WORD TO MOTHER – BLIND BY STARDOM

Posted on 2010-10-04

Word To Mother presents his fourth show at StolenSpace, which will feature paintings in mixed media on wood, canvas, found objects and installation pieces. This show will also see the release of a limited edition hand pulled screen print by the artist. (details of which to be revealed at a later date)

Word To Mother’s new body of work invites the viewer to look past the exterior or what is immediately apparent and question what is behind. Referencing popular childhood characters he asks the viewer to question the agenda of media that is subjected to us, involuntarily sculpting our values and opinions. ‘Blind by Stardom’ is a comment on society being conditioned to worship fame and celebrity status as a way to keep the masses occupied so to keep them from questioning anything.

Exhibition runs from October 8th to October 24th, 2010

StolenSpace Gallery
Dray Walk
The Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane
London
E1 6QL
United Kingdom

www.stolenspace.com

  

CARLOS CRUZ-DIEZ – COLOR IN SPACE AND TIME

Posted on 2010-10-04

Color in Space and Time features more than 150 works from the artist´s wide-ranging career, culled from the Cruz-Diez Foundation collection at the MFAH, and major private and public collections around the world.
For more than five decades Carlos Cruz-Diez has intensively experimented with the origins and optics of color. His wide-ranging body of work includes unconventional color structures, light environments, street interventions, architectural integration projects and experimental works that engage the response of the human eye while insisting on the participatory nature of color. The exhibition will introduce international audiences to Cruz-Diez´s extensive production and will place his theoretical and artistic contributions to 20th-century Modernism in a broader context than they have traditionally been seen.

Opposite – Chromosaturation, Carlos Cruz-Diez

Exhibition runs from February 6th to July 4th, 2011

The Museum of Fine Arts Houston
1001 Bissonnet at Main
Houston
Texas
77005
USA

www.mfah.org

  

TODD JAMES – GREAT ADVENTURE

Posted on 2010-09-27

In Great Adventure Todd James depicts subjects as varied as modern day Somali pirates, anthropomorphized war machines of every type, his signature women in emotionally barren landscapes, and irreverent portraits of the personnel that Western governments, with straight faces, call “peacekeeing forces.” The raw transgressive lines of these daunting compositions are rendered in a bright palette of colours that lends the work an innocent and disarming appearance, but deeper exploration shows that despite this cheery surface, the artist is dealing in themes of warfare and global conflict, damage and desperation; subjects whose reality must be sublimated to be bearable, and which here are triangulated effortlessly, astonishingly, and somehow, with James’ trademark humor.

Todd James says simply: “The reason I find things like this funny is because sometimes you need to laugh to keep from crying”. With this new collection of paintings, which includes some of the artist’s first works in oil, viewers may find both reactions conflictingly appropriate.

Opposite – Dare to dream, 2010

Exhibition runs through to November 3rd, 2010

Galería Javier López
Galería José Marañón, 4
E-28010
Madrid
Spain

www.galeriajavierlopez.com

  

THE SHADES – JEFFREY GIBSON AND JACKIE SACCOCCIO

Posted on 2010-09-27

The Shades by Jackie Saccoccio & Jeffrey Gibson, is the 1st time both artists are exhibiting together. Each artist uses their own dense visual language as muse and expands on it using subjective and improvisational strategies countered by more objective and decisive structuring of the overall gallery installation, accessing The Shades. The title lightly refers to Ovid’s Rome where the ghosts of the ancient Romans are referred to as shades of the dead, their physical description being immense and shapeless. Saccoccio and Gibson take this as a metaphorical starting point to consider contemporary abstraction. The works traverse the real and are fixed on the viewing moment. The paintings are real and of this world. Both artists take what is happening within the paintings to address the space, alter the space, re-inven t a space. Ab-Ex, Pattern & Decoration, Neo Geo and Op mix with Dadaist and Conceptual practises.

Exhibition runs through to October 9th, 2010

Samsøn
450 Harrison Ave. / 29 Thayer St
Boston
MA
02118

www.samsonprojects.com

  

NECK FACE – INTO DARKNESS

Posted on 2010-09-27

Into Darkness will feature Neck Face at his nastiest – meaning of course, at his best. Following up 2009’s now legendary performance-cum-exhibition in Miami, the artist sets his sights on Hollywood and brings with him the same energy and originality that has made him a cult favorite. Lock your windows and close your doors. He’s on the loose and there’s no telling what surprises he’ll have in store this Halloween.

Neck Face is an artist who manages to imbue humor into violence, locate amusement in fear, and takes pleasure in rattling nerves. His work is simultaneously sinister and grim, genuine and playful. He toys with the sacrilegious, antagonizes phobias, and triggers insecurities, all with a measure of ambivalence. His distinctive style straddles the line between reckless and deliberate, yet the work maintains a sense of immediacy, and is always provocative.

Exhibition runs from October 31st to November 20th, 2010

OHWOW
3100 NW 7 Avenue
Miami
Florida
33127
USA

www.oh-wow.com

  

MURAKAMI VERSAILLES

Posted on 2010-09-20

After Jeff Koons and Xavier Veilhan, this year contemporary Japanese artist Murakami will be bringing his super bright art to Louis IX’s opulent abode.
The Takashi Murakami Versailles retrospective art exhibition
places some of Murakami’s most iconic works in the hallowed halls of the Chateau de Versailles.

Opposite – Tongari-Kun (Mister Pointy)

Exhibition runs through till December 12th, 2010

Palace of Versailles
Place d’Armes
78000 Versailles
France

www.chateauversailles.fr