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Lexus 460 Degrees Gallery
(23 October 2006) - Celebrating the launch of their newest flagship luxury LS 460 sedan, the Lexus 460 Degrees Gallery opened 20 October 2006 in LA and runs through 3 November 2006. Curators Shamin Momin (of the Whitney) and Sebastian Agneessens helped Lexus commission artists Arne Quinze, Miranda Lichtenstein, and Pascual Sisto to create the "Light and Speed" exhibition. Featuring Quinze's massive arcing installation made from readymade 2x4s,...
(23 October 2006) - Celebrating the launch of their newest flagship luxury LS 460 sedan, the Lexus 460 Degrees Gallery opened 20 October 2006 in LA and runs through 3 November 2006. Curators Shamin Momin (of the Whitney) and Sebastian Agneessens helped Lexus commission artists Arne Quinze, Miranda Lichtenstein, and Pascual Sisto to create the "Light and Speed" exhibition. Featuring Quinze's massive arcing installation made from readymade 2x4s,...
Fleur Childs
(23 October 2006) - Young Australian artist Fleur Childs was "staying at Arugam Bay, a remote beach community on the east coast of Sri Lanka, when the Indian ocean tsunami struck. With the works that make up Boxing Day, Childs relives and reimagines her experience of riding the wave that killed over 200,000 people." Childs is a graduate of the College of Fine Arts. Her exhibition, "Boxing Day,"...
(23 October 2006) - Young Australian artist Fleur Childs was "staying at Arugam Bay, a remote beach community on the east coast of Sri Lanka, when the Indian ocean tsunami struck. With the works that make up Boxing Day, Childs relives and reimagines her experience of riding the wave that killed over 200,000 people." Childs is a graduate of the College of Fine Arts. Her exhibition, "Boxing Day,"...
Dearraindrop: Concrete Trees, Glass Grass and Cream-Filled Stones
(20 October 2006) - Opening today, 20 October 2006, at the Galleri Loyal is a solo exhibition of new work by Dearraindrop that runs through 25 November 2006. The exhibition includes large-scale paintings, drawings and other major interactive works by the Virginia-based collective. Visual artists Joe Grillo, Laura Grant and Billy Grant make the collage-style works, which are then synthesized by multimedia artists Owen Osborn and Chris Kucinski....
(20 October 2006) - Opening today, 20 October 2006, at the Galleri Loyal is a solo exhibition of new work by Dearraindrop that runs through 25 November 2006. The exhibition includes large-scale paintings, drawings and other major interactive works by the Virginia-based collective. Visual artists Joe Grillo, Laura Grant and Billy Grant make the collage-style works, which are then synthesized by multimedia artists Owen Osborn and Chris Kucinski....
Juliet Rose
(18 October 2006) - The spare key, a couple of nails, ring pulls from drink cans, safety pins and more safety pins… For most, all those odd bits and pieces that gather in bowls and boxes and on tabletops are just the seemingly insignificant but endless debris of everyday life. For British artist Juliet Rose, clutter is the subject of her strikingly graphic paintings. Carefully arranging these inane...
(18 October 2006) - The spare key, a couple of nails, ring pulls from drink cans, safety pins and more safety pins… For most, all those odd bits and pieces that gather in bowls and boxes and on tabletops are just the seemingly insignificant but endless debris of everyday life. For British artist Juliet Rose, clutter is the subject of her strikingly graphic paintings. Carefully arranging these inane...
Converter
(16 October 2006) - After successfully launching Deadly Squire, a line of housewares printed with original patterns, in 2005, husband-and-wife team Anna and Tim Harrington are now using the premise of their business to curate a multimedia group show. Based on the idea that patterns have the "unusual property of being simultaneously raw material and finished work," Converter, which opens at the Brooklyn Riviera Gallery this Thursday, 19...
(16 October 2006) - After successfully launching Deadly Squire, a line of housewares printed with original patterns, in 2005, husband-and-wife team Anna and Tim Harrington are now using the premise of their business to curate a multimedia group show. Based on the idea that patterns have the "unusual property of being simultaneously raw material and finished work," Converter, which opens at the Brooklyn Riviera Gallery this Thursday, 19...
