FLUXFEST CHICAGO 2013

ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS 2013

Anonyme Zeichner 04:13 min. HD from olaf.mach on Vimeo.

One of the most brilliant collective global collaborations in art: Anonymous Drawings (Anonyme Zeichner). Please send this on to artists, collectors and others in the art world. Thank you.

Store Front Windows By The Murrays

Eddie’s Sweet Shop, a local landmark in Forest Hills, Queens, with marble counters and a tin ceiling, is one of the few classic ice cream shops remaining in the city. The owners still make their own ice cream. (From The NYT 12.30.12).

This image and a dozen others are featured in The New York Times along with a story about their latest ode to New York Neon – New York Nights.  In 2008, they published a large compendium of neon storefronts called, appropriately, Store Front.  See the NYT review of the book and check out the Smith;s Bar image, it's classic New York.

 “When you think of New York at night, you think of the skyline, of big, sweeping beauty shots,” James Murray said. “We wanted to take people to the street corner sparkling at night.”

PHOTO: James T. and Karla L. Murray
Article & Slideshow: Elegy in Neon.

Immaculate Perception

Surrealism, asserted André Breton, was above all "a revolutionary movement."  And that movement, both visual and literary, was largely identified with the dream. Shock, non-sequitur, unlikely but often gorgeous juxtapositions were the signature elements of surrealist works. These ideas come to term in Immaculate Perception by Matthew Rose. Beautifully printed by Mariela Cadiz in Paris, the work is a lullaby in the surrealist cannon: A young girl in a bob cut dreams in a dream of a lemon tree.  She is the revolution, says the artist.

Immaculate Perception measures 80 cm by 60 cm and is printed on fine art paper in a limited edition of 50 signed, dated and numbered prints.  Immaculate Perception sells for 164,05€ unframed.

• Limited edition of 50
• Signed, numbered and dated (2009).
• High quality giclee print
• Acid-free fine art paper
• 80 cm by 60 cm (31½ by 23¾ in)

See or purchase Immaculate Perception here.

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TODAY IS TOMORROW (IN PARIS) (IN DECEMBER)

TODAY IS TOMORROW is an exhibition of collages and astuces by Matthew Rose at La Belle Hortense, 31 Rue Vielle Du Temple, 750014 Paris.

The astuces consists of a giant Viagra bottle (in the window).  Exhibition throughout the month of December 2012.

Click image to enlarge.

Signed posters will be available. If you would like a signed poster, please write here.

If you would like a free high resolution PDF of this poster to print out at your home or office, one can be emailed to you, no problem.  Did we say it was free?  It's free. Click here: Today is Tomorrow PDF.

JAMES STARTT : PARIS METRO

Paris-based American photographer James Startt goes underground to capture the Paris Metro in its raw beauty.   See more of James Startt's work here.

Jack Greene's Hot Rod & Other Trips

Jack Greene has been making art his entire life – canvases and painted reliefs that riff on the abstractions borne of a jazz-infused consciousness.  You can practically hear these works hum.  Above: Hot Rod, acrylic Aqua-Resin, 2012.

The artist who lives and works on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, is currently making sculpted painted resin reliefs that float like low hung clouds of pleasant delirium.  Greene's new web site by artist Caterina Verde shows not only these gorgeous abstracts, but also his process and the wonderful studio where he teases out these dreams.  Take a look and a listen:  Jack Greene Web Site.

PAPER YOUR WORLD - AFFICHES - POSTERS : FREE

Did we say these posters were FREE?  Well they are.  Free.  Download any or all of these Matthew Rose exhibition posters – high resolution PDFs that can be scaled up large.  Print at home or at your office.  Make wall paper, make a dress, make a book, or wrapping paper, put them on a lonely wall, or make paper airplanes out of them, or if you have a tweety pie at home, line that bird cage in surreal decor with the surreal McCoy.  And hey!  They are FREE, so pass this along...

GO TO THE MATTHEW ROSE AFFICHE & POSTER PAGE.  CLICK on any image to download.

How To Launch An Art Fair

Even if you are not heading to Miami for the annual art orgy this December, and even if you will stare at the walls of your studio or the empty walls of your home, there are many people working away to change all that. 

Give it a read, a thumb, and offer a comment :  HOW TO LAUNCH AN ART FAIR.

VENICE SWIM

Photo By Luigi Costantini / AP

Floods in Venice this November are getting insane, but the tourists don't care.  These guys just stripped down and went paddling about St Marks Square (November 11, 2012). Yes, that's the Basilica St Marco behind them.  Sunday's flood level peaked at 58.66 inches (149 cm), below the 63 inches (160 cm) that washed through Venice four years ago.

More photos of Venice flooding here.

AQUA DICE: MAX MULHERN GOES TO SEA

Aqua Dice: The Art World's Biggest Floating Craps Game.  Art piece/project by Max Mulhern.  Learn more and support the project here.

Click here for the New York Times article and film about Mulhern's Aqua Dice. 

Zack Feuer Gallery : After The Flood

Photo of Zack Feuer in his Chelsea, New York City gallery, following the 5 foot flood in the space.  Photo by: Robert Caplin for The New York Times.

A survey of Chelsea galleries after the flood and damage caused by Sandy proved to be largely disastrous for spaces on West 21st Street, with dealer Zack Feuer reporting that he could salvage perhaps "only 2 percent of his inventory."

