Art
Hurricane Season has officially started in the U.S. and, as you’d expect, thoughts are turning to the events of last year in the Gulf Coast. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita ripped through Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas causing over 1200 deaths and $100billion in damage (how many of those deaths are attributable to the deplorable response by the American government is unknown).
25 Above Water is an online exhibition and sale of limited edition posters interpreting the devastation in aid of the American Red Cross. Each poster is well worth a look and it’s commendable that the gallery has curated a body of work that uses strong design and a dash of wit rather than fall into the self-pitying, tug-at-your-heartstrings style of work typical of charity exhibitions. (via Design Observer)
Gary Butcher
Posted on Monday, 26th of June 2006 Permalink
Every day in 2004, wherever he was and whatever he was doing Pete Kirby made and planted a shrine to commemorate the day. He made the Day Shrines from materials at hand – wood, paper or found objects, and photographed them wherever he happened to be – at home in London, abroad or on a boat. The 366 works formed a scattered open-air art project, the photography forms an exhibition at the Sea Gallery in London at the moment.
David Rainbird
Posted on Friday, 23rd of June 2006 Permalink
Anyone can paint a Jackson Pollock right? He just splashed paint on a canvas after all.
Whilst most anyone with a ounce of art appreciation knows that’s not the case you can now attempt to emulate the great abstract expressionist using jacksonpollock.org from Greek artist, Miltos Manetas.
Not as easy as it looks, huh?
Gary Butcher
Posted on Tuesday, 20th of June 2006 Permalink
Melvin Galapon has been raiding the stationary cupboard to construct some lovely images on show at Gallery Notcot. There’s a portrait of George W. made from pushpins (which must have been satisfying to put together), the four seasons in coloured stickers and a heart made from postage labels. Lots of fun.
David Rainbird
Posted on Friday, 9th of June 2006 Permalink
German artist, bora.herke, has created 32 footballs representing each of the qualifying countries in the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The cultural references in each are perhaps a little clichéd and in some instances a touch offensive (I’m sure Sweden has more to offer the world than Ikea) but together they are a nice collection and have merited some shelf space at the Colette store in Paris. (via Josh Spear)
Gary Butcher
Posted on Thursday, 8th of June 2006 Permalink
I recently wandered into the Carhartt store in Covent Garden, not to buy a camoflaged hoody but to check out the excellent screenprints they had hanging about the place. They are by James Joyce, founder of a new studio called One Fine Day. I visited the site hoping to buy a print and find out more about him and the studios work but it’s not fully built yet, check out the site to see a few more examples or pop down to Covent Garden to see them all for yourself.
Dave Brown
Posted on Monday, 29th of May 2006 Permalink
When I first saw Olivo Barbieri’s work, I couldn’t believe it myself. So I googled him…and found that he shoots real locations from a helicopter, using a tilt-shift lens technique that shrinks metropolises into toy-town fabrications. I showed a few colleagues and asked their opinion on what they saw. The response was universal – ‘that’s not real!’ but one chap in particular just would not have it. He still thinks I’m making it up! I’m not, I can assure you. You can see for yourself at Barbieri’s first major solo show at the Bloomsberg Space. The press release for the show (including opening times and address) is here.
Ruth Kent
Posted on Friday, 26th of May 2006 Permalink
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service connects people who need simple human tasks done with people who are willing to do them. Aaron Koblin (see also 30gms) paid 10,000 online workers two cents each to “draw a sheep facing to the left”.
You can browse all the sheep drawings at The Sheep Market website and snap up a collectible “flock” of sheep stickers too. The site recreates each drawing in real time so you can watch how each drawing evolved. (via We Make Money Not Art)
David Rainbird
Posted on Thursday, 25th of May 2006 Permalink
Andrea Heller & Paul Harper commissioned a clairvoyant to contact 10 dead rock stars to find out their current musical tastes. I think the clairvoyant – Steve, must be very professional because his name isn’t theatrical like “The Great Steve”. Anyway, the resulting booklet is Death Disco. It’s published by the wonderful Nieves – Swiss, independent and chock full of great artists’ books and zines.
David Rainbird
Posted on Wednesday, 24th of May 2006 Permalink
If you’re going to be in LA this weekend, the lovely and legendary Geoff McFetridge (see yesterday’s post on Barbara Bestor’s book) has a show opening. Called “That Line Rhymes,” it’s featuring new work and poetry. Not that I knew Geoff was a poet, just an awesome artist/designer. And that all the new work in the show will be large, very large drawings and water colors (so none of those sappy hoaky kinds which old ladies try to flog in London on the north side of Hyde Park then). Geoff’s will rock his lovely suburban-slacker-skateboarder/modernist aesthetic..... And while we don’t have an image to show you, you can at least see the chaos in his Atwater studio preceding the opening.
The show opens at the New Image Art Gallery in Hollywood.
Jennifer Kabat
Posted on Wednesday, 10th of May 2006 Permalink
