From ProductDose:
We went and checked out the opening of the I Am 8 Bit exhibition last night. This group show is the second annual exhibition of ‘80s gaming-inspired art, bringing together over 100 artists in a variety of mediums. The exhibition, co-curated by Jon M. Gibson, is on through May 19 at Gallery Nineteen Eighty Eight in Los Angeles, and if you have any interest in the impact of classic video games on contemporary pop culture, you are going to want to check this show out.
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From Juxtapoz:
Opening night photos from the Art Dorks group show at Toyroom Gallery in Sacramento, CA.
Photos by Mildred
Opening Reception April 14, 2006 – 7pm-Late
Runs thru May 13th, 2006
The Art Dorks… Shawn Barber, Mike Burnett, David Chung, Brendan Danielsson, Mark Elliot, Jad Fair, Robert Hardgrave, Gregory Jacobsen, Travis Louie, Chris Mostyn, Jason Murphy, Jeremy Pruitt, Katie Ridley, Meagan Ridley, Chris Ryniak, Kim Scott, and Johnny Yanok
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From Juxtapoz:
Photos from the opening night of Headache, artwork by John Casey and Lucien Shapiro at Boontling Gallery in Oakland, CA.
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From Dave Silva, Wooster Collective:
“I have dedicated my miserable life to creating these 10 inch monstrosities. I have over 27 variations that continue to grow. I just recently finished a Sleestak Bob. They basically are resin casts of a Bob’s Big Boy restaurant bank that
a friend bought for me a long time ago.(He said it looked like me when I was in Grade school). I cast them and customized them myself. Started of with all 4 band members of KISS and evolved into everything from DEVO-Bob to Osama Bob-Laden. I have a small showing of them here in Orange County ,Ca this month through June at the Kitsch Bar in Costa Mesa”
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From Juxtapoz:
Photos from the opening of Business Minded, a group show at Renowned Gallery in Portland, OR. photos by Cecilia Singer
Group show featuring artwork on business cards by Jeremyville, Lily deSaussure, APAK, Jill Bliss, Kevin Scalzo, Deth P Sun, Luke Ramsey, Ryan Bubnis, Jacob Magraw, Jennifer Jackman, Wilson Hsu, I Like Drawing, Daniel Lim, Omar Lee, Victoria Keddie, Michelle Blade, Marci Washington, Maxwell Holyoke-Hirsch, Kelly Lynn Jones, and many others. @ Renowned Gallery
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From Juxtapoz:
Graham Roumieu is a Toronto-based illustrator whose latest publication ME WRITE BOOK: IT BIGFOOT MEMOIR just came out a couple months ago and is already on its second printing.
Roumieu’s website here.
From Juxtapoz:
Photos from the opening night of Shepard Fairey’s solo show at White Walls Gallery in San Francisco.
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From Juxtapoz, interview with Shepard Fairey:
I feel that I am lucky because I’ve created a formula to which my career as an artist, designer and street artist are able to feed off each other. There are some people that are purists that probably still live with their parents who say if you do street art and commercial art, you’re a sellout, but that is just not a realistic perspective for me.
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From the Guardian, via Wooster Collective:
What is disappointing about the authority’s attitude is that Australia is probably still the only country in the world to have elevated a graffiti writer to the status of national public hero. Arthur Stace was an alcoholic from the slums of Sydney who found God while listening to a Baptist preacher in a hostel in the 1940s and took to writing the word “eternity” on the ground in chalk. He rendered it in meticulous copperplate script more than half a million times across Sydney over the next three decades, becoming an urban legend before his death in 1967 at the age of 83. He has since been honoured by a plaque, a range of council-approved merchandise and was the centrepiece of celebrations when the word “eternity” in his trademark hand was lit up in 100ft-high letters on Sydney harbour bridge to mark the new millennium.
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Deep-Sea Comics, publishers of Reid Fleming, World’s Toughest Milkman, and other comic books by David Boswell.
Reid Fleming, the crazy milkman, is known for the phrases, “I thought I told you to shut up!” and “I am not bald, I get my hair CUT this way!”
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Duplex Planet, where David Greenberger has been asking questions to the elderly for over 25 years. A sample:
WHY IS MUSIC IMPORTANT?
FRANK KANSLASKY: (Laughs) Not to me it ain’t!
LEO GERMINO: Because it’s very, very outstanding. It’s important to make
people feel better, too.
FRANCIS MCELROY: Because it’s the run of the country, and it’s very
popular among all people.
BILL NIEMI: Well, it sort of relaxes a person’s mind.
CHARLES SHEA: Without it there’d be no happiness.
ABE SURGECOFF: It brings melody to the people.
HERMAN SEFTEL: It tunes up the system.
DORA GURKEWITZ: We’re lonely people and we live alone, so we like to have
music.
HENRY TURNER: It soothes the nerves. And it keeps you from getting bored
too. Of course my radio was stolen from me.
HOWARD SHERWOOD: Well, I think it’s a great day starter, starter of the
day. Most people put their radio on and it brightens up the day. If we had
a lot more music and less arguments things would be a lot better – all over
the world. In a lot of these countries you aren’t allowed to put music on.
(from Duplex Planet issue # 97)
From Juxtapoz:
A preview of the work from Shepard Fairey’s upcoming show at White Walls in San Francisco.
We got these examples of the work that will be on display next month. The show opens April 1st, 2006 at White Walls in SF. He’ll have a total of 50 pieces in the show plus a huge wall mural installation. See you there?
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From we make money not art:
The artist has parked six cars outside the synagogue and attached their exhaust pipes to the building using plastic tubes. It is then filled with deadly gas. Visitors are invited to go inside one by one wearing a gas mask, escorted by a firefighter. Before being allowed in, they have to sign a disclaimer stating they realise the room is full of carbon monoxide.
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From hustler of culture:
Reception, Saturday, April 1st, 2006
7pm to 11pm
Runs through, Saturday, April 29th, 2006
White Walls
835 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
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Artist- Michael Slack
Game Art – I am 8 bit
Photography – Preparations for Khmer Rouge trials, Cambodia, by John Vink, Magnum Photos
NYT – The Wild Web of China
