Greg Gossel VAried OG's at Together Gallery

Real nice set of varied and 1/1 OGs for Together galleries Paper show.
Have a look

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July 28th - August 21st 2011
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Opening this coming last thursday new work from the talented Minneapolis based artist Greg Gossel. We have been fans of his work for some time now so we are very honored to be showcasing his newest body of work, this is not to be missed.


http://www.togethergallery.com/cat_view.php?cat=130

Together Gallery

2916 NE Alberta St Suite A
Portland, Or 97211
503.288.8879 info@togethergallery.com

Stinkfish & Hutch Print release @ Brooklynite

Edition of 10

Approx. 52cm H x 62cm W 2 color screenprint on Somerset Antique 100% cotton paper, 280gsm weight. Signed by both artists. Each color-way numbered 1-10. Colombian artist STINKFISHjoins forces with UK artist HUTCHfor this unique print. Each one hand-pulled. http://www.BrooklyniteGallery.com/

941 Geary SF Group Show 8/13/11

941 Geary is pleased to present The City We Love, a large-scale group exhibition of works from artists living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. The show is co-curated by Justin Giarla and local graffiti practitioner APEX, and features new work from artists actively engaged in San Francisco’s graffiti and street art culture. The opening reception is on Saturday, August 13, 2011 from 6-9 pm, and the exhibition is free and open to the public for viewing through September 3.   Justin and APEX came together to organize this exhibition, with the shared motivation of wanting to show what’s going on right here, right now. The resulting exhibition is a modest sampling of what’s happening in the streets and studios of San Francisco, including work by locals APEX, Casey Gray, Chad Hasegawa, Chor Boogie, David Ball, D Young V, EZRA, Hugh Leeman, John Felix Arnold, Luke Todd, NEON, Siloette, Teen Witch and Vogue.  With backgrounds as diverse as their respective artistic styles, the collection of works featured by this group of artists are as entrenched in conversation with each other in the gallery space as they are in the streets. 941 Geary’s expansive space serves as an ideal backdrop to the work: bold, graphic, daring, surprising and as unique as the city itself.   From the curators:   “I just felt that it was time to focus on doing a show with just San Francisco artists, there’s a stronger community in San Francisco than people realize. The artists that we work with are here because they love it, they could easily make it in Los Angeles or New York, but they (just like us) choose to be here.” – Justin Giarla   “There are always lots of (San Francisco-based) artists that get picked up and taken out of the city, you know, to play on the international street art scene. But this is the place they call home, and just from a street art perspective – we’re getting some locals together to see just what’s happening here in our streets, right now. It just seemed like something we need to do.”  -APEX

White Walls Gallery 835 Larkin St, San Francisco 94109 415-931-1500 http://whitewallssf.com The Shooting Gallery 839 Larkin St, San Francisco 94109 415-931-8035  http://shootinggallerysf.com Tues-Sat 12pm-7pm

Jonathan Levine Summer Invitational, NYC

 Another interesting group show dropping at Jonathan Levine Gallery in NYC

ABOVE, Daniel Martin Diaz, Dickchicken, Edwin Ushiro, Eric Fortune,
Hello Monsters, Jennifer Delilah, Melissa Haslam, Meryl Smith,
Nicoletta Ceccoli and Yuko Shimizu.

Jonathan LeVine Gallery | 529 W 20th St, 9E | NY, NY 10011
+212 243 3822 | +212 243 3892 fax | www.jonathanlevinegallery.com

Circle Culture Paper Works Show Berlin

Looks like a good turn out of Artists. Christian Awe, Kelsey Brookes, Jaybo Monk, XOOOOX, Katrin Fridriks, Stefan Strumbel, Anthony Lister, Kevin Earl Taylor, Anton Unai, Marco Grassi, Various & Gould, Aaron Rose und Oskar Rink.

Dave White Print Release

Little late on this one but love his work

Limited Edition Print Launch Thursday 28th July 2011 from 6pm artrepublic 42 New Compton St, London, WC2H 8DA Tube: Covent Garden   Tel: +44 (0)20 7240 7909     Following the successful launch of the 'Americana' collection by Dave White earlier this year, artrepublic are proud to announce the exclusive launch of the latest Limited Edition Prints at their Soho based gallery. Available in two formats, the Eagle features as a standard edition and as a larger version hand finished with gold leaf. Details are as follows... Eagle Standard Edition Giclee with silkscreens and varnish on Aquarelle Watercolour Paper Edition of 50 83cm x 73cm (33" x 28") Signed and numbered by the artist Full bleed with hand torn edge Eagle Hand Finished Edition Giclee with silkscreens and varnish on Somerset Tub Hand finished with 24 carat gold leaf Edition of 10 127cm x 112cm (50" x 44") Signed and numbered by the artist Full bleed with hand torn edge For further details of the launch event and any sales enquiries please contact soho@artrepublic.com

Audrey Kawasaki Print Release

here's how it'll work:
on August 14th, Sunday, between 12am to 11:59pm pacific time
you can log on to my shop and click the 'Want It' button,
and you will be guaranteed a print!!
as long as it's within the 24 hours, your print will be reserved!

