I guess it seemed only inevitable that Vice Magazine and Scion (purveyors of some pretty rad multi-disciplinary art shows these days) would converge on a project, and that they have. August 14th through September 4th, The 2010 Vice Photo Show will be taking place, and for any of you who’ve ever picked up a copy of Vice’s annual photo issue, you know you’re guaranteed to see a wide array of photos, from the gnarliest and crustiest to the most beautiful and demure. Well, maybe not so demure.

Opening reception: Saturday, August 14th, from 7:00pm to 10:00pm. Open bar and complimentary valet. Fancy!

Featuring:
Angela Boatwright, Asger Carlsen, Jonnie Craig, Jackson Eaton, Seth Fluker, Nicholas Haggard, Jerry Hsu, Kevin Long, Ross McDonnell, Sophie Mörner, Patrick O’Dell, Alex Olson, Valerie Phillips, Jared Ritz, Lele Saveri, RJ Shaugnessy, David Benjamin Sherry, Peter Sutherland, Patrick Tsai, Sean Vegezzi and Gavin Watson.

Scion Installation L.A.
3521 Helms Ave (at National)
Culver City, CA. 90232

Scion Presents: The 2010 Vice Photo Show from Scion ART on Vimeo.

Let me just start off by saying.
I LOVE SKINNER.

He’s one of my favorite artists, as evidenced by my bio. Pretty much infallible evidence.

Anyway, the title of this post pretty much leaves very little to be expressed here other than what can be shown in the photos below. Skinner will eat you up. Skinner will blow your mind. Skinner will burn patterns into your retina. Skinner, Skinner, Skinner, Skinner, and even better to see Skinner at a gallery as awesome as White Walls. This Fear You May Know opens Saturday, August 14th, 2010, from 7:00pm to 11:00pm, and runs through September 4th, 2010.

Yes, I say! Yes!

I’m not sure what the linking ideological components are in Seth Armstrong’s debut solo show at Thinkspace Gallery (6009 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA), but the pieces certainly share linking feels and color palettes. And if these pieces below are any indication of the caliber of the pieces that will be on display, it seems one can definitely expect some pretty engaging things.

Opening reception Saturday, August 7th, at Thinkspace’s Project Room.

Not The Desert

View Of Budapest

Jo McNealy No Relation

Two brilliant shows on display simultaneously at ThinkSpace (6009 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA), now through July 2nd.

Ekundayo

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

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.

Because Americans aren’t obsessed enough with food already, Scion has an upcoming show (May 22nd through June 12th) curated by Zio Fulcher. It will be taking place in Culver City, with free valet parking (fancy!) and an open bar (fancier!)… with art from Clare Crespo, Jeph Gurecka, Scott Hove, Tamara Kostianovsky, Alan Macdonald, James Reynolds, Martha Rich, and Jeff Vespa. What’s more: The Candy Wrapper Museum and Vintage Cookbook Library! Amazing!

Tamara Kostianovsky uses clothing, ink, shellac, polyester batting, and meat hooks to mimic slabs of meat!

Martha Rich, looking simply at food we all know and love.

Jeff Vespa points out the art of blown-up photos of hamburgers sitting side, by side, by side.

Felt food by Clare Crespo.

Alan Macdonald, slathering food in retro clothing.

Intensely terrifying image from The Candy Wrapper Museum.

Scion Presents: ‘PALATE’ curated by Zio Fulcher from Scion ART on Vimeo.

See more info about the show at http://www.scion.com/space/.

San Francisco artist Ehren Elizabeth Reed is a mixed media artist with some serious focus. All of her works feature the same materials — thread and paper (often in the form of altered books) — and the results are nothing short of remarkable. Her books, especially, seem to be three-dimensional mergings of craft and graphic design. Below are two pieces from her Modes Of Discourse series which quite literally reach off the page.

Until May 1st, multi-disciplinary artist Claire Burbridge and paper sculptor Matthew Picton have a really exciting show at Toomey Tourell in San Francisco. Burbridge entombs sculptures in blocks of resin, serving to capture a moment of human life in time. Picton creates his signature paper sculptures of three-dimensional city maps, only to burn them systematically to show the aftermath of destruction. It’s a show that explores humanity and how it deals with change — particularly harsh change. Highly recommended.

Tomorrow’s show at Flatcolor Gallery is going to be ridiculously awesome, so go, go, go, Seattlites! Portland residents Sohaila Adela and Mark Warren Jacques will be invading Seattle with new works galore.

New drawings by Adela, entitled Esoteric, will explore the same themes she’s been exploring in the recent past — mysticism, rituals, femininity.

Jacques’ For this, I would lean into it will showcase his thoughtful explorations of form and color, which are simplistic at first glance but hold minor detail by way of texture and technique. His work will also be exhibited at White Walls in San Francisco, in a group show, starting April 3rd.