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Check out Carrot Clothing….Radical designs, amazing graphic t’s…
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DJ DIVERSE = Rocking the dance floor
F.A.D - Fashion Alliance of Des Moines - Website Launch Party
Benefit Raffle will profit the Animal Rescue League of Iowa
many more details still to come….
les mots via sexinart
les mots - yummy grungey fashion goodness. Love it. I had to check it all out. (cheers joao for the link!). via sexinart
Nicholas Jones & Dan Tague via Art MoCo
There is fabulous interview with Australian artist Nicholas Jones over at Design Files, along with numerous photos of his work. Jones makes intricate sculptures out of old books, an elaborate series of cuts and folds.
Dan Tague’s prints of folded cash first look like crumpled up money, but when the viewer takes a moment to read the message created by carefully folding the bill just so, all is revealed. Via Notcot.
The response we got after posting the inflatable bear photos last week was amazing. We couldn’t be happier to follow it up with these two wonderful videos, shot and sent to us by the artist, Joshua Allen Harris.
After watching the videos, we love the project even more…
“Jean-Michel Basquiat” via Art MoCo
Vintage Portraits from the 1980s by Jeannette Montgomery Barron are the topic of an exhibition that opens today at ClampArt in New York. Barron captures some of the most significant artists of the time in moments of great calm that exude an intimacy, made even softer by the use of natural light. These are black and white photographs that the viewer wants to step into, into a place where there may be a chance to see the artist a little less cloaked.
Artist: Jeannette Montgomery Barron
+ clampart.com
via Wooster
Photo above by CRS8
Street Anatomy, a blog on medicine, art, and design. Terrific gallery of anatomically themed street art. check it out here.
Flosstradamus is at Sonotheque on Saturday night…Make sure to get there early if you want to get in…Always good vibes @ Sonotheque…
Chicago, IL
Make it Right
The work of architects in the Make It Right 9 housing project in New Orlean’s lower 9th ward.
Wannabe architect Brad Pitt has assembeled this amazing team including a few of my design heroes.
Welcome to Cloud City
Studio Lindfor’s vision of what would happen if NYC were hit by a category 3 hurricane.
A lesson in when to stop…
Dear Leger Wanaselja Architecture, you had it at the middle photo, then you lost it. My word of wisdom for your office, Edit.
Frank Gehry gave us great wisdom when he said, often buildings look better under construction.
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/02/08/prefab-friday-container-house-by-leger-wanaselja-architecture/
Harvesting energy from a revolving door.
Harvesting energy from a revolving door.
The water cube, National Swimming Center in Bejing
Betting the farm worked in Queens
The annual transformation of the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center’s courtyard, departs from previous installations, creating a rural oasis and urban farm, complete with a harvesting plan.
A Short Video Of Anthony Lister’s Painting Process 
80 million tiny images
Jan 21, 2008 00:21:00 GMT
a visualization of all the nouns in the English language arranged by semantic meaning. each of the tiles in the mosaic is an average of images relating to one of 53,463 nouns. large-scale groupings correspond to broad categories such as plants or people. within the plant cluster, for example, tighter semantic groupings are visible such as flowers or trees.
Very interesting work by Jaleh Afshar www.JALEHAFSHAR.com draw.paint.design.shoot.
Artworks by tetheredto:
It is not common when I encounter an artist and think, “Okay, I clearly don’t understand all the good things going on here, but there is more talent in front of me than I have the ability to comprehend.”
(Click on images to view them individually.)
© All rights reserved by tetheredto.
The Falling Times
LINK quote [Falling Times is an everlasting and growing real-time news translation machine representing permanently appearing and disappearing information about our times and, simultaneously, the fall of our western decadent civilization. Falling Times refers to the heavy InfoPollution we live in. The InfoSociety has created a new kind of consumer – the InfoConsumer! The most consumed information is the news today. The news has been turning more and more into an entertainment – the Infotainment. The news producers are the biggest info polluters of our time and thus are the biggest contributors to the infoEcological disaster].
Shit We’re Diggin: “The Decapatator” In London
From Wired:
“Renegade artist and head-hunter the Decapitator has been bombarding the streets of London with a signature style of graffiti tag - eerily removing the heads from major adverts around town, replacing them with ghastly, gory stumps. (Before and after images of a gruesomely guillotined model in a print ad, right).
Based on the images uploaded to his/her Flickr stream, “The East London Decapitator” as he/she has been dubbed, is largely striking mainstream advertisements, like this (my personal fav) High School Musical 2 poster.”
