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SEAK (Cologne), Jonone (Paris), Sozyone (Brussels), and Zedz (Amsterdam) painted four cars of the European king train today at “Gare du Nord” in Paris. They had 3 hours and 15 minutes to finish the painting, that’s the new time the new Thalys needs from Paris to Cologne.

On the video, the Thalys leaves the brussels station the 15th of September

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Scion’s Installation 5 national art tour is wrapping up with the final show at the Culver City gallery, opening this weekend – September 12th.  There will also be an online auction of all the artwork, from September 12 – September 30 taking place at: www.artnet.com/scion.html

Collection Features Self Portraits From International Contemporary Artists, Including Blek le Rat, Mark Mothersbaugh, David Choe, Ron English, Jeff Soto, Angela Boatwright, Among Many Others.

For the fifth year, Scion auctions off an unprecedented collection of contemporary works to benefit charities and
non-profits that support independent artistic expression.  The Installation 5 Tour collection features literal and non-literal self-portraits of varying cost by international art luminaries, with 100 percent of the proceeds aiding Creative Capital, the premier national artist support organization.  Audiences around the world can begin bidding Sept. 12 when the Installation Tour auction goes live on ArtNet at http://www.ArtNet.com/scion.html.  The auction closes on Sept. 30.

After traveling through Detroit, Art Basel in Miami, Phoenix, Minneapolis, New York, San Jose, Philadelphia and Portland, the tour concludes at Scion’s 4,2000 square foot gallery in Culver City.  The exhibition will be available for viewing and bidding from the gallery on Sept. 12 through Sept. 30.  Artwork values range from $100 to $17,000 and bidding will begin at 25% of the art’s estimated worth.

“It is an absolute honor to work with these incredible artists in support of visionary arts non-profit organizations,” says Jeri Yoshizu, Scion sales and promotion manager.  “Since we launched the Installation Tour in 2003, we’ve raised more than $190,000 for art-related charities and look forward to continuing our support of exciting and impactful contemporary art.”

“Scion Installation 5: Self Portraits” features established and respected artists, including the godfather of stencil art, Blek le Rat, and Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh, alongside other notable and up-and-coming photographers, painters and video artists.

Artists 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)
Edwin Ushiro (painting)
El Yem (video art)
Eriberto Oriol (photography)
Eye One (photography)
Francesco LoCastro (painting)
French (painting)
Geoff Oki (video art)
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)
RETNA (painting)
Rick Rodney (photography)
Rob Abeyta Jr. (painting)
Ron English (painting)
Saber (photography)
Sage Vaughn (painting)
Skypage (painting)
Stormie Mills (painting)
Tessar Lo (painting)
Too Tall Jahmal (photography)
Usugrow (painting)
Will Barras (painting)
Yoskay Yamamoto (painting)

Launched in 2003, Scion Installation is a revolutionary art tour affirming the brand’s ongoing commitment to support independent artistic expression, featuring work from esteemed contemporary artists, designers and photographers.  Previous participants include: Andre from Paris, Gary Baseman, Mr. Cartoon, Crash, David Ellis, Daze, Sam Flores, Futura, Mike Giant, James Jean, Caia Koopman, Mel Kadel, Travis Millard, Andy Mueller, Andrew Pommier, Ricky Powell, Rammellzee, Rostarr, Kenny Scharf, Chris Yormick and many others.  More information on the Scion Installation Tour is available at www.scion.com/installation

The opening reception takes place on Sept. 12 from 7 p.m. – 10 p.m. at the Scion Installation L.A. Gallery, 3521 Helms Ave. (at National), Culver City, CA 90232.  The reception is free with complimentary valet parking and an open bar. The exhibit will run until Sept. 30, 2009. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM and by appointment – 310.815.8840.  For more information, visit www.scion.com/space.

About Scion
Scion, from Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc., was developed with a new generation of youthful buyers in mind.  Scion’s mission is to provide distinctive products, the opportunity to personalize, and an innovative, consumer-driven process at the retail level.  The Scion brand features three ground-breaking models with a wide array of standard features: the xD urban subcompact five-door, the iconic xB urban utility vehicle, and the tC sports coupe.  The brand often applies new practices in all aspects of its business and pushes the creativity envelope with non-traditional advertising and marketing to engage young consumers. Scion also supports originality through its programs in the artistic community.

