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King of Kong
(17 August 2007) - Though the complexity, graphic quality, and gameplay realism of video games have improved exponentially in the 30-or-so years since the genre became a staple of our culture, good old Donkey Kong is still considered the toughest game around. Reaching the "kill screen," the moment at which a programming malfunction kicks in and the game ends, is among the most coveted achievements in competitive video...
(17 August 2007) - Though the complexity, graphic quality, and gameplay realism of video games have improved exponentially in the 30-or-so years since the genre became a staple of our culture, good old Donkey Kong is still considered the toughest game around. Reaching the "kill screen," the moment at which a programming malfunction kicks in and the game ends, is among the most coveted achievements in competitive video...
Beci Orpin: In the Shadows
(21 June 2007) - 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...
(21 June 2007) - 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...
The Borderline: Enlightenment x Towa Tei
(25 May 2007) - An exhibition of new lithographs by Enlightenment's Hiro Sugiyama opens tomorrow, 26 May 2007, at the highly–acclaimed Hiromi Yoshii gallery in Kiyosumi, Tokyo. Sugiyama's lithographs are a wonderfully fresh reinterpretation of the traditional Japanese Hanga prints, with a subject matter far from the traditional. His lithographs include abstract colorful pieces as well as human skulls and imagined modern-day tribe portraits (pictured). Sugiyama works mainly...
(25 May 2007) - An exhibition of new lithographs by Enlightenment's Hiro Sugiyama opens tomorrow, 26 May 2007, at the highly–acclaimed Hiromi Yoshii gallery in Kiyosumi, Tokyo. Sugiyama's lithographs are a wonderfully fresh reinterpretation of the traditional Japanese Hanga prints, with a subject matter far from the traditional. His lithographs include abstract colorful pieces as well as human skulls and imagined modern-day tribe portraits (pictured). Sugiyama works mainly...
John Arsenault: Filthy Gorgeous
(14 May 2007) - For a photographer whose work is full of the best kind of contradictions—fiction and fact, banality and exoticism, sexuality and domesticity—the title "Filthy Gorgeous" is apt for John Arsenault's upcoming solo show. A series of self portraits, the work is unabashedly self-focused showing a range of emotions, scenarios and levels of undress. A playful kind of humor runs throughout, almost as if Arsenault's sharing...
(14 May 2007) - For a photographer whose work is full of the best kind of contradictions—fiction and fact, banality and exoticism, sexuality and domesticity—the title "Filthy Gorgeous" is apt for John Arsenault's upcoming solo show. A series of self portraits, the work is unabashedly self-focused showing a range of emotions, scenarios and levels of undress. A playful kind of humor runs throughout, almost as if Arsenault's sharing...
Don't Do That!
(04 May 2007) - A group show of six contemporary urban artists, "Don't Do That!" opens today, Friday, 4 May 2007, at Elms Lesters Painting Rooms. The show includes new constructivist pieces (pictured) and collages by Dutch artist Boris Tellegen (aka DELTA), a selection of paintings by pop surrealist Ron English (you may have seen his billboard interventions), new paintings by London-based artist Andrew McAttee, some of Dalek’s...
(04 May 2007) - A group show of six contemporary urban artists, "Don't Do That!" opens today, Friday, 4 May 2007, at Elms Lesters Painting Rooms. The show includes new constructivist pieces (pictured) and collages by Dutch artist Boris Tellegen (aka DELTA), a selection of paintings by pop surrealist Ron English (you may have seen his billboard interventions), new paintings by London-based artist Andrew McAttee, some of Dalek’s...
Impossibly Familiar
(26 April 2007) - The culmination of a year-long curatorial project by FIT's (Fashion Institute of Technology) Art Market Master of Arts program, "Impossibly Familiar" is a group exhibition featuring works by Antenna Design, assume vivid astro focus, Ragna Berlin, Cui Fei, Ivan Navarro, Brandon Neubauer, Aurora Robson and Zbig Rybczynski. Strategically curated to encourage viewers to reconsider the impossible and challenge our perceptions of the future, the...
