Martin Wöhrl At Emmanuel Perrotin Paris

Martin Wöhrl, Munich-based sculptor, at his opening in Paris at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, 10 impasse Saint Calude 75003 Paris), in front of one of his sun sculptures.  The pieces, he said, are composed of bits of cut wood that nobody wants.  They are composed using a range of colors from laminated wood and formica, a 1970s expression of home décor.  Other works are square or rectangular and riff off of a number of formalists from Malevich to Albers to Christian Eckhardt.

Photo: Martin Wöhrl in front of one of his works in Paris.

The New Yorker, writing about his debut exhibition in NYC, said of his assemblages "they call to mind shabby-chic artifice."

This is the 37-year old artist's first exhibition in Paris, and the ensemble of the dozen pieces fits perfectly in this chapel-like space.

Wöhrl is represented by Spencer Brownstone in New York.

Pinocchio

Pinocchio is a fictional character that first appeared in 1883, in The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi.

Collage by Matthew Rose. 2010.

Max's Kansas City : 1968

From left, Paul Morrissey, Andy Warhol, Janis Joplin and Tim Buckley, at Max’s Kansas City, 1968

Courtesy Elliott Landy/Landyvision and Steven Kasher Gallery, NYC

Randy Kennedy article and photos from the NYT.

Cutlog 2010 New Contemporary Art Fair Paris

Cutlog’s next edition will take place at the Bourse du Commerce, october 21-24, 2010. 

Download the registration form for cutlog 2010 here

cutlog is a contemporary art fair in the heart of Paris, situated under the 1000 m2 dome of the Bourse du Commerce, 100 metres from the Cour Carrée du Louvre, between Beaubourg (Centre Pompidou), Concorde (Jeu de Paume museum) and the Grand Palais. 

Both an alternative and a complement to current parisian and international art fairs, cutlog is a vibrant intersection for artists, collectors, gallerists, curators and museum directors worldwide. The 30 to 40 galleries chosen to participate in cutlog 2010 will be selected for their independent or emerging status, or their ongoing support for emerging artists across the globe. cutlog will welcome a large number of private collectors and prestigious institutions, both French and International. cutlog’s jury will award a prize to the fair’s most surprising artist as well as an invitation to exhibit independently at cutlog 2011.

The Art Cure: THE ART CURE's International Artists Call

The Art Cure: THE ART CURE's International Artists Call: "We’ve had very warm responses from non-local artists wishing to donate artwork to The Art Cure project but not fitting the criteria of havin..."

Fluxface in Space: Exhibition Slide Show

Fluxface in Space: Exhibition Slide Show: "Fluxface in Space"

Andy Warhol Receives A Letter From The Campbell Soup Company - 1964

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GAY RIGHTS: SIGNS OF THE TIMES

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The Unbearable Lightness Of Mercede Johnston

While reading Gail Collins column in today's New York Times, I learned that a subplot in the made-for-television romance, drama, tragedy, comedy that is Sarah Palin and her brood and her brood's made-for-television romance, drama, etc., Mercede Johnston, Levi's sister, has been blogging away up in Wasilla. And she tells all.  Well, she tells as much as she can tell and she gripes away in between photos of herself and Bristol and Levi and stories about four-wheeling up in Alaska.
 
So if you haven't spent an hour of your life reading through the backwoods of the Levi Johnston - Bristol Palin story told from a family member in a free-form diary, enjoy Mercede Johnston.

http://www.mercedejohnston.com/

Shakespeare & Company Paris

The bulletin board at Shakespeare & Company, Paris.  Notes and photomaton shots from visitors in the kids reading corner at the famed Paris bookshop on the Left Bank.

Collage By Cecil Touchon

Dallas artist, Cecil Touchon, takes his work on the road to Santa Fe's Nuart Gallery, in an expansive exhibition from his "Post Dogmatist" series – collage-inspired paintings and collages in all varieties of post dogmatist incarnations.

Touchon's painted works on canvas are based upon his own collage compositions and provide a kind of hyper mirror of the found bits and pieces in carefully produced designs that echo the broken record of visual data found on street walls throughout the world.  Using fragments of torn poster texts and type, the artist has re-imagined visual consciousness as still photos with beguiling, moving parts. Strict color schemes – and sometimes Bauhaus-inspired designs – offer a visual fluency of not only modernist tendencies, but contemporary ones.  The results are rich and well-wrought visual poems stripped down to their barest of bones.

