Openings: Oliver Vernon –“Renegade Trajectories” @ Joshua Liner

June 10, 2013, 9:00 am

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Joshua Liner Gallery recently welcomed the return of Oliver Vernon to New York City, with a new solo show entitled Renegade Trajectories. This fresh exhibition highlights Vernon's cerebral and energetic visuals and pushes them to another level. Vernon utilized a variety of mediums and techniques to create this new collection of landscape abstraction, including acrylic on canvas or linen, as well as ink works on paper. Renegade Trajectories is on view through June 28. Check out a detailed look at this excellent group of works below.  

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Installations: Herbert Baglione “Obituary” @ FIFTY24MX

June 10, 2013, 4:00 pm

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Brazilian artist Herbert Baglione recently visited Mexico City for the opening of his newest solo show "Obituary" @ Fifty24Mx gallery. The new show  includes new paintings and installations by the artist. It is part of his continuing body of work he started at Contemporary Art Museum of Bogota in August of 2012, strongly inspired by death, human imperfection, and spiritual rebirth. The exhibition integrates photography, installation, drawing, and painting made ​​with Baglione's own blood. This radical method of creating art is actually turning his work process into kind of a sacrificial ceremony of death and resurrection. His paintings and drawings are showing recognizable calligraphy and feature distorted characters in stretched and twisted poses and are oftentimes anorexic and obese . With these images the artist is inviting the observer to think and reflect about the significance of ego in modern society.  Some of photographs exhibited were made in collaboration with the Italian photographer Fabio Stachi. This collaboration was titled 'Projeto Negro' and its a series of images that make a connection between the myth of fashion, and female form. Finally, during his visit to Mexican capital, Baglione did his part on a collaboration mural with Dave Choe that the American artists initiated few months ago during his own visit to the city.

Streets: Hyuro (Copenhagen)

June 12, 2013, 9:00 am

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While in town for her show in Copenhagen (covered), Hyuro also spent time working on a massive new mural over 270 meters long. Spending about two weeks painting her progressive imagery featuring an elk making a transformation as it trots through a forest, the long piece is a gift to her fans in the Danish capital. Take a more detailed and extensive look in the photo set below... Photo credit: Henrik Haven. Discuss Hyuro here.

Streets: Nychos (Denmark)

June 12, 2013, 10:00 pm

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Earlier this month (June 1-8), the Viborg International Billboard Painting Festival kicked things off with new work from Nychos. The Vienna-based street muralist brought his cartoonish anatomical aesthetic to Denmark and painted a series of works on billboards & walls, ranging from painterly techniques to graffiti. Other artists scheduled to make appearances include Blade, John Howard, Horphe, Ken Sortais, Christian Dinesen, and Anders Reventlov Larsen. Check out more photos of Nychos' work below... Photo credit: Henrik Haven. Discuss Nychos here.

Openings: Art Basel (Switzerland)

June 14, 2013, 10:33 pm

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There are numerous high quality art fairs occurring year round but the granddaddy of them all is Art Basel in Switzerland which opened its doors this week. Drawing some of the most prestigious galleries to exhibit a seemingly endless list of notable artists such as Kaws, Rob Pruitt, Will Cotton, Shepard Fairey, Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara and Jeff Elrod (just to name a very few), it's no wonder that the wealthiest collectors and the hard-core art enthusiasts flock to Switzerland each year for a chance to hunt down their favorite works of art. Check out a quick look at a few gems from this year's fair.