-past timed sales were a window of 1 hour,
but we decided to open it for a full day, to avoid stress and technical complications.

-please note that since the edition size will be determined after the sale,
we can't do much of the printing & framing&packing ahead of time like normal.
please allow 6-10 weeks for delivery.

~ Charlotte ~ Timed Edition
giclee print on 100% cotton archival fine art paper
size: image is 17.5"x17.5" on a 17.75"x17.75" sheet 

signed and numbered on the image area
price: $100 shipping: US $20 / Int'l $30

available for purchase:
~August 14th, Sunday. 12am~11:59pm pacific time~
~check from here to here for the exact time and date window in your time zone~~the print will be available on my site, on August 14th, Sunday between 12:00am to 11:59pm pacific time.
in order to purchase you must be registered and signed on at the time of sale.
if you have not yet done so, please register by making an account with your email & billing/shipping address etc.


-limit of one per customer.
-the edition size will be determined after the sale.
-please allow 6-10 weeks for delivery.
-the size of this print is smaller than the original painting.


~prints are all signed and numbered in the image area.
we sign it this way (and not in the white space under the image)
so if/when you would like to get it framed, you do not have to leave a white border around the image.
this way, it will look more like the original!


~the print has a 1/8" white border, so when you get it framed there will be no white showing.
if you prefer a white border you must get it matted accordingly.

Retna Print Release

KNOWN GALLERY TO RELEASE RETNA – FUEL PRINT THIS FRIDAY
Printed on a 40 inch 6 color sheet fed Lithographic press
20″ x 20″ trim size
140# Speckletone Cover Stock “Starch White”
Edition of 60

PRICE: $600.00
to inquire, please email sales@knowngallery.com

Guy Denning at Brooklynite

Guy Denning
September 8 - 25
Opening Night: Sept. 8th, 6-9PM
New York City

Brooklynite & FB Gallery
368 Broadway, NYC
BrooklyniteGallery.com
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On the heels of his highly successful "Inferno" exhibition in Italy earlier this year, Guy Denning presents the second of his three part series of oil paintings on Dante's Commedia in New York City for the aptly titled exhibition, "Purgatorio".

Originally drawing inspiration from Dante's writings, Guy's intention has not been to recreate the poem in a visual or literal sense, but instead let it act as a framework for his own personal interpretation.  As with the writing of Shakespeare, Guy finds a perpetual relevance in Dante's work where the specifics of name, situation and place are easily adapted to the modern world; as if time moves on but the problems of humanity remain essentially the same. 

The events of September 11th and the emotional toll it took on the American individual is final and and critical element to this body of work. Guy suggests that the suffering of America is too often defined by the media in terms of the political rather than the personal, leaving the individual voice of ordinary people sometimes unspoken in the narrative of history. His work sets out to make a small and personal amendment to that omission.  Poignantly enough, this exhibition will be held in a NYC 'Pop-Up' location just blocks from Ground Zero and on the 10 Year Anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
The work, though tied to Dante’s writing will also feature elements of images found on the internet, particularly of people in New York City on that terrible day. Significant press images are also used as reference for Guy's work in hopes that they will be scrutinized that much more intensely than the photos we glance at far too quickly in newsprint.  He has also constructed one large landscape painting, in the fashion of the traditional ‘history’ genre, made from connected canvas panels. This oil painting, derived from studying still frame images from amateur video footage, aims to create an assumed and complete narrative of the major elements of the day from a New York perspective.

Guy states that this is a collection of work recognizing the suffering of the American people on September 11th and immediately thereafter - when the United States had the sympathy of the world.  He wants it to be viewed as nothing short of respectful to the memories of all those that died and suffered as a result – both in New York and beyond. Guy quotes another English artist William Blake who wrote “Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?” Despite the many cultural differences of the peoples of the world we are all essentially united by our humanity; our common desires, hopes and despairs. It is the ordinary people's common humanity that will take us forward and not politically inspired violence.

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.

WANTT.com

We at http://provocativeartwork.bigcartel.com are test a new feature on our site. The "WANT BUTTON." This give fans and potential buyers a chance to save items they like or wish to purchase in the future in an organized manner. Check them out, great tool. Try and get other web stores to sign on and track everything you could ever WANT.
http://www.wanttt.com

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.

Dan Witz at Jonathan Levine

LevineNew_4, a photo by provocativeartwork on Flickr.

June 30, 2011-July 30, 2011
These are fantastic realistic painting by Dan Witz. If you get a chance check out his work.

"Mosh Pits,..." comprises a special selection of work from Dan Witz'sacclaimed Mosh Pit series, spanning a period of ten years. Theselarge-scale works on panel represent a prime expression of theartist's style and continued exploration of figural form, light andtone.
http://jonathanlevinegallery.com/

Damien Hirst/Other Criteria Supreme Deck Release

supreme other criteria, a photo by provocativeartwork on Flickr.

Other Criteria is releasing the last of the collab decks between Damien Hirst and Supreme NYC. July 12. In addition to this release there will be a limited number of signed and doodled decks. Dig deep in those pockets this will not come cheap and will probably sell out fast.

