Thursday, May 22, 2008
Krista Huot
Krista Huot was born and raised in northern British Columbia, Canada. It was during this childhood that she developed an obsession for fairy tales, cartoons, and coloring books. Krista has an education in both fine arts and classical animation and has worked in the animation industry on projects for Cartoon Network and Disney. She takes influence from antique dolls, storybooks with worn golden spines, the ballet lessons she took growing up, and the unicorn posters her Mom put up in her bedroom when she was very small. She lives in Montreal, Quebec and refuses to grow up.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
"Picket Fencing" An Installation by John Casey
Swarm Gallery presents:
"Picket Fencing"
An Installation by John Casey
May 23 - June 22, 2008
Artists Jeff Eisenberg and Chris Loomis will be showing in the main gallery.
Reception: Friday, May 23, 6-8 PM
"A father of four young boys told me this story. His sons were out playing in their large backyard one afternoon. At one point, the father went out into the backyard and found his sons wildly battling each other with numerous wooden pickets torn from his pristine white-picket fence. The boys were literally fencing with pickets.
Aside from the obvious pun, for me, the story conjured images of an epic battle where the combatants splinter their environment to extract weapons to wield against each other. With total disregard for the iconic power of the white-picket fence (middle-class structure, suburban culture, ownership society, etc.), the manic adolescents destroy the fence with glee.
'Picket Fencing' is simply my attempt to capture the spirit of that manic scenario using a cast of characters I have developed over time. The implied politics or metaphors are left open-ended for the viewer to parse. Remember, it's always fun until someone looses an eye".
Tiffany Bozic
Kinsey/DesForges is proud to present new paintings by San Francisco-based artist Tiffany Bozic. Bedtimes Stories will be her third solo with the gallery.
A careful observer of the natural world, Bozic's ability to capture and translate the graceful, complex and organic order of her surroundings - at times allegorically - remains one of the most salient aspects of her poignant work.
In this latest series, she applies her trademark stains of acrylic washes to the natural grain of maple panel to render resonant stories based on observations in her travels and research while an artist-in-residence at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, where she helped establish the residency program in 2007.
View the captivating short film by Todd Bell highlighting Tiffany's thoughts and process-link above (film posted via Fecal Face)
KD Gallery- here.
HEADSetera
Final weekend – HEADSetera closes this Sunday May 25
HEADSetera, an intimate show of heady interplay between three artists, Peter Drake, Laurence Hegarty andMark Mennin.
**Please note hours Thurs-Sunday 12-6pm
Jack the Pelican Presents
487 Driggs Aveunue (bet N. 9 and N. 10)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Saelee Oh TANGLED TALES & Drew Beckmeyer REAL DEEP THOUGHTS
Saelee Oh TANGLED TALES &
Drew Beckmeyer REAL DEEP THOUGHTS
MAY 17 through JUNE 14, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 17, 6-9pm
Tangled Tales, a new show opening May 17th, features new work by Saelee Oh in the main gallery, and Real Deep Thoughts, a mixed media installation by Drew Beckmeyer in the project room.
Saelee Oh's Tangled Tales is a collection of paintings and sculptural explorations of the sorrows and hopes brought on by love. Oh invents rich imaginary worlds ruled by mythic creatures and flora, as experienced from the eyes of a female protagonist. Inspired by folk arts, organic forms, and vintage children's books, Oh creates multi-layered works by integrating traditional painting and drawing with three-dimensional paper cut-outs. Tangled Tales is Oh's first solo show at Tinlark Gallery.
Running concurrently in the project room is Real Deep Thoughts, a solo show by Art Center graduate Drew Beckmeyer. Applying his finely attuned observational skills, Beckmeyer attempts to comprehend the societal ritual known as Spring Break.
Parking available in the Crossroads of the World lot on Las Palmas. Kids' crafts from 6-7:30.
Please contact Cris McCall at 323.463.0039 for further information.
Brian Willmont
Alex Lukas has shown at galleries all over the world and is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design.
Park Life presents Feudal Echo, new works by Brian Willmont and Alex Lukas.
May 9th to June 8th, 2008
Opening Reception Friday May 9th from 7 to 10pm.
Park Life is proud to present new paintings from Brian Willmont and Alex Lukas. Both artists are members of Philidelphia's Space 1026 artist collective.
Brian Willmont's work builds on the new American folktale with Technicolor paintings that are tarnished with American history, Pre-Renaissance and Persian miniature painting, worship, dreamscapes, blacklight posters, and the fantastic.
His work has been featured in Solo Exhibitions at Space 1026, LaMontagne Gallery, and The Mills Gallery. Brian Willmont received his BFA with Honors from the Massachusetts College of Art in 2007.
