Cool Hunting

Beci Orpin: In the Shadows
Sydney's Monster Children Gallery has an exhibition of new works from Australian artist Beci Orpin kicking off tonight, 21 June 2007. "In The Shadows" sees Orpin "expanding on themes she has been exploring for some time—secrets, darkness, folklore and adolescent memories. Taking her past work on wood into 3-dimensions, Orpin will install a tree whose branches tell multiple stories alongside smaller casted forms that...

Pop Subversion
This Friday, 8 February 2008, Ad Hoc Art Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, will play host to a large group of both established and emerging artists from the realms of street art, pop surrealism, lowbrow, illustration, print making, and tattoo. Through this group exhibition, promising young artists will have the chance to exhibit side by side with some of the more established artists in...

David Capra: Nativity
Australian artist David Capra has an exhibition kicking off at Sydney's Mori Gallery this week . Titled Nativity, the show will feature "a garden of pom poms, rainbow paper towers, lakes of melted wax, caves of crinkled-up paper and Barbie dolls dressed as Catholic saints." It was inspired by a recent year long excursion Capra took through Europe: "I came across many nativity scenes...

David Reed
It's either the eye-pop effect of his palette or the graffiti tag sensibility of the brushstrokes that endear David Reed's new paintings to me. They just seem familiar. In what can feel like an austere and exclusive world of high culture and Chelsea art openings, his solo show opened with a mix of 20-something hipsters and beret-topped collectors. So it seemed like Reed achieved...

Art in Motion
Our friends over at Hewlett-Packard are presenting the Art in Motion event in Sydney at The Forum on 6 December 2007. Art in Motion is a "free multi-sensory event" showcasing performances from Coldcut, Nu-Mark, and awesome Berlin-based collective, Pfadfinderei—featuring eight designers, VJs, artists and typographers—as well as local acts Apsci and DJ Samrai. It's all part of an initiative by Hewlett-Packard to "provide a...

Animal Conclave
Featuring the works of three independent Sydney-based artists, the Animal Conclave exhibition at the Blank Space Gallery is a collaboration aiming to "fuse a rustic earthy theme" with a grittier "street style." The project takes in the work of 3D animator and graphic designer, Bill Chen, who has recently made his mark in the fashion industry with street-wear label Meet Tyrone; self-taught artist SMC,...