Miami Contemporary Artists by Paul Clemence and Julie Davidow, just launched at Art Basel, is a survey of the city’s burgeoning art scene. Over a hundred artists are covered in this look at what makes Miami’s art scene so vibrant all year round. The authors are both Miami artists who have an insider’s view of the Miami-Dade art scene. Over 300 colour photos take the reader into the beginnings of a culture that is hot through to the sizzle today. From artists with a wide-ranging following like Hernan Bas to local favourites like Bhakti Baxter, this book provides a flavourful taste of Miami’s visual art.
Hardcover, 256 pages. Schiffer Publishing, 2007. $39. 16 at Amazon.
Holy Shit…What a night….Wicked set - the whole club was hype = all hands were in the air!!!
It happens to be that I live bout 2 block from sonotheque and I love it. great dj’s - amazing people and a certain friendliness that is inviting and sexy… Don’t miss Flosstradamus on Saturday!
sonotheque.net -1444 W Chicago
FLOSSTRADAMUS @ Sonotheque
Doors open 9pm
$3 PBR’s
$7 cover
FLOSSTRADAMUS:
2 DJs, 3 turntables, and lots of people getting buck on the dancefloor. Forget what you think you know about spinning records. In 2005, DJs no longer need be characterized by n arrow labels like “hip hop,” ghetto tech,” or “house.” Jocks can sweep across all of those genres, mash them up together, and create something wholly new–something that can’t be easily pigeonholed.
Take it from Flosstradamus, the newly formed but already dynamic DJ duo comprised of Josh Young (J2K) and Curt Cameruci (Autobot). Like the emerging generation of post-millennium dancefloor crashers of the same ilk (see: Major Taylor, locally, and Diplo and Low Budget of Hollertronix nationally), Flosstradamus are more interested in getting the crowd moving–and grinding and sweating and bumping and shaking–than impressing any music elitists in the audience. They cut through genres indiscriminately, likely to play during any given half-hour: Le Tigre’s “Deceptacon,” Killer Mike’s “My Chrome” and the Cure’s “Lovesong”–perhaps sequentially, if you’re lucky.
With two men, a three-turntable setup, and an impressive catalogue of sounds (Young and Cameruci use programs called Serato and Final Scratch, respectively, which allows them to transfer all of their vinyl–at least 20 crates’ worth–to MP3s and treat them as records on the turntables).
Titl Graffitis: BubbleGirls
LINK quote [Tilt is an internationally recognised traditional graffiti artist, originating from Toulouse in South France. A self declared "graffiti fetishist", he learned his trade in the streets and on trains as a youngster].
(via ponyXpress)
Not only does Irish artist Ellen McDermott have these lovely paintings over at Etsy, but she has a rather jolly blog to boot. via Art MoCo
via Wooster:
As was the case last year, December is shaping up to be an amazing month of shows in New York.
This weekend, there are two shows that you won’t want to miss.
On Friday night, WK launches a rare solo show in Brooklyn (see below). And then on Saturday night, Blek le Rat, Blu, Bo130, D*Face, Microbo and Space Invader will all be showing new work as part of “The Streets of Europe: A Survey of European Street Art” opening at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in Chelsea.
More on both shows later in the week.
220 NEW YORK ARTISTS ARE SUDDENLY HOMELESS . . .YOU CAN HELP!
10-25-07 POST KEYWORDS: New York, Artists, Evicted, Help, NY1, SVA, Artsucks.com, Cojo
Doesn’t it suck when artists get fucked over? Some of my former SVA classmates contacted me over the last couple of days about a pretty serious situation involving 220 or so disfranchised tenants of an artist loft in Queens. 80-90 percent of the residents were artists of some sort; writers, photographers, designers, people in the fashion industry, art teachers, musicians, as well as painters and sculptors ( Many had pets, many were SVA alumni).
