Travis Louie will be curating “Monster?” a group art exhibition opening at Copro Gallery on Saturday, July 11th at 8pm.

“Monster?” will include work by more than fifty amazing artists including Annie Owens, Brom, Chet Zar, Dan Quintana, Kris Kuksi, David Stoupakis, Fred Harper, Heidi Taillefer, Kris Lewis, Martin Wittfooth, Miles Teves (right), Xiaoqing Ding, Jessica Joslin and Ron English.

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Copro Gallery

2525 Michigan Ave. T5 (Inside Bergamot Station)

Santa Monica, CA

USA

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Brom, Chet Zar, Kris Kuksi, David Stoupakis, Heidi Taillefer and Ron English are featured in the ‘Metamorphosis‘ series (beinArt Publishing).

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Kristi Ropeleski has upcoming group exhibitions this July in Hungary and Brooklyn, New York.

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Re: InSitu with Istvan Kantor, Balint Zako, Anna Torma, Gabor Szilasi, Andrea Blanar, Ann Biro and more.

July 2nd – August 23rd, 2009

Opening: July 2nd, 6pm

Szentendre Muveszet Malom

Bogdanyi utca 32

Hungary

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The Love Show with Atticus Jackson, Chris Hayden, Mac Rabinovitz, Myles Kar, Rebecca Fox, Jenny Leaver and more.

July 17th – 18th, 2009

Opening July 17th, 7pm

Spread Art

104 Meserole St

Brooklyn, New York

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Dominic Rouse was awarded first place in the Digitally Enhanced section of the inaugural Xto Nude Image Awards for his series, ‘Growing Pains‘.

His work will be exhibited in the Xto Winners group show at the Farmani Gallery in DUMBO, NYC. The Grand Prize will be awarded to one of the exhibiting artists at the opening reception on July the 8th.

Dominic Rouse also has an upcoming traveling exhibit in the USA.

Follow the links to view his recent interviews in Traversing the Orient Magazine and MyArtSpace.

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UU presents…

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‘Lucidia’ - An exhibition of works by London based artist Nom Kinnear King.

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The opening reception is on Sunday the 5th of July from 6pm – 9pm.

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The exhibition is open until the end of July.

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UU

Studio 7A, 238 Brunswick St

(first right down laneway behind Black Cat)

Fitzroy VIC Australia

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Kris Wlodarski Paintings at Unit 24 Gallery

Opening Thursday 2nd of June at 6pm

Exhibition continues until 23rd of July

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Unit 24

20 Great Guilford St

London SE1 OFD

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The Invisible College - 5th edition

Edition five of the Invisible College is now availible. The publication features the artwork of Amanda Sage and Leo Plaw. There is also a three page interview with Leo.

The Invisible College is a publication is dedicated to the emerging cultural forces of our times, and to anchor these cultural groups into perspective within the continuum of the twin streams of the Bohemian & Acadian memes. The magazine came into being about two and half years ago as there seemed to be a serious gap in the magazine/journal world for publications that was tracking and recording what has been evolving in the world of arts and consciousness.

The idea is to present art, poetry, tales, interviews and reviews in such a way to lift consciousness, and to engage the reader to consider alternatives to the current cultural systems that have now peaked and are now in decline. As artist and poets have been in the forefront of the various struggles and movements in society from time out of mind, journals and magazines in recent centuries have become an important part of the documenting process and have served as a focal point and organizing organ of the various aspects of what seems to be transpiring in current times.

The Invisible College evolved out of Earthrites.org and the associated Turfing blog. There was a prototype magazine being developed on Earth Rites, and Turfing is a running social and arts commentary blog. It was Robert Venosa, Martina Hoffmann or maybe Mike Crowley that suggested it should evlove into a pdf magazine. After 2 issues, it went into printing via Lulu.com. It came out rather rapidly at first, and now has slowed down a bit. We are going to keep going with the print on demand situation until we can find funding to print. The Invisible College has had some amazing artist, poets and writers grace its pages. You can go to the Invisible College web page for free downloads of the web versions and also to find a link to order a printed copy of The Invisible College.

