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Month: April 2009
Husk Mit Navn
My homepage has been updated with new photos of my solo show at LaViolaBank Gallery in New York:
Plus, I´m in a group show here in Copenhagen at Overgaden
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"Draw" in San Francisco
The highly-anticipated DRAW Exhibit rolls into San Francisco with it’s Saturday night opening at Shooting Gallery. What was billed as a traveling art exhibition of 300 drawings has now topped 400 artists for the SF installation.
The who’s who of the contemporary and pop culture art world involved in the show is staggering to say the least. Ed Templeton, Neck Face,Robert Williams, Alex Grey, Clive Barker, HR Giger, Rick Griffin, Daniel Johnston, Aurel Schmidt, Dan Colen, Nate Loman, Phil Frost, DAZE, Todd James, Spencer Sweeney, THE GRIME, Gibby Haynes from Butthole Surfers, Shepard Fairey, Shawn Barber, Peter Beard, Richard Serra, Rita Ackermann, Mike Giant, Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance, Ron English, Camille Rose Garcia, Guy Aitchison, Kim Saigh and Corey Miller of “LA Ink” fame are just a handful of the A-list icons who have delivered original works specifically for DRAW.
Curated by Erik Foss and Curse Mackey, DRAW is the largest exhibit of drawings to emerge out of New York and is currently on a six-country world tour.
Expect serious sensory stimulation and a sensational presentation on Saturday night at Shooting Gallery.
Trine Søndergaard – Monochrome Portraits
Edward Walton
JOHN COPELAND OLD GLORY
Entitled, “Old Glory”, the show makes both oblique and specific reference to
‘American’ experiences. In the paintings, various protagonists play out ‘typical’
scenes that are much more than they first appear.
Many of the source images for Copeland’s paintings are culled from vintage
magazines and found photos – anonymous snapshots that are invariably innocent or
wholesome, but whose neutrality or blandness simultaneously allows the artist to
infuse them with the tone of his choosing.
The paintings depict respectable citizens locked in an indeterminate temporal frame –
somewhere between the demure idyll of the 1950s, and the liberation of societal
strictures in the late 60s and 1970s perhaps. Copeland infiltrates their idealized
world with his aggressive but controlled brushwork, showing the unpalatable
realities of sex and death that they would otherwise fail to acknowledge.
It is possible to discern characters young and old, enacting the various rituals or rites
of passage of everyday life – social gatherings, work and leisure activities, playing,
praying – but their faces and expressions are distorted by swirls of heavy expressive
impasto, heightening the narrative ambiguity, and giving rise to the suspicion that
decency is skin-deep and that subversive forces are at work.
Please contact the gallery for further information.
Pietsch Week
Connexion
Cameron Soren
The Jancar Jones Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibit by San Francisco-based artist Cameron Soren. The exhibit will include works on paper, sound elements and video.
Dominant in Soren’s works are images that are simultaneously dependent and independent of perspectival position. Using the reproduction and reappropriation of images and objects, Soren often removes context and dimension, while repositioning them within an architectural, three-dimensional space, or within a two-dimensional page – drawing becomes video, video becomes sculpture, drawing becomes painting, etc. In so doing, he forces the view away from a single vanishing point and toward a more phenomenological perception.
His subjects, which often make reference to architecture, are informed by a potential dialogue they may have with the space in which they may be installed. Amidst this shapeshifting, the works Soren will present leave traces of their kinetic qualities in spite of their relative stasis.
Soren’s work has been included in shows at Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Soap Gallery and Queen’s Nails Annex in San Francisco, amongst others. He received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.
