promo video of selection of 2010 paintings by urban contemporary artist THH70 for more information, go to www.thh70online.com or e-mail thh70@thh70online.com (music by Fila Brazillia) all images © 2010 THH70
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promo video of selection of 2010 paintings by urban contemporary artist THH70 for more information, go to www.thh70online.com or e-mail thh70@thh70online.com (music by The Glitch Mob) all images © 2010 THH70
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A short video documenting the making of “Hang Six ©”, an 8 1/2 foot tall commissioned painting I created on a 1950′s-style custom-made wooden surfboard. For more information: www.thh70online.com “HANG SIX ©” 18.5″W x 100″H mixed media on custom-made wooden surfboard made from African Sapele Mahogany & Northern California Redwood Private Collection Houston, TX / Cabo san Lucas, Mexico surfboard fabricated by Erik Hurst / WoodenSurfboards.com / Malibu, CA music by Leif Garrett For Promotional Use Only
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In my latest series of paintings With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility, my art has become much more introspective where as in the past, social relevance was a key theme. Popular imagery still has a place in the composition, but the new paintings focus more on my all-too-human defects of character, faulty perception, and skewed sense of humor. The primary focus in this new series is my comic-style characters. Hand drawn and painted on paper, they are later cut out and collaged onto canvas, with hand painted magazine style text, additional collage, and stenciled background imagery. Despite their costumes and good intentions, my characters are overcome by the desires that exist in us all to some extent. Their instincts Led astray and hit rock bottom themes make these Heroes grand examples of self will run riot.
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Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale to Be Led by a Major Mark Rothko Painting
Arshile Gorky, Housatonic, 1943. Est. $ 800,000/1.2 million. Photo: Sotheby’s. NEW YORK, NY.- On 9 November 2010 Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale will be led by a major 1955 Untitled painting by Mark Rothko which has been off the market for over 40 years (est. $ 20/30 million)*.
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The Painter Will Barnet, 99, Makes No Compromises
An exhibition celebrating Will Barnet’s centennial year traces his evolution as a modern American artist.
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Local artist Gary Sweeney tours the city’s flourishing contemporary art hot spots: Texas’ first modern art museum, the McNay, houses a 20000 piece collection; the urban arts village of Blue Star, on the far south end of the River Walk,.has apartments, galleries, studios, shops and restaurants: learn more about other key art centers like the San Antonio Museum of Art, ArtPace and the Southwest School of Art.
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New Brow: Contemporary Underground Art. Long trailer. Playing in festivals now. Check www.newbrowfilm.com for updates and listings.
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Gallery Ragini hosts ?Platform? for emerging contemporary artists
With the aim of supporting emerging contemporary artists, Gallery Ragini presents its new initiative titled Platform, a monthly feature of hosting the artworks of one emerging artist every month. The first display consists of acrylics by Suchit Sahni that would be showcased at Choko La, Khan Market, New Delhi from September 4, 2009 to October 4, 2009.
Says Nidhi Jain, Director, Gallery Ragini: “We will organize a year-long series of monthly shows by different artists. The entire programme has been conceptualized to provide a platform to those artists who are going to shape our future art market. As a gallerist, it is important to recognize these hidden gems who are our future as a little nurturing can help them blossom. It is like bringing these artists into limelight by providing an initial space for display to those who can’t afford solo shows.”
Adds Nidhi Jain: “We would be displaying about 6-8 works of the chosen artist in Choko La, where the sunlit room provides an apt environment for art accompanied by a relaxed cup of coffee. This concept of combining cafés with art is popular world over and with Platform we attempt to recreate the same combination in Delhi. However, this platform is not only limited to young emerging artists alone, instead works by those who started their career mid-life will also get a chance. For instance, art by R.C Pandey from Kanpur is scheduled for display next month at the same venue.”