Art Focus: Robert Burden

June 15, 2013, 9:00 am

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Robert Burden's artwork centers around his love for childhood toys, heroes, and icons & is the subject of our latest Art Focus feature. His nostalgic representations of these action figures from his past are set against backgrounds and patterns taken from fabric, rug, or wallpaper from his home while growing up. This elevation of these mass produced items with a reverence and almost talismanic obsession is an ironic metaphor for the consumer addiction seen today. The series of work seen here was included in his recent show at the Shooting Gallery in San Francisco. For those interested in learning more about his work, check out the video below as well as a recent kickstarter project. Discuss Robert Burden here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WTFtIBjhZqI

   

Overtime: June 10 – June 16

June 16, 2013, 4:00 am

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More stories from the week ended June 16:

• Maurizio Cattelan takes a break from retirement and presents old work in a new way at Fondation Beyeler.
• RIP: Dorothea Wight, who has died of cancer at age 68.
• RIP: “Gallerists to the people” startup Artify.it.
• Feds pursue Subhash Kapoor, suspected of smuggling an estimated $100 mill. in art over the last two years.
• German police bust forgery ring that faked works by such artists as Kandinsky, Malevich and Goncharova.
• Twenty-two people arrested as Paris Police break up fake African art gang.
• Thief who tried to burglarize Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio gets caught and arrested.
• William Sweetlove's Cloned Bulldog With Water Bottle sculpture stolen off the streets of West Hollywood.
• Baby Jane Holzer sues Stephan Stoyanov Gallery for trade (involving Colen, Kelley, Prince works) gone wrong.
• Richard Prince may have burned one of his Canal Zone paintings and documented the act on video.
• U.S. government recovers 400 pages from Alfred Rosenberg diary detailing looting of art throughout Europe.
• $12 million public art program in Atlantic City facing much criticism from the city's citizens.
• Locals in Bushwick angered over recent popularity of street art tourism.
• Museums and institutions face challenges when it comes to maintaining some digital and internet artworks.
• Virginia Postrel makes the case for selling some pieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts Museum collection.
• Oprah giving $12 mil. to help build Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture.
• European cities turning to North Korea's Mansudae Art Studio for its expertise in restoring 20th century works.
• Thousands bid farewell to Florentijn Hofman's giant duck in Hong Kong before it travels to Pittsburgh.
• Rio de Janeiro & São Paulo emerging as art centers, with help from government.
• A sculpture boom is now sweeping London’s salerooms and art fairs.
• CNN Radio looks at investing in art and why some artworks are valued higher than others.
• Sales at Art Basel strong as Leonardo DiCaprio is among the patrons.
• The use of red and other primary colors a main reason why some art works sell for higher prices than others.
• Andreas Efstathiou installs plaster sculptures of toilets in Cyprus as protest against the nation's economy.
• Basquiat, the musical, will get a private reading on Monday June 24th.
• Mini-golf course designed by artists now in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden at the Walker Art Center.
• Heather Dewey-Hagborg creates "facial reconstruction" sculptures with DNA from objects found on streets.
• Question and answer session with Eva Presenhuber.
• Day 1 through 3 of Kenny Schachter's Art Basel diary. Here's part 2.
• Christopher Knight reviews Los Angeles Nomadic Division's (LAND) Painting in Place exhibition.
• Societe Perrier details 5 female LA street artists you should know about, including Becca and KH No 7.
• Artists turning to crowdfunding to help pay for their projects.
• Profile of Steve Tisch's art collection, which will be housed in a private museum he's building.
• Extensive profile of James Turrell by NYT.
• The New York times writes about what Chris Johanson has been up to.
• David Choe paints on limited edition Fin Bec wine cases.
• Cosmo Sarson creates breakdancing Jesus mural near Banksy piece.
• Joe Bradley answers 26 Questions from ArtInfo.
• Damien Hirst's company reveals that he has made 1,365 spot paintings with more to come, including million spot painting. NYT looks at the prices of spot paintings over the years.
• James Franco discusses his show at Pace Gallery, London.
• Ben Eine gets interviewed by Interview Magazine.
• The Daily Beast writes about celebrities and the art world/art market.
• Kanye West hosts impromptu listening party during Art Basel and talks about art and music.
• Neil Gaiman is obsessed with this Richard Dadd unfinished painting - The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke.
• Interview with Khalid Albaih, whose cartoons have become a symbol for uprisings across the Arab world.

