TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB – HANDSHAKE
2013-04-29Two Door Cinema Club’s latest video, already banned by MTV, the Northern Irish rockers find their heads being used as bowling balls. Directed by Sam Pilling
TweetWILD NOTHING – A DANCING SHELL
2013-04-29Painter Eric Shaw designed all the artwork for Wild Nothing’s latest EP, ‘Empty Estate’ released through Captured Tracks and Bella Union. Hayley Akins and Andy Williams animated his paintings for the video.
TweetANNIE – TUBE STOPS AND LONELY HEARTS
2013-04-29“Tube stops and Lonely Hearts” is Annie’s emotional tribute to the rave culture in the early ninties. The single is a danceable diary entry from a few amazing raves in London + an old industrial harbour venue in Bergen, Norway: the former sardine factory “Verftet” – and the giantesque garage “Teatergarasjen”.
TweetBOBA FETT ROCKET-FIRING 12″ FIGURE
2013-04-29Digitally scanned from an authentic 3 3/4-inch Kenner prototype and reproduced at a substantial 12-inches tall, no detail has been overlooked. Injection molded and made of durable plastics, this ginormous figure comes fully articulated… and he includes real rocket-firing action! But that’s not all.
The classic Kenner creation comes packaged on a 1979 Star Wars-inspired blister card featuring original photos and artwork, and including a re-sealable plastic outer clamshell to help protect and display the limited edition collectible on your wall, shelf, or favorite showcase! Unreleased back in the 1970s due to safety concerns, the few Kenner Star Wars Boba Fett Rocket-Firing Action Figures that found their way out of Kenner’s factories are some of the most sought-after Star Wars collectibles in the world!
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JUDY GLANTZMAN
2013-04-22This most recent body of work comes after seeing Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, which she visited for the first time three years ago. As a result, Glantzman’s work began to shift away from her typical introspective self-portraits toward a more encompassing, outward exploration of war and its societal impact.
In a statement on the new work, Glantzman states:
“All of my work is like a flashlight on the dark underbelly that exists under the surface of polite society. The United States is engaged in wars without any impact on our daily life. My work always had the macabre, and I wanted to marinate in my natural impulse, no holds barred. I felt that I understood the language of the psychological self-portrait and I wanted to try to invent a new language for myself.”
The individual images interact with each other exposing the horrors and diversity of war. She continues:
“I approached the work with collage. What did one image look like next to an entirely different image: one might be made from observation- an image of something that symbolized war and death- a skull, other bones, guns. I tried, in a series of small canvas mounted with paper, various motifs like a mourner over a coffin. The hope was that, in combination, the pieces would yield greater meaning than the individual parts, that, as an artist, I was creating the stage with room for the viewer to locate his/her own associations.”
Exhibition runs through to May 11th, 2013
Betty Cuningham Gallery
541 West 25th street
New York
NY
10001
JOSHUA MARSH – AS IF
2013-04-22Strong color and the play of light dominate Marsh’s paintings, slowly revealing simple objects. Color functions as form, while objects and their surroundings border on dissolution.
Pitchers, tables, dustpans and brooms serve as subjects, but it is through their shapes, shadows and changing perspectives that Marsh pushes them into altogether different realms. The curves of pitchers suggest bodies; the interplay of other objects evokes openings and closings, solids and voids. Distinctions between what is observed and imagined break down, and being and appearance are as if equals.
Marsh may begin his paintings by observing an object, creating an invented form, or exploring the relationship between three and four colors. There is an obsession with the painted surface and with the evolution of each image. Ultimately, resolutions between painterly impulses and perceptual logic determine the final outcomes.
Exhibition runs through to May 4th, 2013
Jeff Bailey Gallery
625 W 27th St – Ground Floor
11th & 12 Ave
New York
NY
10001
