Timberland presents a new collaboration with Kinetics a Japanese based store. This time they get together with sneaker store Kinetics on their iconic 6-Inch Premium Boots. Kinetics got inspired by sneaker trends for its take on the winter boot. The waterproof boot received an all red suede upper, matching the tonal red outer sole, eyelets and lacing.
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Consisting of several new paintings and sculptures, “Hoof” will be her first showing of new work with the gallery in nearly four years. Expanding on her language that traditionally highlights misfits, outcasts, and the misunderstood – Schulnik introduces a wild new cast of mythological creatures replete with centaurettes, unicorns, and otherworldly outsiders in various stages of liberation. Continuing her exploration of selfhood through diverse and rich allegories, her new subjects radiate gracefulness that is both vulnerable and stoic—a type of synthesis that is a hallmark in Schulnik’s work.
Not contented by cut and dry narratives that portray notions of empowerment, her characters are complex. Delving into the intricate web of sexuality, Schulnik takes a Henry Darger approach to Disney’s “Fantasia”- with centaurettes reimagining strength and femininity, as well as humanity. In order to create an honest portrait of contemporary liberation, she provides her mythic beings with fear, angst, sadness, and even weakness. Glorious unicorns of questionable gender are imbued with an aura of disheveled majesty – and a new type of hero emerges. Each protagonist is granted their individual physicality, strength, baggage, and personhood – as they also reflect the bewildering concepts of ego and identity. As fictional as these creatures may be, their personification of the untamed make us long for the best, unapologetic versions of our true selves.
Opposite – Centaurette in Forest, 2015
Exhibition runs through to February 20th, 2016
Mark Moore Gallery
5790 Washington Boulevard
Culver City
Los Angeles
CA 90232
On Friday, January 8th, 7pm, Sarah Meyohas will perform at 303 Gallery. Surrounded by blank canvases, Meyohas will discuss financial markets.
Over the next ten days, Tuesdays to Fridays, 1-4pm, Meyohas will trade stocks on the New York Stock Exchange during regular market hours. She will place her trades directly from 303 Gallery. Once she affects a stock’s valuation, Meyohas will announce the change in market capitalization and record the shift with oil stick. Marks will accumulate in a gestural record of the stock s performance. The line, value over time, is an index of her movement, physically in the gallery and virtually in her ownership. Each painting is one of many financial records, but unique as an artwork. Any trade may only result in one painting.
Exhibition runs through to January 30th, 2016
303 GALLERY
507 W 24th Street
New York
NY 10011
The work of Jānis Avotiņš is sourced from 1950’s Soviet propaganda films, post-war national picture books and photographs of poets, artists and intellectuals in the Soviet Union. His paintings awaken a familiar signifier in the collective memory but neutralize emotion through the articulation of what lays in the absent or invisible part of the canvas, which suggests a kind of void. The subjects themselves are a contradiction: although they have nothing to do with the crimes under communism, they still served as model Soviets photographed for propaganda purposes. He goes towards the images that are the loudest and most aggressive in their solemnity and pathos and identifies them as communist tools to inspire the public.
Central to Avotiņš’ technique is the way paint is applied in thin washes of pale, bleached colour overlaid with small alternating brushstrokes. Isolated forms and figures emerge through omission. Whilst some of the artist’s scenes mimic the look of old, Soviet-era photographs, others recall the contemporary appearance of his hometown. Many scenes seem to be part or wholly imagined, dream-like visions of the past, or slowly reconstructed memories of friends, places, events and situations.
The body of work in Since the foundation has a more expressive and stirring quality, something which was avoided in the past. Beyond the historical atmosphere present in his work, there is a longing under the conditions of the decline of Western culture for a general desire of beauty and hope and the rituals leading to it. Each work is articulated in a way that is both ineffable and timeless, rooted in reality but not existing outside of the picture.
Opposite – Untitled , 2015
Exhibition runs through to February 6th, 2016
Ibid.
27 Margaret Street
London
W1W 8RY
Creative collective Ghostly International has teamed up with Brooklyn-based candle makers Joya on a limited edition candle entitled “Invincible Summer.” All made in New York City, the candle features an earthy and bold mixture of red shiso, yen ben lemon, oak leaves, jasmine buds, cyclamen, wild mint, sandalwood, sycamore and pale musk.
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In this continuation of the “Star Wars” saga, balance returns to the Force as the First Order, emerging from the ashes of the Empire, clashes with the Resistance, which includes scrappy newcomers as well as heroes from the former Rebel Alliance.
In theatres December 18th, 2015
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