Here is an exclusive first hand description of what happened from one of my fellow alums detailing exactly what went down from the tenants’ perspective, and how you can help this artist community the city forgot. . . - CONTINUE READING
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| From the Bronx to Brooklyn, the second PERFORMA biennial inundates New York with four weeks of performance art events by more than 90 artists, touching down at 50-odd institutions, both established and emerging. Organized by performance art guru RoseLee Goldberg, PERFORMA 07 promises to restore a salient aspect of New York’s artistic legacy with a major retrospective of Allan Kaprow, various panel discussions, “late-night get-togethers” at select bars, PERFORMA TV streaming on the Internet, PERFORMA Radio, and even historical re-enactments by Eva and Franco Mattes in the virtual realm of Second Life.Ten commissioned works anchor the biennial, including an ambitious project by Italian provocateur Francesco Vezzoli, whose one-night, star-studded restaging of Luigi Pirandello’s 1917 play Right You Are (If You Think You Are) in the Guggenheim’s rotunda kicked off the festival. As with PERFORMA 05, the projected image is important to many artists’ work; Daria Martin builds her structuralist film Harpstrings and Lava from improvisational sessions with harpist Zeena Parkins and dancer Nina Fog, while Nathalie Djurberg’s new claymation film, performed with live accompaniment, depicts the grisly story of children fending off angry canines.
Dance also plays a central role in many of the commissioned works, including Kelly Nipper’s Floyd on the Floor — a hurricane-inspired work with a gigantic parachute — at the legendary Judson Church. In the atrium of 590 Madison Avenue, Mexican artist Carlos Amorales‘ 400-piece wooden platform, Spider Web Negative (stage), resonates with subsonic frequencies as a feral-costumed Galia Eibenschutz interacts with the sculpture and viewers. At the Hudson Theater, conceptual-dance pioneer-turned-heady filmmaker Yvonne Rainer draws inspiration for RoS Indexical from Stravinsky and Nijinsky’s 1913 ballet The Rite of Spring. London-born filmmaker Isaac Julien enlists choreographer Russell Maliphant’s troupe to transform three of his multichannel epics — True North, Fantôme Afrique, and Small Boats — into a live performance at BAM. In a multisensory extravaganza at Performance Space 122, Brooklyn noise-rock band Japanther present a wry rock opera with a set designed by Dan Graham and frenetic dance by Robbinschilds. Sanford Biggers explores the complex legacy of early 20th-century minstrel shows in his multimedia, multi-performer work The Somethin’ Suite at the Box, and Adam Pendleton presents an experimental sermon, created with playwright Larry Kramer and poets Paolo Javier and Leslie Scalapino, for the music and spoken-word event The Revival at the Stephan Weiss Studio. PERFORMA 07 also hosts Beijing-based arts organization Long March Project, which sponsors its own range of events, including The Thunderstorm Is Slowly Approaching by artist Qiu Zhijie, featuring multimedia works and a dragon dance, a series of panels at Harlem’s Studio Museum, and conceptualist Xu Zhen’s performance In Just a Blink of an Eye at James Cohan Gallery. (HGM) PERFORMA continues in New York City through November 20. PERFORMA Radio broadcasts on WFMU 91.5, while PERFORMA TV streams live online for the duration of the biennial. |
Resident Artists are very excited to present OUT OF PRINT, a collection of local artists all working within a printmaking medium or print related theme.
Exhibitors include Van Holmgren, Brent Houzenga, Michelle Phillips, Kyle Tehye, Adam Ferry, and John Solarz
The Fourth Street Theatre will be transformed for the evening into an overall visual experience showcasing established local artists.
Along with traditional 2D artforms there will also be installations, projections, performance art, and live music.
Expect the unexpected from these twenty somethings who are all trying to prove that they can make things happen right here in Iowa.
Musical entertainment will be provided by She Swings She Sways, an amazing four piece acoustic band from Fairfield, Iowa.
More musical acts are to be announced.
Brent E. Houzenga
Resident Artists, Director
www.brenthouzenga.com
brenthouzenga@hotmail.com
309-255-1209
What: Resident Artists : OUT OF PRINT
When: Opening Reception - November 2nd 5-10 PM
Displayed throughout November
Where: Fourth Street Theatre
214 4th St.
Des Moines, IA 50310
(next to Java Joes)
RESIDENT ARTISTS : OUT OF PRINT
Burning Book: A Visual History of Burning Man
Over twenty years, in 1986, some friends set fire to an effigy on a beach in San Francisco, little knowing this would be the start to a annual event dedicated to self-expression. Burning Book: A Visual History of Burning Man by Jessica Bruder is a compilation of facts and photos that sum up an event that now attracts 40,000 participants. A vibrant city arises form the desert of Nevada for a week every year and this is a visual account that does not provide answers, but context.Hardcover, 368 pages. Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2007. $19.11 at Amazon.
+ Burning Book at Amazon
Chicago Performance Artists please message me w/your contact info and any information you’d like to share about your performance….
