The Hajime Sorayama Tokyo Solo Exhibition began this past weekend in the Japanese capital as it showcased the talents of the famed pin-up artist. Known for his work in combining robots and eroticism, Hajime Sorayama’s original break-through was in 1983 with his “Sexy Robot”.
Shirokane Art Complex
3-1-15 Shirokane
Minato-ku
Tokyo
This Saturday, June 12, 2010, renowned urban artist Justin Bua will be conducting a series of interviews at LACMA exploring themes of street art. In three sessions – with Mear One, Flea, and Mr. Wiggles – Bua will use his own original paintings as backdrop for conversations about a variety of art forms. Aside from interviews, Mear One and Mr. Wiggles will also perform.
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Ben Weiner’s second solo exhibition in Los Angeles. For the first time in the artist’s career, he includes four stop-motion video works in addition to five studio-fresh oil paintings rendered in his signature photorealistic technique.
Through cropped magnifications, Weiner decontextualizes the commonplace to achieve conceptually transcendent and enigmatic abstractions. In his most recent body of work, the artist continues to resolve mass production with artistic creation by referencing Clement Greenberg’s formalist notion of art exploring the nature of medium. Weiner’s portrayals of synthetic materials such as high-fructose corn syrup, beauty products, and oil paint, achieve arresting duality through their vague familiarity and simultaneous mystique, reflecting our zeitgeist’s fascination with artifice and imitation. In conversation with Weiner’s transformative videos, his paintings confront our societal resistance to mortality and the unrefined.
Opposite – [H2O(l), H2O(g)], (C6H9NO)n, C3H8O2, C28H20N2Na2O8S2, 2010 color video loop
Exhibition runs from June 5th to July 3rd, 2010.
Mark Moore Gallery
2525 Michigan Avenue A-1
Santa Monica
CA
90404
Rodney Dickson is a great force in painting. He is his own man and works without compromise, disregarding passing fashion or style. Often shocking, he challenges our aesthetic values beyond good taste, digging to explore the deeper impulses of our psychology. He draws together disparate ways of working, changing from realistic to abstract, using thick or thin paint and applying it with his hands when necessary, or a brush, pouring or spraying, constantly searching for the clearest expression. “Since my time as a student I have never considered good painting to be limited to one style. Instead we must use anything to drag a painting out of ourselves”.
In all of his paintings there are layers of previous paintings, traces of imagery, mostly now obscured. The result of this ruthless practice of constantly creating and destroying is to put life and history into the work. Some of the imagery may in the end be unseen, and here the artist notes a parallel to how our individual personalities are formed by the accumulation of often unnoticed life events. He sees his work as an exploration of the human condition. His working practice is relentless, striving daily to paint better than before in the belief that each new painting will bring him closer to his goal.
Opposite – Number 2, Rodney Dickson
Exhibition runs from June 4th to July 2nd, 2010.
Gasser Grunert
524 West 19th Street
New York
NY
10011
Markus Linnenbrink known internationally for his brightly
colored resin paintings and sculptures, in this show, Nomatterwhereyougothereyouare,
he creates an installation that covers the walls, ceiling
and floor of the gallery.
Whether employing traditional supports, building sculptures, or
engaging directly with the space itself, present always is the
joy Linnenbrink has in creating his works. His “drip” paintings
literally ooze shiny colors which then extend from the surface
edge. With his “drilled” paintings, he builds layers of colored
resin before he excavates his composition, revealing each
multicolored surface in a concentric circle that either floats or
interacts with the other marks on the support.
For this exhibition, Linnenbrink will create a single painting
that will span the entire gallery, beginning somewhere on the
walls and extending to the ceiling and floor, folding in on
itself in various diagonals, until the beginning reunites with
the end.
Exhibition runs from June 17th to August 6th, 2010.
Numberthirtyfive
39 Essex Street (Grand/Hester)
New York
NY
10002
The lego tattoos ads were developed by art director jose miguel tortajada, oscar amodia,
dani páez, to showcase the superthin lines of the Pilot extrafine pens.
