Jorge Opazo, Esteban Rivero, Mónica Potenza and Catalina Scheliebener will opening an art show on July 7 at 8PM.
Pabellón 4 Arte Contemporáneo
Uriarte 1332, Palermo Viejo, Buenos Aires
July 7- July 25
Open Monday through Saturday from 4PM-8PM
Friday, July 3
7 p.m. – 11 p.m.
T & P Fine Art,
1143 South 9th St., Philadelphia, PA 19147
Scion’s Installation 5 Art Tour, which will benefit Creative Capital, arrives in Philadelphia, PA. in July. The opening reception will take place Friday, July 3 from 7 p.m. – 11 p.m. at T & P Fine Art, 1143 South 9th St., Philadelphia, PA 19147. Artists AJ Fosik, Asylm, Patrick Martinez, Something In The Universe will be in attendance along with Beautiful Decay’s Amir Fallah. DJ Apt One will be spinning.
The fifth installment of Scion’s Installation Art Tour was launched in October 2008. The program is designed to give exposure to both established and emerging artists.
Installation 5: Self Portraits highlights a diverse array of artists from around the world and will visit nine cities in total including Miami, New York, Portland, Minneapolis, San Jose, Philadelphia and Los Angeles. The tour features new markets Phoenix and Detroit, where the show kicked off.
For Installation 5 each artist was asked to create his or her literal, or non-literal interpretation of the theme ‘Self-Portraits’. Video art will be included for the first time in the tour’s five-year history, alongside painting and photography. Artists on the tour include: AJ Fosik (3-D painting), Alex Hornest (painting), Andrew Schoultz (painting), Angela Boatwright (photography), Asylm (painting), Blek le Rat (painting), Christina M. Felice (photography), Codak (painting), David Choe (video art), David O’Brien (painting), Edwin Ushiro (painting), El Yem (video art), Eriberto Oriol (photography), Eye One (photography), Francesco LoCastro (painting), French (painting), Ian Lynam (video art), J. Shea (painting), Jamel Shabazz (photography), Jeff Soto (painting), Kelsey Brookes (painting), Kofie (painting), Lisa Alisa (painting), Logan Hicks (photography), Mark Mothersbaugh (rug), Nicholas Harper (painting), Patrick Martinez (painting), Peter Beste (photography), Peter Glover (video art), RETNA (photography), Rick Rodney (photography), Rob Abeyta Jr. (painting), Ron English (painting), Saber (photography), Sage Vaughn (painting), Skypage (painting), Something In The Universe (video art) Souther Salazar (painting), Stormie Mills (painting), Tessar Lo (painting), Todd Tourso (painting), Too Tall Jahmal (photography), Usugrow (painting), Will Barras (painting), and Yoskay Yamamoto (painting).
The final tour stop will be at Scion’s own 4,200 square foot Installation L.A. gallery space where all artwork will be auctioned off to the public, and 100 percent of the proceeds will go toward Creative Capital. The goal of Creative Capital is to create an artistic home and supportive community to nurture some of the country’s most extraordinary artistic creators and to help provide the skills and confidence for these artists to realize their most ambitious dreams. Creative Capital has advanced the careers of 411 grantees through financial support and advisory services, and has reached over 2,200 additional artists through its Professional Development Program in workshops across the country. As the premiere national artist support organization, Creative Capital is committed to the principal that time and advisory services are as crucial to artistic success as funding. “Creative Capital is honored to have been selected to be part of Scion’s Installation Five art tour,” said Ruby Lerner, president of Creative Capital. “We are so pleased to partner with an organization that recognizes the critical importance of supporting individual artists and helping to bring the next generation of artists forward. We look forward to joining Scion as Installation Five continues its tour and shares these exciting projects with audiences across the country.” For more info: www.creative-capital.org
Last year’s Installation 4 tour raised over $50,000 on behalf of Art >From Scrap, an organization encouraging creative expression in the arts and promoting a greater understanding of environmental issues. Over the last four years Scion’s Installation tour has raised more than $190,000 for art-related non-profit organizations.