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Michelet hosts Ange Exquis in Vascoeuil’s Castle:

L’ANGE EXQUIS, realised by the Magic Realism Libellule Group is visiting Vascoeuil’s Castle during the whole summer, opening Saturday June 27th at 6.30pm, and continuing until September 20th, 2009.

The participating artists are:  Jean-Pierre Alaux (F), Sergei Aparin (RU/CS), Vicente Arnas (SP), Anne Bachelier (F), Jean Bailly (F), Vincenzo Cacace (I), Patrizia Comand (I), Yo Coquelin (F), Raffaele de Rosa (I), Zeljko Djurovic (CS), Alexandra Muller-Jontschewa (BG/D), Lukas Kandl (CZ/F), Ales Krejca (CZ), Kris Kuksi (USA), Ugo Levita (I), Vlada Mirkovic (CS), Hans Peter Muller (D), Martin-Georg Oscity (SK/D), Reinhard Schmid (D), Eli Tiunine (PL/F), Petre Velicu (RO/F), Pavel Zacek (CZ).

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Chateau de Vascoeuil

Art and History Center

27910 Vascoeuil

France

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Meta Gallery is pleased to present Anatomy of Being, new and old works by Alex Grey. In the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, as well as the first exhibition of his work in Canada in over 20 years. The works exhibited represent a wide spectrum of the inner and outer worlds Alex Grey depicts through his artworks during the years spanning 1999-2009. With a career going back over 3 decades, Alex Grey’s paintings represent a bold and courageous statement in contemporary art today. One where despite the collective struggle of humanity and the tremendous amounts of suffering occurring on a daily basis, good exists. And what Alex Grey’s artwork offers is evidence – a tangible thing we can see and touch that in its silence is a potent reminder to be good, and to love.

Alex will be attending the exhibition and also giving a talk on his art and life, Saturday June 27th, 2009.

Anatomy of Being
Meta Gallery
107-37 Mill St.
Toronto, Ontario
Canada

416.955.0500

metagallery.com

June 26 to September 4, 2009
Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday from 11-6 and Sunday from 12-5.

The opening reception will be on Friday June 26 from 7-10pm.

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Press Release from Lily Mae Martin:

In July 2009 Australian Artist Lily Mae Martin will be showing her first European exhibition ‘Melee’ in Berlin, Germany. Lily’s work draws on her recent journeys throughout Europe; from post-war Berlin to the hyper-sensitivity of security and terrorism in London. Lily portrays her subjects as confused, chaotic and frantically searching to grasp some form of control and stability within their world.

‘Melee’ will be exhibited at theArter gallerie Hagenstr. 56, 10365 Berlin, from July 4 until August 7.

Opening hours: Wednesday and Thursday 19 hour to 23 hour, Fridays 14 hour to 21 hour

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Fantasmus

More than 50 international artists are exhibiting works inspired by Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, 1265 – 1321, Italy

Opening: Saturday, June 27, 2009, 2pm – 5pm

Artists present at the opening are Claus Brusen, Gil Bruvel, Annebelle Claudia, Elisabeth De Lunde, Paul Erland, Monica Fagan, Sanne Glissov, Danny Evo Heinricht,  Stephanie Henderson, Michael Hiep, Anne-Fieke Later, Eugene Later, Jack Lipowczan, Peter van Oostzanen, Richard Pernsteiner, Jose Roosevelt, Reinhard Schmid, Ines Scheppach, Cas Waterman, Mark Wilkinson, Patrick Woodroffe and Siegfried Zademack.