(Pictured above: Post Dogmatist Painting 287, acrylic on birch panel, 40 x 30 inches).

Touchon's The Art of Collage runs through July 4, 2010.  Click to see installation shots.

Details: The Art of Collage/Cecil Touchon. The Nuart Gallery 670 Canyon Road  Santa Fe, NM 87501 Telephone: 505.988.3888

Wordpapering The World: Neolipic By John M. Bennett

Just out, Neolipic by John M. Bennett is a linguistic masterpiece.  And it's a free eBook from lulu.com.

About Neolipic: 158 poems (or barely constrained outbursts) written in the Spring of 2009 in which John M. Bennett tries to reformat the world with a swarm of linguistic distortions and formal jiggling, bursting out of the thin shirt of consciousness to reveal what's out there and also what's in there. The poems are textual, visual, aural, multi-lingual (English, Spanish - or their simulacra - and bits of French and Globbolalia). Unlike anything else written. 

Here is what others have said about John Bennett and his Neolipic:

"A bypassing into the region, a crossing over the border and a controlled/violent journey into the genius that is John M. Bennett. A living legend that in so many ways serves us that geography that we so richly need." – Chris Mansel

 

"Not merely a poet, John M. Bennett is almost a species unto himself. Every utterance becomes poetry, from the sweetest lines to the raw animal grunts that initially designated something new was happening on the planet. And new is what you get with Neolipic. It's the new word, the new way to allow words to happen, to allow the senses to reconfigure around what the mouth is doing. It's all charted here in Bennet's unbridled eruptions in which the past is erased and the future is impossible. To read this book is like bleeding for joy. A master at work. Don't be a sap. Download it!" –  Jake Berry

Click here to go to Neolipic's download site from lulu.com. 

Rob White's The Art Hole

UK artist, Rob White has just relaunched his online art shop THE ARTHOLE.

The irreverent British artist is selling original drawings, paintings and prints.  The A3-sized prints are produced on Hahnemuhle Torchon 285gsm acid free archival paper, which has a bright white parchment-like surface.

The twelve colour digital print technology guarantees high definition reproduction with UV safe pigments. Each print is limited edition and signed by the artist.

To go shopping: www.thearthole.co.uk/shop

Marc Quinn At White Cube London

Marc Quinn, Buck & Allanah, 2009.

Orbital sanded and flap wheeled lacquered bronze
65 3/4 x 41 5/16 x 17 11/16 in. (167 x 105 x 45 cm). © The artist; Courtesy White Cube.

Photo: Roger Wooldridge.

See the full article by Giovanni Aloi  from Whitehot Magazine.

Mark's Interiors of Boca Raton, Florida

SFW's loves consignment shops of all flavors. These small and intimate stores peek into the recent and distant past culling out for display (and sale) some of the more interesting pieces of our lives – for sale!

Mark's Interiors of Boca Raton, Florida is the kind of place where you find the rare and unusual item whether it's a 1940s Waterford cut glass pitcher or a pop art style pair of bar chairs, a cool cigarette stand, 1950s brass lamp or turn-of-the-century etchings.  The shop is packed with pre-owned furniture, all excellent quality, at prices that simply astonish. 

Located on 67 South Federal Highway, Boca Raton, Florida (Tel: 561.391.1052), Mark's shop is nestled in an entire block of high-end consignment shops.

Mark has been in business for nearly 20 years.  If you have estate furniture and household furnishings, he will come to your house and inventory everything, and once in the store, every item is tagged and computerized.

Web site: http://www.marksconsignment.com/

Public memorial in honor of Nancy Spero

Public memorial in honor of Nancy Spero
Sunday, April 18, 3:00pm

The Great Hall at Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street
New York, NY 10003 

Photo © Abe Frajndlich, 1987

Galerie Lelong, the Nancy Spero & Leon Golub Foundation for the Arts, and Paul, Philip and Steven Golub are pleased to announce a public memorial in honor of Nancy Spero on Sunday, April 18th at 3:00pm at The Great Hall at Cooper Union (7 East 7th Street). Speakers will include Robert Storr, Jon Bird, Donna De Salvo, Bartomeu Marí, Benjamin Buchloh, Kiki Smith, Christopher Lyon, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and a musical performance by Nora York. A reception will follow.

