DOUG FOSTER – IN THE NAUGHTY CHAIR

Posted on 2011-01-24

For his first solo exhibition with the gallery, In The Naughty Chair, Foster will showcase a selection of his most celebrated works alongside his newest interactive video installation from which the exhibition derives its title. Continuing his Human Experiments series, Doug’s latest video installation delves deeper into his introspective fascination with the human psyche.

Part film, part sculpture those visiting the exhibition will be able to interact with the artwork displayed over the gallery’s two floors, which will be transformed into a stark, clinical setting for the artist’s stereoscopic and high-definition screen works.

Exhibition runs through to February 17th, 2011

Lazarides
11 Rathbone Place
London
W1T 1HR

www.lazinc.com

  

THE FACT OF THE MATTER – JESSICA LABATTE – ALI BAILEY

Posted on 2011-01-24

Material and materialism brings together two young artists Ali Bailey and Jessica Labatte. Whose interest in consumer culture and physical form, whose work revolves around the surprising, playful and sometimes unsettling transformation of found objects.
Ali Bailey’s work tackles advertising and branding culture. Jessica Labatte’s photographs manipulate space and form. Some turn mundane objects found in thrift stores into beautiful, unrecognisable, abstract compositions.

Opposite – Circularity, 2009, Jessica Labatte

Exhibition runs through to February 26th, 2011

Poppy Sebire Gallery
All Hallows Hall
6 Copperfield Street
London
SE1 0EP

www.poppysebire.com

  

WINTER SHOW

Posted on 2011-01-17

Winter Show is collection of hyperrealist paintings by gallery artists.
Each artist is set apart by their unique and original approach to their subject and by the distinctiveness of the subject matter itself, while at the same time animating a technique of precision.

Opposite – Fried Egg, 2010, Tjalf Sparnaay

Exhibition runs from February 8th to March 5th, 2011

Plus One Gallery
89-91 Pimlico Road
London,
SW1W 8PH

www.plusonegallery.com

  

JIM DINE SCULPTURES

Posted on 2011-01-17

Dine has been a major force across the contemporary scene since the advent of the Pop Art movement. Celebrated for his paintings and graphic work, Dine’s equally prolific and profound efforts as a sculptor are less well-known.
The exhibition traces the origins of Dine’s sculpture from the early work of the late 1950s and the early 1960s through his most recently completed efforts. Many of Dine’s iconic themes are explored including his use of tool and tool imagery, the Venus figure and the heart motif. Most recent is his exploration of the Pinocchio theme.

“Dine has a vast creativity and willingness to turn to a variety of images, many derived from found objects and popular or consumer culture,” said Joseph Becherer, Vice President and Chief Curator of Sculpture. “His sensitivity for textures and surfaces coupled with his mastery of materials allows him to create works in a range of materials from cloth to bronze, straw to wood.”
With more than 20 works, it is Dine’s largest sculpture exhibition to date.

Opposite – Wheat Fields, 1989

Exhibition runs through to May 8th, 2011

Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
1000 East Beltline NE
Grand Rapids
MI
49525

www.meijergardens.org

  

JESSE HAZELIP – BELLE OF THE BRAWL

Posted on 2011-01-17

In The Belle of the Brawl, the artist continues his ongoing examination of the sociopolitical patterns of repetitive historical mistakes.  As the dust settles from the war in Iraq, the anxiety of crisis looms large over Afghanistan.  The artist seeks to address the pending inevitability of violence and destruction through a visual examination which will include iconographic imagery from the artist’s earlier work: herons, buffalo and WWII weaponry, while introducing a new assembly of symbols and motifs.   The exhibition will feature over 20 mixed media works on found wood as well as a transformational approach to 941Geary’s 3,000 square foot space with a 16’ x 46’ ft installation piece and a second clandestine installation to be unveiled at the opening reception.  

Opposite – The Devil Himself (Study), Ink on Paper

Exhibition runs through to February 26th, 2011

941 Geary St.
San FranciscoCA
94109

www.941geary.com

  

HAJIME SORAYAMA EXHIBITION

Posted on 2011-01-10

Beginning with paintings on paperboard from the 1970’s and extending into his most recent pieces, the exhibition highlights several bodies of work, all created by hand in acrylic with several different recognizable techniques. Sorayama’s famous Gynoids and “sexy robots” feature what at first glance appear to be utopic visions of the future female, now retro when set against 21st century New York. In another series of women adorned in draping kimonos under phallic trees with Japanese script scrolled down the side, Sorayama creates images of 17th century Kyoto courtesans with Anglo-Saxon features, providing us with a historical lineage for desire in the East. The Western counterpart takes the form of traditional pin-ups, seducing the gaze of the viewer. Finally, Sorayama’s notoriously naughty ladies of the boudoir appear in leather, lace, silk ribbons, and metal chains, eyes firmly fixed on their audience.

Exhibition runs through to March 26th, 2011

Gering & López Gallery
730 Fifth Avenue
New York
NY
10019

www.alminerech.com