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Jim Houser | LeBasse Projects | Culver City
On March 10th Space 1026 founder Jim Houser opened his new solo show – “As Quiet As It’s Kept” – at LeBasse Project’s Culver City space | Featuring new canvas paintings, mixed media installations as well as his signature panel/paintings | Houser spent a week putting together his beautifully pieced installations from creating the music playing out of his hand-crafted cabinet speakers to the birdhouses and wooden tables | “As Quiet As It’s Kept” runs through April 7th 2012.
The Obliteration Room Exhibition | Yayoi Kusama | The Queensland Gallery of Modern Art
The Queensland Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia has opened an exhibition that your kids would love | The museum has invited children to take part in the playful works of one of the most significant and influential Japanese artists working today, Yayoi Kusama | Kusama’s art consists of making paintings, sculptures and photographs using dots to cover the entire surface – a process she calls ‘obliteration’ | The artist, who has in the past had success working with children, has decided to get the little ones involved in her exhibition at the GoMA | She has given the visiting children access to a large white room full of white household objects and asked them to ‘obliterate’ the room | Thousands of coloured dot stickers have since been handed out to children and stuck to the walls, piano, table, lamps, etc | The no-longer-white room has now become filled with coloured spots and they aren’t even half way through the exhibition | The Obliteration Room, is part of Kusama’s Look Now, See Forever exhibition that runs until March 2012 | qag.qld.gov.au
Evan Hecox | Stolen Space | London
Evan Hecox is a Colorado-based artist and designer whose work portrays the essence of urban environments | His work depicts city scenes or isolated elements that are almost cinematic in their stark contrast and abstraction | Hecox is fascinated with the complexity of the urban landscape and people from the mundane surroundings that one would normally overlook | Like snapshots or filmstrips, his art captures the everyday existence of the average person as they traverse the detritus of the modern metropolis | His stylistic approach is based on the process of amplification as it affects form and color, breaking down the image, removing elements and emphasizing others | Hecox has exhibited worldwide, including exhibitions in Los Angeles, London and Tokyo | boobosh is a big fan and his recent exhibition at London’s Stolen Space Gallery saw him create works based on buildings and scenes around London and try to ‘offer a glimpse of what London felt like to an outsider’.
Shepard Fairey | Obey | Copenhagen | V1 Gallery
In late July of 2011, Shepard Fairey and his Obey team headed to Copenhagen for a solo exhibition at the V1 Gallery | These videos capture a behind the scenes look into the preparation for the show | The show itself was a huge success but a lot of crazy stuff happened along the way and these videos are a very honest look at the highs and lows of the experience.
JR | Perrotin Gallery | Paris
JR @ Perrotin Gallery, Paris | Opening Saturday 19th November 2011 at 7pm | www.perrotin.com
Will Barras | Spacejunk Art Centres
Bearspace | Print & Design Now!
Following its fantastic debut at the London Art Fair last year, Bearspace & SW1 Gallery are excited to announce Print & Design Now!, a pioneering open-submission exhibition set to feature over 200 works by emerging artists and designers who specialise in the mediums of print and design, including Margaret Ashman, Phil Ashcroft and Yoshitaka Iwamoto | Artworks have been selected by a panel of arts professionals ensuring the very best quality of work on show | These include, Julia Alvarez, Director of Bearspace, Owen Ward, SW1 Gallery Manager and Mary-Alice Stack, Director of the Own Art Scheme at Arts Council England | This exhibition will showcase the very best in contemporary art and design at prices that are affordable to the younger collector and great examples of limited edition print and design items by up and coming artists from all over the country | Take this opportunity to invest in artists of the future as selected by some of the UK’s most distinguished authorities on art and design | Prices range from £25 – £1000 for editioned prints and one off works | All works will also be available on the catalogue section of the Bearspace website, launched on the 28th July | This exhibition is presented in partnership with Land Securities, Arts Council England’s Own Art scheme, which provides interest free loans of up to £2,000 for buyers of contemporary art | Print & Design Now! will initially show at the SW1 Gallery, and will then go on to tour at venues in London and the UK, including Bearspace and Art Fairs in 2011 | www.bearspace.co.uk
Shepard Fairey | Your Ad Here
Shepard Fairey is hitting Denmark’s V1 Gallery from August 5th 2011 for a new show titled Your Ad Here | The exhibition will run through until September 3rd 2011 and features newly produced work consistent with Fairey’s traditional output | The show will be followed by a number of public walls produced in a collaboration between Fairey and the Copenhagen City Council | And all this follows Geoff McFetridge’s excellent Us As Logo exhibition that is currently running at the V1 Gallery | V1 Gallery, Flaesketorvet 69 – 71, 1711 Copenhagen V, Denmark | www.v1gallery.com
Margaret Kilgallen | Summer/Selections | Ratio 3
Ratio 3 is pleased to present Margaret Kilgallen ‘Summer/Selections’ exhibition, on view from June 23rd to August 5th 2011 | Margaret Kilgallen (1967–2001) is considered by many (boobosh most definitely included) to be one of the most influential, yet under-recognised, artists of her generation | Kilgallen, along with a handful of other artists such as Barry McGee, Chris Johanson, and Alicia McCarthy, came to emergence in the late 1990s, as part of an art movement that is now commonly referred to as the Mission School | On view in the gallery will be a selection of works-on-paper and paintings on canvas, some never before seen | Many of the works are painted on discarded pages from books, emphasizing Kilgallen’s resourcefulness and economical use of materials | This is also reflected in the canvas works, most of which were cut and sewn together by hand, giving the paintings a quilt-like quality | The imagery depicted includes her iconic motifs such as leaves, trees, topography, and female figures, all of which exemplify Kilgallen’s delicate and adept hand | Her humble, almost folkloric, style pushes some of the imagery into simple abstractions of color, lines, and repeating shapes | This exhibition offers an intimate look into Kilgallen’s very personal and singular vision | The work of Margaret Kilgallen has been exhibited internationally at venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, REDCAT, Los Angeles, UCLA Hammer Museum, The Drawing Center, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and the DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece | Ratio 3, 1447 Stevenson Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 USA | Opening reception - Thursday June 23rd from 6 – 8pm | This is the first solo exhibition in San Francisco of Margaret’s work in 13 years | www.ratio3.org
Geoff McFetridge | ‘Us As A Logo’ Exhibition | Copenhagen
Geoff McFetridge has a new solo exhibition kicking off on Friday June 10th 2011 at the V1 Gallery in Copenhagen | Entitled Us As A Logo, the show will run until September 7th 2011 | V1 Gallery, Flæsketorvet 69, 1711 Copenhagen, Denmark 3331 0321 | www.v1gallery.com
