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Teaser: Ryan McGinness – “Art History Is Not Linear” @ Page Bond Gallery

Posted by sleepboy, April 1, 2011

A different kind of show opens tonight in Richmond, Virginia entitled Art History Is Not Linear at the Page Bond Gallery. Ryan McGinness has taken paintings from the permanent collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and reduced them to their basic elements with his same special technique utilized in his recent blacklight series of paintings. It will be interesting to see what kind of dialogue is created with the chosen paintings seen in a new context.

Preview / Installation: Barry McGee, Osgemeos, Swoon, Neck Face – “Art in the Streets” @ MOCA

Posted by sleepboy, March 31, 2011

*Edit – Photos have been taken down by request of photographer* As you saw with our look yesterday at Shepard Fairey’s (featured) install process at the MOCA, the museum is abuzz with activity as all the artists are setting up their part of the exhibition. It looks like the Nuart website has now found more preview images of what to expect when Art in the Streets opens its doors next month including work from Barry McGee, Osgemeos, Swoon, and Neck Face. More images found on […]

Preview: Josh Keyes – “The Magician’s Garden” @ Fecal Face Dot Gallery

Posted by lowpro, March 31, 2011

Ever the social activist at heart, Josh Keyes (interviewed) will continue to provoke thought, inspire conversation, and motivate change through his art. Opening Thursday, April 7th, The Magician’s Garden (teased) provides timely commentary on the increasingly pervasive genetic modifications invading our food and ecological systems, among other pertinent political issues of the day (such as border control), through a series of haunting and mythical imagery. Josh talks about the inspiration for this body of work in a recent interview with Fecal Face, stating “the fear […]

Preview: Tessar Lo & Andrew Hem – “MAPS” & “Building from the Ground Up” @ Show & Tell Gallery

Posted by sleepboy, March 31, 2011

This Friday night, Tessar Lo and Andrew Hem (interviewed) will inject the Toronto art scene with some of their signature imagery at the Show & Tell Gallery. With MAPS, Tessar continues to expand on the the colorful and the abstract that we have become familiar with since his solo at his hometown gallery last year (covered). To learn more about this new body of work that seems to explore the world between the dream and wakeful state, check out an interview with Mr. Lo on […]

Streets / Openings: Gaia in Chicago & “Resplendent Semblance” @ Maxwell Colette Gallery

Posted by lowpro, March 31, 2011

In preparation for his newest exhibition, which opened last weekend, Gaia went to town on The Windy City with his intricate animal centric wheat paste creations. With well over ten pieces located in various Chicago neighborhoods, the street artist has created a virtual playground for local art fans. His impressive outdoor efforts were set upon the backdrop of Resplendent Semblance, an exhibition of gallery work hosted by Maxwell Colette Gallery. Not only was a selection of his more traditional decollage works on wood on display, […]

Preview: Ryan McGinley – “Somewhere Place” @ Galerie Gabriel Rolt

Posted by lowpro, March 30, 2011

For the first time since 2007, Ryan McGinley will be exporting his provocative photography to The Netherlands. Opening Saturday, April 9th at Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Somewhere Place will see the New York artist continue his musings on love, lust, youth, mortality, all conveyed through the cinematic styling he has come to perfect. Piggybacking on the portraiture first introduced with his Team Gallery solo, Everybody Knows This is Nowhere (covered), and further developed with the inclusion of wild animals during his Life Adjustment Center (covered) show […]

Openings: “Momentum” @ Lebasse Projects (Chinatown)

Posted by sleepboy, March 30, 2011

Last weekend, AM stopped by to take an advanced look at the new LeBasse Projects location in historic Chinatown. Featuring the curatorial touch of Christine Le, one half of the husband and wife team behind the LA-based gallery, the show includes some female talent that has caught her eye like Seonna Hong, Yumika Kayukawa, Hera, Laura Ball, Melissa Haslam, and more. Make sure you attend the official opening on April 9th to see for yourself. More photos courtesy of Brandon Shigeta after the jump…

Teaser: Futura 2000 – “New Works” @ Galerie Jerome de Noirmont (Paris)

Posted by lowpro, March 29, 2011

Gearing up for his first solo exhibition since Odyssey Two (covered) in Berlin back in 2009, Futura has now targeted his iconic spray wizardry on The City of Lights. Aside from a few product designs in recent memory, the last major artistic endeavor we witnessed from the Godfather of abstract street art was an awe inspiring NYC mural produced in collaboration with Os Gemeos last summer. Opening Friday, May 27th at Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, New Works will provide Parisian art enthusiasts the rare opportunity […]

Preview: “LAX/PDX” @ Together Gallery

Posted by sleepboy, March 29, 2011

This Thursday night, March 31st, LA’s Thinkspace will be taking a trip up the coast to Portland’s Together Gallery bringing along works from many of the artists who have exhibited with them before. With a lineup (full list here) featuring artists like Allison Sommers, Andrew Hem, Brian M. Viveros, Bumblebee, Chet Zar, Dan-ah Kim, David MacDowell, Esao Andrews, Fumi Nakamura, Gaia, Jeff Ramirez, Jen Lobo, Linnea Strid, Naoto Hattori, N.S. David, Sarah Joncas, Shark Toof, Stella Im Hultberg and a special installation from Dabs Myla, […]

Openings: Steal from Work – ‘Flogging a Dead Horse’ @ The Showroom, Bristol

Posted by sven, March 29, 2011

Steal From Work (the guys that put on the 12 Days of Christmas and Not a Penny More group shows in Bristol) put on their first show in two years on Bristol’s busy Park Street. The production entitled Flogging a Dead Horse promised to be “a group show featuring the best (and worst) urban street contemporary artists in the world” and at first glance they really were true to their words. People wandering in were impressed by original canvases by the likes of Banksy, Hirst, […]