Vans has dropped a “silver pack” using the Slip-On and the Classic models, the sneakers sport leather uppers sitting above the classic Doren sole finished in a tone-on-tone silver coating. Details of white make its way throughout the shoes via the laces and the heel patch, while a deviation of color appears through the way of the ubiquitous waffle underside.
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Painting onto pieces of salvaged scrap wood (sometimes on both sides), Lynch depicted birds, animals, blossoming branches, waterfalls, Chinese vases, statuettes and landscapes. The artist’s loaded, seemingly spontaneous brushstrokes betray his investment in Chinese and Japanese painting but also evoke his American roots. His gestures combine a dry lambent brush and thick pasty paint, which confidently flows as Lynch is evidently caught up in the passion of depicting his visions. The moiré woodgrain on the rough boards are often absorbed into his compositions, becoming a still body of water or suggesting a moving sky. Knots and grain in the wood seem to inspire the superimposition of moons, mushrooms, flowers or vessels.
Lynch excelled not only at painting, but also in drawings that will be presented alongside each other in this exhibition at The Approach. Small studies in Conté pencil on paper of nesting and flying birds, a pair of hands at a piano, trees and wildflowers emphasise the great tenderness and sensitivity with which Lynch treated his beloved subject matter.
Opposite – No title, n.d.
Exhibition runs from January 7th – February 25th, 2018
The Approach
1st Floor, 47 Approach Road
Bethnal Green
E2 9LY London
Displacement introduces ten epic paintings that address the implication of urgent, radical viewpoints from digital and print sources that reflect the nation’s current political and larger global psyche. Opening precisely one year after the election of Donald Trump, this is the first complete body of work by the artist to address the significant shifts of our time.
This fully conceived monographic exhibition takes a sweeping, wide angle view of the post-truth, zero sum ideology so profoundly impacting our society. The “post-truth” American landscape can be applied to all of the ten works in the exhibition and continues as a central theme for the artist. A spectrum of topics as diverse as: the marketability of “fake news” by the alt-right, the question of the citizen in relation to the dispossessed, tech’s monopoly in global business and social media, financial hacking, political interference, the Republican conservative agenda, the Second Amendment, global warming, entertainment and television, racism and the sexist backlash are all topics or related departure points presented in these paintings. In confronting this, the paintings in this exhibition meditate on the collective trauma in many forms, and engage in a call to action.
Opposite – Picnic, 2017
Exhibition runs through to January 20th, 2018
Elizabeth Dee
2033/2037 Fifth Avenue
NY 10035
New York
Long-time Amsterdam selector and digger Ouvrijster goes legit on Sleazy Beats Black Ops new label Make Believe Disco with three immaculate slices of glitterball deep house. “Lazarus” is a sprightly piece of Farina-level jazzy magic with persistent keys and subtle dub effects, “Mostly You” ups the jack factor with layers of hypnotic rippling washes and “Flamboyant” dims the lights with a sultry, loopy groove and the perfect balance of cosmic flare.
TweetTom Blip of Balamii Radio/Blip Discs delivers this new two track 12” on his own label, following up his ‘endlessly repressed’ 2015 banger Wrong Guanco. Tight drum programming, mild euphoria and slight throwbacks to early 2000s electro/house are on the A sides agenda here and Tom manages to deliver it well. The flip is more of a disco influenced affair with a pretty strong string arrangement and has been garnering quite a bit of high profile DJ support.
TweetErrázuriz is one of Chile’s most internationally recognised photographers. Famous for her photographs which captured life in Chile under Pinochet, the self-taught artist focuses her lens on subjects at the periphery or transgressions of society – the homeless, old, infirmed, or, in her most famous series, La Manzana de Adán (Adam’s Apple), male prostitutes and transvestites. ‘They are topics that society doesn’t look at, and my intention is to encourage people to dare to look’. (Errázuriz)
For this exhibition, we shall be exhibiting a rarely seen series of work. Entitled El Circo (Circus), it captures another group at the margins, circus workers, offering a back door view of the life of the circus. Errázuriz started the series in 1984 and over the following five years she lived for long periods with the members of the itinerant circus caravans that are depicted in the photographs. This embedded way of working, where the artist is not an observer but rather an active part of the group she is capturing, on the inside, has often been repeated in later series of works by the artist and is fundamental to her practice. It represents her approach of dignifying her subjects, rather than objectifying them. The series consists of 28 images and this is the first time that it will be exhibited in its entirety.
Opposite – Miss Piggy, 1984
Exhibition runs through to January 19th, 2018
Cecilia Brunson Projects
Royal Oak Yard
Bermondsey Street
London
SE1 3GD
www.ceciliabrunsonprojects.com
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