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Showing: Sebas Velasco – “A New Error” (London)

Posted by feralthings, October 17, 2021

This week, the Spanish artist Sebas Velasco opened his first solo exhibition in London entitled A New Error. The show presents 16 new works on canvas and wood which capture forgotten urban environments at night and into daybreak. Velasco’s style, with its aversion to idealism and the picturesque, contains references to the Realism of both Gustave Courbet, who was at the forefront of the movement in the 19th century, and his own compatriot Antonio López García. Both Courbet and García sought to capture the visible […]

Studio Visits: Sickboy – “Dreamworlds POV” @ Mirus Gallery (SF)

Posted by feralthings, October 6, 2021

Returning to San Fransisco next Friday for his second exhibition with Mirus Gallery, Sickboy (interviewed) will be presenting a new series of paintings and sculpture entitled Dreamworlds POV. Arrested Motion paid a visit to the Bristol-based artist’s studio, which is housed in a former Victorian church, to see what he has in store. Sickboy’s installation at the Vanguard museum show (covered) takes viewers from a 2D painting, through a 3D sculpture and onwards to an ethereal 4D otherworld. This new body of work builds on that […]

Showing: Mr Jago – ‘Imbolc’ @ Unit London

Posted by feralthings, May 18, 2021

Returning for his third exhibition with Unit London, Mr Jago is currently presenting a new body of work entitled Imbolc. The name is derived from the traditional Gaelic festival which marks the beginning of spring and the large-scale canvases, which strike a deliberately hopeful tone, are a celebration of renewal and new beginnings. Imbolc falls at the midpoint between the winter solstice and the spring equinox and there is a sense that the show’s optimism for brighter days to come is grounded in the realistic […]

Recap: Lucy Sparrow – ‘Bourdon Street Chemist’ @ Lyndsey Ingram

Posted by feralthings, May 15, 2021

The latest incarnation of Lucy Sparrow’s felt installations saw the Suffolk-based artist recreate a fully stocked drugstore selling everything from luxury perfume to hemorrhoid cream at Lyndsey Ingram Gallery in London. Bourdon Street Chemist was the artist’s seventh major exhibition where all the items have been rendered out of felt and it followed on from her similarly exhaustive reimagining of a Soho sex shop in 2015 and a New York bodega in 2018 (covered). Some items that grace the shelves, like shampoo and Band-Aids, are so […]

Previews: “Tondo 2021” @ Spoke Art (San Francisco)

Posted by sleepboy, April 3, 2021

This weekend, Spoke Art in San Francisco will be opening a new group exhibition entitled Tondo 2021. Working on round canvases, each artist contributed a piece of art that can be seen at the show by appointment only. Participants include Aaron Nagel, Abigail Goldman, Alex Garant, Anthony Hurd, Arthur Brouthers, Brian Mashburn, Brin Levinson, Brooks Salzwedel, Caitlin McCormack, Caroline Ji, Casey Weldon, Chris Austin, Cindy Derby, David Molesky, Drew Merritt, Erica Williams, Fenway Fan, Frank Gonzales, GATS, Glenn Arthur, Gustavo Rimada, Hanna Jaeun, Harry Michalakeas, […]

Previews: “Domesticity” @ Volery Gallery

Posted by sleepboy, March 12, 2021

Opening on March 15th, the Domesticity group exhibition at Volery Gallery will explore the interior space as the fated environment for mankind with work from 17 international artists. Curated by Sasha Bogojev from Juxtapoz, the show features the art of Ojo Ayotunde, Ana Barriga, Pablo Benzo, Matt Bollinger, Deborah Brown, Mathieu Cherkit, Modou Dieng, Daniel Heidkamp, Yuichi Hirako, Jordy Kerwick, Sally Kindberg, Andrés Lozano, Alexis Ralaivao, Andy Rementer, Fabian Treiber, Ivana De Vivanco (seen above) and Guy Yanai. Take a look at some preview images below… […]

Showing: Roby Dwi Antono – “Epos” @ Thinkspace

Posted by sleepboy, February 26, 2021

Showing through this weekend at Thinkpace in Los Angeles, Roby Dwi Antono’s Epos mesmerizes viewers with the deep gazes of his surreal characters. Drawing you in with their starry eyes, the Indonesian artist’s subjects in this particular show are placed in compositions that draw inspiration from things any child (or adult for that matter) would be fascinated with – Ultraman & dinosaurs. Along with oil paintings, the exhibition also includes drawings, studies and works on cardboard, as well as a large striking sculptural edition (seen above). Photo credit: […]

Openings: “KAWS: WHAT PARTY” @ Brooklyn Museum

Posted by sleepboy, February 26, 2021

Tonight in New York, the Brooklyn Museum opened KAWS: WHAT PARTY to the public, featuring more than 100 works including drawings, paintings, sculptures, smaller collectibles, furniture, and larger-than-life COMPANION figures. The comprehensive exhibition is surprisingly the Brooklyn-based artist’s first major museum survey in New York, touching on the highlights of his 25 year career from his early rarely seen graffiti drawings and notebooks, to examples his now famous xx-eyed characters painted on fashion ads in phone booths and bus shelters, to the continuation of this figurative work into the fine […]

Showing: Masakatsu Sashie – “The Patch” @ KP Projects

Posted by sleepboy, October 18, 2020

Currently at KP Projects in Los Angeles, Masakatsu Sashie has another show on view featuring his striking levitating orbs of urban amalgamations. Oftentimes suspended over post-apocalyptic landscapes, the floating spheres from the Japanese are like self-contained worlds that are at the same time stylistically retro and futuristic – “hovering gracefully between the worlds of a nostalgic past and a potentially dystopian future.” Along with a selection of oil paintings, Sashie was also included some intricate drawings or what look to be studies to the exhibition. Photo credit: […]

Showing: James Jarvis – “Transcendental Idealism” @ Nanzuka

Posted by sleepboy, October 17, 2020

Showing through this weekend, Transcendental Idealism is James Jarvis’ (interviewed) latest show with NANZUKA in Tokyo. Held partly at 3110NZ by LDH Kitchen in Aobadai Nakameguro, the exhibition will also include a concurrent presentation of the artist’s works at the gallery’s Shibuya space. Taking its title from the Immanuel Kant theory which “argues that the conscious subject cognizes the objects of experience not as they are in themselves, but only the way they appear to us under the conditions of our sensibility,” the new body of work from the British artist […]