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MICA Decker Gallery Presents: Adam Void “An American Dream” (Baltimore, MD)
Adam Void
This immersive installation will feature new paintings, sculptures and writing. An American Dream forces the viewer to interact with often overlooked subcultural groups in a sophisticated and complex manner. Topics addressed include homelessness, evangelical religion, freight hopping, protest culture, surveillance and urbanization.
Opens Friday March 23 (5-7pm) – April 1
MICA Decker Gallery
1301 West Mount Royal Ave.
Baltimore, MD
Adam Void “Private Property” (image courtesy © of the artist)
Pawn Works Gallery Presents: “While Supplies Last” (Chicago, ILL)
Pawn Works Gallery
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The Outsiders Gallery Presents: Brett Amory “Waiting 101” (Newcastle, UK)
Waiting 101
NEWCASTLE
77 Quayside | Newcastle upon Tyne | NE1 3DE | Tel +44 (0)191 221 2560 | www.theoutsiders.net | www.lazinc.com
The Outsiders, the emerging art gallery from curator-director Steve Lazarides, presents ʻWaiting 101ʼ a solo exhibition featuring the newest works from Brett Amoryʼs internationally acclaimed ʻWaitingʼ series.
American contemporary painter Brett Amory is widely considered one of the breakthrough artistic talents of the past year. He is best known for his Waiting paintings, a body of work that has spanned the last decade documenting figures and landscapes in the Bay Area. The new collection ʻWaiting 101ʼ debuts at Outsiders Gallery in Newcastle, UK on April 19th 2012.
The compositions in the exhibition focus on Amoryʼs newfound relationship with technology, and the implicit freedom it allows in his work. Delving into documentation methods which new modes of ambulatory technology offer, Amory experienced a metamorphosis in his painting preparation and application. With intimate, firsthand knowledge of the many ways that technology can affect the lives of those it touches, Amory explores the avenues itʼs opened up for him as an artist in ʻWaiting 101ʼ.
Photography applications with sophisticated software (such as Instagram) have allowed Amory to expand the scope of his series. Heʼs now able to capture critical moments that strike him as they unfold. “With my iPhone, I always have a camera on hand. Iʼm able to capture what I experience day in day out,” he says. “Every morning I wake up and walk to the café for a cup of coffee. On the way I see the same people following their own routines. New technology allows me to document these people as they go about their lives. Capturing the people I see in my neighbourhood on film and later on canvas, is really a documentation of what I do and see on a daily basis. This body of work aims to give the viewer a look into my own experience. Hopefully it opens up a deeper personal exchange between myself and the viewer.”
Inspiration has never been so easy to manipulate and document. Amory expertly wields the tools available to him, with the intent of maintaining and evolving the series that has garnered him international acclaim. Prior to Amoryʼs use of the camera phone, his process involved painstaking research and meticulous stake-outs at chosen locations. This was always with the hope of capturing a moment and individual suitable to his artistic vision. With the modern software now in his employ, Amory has the world at his fingertips _ as evidenced in ʻWaiting 101ʼ. His compositions show a radical departure from his historical works in their obvious spontaneity, yet remain true to his unequivocally distinct technique.
Rue de Beauce Presents: Florence Blanchard AKA EMA: “Ephemera” (Paris, France)
EMA
A travers des compositions complexes incorporant des éléments inspirés de l’univers du graffiti, du tatouage et de la BD, Florence Blanchard explore les thèmes du symbolisme et de la science fiction. Par son oeuvre, elle immortalise des pensées furtives aspirant s’interroger sur la beauté du transitoire et sur le temps qui passe.
Pour sa prochaine exposition E P H E M E R A, elle donne forme et couleur à un univers précaire et fantastique. Visions oniriques teintées de sensualité et de mystère invitent à se recueillir au sein d’une interface transitoire, entre rêve et réalité. Des personnages imaginaires inspirés d’époques diverses et évoluant dans un décor abstrait nous content une ode narrative, anachronique et surréaliste.
Basée pendant 10 ans à New York, Florence Blanchard est une Pionnière dans l’univers du graffiti français au féminin. Elle adopte le nom Ema au début des années 90 et participe aux événements clés du hiphop américain. Ema expose dans les grandes capitales à New York, Paris, Berlin, Los Angeles. Elle prend part au projet Underbelly à New York, à la TED Women conference à Washington 2010 ainsi qu’à Art Basel Miami Beach.
