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Knot, 38″ x 60″, 96 x 152 cm, mixed media on paper. © Anki King

This exhibition will showcase new works by Julian Rozzell (curator), Anki King, Diana Schmertz, Ajamu Kojo Chioke Walker, John Bonafede and Louise Brooks.

Anki King, a studio-online featured artist, is one of the 15 finalists in the the London International Creative Competition.  She will receive the LICC Awards unique trophy and certificate of achievement at the September 12, 2010 awards ceremony in London.

Opening Reception: September 10, 2010, 7:00PM—10:00PM

Under Minerva Gallery,
656 5th Avenue,
Brooklyn, NY 11215

A valley-wide tour to the private studios of 30 San Fernando Valley fine artists during the weekend of October 2 and 3, 2010 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Meet the original artists and get an rare inside look into the artist’s studios with the opportunity to purchase original art from the source. This self-guided tour will showcase artworks in a variety of media. Discover how original fine works of art are created.

Press Contact: Thelma Starr, M.A. Ed
San Fernando Valley Arts Council
Tel: 818 591-0619
sfvarts2@yahoo.com

Anindita Dutta, while in Japan as Artist in Residence at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (FAAM) has created a large-scale performance work together with Fine Arts Department student from Kyushu Sangyo University. This work was videoed and photographed for the current exhibition.

Anindita Dutta, studied sculpture at the Visva-Bharati University in India, sculpture and ceramics at the Purdue University and the University of Iowa in the US.

To read a review/interview please visit Studio International

For additional information please visit the Fukuoka Museum

The Mori Art Museum presents the long-awaited new exhibition “Sensing Nature: Yoshioka Tokujin, Shinoda Taro, Kuribayashi Takashi”! Consisting of newly commissioned works by each of the three participant artists, the exhibition attempts to stimulate our sense of nature through large-scale installations with visitors’ physical experiences with their entire bodies.

Kataoka Mami, curator of “Sensing Nature” states:

“They give abstract or symbolic expression to immaterial or amorphous concepts as well as natural phenomenon such as snow, water, wind, light, stars, mountains, waterfalls and forests. Their ideas of nature suggest that it is not something that is to be contrasted with the human world, but that it is something that incorporates all life-forms, including human-beings.Their works hint that we have inherited this all-encompassing cosmology deep in our memories and in our DNA…”

In August, relay talk “Nature Session” will offer an opportunity to appreciate the essence of the works by Yoshioka Tokujin, Shinoda Taro and Kuribayashi Takashi which lies in the artists’ perception of nature.

* The schedule will be updated regularly. Check the website for new events.

Mori Art Museum
53F Roppongi Hills Mori Tower,
6-10-1, Roppongi, Minatoku,
Tokyo, Japan, 106-6150
Web: mori.art.museum

Michael Werner Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of major works by Marcel Broodthaers, one of the most important artists of the last century.

Born in Brussels in 1924, Broodthaers began writing poetry at an early age and was associated with the surrealist movement in his native Belgium. For nearly two decades he continued to write, struggling in poverty and obscurity, before turning to the visual arts at the age of forty; he explained in the catalog for his first exhibition, in 1964: “I, too, reflected whether I might not sell something and find some success in life…” His first artwork, Pense-Bête , consisted of several copies of his final volume of poems embedded in a mound of plaster. Embodied in this dramatic gesture are the concerns that would fascinate Broodthaers for the rest of his artistic career: an unending interest in wit and wordplay, coupled with an affectionate critique of the conventions of contemporary art and its institutions. Broodthaers died in Cologne in 1976, leaving behind an immensely rich and influential body of work that continues to speak to subsequent generations of artists.

The exhibition at Michael Werner brings together a selection of major works from throughout Broodthaers’ relatively brief career. Highlights include Dites Partout Que Je L’Ai Dit (Say Everywhere What I Have Said), a work exhibited only rarely since its creation over three decades ago. Conceived and first exhibited by Broodthaers as a room for his 1974 exhibition Eloge de Sujet at Kunstmuseum Basel, it is considered one of the most important of Broodthaers’ installations, encapsulating his practice through a playfully provocative juxtaposition of word and image, poetry and object, language and art. Also included in the exhibition are a major mussel panel and one of the only paintings of the artist.