Launched in 2003, Scion Installation is a revolutionary art tour affirming the brand’s ongoing commitment to support independent artistic expression and featuring work from an unprecedented collective of contemporary artists, designers and photographers. Previous participants include: Andre from Paris, Gary Baseman,Freddi C, Mr. Cartoon, Crash, David Ellis, Daze, Blaine Fontana, Sam Flores, Futura, Mike Giant, James Jean, Caia Koopman, Krush, Mel Kadel, Mear One, Travis Millard, Andy Mueller, Andrew Pommier, Ricky Powell, Rammellzee, Rostarr, Kenny Scharf, Wearesupervision, Chris Yormick and many others.
For more information on the tour, the artists, the artwork and details from past tours please visit: http://www.scion.com/installation
Kevin Earl Taylor was born December 28, 1972 in Charleston, SC. In 1995, he received a B.F.A. from The Savannah College of Art and Design. His work has been exhibited throughout the US, as well as internationally. Though primarily an oil painter, he also explores time based art forms such as sound and video. Kevin lives in San Francisco, CA.
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Wood, Paint, Nails 2009 @ White Walls June 12th
SELF PORTRAIT
Wood, Paint, Nails 2008 Currently at Scion Installation 5
One Hundred Percent Savage
Wood, Paint, Nails
2009
BRETT AMORY UPCOMING SHOWS
GROUP SHOWS
8 in July at Fabric
111 Minna in September
SOLO SHOW IN LOS ANGELES
ThinkSpace next summer.
More at HIS WEBSITE and his ABG page
Invader Top 10 Solo Exhibition
June 27 thru July 25, 2009
529 West 20th Street, 9th Floor
New York, NY 10011
Open Tuesday through Saturday, 11am to 6pm
212-243-3822
From Jonathan LeVine Gallery:
Returning to the gallery for his first solo show in New York, Top 10 marks a highly anticipated event for this internationally celebrated artist. Known for using mosaic tiles to re-create popular characters from vintage 8-bit video games (such as Space Invaders and Pac-Man) on the streets of cities around the world, the artist’s individual mosaics are carefully cataloged after placement in context to their surrounding environment. Yet, since the project has grown on a global-scale, each piece also carries considerable significance from a larger perspective–populating what is now a worldwide installation that stretches across the planet. Invader’s mosaics can be found on the streets of over 40 cities, on all five (inhabitable) continents. Like the game, his mission is literally an invasion of (public) space.
Top 10 introduces a new series of original two and three-dimensional works featuring the artist’s signature pixel-based aesthetic, created in mediums such as mosaic tile and rubik’s cubes, which clearly translate the concept of pixilation (the division of visual information in digital format). Invader is the first artist to bring pixels to life, both in the physical world and in the art world. Echoing the neo-Impressionist painting technique of pointillism, with a contemporary voice, his evolved methods bring the composite image concept into the digital age. The show title Top 10 references popular music, as the artist has selected what he believes are the top ten album covers of his generation as subjects for re-interpretation using his own innovative technique of Rubikcubism. The term Rubikcubism is used to describe an art movement of which Invader is believed to be the originator, using Rubik’s Cubes (a 3-D mechanical puzzle game popular in the 1980’s). This exhibition also includes large-scale mixed-media sculptures in bright primary colors and a video installation of projected time-lapse footage, which reveals the geometric complexity of the artist’s incredible process in creating pieces in this show.
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Title: Rubber duck
Year: 2007
Location: river the Loire, France
Dimensions: 26 x 20 x 32 meters
Materials: inflatable, rubber coated PVC, pontoon and generator
Title: Signpost 5
Year: 2006
Location: Schiermonnikoog
Afmeting: 3 x 8 x 6 x 5 meters
Materials: wood
Title: Yellow Street
Year: 2003
Location: Overschiesestraat in Schiedam, The Netherlands
Dimensions: 950 x 4,5 meters
Materials: two layers of latex emulsion paint, applied with an airless machine
Title: Max
Year: 2003
Location: Leens, province of Groningen, The Netherlands
Dimensions: 12 x 8 x 25 meters
Materials: Potatoe crates, pallets, wood, straw, rope, metal wire and shrinking foil
In the village of Nieuwerkerk aan den Ijssel, the lowest point in the lowlands, Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman designed and coordinated the building of a giant musk rat out of a wooden frame thatched with hay. Partly a satirical response to the muskrat being labelled a ‘big problem’ in that part of the Netherlands – their natural digging instincts destroy the infrastructure of the dykes and waterworks – it proved to be another trippy addition to Hofman’s growing sculptural menagerie.
