Tara Jane O’Neil is a musician and artist who will displaying her zine (entitled doodle book selections #3) at IPRC — Independent Publishing Resource Center TODAY for First Thursday.
If you don’t know her work OR the amazing things that are happening at the IPRC, you should definitely stop by.
Sign me up for this show! Together Gallery’s offering for the Last Thursday’s art walk on Alberta tonight has an opening running from 5:00pm to 10:00pm. What is it? Nothing short of FANTASTIC. Including musical performances by BRAINSTORM and ASTROLOGY as well.
An L.A.-based artist who explores themes that are much larger than ourselves and capture, in one fell swoop, the darkest and brightest themes in existence (they’re almost metal in that way). Don’t miss these exploding rainbows of creatures and form!!
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Howell and Stouffer might share similar color palettes, but their works could not be further apart. Howell’s light-hearted illustrations waver between Muppet-like blobs and newspaper comic strip residents. Also: the release of the IDEA BOARD 2 limited edition skateboard, which Howell contributed art for.
Hey, Seattlites!
There’s a live painting going on today in Seattle, with a boatload of fun Seattle artists like Augie Pagan, Mat Savage, PaperMarbleS, CASH, Tessa Hulls, John Osgood and Sensei23 & Zach Bohnenkamp of Matamuros. Interesting collection of folks here, so head on over today, from 6:00pm to 9:00pm (thank goodness for Pacific Northwest summers) at Bherd Studios Gallery at The Greenwood Collective (8537 Greenwood Ave N Suite 1, Seattle, WA).
Elemental is a group show featuring collaborative pieces that have undergone Round Robin treatment by Yellena James, Jill Bliss, Betsy Walton, and APAK Studios (Aaron and Ayumi Piland), going on now at Together Gallery, through the end of the month (and then some).
Blackbirds
Breeze
Crystal Garden
Deep Sea Coral
Dreamcatcher
Embers
With the proliferation of text-messaging and chat conversations and all sorts of data! being! transmitted! at! amazing!! speeds!!! throughout the world at any given SECOND, and in all sorts of RiDiCuLuZ FoRmZ, it seems only appropriate to base one show… or maybe even tons of shows… off of this theme. Which leads me to this post.
James Harris Gallery in Seattle currently has a group exhibition going on entitled TXT. Graphics and text converge to create two- and three- dimensional works that can be interpreted on multiple levels by viewers. This show runs through August 20th. Here are some of the pieces:
Lawrence Lemaoana’s Things Fall Apart, 2009
Textile (49″ x 32″)
Walter Robinson’s Forest, 2008
MDF, Epoxy, metalflake (84″ x 62″ x 1″)
Anthony Discenza’s EVERYTHING YOU’VE HEARD, 2009
Vinyl on aluminum, Ed. of 5 (24″ x 18″)
Alejandro Cesarco’s Footnote #7, 2008
Vinyl text on wall, Ed. of 5
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On a similar note, Portland’s Recess Gallery has an open call to artists who are working with text. Call is as follows:
Work that recontextualizes the text. Work that informs, invites, or inquires. Work that sends, receives, documents messages/ideas. Work that does work. Work you made. Work that you and someone else made. Work that you want to make with people. Work that is technically proficient? Sure. Work about ideas about ideas about ideas. Work in Helvetica. Work in Garamond. Work in video. Works on paper.
Do you have something that seems to fit? Does it coincide with at least three of the above statements? That’s okay, even if it doesn’t, you should send it to
recesspdx@gmail.com by the end of July for a show opening in the middle of August.
Please include your proposal/project description/artist statement along with some contact informtion, artist bio, or link to a relevant/personal website.
Suggested Additions:
Images of proposed work
Images of recent work
Your phone number
If you have any questions or concerns, please direct them to recesspdx@gmail.com.
I first saw Hollis Brown Thornton’s work on Tumblr and was immediately enamored with it. Her pieces have the aesthetic of a good collage, but with a much more organic quality thanks to the inherent randomness of pigment transfers.
Her acrylic paintings and ink drawings have the same kind of feel to them as well, and you can scope them out on her website.
It often seems that something is lost when street artists show in gallery settings, but this Irvine Contemporary show from Brooklyn based street artist Gaia is a welcome example of a successful transition from canvas-as-wall to canvas-on-wall.
Two brilliant shows on display simultaneously at ThinkSpace (6009 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA), now through July 2nd.
Ekundayo combines street art with fine art in a melange of acrylic paint, spraypaint, watercolor, and ink on watercolor paper adhered onto a wood panel. All of these new works from this year are fairly large-scale and impressive in their seamless blend of mediums.
Brett Amory’s minimalistic paintings oil paintings use negative space tremendously, blending walls into ground into sky. He turns ordinary cityscape shots into interesting, only somewhat recognizable corner stores and markets.
