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Gpo_lowe13a Dada Processing   Pick-button
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Genesis BREYER P-ORRIDGE at Invisible-Exports September 9th - October 18th
Posted 9/18/09

        Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: 30 Years of Being Cut Up, on view through October 18th at Invisible Exports gallery is simply jam-packed with astonishing work, most of which has never been exhibited before, having been in storage all these years.  Most of the works on display are from P-Orridge's private notebooks and mail art--collages meant for other artists or for h/erself and presents an intimate and at times humorous look at this mysterious artist.  The show is executed as a retros... [more]

Marccslootjes_facesofdeath2 Urmil Jain's Nature-scapes  
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Group Show at Agora Gallery September 8th - September 29th
Posted 9/11/09

Four colorful landscapes by Indian painter URMIL JAIN  form a part of the onging  'MAZE OF MILIEU'  exhibition at Agora Gallery. Notable amongst her works is the painting "Woman with Matka",  a moodful village scene depicting a mystical confluence of the elements of nature with a wonderful backdrop of the moonlit sky.  Whether real or surreal, the deep grays, blues and greens and many Indian red tones in her paintings will strike the romantic cord inside the viewer. Be it the  "Environment" or... [more]

Cognition_factor_new_york_postersmaller Cognition Factor  
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Mike Aldridge, Mr. Domino, Jack Gallagher, Mike & Zoe Kawitzky, The Orb at Wild Project Theater June 16th 6:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Posted 6/16/09

Cognition Factor by Propaganda Anonymous "Cognition Factor" is the brainchild of the South African filmmaker and cyberpunk Mike Kawitzky. In 64 minutes of documentary Katwitzky manages to evoke some intriguing thoughts from roughly twenty great thinkers revolving around five questions; Is humanity evolving towards something higher or are we doomed to extinction? What is consciousness? Is God a myth? Will a fusion between science and spiritually occur? and What happens when we die? Among th... [more]

Primal-scene-scape-for-web Meyer's work is FANTASTIC.  
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Jerry Meyer at Denise Bibro Fine Art May 14th - June 20th
Posted 6/1/09

Meyer's work is brilliant, original and totally amusing. A must see. I understand why most are sold even in this poor economic environment... [more]

Something about a rich tradition of still life as seen through the eyes of the contemporary artist.  
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Group Show at Art Murmur December 14th, 2006 - January 31st, 2007
Posted 5/8/09

At Art Murmur there is a group show about once a month and the artist run the gamut but what was special about this show was the lack of figurative work. I was excited to see what some of the artist came up with. below is "remember" by Alex Feliciano and the flyer for the show featuring Paul Pitsker, as you can see two aproches to a seemingly simlple task.     ... [more]

Image04 A Master of Photography  
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DominicRouse at The New York Art Exchange April 7th - April 19th
Posted 4/7/09

  The Photographs of Dominic Rouse Fiction is the lie that tells the truth. Dreams are a reality that open windows onto a mystery. Dominic Rouse, a contemporary digital photographer from England - now living in Thailand, likes to make images where illusion and reality overlap. His photographs put him in aesthetic relationship to Magritte, Dali, Ernst, Uelsmann, Arthur Tress and Maggie Taylor who are also surreal artists whose images are entertaining, visually dramatic and dream-like. Rouse'... [more]

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Lui Shtini at Van de Weghe Fine Art February 26th - April 11th
Posted 3/27/09

Lui Shtini’s paintings are technically perfect; flat and photorealist, plastic paintings. However, the iconography seems purposefully strange. There is a disconnect in the compulisvity of the painting and the unobsessive subject matter. The weirdness seems almost insincere, I secretely suspect the artist is hamming it up to be a more "conceptual" artist. For example; despite the unfortunate misspellings of his name and the painting of a toilet next to a wall sprouting mushrooms, the brushwork te... [more]

Arteaser at NY Art Fairs: The Armory Show  
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at The Armory Show March 5th - March 8th
Posted 3/26/09

  Welcome back for another installment of my Spring 2009 Art Fair review! From Scope, where San Francisco art dealer Andrei Rozanoff eventually joined our troupe, we headed over to Pier 94 for The Armory Showcontemporary fair was being held. I only saw one San Francisco gallery,Ratio 3, which was showing several artists, including Ruth Laskey (below): Photography by New York artist Ryan McGinley (below) were also on display: Recent SFMOMA SECA award winner Jordan Kantor (below) als... [more]

1 Arteaser at NY Art Fairs: SCOPE   Pick-button
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at SCOPE Pavillion at Lincoln Center March 4th - March 8th
Posted 3/17/09

I spent this Saturday visiting several art fairs going on in New York City with my dear friend Rex and Sharon Reaves of San Francisco's Reaves Gallery: Our first stop was Scope NY at the Lincoln Center, where over 40 galleries held booths. There we found San Francisco's Shooting Gallery: In addition to works by Greg Gossel (above) was a large piece of assembled homeless signs by EriK Foss: Works by Ron English (below) were also am display with the Shooting Gallery. We also had a... [more]

Book2 Treasures of Gay Art from the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation's Permanent Collection  
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Fernando Carpaneda, Jean Cocteau, Tom of Finland, Wilhelm Von Gloeden, Keith Haring, Robert Mapplethorpe, and many others, Andy Warhol at Leslie/Lohman Gallery March 10th - April 11th
Posted 3/7/09

By Alex Bacon With the Foundation's history of nearly twenty years in the service of LGBT art and artists, the coming of the new book Treasures of Gay Art from the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation's Permaent Collection has been long overdue. Eminent museum director, curator, art writer and publisher Peter Weiermair has undertaken the task of selecting some of the best works in the Foundation's collection for inclusion in this book which will chart, in stunning reproductions, the legacy of LGBT... [more]


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