ADIDAS ORIGINALS – REVIVED LONDON SILHOUETTE

Posted on 2019-07-01

It was a favourite on the football terraces of the 1980s and this summer, the iconic adidas London, one of the earliest shoes to come out of the City Series, is revisited in its original, late ’70s colourway.

The sneaker titan takes a sleek, simple silhouette and dresses it up in luxe scarlet suede with sumptuously soft leather overlays and decadent gold script stamped into the vamp. It’s easy to see why style-conscious subcultures have long favoured the slick red and black model, with its simple shape and high end craftsmanship, it lets you build an outfit from the ground up.

www.adidas.co.uk

  

BILL MCMULLEN – SUPERSTAR DESTROYER – BLACK

Posted on 2019-07-01

The SuperStar Destroyer from artist Bill McMullen (Billions) is the third episode in a trilogy of vehicular vinyl collectibles, bringing another signature interpretation of his favorite formative influences: sneakers, hip-hop and science fiction.

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MARGARET RASPE – FRAUTOMAT

Posted on 2019-07-01

A number of mid-sized format works that were created in the context of the simultaneously issued photo book and which draw upon the artist’s three-month stay in India are on show. The motifs collected on the journey are fragmentarily dissolved from their actual narrative and are subjected to a very intimate creative process on the basis of her artistic repertoire. It is experimentation with the original subject of the picture and its photographic quality conceptually mixed with classical lithographic printing techniques. As in previous series such as Tehran North from 2015, Shahbazi is interested in how a journey and the encounters experienced can be perceived photographically without them being externally determined by the visual power of the culturally charged and often very overwhelming colourfulness of the locations. It is the making of collages without physical intervention: the snapshots, which often show anonymous individual people in architectonic space or in a landscape, are taken apart and reshaped, their colour taken out of them or reconfigured like a reset.

Opposite – Automatic Drawing 6, 1976

Exhibition runs through to August 9th, 2019

Amanda Wilkinson
1st Floor, 18 Brewer Street
W1F 0SH
London

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TUCK FAUNTLEROY

Posted on 2019-07-01

Jackson Hole, Wyoming based photographer Tuck Fauntleroy captures the change of season in minimal and abstracted aerial photographs of rivers as they emerge from snow. Fauntleroy’s simple black and white rivers extend beyond the photographic frame leaving the viewer with a sense of continuation. The series Waterline is the culmination of ten years of mapping, flying, and exploring the ever-changing paths of isolated rivers throughout the west at the cusp of spring. Fauntleroy’s work is grounded in a sense of water, movement, positive and negative space, and impeccable timing. Noting the transitional progressions in remote locations, Fauntleroy expresses a deeply human desire to capture and chase the ephemerality of seasons and time.

Opposite – Waterline II

Exhibition runs through to July 20th, 2019

Grey Art Gallery
100 Washington Square East
New York
10003 NY

www.gilmancontemporary.com

  

ROBERT BENJAMIN – RIVER WALKING

Posted on 2019-07-01

A self-taught photographer and poet, Benjamin’s work, often centered around his family, offers a simple and honest consideration of what it means to live and to love with intention. “I think you have to love your life, and you have to have the courage to find the world beautiful,” says Benjamin. Enchanted by color and the beauty of photography itself, Benjamin uncovers poetry in the everyday.

Benjamin never wanted a career in photography. He simply felt that he needed to make pictures. According to Benjamin, one of the great joys of being a photographer is working with cameras. He appreciates the elegance of mechanical objects deeply—their feel, their smell, their sound. Cameras are “exquisite little machines”—like typewriters, he says. Benjamin has been writing poems on his Smith-Corona Clipper longer than he’s made photographs. His poems echo the sensitivity and humble directness of his photographs. More recently, Benjamin has begun pairing what he aptly calls “small photographs” with “small poems,” a selection of which are included in this exhibition.

Exhibition runs through to July 27th, 2019

Light Work Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery
316 Waverly Avenue
Syracuse
13244 NY

www.lightwork.org

  

ART AFTER STONEWALL, 1969-1989

Posted on 2019-07-01

Art after Stonewall, 1969–1989 is the first major exhibition to examine the impact on visual culture of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) liberation movement sparked fifty years ago with the Stonewall Uprising. The show includes works by openly LGBTQ artists such as Scott Burton, Vaginal Davis, Lyle Ashton Harris, Greer Lankton, Catherine Opie, and Andy Warhol. Also considered are the practices of straight-identified artists such as Alice Neel, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lynda Benglis, and Kiki Smith in terms of their engagement with the newly emerging queer subculture. Divided in two parts, the show is on view at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, which primarily presents works from the 1970s, while here at the Grey Art Gallery, art from the 1980s is featured.

Opposite – Catherine Opie, Raven (gun), 1989

Exhibition runs through to July 20th, 2019

Grey Art Gallery
100 Washington Square East
New York
10003 NY

greyartgallery.nyu.edu