Rue de Beauce – galerie d’art au format informel – invite régulièrement des artistes à se produire dans le salon d’un appartement parisien au cœur du Marais. Initiée par Michèle Bouhana et Angela di Paolo, la galerie s’est engagée dans la promotion de nouvelles tendances artistiques circulant entre Pop Surréalisme, Urban Art et Dessin contemporain.
RUE DE BEAUCE
présente
E P H E M E R A
présente
E P H E M E R A
FLORENCE BLANCHARD
Vernissage : Dimanche 1er Avril 16h – 21h
Du 2 Avril au 10 Mai 2012 sur RDV
3 Rue de Beauce, 75 003 Paris
Artsee Presents: Kemp “Behind her Disguise” (Manhattan, NY)
Kemp
KEMP is an intriguing Irish artist, making his debut solo exhibition in New York City.
KEMP digresses from the traditional features of stencil art, which tend to be represented as flat simple modes of mass-communication sprayed in public spaces. By taking the concept from the political and urban sphere into a studio environment, more akin to the screen printing process, he breaks down the customary limiting stencil strucure by creating multiple layers of depth from light through to shadow. He attacks the formal representations of his selected images by re-introducing detail in certain areas and pulling out and accentuating shapes, where the order of dark to light is not always regarded.
KEMP’s unusual colour choices move away from the type of palette often used by other artists of a similar visual nature, generating vibrancy while still using a predominantly muted palette.
During a trip to Ireland, the co-owner of Artsee, Oleg Rabinovich, became aware of KEMP and invited
him to hold his first American exhibit in the unique space that is Artsee, Battery Park City, NYC.
Behind Her Disguise is a collection of seventeen wood-panel iconic visuals of women, as seen through the KEMP filter. This exhibition was inspired by subculture, pop-art and the cult of celebrity. KEMP emphasises eyes and lips, while preserving the subject’s beauty as other features are flattened, obscured or masked. In selecting the subjects for the exhibition, KEMP chose sometimes beautiful, sometimes dysfunctional, sometimes disturbed women. He elicits an alternative underlying meaning during the process of production, as reflected in the titles of the pieces. KEMP invites the viewer to climb into a piece, wander around and unveil the truth behind her disguise.
KEMP is excited and honoured to introduce the city of New York to his collection and is enthusiastic about building connections with the city and its inhabitants as inspirations for his future work.
Carmichael Gallery Presents: “My Turn” A Group Show Curated by Bumblebee. (Culver City, CA)
March 15, 2012
Artists, California, Culver City, Events, Gallery, Opening
My Turn
Featuring work by:
Bumblebee, Hyuro, Interesni Kazki, Jaz, Klone, LineLineDot, Moneyless, Penny, Stinkfish, Zeus
Curated by Bumblebee
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 17, 6-9pm
Carmichael Gallery
5795 Washington Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232
Please RSVP to rsvp at carmichaelgallery dot com.
Exhibition open to the public March 17 – April 7, 2012
“There are many artists in the urban / street art movement. For this show, each artist was selected based on his or her unique voice and ability to push the boundaries of the genre, while remaining true to its origins.” – Bumblebee
Carmichael Gallery is pleased to present My Turn, the first curatorial project by Los Angeles-based artist, Bumblebee. The group exhibition includes mixed media collage, sculpture and works on canvas and paper by Bumblebee, Hyuro, Interesni Kazki, Jaz, Klone, LineLineDot, Moneyless, Penny, Stinkfish and Zeus, ten artists whose work activates creative conversations with the geographically disparate cities of Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Downey, Kiev, London, Los Angeles, Milan and Tel Aviv.
About Carmichael Gallery:
Founded in 2007 by husband and wife team Seth and Elisa Carmichael, Carmichael Gallery focuses on a select group of artists breaking ground in painting, mixed media, photography and sculpture. Their annual program consists of a series of solo and group exhibitions that document the progress of these artists.
Pandemic Gallery Presents: “20” Stikman Celebrates 20 Years on The Street (Brooklyn, NY)
“20”
Pandemic Gallery Presents:
“20” a solo exhibition by Stikman
Opening Reception: Fri. March 16th 2012 • 7-11pm
show runs through April 6th
What more can be said about the mysterious artist known only as “Stikman” that hasn’t been uttered hundreds of times by passersby all over the city? His work is sneaky, incredibly thought provoking and uncommonly satisfying to come across, and if you have been living on the east coast or, well, basically anywhere in the states you no doubt have discovered it in some aspect. It could be in the form of 3D men made of small sticks to figures hidden in iconic imagery pasted to doors, or literally under your feet, smashed into the concrete. The range of mediums used and the calculated creativity given to each piece is overshadowed only by the sheer amount of work he has affixed to our cities surfaces. Tireless efforts aside, his stick formed character remains one of the most recognizable images in urban art culture. So, on that note we are proud and excited to announce the first solo exhibition of our favorite and New York’s most elusive street artist: Stikman.
from the artist:
It was the summer of 1992 that I deployed my first stikman in the East Village. In the early years the sticks were not painted, It took me much longer to make them at the time because I was always changing the way they were constructed. In the first year I don’t think I made more than 50 of them, they were between 5 and 6 inches tall and made of basswood. By 1996 I had started painting them and begun producing many more per year.
