News from Chet Zar:
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"We Are The Shadows"
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 10th, 2008 (8pm - 11pm)
May 10th, 2008 - May 31st, 2008
2525 Michigan Avenue T5. Santa Monica, CA 90404
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"Ugly American"
Opening Reception: Friday, June 13th, 2008
65 Hanbury Street, London E1 5JP
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MicroCoSM Gallery Press Release:
Fantastic Realism: Works By Robert Venosa
May 16 - June 18
Opening Reception: Friday, May 16, 6.30pm - 8pm
Exhibited worldwide, Venosa's art is included in major collections, including those of noted museums, rock stars and European aristocracy.
"Bravo Venosa! Dali is pleased to see spiritual madness painted with such a fine technique." - Salvador Dali
542 W27th St.
4th Floor
New York
NY 1000
Tue - Sat, 11am - 5pm
Right: 'Castor' - Robert Venosa - Oil on Canvas - 28 x 39 inches
Joshua Liner Gallery's Inaugural Group Exhibition, "Locked and Loaded", is now open. The show runs from the 12th of April through until the 5th of May. The exhibition features artwork by Shawn Barber, Crash One, Mike Davis, Ron English, Jeremy Fish, Blaine Fontana, Futura, Robert Hardgrave, Naoto Hattori, Kenji Hirata, Zach Johnsen, Jessica Joslin, Josh Keyes, Koralie, Kris Kuksi, David Choong Lee, Travis Louie, Tomokazu Matsuyama, Chris Mendoza, Aiko Nakagawa, Pat Rocha, Greg "Craola" Simkins, Damon Soule, Stash, Heidi Taillefer, Ben Tour, Mark Dean Veca, and Oliver Vernon.
A selection of work from the exhibition is now available to view online.
Joshua Liner Gallery, 548 W. 28th Street, Suite 334, New York NY 10001
News from Siegfried Zademack:
Siegfried Zademack's solo exhibition will run from April 20th until May 12th, 2008, at Kulturhof Heyerhofen. Twenty-nine paintings from four decades will be shown at the exhibition. The opening reception will be held on April the 12th.
Visit Zademack's site for his online catalogue.
Kulturhof Heyerhofen
Heerstedter Muhlenweg 13
27616 Beverstedt (near Bremen)
Germany
News from Jessica Joslin:
"Curiosa"
Opening Reception: April 3, 2008, 7-9pm
Lisa Sette Gallery
April 5, 2008
4142 N Marshall Way
Scottsdale, AZ 85251
Book signing for new book Strange Nature: April 5, 1-3pm
Hardbound, 152pp., 140 full-color plates
Exhibition now online at Lisa Sette Gallery
News from Les Barany:
Carnivora - The Dark Art of Automobiles: May 3 - June 14, 2008
Grand Opening Reception: Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 at 7pm
L’Imagerie Gallery, 10555 Victory Boulevard, North Hollywood, CA 91606
L’Imagerie Gallery proudly invites you to join in celebrating its inaugural exhibition at its spacious new location with a gala star-studded grand opening reception. The LA presentation of this incredible sampling of the world’s most notorious artistic renegades coincides with the official publication release of the book. L’Imagerie will have on hand for sale the first exclusive West Coast copies of the edition, a truly significant chronicle and commentary on arguably the most critically defining icon of modern civilization.
In addition to the 62 artists exhibited at Detroit’s C-POP Gallery, Carnivora book artists Eduard Anikonov, Steve Cerio, Chris Conte, Cam deLeon, Mike Diana, Brian Horton, Travis Louie, Eric Joyner, Craig LaRotonda, Shag, Greg “Stainboy” Reinel, Jeral Tidwell, Keith Weesner, and Robert Williams will join the exhibit at L’Imagerie Gallery, plus new original works are being produced for the show by Guy Aitchison, William B. Hand (above right), David Trulli, Brian Viveros and Kenneth Williams. Four excellent artists who came to our attention after the book went to press are creating new Carnivora paintings for the L’Imagerie Gallery exhibition: Ken Keirns, Chris Peters, Bart Powers and Charles Wish.
Below right: D. Hwang - GS-02 Large, 2007 - Fabricated steel
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News from Mike Libby:
On March 28, 29 & 30th 2008, Insect Lab will have a booth at the upcoming CraftBoston show. CraftBoston takes place at the Seaport World Trade Center in South Boston. Annually during the last weekend of March, the show is the premiere New England exhibition and sale of contemporary art, craft and design. The show features 175 of the most outstanding artists of our time, showcasing one-of-a-kind and limited-edition pieces in baskets, ceramics, decorative fiber, wearables, furniture, glass, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media, paper and wood.
Friday March 28, 2008 10am - 6pm; Saturday March 29, 2008 10am - 6pm; Sunday March 30, 2008 11am - 5pm
Seaport World Trade Center, 200 Seaport Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02210
General Admission $15; Senior Citizens and SAC Members $12; Children 12 years and under Free
Special Group Discount tickets are available to organizations or social groups that purchase 10 or more tickets at the same time.
The International Fantastic Art Association presents its third annual exhibition in Kyoto this April at the Dohjidai Gallery.