This is the third International Biennale for Magic Realism In Denmark curated by Claus Brusen

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On exhibition:

Guest of Honour: Carsten Svennsson

Agostino Arrivabene, David Bowers, Margaret Bowland, Claus Brusen, Gil Bruvel, Annebelle Claudia, Peter Cross, Elisabeth De Lunde, Bruno Di Maio, Di Vogo, Val Dyshlov, Paul Erland, Monica Fagan, Magda Francot, Walter Girotto, Sanne Glissov, George Gonzalez, Igor Grechanyk, Wolfgang Harms, Danny Evo Heinreicht, Stephanie Henderson, Diana Hesketh, Michael Hiep, Erik Heyninck, Krzysztof Izdebski-Cruz, Dariusz Kaleta, Steven Kenny, Marcin Kolpanowicz, Anne-Fieke Later, Eugene Later, Ugo Levita, Jack Lipowczan, Brigid Marlin, Vlada Mirkovic, Voytek Nowakowski, Peter van Oostzanen, Vladimir Ovtcharov, Daniela Ovtcharov, Richard Pernsteiner, Volodia Popov, Tim Roosen, Jose Roosevelt, Michel de Saint Ouen, Reinhard Schmid, Ines Scheppach, Cas Waterman, Mark Wilkinson, Patrick Woodroffe, Siegfried Zademack, Olivier Zappelli

Groennegade 3, 300 Saeby, Denmark, 28th of June – 26th of July, 2009

Open Wednesday to Sunday from 1pm – 5pm

Germany – Bavaria: Viechtach Town Hall, 1st of August – 27th of September, 2009

Poland – Kolobrzeg: Gallery of Contemporary Art, 9th of October – 8th of November, 2009

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Painting the Fantastic - 7-Day workshop with Martina Hoffmann and Robert Venosa.

September 2009

Rhinebeck Campus: Rhinebeck, NY (US)

Limited enrollment, register early. More information or a list of things to bring is provided after registration.

This 7-day workshop offers the rare opportunity to learn oil and portrait painting with internationally renowned visionary art masters Robert Venosa and Martina Hoffmann. Open to both beginner and accomplished artists alike, this workshop takes us on a creative adventure into expressing our personal visual language. From the initial exercises of free-form painting through to the detailed finished work, we tap into the technical expertise and creative abilities within our reach, while discovering the joy and illuminating power of visionary art.  The program includes introduction and application of the misch technique, oil painting, portrait painting, a power-point lecture on the history of visionary art, presentations by and about the instructors, and a group exhibit.

The Fantastic ‘implies a lack of restraint in the imagination’, and such is the approach to painting taken in this unique workshop. For beginners and accomplished artists alike, this workshop is for all those wishing to tap into the artistic capabilities that lie within their reach and discover the joy and illuminating power of painting. Utilizing a simplified approach, which the leaders call ‘Serendipitous Exploitation’, an emotional outpouring of color and form is first applied to a surface, followed by studied, individual detailing of the personal visions the imagination presents. Through this simple process, the artist can begin to create essential form and color that is enlivening, enlightening and amazingly fantastic. The premise: to exercise right-brain potential in a non threatening, effortless, and exuberant manner that instills joy, self discovery, and newfound self-esteem. With an emphasis on individual attention, this workshop covers the needs and desires of all involved while exceeding all expectations.

The visionary art of Robert Venosa has been exhibited worldwide and is represented in major collections. He has done film design (sketches and conceptual design for the movies Dune, Fire in the Sky, and Race for Atlantis), and his work has been featured on several CD covers, including those of Santana and Kitaro.

German-born artist Martina Hoffmann’s work has been exhibited internationally and has been published in books, calendars, and magazines such as True Visions, Noospheres, Illuminatus, The Return of the Great Goddess, Shaman’s Drum, and WellBeing. She teaches visionary painting techniques around the world with her husband Robert Venosa.

For more information and to register, please visit the Omega Website.

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‘Lush Ripe Juicy,’ an exhibition of paintings by Anne Middleton are on show at Lovegrove Winery from June 7 until July 26, 2009

The opening reception is on Saturday, June 13, from 2pm – 4pm.

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Lovegrove Winery

1420 Heidelberg Kinglake Road

Cottles Bridge, 3099

Victoria, Australia

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Open 11am to 6pm weekends and public holidays or by appointment during the week.

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Billy Shire Fine Arts is featuring Carrie Ann Baade, Christopher Ulrich and K.S. Rives in separate solo shows from June 13 until July 4, 2009.