Coming back to the self taught abstractionist Suchit Sahni, he has been chosen to open the series keeping in mind his approach towards youth and city life. Born in 1977, Suchit gave up a cushy business career to enter the world of art. Being born and brought up in Delhi, Suchit’s paintings reflect his understanding and observation of the city. The city through Suchit’s eye is a maze with complex facades, creating a line of illusion, separating people from inside and outside the buildings.
Inspired by the metropolis, his works are a reflection of his quirky self and focus on urban Indian scenario. Viewers can get a glimpse of whacky cars, peanut sellers and the Ghats of Banaras in his intriguing works.
Suchit mostly works with acrylic and engages with visual play of colour, lines and forms. Explains Suchit about his works: “My works are primarily abstract, with the occasional hint of a figure. I have a personal liking for colours and you will discover my canvasses pulsating with bold and bright hues of red, blue and green, speaking about youth and contemporary pop culture with a difference. Through my works, I have explored everyday symbol of urban environment. It attempts to capture the ordinary urban life shrouded with mystery, strife and essence of a city life.”
The entire body of Suchit’s works is design driven and dominated by elements of geometrical patterns. His work titled Metropolis is a colourful flux where images move into a realm of abstraction as if the artist sees the life of the city through a kaleidoscope.
Through the splashes of his vibrant colours, the artist creates a space where the treatment is contemporary but the subject very Indian, leaving open visual delights for the coffee- sippers
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Luis Jacob: ready for the world
Toronto’s own Luis Jacob is making a mark in Manhattan and far beyond.
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Banish bare walls by making DYI art
Our walls beg for art, but we don’t have to. With a little ingenuity, do-it-yourselfers can have chic artwork covering nearly any bare wall space. And not just any slapped-together art, mind you, but pieces that guests will coo over.
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Autumn CheapOh!
Artist and friend, Urban Gruenfelder, creates disturbingly comic sculptures that illustrate this piece quite well (i.e.- I don’t have to pay him). Tires 1: Outdated Models Tires are crucial, yet they never seem to last that long.
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Social, religious divide on display in attack on Turkish art walk
Local toughs attack an art opening in Istanbul’s Tophane neighborhood, angered by patrons imbibing alcohol. Adding to the tensions are fears of displacement amid ongoing gentrification. It was meant to be a celebration of high art and the bohemian spirit of a city that has been designated by the European Union as a European Cultural Capital of 2010. Instead, a controversial art exhibit last week …
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Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman (Review)
Unconventional portraits of notorious ‘demireps’ from the 18th century In the Cincinnati Art Museum’s new exhibition Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman, I learned a new word. “Demireps” were women with less-than-respectable reputations. They were actresses, singers, dancers, courtesans and mistresses who rejected the accepted notions of femininity, made their own money, gambled, left their …
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Charming Baker shows work at the Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. With a cameo appearance by Shepard Fairey.
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Holiness: In 3 Parts curated by Juan William Chavez Holiness: In 3 Parts, a solo exhibition at Boots will give Theaster an opportunity to work through ideas surrounding the psychic space of the back yard. On opening night, with help from his performance ensemble, The Black Monks of Mississippi, Gates will bring charismatic structures of the black church into brief conversation with the formalities of City Planning Policy. Holiness in three parts could be thought of in the following way:Heaven, Hood and the City- using sculptural objects made from things in my backyard, we will move between these three loosely prescribed categories. With “The City” representing hell and the hood being somewhere between paradise and the underworld, I hope to consider three different presentation formats, in three different parts of the space in what would appear to be a joseph beuys styled performance that uses the black religious form to deliver thoughts on new urbanism, slave labor via the embodiment of Dave the slave potter and the history of the racialized body through performance. Holiness in three parts is literally a trinity of confusion and urban rumination. Lots of stones will be left unturned, but those turned will get a good shining – Theaster Gates Performance outline Part 1: The Westside Piece (Front Space) – 7:42- 7:52 Theaster and possibly Orron Kenyatta -poet) Part 2: The Glorious Picnic (Front of the back) – 7:52- 8:40 (Black Monks of Mississippi) Part 3: Stairwell to …
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