Archive for October 31st, 2008
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Geoff McFetridge - UNDFTD Billboard Project
Beautiful Loser, Geoff McFetridge has teamed up with Undefeated for the latest installment of the UNDFTD Billboard Project, in which a rotating cast of artists are invited to design the billboard perched above the store’s Los Angeles location. Previous contributors include Kaws, Os Gemeos, Barry McGee, Jose Parla, Kehinde Wiley, and Thomas Campbell. The installation can be seen at 112.5 S. La Brea, Los Angeles, 90036.
Source: Hypebeast / Image: UNDFTD
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Must See::Jim Houser at White Walls SF
We previously told you about Awful Mountain, Jim Houser and Richard Colman’s upcoming joint show at White Walls in San Francisco. Here are some wonderful shots the gallery sent over (thanks goes out to Jeff Luger) of Jim working on his installation, as well as some of the individual pieces available.
Jim’s installations are fantastically inspirational, and he possesses the unique ability to create an environment that is at once warm and welcoming, yet thought provoking an densely layered. Through his use of reoccurring characters, symbols, and text, Jim has created a language and ongoing narrative that is distinctly his own, and represents a form of pure artistic and emotional expression that is often void from much contemporary illustrative art today. Simply put, he is one of our favorite working artists. Read on for more images of the installation in progress.
Richard Colman and Jim Houser - Awful Mountain
Opening: Nov. 1, 7 - 11pm
White Walls SF
835 Larkin St.
San Francisco, CA, 94109
andres@whitewallssf.com
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Kehinde Wiley - Down
Kehinde Wiley’s new solo show opens tomorrow at Deitch Projects. For Down, Wiley will present seven new monolithic canvases, spanning up to twenty-five feet in length and representing his largest works to date.
For his third solo exhibition with Deitch Projects, “Wiley re-conceptualizes classic pictorial forms to create a contemporary version of monumental portraiture…Described by Wiley, Down is ‘an answer to the negative views of young Black men in American society. It recognizes an idiom that can be seen from a distance as a negative form transformed into something more fabulous and joyful…’ ” (excerpted from press release)
The new show opens in the wake of Wiley’s last New York exhibit, World Stage: Africa, Lagos-Dakar (previously reported), at the Studio Museum in Harlem, which closed last week and will travel to ArtPace in San Antonio, TX this coming January.
Kehinde Wiley - Down
Nov. 1 - Dec. 20
Deitch Projects
18 Wooster Street
New York, NY 10013
info@deitch.com