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Carrie Ann Baade – Intemperance (above right: ‘The Bride Stripping the Bachelors Bare,’ 16 x 20 inches, oil on panel)

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Christopher Ulrich – The Fourth Enochian Key (below right: ‘The Inside and the Outside Are the Same,’ 36 x 46 inches, oil on canvas)

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K.S. Rives – After India

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Exhibition: June 13, 2009 – July 4, 2009

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Opening Reception: Saturday, June 13th, 7-10 pm

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The gallery is open 12 noon to 6 pm, Thursday through Saturday and by appointment.

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Billy Shire Fine Arts

5790 Washington Blvd.

Culver City, CA 90232

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Carrie Ann Baade is one of fifty contemporary artists featured in ‘Metamorphosis’ (beinArt Publishing)

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Karl Persson's newest body of work, 'Evolution' will be on show at Gallery UU from the 7th of June until the 30th of June, 2009.

The opening reception will be on Sunday, the 7th of June, between 6 and 9pm.

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Gallery UU

Studio 7A-238 Brunswick St, Fitzroy

(first right down lane way behind Black Cat)

Melbourne, Victoria

Australia

Opening Hours: 1-5pm Wed to Sat

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Karl Persson is one of 50 contemporary artists featured in Metamorphosis (beinArt Publishing).

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Original paintings, sculpture and multi-media works by Robert Venosa will be on show at Push Studio throughout June, from June 6, 2009.

Opening Reception: Saturday, June 6, 6pm – 10pm

Push Studio

Tuesday – Friday: 11am – 7pm

Saturday: 12pm – 5pm

864 Folsom St

San Francisco, CA 94107

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Press Release from Culture Shock:

(West Hollywood, CA – April 21, 2009) – Acclaimed realist painter Mikel Glass will be featured in an exhibition entitled 'The Machine in the Garden: Hopes for a Brighter Yesterday' at the Glass Garage Fine Art Gallery in West Hollywood, opening on May 30, 2009. The exhibition will be on view through August 1.

One of Glass' contributions to the 'Machine in the Garden' exhibition is a mixed media installation entitled 'Steampunk Shelley'. The piece is comprised of a neo-Victorian portrait of Mary Shelley, author of 'Frankenstein', clutching a plastic baby doll. The painting is assembled in a frame that is tangled with mechanized moving gears, pulleys, circuits, and working steam vents powered by a valve cobbled from an antique cow milking machine. The piece uses 19th century fears of birth, stillbirth, and unplanned, uncontrolled growth as a metaphor for the 21st century dissemination of ideas through 'grassroots' and 'viral' methods that compete with frightening effectiveness against the traditional machinery available to commercial and political institutions.

The 'Machine in the Garden' exhibition will also feature performances of 'Body Mecanique', an original collaboration with the Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company and playwright Aaron Henne. The performance is a dance/spoken word/live music hybrid that explores humans' relationships with their objects and machines.

The May 30, 2009 opening of the 'Machine in the Garden' exhibition will coincide with the 12th annual West Hollywood Art and DesignWalk.

Glass Garage Fine Art Gallery

414 N. Robertson Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90048

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Press Release from Joshua Liner Gallery :

An Uncanny Lineup of Serendipitous Connections – May 30 to June 27, 2009

Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present An Uncanny Lineup of Serendipitous Connections, an exhibition of new paintings by Canadian artist Heidi Taillefer. This is Taillefer’s first solo show with the gallery.

Reflecting on life as a mixture of discovery, inevitability, and coincidence, Taillefer’s suite of twelve oil-on-canvas works presents a literalized depiction of destiny. Her dreamy paintings describe chimerical beings: humans with animal and mechanical parts, or animals with multiple limbs, wings, and utterly fantastical provenance. In each, Taillefer puts forth a coded, highly personalized origin myth—an “uncanny lineup of serendipitous connections” that for the artist shapes identity and purpose through transformation.