Full story in this New York Times report.  In addition, there is this Art in America report, with a slide show.

Hurricane Sandy Takes The Subway

The 86th Street New York City Subway Station, Tuesday 30 October, 2012 after Hurricane Sandy got on board.  Photo via Robert O'Connor.

Got A Case Of Romnesia?

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Markus Hansen's Shoe In : Nuit Blanche Paris

Markus Hansen, the Paris-based German artist, pulled out some 3300 shoes for his Nuit Blanche exhibition at the Palais des Déscouvertes in Paris this October. The work, a monumental sculpture made from thousands of discarded shoes (borrowed from the charity Association Emmaüs)sometimes appeared as a giant eye, or breast, or something other worldly even as it was clearly of the world. A bit of a play on the "line made by walking" and other works borrowed from nature by land artist Richard Long, and a refined take on Christian Boltanski's huge clothing depot work shown in Paris and New York and elsewhere, these shoes had soul and provided endless fascination from the multi-tied levels of the Palais des Déscouvertes. Film provided by Studio Markus Hansen.

PAPYRI at The Emily Harvey Foundation Venice

PAPYRI – Guestbooks, Bookworks and Similar Departures by guests of the Emily Harvey Foundation 2004–2012 Curated by Berty Skuber

October 19-27, 2012 Wednesday-Saturday: 4:30-7:30 p.m. and by appointment until November 11
Exhibition opening Friday, October 19, 6:00 p.m.

Archivio Emily Harvey San Polo 387 30125 Venice, Italy

www.emilyharveyfoundation.org ehf@emilyharveyfoundation.org

PAPYRI is a recognition of the presence in Venice of all the various personalities who have been resident guests of the Emily Harvey Foundation since 2004: over 150 creative individuals (painters, sculptors, architects, photographers, publishers, calligraphers, poets, novelists, journalists, critics, composers, performers, stage designers, linguists, and a theoretical physicist) from 25 countries on six continents.

In addition to the guestbooks which are found in the Foundation’s various residency apartments, the exhibition also presents a series of books and book-related works by Foundation guests. Some of the works were made in the course of the guests’ periods of residency in Venice, others refer back to those times, and many were made especially for this exhibition.

The artists’ response to the idea of the exhibition has been both generous and enthusiastic.
Many of the works which have already gone to press or been published as editions gratefully acknowledge the Foundation’s contribution to their realization.

Immaculate Perception

Immaculate Perception.

Surrealism, asserted André Breton, was above all "a revolutionary movement."  And that movement, both visual and literary, was largely identified with the dream. Shock, non-sequitur, unlikely but often gorgeous juxtapositions were the signature elements of surrealist works.

These ideas come to term in Immaculate Perception by Matthew Rose –  a lullaby in the surrealist cannon: A young girl in a bob cut dreams in a dream of a lemon tree.  She is the revolution, says the artist.

Based on a smaller collage, Immaculate Perception measures 80 cm x 60 cm (31½ by 23¾ inches) and is inkjet printed on fine art paper in an edition of 50, each print signed and numbered and dated by the artist and printed on high quality acid-free fine art paper.

See Immaculate Perception on Keep Calm.   More prints from Matthew Rose here.  

Sal Randolf's Free Money

The Emancipation of Money, 2012  Sal Randolf.
Rubber stamp printing on paper, people, cultural expectations., Dimensions Variable, Duration Variable.  NFS.

The Emancipation of Money is an experiment in circulating an alternative form of currency (the Free Dollar). With no predetermined purpose or use, the Free Dollar is designed to invite questions and provoke interactions. Hand printed “dollars” are infiltrated into the social community in a number of ways: left for the taking on open plates, given in spontaneous acts of admiration or amusement, slipped into publications and papers, or offered on request.

The work is part of a curated selection of artwork from Culturehall with text by David Smith.


See more here: Sal Randolf's The Emancipation of Money on Culturehall.

12.12.12. The End of the World

Global mail art exhibition dedicated to the idea the world will end on 12.12.12.

See more here: The End of the World.

Jenny Krasner in Shanghai

American photographer Jenny Krasner launches her first solo exhibition in Shanghai, China on September 29, 2012 at the SH Art Space.

The works entitled "The Shanghai Series" are photographic collage works produced in China.

Opening: "The Shanghai Series" this Saturday from 19:00 - 22:00 at SH Art Space

SH Art Space (2nd Floor, 209) No. 111 Li Yang Lu, between Dong Chang Zhi Lu + Dong Da Ming Lu.

开幕酒会时间/Opening：2012.09.29，19:
00~22:00/7.00PM~10.00PM Sept-29,2012
展览期间 /Date：2012.9.29~2012.10.29/Sept-29,2012~Oct-29,2012
展览时间/ Duration：1.00PM~6.00PM
展览名称/ Solo Exhibition：“THE SHANGHAI SERIES”
艺术家/Artist：JENNY KRASNER
展览地点/Address：上海市虹口区溧阳路111号（近东大名路，北外滩111）209室 绝版中国
No. 111 Rd., Hongkou District, SH, China (Near East Daming Rd., No.111 North Bund)
209 SH Art Space

联系人/Contact：Alice Liu, Director
联系电话/Tel：15000641932
电子邮箱/E-mail：962698181@qq.com
aliceliu962698181@gmail.com
www.jennykrasner.com