A sincere thanks to everyone who made it out to Santa Monica for Chad Person‘s first LA solo show opening – between the massive inflatable sculpture photo-ops and a live golf ball cannon demo, we’re confident that it was a unique event in and of itself.
We mustn’t be alone in that assessment to boot – as Daily Serving‘s Seth Curcio published a fabulous article on Chad’s exhibition. Read the full length article here, and check out the opening night photos below!
With over a dozen new works from the studio on view, Cordy Ryman‘s first Texas solo exhibition – dubbed “Scrapple” – opens at Lora Reynolds Gallery this Saturday, July 17, 2010.
The exhibition will remain on view through September 4th, and is certainly a must-see for our Texan contemporary art enthusiasts. For more information, please visit the gallery website.
If you happen to be in Portland this fine summer evening, we’re making a suggestion for your social calendar.
Jeremy Fish‘s “The Road Less Traveled: Mobile Art Tour 2010” is stopping off at Upper Playground, and tonight is the opening reception! From 7-10pm, you can hang out with Jeremy, his art and DJ 60/40. Not too shabby for a Saturday night, we feel…
With the doors of his second LA solo show just barely closed, Ben Weiner‘s work will be swept away to New Mexico in order to be featured in “Un-Titled (Abstraction)” at David Richard Contemporary (Santa Fe).
Showing alongside Jay Davis, Shirley Kaneda, Clarence Morgan, and Matthew Penkala, Weiner will have both painting and video featured in the exhibition – which opens July 20th, and remains on view through August 28th, 2010.
The opening reception for the exhibition is set for July 24, from 5-8pm. More information can be found on the David Richard Contemporary website!
In tandem with his upcoming inaugural LA solo show, Chad Person is the newly-released subject of the in-house produced Mark Moore Gallery : Statements 4. Available on pre-order, the book features an interview with the artist, press excerpts and overviews of all of his bodies of work to date. Statements 4 can be purchased for $20 (plus shipping) by emailing a request to publications@markmooregallery.com.
If you fancy Going Green, you can also download a free e-catalogue of Statements 4 by clicking here!
MOCA Tuscon will be opening the second installment of its major group summer exhibition on July 10th, “Made in Tuscon/Born in Tuscon/Live in Tuscon Part II,” which will feature three new works by Dimitri Kozyrev alongside a select group of emerging contemporary artists. If you find yourself in Arizona this summer, you best make the trip over to see fresh works from the Kozyrev studio.
Additionally, Kozyrev is featured in Stephan Stoyanov Gallery‘s (NY) current group exhibition, Sites of Memory: Architecture and Remembering, with Thomas Ruff, Rachel Whiteread and others, on view through July 25th. He will also be included in Mixed Greens‘ (NY) upcoming exhibition, Gimme Shelter, which opens Thursday, July 15, 6-8pm, and runs until September 3rd.
Start penciling some Kozyrev into your calendar…
PLANET Magazine has the market on Going Green and global consciousness covered, and they do it with enviable style. Raising awareness through art, architecture, fashion, film, music and design, the publication is an e-Bible for all things Eco, with an insatiable appetite for dynamic culture to boot.
Their most recent campaign, dubbed “EARTH BY,” features ten contemporary artists’ interpretations of the world through limited-edition prints for sale. 10% of each sale is donated to Charity:Water and 350.org for their conservationist causes, and in choosing to purchase one of these fine works, you have the potential to own your very own Allison Schulnik – who was invited to participate in the project – for $75 – $375.
To view Schulnik’s contributed piece, or purchase a print, visit the PLANET website.
With his upcoming retrospective exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (opening September 25, 2010), Vernon Fisher is making the proverbial rounds.
Fisher is currently in Dunn and Brown Contemporary’s (Dallas, TX) summer group show, “Floor Plan,”alongside Tara Donovan, Joseph Havel, Annette Lawrence, Amy Myers, Nic Nicosia, Matthew Sontheimer and Erick Swenson; on view through August 21. Simultaneously, Fisher is partaking in the Blanton Museum of Art‘s “Book Club,” for which he has selected four books relevant to his practice to discuss and with museum patrons. Should you be in the Austin area, and discontent with your own book club’s selections, drop by the museum to chat with Vernon about his literary influences:
July 15th, 7PM: Reality Isn’t What It Used to Be by Walter Truett Anderson
August 19th, 7PM: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
September 16th, 7PM: The Elizabethan World Picture by E.M.W. Tillyard
October 21st, 7PM: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
Hit up your local library or Amazon account if you want to read along…
In Artillery Magazine‘s fourth annual “LA Issue,” four of the publication’s top critics were charged with the task of summarizing the highs and lows of the past 2009-2010 art season. Each writer was to select one show to be the titleholder for the categories of “Overexposed,” “Underexposed” and “Perfect Exposure,” the latter of the three being the coveted position.
James Scarborough – as this post’s title will suggest – awarded Allison Schulnik‘s “Home for Hobo” as his “Perfect Exposure” exhibition for the previous season. Says the critic:
“Allison Schulnik’s show at Mark Moore Gallery was primal, raw and refreshing. Her work suggests an abecedarian plunge down a rabbit hole toward an aesthetic Ground Zero, emerging conceptually uncluttered at figuration and narrative from a Lascaux-ean cave. Her fertile gobs of paint trump irony, pastiche and virtuality with humanism filtered through a videographer’s eye for kinetic staging.”
Pick up a copy of the current issue to see Scarborough’s other list picks, and stick it up on your fridge for good measure.
Toiling away in a non-air-conditioned Los Angeles studio, Kiel Johnson is feverishly creating another one of his cardboard realities for the universe at large.
First up, Johnson and fellow artista Klai Brown created the “8-Bit Man,” a fully wearable cardboard robot get-up that Brown donned for an upcoming Toshiba commercial, which will air later this summer (stay tuned for the link)! Check out some of the behind-the-scenes images from the filming session below. Glistening man in loincloth not included with suit, sadly.
Simultaneously, Johnson has been fashioning a new series of 3-D goodies for his upcoming show at Davidson Contemporary (New York), which opens on September 23, 2010. If you’re in the area, start plugging this date into your iCal, as Johnson will be making the trek out to the Big Apple to be on hand for the reception. Check back for more of Johnson’s mad-scientist tendencies in the next few months; there’s never a dull moment around Hyperbole Studios.
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