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Memo board. 47cm X 37 cm - 16 hrs of work here… erhg..
Esquecer, Não esquecer by kdoap on Flickr.

I just Ordered this new and fantastic book that James Jean has recently edited. Click Image for more!

Process Recess 2: Portfolio showcases the illustrative work of Eisner and Harvey award winner James Jean. Each image will be printed in a grand 15″ x 11″ format that is suitable for framing. The book will also include editorial and annotated pages that give an insight into the working methods of Mr. Jean.

Amazing nano-sculptures and small constructions inside snow globes, by Walter Martin & Paloma Muñoz

A Winter Walk, 2006
C-Print
39 x 65 inches
Edtion of 6 + 2AP

Crossing the Watery Glass, 2005
C-Print
30 x 72 inches
Edtion of 6

Ian Francis, UK artist sold out at BLK/MRKT… More pics of his paintings exhibited.

A Young Man Finally Wins Amy Acker’s Hand
27.5 39.5 inches, 70 x 100 cm

A Girl Catches A Train Twice In London
27.5 x 27.5 inches, 70 x 70 inches

Two People From Myspace Play Out High Drama
23.5 x 35.5 inches, 60 x 90 cm

Anthony Lister is from Australia and paints big canvas.

From renaissance to modern art, faces of women in painting get combined with a morph. Captive effect to stare at for a few minutes

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Prolific New York-based Parisian artist WK Interact holds his first ever Barcelona exhibition, courtesy of Maxalot Gallery.
Never-before-seen renditions of his distinctive black-and-white action-based graphics will be featured inside and outside the gallery; his canvas the gallery walls and doors, the street outside and wooden objects found on the streets of Barcelona.
As well as limited screen-prints, mixed media painted works, and an outdoor triptych mural, the exhibition will feature an installation showing the artist’s “guerilla gear”, his work uniform and tools for pasting and bombing cities all over the world.
His graphic works, installations, and painted murals have been exhibited at high-end contemporary spaces around the world including Cooper Hewitt (New York), Visionaire Gallery (New York) and Colette (Paris).

HEART is an agency based both in London and New York who represents some talented artists.

Mchael GIllette

Alan Baker

Laura Carlin

Brett Ryder

William Lamson Photography and Video

Freedom Wig is a “one-a-day” painting site by Martha Rich.

Welcome to Freedomwig, my one-painting-a-day website. Freedomwig is the name of a real wig. I named the site after a wig because wigs can either make you feel like someone else or make you feel normal. The art on this site is like that.

I make one painting or drawing every day. This was started on November 1, 2006 and will go for at least 1 year. I may miss uploading the art when I travel, but I’ll upload it when I get back.

Freedomwig is geared to promote art collecting. There is so much sameness in the world and art collecting allows you to have something one-of-a-kind and meaningful to you. Since collecting art can be intimidating, this site offers affordable small pieces.

THE KITCHEN is an art proposal included (among other artists) on the curatorial project Trabalhar Cansa.
The Trabalhar Cansa inaugurated/opened this March in the gallery artecontempo in Lisbon.
The proposal KITCHEN integrates a main project called HOUSE, which belongs to a fictional portfolio.

The HOUSE project is a simulation of a curatorial proposal where the artists and works selection are first based in their functional potential for the construction of a living space.
The action consists of building an interior of a habitation space with art object replicas (which are mainly part of the institutional circuit), in a way to be inhabited by the collective during a pre-established period, materializing the objects and giving them a real use.

Pizz Buin is a Portuguese art collective composed by de fine artists Rosa Baptista, Vanda Madureira, Irene Loureiro and Sara Santos. Pizz Buin was created in 2005.
As a collective, they create interferences/noises in modos operandos, demystifying the media powers in art, slicing formats, vices, know how’s and creating a reflection base over the interfaces that feed the art market.
General View

General View

eaten by… (from Daniel Spoerri’s eaten by…)

cake (from Sarah Lucas’s Cake)

le déjeuner en fortune (from Meret Oppenheim’s le déjeuner en fortune)

still life (from David Shrigley’s still life)

This Exhibition brings together thirteen contemporary artists whose works offer a rich amount of the interplay between abstraction and comic models of representation. From Sunday newspaper “funnies” to Walt Disney’s cartoon shorts, the appropriation of comics by artists has offered a bridge between the lowbrow “stuff” that populate visual culture and rarified brands of fine art. (…)

So little time since we started together… We are now working hard to make our first exhibition happen! Next Saturday, March 10, our exhibition presenting small Collages in shape and form of Polaroids, plus a lot of Extras! - Opening is at 22:00, I’ll spin the records and there will be some nice drinks and snacks for you to enjoy!

Vanity Land, Lg Dr. Jose Barbosa, n. 20 Caldas da Rainha, Portugal

Exact Location Via Google Map

Here’s a sneak of the ‘making of’.

Some (bad) photos of the Opening

Julian Montague presents The Stray Shopping Cart Project.

Over the last several decades, the stray shopping cart has quietly become an integral part of the urban and suburban landscapes of the industrialized world. To the average person, the stray shopping cart is most often thought of as a signifier of urban blight or as an indicator of a consumer society gone too far. Unfortunately, the acceptance of these oversimplified designations has discouraged any serious examination of the stray shopping cart phenomenon.

Until now, the major obstacle that has prevented people from thinking critically about stray shopping carts has been that we have not had any formalized language to differentiate one shopping cart from another.

