DJ SHADOW – CORRIDORS
2017-07-24From The Mountain Has Fallen EP featuring Nas, Danny Brown, and Steven Price.
TweetTHE WALL
2017-07-24The Wall is a deadly psychological thriller that follows two soldiers pinned down by an Iraqi sniper, with nothing but a crumbling wall between them. Their fight becomes as much a battle of will and wits as it is of lethally accurate marksmanship. Directed by Doug Liman (Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Bourne Identity, Live Die Repeat (Edge of Tomorrow)), The Wall stars Golden Globe winner Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Nocturnal Animals, Kick-Ass, Savages, Godzilla, Avengers: Age of Ultron) and WWE star John Cena (Trainwreck, Daddy’s Home).
In theatres July 28th, 2017
TweetKEVIN HORAN – CHATTEL
2017-07-24If the photographer’s ungulate neighbors came to the studio and asked to have their portraits made, this is what would happen.
Treated as portrait subjects, they seem to have personalities. Perhaps
they do, and the photograph allows us to see them. Or perhaps the language of the photo cues us to generate the impression of a personage. One wonders if that interplay is any different here than it is in pictures of humans. This is a work about portraiture: what it does and how it works. I’ve made portraits of people for manyyears, and the chemistry of it is still mysterious. I am used to telling subjects that a good portrait is collaboration between photographer and subject. But how do you collaborate with a goat? A goat you’ve just met?
These pictures insist upon a active engagement of our own feelings about the souls within other beings, human or otherwise, and how visible they are from out here. If we are paying attention to our own responses, we must grapple with the cause of our response; Theory A: these creatures have the light of sentience inside, and I am connecting with it. Theory B: the application of the tradition of photographic portraiture – the lighting, pose, background – nudges us into a anthropomorphic comfort zone.
Kevin Horan
Exhibition runs through to July 29th, 2017
Pictura Gallery
122 W Sixth Street
Bloomington
47404 IN
NOAH – SMOKEY THE BEAR COLLECTION
2017-07-24As climate change affects us globally, NY’s Noah has created a capsule of items that helps spread the message of how our actions can affect the environment with Smokey The Bear’s message gracing caps, tees and hoodies.
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PORTIA ZVAVAHERA – I’M WITH YOU
2017-07-24Indigenous and imported printmaking techniques have an important historical presence in the region and play a major role in Zvavahera’s work. In addition to the artist’s expressionistic brushstroke, Zvavahera employs a sophisticated multi layered process using oil based printer’s ink, oil bar and incorporating collagraph blockprints into the painting process to build intricate patterns across and within her forms. References and influences from Klimt, Schiele, Munch, and Bacon to textile patterns popular in Harare fashion magazines can be seen in the patterned fields of voluminous clouds of traditional garments enveloping the bodies.
Zvavahera’s work is deeply personal, and dreams are integral to her creative practice in combination with women’s roles, bodies and issues and reflections of personal relationships. The work is firmly located in Zvavahera’s region, culture, and political and economic concerns; however, her sophisticated and bold aesthetic connects the work universally in an undeniably powerful way.
Opposite – Gara Neni (Stay with Me), 2017
Exhibition runs through to July 29th, 2017
Marc Foxx
6150 Wilshire Boulevard
CA 90048
Los Angeles