I do events and I’m looking for very unique acts to book. I want to know you. N*
Geoffroy de Boismenu Photography
LINK quote [Edgy work by French photographer Geoffroy de Boismenu]. Be sure to check the A History of Sex section.
(via Sex in Art)
I’ve been a fan of Australian born illustrator Ashley Wood’s work for some time now (ever since buying his comic book series “Popbot” for the sexy pictures, not the words!). He’s got a dynamic style which mixes traditional painting techniques and digital photography with graphic software. You’ll have to buy his books to see his more erotic sexy stuff but in the meantime, click here to check out his work (also be sure to check out his excellent blog). Yum.
Religion, war, sex and red meat! Amazing work by London based illustrator Espira who “triumphantly mixes the beauty and style of haute coutre and historial costume with the mundane and commonplace such as shopping trollies, cigarettes, page 3 girls and kebabs, to create powerful surrealistic punk portraits”.
Beautiful, melting, drowning, dream-like paintings from Japanese Artist Minchi.
Kegan Fisher’s architectural landscapes are an interpretation of the world around the artist, broken down into the design elements of planes, volume, lines and colour. The perspective of the canvas is important, but one must not forget that the viewer’s perspective is also being played with, forced to deal with the artist’s deconstructions of time and space around her, as she serves up a world that is “an onslaught of visual stimuli”.
Artist: Kegan Fisher
+ keganfisher.com
The first Annual ArtStop event will be Sept 7 & 8 in Des Moines Iowa. A unique event to showcase artists, Des Moines’ cultural districts, and the beautiful city that is Des Moines. More information & ALL the details @ myspace.com/artstop
Art Stop Special Events
Ingersoll Ave Map of Attractions
Court Ave District Map of Attractions
Valley Junction Cultural District Map of Attractions
Gateway West Map of Attractions
Roosevelt Cultural District Map of Attractions
East Village Cultural District Map of Attractions
Saturday, September 8, 11am-7pm
East Court Atelier 307 East Court Avenue,
Des Moines, New work by John Gradoville,
Dan Videtich, Bill Nellans & Jennifer Nellans
Folk Art 333 Fifth Street, West Des Moines,
Marge Wedge Mable will demonstrate the
process of creating driftwood Santas from
11am-1pm. Betsy Peterson will personalize
limited edition folk art creations from
1-4pm. Jackie Leckband will exhibit pottery
sgraffito technique from 4-7pm
Moberg Gallery 2921 Ingersoll Avenue,
Des Moines, Opening reception — New
work by Frank Hansen, Using What I Got to
Get Where I Want, Visit with the artist
Saturday 5-7
Olson-Larsen Galleries 203 Fifth Street,
West Des Moines, Gallery talks by Susan
Watts regarding current gallery exhibitions
at 1pm & 4pm
State Historical Museum 600 E. Locust,
Des Moines. Movie documentary
Mississippi Blues showing at 2pm, followed
by Iowa Blues Hall of Fame musicians jam
session and discussion about historic
Center Street
That Irish Shoppe 136 Fifth Street,
West Des Moines, Demonstrations by
Ciaran O’Conboirne of Celtic Clays Studio
Carlingford, County Louth Ireland. Open
forum discussions on Irish history, language
and art
The Art Store 801 73rd Street, Windsor
Heights, Grand Opening at new location
with product demonstrations, workshops
and employee art show.
2AU 200 Fifth Street, West Des Moines,
Barbara Robinette Moss reading from her
books Change Me Into Zeus’ Daughter and
fierce at noon & 3pm and meet artists
Judith Whipple and Barbara Robinette
Moss from 1-3pm
Olson-Larsen Galleries 203 Fifth Street,
West Des Moines, Opening reception
featuring New Work by Blair Benz, Sharon
Booma, Bonney Goldstein, Dan Mason,
and Jan Zelfer-Redmond
That Irish Shoppe 136 Fifth Street,
West Des Moines, Meet the artist
Ciaran O’Conboirne of Celtic Clays Studio
Carlingford, County Louth Ireland.
Open forum discussions on Irish history,
language and art.
