Juxtapoz recently announced our very special July issue dedicated to contemporary Brazilian art. To coincide with our Brazil Issue, Upper Playground is giving away a paid trip to São Paulo, Brazil! Read all that the trip includes here…
San Francisco’s own Jeremy Fish (Juxtapoz cover #71) just wrapped up the latest adornment to FIFTY24SF Gallery’s exterior. As if you needed yet another reason to hit up one of the best galleries in San Francisco, Mister Fish just gave you a stunning new mural as added incentive. Peep it for yourself at 252 Fillmore Street.
The New Utopia opens this Saturday, June 27 at Los Angeles’ Subliminal Projects, offering multiple representations of utopias from a diverse group of creatives: artists, designers, writers, musicians, publishers and other visionaries who are currently reshaping our culture. Curated by Studio Number One, this exhibition is the second installment of the Gallery’s annual Park Life series, bringing diverse talent together for a moment in space and time. Catch a special show preview here…
TITLE: Firework Drawing #7 Lit firework residue on paper, 65 3/4 x 82 1/2 in. 2009
ARTIST: Rosemarie Fiore
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This Saturday night marks the only Southern California release of the brand new SHIGE book, a 328 page full color collection covering the life’s work of one of Japan’s foremost tattoo talents- SHIGE. The book comes complete with a forward from Horiyoshi III. SHIGE will be limited to 1000 First Edition hard covers, and there will only be 350 released in the entire US. More here…
Gary Baseman has just released new beautiful works of art that offer a mixture of Baseman’s contemporary art and an homage to the costume masks of yesteryear. Vacuum-form masks, all hand painted, feature the Enlightened Chou, the central figure in Baseman’s most recent exhibition La Noche de la Fusion at Corey Helford Gallery. If you were not fortunate enough to win one at the amazing opening event for this show, now’s your chance to own a piece of this historic exhibition. More here…
"One major recent acquisition is Hank Willis Thomas’ series Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America," writes the Brooklyn Museum. "The whole series consists of 82 images, two for each year from 1968 to 2008, and the acquisition includes half of the series: one image from each year the series covers." More info and video here…
Tara McPherson continues blogging away about her travels in Europe, as part of her summer book signing tour. Week two was jam-packed with travels all over France. "Why is everyone so awesome?!" the artist writes. "The past week has been filled with adventure after adventure… and a jam packed one with 4 cities in one week! I left London on the Eurostar and was off to Paris." Read and see more from Tara here…
Anatomy of Being is the next solo show from Alex Grey at Meta Gallery — his first showing in Canada in over 20 years. The show embodies a broad spectrum of the inner and outer worlds Grey depicts through work produced between 1999‐2009. “With a career going back over 3 decades, Alex Grey’s paintings represent a bold and courageous statement in contemporary art today, one where despite the collective struggle of humanity and the tremendous amounts of suffering occurring on a daily basis, good does in fact exist.” More here…
Follow us now as we take an educated look at a the latest body of work from Hugh Brown, Grammy Award winning designer and Creative Director of Rhino Records. This latest solo exhibition at Cal State’s tastemaker museum exhibition space, Grand Central Art Center, features a rather fascinating and controversial collection. Curious? So are we. More here…