Birth of Venus is an updated riff on Botticelli’s iconic work. Here, “Venus” is a common tabby, newly sprung from a broken shell and bearing mechanical wings. Amid intergalactic dust and a spiral of cosmic fireflies, this relaxed kitty is more concerned with cleaning itself. Taillefer suggests that instinct and attitude are just as important to development as our genetic birthright. The Most Proximate Cause also comments on the elements that compose and constitute “destiny.” Taillefer offers a modern-day Damocles, cowering under a canopy of choices. Hanging above this anonymous nude, male subject is a crushing load of gears, blades, cogs, and other mechanical parts, an analogue to the pressures and excesses of modern life. The Angels of our Nature is a visual summary of Taillefer’s personal creation myth. Bringing together the realms of sea and land, air and matter, animal and human, the painting depicts life transformations that occur in body and spirit, with the central image of the individual as warrior.

Joshua Liner Gallery

548 West 28th Street

3rd Floor

New York, NY 10001

Heidi Taillefer is one of fifty artists featured in 'Metamorphosis 2' (beinArt Publishing).

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Press Release from Beth Robinson:

A Garden in Darkness Exhibition

Four artists invite you into the most extraordinary gardens…

Beth Robinson’s dolls, drawings and paintings of Kelly Louise Judd, Tanith Hicks’ handcrafted masks and Laetitia Mieral’s paper creations.

These artists share a taste for the strange, wonderful, fantastic, and the offer to return to the most extraordinary gardens: infinity, unreal, a garden at night, strange and secret that was abandoned for several centuries, populated creatures half-animal, half plant, half human, where the brambles and ivy had covered everything, You will come across the remains of carrousels forgotten ladies of crocodiles, and owls…

Galerie Madame des Vosges

14 rue Birague

75004 Paris, France

Opening on Thursday May 28

Gallery Hours: Monday 1 pm  to 7pm

Tuesday to Sunday: 10:30 am to 7:30 pm

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Press Release from Kristian Adam:

Pictures Meet Words in Kristian Adam’s New Show at Ayden Gallery

(May 9th, 2009 – Vancouver) On May 22nd Ayden Gallery at Tinseltown will present The Nym Nums, a collection of original paintings by Kristian Adam interpreted with narrative by Michael Sasi. This is the ninth show in three years for Adam, who also has upcoming exhibitions at Black Maria Gallery in Los Angeles this June and Yaletown Gallery in Vancouver in the fall.

The painter-writer team of Adam and Sasi are not new to collaboration. Their stories for children have appeared many times in Crow Toes Quarterly—a literary magazine for 8-13 year olds. Having already worked together for two years has allowed them to create this show with authentic artistic freedom and absolute confidence in one another.

New works by Mike Kammerer and Conrad Sarzynick will also be on display. The opening reception for the Nym Nums will take place on Friday, May 22nd, 2009: 7 PM – 11 PM at Ayden Gallery. Admission is free, artists in attendance. The show runs until June 14th.

Ayden Gallery

88 West Pender Street

2nd floor, International Village(Tinseltown)

Vancouver, BC, Canada V6B 6N9

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Art Unifies.

Reflecting a message beyond words, the Spirit of the new Art speaks to people across languages and cultures, borders and cultural backgrounds, ages and education levels. Bridging together a network of previously unconnected art movements, these links are empowering local artists and art movements by connecting them to a huge global movement. With artists from five of the worlds continents, the Interdimensional Art Show is sharing color from a diversity of places, traditions and perspectives.

Nestled in the chillout sensibility of the 'left coast', beyond a fantastic selection of art was an activated selection of musicians, djs, performers, dancers, fashion designers, models and visionary activists blazing a trail of life across the urban culturescape of modern Seattle. Curated by Herbanmama of Tribe 13 and Michael of Starborne Productions, this event illustrated the potential of art to connect up different threads in the weave.

Joining with Nemo of R6XX I helped set up an arts market that we visioned as a microgallery and art altar displaying an array of accessible and affordable keep sakes and home additions to bring this color out beyond the gathering.

Dappled in starlight under a wide open sky, after the show I realized how wonderfully it had been able to affirm the role and place of art in the culture, spreading light out across the world like all those stars above me. This many splendored art tour culminates with a month long gallery show at Fenario in Eugene, Oregon in June.

Interdimensional Art Show
Fenario Gallery
881 Willamette Street, Eugene, Oregon, USA
+1.541.393.3333
Opening Reception June 5, 2009

Photographs : Seth Wonner 

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