(26 April 2007) - The culmination of a year-long curatorial project by FIT's (Fashion Institute of Technology) Art Market Master of Arts program, "Impossibly Familiar" is a group exhibition featuring works by Antenna Design, assume vivid astro focus, Ragna Berlin, Cui Fei, Ivan Navarro, Brandon Neubauer, Aurora Robson and Zbig Rybczynski. Strategically curated to encourage viewers to reconsider the impossible and challenge our perceptions of the future, the...
Kelli Connell: Double Life
(19 April 2007) - Kelli Connell’s first solo show in New York opens tonight at Yossi Milo Gallery. The show, called "Double Life," appears to document an evolving relationship between two women. However, the photographs are actually completely staged and constructed. While digitally creating the photographs, Connell used the same model to portray both women and then composited multiple negatives into one picture. The result is a series...
(19 April 2007) - Kelli Connell’s first solo show in New York opens tonight at Yossi Milo Gallery. The show, called "Double Life," appears to document an evolving relationship between two women. However, the photographs are actually completely staged and constructed. While digitally creating the photographs, Connell used the same model to portray both women and then composited multiple negatives into one picture. The result is a series...
Weather Report
(19 April 2007) - Weather Report, the second eco-themed show at The Gallery @ Adventure Ecology in London, looks at the environment and the threats of climate change. A slight departure from the disposable themes in the first show Waste & the Natural World that we wrote about earlier this year, Weather Report is about the ephemeral, focusing on the sky, and more specifically, the clouds floating through...
(19 April 2007) - Weather Report, the second eco-themed show at The Gallery @ Adventure Ecology in London, looks at the environment and the threats of climate change. A slight departure from the disposable themes in the first show Waste & the Natural World that we wrote about earlier this year, Weather Report is about the ephemeral, focusing on the sky, and more specifically, the clouds floating through...
Keren Richter: The Yellow Wallpaper
(17 April 2007) - "The Yellow Wallpaper," a solo show featuring new paintings by Keren Richter opens tonight, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 at Cake Shop in New York City. At 25, Richter has already earned a name for herself with her line drawings of creepy-cute mod girls and ethereal dreamscapes, landing illustration work for magazines such as Bust, Heeb, YM, Jane and Nylon, as well as creating rock...
(17 April 2007) - "The Yellow Wallpaper," a solo show featuring new paintings by Keren Richter opens tonight, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 at Cake Shop in New York City. At 25, Richter has already earned a name for herself with her line drawings of creepy-cute mod girls and ethereal dreamscapes, landing illustration work for magazines such as Bust, Heeb, YM, Jane and Nylon, as well as creating rock...
Numskull
(17 April 2007) - One of the creative minds behind limited edition art book Without Reason, Numskull opened his second solo exhibition in Sydney titled "Friday the 13th" on, needless to say, Friday, 13 April 2007. "The Sydney-based artist, more known for his iconic stencil imagery brings a spooky new bag of illustrations and characters inspired by the day considered by us all to be the day of...
(17 April 2007) - One of the creative minds behind limited edition art book Without Reason, Numskull opened his second solo exhibition in Sydney titled "Friday the 13th" on, needless to say, Friday, 13 April 2007. "The Sydney-based artist, more known for his iconic stencil imagery brings a spooky new bag of illustrations and characters inspired by the day considered by us all to be the day of...
An Interview with Lisa Kereszi
(22 March 2007) - Dubbed "visual poetry" by Stephen Shore, New York-based photographer Lisa Kereszi is known for her prints of ordinary places in lush, deeply saturated colors. In her current show, Kereszi's subjects are spaces—strip joints, fortune telling parlors, theaters—that aspire to transcend the everyday. Earlier this week, CH contributor Jonah Samson chatted with the artist about her interests, style and background. For the full interview, go...