About Creative Capital
Founded in January 1999, Creative Capital Foundation is a national nonprofit organization that supports individual artists pursuing innovative approaches to form and content in the fields of performing, visual, literary, and media arts, as well as in emerging arts fields. Creative Capital evolved as a response by philanthropists, arts professionals, artists, and business leaders to government cuts in funding to individual artists. Its model differs from those of traditional grantmakers in that the foundation commits to a long-term approach to working with artists. Artists in Creative Capital’s grant program have access to professional services, including assistance in fundraising, networking, marketing, and strategic planning. In addition, grantees agree to share with Creative Capital a small percentage of any profits made by the project.

Creative Capital Foundation currently supports 118 projects, with another 30 to 40 to be added in the spring. For more information on the funded projects and for the latest on the foundation’s activities, visit Creative Capital. Fifth Annual Art Tour Makes Final Stop At Scion Installation L.A. Gallery on Sept. 12

Max Berry’s work creates a world where every object has a life of its own. A daydream land where houses talk to clouds and characters float playfully in abstracted space. Influenced by comics cartoons, he conducts his research eating cereal in front of the TV, admiring the breakfast cartoons of a super-flat 2d world. Max is interested in the duality of things, emerging you in a state of Utopia and Dystopia – good bad, big and small, often taking a very literal form, manifesting itself in textures, raw splashes and drips vs clean and super bold lines. His characters appear in many forms, as paste ups, stickers, canvas, walls, live painting sessions, and on cardboard busking. With multiple gallery opportunities and large mural installations, Max has become part of the cultural landscape of inner Sydney.

111 Minna Gallery is proud to host NeighborhoodSF, a group show featuring some of San Francisco’s most exciting and prolific artists, co-curated by Ryan Malley of the ArtPrint.net and Martin Olive of sQuint. NeighborhoodSF is a collection of San Francisco’s finest artists who are each given the task of representing this City’s many unique neighborhoods, showing at 111 Minna Gallery from September 3rd through the 26th, 2009.

In addition Brett Amory will we showing 2 paintings at Sandra Lee Gallery. The show will be running from September 3-30th, 2009.

Opening Reception
Sandra Lee Gallery
September 10th 2009, 5-7:30pm
251 Post Street, Suite 310
San Francisco, CA 94108
art@sandraleegallery.com

Brett will be participating in Beyond Eden a multi-gallery event celebrating the new contemporay art scene in Los Angeles. The show will be running
the weekend of October 9th, 10th, 11th

LA Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park
4800 Hollywood Blvd.,
Los Angeles, CA 90027

He also has donated a painting to Juxtapoz 15th Anniversary Art Auction. A benefit presented by Upper Playground in collaboration with Power House Project of Detroit, the art auction will help raise funds to purchase and renovate foreclosed and abandoned homes in the Detroit area. The show will be running from November 9-19, 2009.

Opening Reception
The Factory Place Arts Complex
November 14, 2009
FACTORY PLACE ARTS COMPLEX
1308 FACTORY PL, SUITE A, LOS ANGELES CA 90013

Nuart is an annual international street art festival based in Stavanger on the West Coast of Norway. From the first week of September an international team of street artists start to leave their mark on the city’s walls and contribute to a one month long Nuart static show.

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Tom Bovo will have 2 photos in the upcoming First Anniversary Exhibit
at the Gallery of the Museum of Computer Art in Brooklyn, NY. The
exhibit will run Tuesday, September 8 thru Saturday, September 26,
2009. There will be a reception, Thursday, September 10, 2009, 5:00 to
8 p.m.

Brooklyn native Bovo has 2 new photographs in the
exhibit: Silk Scarf and Watching. These photos build on his series of
urban landscapes of New York and New Orleans subjects. The completed
works are archival pigment ink glicée prints on acid free paper in
limited editions of 5 prints. The prints are signed and numbered on
the reverse. For additional information on the prints, please contact
the artist through his web site.

Bovo trained at Columbia University where he studied painting and
printmaking with modern masters Andre Racz, David Lund and Robert
Blackburn. His work has appeared in recent exhibits and is in private
collections in Birmingham AL; Tuscon AZ; Pasadena CA; Cleveland OH and
New York NY, as well as the Embassy of the Slovak Republic to Italy
and the Vatican in Rome.

Chow Martin is a 27 year old artist/illustrator who divides his time between London, England and Toronto, Canada. A recent grad of the Ontario College of Art and Design, Chow currently works with Heist-Toronto; a boutique art direction and graphic design studio servicing the fashion, arts and cultural markets.

His work questions the value of creating images in a contemporary landscape dominated by digital technology and digital means of image making; it is an exploration of the interaction of oppositional forces at a material, physical and psychological level. This explosive, dynamic and violent interaction is conveyed through the use of imagery and the physical act of mark making itself.