Dalek aka James Marshall at SHow & Tell

Running:

RUNNING JUL 22 - AUG 31, 2011

Opening:

Friday July 22 2011 7-11pm

Show & Tell Gallery is pleased to announce a two person exhibition featuring the work of acclaimed American artists James Marshall & Greg Lamarche.

Exhibiting these distinct artists together creates a powerful dynamism based on the collision of James Marshall's graphic geometries with Greg Lamarche's typographic savvy and cut-paper collage technique. The cross-pollination of visual and conceptual traits that occurs when viewing both bodies of work at once produces a new, combined aesthetic that is wholly unlike either Marshall or Lamarche's artistic achievements on their own. That said, it would be an oversight to discount the similar visual and structural methodologies upon which these artists have built their practices. 

The works on display, with their robust colours and sinuous lines, are a testament to the leading position Marshall and Lamarche occupy at the frontier of the new abstraction. The current impulse back towards abstracted forms and the spectral buzz of cleverly combined colours is brought to fruition by these artists. What Balance candidly demonstrates is that Marshall and Lamarche are successfully recalibrating the relationship between figure and abstraction without losing the primacy and critical content of their work. 

My Man Jose Parla presents Character Gestures

September 9 - October 22, 2011

OHWOW
937 N. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90069

Los Angeles, CA - OHWOW is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new work by José Parlá, titled Character Gestures, open September 9th through October 22nd, 2011. Comprised of paintings, mono-transfers and installations, this exhibition builds on the artist's earlier work that dealt with the concept of psychogeography and depicted distressed architectural surfaces layered with calligraphic text. While he continues to broach the idea of how we experience urban landscapes and the visual language of mark making, the shift within Character Gestures stems from a deeper engagement with process and abstraction.


The notion of "character" is as much about text, integrity, and specific traits, as it is a literal nod to Parlá's performance, wherein he assumes the role of hypothetical pedestrians who interact with marred city walls, as he creates the work. "Gesture," encompasses the ideas of movement, communication, and demonstration, and is mutually respectful of the artist's accidental and calculated actions when applying medium to surface.


With Parlá's new paintings, as seen in No Return, Here Again, 2011, marks mix with textures, bright colors, and media, yet the process is as involved and significant as the visual outcome. Additionally, a large-scale installation fills the central gallery space - the freestanding sculptural translation of classroom memories opens a conversation with the surrounding paintings. In a collection of work on paper, which Parlá refers to as "mono-transfers," he experiments with a form of frottage, documenting his new paintings via the impressions they leave on paper.


Character Gestures exemplifies Parlá's deftness at technical execution; the complexity of layering, combined with erasure, still manages a translucent effect. His fluency in visual communication is mindful of the fact that any emotion or memory that attempts physicality can only serve, in reality, as an abbreviation of its original essence. He mitigates this condition through his poetic and individualized form of aesthetic dialogue, while navigating the art historic doctrine of Abstraction.


José Parlá studied fine arts at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia, and The New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida. His work has appeared in exhibitions in London, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney and Paris. Character Gestures is his first solo exhibition at OHWOW, and a catalogue will be published in conjunction with the show. Parlá's monograph, Walls, Diaries, and Paintings (2011), was published by Hatje Cantz for the occasion of his solo exhibition at Bryce Wolkowitz gallery in New York. Parlá currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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YOUR AD HERE X V1 GALLERY X SHEPARD FAIREY

V1 GALLERY COPENHAGEN PROUDLY PRESENTS YOUR AD HERE A SOLO EXHIBITION BY SHEPARD FAIREY RECEPTION: FRIDAY AUGUST 5. 2011. TIME: 17.00-22.00 EXHIBITION DATES: AUGUST 6. - SEPTEMBER 3. 2011 "Your Ad Here", recent works by Shepard Fairey, comprises a broad array of mixed media works on canvas and paper, as well as screen prints, retired stencils, and Rubylith cuts. Building upon Fairey's history of questioning the control of public space and public discourse, much of the art in "Your Ad Here" examines advertising and salesmanship as tools of propaganda and influence. One series in "Your Ad Here" portrays politicians like Reagan and Nixon as insincere salesmen wielding simple slogans that represent their true agendas when stripped of verbose demagoguery. Another series of works are paintings of Fairey's Obey "Icon Face" in various urban settings usually reserved for advertising as the primary visual. These works showcase the power of images in the public space, and encourage the viewer to think of public space as more than a one-way dialogue with advertising, but as a venue for creative response. "Your Ad Here" means exactly that… not just THEIR ad here, but you can put YOUR ad here. Additionally, these cityscape paintings contextualize Fairey's street art as an element integrated in an intentional composition. Some of the works in "Your Ad Here", such as a group of retired spray-paint stencils demonstrate the simple and direct methods of art application that Fairey has used both in the street, and in his studio practice. All of the works in "Your Ad Here" whether they relate to advertising, politics, or music culture, celebrate art as a powerful tool of direct engagement and empowerment.

Aaron Young at Bortolami Gallery

Great artist with super innovative pieces. If your in NYC be sure to stop by.
http://www.bortolamigallery.com/artists/aaron-young/

520 W 20th Street
New York, New York 10011
(between 10th and 11th Avenues)
T 212.727.2050
F 212.727.2060

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 6pm

BAST NY part 2

Looks like the 5 I posted werent the only being dropped today.
Dope Drop

Wood Rot

Amazing. I am in for a FINSTER.

BAST NY Release today

Definitely one of my favorite artist, BAST is releasing 5 hand stenciled print today at:
http://www.bastny.com/
Prices range from $700-$975
I will F5ing all day

Charming Baker New Exhibition In London

16 new painting,
18 new sculptures
6 new limited edition prints

The exhibition (less shouty font now) is in an old banana warehouse in Covent Garden. Hence the gorilla wearing slippers.
 
Along with the paintings, sculptures and prints, the genius ink monkeys at Jealous will be performing live printing sessions every Saturday between 1pm-3pm.  And I'll be there to sign whatever comes out the other end.

The exhibition runs from 8- 31st July from 11am-7pm daily (including Sundays).  The address is 16 Mercer Street, London WC2H 9QE. The nearest tube station is Covent Garden.