John Seed: Tracey Adams: ‘Everything in My Life Is Interconnected’
Artist Tracey Adams draws her ideas and inspirations from a wide variety of fields including music, mathematics and science. In her varied works, all of these disciplines come together in visual form, in a process that Adams characterizes as involving a “synthesis of intention and chance.”
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Round Walls and Curveballs—A Win for the Guggenheim’s Softball Team
“Solomon’s Sluggers” have been enjoying a legendary season. Here, we share true tales of the Guggenheim’s softball team—its legacy, its recent wins, and what it’s like playing against the Whitney.
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The Makeout Project turns kissing into an artform
Jedediah Johnson’s photographic series involves him putting on lipstick then kissing people, before documenting the smears in portraits. But, he insists, he’s not just doing it for cheap thrills
From the naked women that Yves Klein covered in blue paint to Terry Richardson’s bevy of porny subjects, the art world is full of work that for one person seems liberated and for another exploitative. Continuing to skirt that line is Jedediah Johnson, an American photographer whose ongoing series the Makeout Project involves him putting on lipstick then kissing people, before documenting the resulting smears in portraits.
Johnson’s shots are really striking, with his LaChapellian palette of bright colours making the lipstick jump out from its surprisingly circuitous path across each person’s face. The subjects look variously flirtatious, amused and ashamed; some have strange narratives, like the woman who is holding a baby just out of shot, her partner hovering off to one side.
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SOURCE: Photography | The Guardian – Read entire story here.
Preview Kamea Hadar and Defer “Paradise Lost”
If you are in San Francisco tonight you are going to want to see this exhibition “Paradise Lost”. Kamea Hadar and Defer team up once again to collaborate not only on a mural but a complete new body of work to exhibit together at San Francisco’s 1AM gallery. Here is a preview of some of the work that will be exhibited as well as the press release below.
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Paradise Lost
An exhibition featuring mixed media works on canvas
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 7th, 2014, 6:30 – 9:30pm
Show Dates: August 7th through August 29th
1AM
1000 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
www.1AMGallery.com
Contact: adriana@1AMSF.com
For more information, visit www.1AMGallery.com. If you would like to request media related material, please email adriana@1AMSF.com.
Second installment of Defer and Kamea Hadar collaborative collection:
“Paradise Lost”
During POW! WOW! Hawaii 2014, artists Kamea Hadar and Defer (K2S) collaborated on a mural that marked the start of a year-long series of collaborative walls, gallery shows and other creative projects between the two artists entitled “Paradise Lost”. The second installment of the series are two large-scale murals in San Francisco and a viewing of canvas pieces at First Amendment Gallery, San Francisco. The show at First Amendment Gallery opens Thursday August 7th, 2014.
Kamea Hadar said this about the series: “Paradise Lost deals with both Defer and my perspectives of Hawaii. With Defer recently moving to Hawaii from his hometown of Los Angeles and my being from Hawaii we both bring two different perspectives of what paradise can be. Much of my recent work deals with fire and the title also alludes to Milton’s epic poem about The Fall of Man, The Temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan, their expulsion from the Garden of Eden and of course Hell. On the surface the title speaks of Hawaii losing its natural beauty and traditional ways, what many people consider “paradise”. It is also important to stress that in my eyes fire also represents change and that Hawaii’s move into the modern world and urbanization is necessarily all bad. With the benefits of modern technology, and ease of travel Hawaii is quickly transforming from an “island” into a cultural hub. Honolulu as a city is quickly becoming as relevant to contemporary culture as any other big city in the world, but this takes some compromises. The balance between moving forward and still keeping traditions/cultures and preserving paradise are what makes Hawaii an interesting place and what inspired Defer and I to collaborate and create Paradise Lost.
Kamea and Defer both currently live and work in Hawaii. Kamea is the youngest board member of the Hawaii Arts Alliance, is Co-Lead Director of POW! WOW! and designer/artistic director of Utopium, home of POW! WOW! Hawaii. Defer moved to Hawaii from his hometown of Los Angeles where he was a pioneer member of the first generation of LA graffiti crews K2s, STN, and KGB. He has had a marked influence on the LA graffiti movement since the mid-1980s. His more recent typographic work incorporates Japanese images mixed with his unique hand-style.
Look out for more murals/gallery shows/artistic projects in the Paradise Lost series in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Israel, and Hawaii.
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Kindly Allow These Fabergé Fractals To Melt Your Brains Into Goo
The images below are dazzling, to say the least. But be warned, once you gaze upon their intricately textured exteriors, landing somewhere between a R…
Read more: Tom Beddard Art, Art Meets Science, Fractal Art, Math Meets Science, Fractals, Faberge Fractals, Tom Beddard, Digital Art, Arts News
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Soren Petersen: Design in Startups from the Get-Go
There has never been a better time to start a company since there is an abundance of capital, talent and growth rate. The rules of game have changed from a “make and sell” mentality to “how fast can one turn ideas/knowledge.”