Once I started painting the 3-D stikmen I also started to paint stickers. Combining the 2 dimensional graphic element expanded my view of the ever changing stikman form, and the project took off in unforeseen directions. I was finding many different materials and processes with which to explore the realm of stikman. Over the years I have affixed and painted the stikman on numerous LP record covers, prints, book pages, cut paper paste-ups, hollow core doors and a variety of metal, wood, cloth and plastic objects. Some of my favorite pieces include stenciling images on ping pong balls, bricks, tiny slide viewers, and playing cards. And of course there were always little wooden men made of sticks.
My pieces start their lives as static objects, but they come to life when I place them in a public place where they are subject to the forces of time, interactions with humans and climate. I share this transient form of art to connect with a viewer whom I will never meet, in hopes that the joy of finding the unexpected has altered their consciousness. It finds an indigenous space in our surroundings like a flower escaping from the crack in a sidewalk. Continuously altered by time and circumstance.
To celebrate twenty years of playing in the street with sticks I have created a special battalion of twenty figures to send out into the world with the hope that the friends of stikman will take him along on new journeys to places he has not yet been. I have also created twenty works on paper to commemorate the paper element associated with stikman.Ten of these are PAINTBLAST, which is a form of automatic painting that occurs when I paint the wood figures.
PANDEMIC gallery
37 Broadway btwn Kent and Wythe
Brooklyn, NY 11211
www.pandemicgallery.com
Gallery hours:
Tues.-Fri. 11-6pm
Sat. & Sun. 12-7pm
closed Monday
Tues.-Fri. 11-6pm
Sat. & Sun. 12-7pm
closed Monday
or by appointment
L train to Bedford ave, J train to Marcy ave, or Q59 bus to Broadway/Wythe
Mighty Tanaka Presents: “Color & Motion” Featuring JMR and See One (Brooklyn, NY)
color and Motion
Color & Motion Opening Reception:
Friday, March 16th
6pm – 9pm
(show runs until April 6th)
(F Train to York Street, A/C Train to High Street)
Worlds are created, destroyed and manipulated with a single stroke of the brush. Through the swirling movement and radiant bursts exists an abstract landscape of hostile environments intertwined with gentle allure. A semblance of paths and trails carved through the terrain, guides the eye through a visual exposé of mutually complimenting color tones and textures, further descending into the heart of the painting. Mighty Tanaka is happy to present our next show, Color & Motion, featuring the explosive abstract work of JMR & See One. Together, they explore the bounds of abstract art and intend to move beyond the barriers.
Color & Motion is an all-encompassing journey of expression that highlights a strong pallet and maintains a constant flow. Through the line work of JMR or the color shards of See One, both artists influence the movement of the eye with their chosen techniques. The work lends itself to a variety of interpretations that exist in the eye of the beholder.
Both artists utilize the very idea of Color & Motion within the overall approach, choosing to create work with acrylic paint as well as incorporating collage elements. JMR and See One, while similar in approach, both execute their work in unique and mesmerizing ways that invites the viewer to look a little closer.
Fun Friday 03.09.12 Armory Week BSA Picks
Hells yes, it’s the invasion of the art fairs in New York – and all the associated events around them, including Bushwicks Beat Night and Williamsburg’s Arts Not Fair in the People’s Republic of Brooklyn and many galleries have special programming planned for the weekend around the city. The big fish is the Armory, which is apparently taming itself down a bit if last nights opening was any indication, and their door is a hefty $30 – boutique indeed. But the hardy street art fan never pays anyway, from what we’ve seen.
Also this weekend are Fountain, PooL Art, Scope New York, Volta , Art Now, and Theorize which are more affordable or free and can be a lot more interesting frankly. Or, just hang out on the street with your bagged container and check out the street art on selected streets and abandoned lots in neighborhoods like the L.E.S, Bowery, Chelsea, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick, Red Hook, Long Island City, Dumbo. It’s cheap and you might get invited inside for a party if you bring a couple cans of beer. As you know, it doesn’t cost money to access the creative spirit.
