Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Mark Ryden’s YHWH is available for pre-order now at Porterhouse, with an official release date of July 10. The edition was culpted by the talented Dave Pressler and created in conjunction with Necessaries Toy Foundation after the central figure in Ryden’s painting of the same name. In production for more than a year, the figure is cast in pink vinyl with inset, high-quality eyes and comes in an elaborately designed, gold embossed box.
Edition Size: 2,000
Size: 16.5″ x 9″ x 1.75″
Box Size: 16″ x 4″ x 4″
Price: $180
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Photos courtesy of Remi/Rough.
London’s Black Rat Press unveiled its July show, Ways of Seeing, on the 2nd. It will run until the July 24th. Featuring Swoon, Matt Small, and Brian Adam Douglas, the exhibition explores the different approaches of these three stylistically cohesive contemporaries.
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Agathe Snow – Strength in Numbers, 2009 (detail view).Image Courtesy of Peres Projects
For those of you in the Los Angeles area, Peres Projects presents its summer group show Minneapolis, running July 2 until August 29, 2009.
According to the gallery’s press release, “Minneapolis is a city in the Midwestern United States, known for its high rate of literacy and racially tolerant atmosphere. In many respects it is the ideal American city, where coexisting cultures thrive, and in turn breed successive generations of even more creative, talented inhabitants. ‘Minneapolis’ considers the implications of Minneapolis, its legacy and impact on everyone who has never been there.”
While Javier Peres is widely recognized for cultivating the careers of hot young superstars Dan Colen, Terrence Koh, and Dash Snow (who are all included in the show), Minneapolis takes the opportunity to showcase some of the lesser known, but equally captivating artists in gallery’s stable, including Mark Tichner, Paul Lee, Amie Dicke, Dan Attoe, Mark Flood, Kirstine Roepstorff, John Kleckner, Kaye Donachie, and Joe Bradley. As a whole, the show reveals the depth of talent represented by Peres Projects, and it is perfect for anyone looking for an introduction to a gallery that the rest of the art world just can’t seem to get enough of.
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Hydra School Projects 2009: Alpha Exotica show poster featuring lettering by Robert Wilson.
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Mathew Barney and Elizabeth Peyton’s site specific collaboration isn’t the only installation on the Greek island of Hydra worthy of a pilgrimage. Entering its 10th year, is Hydra School Projects, an annual art exhibition housed in the the historic Sachtoureion, the old Hydra High School which once functioned as a sea captain’s house. Each year Hydra Projects joins together a select group of established and emerging contemporary Greek and international artists to fill the building’s former class rooms. This year’s exhibit, Alpha Exotica, opens July 4th and groups seven participants around the theme of portraiture, ranging from video installations by experimental theater icon Robert Wilson, to the ultra-pop Kurf (rebranded Smurf) “product paintings” of the increasingly popular New York artist KAWS (who exhibited alongside the event’s founder and curator, Dimitrios Antonitsis, at Gering Lopez Gallery’s 2007 PopCentric group show in NY). The other artists on view are Margarita Bofiliou, Carsten Fock, Gerald Förster, Sissel Kardel, and Kostas Sahpazis. The 2009 pack are certainly in good company. Past participants include Marilyn Minter, Brice Marden, and Vik Muniz, who, along with other Hydra Projects alumni, have lent additional installations to scatter the island in honor of the 10th anniversary celebration.
Read on for images of the complete Alpha Exotica exhibit catalog, appropriately printed in the style of a traditional exam booklet, as well as a map of installation locations around the island. View the 2008 catalog here. Read the rest of this entry »
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Parisian gallery Magda Danysz celebrates its 10 year anniversary with the launch of 18Gallery, a new exhibition space in Shanghai. To commemorate the occasion both galleries are hosting solo shows by JonOne, one of the earliest NY writers to import graffiti to Paris, when he relocate there at the end of the 1980s. Since then his art has gained widespread popularity and is arguably more well known in France and throughout Europe than back here in the States. His Shanghai show is already underway and the Paris exhibit launches this Saturday, July 4.
