New solo exhibition from Matt W. Moore at Upian Gallery, Paris starts next Friday. Click HERE for details.
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VIKTOR TIMOFEEV: LOCAL AREA NETWORK[S]
New work from Discosalt Artist Viktor Timofeev will be on display in London, England at Hannah Barry Gallery and in Cologne, Germany at Schmidt & Handrup. The work will be on display beginning January 14th and 15th, respectively.
The shows include enamel, ink, spray paint, acrylic on paper and canvas exemplifying Timofeev’s growing versatility in his work. We think this is some of his best to date.
Check out more work from the show on Viktor Timofeev’s web page here. And more articles about Viktor on Discosalt can be found here.
FRESH GEEZERS: THE LONDON POLICE AND GALO @ FRESH FACTORY
What: Fresh Geezers
Where: Fresh Factory
1053 Flushing Avenue between Morgan and Knickerbocker, off the L train Morgan Stop
When: December 10, 2009 – January 10, 2010
7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Damage: Free
Just in time for the holidays, The London Police and Galo team up for some brotherly love and gifts for you at Brooklyn’s Factory Fresh. After more than a decade creating art, Galo, a graphic designer who creates colorful, line based art and The London Police, three lads, on a quest to make really rad street art and travel the globe, will will be showcasing new canvas, some featured films and installation works created site specifically for Factory Fresh.
OFF THE GRID: FEATURING DAN SELZER + DAVID ELLIS’ RECOLLECT EXHIBIT
This Thursday at le poissonrouge, come drag a toe and rage against the dancing wasteland at OFF THE GRID, a once-a-month event which focuses on dance music that you won’t hear on a typical Friday or Saturday night. It will focus on a collage of Mutant Disco, Punk Funk, No Wave, Early Electro and rare B-Sides.
Special guest DJ Dan Selzer of the infamous post punk label, Acute Records will share the decks with the Resident NY DJs Chris Alker and Monica Sharp . Need a break from the beats, check out David Ellis‘ exhibit, RECOLLECT, which will be on display through Feburary 12th 2010.
David Ellis continues his practice of record collecting as a process for making sculpture. Ellis presents three new wall sculptures in his ongoing “Recollection” series. The works will be constructed with more than 1,000 record sleeves systematically arranged by color and theme. The result is a resin-encased block of recorded history that seemingly levitates. His motion painting “Paint on Trucks in a World in Need of Love” was recently exhibited at MoMA.
For more information please contact (Le) Poisson Rouge Art Gallery at art@lprnyc.com. For media inquiries please contact marketing@lprnyc.com.
Le Poisson Rouge Gallery Bar (Downstairs)
158 Bleecker Street
FREE Entry
10PM – Late
21+ Only
www.going.com/offthegrid
www.myspace.com/chrisalker
www.danselzer.com
YOU’VE GOT A VERY IMPORTANT DATE: TIM BURTON EXHIBIT @ MOMA
This month, the MoMA is curating a Tim Burton exhibit that will run through April 26th, 2010. The exhibit examines Burton’s unique influence on popular culture and art and “explores the full range of his creative work, tracing the current of his visual imagination from early childhood drawings through his mature work in film.” You can check out over 700 never before seen drawings, paintings, photographs, concept art, storyboards, puppets, and costumes from some of Burton’s weirdo dark and quirky-themed films like Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Batman, Mars Attacks, Ed Wood and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. The show will also feature a selection of amateur and student films, music videos and commercials influenced by Burton, and a complete set of Burton’s features and shorts. And all in time to get you in the weirdo mood before Burton’s newest film Alice in Wonderland hits theaters in March 2010.
NOVEMBER UPDATES: PAM GLEW AND SOME TURKEY TOO
It might be hard to hold a candle this month, but easy to get a hold of some new art from Pam Glew. Both a month of gathering together to gorge and a time of sowing and scattering abroad, Pam Glew is helping you out on both fronts, spreading her signature flags throughout London and Paris and giving you the perfect opportunity to come together, and stuff your face with a new piece at one of these great gallery shows this month. So slide over the mashed potatoes and leave room for some Pam.
First up, Pam Glew will showing alongside Nick Walker, Goldie, Mau Mau, Eelus, Beejoir & Jamie Reid at the uber hip The Lock Up London from 20 Nov – 10 Dec. The show will feature 3 new flag works (including Looking Glass above)
Next up, Art Mosh in gay Pari’ will be showing 3 new handmade ‘French flags’ alongside Herakut & Faith 47, starting 16 Nov at 7pm. Check out: Art Mosh Paris, Doors Studios for more details.