Alastair Mackie
(13 October 2006) - Touching on issues of pop culture, ethnicity and war, London-based artist Alastair Mackie, 29, is making his U.S. debut today, 13 October 2006, at Mark Moore Gallery in Los Angeles. Called "Sticks and Stones," the solo show consists of sculptural works that Mackie creates using unconventional materials and techniques. Inspired by the role the military played in his family, Mackie says his work has...
(13 October 2006) - Touching on issues of pop culture, ethnicity and war, London-based artist Alastair Mackie, 29, is making his U.S. debut today, 13 October 2006, at Mark Moore Gallery in Los Angeles. Called "Sticks and Stones," the solo show consists of sculptural works that Mackie creates using unconventional materials and techniques. Inspired by the role the military played in his family, Mackie says his work has...
Emil Goh: Mini Room
(13 October 2006) - Fascinated with how many young Koreans construct lives online, Emil Goh started photographing users of Cyworld, a virtual community that allows users to create rooms using various skins and other icons of furniture and appliances. In Goh's work, these imagined universes are perfect counterpoints to explore the many different living situations in Korea. He describes "regular 3-4 bedroom family apartments to cupboard sized "goshiwons"...
(13 October 2006) - Fascinated with how many young Koreans construct lives online, Emil Goh started photographing users of Cyworld, a virtual community that allows users to create rooms using various skins and other icons of furniture and appliances. In Goh's work, these imagined universes are perfect counterpoints to explore the many different living situations in Korea. He describes "regular 3-4 bedroom family apartments to cupboard sized "goshiwons"...
To a T
(13 October 2006) - Celebrating the humblest of fashion statements, Atlanta's Design Museum will launch an exhibit devoted to t-shirts next Thursday, 19 October 2006. Including several lines you may have previously seen in these pages (co-curator Laura Moody says she often sourced designers from Cool Hunting), the show features the latest in t-shirt design with an emphasis on southern regional designers, like Esperanza, former Sam Mitchell (pictured...
(13 October 2006) - Celebrating the humblest of fashion statements, Atlanta's Design Museum will launch an exhibit devoted to t-shirts next Thursday, 19 October 2006. Including several lines you may have previously seen in these pages (co-curator Laura Moody says she often sourced designers from Cool Hunting), the show features the latest in t-shirt design with an emphasis on southern regional designers, like Esperanza, former Sam Mitchell (pictured...
Ryan McGinness in Europe
(12 October 2006) - Master of silhouetted graphics (and perhaps the hardest working man in the art world) Ryan McGinness currently has a series of three solo shows called “NEVERODDOREVEN,” which are taking place across Western Europe this fall. At Curti/Gambuzzi in Milan the installation is in full swing and will be up through 3 November 2006 (pictured right, photos courtesy of Paolo Curti & Annamaria Gambuzzi &...
(12 October 2006) - Master of silhouetted graphics (and perhaps the hardest working man in the art world) Ryan McGinness currently has a series of three solo shows called “NEVERODDOREVEN,” which are taking place across Western Europe this fall. At Curti/Gambuzzi in Milan the installation is in full swing and will be up through 3 November 2006 (pictured right, photos courtesy of Paolo Curti & Annamaria Gambuzzi &...
Stacks
(11 October 2006) - A one-night only art show, Stacks features works by 21 emerging artists all working within the same parameter—a cube. Stacked to create a collectively-curated "Exquisite Corpse meets totem poles," the cubes are made from a variety of materials, and range in style from "defiantly poetic to graphically visionary." Though there's no word on the artists yet, works are affordably priced from $50-$500. Curated by...
(11 October 2006) - A one-night only art show, Stacks features works by 21 emerging artists all working within the same parameter—a cube. Stacked to create a collectively-curated "Exquisite Corpse meets totem poles," the cubes are made from a variety of materials, and range in style from "defiantly poetic to graphically visionary." Though there's no word on the artists yet, works are affordably priced from $50-$500. Curated by...