Marcel Broodthaers has been the subject of numerous museum exhibitions internationally, including retrospective survey exhibitions at Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid; Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris; Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; and the Tate in London.

Marcel Broodthaers: Major Works is on view from 9 September through 13 November. Fall gallery hours are Monday through Saturday from 10am until 6pm. Please contact the gallery for more information.

Michael Werner Gallery
4 East 77th Street
New York, NY 10075
Phone: +1 212 988 1623
Web: michaelwerner.com

Bob Poe “Eye Photo”

Opening Saturday, June 19th, 6-9pm
RSVP Ali Sivak, CA&A I CPW, ail@caapr.com

Bob Poe Photographic Art
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Ave., Gallery G8A
Santa Monica, CA 90404
www.bobpoephotography.com

Irrelevant: Local Emerging Asian Artists Who Don’t Make Work About Being Asian, an ambitious survey exhibition featuring the work of nearly fifty artists curated by Joann Kim and Lesley Sheng.

Irrelevant wishes to highlight artists who are more American than Asian, based in New York, and embedded in an expansive community of emerging artists struggling to show and succeed in this cutthroat city. You will not find paintings about the Cultural Revolution or Mao Zedong that sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. You will not find manga-infused characters performing acts of hypersexuality nor will you find decorative miniature drawings with motifs embedded within a specific cultural history.

What you’ll find is a surging flow of creativity where artists actively engage in their practice, exploring the absurd within everyday experience, the use and misuse of materials both new and found, and the curiosity of defining artistic practice. Food and consumption is considered within an urban agricultural environment, and social interaction is taken out of norm and reenacted in refreshing alternative ways. Pictured narratives gear toward a dark and isolated realm and obsession is the source behind abstracted images.

A major focus of this exhibition is to formulate a community, building a foundation for artists to gather and exchange ideas and experiences. There is an endless array of amazing underrepresented artists in NY, thriving yet unheard. Through this exhibition we get to see artists engaging with their given role and their interests within a particular medium, exploring on both conceptual and idealistic levels with painting, photography, performance, sculpture and installation. We get to see abstraction within the everyday and the everyday within abstraction. We get to see materials unfolded, manipulated, reworked and dysfunctioned. We get to feel self-conscious and hyper aware of our stance as viewers, where time and space is altered and questioned.

Irrelevant is a friendly and humorous, and somewhat ridiculous, rejection of a neurotic art market and its obsession with specifying artists to a particular culture and ethnicity. This exhibition purifies and de-labels the artist as Asian, by labeling the artist as Asian, to be shown inside a contemporary Asian art gallery.

Artists: 

Seong Min Ahn, Shin Young An, Sophia Chai, Louis Chan, Karen Chan, Rona Chang, Gigi Chen, Yoon Cho, Micah Ganske, Hyoungsun Ha, Geujin Han, Takashi Horisaki, Jane V. Hsu, Hidenori Ishii, Hong Seon Jang, Kyoung Eun Kang, Heige Kim, Seung Ae Kim, Nancy Kim, Hein Koh, Shizuka Kusayanagi, Amy Fung-yi Lee & Caroline Jung-ah Park, JaeEun Lee, Sinae Lee, Soo Im Lee, Jiyoun Lee-Lodge, Pixy Liao, Juri Morioka, Tadashi Moriyama, Joel Morrison, Dominic Neitz, Christian Nguyen, Asuka Osawa, Eung Ho Park, Youngna Park, Jung Eun Park, R&D, Ruijun Shen, Satomi Shirai, Hidemi Takagi, Tattfoo Tan, Kikuko Tanaka, Jason Tomme, Mai Ueda, Kako Ueda, InJoo Whang, Mika Yokobori, Yejin Yoo, Jayoung Yoon, Seldon Yuan

Gallery hours: Monday - Friday 10-6pm and by appointment.

