Old school French stencil artist, Jef Aerosol, opened his show in New York last week at Eastern District in association with Ad Hoc Art. “All Shook Up” featured classic pieces from the street artist, as well new pieces of cultural icons like Jay-Z and Basquiat - of course all emphasized with his ubiquitous red arrows.
See all the pics after the jump…
Brendan Fowler
New York’s Rental Gallery had a fantastic booth at Art Los Angeles Contemporary, featuring artwork in a range of mediums, including sculpture, photography, painting, and mixed media. They featured artists from their talented roster, including Andrea Longacre-White, Matthew Chambers, and artist, editor, and musician Brendon Fowler. The highlight was Fowler’s collision of framed artwork, with a row of pretty floral pieces interrupted by a photograph crashing violently along the middle (pictured above). And, who can resist a giant painting of everyone’s favorite hot sauce, Tapitío?
More images from the Rental Gallery booth after the jump…
New York artist Martin Wittfooth’s show “Tempest” is set to open this Saturday night, February 14th in Santa Monica at the Copro Gallery. Known for his vivid paintings of animals, often at their most primal moments, among the rusted and crumbling remnants of human society, Wittfooth will be bringing a new body of work, including sculptures. We love his palette and choice of color - see for yourself first hand this weekend if you are in the area.
Wittfooth will be showing alongside Chris Ryniak. More preview images after the jump…
For those who missed the sold out show from Femke Hiemstra at Roq La Rue (RLR) last month, we have a special giveaway for you. Kirsten from RLR has put together a delightful little package to gift to one of our lucky readers. This includes a copy of Hiemstra’s “Rock Candy” book, a signed show card, and a VERY RARE limited edition giclee print of “Der Huter” (The actual edition was 10, but this is AP that was limited to 5, signed and numbered by the Dutch artist).
All you have to do is tell us which piece from her show at RLR was your favorite and why on the comments below or on our contest post on our facebook. Also look for Femke’s next show in Germany at Feinkunst Krüger in May and another big show with RLR in November.
Discuss Femke Hiemstra here.
David Choe opened his latest show, “Character Assassination” last Thursday night at FIFTY24SF. Choe, who has deep ties with both the Bay Area, as well as the Upper Playground family, brought an incredibly large turnout for his long awaited SF return. The reason attendees waited for upwards of thirty minutes to check out the show? Mostly because it was awesome! David came with enough artwork to fill two galleries, giving fans a chance to check out almost every limited edition print he’s ever done as well as the opportunity to view a whole new body of work. Since our initial visit to his studio last week, David has put together an impressive lineup of small and larger works, his use of darker backgrounds and plenty of red paint convey the bloody assassinations of his personal and figurative characters, an odd subject really for an artist who’s been nothing but on the rise.
Full show pieces after the jump.
We recently caught up with LUDO, a Parisian street artist we told you about last year, for an interview session to learn more about him and his work. We talked a little about his recent series of street pieces entitled “Nature’s Revenge,” his background and techniques, and some exciting news about his first solo show - all this and more after the jump…
After recently creating a video for Pringle of Scotland, photographer Ryan McGinley has moved on to the next project in his young directing career. “Lightness Of Being An Olympian” is a video he directed for the New York Times about the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. In it, you can see some nice visuals and the characteristic color work that McGinley is famous for in some of his photography.
Of course, the project also allowed him to document some of the action in a pretty incredible photo essay. He is no stranger to photographing Olympians either, having taken some classic shots of 2004 swimmers. More images after the jump and more at the New York Times.
A pretty big show that seems to have been flying under the radar is KAWS’ upcoming show this month in Spain. Galería Javier López will be paying host to a new body of work from the New York-based street turned contemporary artist with the opening set for February 17th. It’s been almost a year since his solo at Honor Fraser and we’re sure that we aren’t the only ones fiendin’ for their KAWS fix.
Discuss KAWS here.
Have you ever wondered what the house of an artist who sculpts octopus chandeliers looks like? Well, if so, you are in luck because Hurley has done a video profile of Philly-based sculptor and photographer Adam Wallacavage. You may remember said octopus chandeliers from our article about his work with Tarino Tarantino or his documentation of ESPO’s “A Love Letter For You” project. Take a look as he talks about his work and shows everyone around his eclectic house.
Discuss Adam Wallacavage here.
Lot 46: Richard Prince - Very Private Nurse #1 (2003) - ink-jet print and acrylic on canvas - 69 x 42in (175.3 x 106.7cm) - est. £1,200,000 - £1,800,000
AM took a close look at the upcoming Post-War and Contemporary Art auctions at Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips de Pury in London this February and found a lot of work worth highlighting (as well as some that are definitely worth bidding on if you have the means).
First up, we show you the best of Christie’s Post War and Contemporary Art Evening and Day Sales (February 11-12), including interesting works by Hernan Bas, Banksy, Zhang Huan, Terence Koh, Barry McGee, Richard Prince (above), Yoshitomo Nara, Ai Weiwei and more.
Ruby Neri
One of the most exciting galleries showing emerging art talent in Culver City, David Kordansky Gallery had a colorful and visually stunning booth at Art Los Angeles Contemporary that contained a mixture of mediums, including painting, sculpture, and photography. It included artists from their excellent gallery roster, including Amy Bessone, Aaron Curry, Mark Flores, Ruby Neri, Anthony Pearson, Mai-Thu Perret, and Lesley Vance.
Check out the rest of the impressive artwork from the Kordansky booth after the jump…
Strange Fruit
Showing alongside Miss Van tonight at Merry Karnowsky Gallery is Barcelona-based artist Victor Castillo. He follows up his debut show there last August with a new body of work entitled “Strange Fruit.” His deeply satirical work often takes what initially seem like harmless children - well, sausage nosed children - which on second look are engaged in situations they should not be involved in, with dangerous overtones all around. These children and their supposed innocence are appropriated for his commentary on subjects ranging from politics to war to the excesses of modern society.
More preview images courtesy of the gallery after the jump…
As mentioned earlier this week, street artist Roa has brought his outside work indoors for his show in Paris at Galerie Itinerrance. We were wondering if the scale of the Belgium-based artist would translate well in a gallery setting, but it seems with plenty of large murals, he has answered with a resounding “Yes!” Looks like he has also preserved some of the nuances of his work that has generated the most favor with his fan base like the peeks at the inner anatomy of the birds and animals that comprise his body of work.
He was has even added mobile elements to his pieces that mimic the chameleon like ability of his street work to look different at different angles by painting on some found objects that have movable parts. See what we mean with all the pics after the jump…
The last time we heard from French street artist Miss Van, she was opening her retrospective show at StolenSpace in London in October of ‘09. Fans on this side of the pond will be happy to hear that they will have a chance to see her seductive “poupes” in person as she will be opening “She-Wolves” this Saturday night at Merry Karnowsky Gallery in Los Angeles.
For this body of work, her feminine “dolls” reflect on their predatory nature and and surrender to their animal nature. Our friends at the gallery sent some images to give us an idea of what is in store for us tomorrow night. More after the jump…