Ryan McGinley

Ryan McGinley, 


Looks like another banger from OW-WOW

GROUP EXHIBITION
Post 9-11
June 30 - August 27, 2011
937 N. La Cienega / Los Angeles / CA / 90069

Opening Reception: Thursday, June 30, 6 – 9 PM

Post 9-11, a group exhibition distinct of a decade and definitive of an era. The work of the nine artists represented (Dan Colen, Terence Koh, Hanna Liden, Nate Lowman, Adam McEwen, Ryan McGinley, Agathe Snow, Dash Snow, and Aaron Young) sidestep categorization into a particular movement or style; yet speak to a distinct history through their highly individual, visual dialogue, which includes painting, photography, sculpture, and installation.

Operating in a new millennium, as friends, collaborators, and New York City artists, their relationships with each other cemented fully over the last ten years – a decade spent sharing ideas, studios, apartments, and themselves. This intimate connection not only informed their practice, it influenced their creative progression. Their union provides affirmation that synthesis is a stronger route than fracture, as each artist has now fleshed out their own voice and their own vision, due in part to their bond.

Creating imagery, which at times expressed a shared, youthful freedom, also responds to their experience of these ten years; work that ranges from defiant, irreverent, destructive, to sublime, utopian, and emotive. For example, a two-dimensional piece by Dan Colen, Blop!, 2011, fabricated from tar and feathers adhered to canvas, appears chaotic and abject. It references both the barbaric and archaic act of social punishment, while also interjecting concepts of materiality, and the visual effects of using unorthodox media in painting. Conversely, in its sublimity, Ryan McGinley’s photograph Tom (Golden Tunnel), 2010, is a surreal and cinematically arranged image of a nude, male figure in a train tunnel. It is as transcendent in its ethereal treatment as it is existential in its choreography and open-ended narrative.

These brief examples articulate that as a whole, the work in this exhibition is effective in its ability to translate the myriad reactions possible in light of a connected reality. No two experiences can be exact in their expression, however, their aesthetic approaches, although disparate, present a visual memoir of a notable era. Reluctant in yielding to definition, yet decidedly American, Post 9-11 presents an epitome of a creative group, and characterizes the mood and complexities of this decade.

Miss Bugs at Brooklynite

Miss Bugs invite, a photo by provocativeartwork on Flickr.

Uk's Miss Buggs is showing at Brooklynite this Saturday. Saw the preview today of their work. simply amazing. contact the gallery for a peak. Special Music guest Hank Shocklee(Bomb Squad)
Located at 334 Malcolm X Blvd, Brooklyn, NY 11233
www.brooklynitegallery.com

Obey party moontower

Obey party moontower, a photo by provocativeartwork on Flickr.

Tomorrow between 10am-noon PST. www.obeygiant.com will release two amazing multi print sets limited to 150 each. "Party at the Moontower"(a take on Dazed and Confused i guess) and "Dancefloor Riot" These are a must buy if your a Fairey/Obey fan. 36 prints, sticker sheet, a stencil and a letter of authenticity. A quick F5 hand and $950 will seal the deal. Get on early and refresh often these will sell out instantly.

OBEY dancefloor riot box set

OBEY dancefloor riot box set, a photo by provocativeartwork on Flickr.

Tomorrow between 10am-noon PST. www.obeygiant.com will release two amazing multi print sets limited to 150 each. "Party at the Moontower"(a take on Dazed and Confused i guess) and "Dancefloor Riot" These are a must buy if your a Fairey/Obey fan. 36 prints, sticker sheet, a stencil and a letter of authenticity. A quick F5 hand and $950 will seal the deal. Get on early and refresh often these will sell out instantly.

Amazing new show. FAILE Post No Bills

First off is one of my favorite artists FAILE. The Patricks are at it again with a 10 year print retrospective in Venice. The show will feature a variety of works on paper over the last 12 years. A broad range of new and old prints and original works on paper. There are a variety of new pieces and a few surprises made for the show, including a new collection of works entitled Vintage Book Covers highlighting classic pieces from over the years. The space is pretty spectacular and we're really hoping, if you're in or near LA, you'll stop by and say hello. The crew at Post No Bills is amazing and their master printer is a legend. The show runs from June 24th - July 24th.

LA Works on Paper "Faile: A Decade of Prints & Originals"

Opening Party Friday, June 24th 7-10pm

Post No Bills

1103 Abbot Kinney Blvd

Venice, CA 90291

http://www.postnobillsshop.com/

2 new editioned prints will be released as well.

Worth Something Gold

Edition of 50

Acrylic and Hand Pressed Gold Foil on Coventry Rag 335 gsm

35.75in. x 29in. (90 x 73cm)

Signed, Stamped & Numbered

Faile 2011

$450

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Los Angeles de Faile Gold

Edition of 50

Hand Pressed Gold Foil on Coventry Rag 290 gsm

36.25in. x 24in. (92 x 61cm)

Signed, Stamped & Numbered

Faile 2011

$450

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