In an upcoming exhibition at the Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco, artist

Seth Koen will present “Ellipsis,” opening next week and continuing through March 1st. Koen’s sculptures are minimal in their physical presence, humbly created out of crocheted yarn and modestly referencing domestic homemade craft. Yet the work speaks through the language of formal painting and contradicts its immediate associations by being rooted in conceptualism and in dialogue with recent art history. Koen lives and works in both Oakland and Sacramento California. He graduated from Mills College in 2002 and has since exhibited at The LAB in San Francisco, Richmond Art Center in Richmond, CA and at Brewery Project in Los Angeles. Koen has received awards such as the JayDeFre Prize, the SF Foundation’s Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship and has conducted lectures at California College of the Arts (CCA) and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).

For his first major solo museum exhibition in the U.S., artist Tom Sachs presented “Logjam,” a series of objects and installations that reflect the mechanics of their own production and emphasize the process of their creation. The show was curated by Jeff Fleming, the Director of The Des Moines Art Center and was presented at Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum last fall. The exhibition consisted of a series of work stations that allow the artist to create, while being works of art in their own way. The many mixed media works in the show are composed from previously used tools and other used mechanical components. The name “Logjam” is actually a reference to a box the artist keeps in his studio that contains screws and nails which have broken during the creation of a work. The exhibition was reviewed in the recent Issue U of Beautiful Decay Magazine and also appeared in an article with the Boston Globe. Sachs has exhibited internationally and recently showed the exhibition “Space Program” at the Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles.

Artist and filmmaker Matt McCormick is a creator of short films, documentary and experimental videos that examine the American landscape both culturally and physically. The artist has completed projects such as “The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal” which makes the observation that the process of removing or “buffing” graffiti by painting over it unknowingly produces new forms of artistic creation. Opening next week at Seattle University’s Hedreen Gallery in the Lee Center for the Arts is the artist’s “future so bright” video series. In these videos McCormick has captured the sprit of the contemporary American West through slow moving images of homes, vast skies and forgotten spaces. McCormick recently shot a music video for the music group The Shins, and has had work appear on MTV, the Sundance Channel and received several awards including the Best Short Film from the San Francisco International Film Fest.

The artist is also the founder of the video label Peripheral Produce and created the Portland Documentary and eXperimental Film Festival.

Opening January 11th at Freight and Volume Gallery in New York City will be the work of British Artist Peter Hutchinson in his latest exhibition “Constructions and Collages.” The artist, who is now approaching 80 years old, has remained a prominent figure through the many stages of his career, including conceptual art in the 1960’s and more narrative forms of art making in the 1970’s. The artist eventually departed from these artistic movements for a more naturally rooted and poetically expressed art form. For his upcoming exhibition in NYC, Hutchinson will present a series of constructions and collages that resemble photo-assemblages and include text, small sculpture, found object, and other raw materials. The artist has exhibited internationally with works at AEROPLASTICS Contemporary in Brussels and Galeria Helga de Alvear in Madrid. In addition, the artist is included in the collections of the Musee d’Art Moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam.

Petra Projects is the work of young curator Anastasia Rogers and has been presenting exhibitions in the New York area since 2006. On a rotating schedule of quarterly exhibitions Rogers presents emerging and mid-career artists from NYC and beyond. For her first show of the year, Petra Projects will present “These Wounds Will Beckon the Flood,” by painter Aaron Maximillian Gleason, to be held at the Mehr Gallery in NYC. Gleason is a figurative artist who is interested in the area between physical and non-physical matter, often aiming to render energy through visual symbols and metaphors such as clusters of flowers. The artist predominately uses a muted palette consisting of flesh tones, except for areas of heightened pockets of energy, which are represented by intense pinks and reds. Gleason currently lives and works in New York and is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design (2002) with a BFA in sculpture. The artist has exhibited nationally and recently participated in Scope Art Fair, Hamptons, NY.

Package Deals is an international artist film series program that explores artist videos through a site specific curatorial approach. Fueled by the work of Kelly Shindler and Deirdre Corley, Package Deals has explored a vast range of artist video selected from Iceland, Sweden and other Scandinavian and North American cultural sites. These video “packages” then travel around the world to locations such as Hong Kong, Athens, New York City, and Charleston, SC to be publicaly viewed. DailyServing recently spoke to Kelly and Deirdre about their previous projects and what’s to come. Read the full interview with Package Deals below. All images courtesy of PD.

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Art director turned professional commercial and editorial photographer Phillip Toledano turns out personal projects that get picked up left and right. His newest body of work titled “HOPE&FEAR” is no exception to the rule that he has created for himself. “HOPE&FEAR” is the physical manifestation of the desires and paranoias that are adrift in american society today. The suits are our dreams and nightmares made real. Toledano graduated from Tufts University, Boston and has shown with Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York. He has been published in New York Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, and Vanity Fair and at the top of his portfolio is the famous Absolut vodka bottle. You can read a full feature interview that discusses process and ideas with Toledano and The F Stop here.