Streets: DALeast (Vienna)

June 16, 2013, 9:30 am

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The prolific artist DALeast has struck again, this time in Vienna. The South Africa-based Chinese artist painted a mural that draws from his roots as the title of this latest piece is "-", the a character that means "one" in Chinese. Painted over some scattered graffiti, the work featuring his animal characters rendered with his kinetic brushstrokes blends in nicely with the wall. Take a look at more photos below... Discuss DAL here.

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Studio Visits: Hisham Echafaki

June 17, 2013, 9:00 am

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AM recently had the chance to visit pop-surrealist painter Hisham Echafaki's studio. Using acrylic and oil paint, the London-based artist loves exploring symetry and patterns, as well as depicting animals in a surreal environment, as shown in his kufic and butterflies series. We were fortunate to document some of the painting process of his Anthropomorphic Bowie pieces as he prepared for the upcoming group show The Many Faces of David Bowie at the Opera Gallery London. Photo credit: Butterfly.

Studio Visits: Kevin Earl Taylor

June 18, 2013, 8:17 am

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Kevin Earl Taylor's work has a timeless quality to it - within his work are we looking at scenes from an imagined future or relics from the past? The San Francisco based artist is back in the studio after a six month residency last year in Germany and currently gearing up for a large scale solo exhibition entitled Monument Adrift to be held in Portland at Breeze Block Gallery in July along with an exhibition by Chicago based Ryan Stewart Nault. Taylor works primarily with oils and thematically depicts natural elements presented as a totemic displays featuring a raft of animals interacting with armatures, scaffolds, monoliths, threads and other constructed components. San Francisco based photographer Winni Wintermeyer visited Kevin in his studio to record the progress on the new work for AM. Check out the wonderful studio visit pictures below. Discuss Kevin Earl Taylor here.

Studio Visits: Ryan Stewart Nault

June 19, 2013, 4:00 am

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Ryan Stewart Nault is on the verge of having his first solo exhibition at Portland's Breeze Block Gallery. I’m a Stranger Here Myself will see the young Chicago-based painter unveiling a fresh body of work on the back of multiple group exhibitions throughout the United States and the also the UK. Nault has recently completed his BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He describes his work as harboring the effects of domestic comfort, which is evident throughout his past work, and transfers into this new body of work with familiar, soothing elements from everyday life. His compositions are broken down to base levels of the elements he captures and depicts using a clever mix of abstracted elements and light patterns to elegantly create a unique version of the traditional landscape fused with still life painting. The work will be shown alongside Kevin Earl Taylor's solo exhibition Monument Adrift (previewed). Both exhibitions open at Breeze Block Gallery on Friday, the 5th of July 2013. Check out these pictures that Ryan's sister, artist Alison Nault took for AM at his studio. Discuss Ryan Stewart Nault here.    

Streets: Sam3 (Spain)

June 20, 2013, 12:15 am

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Sam3 has been busy recently along the Mediterranean coastline of Spain in Costa Blanca working on some murals featuring his signature shadow figures. Along with the stunning piece with political commentary that refers to expulsion of the Moors in the Ricote Valley in the sixteenth century, painted on a rock face (seen above), there was also the silhouette of a man in a boat with pretty sweet placement taking advantage of the natural elements of the wall (seen below). Discuss Sam3 here.

Streets: Liqen –“Mandarina Chicharra” (London)

June 21, 2013, 12:28 am

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While in UK earlier this month, the Spanish-born Liqen painted a vibrant mural, Mandarina Chicharra, in South London in the Dulwich area. Covering the wall in the courtyard of a local school with his surreal imagery, the children will either be inspired by this hybrid orange and insect creature, or have bad dreams. Take a a look from some other angles and enjoy the details below... Discuss Liqen here.

