Posts Tagged ‘Painting’
As familiar blue chip names like Koons, Warhol, and Basquiat continued their assault on the wallets of the world's most conspicuously consuming oligarchs at massive auctions at the big houses in NYC last week, it was nice to see a piece by OG punk artist Raymond Pettibon surpass the million dollar mark for the first time as part of the Read More
One of the two best shows currently on display in NYC is Houston-based artist Mark Flood's fantastic Available Nasdaq Symbol currently on view at Zach Feuer Gallery (the other is another show by Flood titled the Insider Art Fair right next door, but we'll get to that in another post). Taking square aim at both the government, technology, Read More
For his first-ever American solo museum exhibition, painter Richard Phillips brings his unique blend of kitschy glamour to the country's capital of said opulence for his mid career retrospective Negation of the Universe at the Dallas Contemporary, which opened last weekend in conjunction with the city's Dallas Art Fair. His strikingly distinctive paintings, notable as much for their Read More
Easily one of the most compelling minds working in the art world today, Supertouch buddy Tom Sachs has built a career around an utterly unique art methodology based on thematic meditations by means of unexpected material explorations. In his new show "American Handmade Paintings" at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris, the choice of this title is anchored in specific aspects that are central to Sachs’s creative universe; his use of the Read More
A master graphic designer and visual thinker, Supertouch buddy Geoff McFetridge brings the same elegant minimalism to his fine art with "Meditallucination," a new body of paintings, drawings, and hand painted ceramics opening this week at V1 Gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark. “The images are meditations, in that they come from inside but they are also listening to the world around me," explains McFetridge. "The paintings attempt to Read More
For his seventh show with stalwart LA gallery Blum & Poe, Japanese art hero Yoshitomo Nara presents an eponymous retrospective of sorts, featuring 11 new large-scale paintings & 10 new bronze sculptures representing his current visual mode, and a massive survey of over 200 drawings made over the past three decades chronicling in detail his stylistic evolution throughout the years. The result is an exhibition of extraordinary depth and inspiration that will Read More
One of the funnest & funniest current shows capable of lifting snowbound New Yorkers' spirits out of a suicidal, Polar Vortex-inspired funk is painter Austin Lee's "OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK, Painting is a Strange Thing to do but so is Everything Else," currently on view at Postmasters Gallery until March 8th. Read More
There's just something about street art in the Hamptons, an irony embraced by Brooklyn-based graffitist Bast whose new show of paintings & sculpture, "Seafoam" went on display at Eric Firestone Gallery (owned and curated by Supertouch buddy Eric Firestone who also manages the Arizona Boneyard Porject) in the tony NY retreat community last week. Read More
Always one to embrace chaos & disorder in his work, the latest show from UK Street Art legend & Supertouch buddy D*Face, "The New World Disorder" is his definitive statement on these themes to date. The inaugural show in the venerable Stolen Space gallery's new London space, the exhibition is a tour de force visual spectacle comprising new Lichtenstein-inspired Pop paintings, sculptures featuring vintage battle-damaged military helmets, prints, the Grim Reaper on a motorcycle, and vibrant graffiti pieces showcasing the artist's trademark dry English humor. Read More
Closing this week at Culver City's Corey Helford Gallery is a beautiful show of new paintings by street artist and painter Hush, whose distinct Geisha-themed pieces have been gracing the walls of city streets for several years now. The artist's accomplished, multilayered technique combining collage with acrylic and aerosol paint flourishes is the star of the show, giving his beautiful figures depth and texture well beyond their superflat depth of field. Read More