1. Armory Arts Week
2. Fountain
3. Volta
4. Scope
5. Lisa Enxing at Le Salon d’ Art
6. Ambush Gallery, “Project 5, Volume 4”
7. “Beat Nite”
8. “Hyper/Hypo” at Secret Project Robot
9. OBLVN “100 Paintings at Klughaus Gallery
10. Jef Aerosol “Hot Spots” @ Galerie Austral
11. Street Artist Ives.One (Video)
For further information regarding Armory Arts Week click here
Fountain
(Images © Steven P. Harrington)
This year Fountain has provided a 200 foot long wall for a slew of Street Artists, including Chris Stain, Know Hope, GILF, Imminent Disaster, Joe Iurato, LMNOP, Elle, ShinShin, LNY, Cake, En Masse, Sophia Maldonado, Hellbent, Radical! and Wing. See some behind the scenes photos posted yesterday here.
Joe Iurato at Fountain (photo © Jaime Rojo)
LNY will be at Fountain (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Fountain include a great line up of galleries that promote, support and represent Street Artists including: Kestin/Ray Gallery, Mighty Tanaka Gallery, The Market Place Gallery and Marianne Nems Gallery.
XAM will be exhibiting at Fountain with Marianne Nems Gallery. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The Brooklyn gallery Mighty Tanaka will be having a greatest hits collection of work by almost everyone in their stable of untamed horses. One of the best walls is the dual red white and blue side by side 3-D sculptural wall installations by Skewville and Miguel Ovalle – including swords on the bottom of the Ovalle piece for the kids.
Featured at Might Tanaka are Abe Lincoln Jr. Adam Leech, Adam Void, Alexandra Pacula, Alice Mizrachi, Andrew H. Shirley, Burn 353, Cake, CAM, Celso, ChrisRWK, Conrad Carlson, Criminy Johnson, Curtis Readel, Don Pablo Pedro, Drew Tyndell, ELLE, Ellen Stagg, EVOKER, Flying Fortress, Gigi Bio, Gigi Chen, Greg Henderson, Hellbent, Hiroshi Kumagai, infinity, JMR, Joe Iurato, John Breiner, Katie Deker, Lamour Supreme, Masahiro Ito, Matt Siren, Max Greis, Mike Schreiber, Nathan Pickett, Nathan Vincent, NEVER, Peat Wollaeger, Robbie Bush, See One, Sofia Maldonado, TooFly, UFO, Vahge, VengRWK, VIK with exclusive murals by Miguel Ovalle & Skewville.
For further information regarding Fountain Art Fair click here
Volta
Carmichael Gallery from Culver City, CA will be exhibiting new works by Aakash Nihalani.
Aakash Nihalani (photo © Jaime Rojo)
For further information regarding Volta Art Fair click here
Scope
The Corey Helford Gallery from Culver City, CA will be exhibiting works by D*Face, Ron English and Risk at Scope.
D*Face in Los Angeles for LAFreeWalls Project (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ron English in Miami for Wynwood Walls (photo © Jaime Rojo)
White Walls Gallery from San Francisco will be exhibiting works by Blek le Rat at Scope.
Blek le Rat in Los Angeles (photo © Jaime Rojo)
For further information regarding Scope Art Fair click here
Also happening this Weekend:
Lisa Enxing at Le Salon d’ Art For more information about this show click here
Ambush Gallery in Sydney, Australia presents “Project 5, Volume 4”. For more information about this show click here
Don’t miss “Beat Nite” happening this Saturday in dirty Bushwick and presented by Norte Maar. For more information about this event click here
“Hyper/Hypo” group show at Secret Project Robot opens this Saturday. For more information about this show click here
OBLVN solo show “100 Paintings” opens this Saturday at the Klughaus Gallery. For more information about this show click here
Jef Aerosol new solo show “Hot Spots” opens this Saturday at Galerie Austral in Saint-Denis, France. For more information about this show click here
Amsterdam based Street Artist Ives.One
A nice stop motion piece made with Arden de Raaij:
MOSH Gallery Presents: Asbjørn Skou (Armsrock) & Sif Iton a Westerberg “Stedfortrædere” (Copenhagen, Denmark)
“Stedfortrædere”
Stedfortrædere
MOHS Exhibit.