Still looking to get your paws on one of Pam’s flags? Drop by the UK Art Fairs where Liberty Gallery will have 3 new originals including Aoki. You can also purchase prints from 13-15 Nov at Northern Art Harrogate with Liberty Gallery Stand 21 at the Harrogate International Centre and then from 20-22 Nov at the Edinburgh Art Fair with Liberty Gallery Stand E8, Edinburgh Corn Exchange. For more e-tickets, and invitations for Northern Art & Edinburgh please contact info@liberty-gallery.com.
Nothing lasts forever…so make sure you jump on one of these opportunities to see Pam’s work before it’s too late or at least let Axle convince you.
PAM GLEW’S “WONDERLAND”@ AAF LONDON
Pam Glew might be one of the hardest working artists we know. She is consistently churning out one amazing piece after the next and her latest work: “Wonderland” is the latest edition to her family of flags that will be featured at AAF London in Battersea Park. Here is what Pam has to say this month: “October means many things to many people; the return of the roast dinner, colder nights, zombie costumes, x-factor…but most importantly its Art Fair season…I will once again be showing with Art-file Gallery and have given them some of my best work yet…”
In keeping with the spirit of October, check out some of Pam’s spray paint on horror fiction prints for sale in the discosalt MERCH section. (more to come…so check back soon)
AAF London - art-file stand i8
• Thursday 22 Oct 11.00am – 5.30pm
Drinks Reception 5.30 – 9.30pm
• Friday 23 Oct 11.00am – 6.00pm
• Saturday 24 Oct 11.00am – 6.00pm
• Sunday 25 Oct 11.00am – 6.00pm
D.U.M.B.O. ART UNDER THE BRIDGE
What:13th Annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under The Bridge Festival
Where: D.U.M.B.O …duh
When: September 25 – 27, 2009
Damage: FREE
You might not see Anthony Keidis running around with his shirt off, but at the now teenage D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival, you will see touchable, accessible, and interactive art, on a scale that makes it the nation’s largest urban forum for experimental art. In addition to the 80+ projects throughout the historical post-industrial waterfront span, visitors can tour local artists’ studios or check out the indoor video dumbo, a non-stop program of cutting-edge video art from New York City and around the world.
Check out the new iPhone Festival Guide application at dumbo.walkabit.com.
www.dumboartscenter.org
www.dumboartfestival.org
www.video_dumbo.org
You were thinking about it too… Couldn’t resist. (PS- Gus Van Sant directed this):
PANDEMIC GALLERY X ABZTRACT
What: Pandemic Gallery X Abztract
Where: 37 Broadway (In Brooklyn)
When: September 25th, 2009
Damage: Free
A pandemic is a world wide epidemic. The Pandemic Gallery seeks to create a showcase for artists, friends, and patrons to meet, collaborate, and present their work…. expanding the global awareness of a new breed of art and artists. Now with the self-titled, opening show under their belt…Pandemic will be partnering up with their friends at Abztract, an art and design collective with the similar aim of exposing original artists’ work locally and internationally, to kick off their second show this Friday, Sept. 25th from 7-11 pm. The latest exhibition will run through the month of October, and present slick hand-painted, silk-screened, stickered, or stenciled limited-edition skateboard decks created by the diverse crew of NYC and Brooklyn natives. Artists featured will include; Billi Kid, Chris RWK, Darkcoulds, JMR, Jordan Seiler, Justin Emerson, Veng RWK, Philip Lumbang, Keely, JustinK, Royce Bannon, Shai Dahan, and Temple7e.
So come on by, and be part of the epidemic.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pandemicgallery
http://pandemicgallery.blogspot.com/
http://www.abztract.com/
http://birdgunblog.blogspot.com/
- Josh Amos, Sept. 22, 2009
Pictures above: #1 Invite, #2 Pandemic Sign, #3 Darkclouds, #4 Keely’s fish, #5 Billi Kid’s Obama, #6 Royce Bannon and Chris RWK collaboration, #7 Shai Dahan’s Dog Skateboards
Pictures #2,#3,#4 Courtesy of Derrick Noh & Picture #7 Courtesy of Abztract
LOOKING AT MUSIC: SIDE 2 @ THE MOMA
Last week, I checked out the Moma exhibit, Looking at Music: Side 2; a first floor exhibit that catalogs NYC’s stripped-down, hard-edged, anti-establishment, experimental art and music scene of the late ’70s and early ’80s. The exhibit chronicles a time period in NYC when art and music were cross pollinating, when downtown artists plastered city walls with art, played in bands, squatted abandoned buildings in the east village and turned vacant garages into makeshift super 8 theaters and performance spaces. The punk ethos was alive. That energy seems to have been lost… but you can revisit it all through 120 photographs, music videos, drawings, audio recordings, publications, Super 8 films, and punk-film screenings from September-November at the Moma. This is a really great collection of punk rock memorabilia here but I just wish the exhibit had been a little longer. It was a bit of a tease and the two small rooms were just too small to leave me walking home satisfied. The photography by Dan Graham, Nan Goldin, and Jimmy DeSana and the record covers designed by Kim Gordon did make the trip worth it though. Not to mention my teenage bedroom wall fantasy. Some images i snapped from the exhibit above but check it out for yourself. Check the Looking at Music: Side 2 website for film details and show times.
