Artist Jon Brumit produces socially-based collaborative projects that investigate interaction through tools, instruments and loosely structured scenarios which by default have unpredictable outcomes. Neighborhood Pubic Radio is a collaborative artist-run radio project featuring Brumit that aims to give people a forum via local radio to voice their opinions, concerns or interests as artists, activists, musicians and community members. NPR has been featured in Punk Planet magazine, Artforum, and the Chicago Reader, it will be included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Brumit has exhibited with the Lisa Dent Gallery in San Francisco, Space 538 in Portland, and the Richmond Art Center in Richmond, CA. The artist is also involved with the collaborative projects Van Boven and Sliv & Dulet Enterprises and has received funding from Creative Work Fund and CEC ArtsLink.

Art Basel Miami starts today at the Miami Beach Convention Center with an exclusive selection of 200 leading art galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and South Africa and will exhibit 20th and 21st century artworks by more than 2,000 artists. On show are exceptional pieces by both renowned artists and cutting-edge newcomers. Expect to see projects by emerging artists, new artworks, public art projects, performances video and sound art. If you missed this one you can plan to attend Art 39 Basel which takes place from June 4-8 2008 in Basel Switzerland.

Opening December 7 at Allston Skirt Gallery in Boston is a collaborative project by Joe Gibbons and Joe Zane simply titled “Joe”. In a society infatuated with personal expressions, “Joe” explores the personal and shared effects of being known by only one, generic name. Gibbons, mainly known for his video work has exhibited with Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Centre Pompidou, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. Zane has exhibited at Allston Skirt Gallery in solo shows in 2004 and 2006, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Andrew Kreps Gallery, Kent Gallery and ArtSpace. Zane currently lives in Cambridge, MA where he works at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT.

Opening this week in Seoul at the Gallery Hyundai will be Korean-born artist Sung Jin Kim’s second solo show. Created in photorealism and exploring the mouth as the battlefield of the face, the artist’s looks at the subject as a sensory organ as well as a means to consume and communicate. Using a large scale to present the lips while omitting the rest of the face in negative space the artist brings the viewer up close and personal with the only part of the human body we can see outside of as well as inside of. Sung Jin Kim received an MFA from Hongik University, Seoul and has also shown with doART Gallery.

Currently on view at OKOK Gallery in Seattle is Exact Change, new works by artist Grant Barnhart. For his fourth exhibition with the gallery, Barnhart has completed a series of paintings and a site-specific installation in the space. Barnhart has a forth coming exhibition scheduled in 2008 with Leslie’s Art Gallery in Luxembourg and will be represented in Miami this month at Aqua Wynwood, Art Now Fair and Gen Art. The artist recently spoke with DailyServing about his current body of work featuring tinkling tanks, rockets and portraits in multi-colored leotards.

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Richard Deacon‘s new exhibition at LA Louvre in Los Angeles opened on December 1st. Dead Leg, Deacon’s monumental new sculpture, will span LA Louvre’s first floor gallery. In collaboration with his associate Matthew Perry, Deacon made his massive new sculpture out of twisted oak and stainless steel. Dead Leg is 8 ft high, 28 ft long and 9 ft wide and, following its premiere in LA, it will travel to the Portland Museum of Art. Richard Deacon has enjoyed prominent success over the past three decades. He graduated from the Chelsea College of Art in 1978 and has since worker in sculpture, painting and drawing, dance, and literature, compiling what has become a staggeringly multifaceted portfolio. Deacon won the Turner Prize in 1987 and was also named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by France’s Ministry of Culture in 1997. Deacon lives and works in London but also teaches at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He has shown in countless galleries and museums, including the Tate, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

“Surface Works” is a new series of paintings and wall sculptures by the artist Eliza Geddes opening this weekend. Found Gallery in Los Angeles will present Geddes’ new works in her first exhibition in L. A. which will continue through the New Year. Geddes is interested in the formal qualities of painting, investigating surface, texture, balance, speed and shape as she creates both two and three dimensional work. The artist uses the manipulation of formal qualities to entice the viewer with the repetition of marks such as circles and X forms. Geddes three-dimensional works continue her formal concerns while also challenging the boundaries of painting and sculpture. A graduate of New York University and Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, Geddes has exhibited with 33 Bond Gallery in NYC, 440 Gallery in Brooklyn and Mulry Fine Art in West Palm Beach, Flordia.