Besides making good graphic design, Julian also has this interesting project consisting in insect drawings, amongst other stuff.

Charity by Numbers, a huge philanthropic effort co-curated by gallerists Jan Corey and Bruce Helford and artist Gary Baseman. The opening reception was Saturday, February 10th at Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles. More than 65 established and emerging art stars transformed vintage, hand-painted paint-by-numbers into modern masterpieces. The results are being auctioned via eBay until February 17th to raise money for the kids. 100% of the proceeds go to The Alliance For Children’s Rights. Via Juxtapoz; see also photos of the event.

Dave Kinsey

Brandi Milne

Pooch

Arte Contemporaneo - ARCO - 26th Contemporary Art Fair Guest Country: Korea

Madrid, 15th-19th February 2007
Arte Contemporaneo - ARCO

All the info needed for the fair is here. (pdf)

After commemorating its 25th anniversary in February 2006, the International Contemporary Art Fair of Madrid, ARCO, has consolidated its position as one of the world’s leading events for contemporary visual arts. Its international prestige, together with Madrid’s cultural appeal, turn the fair into an annual focus of attention for galleries, artists, art critics, curators, museum managers, experts and art experts worldwide. A large market platform with a repercussion borne out by the many sales it generates, as well as other figures registered: 200,000 visitors, 3000 accredited journalists, and over 4000 press clippings.

In 2007, ARCO begins a new phase, with a project combining continuity with the necessary innovation to face the demands of the contemporary art scene. A project inheriting an excellent reputation, and an enviable starting point from which to take on the new challenges opposed by the art market, and to responds to issues like the growth of collecting in Spain, the consolidation of ARCO as a marketplace, and the increasing competitiveness of international art fairs.

My good friend João updates:

A G F A M A T I C

(2 frames from)
Drum Painting 2007, DV PAL, 14′ 07”
Hugo Canoilas / João Ferro Martins

Tommy has been in the advertising industry for the last 25 years, but secretly has been drawing and painting during his free-time. He has decided to put together these works online giving more emphasis to what (I believe) he loves more to do : Sketchbooks, Illustrations, paintings and drawings. You can also have a sneak into his print ads and commercials, also really dope. I’ve seen those photo treated girl-dolls before…

Check Out:

• Tommykane.com - Awesome “journals”
• Tommy Kane’s Blog
• Illustration
• Myspace.com/tommykane

Painter and installation artist Tomokazu Matsuyama, just 30, has already lived through more years of cultural confusion than most of us will ever see. The oft-transplanted Matsuyama, now in New York, makes the accidental multiculturalism that doesn’t show on his face the primary subject of all of his work. “When I considered what is uniquely mine,” explains the artist, “I realized I wanted to take everything I was raised with and mix it all up and make something completely new.”

In keeping with his global upbringing, Matsuyama exhibits his contemporary art around the world, in addition to working with multinationals like Levi’s and Nike to bring them into line with “the now, today, in all of its cultural complexity.” He strives to portray this global melee through a conscious “appropriation” of all of his influences: cultural, artistic, and personal. Matsuyama’s unconflicted and positively ebullient works do not ask, “What am I?,” but assert, “I am everybody.”
Via Theme Mag

TOMOKAZU MATSUYAMA

“3-Horse” 2006 / acrylic on paper / 24 X 36in

“Kirin” 2006 / acrylic on canvas / 60 X 60in

“Collabotal” 2006 / acrylic on paper / 18 X 35in

One of the leading figurative painters of his generation, Currin’s influences range from Italian and Northern Renaissance paintings to popular illustrations from the mid-20th century. Whether portraits of older women, buxom girls, nudes with elongated bodies, or group scenes of domestic life, his works are characterized by baroque gestures, loose brush strokes, unorthodox palettes, and detailed backgrounds that startle the viewer into a reconsideration of the tradition of painting. His “old master” techniques and individual style have earned him accolades from critics and collectors worldwide.
Reference: Amazon Editorial Review

What really makes Currin’s work interesting—and hard to dismiss—is the compelling weirdness of his imagery. He draws on an eclectic range of sources, both high and low, from ’60s girlie magazines like Modern Man to Tiepolo, Cranach, and Courbet. If you know your art history, it’s a lot of fun to parse the references. In his review of the Whitney show, for example, Kimmelman points out that while Nude on a Table immediately brings to mind Mantegna’s famous Dead Christ, the actual source is a more obscure painting of the same subject by Annibale Carracci. This art-historical guessing game may not add up to much in the end, but as Schjeldahl says in his review, “It is pleasant to know things.”
Reference: Mia Felman, in Slate

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Genevieve Gauckler creates 16 artworks to be held in Someday Gallery, Melbourne - Around The World is the title of the exhibition.

16 artworks made for the exhibition I hold at the Someday Gallery in Melbourne. So exciting to make these large photomontages, such a huge amount of work also, cutting out around 3000 photos! (Thanks Pascale Canobbio!)

The Castellón County Council (Spain) is delighted to announce that the winner of the III International Painting Prize is Carlos Bunga from Portugal with the work Untitled (2006), 250×350cm, a site-specific installation with pressed cardboard, wrapping tape, and paint.

Our friend Carlos Bunga just won 60.000 fucking €uros ! I dunno if it’s really a “painting” work … but damn… Congrats?