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Ascenders/Decenders
(15 March 2005) - If you're in Chicago and are a fan of graphic design and typography--I'd head over to the Foundation Gallery to check out their latest exhibition called Ascenders/Descenders. I wish I could go and check it out. The exhibition draws together a collection of artists whose work is influenced by typographic elements--understanding typography as more than just a tool, but as a form of expression....
Wooster Mobile
(15 March 2005) - Wooster Collective has just launched "Wooster Mobile", a gallery of images for mobile phones wallpapers from artists featured on the Wooster Collective site. The project provides artists with a new market, as well as royalties for every download of their work. All the additional revenue is being donated to the charity-- Keep A Child Alive. I'm not generally a big mobile marketing fan, but...
Ludwika Ogorzelec
(24 February 2005) - Ludwika Ogorzelec's latest installation of the "Space Crystallization" cycle is up for a few more days at the Nancy Margolis Gallery in New York. This lattice of stretchy plastic is meticulously woven inside and outside the gallery to create a beautiful bio-technical form. Jutting out from the side of the building, it's impossible to miss when walking by or driving down the street. You're...
Be an Art Star
(17 February 2005) - Artstar is. In the next couple weeks they will be having open calls for artists who are interested in participating in an unscripted television series about trying to make it big in the New York art world. Eight artists will be selected to put on a group show, and one might get a chance for a solo show-- both at Dietch Projects in SoHo....
Sisters Shock Rock the House!
(15 February 2005) - Saturday night was the opening reception for the Sisters Shock Rock the House! gallery show. It was an all female artists display of urban expression through a multitude of mixed media such as paint, film, and sculpture. The artist shown here is CC McGurr. And yes, those are octopi, which she catches herself while scuba diving, photographs them, and then eats them. Yum. The...
Vintage Vandals
(02 February 2005) - The Wurst Gallery has an new online exhibition called Vintage Vandals. They asked artists to find a framed piece of artwork at their local thrift shop and turn it into something of their own. It's an interesting mix of work. The piece displayed here is loosely titled "hug more trees" and was created by Andy Sargent. via Wooster Collective ...
Sneaker Freak
(25 January 2005) - It's fun to gawk and drool over sneakers you wish you owned, and Sneaker Freak is all about just that. It's a gallery of original photos for the sneaker freak inside all of us. Users can post pictures of their favorite sneakers on or off their feet. The collection is pretty massive right now and no doubt growing every day. ...
Rarekind
(19 January 2005) - Brighton based RareKind Gallery is the first graffiti gallery in the UK. They're recently focused on merging UK Hip Hop culture and Graffiti art in a new line of Tees. RareKind was started by a crew from North London who moved to Brighton, which has been called the UK's coolest city. ...
Dukes of Hazardous Unabomber
(18 January 2005) - In New York this weekend? Don't miss this fascinating installation at Rare Gallery through Saturday. Chris Larson's massive sculpture, entitled PAUSE, is a full-size representation of the Dukes of Hazzard '69 Dodge Charger crashing into the Unabomber's cabin -- two metaphors for lawlessness converging in time and space and providing at least one interpretation of today's geopolitical climate. Rare Gallery 521 West 26th Street...
Ghetto Fab: The Photo-Graf Collection
(29 November 2004) - Carol Chung reports on Ghetto Fab: The Photo-Graf Collection Public urban art!!… scaled down for your viewing pleasure. Last Thursday was the opening night of the month long Ghetto Fab: Photo-Graffiti exhibition. As the title implies, it contains photographs of graffiti mural art from the boroughs of New York City. The photographer, Jonathan Singer, is hailed as “The Ansel Adams of Graffiti Photography.” There...
Bloom
(23 November 2004) - Bloom is a multi-media exhibition by Tronic Studio, opening on November 26 at the AQUOS Project. The AQUOS Project is a gallery that fuses the work of innovative artists with Sharp’s industry-leading AQUOS liquid crystal display televisions. Bloom is curated by Formavision. November 26 to December 23 137 Wooster Street, New York City Bloom has its opening night party on Dec. 1st from 7-9pm....