Streets: Dabs Myla 2013 Euro Summer Tour

June 21, 2013, 9:00 am

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Australian artistic couple, Dabs Myla, recently left their LA home/studio to spend couple of weeks traveling and painting around Europe. By creating poppy, very colorful, clean line wall murals, often topped with cute, cartoonish like characters that are their signature elements, the artists left their marks on walls all over the old continent. They visited The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, and collaborated with numerous Europe based graffiti artists such as Newtwo, Vino, Aryz, Boogie, Tiws, Soten, Bates, etc, along the way. They finished their Euro summer tour in Bergen, Norway, where they did an awesome outdoor installation with a help from NuArt Festival, along with painting some cute smaller walls next to the ocean, and in the forest. As a big finale of their tour, the artists painted two paintings which are getting released as prints through HandmadePosters on Tuesday 25th July 2013. Moonlight Fantasy and Good Times are both 7 color screenprints, are 43cm x 61cm, are printed on 300gsm high quality cotton art paper, both an edition of 150, and are signed and numbered. Discuss Dabs Myla here.

Studio Visits: Jen Stark –‘Vortextural’ @ Cooper Cole

July 5, 2013, 10:43 am

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AM recently had the pleasure to visit the studio of multi-disciplinary artist Jen Stark as she prepares for her debut solo show in Canada tonight (6-10 pm) with Cooper Cole in Toronto. The LA-based artist's process is meticulous and her studio is very well organized with numerous projects coming to life simultaneously. Instantly recognizable as her own, Stark's work is rich in color theory and draws heavily from her interest in mathematics, deep space and the natural world. Take a glimpse below at her new body of work for Vortextural coming to life before it shipped up to Canada as well as take a look at the completed pieces here. Stark's work can be found in the permanent collection at The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC and has exhibited at the Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA; Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL; Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL: Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL and the Museum of Ft. Lauderdale, FL, among many others. Discuss Jen Stark here.

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Streets: Revok x POSE on Bowery & Houston (Part I)

July 5, 2013, 9:32 pm

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AM took some time to catch up with artists Revok and POSE (pictured above) as they were next to tackle that monster wall on the corner of Bowery & Houston. Following in the footsteps of many notable artists such as RETNA, Kenny Scharf, Barry McGee, Shepard Fairey, AIKO, Os Gemeos, JR, Keith Haring, CRASH and Faile, the two members of the MSK crew accepted this hefty project at the historic mural location, but took a little bit of a different approach. Over the course of six days, the two decided to do much of their work in the evening. In electing to push their creative process opposite the prime time hours of the average New Yorker, they were free to focus less hindered by passerbys and also allowing them to dodge the stifling heat and humidity that haunts the Big Apple this time of year. However, mother nature didn't quite cooperate as the heat brought on intense rainstorms, but the duo braved the severe downpours and somehow managed to press on to create one of the most interesting murals we've seen in a while. Check out the creative action below. Discuss Revok here. Discuss POSE here.

Overtime: July 1 – July 7

July 7, 2013, 4:00 am

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More stories from the week ended July 7:

