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Streets: Know Hope

Posted by sleepboy, June 6, 2010

We recently let you know about a collaboration mural that Know Hope put up with Conor Harrington (interviewed) in Israel. It looks like he also decided to get poetic with this piece in Tel Aviv. A closer look as well as another recent offering after the jump…

Culver City Artwalk ’10: “Picks of the Harvest” @ Thinkspace

Posted by sleepboy, June 5, 2010

On right now at the Culver City Arts District is their annual Artwalk. After bringing you a look at what LeBasse Projects and Carmichael Gallery had to offer, we now turn our eye on another great gallery – Thinkspace. Heading their show is master manipulator of pop culture and satirist, David MacDowell. You can’t help but smile when you see the skill in which David takes familiar elements and remixes them into a clever and unexpected composition – like Golem heading over to “Booger King” […]

Justin Richel Install @ Center for Maine Contemporary Art

Posted by sleepboy, June 5, 2010

The Center for Maine Contemporary Art recently opened their juried Biennial exhibition where the participating 41 artists were chosen from 654 entries. One of these distinguished artists was none other than painter and sculptor Justin Richel. We particularly enjoy his pieces that deal with the precarious balance of stacks and clusters of sweets, furniture, birds and whatever items he sees fit to throw into the mix. Along these lines, he recently release pictures of the large wall painting he installed for the CMCA entitled “Whirling […]

Teaser: Tin – “Rochambeau” @ Copro Gallery

Posted by sleepboy, June 5, 2010

Opening tonight at the Copro Gallery will be “Rochambeau”, the new solo show from Tin (interviewed). He’ll be bringing a new body of work to the Santa Monica with a mix of beautiful women, guns, and stuffed animals, all painted in color pastels in his signature steam punk style. Discuss this show here. Discuss Tin here.

Previews: “Booked” @ Carmichael Gallery

Posted by juggernut3, June 4, 2010

The Carmichael Gallery is gearing up for the annual Culver City Artwalk with a group show entitled “Booked”. Bringing together a large selection of street and urban art’s elite, they’ll be showcasing works from Aiko, Banksy, Beejoir, Blek le Rat, Dan Baldwin, Boxi, Bumblebee, C215, Henry Chalfant, Martha Cooper, D*Face, Brad Downey, Eine, Ericailcane, Escif, Faile, Shepard Fairey, Stelios Faitakis, Gaia, Hush, Mark Jenkins, Dave Kinsey, Know Hope, Labrona, Anthony Lister, Lucy McLauchlan, Aakash Nihalani, Walter Nomura (a.k.a. Tinho), Other, Steve Powers (a.k.a. ESPO), Lucas […]

Preview / Installation: Mike Stilkey “Reminiscent” @ Hurley Space Gallery

Posted by sven, June 4, 2010

The brand spanking new Hurley )( Space Gallery opens its doors this weekend in Costa Mesa, Ca. Long time supporters of the arts, Hurley have appointed Annie Adjchavanich, past director of Billy Shire Fine Arts, as the gallery’s curator. The inaugural exhibition features Mike Stilkey (interviewed), fresh from his wonderful centre-piece installation in the UK at Corey Helford Gallery’s museum show “Art from the New World” exhibition, with a new exhibition entitled “Reminiscent”. Small scale book sculptures will accompany Stilkey’s biggest book installation yet…. 5,000 recycled […]

Openings: “The New Grand Tour” @ Bryce Wolkowitz

Posted by juggernut3, June 4, 2010

Last night, AM attended the opening of “The New Grand Tour” at the fresh gallery space of Bryce Wolkowitz (previewed). With a lineup of Deanne Cheuk, Jose Parla, Rey Parla, Davi Russo, Romon Kimin Yang (Rostarr) and Suitman a.k.a. Young Kim, it was not hard to see why the Chelsea space was packed to the brim with art lovers. Many industry peers such as Ryan McGinness, KAWS, Eric Haze, Sandra Gering, Cristina Grajales and Akino Kondoh were also in attendance. One of our favorite pieces was a supersized […]

Update: Jeff Soto – “Life Cycle” @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery

Posted by sleepboy, June 4, 2010

AM stopped by yesterday to visit with Jeff Soto (interviewed) to find out more about his upcoming show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery later this month (June 26th). Although we are big fans of this work already, we were still very impressed by this new body of work, especially the level of detail and depth that Jeff decided to add to this new batch of paintings. We’ll be bringing you the full studio visit with some more teaser shots soon, but believe us when we say this […]

Streets: Ron English in Italy

Posted by sleepboy, June 4, 2010

It looks like pop art master, Ron English (featured), has been hard at work in Italy working on some murals. Here we see him painting his classic “Guernica” remix in Rome, but this time with a skeletal twist. He also hit up Milan with a Elvis double-vision piece (seen after the jump).

LACMA Acquires Gursky Ocean Photographs

Posted by Khoi, June 3, 2010

According to the New York Times, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has acquired four Andreas Gursky photographs from the artist’s Gagosian Gallery exhibition, which we covered here. It is unknown how much it paid, but the photographs, based on existing satellite imagery, carried the asking price of $680,000 apiece. LACMA received the funds from an anonymous source and from Steven F. Roth, executive vice president of the World Oil Corporation. The timely acquisition is of particular relevance and urgency given the current oil […]