David Hilliard
(18 October 2004) - David Hilliard photographs sultry Summery scenes sequentially from slightly different angles. He places multiple frames together to create a unique experience of his personal visual story. Each piece is comprised of 2 or 3 panels sized at 20" x 24" or 30" x 40". Mark Moore Gallery is featuring several new pieces, including the above, at the SCOPE Miami Art Fair, 2 - 5...
Street Art Press
(05 October 2004) - The Wooster Collective, and Social Pest are introducing more people (including the mass media) to street art. Here are just a few pieces published in recent months. Urban Decor A Wall to Wall Tour of New York Street Art. Mike Epstein and Jake Dobkin present a photo tour for New York Magazine (including the image above) Painting the Town (Again). Rob Walker gives a...
Marc Newson at the Groninger Museum
(06 July 2004) - The Groninger Museum in The Netherlands is featuring a solo exhibition of Marc Newson's work. Reluct has lots of pictures, and a focus on his personal jet concept, the Kelvin 40. In a word: Genius. Newson's contribution to the design community is stellar, and this new jet is truly his best work yet. The simple fact that he did all the research nescessary to...
Grainbag
(23 June 2004) - Grainbag is a Pittsburgh based on-line gallery featuring a really broad range of contemporary work. Thanks to Apartment Therapy for turning me on to Grainbag and the work of Corey LeChat, who's piece Senescent Shaman is pictured above. Grainbag's unnamed curator also has a great blog that includes some of his/her own photography. Apartment Therapy, by the way, is a fantastic site for New...
Convergence: The Collision of Physical and Virtual Space in Digital Art
(12 May 2004) - Convergence: The Collision of Physical and Virtual Space in Digital Art is presented by Studio IMC and will feature projects from 8 different artists. The work should be pretty interesting. Opening 3 June, 6 - 9pm 556 West 22nd Street New York, NY through 19 June...
Peter Hamlin
(19 March 2004) - Hambot is the cute, crazy, nanotech world of artist, Peter Hamlin. He works in all sorts of digital and traditional media to create microcosmic adventures in organic technology. Day14, the fabulous London gallery, has a series of his hand drawn pieces for sale on their Web site....
Day14
(13 December 2003) - Bill Griffin and Andy Maw (Day14) asked 18 artists what was a source of wonder to them as a child. The result is an online gallery, book and exhibit of work from Neville Brody, Pete Fowler, eboy, Rinzen, Michael Gillette and others. Each piece is on a 1 meter square canvas. While the topic may seem a little hoakey, the work is rather outstanding....
Bill Henson
(13 December 2003) - Australian photographer Bill Henson's work reminds me a lot of Lisa Kereszi's. His images are dark, but beautifully lit landscapes and protraits that both warm and disturb. "In a photograph, we have simultaneously an absolute presence in the evidential authority of the medium and an entirely impossible dreamscape." Bill Henson view selected work at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery buy his book, Lux et Nox at...
Cheol Yu Kim
(05 October 2003) - Cheol Yu Kim (above) is a Korean artist who's work is currently being shown at the CUE Art Foundation. His drawings and watercolors combine incredible skill with abstracted imagery of flying and swimming things. The work is hieroglyphic in style and suggests the elaborate stories of a child's imagination. Aside from the new Richard Serra Torqued Ellipses (below) at the Gagosian, this was the...
Control Chaos
(01 October 2003) - I know what art I'm going to see this weekend... Phunk Studio's Control Chaos. 25 Sept - 25 Oct 2003 THE REED SPACE 151 ORCHARD STREET (B/W RIVINGTON & STANTON STREET) NEW YORK CITY Mon - Sat, 10am - 7pm via Freshness...
Mixed Greens
(04 February 2003) - A great site featuring many comtemporary artists. You can buy work or just maintain an on line gallery. Mixed Greens...
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