NANCY SPERO

Posted on 2011-02-21

The Serpentine Gallery presents an exhibition of the celebrated American artist Nancy Spero, the first major presentation following her death in autumn 2009.Artist and activist Nancy Spero (1926–2009) was a leading pioneer of feminist art. During her 50-year career, she created a vibrant visual language constructed from the histories and mythologies of past and present cultures.
Trained in the figurative tradition, Spero was greatly influenced not only by the enduring dialogue with her husband Leon Golub, but also by artists including Jean Dubuffet and by the objects and artefacts she discovered in ethnographic museums. Spero rejected the dominant post-war movements of formalist Abstraction and Pop Art in the 1950s, developing a more ephemeral way of working that used paper and collage, gouache and printmaking – a process she described as allowing for ‘all manner of processions, conflicts, interruptions and disruptions’.

Opposite – Artaud Painting: This Crucible of Fire…, 1969

Exhibition runs from March 3rd to May 2nd, 2011

Serpentine Gallery
Kensington Gardens
London
W2 3XA

www.serpentinegallery.org

  

KAWS – THE ARMORY SHOW NYC

Posted on 2011-02-21

A solo presentation of new paintings and a sculpture by KAWS from the forthcoming Armory Show in NYC. This may preview the KAWS solo exhibition at the LA gallery Honor Fraser running from September 10h to October 22nd, 2011.

Exhibition runs from March 3rd to March 6th, 2011

The Armory Show
‪Pier 94‬
‪12th Ave,‬
‪New York‬‪
NY
‬‪10019‬

www.thearmoryshow.com

  

MIRANDA DONOVAN : THE HOME UNLEASHED

Posted on 2011-02-14

For her second solo show she departsfrom her recent fascination with the outside, Miranda graces the Rathbone gallery walls with 25 new works exploring the world of the interior. Donovan’s multi-layered 3D canvases juxtapose the decadence of former opulent living with the squalor and filth found in the streets as she takes her signature miniaturized graffiti indoors.

Exhibition runs from February 25th to March 26th, 2011

Lazarides Gallery
11 Rathbone Place
London
W1T 1HR

www.lazinc.com

  

BANKSY IN HOLLYWOOD

Posted on 2011-02-14

Banksy is Hollywood as he prepares for the Oscar Awards Ceremony where he’s nominated for Best Documentary for his film Exit Through The Gift Shop. Yeserday popped up the “Crayon Shooter” which is located in Westwood on Kinross Street, in between Westwood and Glendon, Los Angeles, if you want to check it. And today a fire starting Charlie Brown, watch the video to see the full context of where he’s been placed.

www.banksy.co.uk

  

CENTRAL LONDON ART WALK WITH ELEANOR NAIRNE

Posted on 2011-02-14

The first Fox & Squirrel Art Walk will take place on the 19th of February and will focus on Central London’s art scene.
Fox & Squirrel, London’s premium lifestyle walks company, is proud to announce its collaboration with the curator and art historian Eleanor Nairne. She will be leading a series of art walks, each focusing on a different artistic London locale. The walk will include visiting up to three different commercial venues, where Nairne will discuss the exhibiting artist, situate their work within a wider art history, exploring hidden cultural gems from Savile Row to Shoreditch.

The walk will start at 3pm sharp, and will last up to 90 minutes. Tickets cost £28 and can be booked
here

www.foxandsquirrel.com

  

SIMON STARLING – RECENT HISTORY

Posted on 2011-02-07

In his first major UK exhibition since winning the Turner Prize in 2005, Starling employs video, film, slides, photography and sculpture to aid his understanding of the material world. Constructing a replica of the Pier Art Centre gallery space in Stromness, his exploration of the relationship between culture and nature is an uncanny one. The exhibition will also include The Long Ton 2009, a sculpture featuring two rough-cut white lumps of marble suspended in space and Red Rivers, 2008 a video work which brings together the stories of two journeys made a century apart: the first a nineteenth century anthropological expedition into the Congo to capture and document the elusive and little known Okapi; the second a journey made by Starling down the Hudson River in a handmade strip canoe, culminating at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City where specimens of the Okapi finally ended up in a famous ‘diorama’. Taking the form of a series of still images, the video is as much a meditation on the fast disappearing processes of photography itself.

Opposite – The Long Ton, 2009

Exhibition runs through to May 2nd, 2011

Tate St Ives
International Modern and Contemporary Art
Porthmeor Beach
St Ives
Cornwall
TR26 1TG

www.tate.org.uk/stives