&made: Climatised Objects
(28 September 2006) - &made, the London-based design team whose self-promotional free taxi service caught our attention at Milan's design fair back in April, also apparently charmed one of their passengers, Libby Sellers, a curator at London's Design Museum. Playing a prominent part in the Design Museum's current Design Mart show (through 7 January 2007), their new work, entitled "Climatised Objects," are inspired by global warming's dramatic effect...
(28 September 2006) - &made, the London-based design team whose self-promotional free taxi service caught our attention at Milan's design fair back in April, also apparently charmed one of their passengers, Libby Sellers, a curator at London's Design Museum. Playing a prominent part in the Design Museum's current Design Mart show (through 7 January 2007), their new work, entitled "Climatised Objects," are inspired by global warming's dramatic effect...
Spank the Monkey
(27 September 2006) - The graffiti equivalent of the super heroes’ Justice League of America, the group show “Spank the Monkey,” opens today, Wednesday, 27 September 2006, at The Baltic Center for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England. Featuring some of CH’s favorite artists, including Chiho Aoshima, Dzine, Faile, Shepard Fairey, Banksy, Freaks Gallery, Os Gemeos, Groovisions, Invader, Barry McGee, Ryan McGinness, Takashi Murakami, David Shrigley, Swoon, Ed Templeton,...
(27 September 2006) - The graffiti equivalent of the super heroes’ Justice League of America, the group show “Spank the Monkey,” opens today, Wednesday, 27 September 2006, at The Baltic Center for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England. Featuring some of CH’s favorite artists, including Chiho Aoshima, Dzine, Faile, Shepard Fairey, Banksy, Freaks Gallery, Os Gemeos, Groovisions, Invader, Barry McGee, Ryan McGinness, Takashi Murakami, David Shrigley, Swoon, Ed Templeton,...
Jill Greenberg: Monkey Portraits
(20 September 2006) - Known for her celebrity portraits and more recently for her brilliant portraits of crying children, Jill is an accomplished photographer who became enchanted by our biological cousins and their pure emotional expression. We chatted with Jill today about her upcoming exhibit and new book, Monkey Portraits. Make that monkeys, orangutans, baboons, chimpanzees and macaques. We're offering a signed copy of this amazing book to...
(20 September 2006) - Known for her celebrity portraits and more recently for her brilliant portraits of crying children, Jill is an accomplished photographer who became enchanted by our biological cousins and their pure emotional expression. We chatted with Jill today about her upcoming exhibit and new book, Monkey Portraits. Make that monkeys, orangutans, baboons, chimpanzees and macaques. We're offering a signed copy of this amazing book to...
After School Art
(19 September 2006) - An innocent lamp pole on a quiet street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn was the latest bit of urban architecture to get "knitta'd" with it's own knitted accessory by Knitta Please. The slightly subversive public installation is part of a group show kicking off back-to-school season called "After School Art" this coming Thursday, 21 September 2006 and running through 17 October 2006. Inspired by the no-pressure...
(19 September 2006) - An innocent lamp pole on a quiet street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn was the latest bit of urban architecture to get "knitta'd" with it's own knitted accessory by Knitta Please. The slightly subversive public installation is part of a group show kicking off back-to-school season called "After School Art" this coming Thursday, 21 September 2006 and running through 17 October 2006. Inspired by the no-pressure...
Ten Things to See at the London Design Festival
(15 September 2006) - Kicking off today, the London Design Festival is a two-week extravaganza with a bewildering array of shows, exhibitions, seminars and general hobnobbing, big names, young talent, highly commercial offerings, as well as work which is so conceptual we’re not really sure if it’s even design. As we reported earlier this week Icon Magazine published a guide, but to make it even easier, here are...
(15 September 2006) - Kicking off today, the London Design Festival is a two-week extravaganza with a bewildering array of shows, exhibitions, seminars and general hobnobbing, big names, young talent, highly commercial offerings, as well as work which is so conceptual we’re not really sure if it’s even design. As we reported earlier this week Icon Magazine published a guide, but to make it even easier, here are...