• First fully comprehensive Roy Lichtenstein show opens in Paris.
• Paris-based Galerie Daniel Templon to open a new space in Brussels in the fall of 2013.
• Cirque du Soleil performer Sarah Guillot-Guyard falls to death during performance at Las Vegas Ka show.
• Marc and Andrea Glimcher are divorcing after 10 years of marriage, but will still work together at Pace Gallery.
• Was Caravaggio a pedophile who made pedophile art and is it OK to show and view these works?
• John Constable's painting The Hay Wain attacked by protestor at the National Gallery.
• Activist arrested for allegedly defacing Westminster Abbey statue.
• Tate show charts history of violence against art and covers 500 years, up until present-day.
• Disagreement over whether San Giovannino is a true lost work by Michelangelo.
• California judge rules that Nazi-owned art lawsuit against Sotheby's should be heard in England.
• Worry in NYC as Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who has a excellent record for arts spending, is leaving.
• Two statues that symbolized the hope of growing children in Baltimore returns after being recreated.
• Baltimore's Contemporary Museum will reopen after the institution abruptly shut its doors and laid off its staff.
• The Statue of Liberty reopened to visitors on July 4 after being repaired due to extensive damage from Sandy.
• Playboy roadside art by Richard Phillips near Marfa ruled illegal.
• Roger Dean suing James Cameron over claims that he copied images from his artwork for Avatar.
• Alleged rigged bidding ($50,000) for artwork during kindergarten benefit auction.
• Russia’s Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts director Irina Antonova, 91-years old, leaves her job after 52 years.
• Duke University discovers that laser can be used to examine underneath artwork without causing damage.
• Prison guard tower of Louisiana State Penitentiary in National Museum of African American History collection.
• Imran Qureshi splashed red paint & drew on the almost 8,000-square-foot display-area at Met Museum.
• BMW ends support (but will continue to work with Guggenheim) for Guggenheim Lab Project.
• Chinese art collectors buying relatively undervalued (compared to canvas) paper works by blue chip artists.
• Christie's to have a sale devoted to work featuring Kate Moss.
• Russians fight Indian billionaires in auction as records are set for Old Master works.
• California remains artists' preferred state in US, but female architects relatively underrepresented.
• UCLA partnering up with LACMA to train art history doctoral students.
• Obama to award 2012 National Medal of Arts & National Humanities Medal (winners inc. Ellsworth Kelly).
• Larry Ellison unveils his Japanese art collection in San Francisco at the Asian Art Museum.
• Daniel Rolnik visits Jen Stark in studio as she discusses the perils of making her work on her hands and eyes.
• 20th mural by Sol LeWitt on NY wall to occupy the lobby of the Jewish Community Center (Upper West Side).
• Amy Winehouse exhibition opens at London’s Jewish Museum.
• Wayne Thiebaud discusses a Richard Diebenkorn work from his personal collection.
• Gillian Wearing crowd sourcing film submissions for a art project.
• Jonathan Jones thinks Sarah Lucas is a far better sculptor than Moore or Hepworth ever were.
• Os Gemeos interviewed by Paper Magazine.
• Alec Baldwin may open a art gallery that will show photography.
• Jay-Z buys painting of Basquiat by Swizz Beatz.
• Paintballing now part of 2013's Frieze Projects in London.

Streets: El Mac (Los Angeles)

July 7, 2013, 7:55 pm

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After returning from Denmark where he worked on several murals and a solo exhibition, El Mac recently took time to paint a wall in Little Armenia. Arranged for by FX, the new piece will help promote their series, The Bridge, for several months before reverting to another beautiful addition to the urban landscape in Los Angeles. Take a look at more shots we took for you to enjoy below... Discuss El Mac here.

Streets: How & Nosm –“I Just Called To Say” @ DKNY Artworks

July 8, 2013, 11:58 pm

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Amongst ten artists around the world that got commissioned to present their vision for DKNY Artworks, the New York based How & Nosm took on the daunting task of working on the fashion giant's home court. Entitled I Just Called To Say, the piece the brothers created helped highlight the iconic DKNY logo on a series of billboards on the corner of 48th Street & 7th Ave. It seems like How & Nosm are hitting their stride since creating an impressive mural at the iconic Bowery & Houston walll and a great pop-up exhibition at Jonathan LeVine Gallery. Stay tuned to AM for an inside look at an upcoming project with blue chip gallery - Pace Prints. Discuss How & Nosm here.

Streets: Escif (Denmark)

July 9, 2013, 7:14 pm

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After bringing you photos of the work Brad Downey and Sam3 put in for the Street Art project (co-curated by Henrik Haven) in Horsens, Denmark, we now want to share with you what Escif painted for the event. The Spanish muralist created three pieces - How to survive Horsens (the large wall seen above with characters practicing self-defense, a nod to the town's bad reputation which is slowly improving with its strong focus on art & culture), Baruck Pizza (a clever piece that mimics the pizza restaurant right next to it - see on the next page), and an untitled piece of a man on a horse. Photo credit: Henrik Haven and the artist. Discuss Escif here.