Arario Gallery
521 West 25th Street
New York, NY 10001
info@ararionewyork.com

Opening Reception: Wednesday, July 7, 6–8 pm

Artist’s Talk: Saturday, August 7 at 4 pm

In the Project Windows:
Jerico Woggon: The Four Seasons
through December 2010

Elizabeth McGrath & Brian Poor: The Man With Anal Eyes
Through August 31, 2010

David Hollen constructs sculpture from industrial materials such as metal, wood, wire, rubber, and synthetic materials. This new body of work interprets geometry in ways that seek to imbue rigid structure with fluid motion. Basic cube and polyhedron shapes are made to imitate the qualities of organic matter; finding balance and form analogous to living matter.

Jen Heaslip debuts her third show at the gallery; she continues her work painting the male form with “Agua,” a series of paintings of bodies, water, and bodies in water. Her males are depicted with an impassioned, yet adoring gaze.

In the Project Windows, Jerico Woggon’s The Four Seasons is a four-part installation which will change with each season. Made of custom shapes and fluorecent paint, The Four Seasons interprets seasonal fluctuations in Woggon’s signature graphic style, using color and black light.

In the Project Window Annex. The Man With Anal Eyes is an installation project by artists Brian Poor and Elizabeth McGrath which presents an animatronic sculpture on the streetscape of our urban environment. This installation will be both visible and interactive from a small window on the Main Street side of the gallery.

All gallery events are free and open to the public. Exhibition information, press releases and high resolution images may be found at the gallery website at: www.bgfa.us.

Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday 12 – 6 pm

Bert Green Fine Art
102 West 5th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
213-624-6212
www.bgfa.us

Exalted One, a mixed media exploration of contemporary portraiture juried by Sam Lee featuring the works of artists Alix Soubiran, Hung Viet Nguyen and R. Matt.

Painter Alix Soubiran is a storyteller and filmmaker who is limited to one frame. Soubiran’s new exhibition My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair focuses on the transactional instance before or after tension or conflict occur. The dynamics become crucial, the details expressed throughout the painting process. Soubiran’s paintings are youth based expressions that blend baroque lines, poetry, glam rock, pop ballads and psychedelia.

Sculptor R. Matt’s newest body of work Tempaal examines the physical world through synthetic and resoundingly anthropomorphic approaches. Mixed media materials include: foam, bone, toys and fabrics congeal into suggestive religious relics from an era lost and totems of an unfamiliar future. Artificial, reverential and symbolic, R. Matt’s sculptures are proud artifacts of a tempestuous culture.

Painter Hung Viet Nguyen’s work Coastal Sensation features semi-abstract paintings evoking sensual memories of moments past. A working biologist by trade, Nguyen’s complex, labor-intensive investigations of oil paint reveal a methodical mastery of texture. While portions of Nguyen’s work suggest the influence of many traditional art forms including woodblock prints, oriental scroll paintings, ceramic art, mosaic, and stained glass, the ultimate expression asserts a contemporary pedigree.

Reception: Saturday, June 26, 6 to 9p

Gallery 825
825 LaCienega Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90069
Tel: 310-652-8272
www.laaa.org

Koleszar. Aymie, 2010

Opening Reception: August 7th, 2010, 6-9pm

Friends With Knives, a group show curated by PaperMonster, featuring a collection of stencil artists who demonstrate a broad range of stencil graffiti styles including photorealistic, political, pop, abstract, and stencil art focusing purely on beauty.

The artists come from all over the world including Australia, United Kingdom, Paris, and throughout the United States. The show discusses the process, history, evolution, and future of stencil art.

Featured Artists:
Blek le Rat
Broken Crow
Chris Stain
Dave Lowell
E.L.K
Greg Boudreau
HAHA Henry Quiara
Joe Lurato
Koleszar Leckomio
Mefee
Nathan Phaneuf
PaperMonster
Peat Wollaeger
Scotch
Shai Dahan

Crewest Gallery
110 Winston St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
213-627-8272
www.crewest.com