Imagine an episode of Sesame Street made by Gordon Matta-Clark in collaboration with Jim Henson and you might begin to understand the semi-collaborative performances with local communities that are central to Hofman’s work. In a glasshouse in Amsterdam’s Botanical Gardens he glued 210 paper sparrows onto what he describes as ‘the most non-natural place of the hortus, its heating pipes, the “blood vessels” for the greenhouse’. The birds were made from ‘cloned’ photocopies of a sparrow model kit sent to friends and acquaintances all over the world for them to build and return. As Hofman puts it, ‘thus, the birds travelled without flying’. In the NDSM yard in Amsterdam North he stencilled more than a hundred koi carp onto the vast dry dock. In Vlaardingen he designed and helped local people construct a massive rabbit sculpture out of salvaged wood as if to document his own presence in that sculptural orgy where site and structure and landscape and architecture fuck like rabbits in an expanded field.
Asked by the borough of Delfshaven in Rotterdam to work on the site of a derelict block awaiting demolition Hofman painted the entire exterior of the property with a 2 micron layer of blue paint that transformed it into the most photographed section of the city. The application of the paint was intended to slow further deterioration. Such urban dereliction is usually a material reminder of the alienating power of urban planners and developers to disperse communities and erase local history. By amplifying the memory and meaning of the space for those people living and passing through the neighbourhood the surreal energy of Hofman’s work temporarily reclaims that alienation while the building awaits reconstruction via the wrecking ball.
Hofman used to drive a van sprayed with the exact colour and logo of the DHL fleet. An everyday ‘performance’ which allowed him to escape parking tickets (a tribute to the mercy of Dutch traffic wardens) and wave at other DHL couriers as if part of some Pynchonesque cabal of delivery workers.
During the fifth anniversary of Schiermonnikoog’s International Chamber Music Festival the beach of the Dutch Island in the Wadden Sea was marked with three grand pianos. The visitors could be spotted peacefully on the timber-clad structures, eating sandwiches, snugly sheltered from the wind. The majestic instruments looked as they had been tossed by the rough waves before landing upside down on the sand, were they waited to be salvaged
or to float back to the sea on the outgoing tide.
The fact that Florentijn Hofman is not an average gallery-exhibited artist should be obvious. The world is a huge playground and he can choose just about any spot or material in which to dispaly his installations. The Loire river in France was the starting point of a project that ultimately became a giant rubber duck. Measuring 26 m in height, it may look like the favourite toy of Sesame Street’s Ernie, but it’s too big to fit into anyone’s bath- and impossible to ignore. According to the artist, the Canard de bain crosses all bounderies and does not discriminate and does not have a political connotation. The friendly, floating Rubber Duck has healing properties, it can relieve mondial tensions as well as define them.
The work of Hofman is known for integrating, intriguing and interactive installations into public space. Obviously he changes with great joy between performative (public) art and the domain of the sculpture (only to mention a few of his used media) and has a strong wish to amaze and making life a little much more fun.
For more information and a overview of the work see: www.florentijnhofman.nl
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Art Battery Group is a collective of artists looking for new ways to connect and collaborate with art galleries, art collectors, artists, designers, brand strategists, web developers, film makers and sound designers to promote emerging art and innovation.
Art Battery Group was founded by Claudia Sandoval and Alfonso Nieto in November of 2005. Around beers and good talk, it started as a place to showcase friends’ artwork and have fun collaborating in art and design projects. New challenges brought them to Brooklyn, NY and since then, they haven’t stop thinking about new ways to collaborate among artists.
We are currently developing a strategy to promote Art Battery Group Artists, network with other art collectives and prepare an art show in Brooklyn, NY during 2009.
As part of this initiative we are looking for spaces and people that are willing to collaborate in this process. Feel free to contact us with your ideas or proposals.
