Although it appears as though he’s sticking with his signature pink characters, backgrounds and animated landscapes, the ever growing Buff Monster goes Beyond the Pink at Culver City’s Corey Helford Gallery.
From CHG:
“For “Beyond The Pink”, Buff Monster creates a new series of acrylic-on-panel works that radiate with his signature pink neons, Superflat style, and disarmingly subversive characters. The artist’s futuristic playgrounds bounce with creative expression as multi-hued argyle pyramids intermix with melting facades and floating faces.
Presenting his works in a larger and more detailed context than before, Buff Monster revisits his classic ice cream and maraschino cherry imagery with an eyeful of fresh inspiration. Returning from his recent travels to open the “Art From The New World” museum exhibition in Bristol, England, the artist adopts a more experimental approach, blending his iconic graphics with new landscapes, as well as introducing portraits for the first time.
“This new body of work is influenced by the history of Western art that I saw throughout Europe. My time at the Louvre viewing Renaissance paintings was truly inspiring. The National Gallery in London had some amazing pieces as well. And then visiting the Tate Modern was a bit of a shock after seeing nothing but classical paintings, but the pop stars like Lichtenstein and Warhol still get my pulse racing,” Buff Monster adds.
Upstairs in the loft, a vibrant series of flattened metal spray cans customized by Buff Monster will be on display. Open to the public, the reception for “Beyond The Pink” will take place on Saturday, September 4 from 7 to 10pm, and the show will be on view until September 22, 2010.”
Beyond the Pink
Opening reception: Saturday, September 4th, 7-10pm
Corey Helford Gallery
8522 Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232
Show runs from September 4 through September 22, 2010
Los Angeles’ (via Austarlia) up and coming painting/graf power duo Dabs Myla continue their quest for world dominance with their Japanese inspired show Tokyo Deluxe at Culver City’s Thinkspace Gallery.
“Spirited, fun and funky, Wild Style bursts with flavor. Breakdancers, MCs, artists and DJs provide the backdrop for this sweet love story of two graffitti writers. Wild Style has become an invaluable document of the youthful and unaffected scene which became the hip hop movement. Filmed in the South Bronx, it captures the rare moment when these talented kids from one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country created the most important artistic movement of a generation. Starring Patti Astor, Lee Quinones, Fab 5 Freddy, Grandmaster Flash and more. With special suprise guests !!
cinespia all star djs spin before and after the screening”
Wild Style
Sunday, Aug 29th, gates at 7:00pm, film at 8:30 pm NEW TIME!!
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
6000 Santa Monica Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90038
no reservation necessary
$10 donation tickets available at gate
$5 parking available inside
as a courtesy to other moviegoers: NO TALL CHAIRS!!
KAWS, one of the most interesting men in art, will soon be joining Dos Equis’“Most Interesting Man in the World” as the New York street legend lends his signature “xx’s” to the labels of the delicious Mexican beer (which literally translates to “two x’s”). Unfortunatley for us Americanos, the limited edition brews will only be available south of the border beginning this September. Make sure passports and livers are up to date.
Images courtesy of HighSnobriety. Video commisioned by Another Company for Dos Equis.
Always on the lookout for emerging talent, the ever vigilant Jonathan LeVine Gallery presents their Annual Summer Invitational group show featuring 13 upcoming artists as well as the Brazilian street art themed Two-Way Street which features a new generation of artists making their New York City debut.
“Jonathan LeVine Gallery is pleased to announce the 2010 Annual Summer Invitational, a group exhibition featuring a fresh array of new work by thirteen emerging artists, exhibiting together for the first time at the gallery.
Participating artists include:
Alex McLeod, Andrew Hem, Becca Midwood, Evol, Judith Supine, Lola, Morgan Slade, Marco Mazzoni, Nate Frizzell, Nicoletta Ceccoli, Oliver Warden, Oscar de las Flores, and Tran Nguyen.