Miriam Wosk: Euphoria
(08 September 2006) - Miriam Wosk's first solo museum exhibition opens today, 8 September 2006, at the Santa Monica Museum of Art and runs through 25 November 2006. "Euphoria" features large-scale paintings encrusted with pearls, glitter, crystals, starfish, collage, and paint, and the premiere of a documentary film about Wosk’s studio process, which is produced, written, and directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Terry Sanders. In her previous career...
(08 September 2006) - Miriam Wosk's first solo museum exhibition opens today, 8 September 2006, at the Santa Monica Museum of Art and runs through 25 November 2006. "Euphoria" features large-scale paintings encrusted with pearls, glitter, crystals, starfish, collage, and paint, and the premiere of a documentary film about Wosk’s studio process, which is produced, written, and directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Terry Sanders. In her previous career...
Natalie Jeremijenko: Ooz, Inc. (...for the birds)
(08 September 2006) - For all you bird-loving city-dwellers, engineer/artist Natalie Jeremijenko has created a complete urban bird environment (part of her Ooz series) on the roof of Postmasters, with a water system, appropriate foliage, insects, and other bird necessities, including a mall and a concert hall. She has asked some of the freshest architects around to build the birdhouses. Aranda/Lasch & terraswarm, bonetti/kozerski, Leeser Architecture, Materialab with...
(08 September 2006) - For all you bird-loving city-dwellers, engineer/artist Natalie Jeremijenko has created a complete urban bird environment (part of her Ooz series) on the roof of Postmasters, with a water system, appropriate foliage, insects, and other bird necessities, including a mall and a concert hall. She has asked some of the freshest architects around to build the birdhouses. Aranda/Lasch & terraswarm, bonetti/kozerski, Leeser Architecture, Materialab with...
Nancy Burson: The Hand of God
(07 September 2006) - Beautiful, quirky, powerful and fun, Nancy Burson’s work is about shifting vision and challenging the way that people look at art. Her human race machine allows people to morph into people of other ethnicities and one powerful series of her photos takes people with cranial facial disorders as its subject. More recently, working with healers, Nancy has been photographing energy from other dimensions—whether it...
(07 September 2006) - Beautiful, quirky, powerful and fun, Nancy Burson’s work is about shifting vision and challenging the way that people look at art. Her human race machine allows people to morph into people of other ethnicities and one powerful series of her photos takes people with cranial facial disorders as its subject. More recently, working with healers, Nancy has been photographing energy from other dimensions—whether it...
From A to B and Back Again
(06 September 2006) - After countless magazine articles, acclaimed annual events, and a spate of new boutiques, Brooklyn is fast cementing its status as a design capital. "From A to B and Back Again" is the latest celebration of all that the borough has to offer, featuring limited editions and prototypes by well-known designers including KleinReid, Jason Miller, redstr/collective, Scrapile, and The Design Can. Among the many highlights...
(06 September 2006) - After countless magazine articles, acclaimed annual events, and a spate of new boutiques, Brooklyn is fast cementing its status as a design capital. "From A to B and Back Again" is the latest celebration of all that the borough has to offer, featuring limited editions and prototypes by well-known designers including KleinReid, Jason Miller, redstr/collective, Scrapile, and The Design Can. Among the many highlights...
Kate Bingaman: Hey, Hot Shot!
(05 September 2006) - Artist and graphic design professor Kate Bingaman first caught our eye with her charming line drawings of her credit card statements, which are available from her website Obsessive Consumption each for the amount of that particular statement's minimum balance. The site which showcases Bingaman's love/hate relationship with consumer culture launched in early 2003 and includes drawings of all of her purchases from 22 January...
(05 September 2006) - Artist and graphic design professor Kate Bingaman first caught our eye with her charming line drawings of her credit card statements, which are available from her website Obsessive Consumption each for the amount of that particular statement's minimum balance. The site which showcases Bingaman's love/hate relationship with consumer culture launched in early 2003 and includes drawings of all of her purchases from 22 January...