Illusions and dreams are constantly with us all, and it is as if we are completely immersed in nature. We use our imaginations to deal with the infinite diversity of nature, and to add the desirable aspects of our fantasies to the world. As for persistent or insatiable illusions, they are a positive affirmation of the notion of taking part in a world which is becoming brilliant
International Fantastic Art Association
Fantastic Art Show-Kyoto-2008
Exhbition 1th April to 6th April
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F1 1928 bldg. Gokomachi Sanjo Nakagyo-ku Kyoto Japan
Exhibiting Artists
Miyuki Aihara, Katsumi Asano, Shinji Asano, Kyoko Baba, Yasuko Fuchioka, Yasuo Hagiwara, Akiko Ijichi, Koichi Iyoda, Shu Iseki, Kashima, Kuniaki Katsu, Kazuaki Kita, Kaoru Koga, Tetsuo Koyama, Satomi Kuwahara, Yoshiko Maezawa, Midorineko, Chinatsu Miyake, Taeko Mori, Mitsuru Nagashima, Akiko Oikawa, Hitomi Okubo, Shigeo Otake, Kyoko Ote, Akiko Sakagami, Satoshi Sakamoto, Kyoko Sato, Leo Sawaki, Tomoko Segawa, Yuko Shiizaki, Takashi Sotohara, Hazuki Suketake, Hayato Suzuki, Minae Takada, Mitsuo Takeda, Shoji Tanaka, Itsuki Tatsukikawa, Hiroko Yamaji, Sayaka Wakabayashi
Special Guests
Press Release from Barnaby Whitfield:
31GRAND is pleased to announce Barnaby Whitfield’s third solo exhibition with the gallery.
Barnaby Whitfield, "Little Deaths, All The Same", March 20 - April 19, 2008, Reception: Thursday, March 20, 7-9pm, front gallery
In what he views as the final installment in a trilogy for 31GRAND; Whitfield’s Episode VI has the Ewoks drunk and randy with no sense of the impending tragedy, as water licks at their treetop climbing toes (except in Barnaby’s world the Ewoks are more likely to be Abraham Lincoln clones.) Narratives woven through the last two shows crash and burn, then intertwine again to take on new life in this boisterous suite of pastel paintings. Barnaby Whitfield considers his works on paper, paintings, as defined in this beloved and oft cited quote from the Pastel Society Of America “Generally, the ground is toned paper - if the ground is covered completely with pastel, the work is considered a Pastel Painting; a Pastel Sketch shows much of the ground. When protected by fixative and glass, pastel is the most permanent of all media, for it never cracks, darkens or yellows.” However he requests you do not ask him to quote it at the artist’s reception.
From lovingly using his art dealer to anthropomorphize the ‘Bird Flu’ to finding fictional passion with Hernan Bas on a men seeking men website, we continue to get amusing and rather untrustworthy glimpses into Whitfield’s experience in the art world. And besides an over all theme the artist states as “sexualizing the environmental crisis within the context of American politics” we also see the end to Barnaby’s quest for his real parents (Whitfield was one of those children that always suspected they were adopted even though they knew quite well they were not), and a startling turn of events in his ongoing Clonie series (a character created when the momentarily impoverished artist decided to sell nudes on eBay inadvertently gaining the attention of 31GRAND and being welcomed into the fold).
Never one to ignore a good bandwagon, this show is rife with imagery of Mother Nature’s rapidly declining health. It all comes to a questionably hopeful end in the piece “Wild! Woman! On The Water! (My Imaginary Friend She’s Just Pretend)” featuring Barnaby (in toddler form) and his Mother, Clonie, (along with Sarah Jessica Parker as Lil Orphan Annie) riding out the flooding from "Al Gore’s global warming" in search of dry land and greener pastures.
Above Right, Barnaby Whitfield, Fit To Burst (Heather Stephens As The Bird Flu), 2007, Pastel On Paper, 28.5 x 36"
31GRAND is pleased to announce a group exhibition curated by Barnaby Whitfield.
“Warm, Red, Salt And Wet” curated by Barnaby Whitfield
Artists: Zea Barker, Amelia Biewald, George Boorujy, Jennifer Coates, Amir H. Fallah, Debra Hampton, Erik Lindman, Michael Pope, Christian Sampson, Allison Schulnik, Jason Weatherspoon (below right, Jason Weatherspoon, Nefrotittyafrodite, 2003, ceramic, auto paint, 35 x 29 x 34")
March 20 - April 19, 2008, Reception: Thursday, March 20, 7-9pm, back gallery
What started off as a conceptualized "links" page from the artist’s website was elevated to what Whitfield states is an "exciting dialogue" amongst this group of artists (along with himself) that roam from watercolor to ceramic, from bleach on velvet to film and more. The show’s title, in the long standing tradition of numerous 31GRAND group exhibitions, is a song lyric. This time it is from The Hidden Camera’s "The Man That I Am With My Man"; a line that the agoraphobic synesthete Whitfield claims is not only sexual in nature but makes him "see an American flag every time I hear it."
31GRAND, 143 Ludlow St. New York, NY 10002, 212.228.0901, hours: Tues. - Sat. 12-7pm
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