(22 March 2007) - Dubbed "visual poetry" by Stephen Shore, New York-based photographer Lisa Kereszi is known for her prints of ordinary places in lush, deeply saturated colors. In her current show, Kereszi's subjects are spaces—strip joints, fortune telling parlors, theaters—that aspire to transcend the everyday. Earlier this week, CH contributor Jonah Samson chatted with the artist about her interests, style and background. For the full interview, go...
Donna Huanca: Philosophy of the World
(20 March 2007) - Texas-based artist Donna Huanca’s show “Philosophy of the World” is opening at the Susan Inglett Gallery this Thursday, 22 March 2007 at 7:30pm with a wild performance. Huanca, referencing the feeling of The Shaggs Philosophy of the World, aka "the worst record ever made in the history of music,” will be performing music as she has imagined it will be in the future. Accompanying...
(20 March 2007) - Texas-based artist Donna Huanca’s show “Philosophy of the World” is opening at the Susan Inglett Gallery this Thursday, 22 March 2007 at 7:30pm with a wild performance. Huanca, referencing the feeling of The Shaggs Philosophy of the World, aka "the worst record ever made in the history of music,” will be performing music as she has imagined it will be in the future. Accompanying...
País de Poetas
(19 March 2007) - BRIC’s Rotunda Gallery presents “País de Poetas: Contemporary Art and Artists from Santiago to Brooklyn”, curated by Isolde Brielmaier and Omar Lopez-Chahoud which opens Wednesday, 21 March 2007, at 7pm. The show features ten Chilean artists, seven of which who live in Brooklyn (Francisca Benitez, Ivan Navarro with Courtney Smith, Diego Fernandez, Cristobal Lehyt, Felipe Mujica and Nelson Rivas) and three others (Patrick Hamilton,...
(19 March 2007) - BRIC’s Rotunda Gallery presents “País de Poetas: Contemporary Art and Artists from Santiago to Brooklyn”, curated by Isolde Brielmaier and Omar Lopez-Chahoud which opens Wednesday, 21 March 2007, at 7pm. The show features ten Chilean artists, seven of which who live in Brooklyn (Francisca Benitez, Ivan Navarro with Courtney Smith, Diego Fernandez, Cristobal Lehyt, Felipe Mujica and Nelson Rivas) and three others (Patrick Hamilton,...
Guariglia + Chen: Qì
(13 March 2007) - Blurring, compositing and distorting figures of Shaolin monks in traditional Kung Fu stances, artist duo Justin Guariglia and Zoe Chen's recent photographic work interprets the spiritual and more metaphysical sides of the 1500+ year-old practice. Their show "Qì," opening this Friday at Gallery 339 in Philadelphia, is the culmination of the pair's collaborative efforts on the subject. Featuring black and white images of figures...
(13 March 2007) - Blurring, compositing and distorting figures of Shaolin monks in traditional Kung Fu stances, artist duo Justin Guariglia and Zoe Chen's recent photographic work interprets the spiritual and more metaphysical sides of the 1500+ year-old practice. Their show "Qì," opening this Friday at Gallery 339 in Philadelphia, is the culmination of the pair's collaborative efforts on the subject. Featuring black and white images of figures...
Jason Young: New Works
(12 March 2007) - Jason Young, the New York-based artist who makes "high-tech minimal 'trompe-l’oeuil'" paintings, has a show opening this Thursday, 15 March 2007, at NYC's Cristinerose gallery. The exhibition features recent works that layer resin and other materials over honeycomb alloy, a material used in the construction of airplanes, for an effect that adds surprising dimension. (To see his intensive process, watch this recent CH video.)...
(12 March 2007) - Jason Young, the New York-based artist who makes "high-tech minimal 'trompe-l’oeuil'" paintings, has a show opening this Thursday, 15 March 2007, at NYC's Cristinerose gallery. The exhibition features recent works that layer resin and other materials over honeycomb alloy, a material used in the construction of airplanes, for an effect that adds surprising dimension. (To see his intensive process, watch this recent CH video.)...
