DIANE ARBUS

Posted on 2011-10-31

In this first major retrospective in France, Jeu de Paume presents a selection of two hundred photographs that affords an opportunity to explore the origins, scope, and aspirations of a wholly original force in photography. It includes all of the artist’s iconic photographs as well as many that have never been publicly exhibited. Even the earliest examples of her work demonstrate Arbus’s distinctive sensibility through the expression on a face, someone’s posture, the character of the light, and the personal implications of objects in a room or landscape. These elements, animated by the singular relationship between the photographer and her subject, conspire to implicate the viewer with the force of a personal encounter.

Exhibition runs through to February 5th, 2012

Jeu de Paume
1, place de la Concorde
75008
Paris

www.jeudepaume.org

  

ANDREW SALGADO – ANXIOUS

Posted on 2011-10-31

This is Andrew Salgado’s first solo exhibition in New York City, sees the artist drawing upon historic masculine portraiture handled with an experimental, painterly sensibility, suggesting themes of displaced identity and an overriding technical love for the medium. Salgado’s paintings are an exploration of the concept of masculine identity through an assertive, gestural approach to figurative representation.

The works reference Classical archetypes found in figurative masculine portraiture, while prioritizing a disregard for what Salgado views as the ‘parameters’ of figurative painting; Salgado himself recounts artists as diverse as Caravaggio, Veronese, Bjarne Melgaard, Francis Bacon, and Daniel Richter as influences. As a result, the works resonate with a frenetic, nearly schizophrenic energy, suggesting both a serene recollection of memory and convalescence (a number of the works feature mouthless boys, perhaps suggesting Salgado’s victimization in a 2008 hate-crime assault in which he lost his teeth,) but move beyond mere solipsism in favor of metaphor, narrative and aggressive, abstract brushwork.

Opposite – The Patience, 2011

Exhibition runs through to November 18th, 2011

Tache Gallery
547 W 27 Street No.602
New York
NY 10001

www.tachegallery.com

  

MARA DE LUCA – SALTUS FIDEI | LEAP OF FAITH

Posted on 2011-10-31

Titled the Sipario series (Italian for theatrical curtain or scrim), Mara De Luca’s exciting new paintings are a reflection on a contemporary sublime that is profound in its absolute superficiality and theatricality. The Sipario paintings are inspired by the aesthetic and emotional experience of daily life in Los Angeles, a city of visual contrasts and contradictions: stunning natural beauty coexisting in a cultural climate of facile content, saturated digital aesthetics and air-brushed, synthetic effects. The works address the existential through a romanticized and hyper-analog translation of digital media and contemporary imaging tropes particular to mass media and visual culture.

In the Sipario paintings, constructed landscape and atmospheric imagery present a mirroring of process and content – their exaggerated artifice reveals and disguises the processes by which they have been made, and a relationship between picture and craft is evident. Ranging in color from bright, glowing artificial to a natural and grayscale palette, the picture planes are vast and vacuous, evoking the emotional emptiness of unflinchingly optimistic, success-oriented Hollywood values and self-improvement ideology. Iconographic elements – appearing as recurring texts, rainbows, moon and stars – point to themes of faith, hope and desire. Visual “faith”, or suspension of disbelief, is required of the viewer throughout and is a thematic thread connecting the diverse works.

Opposite – Odette, 2010

Exhibition runs through to November 18th, 2011

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
2685 S. La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles
CA 90034

www.luisdejesus.com

  

RYAN MCLENNAN – ABOMINATIONS

Posted on 2011-10-31

McLennan’s acrylic and graphite on paper works depict the animal kingdom exclusively. But don’t be surprised if the subjects’ “bad behavior” has an uncanny familiarity. Though the birds, snakes, rodents, and elk carry the authenticity of a dedicated naturalist and master draftsman, their actions are pure allegory for human motives and behavior, some of it of the worse sort. Without resorting to anthropomorphizing these four-legged, winged, or slithering creatures, McLennan transposes human motives onto carefully researched animal behavior, and in the process he reveals just how common those links may be.

Abominations takes up universal questions, such as speculating on the existence of God and what it means to be moral. In the large work The Immortal, an elk with an impressive rack is pinned by a tree branch into a peculiar, torture-like pose against a white background. On and about him are smaller creatures, hummingbirds and rats, that appear to relish in the great beast’s suffering. Or perhaps they’re merely rubbernecking, taking in the tragic fall of the mighty with relief but also a little schadenfreude.

Opposite – Fit for the Table, 2011

Exhibition runs through to November 18th, 2011

Joshua Liner Gallery
548 West 28th Street
3rd Floor
New York
NY 10001

joshualinergallery.com

  

ORIGINAL FAKE X PEANUTS SNOOPY T-SHIRT

Posted on 2011-10-31

With the Snoopy ‘Kaws Version’ vinyl toy, Original Fake and Peanuts also present a Halloween t-shirt for Holiday 2011. The t-shirt comes in three colorways and will be released along with the toy on October 31th, 2011.

www.peanuts.com
www.original-fake.com

  

DAVID LYNCH FOR SUPREME T-SHIRT COLLECTION

Posted on 2011-10-31

Supreme will be releasing five new t-shirt designs. The group will include two Tees from film Director David Lynch. Mr Lynch is an artist and the Director of such films as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, and Mulhulland Drive, amongst many others. Included in the group is a drawing from Mr. Lynch, as well as a still from the film Blue Velvet.

The release will also include an original Tee from Harmony Korine for Supreme.

davidlynch.com
www.supremenewyork.com