MENTORING COURTNEY LOVE

Posted on 2013-05-06

The concept of mentoring is one not often associated with the contemporary art world. Yet artist Courtney Love, best known as a musician, credits artist and photographer David LaChapelle with mentoring her as a visual artist. Love’s work, featured in this exhibition, are all works on paper.

They are executed in a combination of pastel, watercolor, graphite, colored pencil, charcoal, acrylic, and marker. The works on view are all portraits, including some self-portraits, and this is where we see the relationship between her work and that of her mentor David LaChapelle. While LaChapelle’s photographic portraits are slick and hyper-real, Love’s portraits are sketch-like and spontaneous. Her images are raw and full of emotion, and they bear a resemblance to her music. There is a consistency in vision between her music and her visual art that suggests an authenticity of expression.

Exhibition runs through to August 10th, 2013

Lyman Allyn Art Museum
625 Williams St
New London
CT
06320

www.lymanallyn.org

  

PETER MCDONALD

Posted on 2013-05-06

Peter McDonald examines every intricate aspect of human behaviour in his painting. Pole vaulters, doughnuts, the cosmos, moon boot factories, ninjas, stretch limos, jungles, auctioneers, hairdressers, funeral processions, submarines, dog walking, museums, snooker players and cave painters. Nothing is immune to being McDonaldized in his exploration of the infinite nature of painting. Like a psychedelic Audubon or Dr. Johnson, he is gradually compiling an endless encyclopaedia of images.

Peter McDonald’s fourth solo exhibition at Kate MacGarry includes an eight metre long scroll painting, a mobile and seven new paintings. McDonald has created a mobile with each object a freeform, flat sculpture with pictures painted on both sides. This kinetic sculptural form, originated by Calder, allows different images to juxtapose themselves with each other, giving the viewer a kaleidoscopic experience of McDonald’s pictorial universe. This form moves painting away from the static, four walled canvas, and is closer to a diorama or picture book, where the viewer responds to and interacts with the images. Here, the mobile is its own unique collection of pictures in one object, akin to Duchamp’s Boîte-en-Valise or Warhol’s Big Retrospective Painting.

Opposite – Country Train, 2012

Exhibition runs through to June 1st, 2013

Kate MacGarry
27 Old Nichol Street
London
E2 7HR
UK

www.katemacgarry.com

  

ADIDAS ORIGINALS PRO CONFERENCE HI OG

Posted on 2013-05-06

Planning a comeback is the Pro Conference Hi. The shoe will be repeated for the first time in 30 years, treated to the same design, colors and materials of the original model, albeit with a slightly vintage treatment regarding the sole the details. Release is scheduled for July.

www.adidas.co.uk

  

FRED PERRY X CHRISTOPHER RAEBURN

Posted on 2013-05-06

For Spring/Summer 2013 Fred Perry has announced a new Blank Canvas Capsule Collection with British designer Christopher Raeburn. Known for his heavy military inspiration in all of his designs, it comes without any surprise that the Fred Perry x Christopher Raeburn Blank Canvas line uses various camouflage patterns.

The American Issue Desert camouflage was specifically designed as an interference pattern for use during the early 90s, one that would interrupt the pixelated images of first generation night vision services. . The Schneetarn East German camouflage also known as ‘snowy pines’ is an unusual two-colour winter camouflage developed by a mountain warfare school first trialled in the 60s. Finally, the German Raindrop camouflage is a strong graphic reference from the 60s and 70s, less effective as an actual camouflage because at close range the colours would blend together.

All shirts feature tipping on the collar, in military green and orange plus an original surplus fabric woven patch pocket with a Fred Perry and Christopher Raeburn embroidery.

www.fredperry.com
www.christopherraeburn.co.uk

  

XLARGE X SUICIDAL TENDENCIES

Posted on 2013-05-06

Venice Beach Hardcore Trash legends Suicidal Tendencies have now teamed up with streetwear masterminds XLARGE to release a nice little capsule collection for Spring/Summer 2013. Heavily influenced by the band’s distinct style, each piece’s design is based on their trademark bandana pattern printed on T-shirts, short-sleeved shirts, hats, shorts and bandanas.

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BRYAN GRAF – BROKEN LATTICE

Posted on 2013-05-06

By using found objects, low-fi processes, and an experimental approach to materials, Grafʼs photographs and assemblages explore the opposing forces of control and chance through methods of repetition, inversion and accumulation. Most of the works in the exhibition were produced as unique, camera-less photograms, a process by which Graf can exert certain constraints while leaving other elements beyond his control.

The artist explains his way of seeing thusly:
“As I write this correspondence, the blind is down, covering the window to the right of my desk. The window is open and the screen projects a moiré-patterned shadow onto the fabric of the blind. This image fluctuates in and out of focus as it breathes with the wind. The lattice outside the opposite window is bending, warping under the weight of nature. And at this late, subterranean time of day the distinction between the orderly framework of the lattice and the entangled labyrinth of Wisteria vines is unclear. The two structures are blending into one another, forming a solid inky mass outside the bay window of my studio. This impression lasts for a few moments before sinking into the night. Focus. The screen is a filter – a grid maintaining repetition, order and control. Folded, warped and tangled, it creates visual noise, disturbances and interference. It becomes a dragnet, a visualization of chance-based actions within a repetitious structure. The grid is a lattice, a support system for nature; being constantly broken and sculpted by the persistent and omnipresent activity of the natural order.”

Exhibition runs through till May 18th, 2013

Yancey Richardson Gallery
535 West 22nd Street 3rd floor
New York
NY
10011

www.yanceyrichardson.com