Alex Lukas' current work explores images of the destruction of the American landscape. Inspired by contemporary imagery in various media including blockbuster movies and the evening news where there is a dominance of images alluding to the story of an America destroyed. His fictitious drawings are more obscure than narrative, paralleling real life, meant to be slightly confusing while hinting at a sense of unease and anxiety.
Wilson Hsu
"Hey what's up:) pretty much from LA, born in Brazil. Grew up in Walnut..... After that spent 2 1/2 years back in Brazil....gained some life experience.... headed back to so-cal....attended Otis....got my BA in arts 2003. Ever since, just been freelancing and painting.-->"
Alex Gross
Surrealist artist Alex Gross features striking, dreamlike imagery that transcends category. Gross paints a haunting m lange of fairytale, allegory, history, and pop culture, fusing eastern and western aesthetics in an ethereal world populated by kimono-clad Japanese women and lost Victorian dandies. In more than eighty exquisite color images, comprising all of Gross's gallery work, silk screens, etchings, and sketches, this volume illuminates his singular blend of realism and whimsy. Embraced and collected by art connoisseurs and lowbrow fans alike, Gross's work is both enigmatic and irresistible.
(text via Amazon.com)
Monday, May 19, 2008
Friday, May 16, 2008
Supermarkethq
Supermarket has a variety of products. It connects you directly with designers and the great things they make. Charles Wilkin prints.
Fumi Mini Nakamura
Fumi Mini Nakamura was born in December, 1984. Grew up half of her life in Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan. Other half in Bay Area, California, the United States. She finished her last semester at San Jose State University in Fall 2007, received her BFA Fine Art Degree (concentration on drawing medium). Currently living in East Bay and working as a freelance illustrator / designer.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Ruby Mag-Special Issue
2008 / May 15th
This month Ruby has a different issue. all the artists included in issues 1 to 12 were invited to send their newer works and 15 were selected to be part of a special compilation. the chosen artists were: mark rubenstein, maureen gubia, ding ren, takashi iwasaki, riikka sormunen, wendy walgate, celine clanet, michael deforge, betsy davis, jan von holleben, matthew fyeld, andrew laumann, ronnie rascal (donal dixon), frederik heyman and team macho.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
STUDIO STUBBORN SIDEBURN
STUDIO STUBBORN SIDEBURN was founded by JUN-ICHI TSUNEOKA to create world wide visual vocabulary of character illustration and design.
Scott Brooks - Under the Skin
Scott Brooks - Under the Skin from Brandon Bloch on Vimeo.
Scott Brooks' show "Under the Skin" is on display at the Longview Gallery in Washington, DC from May 10 - June 7, 2008.
Show link: here.
Jorge Mascarenhas
The 2008 CA Illustration Annual will include 'Unknown Girl' by Jorge Mascarenhas. The artist comments on the piece in this article.
Karen Preston
I live in Boston Massachusetts. I have always loved old things and animals, strange dolls and item. I started doing collage in my early 20s. Wow thats almost 20 years. I used to use magazines and papers and such but now I use my mac. I find the process to be the same pretty much. The only real difference being that I don't have to take out the vacuum cleaner every time I work on a piece. Also the computer allows me to paint into the pictures I use much easier than before.
At the moment I only have my collages in my shop but I may add paintings an illustrations in the future as well.
I hope people will view my work and enjoy viewing them as much as I enjoy creating them.
K. Lolley
Kathleen Lolley (born 1978 in Marshfield, Wisconsin) moved to Kentucky nine months after her birth. She spent her childhood split between Louisville, KY and Pittsburgh, PA.
She attended California Institute of the Arts and received a BFA in experimental Animation. While at Calarts she experimented with hand-crafted stop motion puppets. This experience introduced her to the world of comics and sequential art. In addition to working on various commercial animations, including Nickelodeon’s Sponge Bob Squarepants and titles for the movie Willard, Kathleen has created a handful of short films.
After spending six years in Los Angeles, she moved back to Kentucky to concentrate on painting and living a simple life. Storytelling still plays a prominent role in her work. Critters try to break the spell of day to day heartbreak. Rabbits flee from hunters, girls are lost in the woods. Giant elk stumble over towns clasping bottles, is it a remedy they hold or just a beer?
Her work can be found in small shops and galleries across the U.S. Last year her work received international recognition by appearing in Elle & Japanese Vogue and appearing on the latest album cover of My Morning Jacket. Also she has been published in a few comic anthologies (Unicorn Mountain) Lolley currently resides in Kentucky where she spends her time making crafts, comics and fine art.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
R.I.P. Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg, the irrepressibly prolific American artist who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, died Monday night. He was 82.
He died of heart failure, said Arne Glimcher, chairman of PaceWildenstein, the artist's gallery in Manhattan.
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