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Keith Haring: 1958 – 1990

“Keith Haring died of AIDS-related illnesses in 1990 at the age of 31. The Keith Haring Foundation was established in 1989 to assist AIDS-related and children’s charities, and maintains the largest resource of archives on the late artist, Keith Haring. Haring’s bold lines and active figures carry poignant messages of vitality and unity. His legacy made an impact on late 20th century art and grants us all a vision for the future.” — haring.com

This 80-foot long artist’s proof currently on display at Pace Prints (NY) looks interesting!

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“The children, aged four to nine, are shameless posing while enjoying their cigarette or cigarillo. So why kids? By portraying adults as children all the attention went to the smoking. An adult would draw too much attention to the portrayed person. Thus these portraits evoke question such as: is the smoking ban the right way to get rid of an absurd addiction and are smokers treated like little kids who can’t make the difference between good and bad?” — juxtapoz.com

I really like these, I know I shouldn’t! Found at Juxtapoz

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New Yorker Susan Hauptman, uses charcoal and pastel to create realistic, stark self portraits.

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Attended

“Highlighting the temporality of everyday existence within this digital age, Ian’s latest body of work questions the purpose of our legacy for future generations. Working with mixed media on canvas, Ian Francis combines abstraction, figuration and elements of both painting and drawing to create distinctly contemporary works.

Through the physical act of painting, Francis digests the torrent of information members of today’s society are constantly confronted with and addresses the detachment that ensues relative to this impending doom of our cultural heritage.” — lazinc.com

Ian’s solo show entitled 10,000 Years From Now, is running at Lazarides Rathbone until May 24th. There are some serious techniques happening in these pieces, that need to be seen in the flesh to appreciate.

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I’m a big fan of this sculpture by Taylor Baldwin, titled “the interpreter”.
It’s been painstakingly constructed from what seems to be pretty much everything under the sun!!

MATERIALS: tinted plexiglass, shellac primer, drywall screws, Hydrocal FGR-95, steel dust, canvas, grommets, polystyrene foam, paper mache, nautical rope, epoxy resin, tin cup, cork, sewing needle, glassine, wire, paint, masonry line, brass, ipe, wood from disassembled pallets, magic sculpt, polyurethane glue, colorant, cast coal, colored plexiglass scraps, cable ties, brass, wood putty, plastic, buffalo horn, ivory.

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Attended

We stumbled across this exhibition purely by accident, and I’m really glad we did!

Crazy Eye Hotel is a new solo show by the multidisciplinary street art collective Broken Fingerz, hailing from Israel. Check it out if you are around Brick Lane, It’s definitely worth ten minutes of your time. Find out more info here.

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Submitted

Recent Works

New solo show by Alex Lukas

Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston

Alex has an exhibition of new drawings showing at the Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston, now through til June 2nd. Works from the show, including a new 12 foot drawing, are online here.

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Attended

The new Hypnagogia exhibition by ROA is split across 2 dedicated spaces
(The Truman Brewery and the Stone Masons on Osborne Street, near Whitechapel); both of which feature an abundance of large scale installations, originals and defaced objects.

To coincide with the exhibition and book launch, ROA has also completed various outdoor pieces across East London.

My first introduction to his work was in New York a few years ago, when I randomly stumbled across him putting up this piece in Williamsburg. As much as I was impressed with what I saw, I never became an avid follower of his work (for whatever reason). This exhibition has sealed the deal for me though, it’s one of the best shows I’ve seen in a long time and totally sets the benchmark for alternative exhibition/gallery formats.

The show runs till the 6th May, for further details check out the StolenSpace website.

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Video

A short process video for ROA’s Hypnagogia show. See a collection of images from our visit here.

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Vancouver based artist Jeff Depner creates some lovely geometric acrylic and oil paintings.

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