SETTING THE STANDARD FOR ARTIST ZINES AND BOOKS
Benjamin Sommerhalder runs Nieves with his own two hands, quietly publishing artist zines and books out of Zurich. I’ve encountered his imprints so often while researching artists or browsing bookshops that his little ghost logo has become a familiar pal I’m always glad to see. Nieves is also a pal to artists Chris Johanson, Johanna […]
RON ENGLISH “NEO NATURE”
RON ENGLISH “NEO NATURE” AT THE NEW COREY HELFORD GALLERY We are excited about a few things here. One, multi Juxtapoz cover artist Ron English is about to open a massive solo show, Neo Nature: We Are the New They, featuring 22 new paintings. Two, this said show is at a brand new downtown Los […]
Stories of legacy giving – part 1 Carracci
Carracci Annibale Carracci, ‘The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (‘The Montalto Madonna’)’, about 1600 In 2004 the Gallery acquired Carracci’s Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist thanks to a number of donations and gifts in wills. This work was only discovered and attributed to Carracci in 2003 by […]
JAMES JEAN “ZUGZWANG”
James Jean knows chaos. Thrashing waves of lines swirl around his figures, who try to make sense of the world’s ubiquitous nonsense. The artist has ridden the swells of fine art, design, and illustrative excellence, landing prestigious awards and sailing through high-profile campaigns and exhibitions. Now is the time for his art to roll toward […]
REBIRTH BRASS BAND IN SAN FRANCISCO
Something is always happening on Heron Alley in San Francisco, and there will be a whole lot of happening on Saturday, November 7, 2015 when Grammy winning Rebirth Brass Band provides the sounds as you grab a plate from the Boxing Room and check out the group art show put together by Red Truck Gallery. […]
TIM BARBER’S “BLUES”
The galerie du jour agnès b. is pleased to present Blues, an exhibition by Tim Barber opening November 5. The solo exhibition from the New York-based photographer will feature a series of traditional cyanotypes, made from a printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. Tim Barber grew up in Amherst Massachusetts, lived for a few years […]
MIHOKO OGAKI’S MILKY WAY SCULPTURES
Japanese artist Mihoko Ogaki has combined the night sky with the body in these sculptures constructed from plastic and embedded with LEDs. The light shines out through thousands of tiny holes and illuminates the walls surrounding the sculpture but when they are placed in bright room, the bodies appear to be suffering and dying.
PEDRO MARZORATI’S BLUE MEN
Argentinian artist Pedro Marzorati recently installed a climate-change focused sculpture in Montsouris Park, Paris. The piece, which consists of bright-blue humans emerging from, or sinking into, a pond. He created the piece for the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21), a climate conference in Paris, which aims to reach international agreements surrounding climate change policy. Specifically, […]
STATUE OF LOVE
The Statue of Love sculpture inspired by love story of “Ali and Nino” Created by Georgian artist Tamar Kvesitadze. The story is similar to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and tells of an Azerbaijani youth who falls in love with a Georgian princess but dies defending his country. The 7 ton statues start their motion […]
DESTROYING THE WEAK by CLEON PETERSON X CASE STUDYO
We just had a good week with Cleon; his shirt sold out in our webstore about as soon as we announced it. This probably will be the case with Cleon’s new sculpture edition with Case Studyo. “Destroying the Weak” features two porcelain figures in battle, made in an edition of 20 with 4 APs, standing […]
FLOOR PLANS OF FAMOUS TELEVISION SHOWS
Spanish-based interior designer Iñaki Aliste Lizarralde may spend too much time watching sitcoms but it allowed him to create incredibly detailed floor plans (including furnishing details) of households from The Simpsons, Dexter, Friends, Seinfeld, and many others.
YUNG JAKE’S CELEBRITY PORTRAITS PAINTED WITH EMOJIS
Emojis, fast becoming a language of their own can now easily be used for painting through the website emoji.ink. Using this site, rapper Yung Jake has created a series of stunning (or perhaps eerily uncanny) portraits of celebrities on his tumblr. The portraits have garnered some press because they’re so accurate, but the rapper says […]
“IN DREAMS” BY PETROS KOUBLIS
Petros Koublis was born in 1981 and is based in both New York and Athens. His relationship with photography started in 2000, after having dedicated some years in painting. He studied photography in Athens and participated in a series of seminars on the history of photography, being mostly developing his style through a constant personal […]
JOE IURATO “EVERYTHING BUT THE WHOLE STORY”
This past week Station 16 Gallery in Montreal opened Everything but the Whole Story, a solo show featuring Joe Iurato. Based on photography, JoeIurato creates site-specific wooden cut-outs that reflect upon his personal experiences. The tiny black and white figures interact with their environment in often extravagant manners, from scaling a skyscraper, to dangling from a bridge, to […]
DREW MERRITT “REQUIEM”
“Requium” is a body of work with diverse thoughts and emotions expressed in each painting; meant to mirror life and it’s individualized complexities. This is also represented in pieces that feature the subject characterized more than once. Due to my discomfort with being categorized as “a pretty girl artist” most of the content is attractive […]
