EVOL - “REPEAT OFFENDER” 7 on Flickr.
EVOL - “Repeat Offender” Art Show @ the Jonathan LeVine Gallery, NYC.
Artist: kenichi yokono
Pic above: ‘Gas Mask (New Love)’ is carved wood & enamel
Gas Mask is part of the “Go East” exhibition currently on display @ the Joshua Liner Gallery, NYC.
Enjoy the muzak: The Gas Face
Nick Cave | Ever-After Solo Exhibition @ The Jack Shainman Gallery
Cave, a trained artist and dancer, camouflages the body, masking and creating a second skin that conceals race, gender and class.
Exhibiting his signature soundsuits, often intricate faceless costumes, that combine vivid movement choreographed to different sounds, his works are whimsical and surreal, with a fair touch of tribalism - lending towards African (his own heritage) ceremonial masks and costumes.
They are both stand-alone works of sculpture but are also used in active performance pieces, in which dancers don the costumes and perform.
Mating Season is an encounter of white-haired, boyish bunny figures. Speak Louder comprises a group of figures that unite into one organism.
“A solo traveling exhibition of Cave’s work entitled Meet Me at the Center of the Earth was organized by Yerba Buena Art Center, San Francisco, and was recently on view at the Seattle Art Museum. A major presentation of Cave’s work will be on view at the Tri Postal, Lille, France, in Fall 2012.”
—Press Kit, Jack Shaiman Gallery
Exhibition will run from September 8 to October 8, 2011
To see more pics from this exhibition: Nick Cave | “Ever-After” Solo Exhibition
Olek’s “The Bad Artists Imitate, The Great Artists Steal” solo exhibition is currently on display @ the Jonathan LeVine Gallery, NYC. Go check it out ASAP!
M. TONY PERALTA - “Complejo” Exhibit @ the NoMAA Gallery
“Saw @peraltaproject’s ‘Complejo’. It was more ‘questioning’ than ‘accusatory’. Exploring conventions of beauty that ensnare, perhaps ironically, a good portion of the attendees themselves, who must have recognized many of the ‘instruments’ displayed that they use to conform to these conventions of beauty.
It kind of reminded me of exhibitions that displayed the instruments of torture used by inquisitors to make the accused ‘conform’; except here the sharp objects and harsh burning liquids were hair brushes and hair relaxer creams.
What I really liked was that it felt anthropological, instead of the too often used default setting of ‘playing victim’. It’s asking the viewer “what role do you yourself play in your own complejos?…” —ArtForStrangers
To see more pics from last night’s exhibition, click the link below.
(Source: Flickr / punkrose33)
