What’s pretty in 2011? In a time where there is just as much hate and backlash for every chime of ‘love yourself, you were born this way’, I’ve asked this question myself. So, what is pretty in 2011? It might look something like a walking billboard if you ask me. But Los Angeles based artist Erik Mark Sandberg has a brighter vision.
Issue 4 cover artist Greg Gossel is unstoppable. In his latest exhibition at Together Gallery in Portland, OR, the aptly titled Paper, Minneapolis based artist the artist presents 24 new mixed-media works in his now iconic style which includes a bevy of techniques and styles.
A home repair snafu resulted in me not working all day. Then a breezy Friday night in The ATL found me with many entertainment options for the weekend, all of which centered on the thriving art community. Kai Lin Gallery had an opening entitled Dreamscape; Ponce Crush was set to roll the following evening through three galleries on the Ponce corridor: Beep Beep, Young Blood, Kibbee; and Artlantis was a Saturday daytime event I regretted missing last year. Modern Atlanta had also just launched a multi-venue campaign called MA11. What to do?
One of those late spring Southern nights, real heat of day giving way to a balmy, beautiful breeze, and my true love and I have the sunroof open and the windows down as we roll through town to an art benefit entitled Our Lady Nippon. The natural disaster in Japan well chronicled, painter Ashley Norfleet and Art League Atlanta organized a benefit group show at dooGallery to fundraise locally, under the larger umbrella charitable org Give2Asia Artists Help Japan. All proceeds from the event going to the cause.
During his 2010 residency at the McColl Center for Visual Arts in Charlotte (North Carolina), Fahamu Pecou created a collection of four series of works under the title Hard 2 Death. Now the works have been presented in his first ever French exhibition at Backslash Gallery.
I’ve never met GreatEclectic, but I know him quite well. I’ve never felt more innately connected to someone with whom I’ve never shared conventional contact; but that is the beautiful mystery that is the Great Mister Daye. He conveys and connects with the world and the one individual alike, because he is his work; as with any masterpiece, that connection lives in the unconventional void – where authenticity cannot be barred by limitation, and catharsis cannot be marred by sterile sanity. He lives in his work – it is in that shared space where I feel, and it is in that shared experience where life is present.
Painter Stella Im Hultberg recently posted these images of the opening of her solo show Fragmented at London Miles Gallery in London. Take a closer look at images from the opening night below.
If you didn’t know birds are dying. Fish are dying. The world is ending. When 2012 rolls around Terrence Payne‘s apocalypse is going to suck a little less than yours. The blank based artist brings his brand of dark humor and unrelenting imagery to Rosalux Gallery in Minneapolis. On Saturday, April 16, the gallery will present My Apocolypse Will Be Better Than Yours, featuring new drawings from the artist whose latest body of work continues to push the assumptions of beauty and challenges his viewers to succumb to the reckless charms and irrational fears of his subjects.
I’m about 60 pieces in and I’m still sketching ideas for new ones. What am I working towards? My debut solo show entitled Want To A Sad Boy Smile? Pay Him. It doesn’t open until the end of next March. But there is still more work to be done. Check out the flyer below.
Erik Mark Sandberg plans to get pretty by showing the ugly side of consumer Stockholm syndrome. With his latest body of work set to debut later this month at Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York, The Los Angeles-based artist explores consumer culture, celebrity idolatry and the social dysfunction in the digital age that we all are doing our best to make sense of. In his usual vibrant style, Erik makes references to Hip-hop, Teen Vogue and juxtaposes these images with his interest in the family unit.
Last month I finally got the chance to experience Miami’s artwalk in the Wynwood area for the first time.It was pretty dope; food trucks, tons of people, good weather, I could feel the possibilities. More from Corinne Stevie.
CLICK FOR MOREEric Jordan aka Ejordanill recently held his first solo art show at the Harlem fashion hotspot The Vault. The event featured some of Eric's notable pieces and performances from Skyzoo, Tanya Morgan & STS.
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