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Preview: Supakitch – Based on a True Story @ Muriel Guepin

Posted by AM Editor, June 6, 2011

Opening this Thursday June 9th at Brooklyn’s Muriel Guepin Gallery is Based on a True Story, a show featuring the work of Supakitch, along with Japanese artist Tamiko Kawata. As we’ve previously shown during our visit to his studio, Supa’s art is a colorful and energetic mix of street art, manga and hip-hop, which often focuses on the visual depiction of sound and music. He has shown extensively around the world, however, this is his first major NYC exhibition since relocating to Brooklyn, so we’re […]

Ryan McGinness – Live Drawing Sessions & Drawing Salon Party @ The Standard (LA)

Posted by sleepboy, June 6, 2011

Returning to The Standard in Hollywood, site of his Women: The Blacklight Paintings show a couple of weekends ago, Ryan McGinness continued his busy schedule in LA with drawing sessions as he sketched live models in the hotel lobby glass vitrine space (see Tim Biskup) last Wednesday thru Friday. Also, just this Saturday night, the guests were invited to participate by the pool deck as more art went down at the Drawing Salon Party. Brandon Shigeta was on hand to document all the action. More […]

Openings: Logan Hicks – “Pretty Ugly” @ Opera Gallery (NY)

Posted by juggernut3, June 6, 2011

Logan Hicks (interviewed) debuted his latest show Pretty Ugly (previewed) last week at the Opera Gallery in New York. The new body of work was created over the past six months and featured some of his largest indoor pieces to date. While there, we noticed that Logan was working with various compositions and subjects that normally isn’t seen in his work. To compliment his detailed environmental stencil pieces, he also created portrait works and played with colors or lack thereof. What we enjoyed especially was […]

Videos: Jeremy Fish x Snoop Dogg – “Listen and Learn” @ Joshua Liner Gallery

Posted by juggernut3, June 6, 2011

Check out this video with Snoop Dogg created for Jeremy Fish’s (featured) upcoming show Listen and Learn at Joshua Liner Gallery. As the title suggests, this show will showcase the stories and the storytellers as its focal point. Jeremy has collected a diverse group of people that spans from artists, skateboarders, athletes, a stripper, a cop, a historian and of course – a rapper. Catch Snoop tell it like it is of his childhood where he pulls out his “worm” to impress a girl in […]

Showing / Viewpoints: Sage Vaughn – ‘Children of a Lesser God’ @ Lazarides Gallery

Posted by Patrick Nguyen, June 5, 2011

The first UK solo show by LA-based Sage Vaughn (referred to in early May) opened a few weeks back at Lazarides Gallery in London with a title ostensibly borrowed from the 1980 play by Mark Medoff or its subsequent film adaptation. While Children of a Lesser God presents no radical thematic or stylistic departures for Vaughn, the exhibition is a strong one — especially the part in the gallery’s main space on the ground floor, where canvases from the artist’s Wildlife series have been hung […]

Openings: Glenn Barr – “Faces” @ La Luz de Jesus

Posted by carlosgonzalez, June 5, 2011

Showing at the La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles, Glenn Barr debuted his book, Faces, along with a multitude of new paintings that focus on the human expression. This new work clearly displays Barr’s background in animation, but it also features influences that range from late 1960s television to fantasy and science fiction motifs. Painted on lumber material, the paintings feature a variety of images which on one hand feature normal people in mundane settings and on the other, creatures which could come […]

Art HK ’11: “HONG KONG Terry Richardson” @ Diesel

Posted by lowpro, June 5, 2011

During the recent Art HK ’11, controversial photographer extraordinaire Terry Richardson presented a body of Asian themed work, aptly dubbed HONG KONG Terry Richardson, with clothing company Diesel. The selection of toned down, while still edgy portraits centered around celebrities native to the city of Hong Kong. A book by the same name, produced in conjunction with Ooi Botos and limited to 1000 copies, offers up Richardson’s entire catalog of photographs taken in Hong Kong during his travels there. More installation shots after the jump.

Overtime: May 30 – June 5

Posted by Khoi, June 5, 2011

A video interview with Miss Van. See the our coverage of the show here. Also, a look at the creative process for her piece at the MOCA. Patrick Martinez takes his neon signs to the streets of Los Angeles. LA Times art critic Christopher Knight on MOCA’s Art in the Streets. Video 1 of 6: Burning Candy’s LL Brainwashed issues a throw down to Mr Brainwash. R.I.P. Dream. Damien Hirst signs and doodles a stripper’s panties. Christie’s Asia sales this year so far up 68% […]

Openings: Gaia – “Succession” @ Jonathan Levine Gallery

Posted by lowpro, June 4, 2011

Exhibiting alongside Mars-1 (covered) and Miss Van (covered), Gaia took full advantage of the opportunity to show on his largest stage to date by transforming the Project Room at Jonathan Levine Gallery into dynamic visual feast. Much like his solo exhibition in Chicago in March, Resplendent Semblance (covered), the Baltimore-based street artist presented a selection of of his signature mixed media linocut decolloage works, along with a piece that incorporated oil paints into the equation as he illustrated his ability with more traditional techniques. As […]

Openings: Nathan Spoor – “Phantom Passport” @ Bold Hype Gallery

Posted by sleepboy, June 4, 2011

We haven’t seen an exhibition in person from Nathan Spoor in a while (although we did enjoy his curation of the Suggestivism show), so we headed over to the Bold Hype Gallery in New York a couple weeks ago to check out his new body of work – Phantom Passport. Viewing Nathan’s paintings is like enjoying glimpses of alien cities or taking a look inside their otherworldly palaces. We think you will enjoy his rich, colorful, and imaginative landscapes as well so head over before […]