Read more: Crowdfunding, Values, Crowdsourcing, Design, Startups, Entrepreneurship, Investors, What-Is-Working-Small-Businesses, Business News
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ArtAngel spectra: London’s centenary beam of light
The beam towers above London to mark the WW1 centenary
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Basel art fairs draw big names and big sales
Art Basel. Adriana Varejão, “Carnívoras,” 2012. Photo by Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop
Joan Mitchell’s “Untitled” (1956) sold for $6 million. Courtesy Joan Mitchell Foundation.
All eyes turned to Basel, Switzerland as collectors and art lovers flocked to the Art Basel, SCOPE Basel and Volta9 art fairs.
Art Basel, one of the world’s most prestigious art fairs, annually showcases work from over 300 international galleries. This year an estimated $2 billion worth of art is on sale and includes both modern and contemporary work. The event attracts corporate buyers as well as Hollywood celebrities such as Leonardo di Caprio and Cate Blanchet.
Can’t make it to Basel? Browse the participating galleries here, or skim through photos of the events at blouinartinfo.com.
The three fairs wrap up June 16.
(Foreground) hanging works by Simón Vega and an overlook of Hall C, featuring (from left to right) Gallery Skape, Christian Larsen Gallery, Galleri Christoffer Egelund. Courtesy of VOLTA.
SOURCE: Art Business News » Latest News – Read entire story here.
JBbTC 187: Foreign Languages Press pt.3
Here’s my final entry in the Foreign Languages Press series (not that there aren’t plenty more books put out by FLP—thousands, actually). You can see the other posters HERE. I saved my favorite for last: Exploring the Secrets of Treating Deaf-Mutes. The cover is stunning, a stylized portrait of a young Red Guard puncturing himself in the back of the neck with an acupuncture needle. The concept behind the pamphlet is just as stunning: Chao Pu-yu, an acupuncturist with the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, has discovered how to cure deafness through his earnest study of the works of Chairman Mao! I think this publication can speak for itself, so I’ve scanned the entire Publisher’s Note for you to be able to read, and included multiple page spreads. Read on, and learn how Chao Pu-yu stuck it to the imperialist doctors and “authorities.”
Bibliography for this series:
Pa Chin and Others, A Battle for Life (Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1959).
City Cousin and Other Stories (Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1973).
Exploring the Secrets of Treating Deaf-Mutes (Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972).
The Golden Bridge: A Selection of Revolutionary Stories (Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1977).
Philosophy in No Mystery: Peasants Put Their Study to Work (Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972).
The Seeds and Other Stories (Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972).
Taching: Red Banner on China’s Industrial Front (Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972).
The Unquenchable Spark/2nd Ed. (Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1964).
Hu Wan-Chun, Man of a Special Cut (Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1963).
Gao Yunlan, Annals of a Provincial Town (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1980). Cover design unattributed; interior illustrations by Ah Lao.
Kao Yu-pao and others, My Hometown: Six Reportage Articles (Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1974).
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Between Ancient & Modern
He mixes past arts with urban arts.
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Sotheby’s and eBay Announce Art Auction Partnership – artmarketblog.com
Sotheby’s and eBay Announce Art Auction Partnership – artmarketblog.com
In a surprising move that evokes memories of their past failed partnership, Sotheby’s has announced a partnership with with eBay to make art and collectibles from Sotheby’s live auctions available to eBay’s 145 million active buyers.
The two companies have joined forces to develop what they describe as “an innovative online platform that will make it easier for millions of people worldwide to discover, browse and acquire exceptional works of art, antiques and collectibles.”
eBay and Sotheby’s will inaugurate their partnership with a number of live auctions at Sotheby’s headquarters in New York that will utilize a newly-designed “experience” to be launched on the eBay site in the near future.
The new eBay “experience” will cover 18 collectible categories and will be tailored to collectors of art and premium collectibles. In the future the partnership will expand to include themed and time-based sales as well as live auction from Sotheby’s other global salesrooms.
“The growth of the art market, new generation technology and our shared strengths make this the right time for this exciting new online opportunity,” said Bruno Vinciguerra, Sotheby’s Chief Operating Officer.
“We are joining with eBay to make our sales more accessible to the broadest possible audience around the world.”
**Nicholas Forrest is a Sydney/London based art market analyst, art consultant and writer. He is the founder of the Art Market Blog (artmarketblog.com) which offers independent commentaries as well as research and analysis on the current art market, and has recently been published in Fabrik magazine, Verve magazine, Visual Art Beat magazine, Australian Art Collector magazine, Art & Investment magazine and many others. Nic has made several radio appearances (both nationally and internationally) as an art market expert and has received press from the likes of the New York Times, Conde Nast Portfolio and Times of London.
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