SKATING POLLY – QUEEN FOR A DAY
2018-02-19Skating Polly “Queen For A Day feat. Exene Cervenka” from their upcoming record “The Make It All Show”
TweetCELLS – IGNITED
2018-02-19This 10.5” glow-in-the-dark vinyl figure is the third edition of this unique sculpture. While Void bursts with an eerie and ominous luminescence, his colorful insides float into the darkness, never to return. Whether you are starting an ignited collection or adding to one, we hope each of the characters in this piece bring a little light into your homes.
CELLS is the first volume in the coarse – Ethos series, which merges coarse’s bright and dark aesthetics in a line of surreal and mysterious sculptures. This is the perfect chance to capture the foundation of this world before these cells vanish into the sky.
Void and his insides come securely packed in a color-printed gift box and embedded in black sponge.
Limited to 234 pieces
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LIU SHIYUAN – ISOLATED ABOVE, CONNECTED DOWN
2018-02-19The exhibition introduces Liu’s latest major works, including a large-scale video installation in the first floor gallery, a series of six photography works in the second floor main gallery and a felt-carpeted room installation in the project space. Together these pieces demonstrate Liu’s core visual vocabulary—which references that of the cyber and the vernacular—and embody her inquiry into the relationship between mass culture, language, identity, and particularly the misconception, miscommunication and hybridization of meaning and discourse.
Exhibition runs through to April 7th, 2018
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
521 West 21st Street
10011 New York
USA
BIRGIT MEGERLE – SOFT POWER
2018-02-19In the context of social debates, ‘soft power’ is usually brought up as an alternative to the hard means of political power. In contrast to the police and military forces, diplomacy is a soft power. But consumption and culture, museums or language schools are institutions of soft power, too. In fact, artists are ‘warriors of soft power’ – an idea that evokes ambivalent feelings.
Every period has its names. Three of the works presented in the exhibition trace back to covers of the magazine Emma, each of which, as it were, indicates the state of the ‘Federal German feminism’ of its time. “C.B.” is based on the earliest cover of 1985, featuring Claire Bretécher, a French satirical cartoonist. The latest cover was published in 2015 and shows a lesbian couple: “Elles”. Somewhere in between lies “Kid Woolf”: Nicole Kidman playing Virginia Woolf in “The Hours”. Together these works span a period of four decades. The signet, which is the female gender symbol, the name of the magazine, and the headlines have all been manipulated; they are either covered by monochrome colour fields or vanished completely. The Emma archive serves as the source of this series; through the digital availability of all issues from 1977 to today, the cover images are linked with the innumerable images of actresses and actors, dating sites, and film stills circulating on the internet, which provide the basis for the personages and subjects of many of the paintings in this exhibition: While in many of her earlier works, Birgit Megerle either portrayed people from her own environment or staged the motifs by herself, the moment of production is now strongly focused on the process of painting itself.
Opposite – RGB Affirmations (Yellow), 2018
Exhibition runs through to March 1st, 2018
Galerie Neu
Linienstraße 119 abc
10115 Berlin
Germany
DESPINA STOKOU – OH, HONEY
2018-02-19Oh, Honey continues Stokou’s exploration of popular culture and political debates as mediated by contemporary public forums. She calls this show “a letter from a (better) future” and pulls together text sources from news articles and Twitter comments to drug prescriptions and hospital bills, creating collaged text and color layers in large format painting structures. Stokou critically examines the conflation of history with trending topics highlighting the fact that while online visibility dictates the public narrative, the needs and rights of large swathes of the population are continuously being overlooked in plain sight.
“You have police killing (black) people left and right, the Muslim ban, transportation, backpedaling on gay and women’s rights; you have people raging against the abuse of power and then you have others going wait what? But All Lives Matter. They just don’t see it. Ignorance, at this point of technology, is a choice. The inherent blind spot of privilege. Can painting make people see? Can art still be relevant in the dumpster fire that is America right now?”
Opposite – RGB Affirmations (Yellow), 2018
Exhibition runs through to April 21st, 2018
Praz-Delavallade
6150 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles
CA 90048
USA
TABITHA SOREN – FANTASY LIFE
2018-02-19In 2002, Tabitha Soren started photographing the new draft picks for the Oakland A’s. In addition to many of those draftees, she followed players from major and minor leagues throughout their careers, photographing their lives in the game as well as personal milestones. Presented by the San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries Art at City Hall program, Fantasy Life features an exhibition of 180 photographs on the ground floor, and nine large-scale banners in the North Light Court featuring tintype images of the SF Giants in action. Soren’s photographs are accompanied by documents ranging from team assignments to first-person narratives from the SF Giants and team members across the country.
Exhibition runs through to March 23rd, 2018
San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries
401 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco
94102 CA