Nancy Spero (b.1926), one of the most influential artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, passed away on October 18, 2009 at the age of 83. For over fifty years, Spero made the female experience central to her art's formal and thematic development. Her radical career encompassed many significant visual and cultural movements from Conceptual Art to Post-Modernism to Feminism.

After studying at the Art Institute of Chicago and l'École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Spero moved to New York in 1964. In Europe, Spero produced her first significant works, the Black Paintings—somber, figurative works allusive of existential oppositions and emotional turmoil. These works were made at a time when Pop Art and Minimalism were the focuses in the art world, marking Spero's first consistent oppositions to the prevailing conventions in art making. Nancy Spero's return to the U.S. in 1964 coincided with the ongoing Vietnam War and the civil rights movement. In this charged political climate, her passionate engagement with these issues engendered the groundbreaking aesthetic style and the political and feminist themes for which she is now known. The War Series was Spero's first significant body of work on paper, a support she would favor for the majority of her working career. Described by Spero as "broadsides," The War Series depicted women and children as v ictims of war and suffering, a theme that would occupy Spero for the next forty years.

Following The War Series, Spero produced two bodies of work: the Artaud Paintings and the Codex Artaud series, based on the French poet Antonin Artaud, whom Spero described as the "most extreme writer of the 20th Century." In reading Artaud, Spero coined the term "victimage," making a parallel between Artaud's language and her feeling of the "loss of tongue" as a female artist in a male-dominated art world. One of Spero's great inventions was the fracturing of text and image in the Codex Artaud works, which some critics have described as the first works of Post-Modernism. Following the Artaud series, Spero began work on her pioneering and critically lauded scroll series: Hours of the Night, 1974 (collection Whitney Museum of American Art), Notes in Time on Women, 1979 (collection Museum of Modern Art, New York) and Torture of Women, 1976 (collection National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa).

In 2005, Spero created Cri du Coeur, her last monumental scroll work on paper, which depicts a continuous band of ancient Egyptian female mourners from the tomb of Ramose of Thebes. The striking images in Cri du Coeur reference women mourning losses in Iraq, Kashmir, and New Orleans, at the time of the making of this work. A similarly important work, Maypole/Take No Prisoners was presented in the entrance hall of the Italian Pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale. Maypole/Take No Prisoners, a thirty-five-foot-tall hanging mobile featured severed heads dangling from red ribbons, commenting on the war in Iraq.

In 2008, the Museu d'art Contemporani Barcelona organized a full-scale retrospective, Nancy Spero: Dissidances, which traveled to the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, and the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville. The Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris will present a retrospective exhibition of her work in 2010.

Nancy Spero was married to the artist Leon Golub (1922–2004) for over fifty years. In 1996, together they received the Hiroshima Art Prize—awarded to contemporary artists for their achievements in promoting world peace—and exhibited at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art. Spero is survived by her three sons—Stephen Golub of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Philip Golub of Paris; and Paul Golub of Paris—six grandchildren; and sister, Carol Newman of Portland, Oregon.

Tax Form For Freelancers By Sam Potts

Originally published in The New York Times (Link).

John Himmelfarb : Geared Up At Luise Ross Gallery New York City, NY

John Himmelfarb's astonishing new sculptures in bronze and plywood as well as large-scale paintings are on view at the Luise Ross Gallery in New York City through April 17, 2010. 

See the work: John Himmelfarb at Luise Ross Gallery.

Himmelfarb is one of the most innovative artists working today.  His sense of line in everything he produces is absolutely his own.  You can see it in the drawings, prints and now in the sculptures.  His work is collected across the United States and in Europe.  He recently produced the iron gates for the Duncan home (and collection) in Lincoln, Nebraska.

The work pictured here is a new turn in the artist's oeuvre – taking to plywood to create one of his signature trucks.  A large scale (actual truck) was recently produced and a slide show is now on his web site, here: CONVERSION, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.

Himmelfarb lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.  His most recent book is a compendium of his prints: The Prints of John Himmelfarb : A Catalogue Raisonné 1967 - 2004.  (Hudson Hills Press, Manchester, Vermont).

