SHEPARD FAIREY – MAY DAY

Posted on 2010-03-08

Titled not only in reference to the day of the exhibition’s opening, the multiple meanings of May Day resonate throughout the artist’s new body of work.Originally a celebration of spring and the rebirth it represents, May Day is also observed in many countries as International Worker’s Day or Labor Day, a day of political demonstrations and celebrations coordinated by unions and socialist groups. “Mayday” is also the distress signal used by pilots, police and firefighters in times of emergency.

Exhibition runs through to May 29th, 2010.

Deitch Projects
18 Wooster Street
New York
NY
10013

www.deitch.com

  

MYTHS, LEGENDS, AND CULTURAL RENEWAL

Posted on 2010-03-08

Reinvented and passed on by each generation, myths, legends, and fables have continued to fascinate artists into the modern era. Many of the operatic works of Richard Wagner are deeply rooted in the German and Nordic traditions of folk tales and legends, Goethe drew upon German folklore for his description of the Walpurgisnacht, and the Brothers Grimm drew upon folk traditions in their retelling of popular fairy tales.

Exhibition runs through to August 16th, 2010.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90036

www.lacma.org

  

LARA VIANA

Posted on 2010-03-01

Lara Viana was born and brought up in Salvador, Brazil. She graduated from the Painting Department at the Royal College of Art in 2007, was selected for New Contemporaries in 2008 and the Whitechapel Gallery’s East End Academy 2009 – The Painting Edition as well as a solo show at Phoenix Arts, Exeter. Lara Viana is also currently exhibiting in ‘Psychic Geography’ at Workplace Gallery, Gateshead. Rebecca Geldard’s essay will be published with images as a pocket–book by domobaal editions, and will be available from the gallery.

Exhibition runs through to March 30th, 2010.

Domobaal
3 John Street
London
WC1N 2ES

www.domobaal.com

  

MEL RAMOS

Posted on 2010-03-01

The Kunsthalle Tübingen presents the largest Ramos exhibition in Germany and even Europe with 89 works on art on loan from around the world. This is the most comprehensive retrospective worldwide ever dedicated to the important American painter, Mel Ramos. Two anniversaries mark this occasion, namely, the 75th birthday of the artist and the over 50 year existence of the Pop Art movement of which Mel Ramos is a main representative. This comprehensive sweep of his life´s work, which is characterized by the subject of nude art, encompasses mainly paintings, but also preliminary sketches, sculptures, and lithographs. All phases from the late 1950´s to the present are represented by well-known major works.

Exhibition runs through to April 25th, 2010.

Kunsthalle Tübingen
Philosophenweg 76
72076 Tübingen
Germany

www.kunsthalle-tuebingen.de

  

JENNY HOLZER

Posted on 2010-03-01

Jenny Holzer is one of the most acclaimed artists working today . In the 1970s she began to use text as art, creating provocative writings displayed and distributed through means akin to the mass media – on fly posts, T-shirts and, in 1982, an LED billboard in New York’s Times Square.

Opposite – Purple, 33 double-sided curved LEDs, 2008

Exhibition runs through to May 16th, 2010.

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead Quays
South Shore Road
Gateshead
NE8 3BA
UK

www.balticmill.com

  

BUDDY NESTOR – EVERY GIRL GOES TO HELL

Posted on 2010-02-22

Buddy Nestor began his career in paint in 1997. He’d recently had a son and decided to teach himself. In 1999, he traveled the world on an aircraft carrier. This allowed plenty of time to paint, and solidified Nestor’s interest in art and painting. When he arrived back home, he pursued a BFA in painting.
“Every Girl Goes to Hell” is Nestor’s latest body of work. He takes beautiful models and makes them ugly. The series is on show early April through the remainder of the month.

Tootless Cat
The Piazza
2nd and Girard
Philadelphia
PA
19123

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