The Art Store 801 73rd Street, Windsor
Heights, Grand Opening at new location
with product demonstrations, workshops
and employee art show
The Lagniappe 112 Fifth Street, West Des
Moines, John Scott, singer, and guitar player
of Latin, jazz, reggae, 5-7 pm
The Lift 222 4th Street, Des Moines,
New work by Kimberly Fitch
The Quilt Block 325 Fifth Street, West
Des Moines, Opening reception with artists
Barbara Jones, Rebecca Kemble, Ilene
Bartos, Joan Disbrow, Abigail Livingood,
Michelle Sumner, Janet Bergeron, Linda
Knierim and Marj Luchtenberg
The Village Bean, Co. 400 East Locust,
Des Moines, New Work by Victor McCullough
2AU 200 Fifth Street, West Des Moines,
Opening Receptions for Judith Whipple &
Studio — A Flock of Fancy and Barbara
Robinette Moss — My Heart on
Thursdays series
Artdive Gallery 1417 Walnut, Des Moines,
Open House Party, featuring new work
by Christine Mullane, Kevin House,
Rob Reeves, Bekah Ash, Marty Davis and
Roy Cacek
Des Moines Playhouse 831 42nd Street,
Des Moines, Opening night of “Cats,” 8pm
East Court Atelier 307 East Court Avenue,
Des Moines, New work by John Gradoville,
Dan Videtich, Bill Nellans & Jennifer Nellans
Eclectic Gourd Antiques & Fine Art
507 Elm Street, West Des Moines,
New Works by James Putnam Abbott and
Rebecca Nahas Abbott
Elements, Ltd. 837 42nd Street, Des Moines,
Opening an exhibition of new work by new
artists called Jewelry on the Edge
EVACcitywide 500-502 E Locust Street,
3rd Floor, Des Moines, Full Frontal (the art
of confrontation), Exhibit opening
Fitch Gallery 304 Walnut Street,
Des Moines, Fitch Studio Artists in the
Gallery, Exhibit opening
Folk Art 333 Fifth Street, West Des Moines,
Betsy Peterson will personalize limited edition
folk art creations from 5-8pm
From Our Hands, 400 E Locust, Suite 8,
Des Moines, Opening reception featuring
artists’ collaborative works by Linda Lewis,
Nancy Briggs, Deb Anderson, Doug Boyd,
Dianne Mattern, and Sharon Nelson Vaux,
Playing Well With Others
Hentschel Art Gallery, 835 42nd Street,
Des Moines, Chicken Act Exhibition by
Mary Kline-Misol
Moberg Gallery 2921 Ingersoll Avenue,
Des Moines, Opening reception — New work
by Frank Hansen, Using What I Got to Get
Where I Want. Visit with the artist Friday 5-9pm
“I overdosed on art, psycho-analytic theory and philosophy, and that clogged up my creativity,” says London-based Gordon Cheung of his artistic state in 2001 after graduating from the Royal College of Art. A six-week residency in Pakistan in 2003 changed all that. “The combination of being away, seeing some amazingly kitsch decorated trucks, and meeting some very interesting artists, had a huge impact on me,” he says. Cheung’s art hints at an apocalyptic future, informed by science-fiction writers like JG Ballard, Philip K. Dick, David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick. Using spray paint, oil, acrylic, pastels, stock listings and ink, Cheung’s futuristic landscapes are dramatic collisions of the virtual world and reality. Cheung has the third eye, the ability to see what lies ahead. Though, unfortunately, not just now. “My soothsayer hat is at the dry cleaners,” he says, “so I am bereft of the abilities to foretell the future!”
Elegance and perversity as one. Ageing pin-ups, slain royals, debauched parties and fetishised designer labels Erwin Olaf brings his incisive wit and vision to create a satirical portrait of our contemporary consumer society. Visually sophisticated and conceptually provocative be sure to check his work out
Grafuck is a book of erotic art created by a diverse group of international artists. “It started out with a curiosity for what might happen if artists and designers were asked to create work around a subject that many still find taboo. Plus, making naughty pictures is fun”. Right up our alley!!! Be sure to check the grafuck site for more info.
Seen In Moscow
Artists: Grino and Pero from AZ crew
“Eusebio” from NAF in Lima Peru
You can learn more about NAF and the “Amazing Ghost Circus” project here.
Rikki Kasso is one talented young man (he rocks… basically!). Based both in New York and Tokyo, the self titled “Aesthetic Engineer” works as a photographer, painter, film director, fashion designer and musician. Tokyo Undressed is perhaps his most often updated project site featuring Rikki’s photography of beautiful young Japanese girls in various states of undress. Also be sure to check out Behind the Lines a blog where Rikki presents his artworks.