REY ORTEGA “THE LAND” AND ROB CORLESS “OFFERINGS”

Posted on 2010-02-22

All three artists take us on a fantastic journey of storytelling, imagination, and discovery. Rey Ortega’s The Land is about a fictional people and place of his own design explored through an outsider’s point of view. He examines the land, its people, their architecture, objects, and culture of this made-up world.Rob Corless’ Offerings marries his daily reality with a surreal world that beats about in his head. He takes familiar images and positioned them where only the truly imaginative can tread. And Julian Callos’ Into the Unknown leaves the familiar behind and explores uncharted territory, while discovering one’s self in the process.

Opposite – “The Sparrow Visit” by Rob Corless

Exhibition runs through to June 5th, 2010.

WWA Gallery
9517 Culver BLVD
Culver City
CA
90232

www.wwagallery.com

  

HAUNTED

Posted on 2010-02-22

Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance examines myriad ways photographic imagery is incorporated into recent practice and in the process underscores the unique power of reproductive media while documenting a widespread contemporary obsession, both collective and individual, with accessing the past.
The works included in the exhibition range from individual photographs and photographic series, to sculptures and paintings that incorporate photographic elements, and to videos, both on monitors and projected, as well as film, performance, and site-specific installations. Included in the show will be work by such artists as Marina Abramović, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Sophie Calle, Tacita Dean, Stan Douglas, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Zoe Leonard, Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Jeff Wall, and Andy Warhol.

Exhibition runs from March 26th to September 6th, 2010.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street)
New York
NY

www.guggenheim.org

  

YES, YES, YES – WORKS OF ART BY PARRA

Posted on 2010-02-15

Arkitip and Incase have partnered to open Project Space, “a unique setting for exhibitions, performances and installations” that stays true to Arktip’s founding principles: “supporting the arts, promoting freedom of expression and making art affordable and accessible.”
Their first exhibition is with 32-year-old Dutch illustrator and designer Parra.

Exhibition runs through to April 30th, 2010.

Project Space
603 North La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles
CA
90036

arkitip.com/project-space

  

ANTONY GORMLEY: EVENT HORIZON

Posted on 2010-02-15

Antony Gormley’s life sized figures are slowly talking their place in the New York landscape in preparation for Event Horizon. 4 cast iron and 27 fiberglass statues will populate Madison Square Park and the surrounding Flatiron District. This public art project with run from March 26th to August 15th.

www.antonygormley.com

  

KIM GORDON “PERFORMING/GUZZLING”

Posted on 2010-02-15

A founding member of Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon moved from Los Angeles to New York in the 1970s. Her watercolors are inspired by on-stage performance, the faces of the crowd basis for dreamlike blurs of color. Gordan works with more than just watercolor, she combines newsprint, word, and photograph all working as canvas for quick slashes of color. The shapes are at once lightning fast portrait and abstract shape.
Limited to an initial run of 3,000, complete with a signed print by Gordon. Performing/Guzzling is an artist monograph with hands-on feel. Gordon handled the design and layout, offering a series of her watercolors, mixed media collages, and personal lyrics. Published Nieves and Rizzoli.

www.rizzoliusa.com

  

STUART PEARSON WRIGHT

Posted on 2010-02-08

Now living and working in East London, Stuart Pearson Wright grew up in the South of England, in Eastbourne, by the sea. He attended the Slade School of Fine Art in London and in 1998 won a travel grant from the National Portrait Gallery as part of the BP Portrait Awards.Wright used the cash to set off on a country wide tour, in a van, to paint and sketch. The resulting exhibition was called “From Eastbourne to Edinburgh: A Painter’s Odyssey.”

Opposite – “Woman Surprised by a Werewolf”, Oil on linen, (2008).

www.stuartpearsonwright.com