JACK WHITTEN

Posted on 2021-05-03

Consisting of rarely seen paintings, sculpture and works on paper, the exhibition highlights a selection of works from the 1960s through 2010s. Blurring the boundaries between sculpture and painting, and between the artist’s studio and the world outside, the multidimensional paintings on view combine geometric abstraction and found objects to mine spiritual and metaphysical thematic veins. Works on paper emphasize the artist’s playfulness and improvisational skill in searching for his own special visual language, a testament to his commitment to drawing as a means to make manifest his ideas and advance his methods. Together, the works on view reveal an artist of extraordinary sensitivity, capable of imbuing modernist abstraction with the vibrations of historical narratives and bringing the spiritual and material realms into alignment.

Opposite – Windows Of The Mind: A Monument Dedicated To The Power Of Painting! – 1995

Exhibition runs through to July 31st, 2021

Hauser & Wirth
15-16/F, H Queen’s
80 Queen’s Road Central
999077 Hong Kong

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J HOUSTON – TUCK AND ROLL

Posted on 2021-05-03

This desire to find a place to belong can be greatly complicatedby being a Trans or Queer person. As a photographer, J Houston has harnessedthe large-format camera’s ability to take the raw material of the world andcreate a place all their own. In the pictures, being Trans and Queer is thedefault, where there is no struggle for acceptance, just the ease with whichthe subjects welcome the camera into their intimate spaces, creating room forthe artist and by extension the viewer.

The people in Houston’s pictures exist in settings that could be anywhere, witheveryday objects like yoga balls, seat cushions and carpeting that seem tingedwith magic and heightened importance. Houston’s pictures come alive in themundaneness of the portrait subjects’ everyday emotions, romance, solitude,dignity, sadness, vulnerability, pleasure. It is the drama of a sharedhumanity, the little building blocks of experience, that create a community inthe pictures. Images, which in their making involved meeting, getting to knowand becoming part of subjects’ lives form a small Trans-Queer utopia thatmanifest from the art into the world.

Exhibition runs through to May 30th, 2021

THE JAVA PROJECT
252 Java Street
Broklyn
NY 11222

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KENNER CLASSICS – PROTOTYPE BOBA FETT

Posted on 2021-05-03

In celebration of May the 4th aka Star Wars Day, Hasbro has brought back its iconic rainbow Boba Fett prototype figure from its Kenner Classics range.

For those unfamiliar, prior to the original launch of Kenner’s 3.75-inch scale Boba Fett figure decades ago, toy designers had to first create a prototype to make sure all the dimensions fit correctly. Instead of using the high-quality plastic you’d usually make the final product out of, the team would simply use whatever scrap plastic was lying around in order to keep costs and waste low. The result was the rainbow Boba Fett toy you see above, carrying different, extremely vibrant colors across his limbs and body as well as his emblematic thruster pack and rocket launcher.

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ADIDAS ORIGINALS X LEGO ZX 8000 BRICKS COLLECTION

Posted on 2021-05-03

The LEGO x adidas ZX 8000 “Bricks” is offered in primary LEGO colors of red, green, yellow, blue, black, and gray. Based on the original ZX 8000, each iteration boasts classic construction, with uppers comprised of textile materials and mesh overlays, paired with a TPU and synthetic suede heel cap to reimagine the texture of LEGO bricks.

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PICTURING THE AVANT-GARDE

Posted on 2021-05-03

Featuring photographs by: Jaime Aelavanthara, Keliy Anderson-Staley, Patrick Scott Bell , Diana Bloomfield, Jillian Marie Browning, Kimberly Chiaris, Karen Hymer, Rachel Wolf.

Picturing the Avant-Garde aims to broaden the interpretation of photographic imagery beyond traditional printing. The works included in this exhibition explore the conceptual potentiality of various alternative and experimental photographic processes such as gum prints, tin types, chemigrams, cyanotypes, gold orotypes, and lumen prints among others.

Opposite – Jaime Aelavanthara, A Wing Lifted, With No Twin, and Therefore, No Flight, 2021

Exhibition runs through to June 12th, 2021

Southeast Museum of Photography
1200 W. International Speedway Blvd
Daytona Beach
FL 32114

southeastmuseumofphotography.org

  

GILBERT & GEORGE – THE PARADISICAL PICTURES

Posted on 2021-05-03

The pictures show Gilbert & George wandering through paradisiacal natural worlds filled with mostly expressionistically-hued fruits, flowers, leaves, and trees. Each one is
a cosmos in itself; together they form a spectacular vision of paradise that is at once lush and fantastic, with hallucinatory and psychedelic elements.
Some works find the artists symbiotically merging with the natural world. BEDWETTING and CURL feature their disembodied eyes, noses, and mouths emerging ghost-like from layers of leaves to gaze piercingly at the viewer. In other pictures, they move-sometimes awkwardly dance-through sumptuous landscapes, as in DATE STONES or TENDER, for example. DATE STONE HEADS and DATE HEADS show Gilbert & George becoming part of the plant kingdom themselves, here in the form of dates and date stones bearing their facial features. The choice of fruit is significant: While dates are associated with sensuality and are said to boost both libido and sexual desire, date stones have a look reminiscent of human excrement and feces. The artist duo has already addressed such socially taboo aspects of being human in their NAKED SHIT PICTURES (1994).

Opposite – TENDER, 2019

Exhibition runs through to August 25th, 2021

Sprüth Magers
Oranienburger Straße 18
D-10178 Berlin
Germany

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