Blowing up on the rock-poster scene, Leia Bell is bringing a new show of posters and original paintings titled “The Business of Ferrets” to the Richard Goodall Gallery in London Sept. 29 – Oct. 25. After only seven years Bell has created 250 limited edition hand-printed silk-screened music posters for bands such as Echo and The Bunnymen, The Darkness, My Chemical Romance, and The Decemberists. Bell uses a camera to document people she knows at parties and shows. She later uses the photos as references simplifying the scene to something universal that anyone can relate to. The artist was recently featured in Print magazine’s “20 Best Under 30″ annual issue and Art of Modern Rock. Bell received her BFA in Print Making from University of Utah.

New York University’s 80 Washington Square East Galleries current group exhibition, “All is well that begins well and has no end,” has that battle of the bands feel by offering a range of work by emerging artists. The show is co-curated by Jan Van Woensel, an independent curator, art critic, lecturer and film producer based in New York and Antwerp. Appointed as a Senior Studio Professor at NYU, Steinhardt School of Education, Van Woensel has been nominated for the 2007 Curatorial Fellowship at Art in General, New York. Other co-curators include artist Ernesto Burgos, a 2008 NYU Master’s Candidate, and Jonah Groeneboer, NYU Master’s graduate who currently shows at Bellwether Gallery.

Van Woensel, Burgos, and Groeneboer chose emerging artists who they found to be “working with the language of abstraction and seeking to expand and re-contextualize previous modernist notions of geometry.” Indeed, the work of artists such as Chris Duncan, Satoru Eguchi, collective Inverted Topology, Pepe Mar, and Michelle Hinebrook, whose work is shown above, continues to confront and challenge notions of geometry that have intrigued artists from Picasso to Sol Le Witt. Like artists before them, the participants in “All is well that begins well and has no end” use painting, sculpture, photography, video, performance, and every possible amalgam of these disciplines to create new possibilities for future discourse in abstraction. Line, form, volume, and anything else takes shape as cardboard masses coded with arcane directions, amorphous constructions wrapped in silver packing tape, vinyl wall paintings that collapse into cylindrical rolls on the floor, stop-time video, and paintings that warp two-dimensionality.

The Canadian collaborative duo “Fighting” is currently presenting their newest project “Different Strokes,” with the OKOK Gallery in Seattle. “Fighting” consists of childhood friends Niall McClelland and Lukas Geronimas. The artists collectively explore metaphysics, pseudo shamanism, natural history, and subversive political and social movements through gothic ink drawings and collages. The two undermine the seriousness of their chosen imagery by employing subtle humor through satire and references to pop-culture. For their current show with the OKOK Gallery, McClelland and Geronimas constructed a temporary residence in the gallery that is constructed of found material and contains a burlap roof. The artists lived in the structure as they produced much of the work for the exhibit. The work manifested into large collages, some of which act as vertical banners spanning the back portion of the gallery. The artists have transformed the front of the gallery into a faux-natural history museum, and have individual black and white still life ink drawings that depict a variety of objects such as a human skull.

The artists have been interviewed on fecalface.com and have appeared in the publications Lo Down and Color.

British designer Peter Marigold’s obsession with storage has led him to do several pieces where he studies how geometric phenomena can be the basis for creating structures. This year’s Split Series was based on the 360 principle, splitting a form into angled pieces and then inverting them achieves a total of 360 degrees. While his work may be based in geometry, his pieces flow poetically and seamlessly. Marigold is among a group of emerging designers showcased in Grandmateria at the Gallery Libby Sellers in London. The exhibition was launched during the London Design Festival but will continue through October for the Frieze Art Fair. Part of the group at OkayStudio, Marigold has designed installations for the Paul Smith headquarters and was featured in the British Council’s Great Brits: Ingenious Therapies exhibition. The Central St. Martins graduate has his MFA in design from the Royal College of Art.

The work of artist Marti Cormand is rooted in traditional landscape painting, while simultaneously referencing the digital age. Cormand’s tightly rendered paintings seem to pay homage to Dutch School of Painting, yet the artist reaches to the present and states his placement in the history of painting by utilizing the computer and the internet as new tools for creation. The artist manipulates the appropriated photographs by adding and removing elements to fabricate images that otherwise wouldn’t exist. Cormand recently received The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum‘s 2007 Emerging Artist Award and a selection of works will be on view at the Museum until February of 2008. The artist was born in Spain in 1971, is an MFA graduate of the University of Barcelona, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. The artist has completed a recent series of exhibition with the Josee Bienvenu Gallery in NYC between 2003 and 2006. Other exhibitions include “Focus” at the Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco and a self-titled exhibition with Galeria Alejandro Sales in Barcelona, Spain.

Opening at the end of this week at The Lab 101 Gallery in Culver City, Los Angeles is “Wilting Wonder,” an exhibition featuring the works of artists Travis Millard, Mel Kadel, Michael Sieben and Mike Aho. These artist often come together to present collaborative projects, the newest being “Wilting Wonder,” an exploration of appropriated printing techniques and materials from commercially driven art, re-contextualized not sell a product but rather to explore themes present in the artists individual works. In addition, each artist will present recent works that have been created individually. All of these artists have been very successful in both the commercial and fine art world. Artist Travis Millard created Fudge Factory Comics operated in L.A, while artist Mel Kadel has been involved in projects for Volcom and Foundation Skateboards. Michael Sieben, who currently lives and works in Austin, Texas, operates Okay Mountain Gallery and illustrates for Thrasher Magazine. Mike Aho has recently united visual art, film and music into his work and has worked on commercial projects with Transworld Skateboard Magazine, Bueno Skateboards and Listen! Skateboards. This exhibition will be on view through October 24th.

The culturally infused sculptures and paintings of artist BAST are deeply rooted in the elements of hip-hop. The artist explores the energy of graffiti and the surfaces of dilapidated and weathered signage, often depicting devious cartoon characters parading around with guns. Some of the artist’s personified characters are exaggerated to humorously reflect the stereotypes associated with hip-hop culture. Bast’s work is gritty, ghetto, and fit with a twisted humor. In a recent exhibition with New Image Art Gallery in Hollywood, California the artist presented a collection of “hunting monsters,” which mixed Hollywood monster characters like the Wolfman and Creature from the Black Lagoon with modern urban characters like Flava Flav and Biz Markie.