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Posts Tagged ‘Sylvia Ji’

SF///JUST OPENED///SYLVIA JI’S UNDEAD BEAUTY PAGEANT AT WHITE WALLS GALLERY…

June 16th, 2008

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Necromantic jail bait never looked better…

One of our favorite young decorative/figurative painters SYLVIA JI has just debuted another collection of her iconic undead beauty queens at San Francisco hotspot gallery WHITE WALLS with portraits of enough hot zombie babes to raise a graveyard of dead sailors. The 26-year-old fogtown native has been on a hot streak the past few years steadily growing a large fan base by showing consistently high-quality work in key galleries coast-to-coast and stirring the loins of a nation of necromantic admirers in the process. Of course, if we had a few extra hundred grand lying around we’d start a strip club/art gallery in Vegas populated with Sylvia’s portraits and a slew of living babes outfitted in Ms. Ji’s trademark dia de los muertos makeup and not much else. Sylvia, if you somehow manage to make that vision a reality, we want 10% and our own private champagne room. HAVE A LOOK: Read the rest of this entry »

LA///SYLIVA JI’S LOVELY LADIES OF THE UNDEAD…

February 29th, 2008

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LA-based painter SYLVIA JI’s morbidly beautiful women are as alluring as they are complex, and when a new army of them went on display at Culver City’s COREY HELFORD GALLERY late last week, they were greeted by a throng of adoring fans who fell hard for their noir charms. Titled “Por Vida“ the new show of acrylic on wood paintings, many of them large-scale, further explores 26-year-old Ji’s fascination with love, death, and fleeting beauty, all colored with heavy doses of symbolic imagery for good measure. A veritable who’s-who of the LA art scene turned out to support our girl who sold the gig out in no time at all. HAVE A LOOK: Read the rest of this entry »

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FEATURE///TODD JAMES (AKA: REAS): THE SUPERTOUCH INTERVIEW

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On the eve of the opening of “Blood & Treasure,”TODD JAMES‘ solo exhibition of new war-themed paintings at the starmaking LAZARIDES GALLERY in London this Friday, August 29th, we sat down with the New York-based artist, animator, and new dad for an in-depth discussion on the state of the nation. And a bunch of art stuff too. READ ON:

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BEIJING///SUPERTOUCH AT THE OLYMPICS…

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With all the mainstream news outlets presenting the “official” view of the 29th OLYMPIC GAMES in Beijing (including computer-generated fireworks and lip-synching 6-year-old body doubles), Supertouch brings you a street level look at the real haps around town from the back alleys to the 798 Arts District, you won’t see anywhere else…

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NYC///ART CRIMES///ESPO UNVEILS “WATERBOARD THRILL RIDE” ON CONEY ISLAND…

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As we previously reported, New York artist STEVE POWERS (aka: ESPO) has been working on a torture-themed art project for a while now and in conjunction with CREATIVE TIME as part of its national public art initiative “Democracy in America: The National Campaign,” he’s just opened the Guantanamo Bay-themed “Waterboard Thrill Ride” on Coney Island in the shadow of the legendary Cyclone roller coaster and Nathan’s hot dog stand in an empty storefront on West 12th Street. When a dollar is fed into a machine standing outside Powers’ mock jail cell installation featuring paintings by the artist inside and out, viewers can climb a short flight of steps to peer through cell bars and view an animatronic torture scene of a hooded jailer pouring water down the throat of an orange jumpsuit wearing Gitmo detainee…

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NYC///FILM///INSIDE THE “BEAUTIFUL LOSERS” MOVIE…

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Bringing the low-fi art world of BEAUTIFUL LOSERS to the big screen with a full-length documentary on the movement is director and Losers mastermind AARON ROSE, who will debut the film in NYC this Friday, August 8th (aka: 08.08.08) at the IFC CENTER. Presented by NIKE SPORTSWEAR, the film chronicles the lives and creative process of artists including Shepard Fairey, Margaret Kilgallen, Mike Mills, Barry McGee, Jo Jackson, Chris Johanson, Harmony Korine, Stephen Powers, Geoff McFetridge, Thomas Campbell and Ed Templeton, among others, whose DIY attitudes informed the aesthetics and ethos of their generation….

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BOOKSMART///INSIDE PETER BESTE’S “TRUE NORWEIGAN BLACK METAL”…

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For those scratching their heads at the sight of the following images, in the last two decades a bizarre and violent musical subculture called Black Metal has emerged in Norway. It has its roots in a heady blend of splatter movies, heavy metal music, Satanism, Pagan mythology and adolescent angst. In the early-mid 1990’s, members of this extremist underground committed murder, burned down medieval wooden churches, and desecrated graveyards…

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