Monday, January 21, 2013 at 5:00AM While hanging out at the Underground Museum, created and owned by LA based painter Noah Davis I realized that I had never posted any of his work up here. I love Noah's work. These are just a few favorites.
Monday, January 14, 2013 at 5:00AM Rodney is fast becoming my favorite artist in LA! He had a fantastic opening this weekend at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects with an ambitious and well done 45ft. painting on paper....it was fabulous! In addition to the video installations in the third room you will find another powerful "flag" piece.
Rodney's an important artist for all the right reasons!
p.s. Rodney also had an installation in MOCA's "A Blues For Smoke" group exhibition that just ended, his piece "From Asterik in Dockery, 2012" was my FAVORITE!
Saturday, December 1, 2012 at 5:00AM Kermit Oliver the only American to design scarves for Hermes. His story was fascinating, read and listen to it here
Thursday, November 29, 2012 at 5:00AM Acquavella Galleries on the Upper Eastside is having a Wayne Thiebaud Retrospective and it ends tomorrow. If your in NY go check it out...looking at the ice cream paintings and ladies from the 60's in bathings suits will make you a little happier than when you walked in.
Monday, November 19, 2012 at 5:00AM Mark Bradford's show has re-opened at Sikkema & Jenkins. The gallery opened this solo exhibit the night before Hurricane Sandy came and ravished the Chelsea arts district. I was able to check it out and it is AMAZING! My favorite thing in NY at the moment.
Click the thumbnails for better view of the paintings.
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Sunday, October 21, 2012 at 5:00AM We just got this email from Tyteana who interned for us during AFWLA
WE LOVE...
Sunday, May 13, 2012 at 5:00AM Kehinde premiered his new work at Sean Kelly Gallery "Economy of Grace" is up until mid June and is the first time the NY based artist has done portraits of women. We love Kehinde, we love!
Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 5:00AM People always ask who my favorite artist is and although it is hard to narrow it down to just one, the first name that always comes out is Alma Thomas. LOVE AND INSPIRED BY HER.
Alma is from DC. She was an art teacher in the public schools for many years. Later in her life she began painting and showing full time she was in her 70's. Alma paints on a grand scale so usually her work is on very large canvases.
Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 5:00AM Seventh Letter creates artwork for the City of Hope's Department of Pediatrics benefit. Happening today in LA at Known Gallery.
Monday, April 16, 2012 at 5:00AM Atlanta based artist Fahamu Pecou is famous! Taken from the artist website here is is statement about how and what he creates. We included paintings of a series of magazine covers but Fahamu also works as a performance artist and a digital artist. Having just successfully funding his kickstarter campaign for a new series If Heaven Had Heights, the artist is preparing for a show in NY and Paris to present this series.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work can be viewed as meditations on contemporary popular culture. I began my career experimenting with practices employed in contemporary branding strategies, particularly as they pertained to hip-hop music. These experiments ultimately led me to question not only the stereotypes that drive consumerism, fame, celebrity-worship etc. but how an unspoken racial and cultural divide often influenced these factors. I appear in my work not in an autobiographical sense, but as an allegory. My character becomes a stand-in to represent black masculinity and both the realities and fantasies projected from and onto black male bodies. I seek to challenge the expectations around black men and, to a larger extent, society in general. Adopting the traits typically associated with black men in hip hop, I extract them from their more popular associations and distort or exaggerate them by appropriating them within a fine art context. The end result is a parody on our obsession with celebrity, our exploitation of black masculinity and the divide that racial ignorance and stereotypes perpetuate. These ideas are expressed in paintings, videos and live performances. Each medium allows me to articulate various nuances around my themes and further distort the assumptions we tend to make about one another.
Monday, March 19, 2012 at 5:00AM New work from mixed media painter and collagist Terence Rosemore
Fine Young Cannibals - 24 x 18 mixed media collage on paper, 2011
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 5:00AM Robert Ryman (born May 30, 1930) is an American painter identified with the movements of monochrome painting, minimalism, and conceptual art. He is best known for abstract, white-on-white paintings.[1] He lives and works in New York.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ryman
Sunday, February 19, 2012 at 5:00AM Mark Bradford has a joint exhibition going on in California. One part at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the other at San Francisco MOMA
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 5:00AM Takashi Murakami's exhibition EGO opened this month at the Al Riwaq Exhibition Hall in Qatar.
Monday, January 16, 2012 at 5:00AM Artist Brett Cook does a mural installation in Harlem honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. – AHIMSA
127th Street and 8th Avenue, Harlem New York, January 2003
(from 2003)
Project Description: Martin Luther King Jr. – AHIMSA is a project to educate us all about Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and inspire us to be better. Images of Dr. King wrongfully arrested and manhandled, struck on the right temple with a rock, stabbed with a seven-inch letter opener in the chest, and lying on the Hotel balcony after being shot are juxtaposed to quotations he made against racism, materialism, militarism, and violence. The juxtaposition of these violent episodes with his words of peace evidence the extraordinary commitment Dr. King had to non-violence, providing an impetus for us who live in this time of violence.
Ultimately this project is an effort to highlight philosophies that magnify peace in the world. In spite of a global movement towards war, this project highlights reasoning for living in peace. In spite of media control that restricts what information can be transmitted, this project is a non-permissional action to expand information available to the mainstream. And in spite of the trivialization of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday and holiday in America, this project immortalizes an African American who was a hero for all of humanity.
“I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
From “Beyond Vietnam,” Address
Riverside Church, April 4, 1967, New York City
“Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.”
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 5:00AM Met Otto Neals nearly a decade ago at a solo exhibit he had in Chelsea NY, NY. I was fortunate to see some of the art in this video in person and it is amazingly beautiful.
Friday, December 30, 2011 at 5:00AM L O V E
Whats there not to love about a man who makes art like this and wears t-shirts like that!
Friday, December 23, 2011 at 5:00AM Artist and designer Hugo McCloud has some very impressive skills. His creations are made from tangible items mostly consisting of natural elements...metal, rust, earth etc. We once heard him say,
"I just love the contrast between the refined and the unrefined of materials. and my real focus in design, no matter what it is is to find beauty in the things overlooked. i believe real beauty is in the imperfections."