Surrealestate: Art Call For Mobius

SURREALESTATE is an artist call for works to benefit Mobius, the Boston-based artist run cultural center.

Mobius Fundraiser and art bash for Mobius Artrages 2010 is looking for all sorts of artist-made post cards (4 x 6 inches) to go towards keeping Mobius in business.

DEADLINE: MAY 1, 2010
THEME: SURREALESTATE
ARTBASH/FUNDRAISER: MAY 8, 2010.



SEND WORK TO: Jane Wang
Mobius, Inc.
725 Harrison Ave, Suite One
Boston MA 02118 USA

Performances, installations and art goings on are promised for the evening.  The theme for Artrages 2010: SURREALESTATE was conceived by Mobius' board member, Lou Susi, a performance and visual artist.

Mobius is teetering on bankruptcy and the SURREALESTATE fundraiser a last-ditch effort to raise money/awareness to buy the space Mobius has been renting.

DETAILS ABOUT THE CALL:

A 4x6 postcard with one side containing your artwork and the other side with a handwritten or printed or typed word/sentence/phrase -anything you would like to say - in ANY LANGUAGE - related to Surrealestate.

Your handwritten signature somewhere would be greatly appreciated!

What surrealestate means to you is completely open.

The cards will be exhibited and then sold or used as prizes during Mobius Artrages 2010.

All materials will be accepted - the DEADLINE IS MAY 1ST, 2010 to allow a week to organize the cards for the exhibition.  No materials will be returned, the works will be considered 100% donations to Mobius, Inc.

In lieu of a blog, this public facebook page has been set up for all the cards submitted.

If you are a facebook member, please upload a photo of your work (just the artwork side) and tag your name and feel free to add any comments/links about yourself and your work - however again please to not reveal what it says on the "hidden" side of your card. This will be revealed at Mobius Artrages 2010.

If YOU ARE NOT A FACEBOOK member, please email a jpeg file of your work to

Jane@mobius.org
Subject: 4x6 SURREALESTATE Photo

and your photo will be posted.

PLEASE SEND YOUR POSTCARD (physical work of art) TO:

ATTN: Jane Wang
Mobius, Inc.
725 Harrison Ave, Suite One
Boston MA 02118 USA

QUESTIONS:
E-mail Jane@mobius.org or via FaceBook directly if you wish with 4x6 Surrealestate in the subject line if you can.

AND FINALLY: Please post this call on your own websites and invite any artists you know who might be interested in this call.

Artybuzz.com : Artists' Web Window

Sometimes we at Storefrontwindows promote other store front windows, and this month, we're shining a light on Artybuzz.com, created by Richard Wilde. Here anyone the ability to upload images of their artwork which can then be sold as prints, canvases, t shirts, etc.

Image: Shaun Crump's BIG FOOT.


Here is what Richard told us about the site/community:

Artybuzz.com is free to join and gives every member their own dedicated online space to showcase and sell their work from. The website is based around a community ethos, and gives members the ability to join and create their own groups, advertise their exhibitions and events, interact with other creatives and gain feedback on their work through a comments system.

“Artybuzz provides a hassle free way for creatives to get their work noticed and sold," said Richard. "All people have to do is set their price, upload images of their work and choose the products they want to sell on. When artworks are purchased, we manufacture and distribute orders on behalf of our members and then send them their earnings.” Artybuzz takes no commission from sales and takes no subscription fee.

"Artybuzz.com operates internationally and prides itself on setting no restrictions on who can join its online community. Richard Wilde said, “at Artybuzz, we provide an indiscriminate place where creatives of all ages, abilities, styles and backgrounds can show and gain recognition for their work.” The website has a diverse range of art covering areas including, painting, sculpture, illustration, photography, design and more.

"The products that are made from the images members upload on Artybuzz are manufactured to the highest quality. Using top grade raw materials and the latest giclee printing processes means that Artybuzz can provide high quality goods consistently to all its customers. This ensures that its members artworks are reproduced to a standard that does the utmost justice to each piece.

Artists, photographers and designers who sell their work through Artybuzz retain all copyright over their images and are fully credited for everything they produce. They are also under no obligation to show their work exclusively on Artybuzz.com. Anyone interested in joining or adding their work just needs to go to www.artybuzz.com and create a free profile.”