Susan Cianciolo Opening

Via: Gallery Space 15Twenty

"Susan Cianciolo’s mark defies definition: on one hand, she is a revered fashion designer who happens to make art and on the other, she is a conceptual iconic artist who occasionally designs clothing. Her work regardless of median provokes debate and pushes boundaries of contemporary art and modern fashion.

Gallery Space 15Twenty is proud to present Mountains and Flowers, which further explores Cianciolo’s Wisdom of FlowersCollection (SS10), debuted this past fall in NYC. This exhibition is all cream and white with hints of color and hand-painted flowers, inspired by the studies of flowers at the turn of the century, and also by the natural way indigenous cultures have incorporated flowers. And exclusively to Gallery Space, Cianciolo will be creating a supporting line for the exhibition featuring all sustainable pieces hand made by her and her students. To compliment the exhibition, Cianciolo will be curating a music series featuring her close-knit community of musicians, artists, family and friends."

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Also below is a couple peaks Fashion side of Susan Cianciolo. You may download the .pdf of here. I like how the combination of drawings, paper and photography are collaged together. Each spread blurs the line between product, art and fashion.

Synthetic Voices

Sublime, etherial, and free-spirited photography by Mark Borthwick. He also has a show up in LA.

MARK BORTHWICK
“Love to you and all your loves”
From November 6th, 2009
MAMEG
9970 South Santa Monica Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA 90212

Clark Goolsby

Check out some very colorful, nicely composed mixed media work from Los Angeles based Artist Clark Goolsby. He currently has work up in a group show titled "The Pop of Colors" at POV Evolving Gallery in Chinatown, Los Angeles. Other artists included are Amir H. Fallah, Stella Lai, Mark Schoening and Mike Swaney, Jessalyn Haggenjos, and Jason Redwood.

On the Road

I've always been a big Jack Kerouac fan and also a follower of the work of Ed Ruscha. I heard about this project a couple months ago and I was very anxious to see it materialize. From the Gagosian gallery website:

The original novel was published in 1957 and it's about a group of crazy young people who just travel back and forth across the United States. Sometimes they hitch-hike and sometimes they drive cars. They steal cars and just want to be on the road the whole time. I've always liked that notion.

--Ed Ruscha

In 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road on his typewriter as a continuous 120 foot-long scroll, feverishly recording in twenty days his experiences during road trips in the United States and Mexico, which he began with Neil Cassady in the late 1940s. On the Road was finally published in 1957, and Kerouac was immediately acknowledged as the voice of the Beat Generation, a new group of writers, including Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, who became known for their embracing of radical free-verse style.

Ed Ruscha's singular art has recorded the shifting emblems of American life in the form of Hollywood logos, stylized gas stations, and archetypal landscapes. His wry choice of words and indirect phrases mines the perpetual interplay between language as a physical thing and language as a transparent medium. During the sixties, he created a series of cheaply printed photographic books as deadpan meditations on the romantic vision of the road epitomized by the Beats. His typologies of the urban environment of Los Angeles included Twenty-six Gasoline Stations (1963) and Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966). In Royal Road Test (1967), he brought the word and the road together in a conceptual prank by documenting himself dropping a vintage typewriter from a speeding Buick.

Over the last couple of years, Ruscha has turned his attention to On the Road, resulting in his own version of Kerouac's Beat bible. Kerouac's entire text appears accompanied by black and white photographic illustrations that Ruscha has either taken himself, commissioned from other photographers, or selected from found images to refer closely to the details and impressions that the author describes, from car parts to jazz instruments, from sandwich stacks to tire burns on a desert road.

Coinciding with "Ed Ruscha : Fifty Years of Painting" at the Hayward Gallery in London, Gagosian is pleased to present an exhibition of selected illustrated spreads from this special version of On the Road, along with a bound copy of the limited-edition book.

On the Road is published by Gagosian Gallery and Steidl. The leather-bound book comprises 228 pages, signed and numbered by the artist in an edition of 350 and presented in a slip-case.

Cross Sections

"Brad Eberhard is a painter’s painter, exploring the boundless potential of image making in the medium of abstraction. Working with great facility using oil and acrylic and paper, Eberhard’s new works on paper straddle the boundaries between painting, drawing and collage. The compositions begin in the spirit of organic evolution; as with his paintings, the artist incorporates found images, tearing and erasing in an organic fashion. In much the same way as a draftsman’s or biologist’s “cross section” exposes the invisible networks of a more complex system, Eberhard’s aim is to begin to expose not only something unseen by the viewer, but also to illustrate connections between the works. The collages are playful, serious, complex and simple, portraying beauty and conceptual depth with great confidence."

(From the Press release from Thomas Solomon Galery.)

Brad Eberhard - CROSS SECTIONS

Thomas Solomon Gallery

October 17 – November 14, 2009

Reception for the Artist: Saturday October 17, 2009 6:00 – 8:00 PM

Chinese Box

Paul Sietsema , Collection, 2009

Amanda Ross-Ho , “Double Negative Carrier (Cornucopia)”, 2009

Kaari Upson, Untitled, 2009

Overduin and Kite presents “Chinese Box,” a group exhibition featuring: Artists: Trisha Donnelly, Vincent Fecteau, Barry Johnston, Seth Price, Amanda Ross-Ho, Paul Sietsema, Kaari Upson

"The exhibition title refers to John Searle’s symbol processing machine model (1980): the Chinese box, or Chinese room. Searle’s argument addresses the distinction between processing information and understanding, emphasizing that highly intuitive or nuanced ideas cannot be communicated through a fixed system. Rather than functioning as a key or umbrella for the works in the show, the title sits alongside the artworks as another point of information to be considered with the works. It can also be read as relating to the gallery and the situation it sets up between the viewer/visitor and the object of contemplation. The title also refers to the ornamental boxes whose form supersedes any contents the box might hold."

Venue: Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles

Exhibition Title: Chinese Box

Date: October 4 - October 31, 2009

Maryam Nassir Zadeh Gallery

There are some really unique and interesting works of art and jewelry at the gallery of Maryam Nassir Zadeh. I am especially fond of the sculptures of Phillip Low maybe even more so the photography of them. No more info on him however.