The Burning House
(27 February 2007) - I was recently in L.A. for the weekend and was lucky enough to catch “The Burning House,” a collaborative installation by Faile, Swoon and David Ellis at New Image Art now extended through 17 March 2007. Walking into the gallery is overwhelming. Much like Wooster on Spring, Every inch of wall, window, or door has been wheat pasted or painted over. (Click above image...
(27 February 2007) - I was recently in L.A. for the weekend and was lucky enough to catch “The Burning House,” a collaborative installation by Faile, Swoon and David Ellis at New Image Art now extended through 17 March 2007. Walking into the gallery is overwhelming. Much like Wooster on Spring, Every inch of wall, window, or door has been wheat pasted or painted over. (Click above image...
Bill Culbert: Light Sculpture
(26 February 2007) - Pairing the humble plastic detergent bottle with the equally humble fluorescent light tube, Kiwi artist Bill Culbert's latest show features subtle re-workings of everyday objects into luminous sculptures. Arranging groups of identical empty, label-less bottles along the horizontal axis of the florescent light, his work evokes both products arranged on a shelf and the horizon line, a point he cheekily drives home with a...
(26 February 2007) - Pairing the humble plastic detergent bottle with the equally humble fluorescent light tube, Kiwi artist Bill Culbert's latest show features subtle re-workings of everyday objects into luminous sculptures. Arranging groups of identical empty, label-less bottles along the horizontal axis of the florescent light, his work evokes both products arranged on a shelf and the horizon line, a point he cheekily drives home with a...
Robert Wilson: VOOM Portraits
(08 January 2007) - Iconic artist and theater director Robert Wilson has created a series of video portraits of celebrities, ordinary people and animals called "VOOM Portraits." Known for his glacier-paced theatrical productions with Tom Waits and Lou Reed, Wilson's now bringing his aesthetic to a video format. The recent developments in HD technology have allowed Wilson to create something like a precise hybrid of still photography and...
(08 January 2007) - Iconic artist and theater director Robert Wilson has created a series of video portraits of celebrities, ordinary people and animals called "VOOM Portraits." Known for his glacier-paced theatrical productions with Tom Waits and Lou Reed, Wilson's now bringing his aesthetic to a video format. The recent developments in HD technology have allowed Wilson to create something like a precise hybrid of still photography and...
Taschen SoHo Store
(04 January 2007) - Following the success of their pop-up store in the same location, Taschen is making their SoHo digs permanent. Designed by Philippe Starck (who also was behind their flagships in Beverly Hills and Paris), the space features swirling tropical-colored murals on the walls by Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes. Currently soft opened as of last month, their biannual warehouse sale will take place from 19-21 January...
(04 January 2007) - Following the success of their pop-up store in the same location, Taschen is making their SoHo digs permanent. Designed by Philippe Starck (who also was behind their flagships in Beverly Hills and Paris), the space features swirling tropical-colored murals on the walls by Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes. Currently soft opened as of last month, their biannual warehouse sale will take place from 19-21 January...
Ramon Vega: Bomb Scare
(02 January 2007) - Appropriated images become pop kaleidoscopic spectacles in Ramon Vega's work. By isolating figures from the barrage of pop culture, the RISD grad creates snowflake-like patterns—the repeated symmetry has the meditative feel of religious mandalas—referencing sports and fashion. The results, like "Inside Upside" (pictured, click for detail) retain their slickly commercial feel and are also surreal configurations of the body, not unlike the work of Jean-Paul...
(02 January 2007) - Appropriated images become pop kaleidoscopic spectacles in Ramon Vega's work. By isolating figures from the barrage of pop culture, the RISD grad creates snowflake-like patterns—the repeated symmetry has the meditative feel of religious mandalas—referencing sports and fashion. The results, like "Inside Upside" (pictured, click for detail) retain their slickly commercial feel and are also surreal configurations of the body, not unlike the work of Jean-Paul...