As with summer group shows in previous years at Jonathan LeVine Gallery, the 2010 installment offers a wide range of artistic styles, imagery, and International influences. Works featured in the exhibition include a variety of mediums ranging from traditional paintings and drawings to pieces created with elements of photography, collage, stencil, and digital media.”
Annual Summer Invitational
Opening reception: Wednesday, August 4th, 6-8pm
Jonathan LeVine Gallery
529 West 20th St. 9th Floor New York, New York 10010
Show runs from August 4 through August 21, 2010
Also…
“Jonathan LeVine Gallery in association with Choque Cultural gallery is pleased to present Two-Way Street, a group exhibition featuring work by four Brazilian street artists: Alexandre Tadeu Alves (aka Chivitz), João Paulo (aka NOVE), Márcio Penha (aka Presto) and Ramon Martins, in what will be their debut exhibition in New York.
Two-Way Street is the latest installment in what has been an ongoing cross-cultural dialog between Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York and Choque Cultural in São Paulo, Brazil. Work by the four artists in this show represent the new generation of street art coming out of São Paulo today, as these artists are younger than those who have previously exhibited here in the US.”
Two-Way Street
Opening reception: Wednesday, August 4th, 6-8pm
Jonathan LeVine Gallery
529 West 20th St. 9th Floor New York, New York 10010
Show runs from August 4 through August 21, 2010
Los Angeles’ infamous RETNA will be unveiling his latest incredible installation downtown as Rivera & Rivera hosts their final one-night-only event at their Hope street location before moving to their new digs in the gallery district.
“For its final exhibition in South Park, RIVERA & RIVERA is excited to present a floor-to-ceiling installation piece by international graffiti artist Marquis Lewis aka RETNA. Fresh off an exhibition at the world’s premier art fair in Basel, Switzerland (covered by the Huffington Post here), RETNA’s installation explores the complex nature of a fluid lexicon derived from hieroglyphs and inspired by street text. Through a spectrum of materials, the text is granted an awe-inspiring dimension.”
RETNA Installation unveiling
Opening reception: Thursday, July 29th, 8-11pm
Rivera & Rivera
1100 S. Hope St. Los Angeles, CA 90015
“For the first time in history, the majority of the world’s population lives in urban communities. The urban setting and its corresponding lifestyle are major sources of inspiration in contemporary culture. This is an historic revolution in visual culture, in which the codes and icons of the everyday—found on the streets in graffiti, signage, waste, tattoos, advertising, and graphic design—have been appropriated and used as an integral part of contemporary art-making. The urban landscape inspires and serves as both a platform for innovation and a vehicle for expression for many artists. The city itself, its buildings, vehicles, people, and advertisements, are not only the surface where the art is applied. The city fuels the practice.
A multifaceted exhibition that explores the dialogue between artists and the urban landscape, Viva la Revolución: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape features works both in the Museum’s galleries as well as at public sites throughout downtown San Diego.”
Last month KAWS cut a bit deeper into the art world as he opened his first ever solo museum show with an impressive collection of his iconic works, both new and old, in Look. Look Again. at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. Unfortunately many of us can’t make it out to Connecticut to see the show in person but fortunately there’s good peeps, like the ones at High Snobriety, who can.
“KAWS Gallery opening at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in CT. This first solo museum exhibition of the work of Brooklyn-based artist and designer Brian Donnelly, a.k.a. KAWS, includes his most recent paintings, sculptures, and drawings, as well as a survey of his iconic street art, apparel, product and graphic designs. Runs June 27, 2010, to January 2, 2011.
ESPO goes from graffiti to glasswear and joins Japan’s Aoshima, who herself takes a break from Takashi Murakami’s collective Kaikai Kiki, to each create limited edition bottle/pitchers for Absolut Vodka’s Absolut Art of Sharingcampaign which simply looks intoxicating.
Check details of the four bottle/pitcher set from the always well informed theartcollectors.com.
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