This past weekend, apocalyptic artist Josh Keyes exhibited a new series of provocative paintings for his first solo show at Jonathan Levine Gallery. Building upon his “signature aesthetic” the artist’s work continues to evolve as he depicts “wildlife species isolated within habitats that foreshadow a theoretically dystopian fate.” Not to mention they just look cool!
Fragment, Jan. 16 – Feb. 13, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York
Artist James Marshall, better known as Dalek, opened an exhibition at Jonathan Levine Gallery over the weekend. His second solo show with the Chelsea gallery, “And There Was War In Heaven” is another milestone in the North Carolina-based artist’s departure from a decade’s worth of street art symbology. Now completely devoid of the iconic Space Monkey character, Marshall’s paintings continue playing with new signature elements, creating colorfully stylized, kaleidoscopic compositions.
“And There Was War In Heaven,” December 12 – January 9, 2010, Jonathan Levine Gallery, 529 West 20th Street, 9th Floor
Post-apocalyptic animal antagonizer Josh Keyes is opening an solo exhibition at Chelsea’s Jonathan Levine Gallery. The artist recently unveiled a couple paintings for the show: “Lifted,” an eagle tormenting a depressed Grizzly and “Howl I,” a wooden elk burping up leaves. “Fragment” will open January 16th through February 13th at 529 West 20th Street, 9th Floor.
Images via Josh Keyes
UK-based street artist D*Face is showing off a scrambled series of works at his first solo show in the States. “Ludovico Aversion Therapy / All Your Dreams Belong To Us” opens tomorrow night at Chelsea’s Jonathan Levine Gallery and as the title suggests, features paintings crammed with mixed and matched comics, cash, and corporate logos. The billboard hijacking artist describes it as “a visual interpretation of lucid dreams—the replaying, disassembly and reconfiguring of images” infecting his mind. The show opens on September 12 and runs through October 10th at 529 West 20th Street, 9th Floor. Read more »
Tomorrow night, Jonathan Levine Gallery hosts a round of “Beach Blanket Bingo” in Chelsea. The summer mixer/group show features the works of more than 30 artists, a mix of locals, out-of-towners, new jacks and gallery alumni including BAST, Andrew Foster, AJ Fosik, Dan Witz, Elbow Toe, Korin Faught, Skinner, Ron English, Anthony Lister and Natalia Fabia among others. The show opens from 6 to 8 PM and is on view through August 22nd at 529 West 20th Street, 9th Floor. Read more »
Over the weekend, Rubik’s cube twiddling artist Invader opened his latest show at Jonathan Levine Gallery in Chelsea. Entitled “Top 10,” the exhibition featured the Parisian street artist’s favorite album covers rendered by nearly $5k worth of his signature plastic toy puzzles. Check out a sampling of the work after the jump or see the show in person through July 25th at 529 West 20th Street, 9th Floor. Related: video of the Rubik’s cube pieces under construction. Read more »
Working in a strict color palette of black and white, street artist WK Interact paints and installs large murals and wheat paste portraits characterized by their movement and gritty texture that graffiti writers love to paint over. On June 27th, the New York based French artist opens “Motion Portrait,” an exhibition of his distorted street installations alongside looser six-foot square face paintings he made with a sponge and big brush. The show opens from 7 to 9 PM in Jonathan LeVine Gallery and is on view through July 25th at 529 West 20th Street, 9th floor.
In anticipation of a solo show opening later this month, Space Invader released this timelapse video of his image making process through “rubikcubism,” the self-started “early 21st-century movement in fine art which use Rubik’s cubes to create pieces of art.” The show, Top 10, opens on June 26 from 7 to 9 PM at Jonathan Levine Gallery in Chelsea and will be on view through July 25.
“The Atlas of Anatomy,” Varnished Digital Ultrachrome on Panel, Image size: 16×20 inches
From now through July 26, you can see new work from artist Ray Caesar on view at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York City: “In the Garden of Moonlight.” Using a 3D modeling program called Maya, Caesar creates strange portals into weird otherworlds: “He has compared working in this software to the experience of lucid dreaming, as in both situations, one has the ability to control and manipulate a simulated reality.” The freakishly detailed digital subjects in his work were partly inspired by the years he spent working as a photographer at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, where he lives, and partly by the fact that he was born a dog, according to his bio. And if you happen to have an extra $10,000 to $20,000 lying round, you can buy one.
Fresh off the heels of creating some “Hope” for Barack Obama, The Date Farmers are having their first solo exhibition in NY at at Jonathan LeVine. The dynamic LA-based duo of Armando Lermo and Carlos Ramirez are showcasing a collaborative series featuring collages, painting, and ink drawings on a variety of discarded mediums: signs, wood, cardboard, and corrugated sheet metal. The use of found objects as a preferred medium also touches on their overall theme of environmenalism. The exhibit, dubbed “The Crying Playboy,” explores immigration and other political matters affecting not only Chicanos, but also pale faces too. It opens this Saturday, April 5, 7PM-9PM. The exhibit runs through May 3, 2008.
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