16.03.12 – 21.04.12
Opening march 16th. 16 – 21
Sønder boulevard 98
1720 Copenhagen V
The exhibition investigates how social realities are mediated though things. How objects turn into vessels for ideas and meanings. Through installations, drawings and photographs, we investigate how our collections and use of objects, serve as the foundation of social and historical constructions of power, and how these can be negotiated.
ThinkSpace Gallery Presents: “Picks of The Harvest 2012” A Group Show (Culver City, CA)
March 1, 2012
Artists, California, Culver City, Events, Gallery, Opening
Pick of the Harvest
White Cocoa “Self Portrait” (image courtesy of the gallery)
‘Picks of the Harvest 2012’
Reception with the artists: Saturday, March 3rd from 5 to 8PM
On view March 3rd through March 24th
Picks of the Harvest 2012 will showcase numerous artists we’ve had our eye on over the past year exhibited alongside new works from several of our regular Thinkspace family members. Showcasing work from over 60 artists from all walks of life from around the world, Picks of the Harvest 2012 aims to shine a light on some of the most exciting young contemporary artists in our movement.
Adam Caldwell www.adamhuntercaldwell.com/
Anthony Clarkson www.anthonyclarksonart.com
Ariel DeAndrea http://arieldeandrea.wordpress.com/
Brooke Grucella www.phoenixartspace.com/members/504 Caitlin Hackett http://caitlinhackett.carbonmade.com/ Christina Mrozik http://christinamrozik.com/
Craig “Skibs” Barker www.skibsart.com
DABS MYLA www.dabsmyla.com
DAL www.daleast.com
Dan Lydersen www.danlydersen.com/
Darla Jackson http://darlajacksonsculpture.com/home.html David Cooley www.davidcooleyart.com/
David MacDowell www.macdowellstudio.com/
David Walker http://artofdavidwalker.com/home.html
Drew Young http://dyoung.co/
Elliot Brown http://elliotbrownstudio.com/
Elliot Jackson http://elliotjacksonsculpture.squarespace.com/ Emma Tooth www.emmatooth.co.uk/
Erik Siador www.eriksiador.com/
Euth http://hauntedeuth.com/home.html
Frank Gonzales http://frankgonzales.net/home.html
Glenn Arthur http://glennarthurart.blogspot.com/
Hugh Leeman http://hughleeman.com/
Jason Thielke www.jasonthielke.com/
Jason Yarmosky http://jasonyarmosky.com/ Jeff Ramirez http://jefframirez.com/
Jeni Yang www.jeniyang.com/
Jeremy Enicio http://jenecio.com/
Jeremy Hush http://hushillustration.blogspot.com/
Jessamyn Patterson www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.149019655111286.26291.1485148584950 99&type=3
Jesse Hotchkiss www.jessehotchkiss.com/
Jessica Hess http://jessicahess.com/
Joey Leung Ka-Yin www.leungkayin.com/artwork.htm
John Malloy http://johnmalloy.com/
Jolene Lai www.enelojial.com/
Julie West www.juliewest.com/
Katherine Brannock www.katherinebrannock.com/
KNOW HOPE http://thisislimbo.com/
La Pandilla www.la-pandilla.com/
Laura Bifano http://laurabifano.com/
Linnea Strid www.linneastrid.se/
Liqen http://liqen.wordpress.com/
Luke Kopycinski http://koppa.carbonmade.com/projects/2184226 Mari Inukai www.mariinukai.com/
Mary Iverson www.maryiverson.com
Matt Doust http://tinyurl.com/7l6qhc3
Matthew Grabelsky www.grabelsky.com/
Megan Wolfe http://megwolfe.net/
Meggs http://houseofmeggs.com/
Michael Ramstead www.michaelramstead.com/
Michael Shapcott www.michael-shapcott.com/
Mike Egan www.eganpaintings.com/
Nathan DeYoung www.nathandeyoung.com/#home
Nicholas Bohac http://nicholasbohac.com/
N.S. David http://nsdavid.livejournal.com/
Pedro Matos http://pedromatos.org/
Rodrigo Luff http://artofrodrigo.blogspot.com/
Sarah Muirhead http://cargocollective.com/sarahmuirhead/ Scott Listfield www.astronautdinosaur.com/
Sean Mahan http://seanmahanart.com/
Serge Gay Jr. http://sergegayjr.com/
Shark Toof http://sharktoof.com/
Soey Milk http://milkbomb.blogspot.com/
Stephanie Buer http://stephaniebuer.com/
The Yok www.theyok.com/
Tony Philippou www.tonyphilippou.com/
White Cocoa http://dearcatherine.com/
Winnie Truong www.winnietruong.com/
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