THERE’S STILL LIFE EXHIBIT
There’s Still Life is an International exhibition taking place at Art London in October and Scope Miami in December that will feature Discosalt artist Pam Glew. A select group of contemporary artists from the US and Europe have been given a simple brief – to take the traditional discipline of Still Life and produce contemporary paintings, drawings and sculpture.
Pam used the ‘hybrid tea rose’ flower as a starting point and has created 2 handmade ‘hybrid’ flags, part american flag, part Union Jack. The cross -fertilisation of the flags echo this idea of a flower being a hybrid.
British Rose is a handmade Union Jack, made from a vintage American flag and vintage denim with a blooming rose, Hybrid Rose is part British Ensign, part American flag, made from a very old Ensign Flag, denim, red stripes from a vintage American flag and embroidered linens for a nod to English Tea. Using my dyeing and bleaching technique, the Hybrid Rose is particularly distressed with drips of bleach giving off a naughty decadence.
You can preview the works in a show on Saturday 19th September in the Bath Gallery.
Mauger Modern Art, Bath
6 Bartlett Street
Bath, UK BA1 2QZ
g: 0044 (0)1225 315 110
m: 0044 (0)7590 527 332
w: www.maugermodern.com
e: richard@maugermodern.com
Saturday 19th September
TAPE AND MIRRORS – AAKASH NIHALANI EXHIBIT
Discosalt has been following Aakash Nihalani for a while now and you may have even stumbled into some of his work as you pound the streets of NYC. Here’s your chance to check out some of his latest work using the mediums of (you guessed it!) tape and mirrors.
Eastern District and Ad Hoc Art are pleased to announce their newly featured joint effort exhibit Tape and Mirrors by artist Aakash Nihalani. Tape and Mirrors, the artist’s third solo exhibition in New York, will open on Friday September 25th, 2009. Note, the Press/VIP Preview is from 6-7pm, followed by a public reception from 7-10pm. The exhibition will be on view weekly Wednesdays through Sundays from 12pm-7pm until October 25th, 2009.
Eastern District is a contemporary exhibition space located at 43 Bogart Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn. They pride themselves on the merging of all creative artistic practices and presenting the community with art exhibitions as well as ongoing performance and event-based programming. Eastern District is excited to be presenting Tape and Mirrors with Ad Hoc Art. Ad Hoc, formerly located at 49 Bogart Street, is a staple in the Bushwick art community that has dedicated itself for years to being more than just a gallery.
Ad Hoc is a passionate creative fulcrum, showing work that is often marginalized by the larger New York art scene. This collaboration is the second of many to come, continuing to build the local art community to another level.
Aakash Nihalani’s street work consists mostly of isometric rectangles and squares. Using brightly colored tape, Nihalani selectively places these graphics around New York to highlight the unexpected contours and elegant geometry pre-existing in the city itself. All execution of his street-level tape work is done on site, with little to no planning.
For however brief of a time, Aakash Nihalani’s work offers people a chance to see a different side of New York, and momentarily escape from their routine schedules and lives. “We all need the opportunity to see the city more playfully, as a world dominated by the interplay of very basic color and shape”. He tries to create a new space within the existing space of our everyday world for people to enter freely and to unexpectedly ‘disconnect’ from their reality.
Playing off of the metaphor ‘smoke and mirrors,’ meaning an illusion created out of an elaborate distraction, Nihalani’s Tape and Mirrors exhibition aims to create a magical experience out of the mundane. By implementing mirrors in key positions throughout the space, the viewer is given an opportunity to step ‘into,’ and view themselves within, Nihalani’s signature tape installations. Creating a playful interruption to the regular gallery schematic, the viewer is prodded from being a bystander to a participant, not only interacting with the space and materials around them, but also with their own reflections.
Let Nihalani’s Tape and Mirrors open up a new portal of reality and experience yourself between dimensions at Eastern District & Ad Hoc Art in Brooklyn. Original prints and paintings by the artist will also be on view and for sale through the gallery.
To find out more information about Aakash Nihalani’s Tape and Mirrors exhibition, and more about Ad Hoc and Eastern District’s collaboration please go to adhocart.org and eastern-district.com.
For more information on Aakash Nihalani and his art visit aakashnihalani.com. Refreshments generously provided by Asahi.
WHERE: 43 Bogart Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn
WHEN:September 25th from 6-10pm.
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