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Showing: “Art Collector Starter Kit” @ Corey Helford Gallery

Posted by sleepboy, April 9, 2013

Over the weekend, AM stopped by the Corey Helford Gallery to check out their current show, Art Collector Starter Kit. Featuring smaller sized pieces (12 x 12″) meant to appeal to collectors who are just starting out their collections, many the artists who have have shown at the Culver City gallery contributed paintings. This included ABOVE, Alexandra Manukyan, Amy Sol, Ashley Wood, Beau Stanton, Ben Frost, Billy Norrby, Brandi Milne, Camilla d’Errico, Carlos Ramos, Chloe Early, Cleon Peterson, CYRCLE, David Stoupakis, Eric Joyner, Erik Mark Sandberg, […]

Showing: Tauba Auerbach – “Tetrachromat” @ WIELS

Posted by sleepboy, April 9, 2013

Last month, Tauba Auerbach’s traveling exhibition Tetrachromat reached its stop in Belgium at Wiels Contemporary Art Center. Fans of the New York-based artist’s exquisite work in other parts of Europe like Bergern Kunsthall in Norway in 2011 (covered) and to Malmö Konsthall in Sweden in 2012 already had their chance to witness it in person – now it’s Brussels’ chance. Included in the show were of course her popular fold paintings, weave works, as well as her sculptural book pieces. Take a look are more photo below… Photo credit: The Future Tense. Discuss […]

Showing: “At Home I’m A Tourist” Collection Selim Varol @ CAC Málaga

Posted by juggernut3, April 8, 2013

Get excited if you’re in Spain at the moment as Turkish-born German collector Selim Varol has taken his impressive collection to the Contemporary Art Center of Malaga. Traveling from Dusseldorf (covered) to Malaga, At Home I’m A Tourist is a massive exhibition of over 15,000 works highlighting many of the artists featured on AM regularly including Banksy, KAWS, ZEVS, Shepard Fairey, Audrey Kawasaki, FUTURA, JR, Josh Keyes, and Faile to name just a few. If you’re fortunate enough to be in Spain in the next few months be sure […]

Openings: Greg “Craola” Simkins – “Stop Haunting Me” @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery

Posted by sleepboy, April 8, 2013

Just this Saturday night, fans of Greg Simkins (featured) in Los Angeles gathered at the Merry Karnowsky Gallery to take in a new body of work from the gifted painter – lining up all the way until closing. Collectively entitled Stop Haunting Me, the set of fresh paintings and drawings featured some of the imaginative and surreal imagery that the man otherwise known as Craola is famous for. Twenty years in the game working under his moniker has served Simkins well to hone his craft of which the new pieces for this […]

Openings: Meggs – “Heavenly Creatures” @ Thinkspace Gallery

Posted by sleepboy, April 8, 2013

Over the weekend, the Thinkspace Gallery in Culver City welcomed in Meggs from Australia as he opened his latest solo show. Entitled Heavenly Creatures, the exhibition included a mixture of paintings, sculptural works, and overlying murals including some interactive spinning panels that could be flipped by attendees. As usual, the new work featured his semi-abstract renderings of comic-inspired superheroes in kinetic compositions. Take a look at more photos below… Discuss this show here. Discuss Meggs here.

Openings: Marilyn Minter @ Regen Projects

Posted by sleepboy, April 8, 2013

Over the weekend, Regen Projects in Hollywood played host to a new show from the New York-based Marilyn Minter. Although known to a subset of her fans for her sexually-charged photographs exploring the pathology of glamour, Minter also expresses her artistic vision through paintings on occasion. On first glance, the large works appear to be taken through her camera, but on closer examination, the viewer is astonished to find that they are actually created with painted enamel on metal, with the last layers famously finished with fingertips. Although we focus […]

Openings: José Parlá – “Prose” @ Yuka Tsuruno Gallery

Posted by sleepboy, April 7, 2013

Currently showing at the Yuka Tsuruno Gallery in Tokyo and on view through May 18th is solo exhibition from José Parlá. Entitled Prose, the show introduced fans in Japan to the Brooklyn-based artist’s form of urban calligraphy, an art form that has a special cultural resonance in Asia. Like his recent projects at BAM (covered) and the Barclays Center (covered), the exhibition included an impressive large-scale painting measuring 50 feet wide. Take a look at more photos the artist sent us below… Discuss José Parlá here.

Videos: Cole Sternberg – “all his strength was concentrated in his fists, including the very strength that held him upright” @ David B. Smith Gallery

Posted by sleepboy, April 7, 2013

Last month, the David B. Smith Gallery presented the works of Cole Sternberg in a solo show entitled all his strength was concentrated in his fists, including the very strength that held him upright, a line from Franz Kafka’s unfinished work, Amerika. Exploring the troubling social issues highlighted in the book including stratified social hierarchies, widespread discrimination, blind worship of capitalism, and the destruction of the environment, the work was organized two site-specific installations – a cloud like mural overlayed by over-painted photographs, collage, and mixed media on […]

Openings: Clare Rojas @ Galleri Nicolai Wallner

Posted by sleepboy, April 7, 2013

Last week, the Galleri Nicolai Wallner hosted the opening for a new exhibition from Bay Area-based artist Clare Rojas. As fans of her illustrative paintings full of folk art imagery have seen in recent showings (here & here), her work has become more and more abstract with this set of new paintings being no different. The progression continues with a more fragmented compositions and varied palette as you can see in the photos below… Photo credit: Henrik Haven. Discuss Clare Rojas here.

Overtime: April 1 – April 7

Posted by Khoi, April 7, 2013

More stories for the week ended April 7: Ryan Mcginley’s Blue Falling is the April HIGH LINE BILLBOARD in NY, presented by High Line Art. RIP: Pasha P183, known as the Russian Banksy has died at age 29. Cause is unknown. Tate removes Graham Ovenden prints after artist found guilty of indecency with a child and indecent assault. As a result of the economic crisis gripping Spain, more of its artists are moving to the United States. Chelsea’s future in question after New York flood map […]