Juliet Rose: Atmosfear
(29 November 2006) - Juliet Rose, the London painter whose subject is the ephemera of everyday life, is one of nine artists showing their work in the upcoming show called "Atmosfear." Opening next Monday, 4 December 2006, at the Air Gallery in London, the works exhibited in the week-long show all share "a profoundly atmospheric aesthetic." For Juliet, that includes silver combs, keys and other trinkets that she...
(29 November 2006) - Juliet Rose, the London painter whose subject is the ephemera of everyday life, is one of nine artists showing their work in the upcoming show called "Atmosfear." Opening next Monday, 4 December 2006, at the Air Gallery in London, the works exhibited in the week-long show all share "a profoundly atmospheric aesthetic." For Juliet, that includes silver combs, keys and other trinkets that she...
Tavares Strachan: Where We Are Is Always Miles Away
(14 November 2006) - Like historical land artists Robert Smithson and Gordon Matta-Clark before him, Tavares Strachan's "Where We Are Is Always Miles Away" uses the physical environment as a medium. Opening this Friday, 17 November 2006 at San Francisco's Luggage Store gallery, the show features a 56" x 56" piece of sidewalk from Crown Street in New Haven, Connecticut that was removed by a crew from the...
(14 November 2006) - Like historical land artists Robert Smithson and Gordon Matta-Clark before him, Tavares Strachan's "Where We Are Is Always Miles Away" uses the physical environment as a medium. Opening this Friday, 17 November 2006 at San Francisco's Luggage Store gallery, the show features a 56" x 56" piece of sidewalk from Crown Street in New Haven, Connecticut that was removed by a crew from the...
Cal Lane and Elissa Levy: Purfle
(01 November 2006) - Rife with paradox, the finely-detailed metal sculptures by Cal Lane (Wheel Barrel, 2005 pictured) and Elissa Levy's military-themed felt pieces, mix delicate filigree with more substantial materials and topics. Their complimentary work is the subject of a show called "Purfle" that opens at Foley Gallery in NYC tomorrow, 2 November 2006 and runs through 6 January 2007. Lane will show a series of plasma-cut...
(01 November 2006) - Rife with paradox, the finely-detailed metal sculptures by Cal Lane (Wheel Barrel, 2005 pictured) and Elissa Levy's military-themed felt pieces, mix delicate filigree with more substantial materials and topics. Their complimentary work is the subject of a show called "Purfle" that opens at Foley Gallery in NYC tomorrow, 2 November 2006 and runs through 6 January 2007. Lane will show a series of plasma-cut...
Anonymous: In the Future No One Will Be Famous
(31 October 2006) - With an anonymous cast of 11 international artists and a curator, the group show "Anonymous: In the Future No One Will Be Famous" opens today, 31 October 2006, at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, embracing the flip side of Warhol's quip about 15 minutes of fame. In part a statement against the current over-inflated art market that spawns "artists as brands whose works have become...
(31 October 2006) - With an anonymous cast of 11 international artists and a curator, the group show "Anonymous: In the Future No One Will Be Famous" opens today, 31 October 2006, at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, embracing the flip side of Warhol's quip about 15 minutes of fame. In part a statement against the current over-inflated art market that spawns "artists as brands whose works have become...
Leo Villareal: Origin
(30 October 2006) - Taking on Newtonian physics, Origin, New York-based light artist Leo Villareal's latest work, integrates the Laws of Motion into a computer code that controls an LED grid. Though randomized, the sequences created suggest biological patterns and, measuring nearly seven feet tall by 27 feet long, the large scale of the installation lends an experiential dimension and a god-like, macro point-of-view to the show. Origin...
(30 October 2006) - Taking on Newtonian physics, Origin, New York-based light artist Leo Villareal's latest work, integrates the Laws of Motion into a computer code that controls an LED grid. Though randomized, the sequences created suggest biological patterns and, measuring nearly seven feet tall by 27 feet long, the large scale of the installation lends an experiential dimension and a god-like, macro point-of-view to the show. Origin...
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