Read on for more images from the 18Gallery opening and a video interview with JonOne. Read the rest of this entry »
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
The Obey Windmill print will be available sometime today via Obey Giant. The site alludes to future use of the design as part of a Green Energy Initiatives campaign, hinting to “Keep a look out as you might see this image around in the days to come.”
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
On july 9th Ron English opens his first solo exhibition in Italy at Milan’s Don Gallery. In the meantime, here’s a small preview of some classic images that will be on display. More to come…
Monday, June 29th, 2009
Image: Chris Tait / The Gauntlet
For regular blog readers, the issue of plagarism should be a familiar one, especially when concerning image content. Blogs and other sites who pass stolen photos or text off as their own create a virtual frankenstein in cyberspace. As more and more sites (often unknowingly) re-report falsely credited content an ongoing and out of control cycle of continual plagiarism grows. Case in point - recently we contacted close to 20 blogs who had mistakenly used one of our photos, crediting it to another website who knowingly took the image from us and passed it off as their own.
Why are we mentioning this now? - Yesterday, I had the pleasure of meeting photographer Tod Seelie, whose work we’ve admired here at TAC for some time. Tod has been victim of this sort of property theft by many websites, including some very highly regarded and trafficked ones. In fact, many of you out there owe Tod a thanks (and a credit) for the stunningly inspirational images he has captured during his ongoing aquatic voyages with Swoon. While TAC is also no stranger to this unethical conduct, his case is far worse in our eyes. Its one thing to nic a photo that was originally published as edititorial content. Its far more shameful to steal the art someone makes a living off of.
There is federal legislation protecting against Internet copyright infringement. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (1998) holds ISP’s responsible for removing stolen content. We urge all bloggers who have fallen victim to copyright infringement and content theft to download this cease and desist letter (thanks for the tip Tod!) and start sending it to the ISPs providing service to the guilty websites (you can easily find out a site’s ISP using a site like register.com). It only takes a few minutes and the potential impact is an important one.
Oh - In an ironic side note, while searching for an appropriate image to use for this post, we came across the above one on at least five different sites, all accompanying articles about plagiarism. It took us some time before we actually found one that attributed it back to the original source.
Monday, June 29th, 2009
WK Interact and Space Invader proved their continual popularity as signature-hungry fans fought through the packed opening night crowd for joint solo shows with Jonathan LeVine this past Saturday.
WK’s Motion Portrait presents recent large acrylic on canvas paintings, as well as his well known mixed media and wheat-pasted doors. While several of these works were presented at the Aqua Art Fair during Art Basel Miami last December, the newer motion portrait series does represent a welcome departure for the artists, in both subject and form.
The focus of Invader’s Top 10 is the artists signature Rubik’s Cube mash-ups, this time reworking 10 classic album covers including the Beatles, Velvet Underground, Sex Pistols, Clash and yes, even Iron Maiden. We were most intrigued by Invader’s use of digital technology, in which the artist created a black and white tile mosaic that can be read by smartphone cameras, in turn triggering a time-lapsed Quicktime video of Invader constructing one of his pieces. Magic? – not really. The piece utilizes QR coding (think barcode) that points to a specific URL.
Shows run till July 25. Read on for our extensive photo recap. Read the rest of this entry »
Friday, June 26th, 2009
Philadelphia based artist and founding member of Space 1026, Jim Houser, opens The Tip of The Sword, his first solo exhibit in Italy, on July 1 at Milan’s Galeria Patricia Armocida. We’ve been vocal about our admiration for Houser’s instantly recognizable visual narratives and folk-inspired installations. If you are in the Milan area, this one’s not to be missed. Here’s a couple of images of new works.
Jim Houser – The Tip of the Sword
July 3 – July 31
Galleria Patricia Armocida
Via Bazzini 17, 20131 Milan, Italy
info@galeriapatriciaarmocida.com