Blaine Fontana: Lineage Show
(01 September 2006) - Blaine Fontana (you may remember him from a Scion) will be having his very first solo exhibit on the east coast, opening this evening in the city of brotherly love—Philadelphia. As his largest installation show to date, it will feature original paintings, graphite drawings, two brand new limited edition lithograph prints as well as the first eight of his Nestkeeper figurines. So if you...
(01 September 2006) - Blaine Fontana (you may remember him from a Scion) will be having his very first solo exhibit on the east coast, opening this evening in the city of brotherly love—Philadelphia. As his largest installation show to date, it will feature original paintings, graphite drawings, two brand new limited edition lithograph prints as well as the first eight of his Nestkeeper figurines. So if you...
The Urban Forest Project
(18 August 2006) - The Urban Forest Project is a design-centric socially conscious event in two parts. The first is a collection of 185 banners that will be on display in Times Square (from 1 September to 31 October 2006). The tree-themed banners (a selection can be seen above) represent work by a who's who of the creative community. All of them can be seen (and enlarged) on...
(18 August 2006) - The Urban Forest Project is a design-centric socially conscious event in two parts. The first is a collection of 185 banners that will be on display in Times Square (from 1 September to 31 October 2006). The tree-themed banners (a selection can be seen above) represent work by a who's who of the creative community. All of them can be seen (and enlarged) on...
Post-It Show
(18 August 2006) - Elvis and the Super Mario Brothers Installation created by anonymous artists at the UC Santa Cruz school of Engineering, and now Giant Robot is getting in on the action. Featuring more that 32 artists, including Jeff Soto, Ron Rege, Jr., Marc Bell, Gary Taxali, Souther Salazar, Evah Fan, Jordan Crane, APAK!, Bwana Spoons, Megan Whitmarsh and Daria Tessler, the exhibition runs from 19 August-13 September...
(18 August 2006) - Elvis and the Super Mario Brothers Installation created by anonymous artists at the UC Santa Cruz school of Engineering, and now Giant Robot is getting in on the action. Featuring more that 32 artists, including Jeff Soto, Ron Rege, Jr., Marc Bell, Gary Taxali, Souther Salazar, Evah Fan, Jordan Crane, APAK!, Bwana Spoons, Megan Whitmarsh and Daria Tessler, the exhibition runs from 19 August-13 September...
Duke Riley
(16 August 2006) - If artist Duke Riley was born in Ye Olde Days, he would have sailed the world discovering new lands and cultures. Or maybe he would have been a tattooist working on the edge of society covering sailors with anchors and other types of flash. (He founded Cherry Bomb Tattoo.) But, obsessed with circumnavigating the Island of Manhattan, he makes do studying the history of...
(16 August 2006) - If artist Duke Riley was born in Ye Olde Days, he would have sailed the world discovering new lands and cultures. Or maybe he would have been a tattooist working on the edge of society covering sailors with anchors and other types of flash. (He founded Cherry Bomb Tattoo.) But, obsessed with circumnavigating the Island of Manhattan, he makes do studying the history of...
Hanamaro Chaki
(16 August 2006) - Hanamaro Chaki are fantastical, mysterious and mythical. An exhibition of her work entitled "The Flooded Box" opened earlier this month at Mercado Del Borne in Barcelona and runs through 31 August 2006. The images of strange creatures, which are at once animal and human, seem to come from some deep, dark, but beautiful place—possibly a dream? Her naïve pencil drawings have echoes of a more...
(16 August 2006) - Hanamaro Chaki are fantastical, mysterious and mythical. An exhibition of her work entitled "The Flooded Box" opened earlier this month at Mercado Del Borne in Barcelona and runs through 31 August 2006. The images of strange creatures, which are at once animal and human, seem to come from some deep, dark, but beautiful place—possibly a dream? Her naïve pencil drawings have echoes of a more...
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