often evoke human attributes while referencing classical and authoritative art history. An Earlier Vessel, 2009, composed of acrylic gouache, archival foam core, and hot glue recalls red and black figure vase painting techniques from ancient Greece, but drips with thermoplastic adhesive. The juxtaposition of modern materials and classical iconography question ideas of authenticity, value, and historical accuracy.

Courtesy Nicelle Beauchene Gallery

Stiler received her B.F.A. from Rhode island School of Design and her M.F.A. from Yale University in 2006. The artist currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. High and Low Relief will remain at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery until June 14th.