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Pop Rocks – StupidKrap Group Show @ Urban Uprising
James Jirat Patradoon
StupidKrap claims to be a website that sells art n’ shit. We’re fairly sure everyone who has any interest in the Australian urban art scene knows that it is so much more than that. StupidKrap is an army, recruiting it’s pick of artists from across the country. Pop Rocks is this year’s demonstration of their front line. (more…)
Posted in Opening (old) | 2 Comments »Magic Eyes – James Ettelson [China Heights]
when: Friday 27 August 2010. 6pm-9pm. Exhibition until 29 August.
cost: free + climbing stairs.
where: China Heights Gallery. L3 16-28 Foster St, Surry Hills.
from China Heights Gallery:
China Heights is proud to present ‘Magic Eyes’, a collection of paintings by James Ettelson, inspired by pop art, traditional Aboriginal art and the engaging nature of the Magic Eye.
Using acrylics and mixed mediums, Ettelson has combined the colour and vibrance of pop art, with the complexity, fluidity and stippling technique of traditional Aboriginal art. As a result, he has mirrored the absorbing complexion of a Magic Eye, and created a very unique set of works.
As apposed to using a standard stereogram process of moderately distorting a repeated, horizontal pattern to create the illusion of depth; Ettleson has applied visible depth within his paintings by applying layer upon layer of paint and pattern.
Ettelson’s intentions are to create works which an audience does not grow tired of viewing; and so, has produced works so involved that the longer you look, the more you see. With each fresh view the works transform, and the observer is exposed to something entirely different.
de Mexico – Lance Richards [China Heights]
when: Friday 6 August 2010. 6pm-9pm. Exhibition until August 8.
cost: free.
where: China Heights Gallery. L3 16-28 Foster St, Surry Hills.
Shannon Crees + Anthony Bartok + Justin Feuerring + Marie Larkin + Marcus Marritt +Rhianna Griffith [Global Gallery]
when: Opening night Wednesday 4 August 2010, 6-8pm. Exhibition continues until Sunday 15 August 2010.
cost: Free:
where: Global Gallery, 5 Comber Street, Paddington.
What a line up!!
We suggest you check out Global Gallery’s Website for details on all of the artists.
Shannon Crees’ Facebook Invite can be found here
Eat Your Art – Sensation Series: Taste [PolyMorph Art Gallery]
when: Opening night Tuesday 3 August 2010, from 7:30 – 9pm. Exhibition continues until Sunday August 29 2010.
cost: Free.
where: PolyMorph Art Gallery, 7/82 Enmore Road, Newtown.
From PolyMorph Art Gallery:
Our sense of Taste can be interpreted in many different ways- it relates not only to what we sense with our tongue but also to our aesthetic tastes in art, decorating, music and people. In this way taste is really about what we consume on many different levels, the clothes we wear and the art we buy.
We as a people, a culture and a community constantly consume, whether it be food, natural resources, land or last weeks Das Superpaper. Our world and community is based around contentions to do with consumption as it is the key to both our survival and our destruction. Debates rage on our use of earth’s resources and the fundamental pace of our consumption; consuming is an issue all of humanity has an opinion about.
Of course, our art reflects this. Postmodern Art has been defined as “pastiche” – blank parody, appropriation and conflation between high and low cultures is the logos for what art has supposedly “become”. Thus art is now an issue of consumption, as Brener’s graffiti of Malevich’s work and Damien Hirst’s For the Love of God so clearly express. We equate Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup with advertising, we buy copious cheap prints of Van Gogh and Mondrian; art celebrated for it “originality”. The endless consumption of old imagery to create new meaning has become a kind of cultural cannabalism- something that instead of drawing deeper understanding is concerned with pointing out a lack of meaning to begin with.
As the finale of Polymorph Art Gallery’s ‘Sensation Series’, ‘Eat Your Art’ will be a night of consumptive hedonistic excess. Work concerning the notion of appropriation and pastiche, that deals with rehashing images or logos, art as a consumable commodity, humanities consumption in general, and even art that is in fact edible will all be on display!
Artists Include:
Grace Kingston
Beth Dillon
Troy Hammerton
Caryn Griffin
Isaac Graves
Lleah Smith
Joseph Angert-Quilter
and many more…
Isla de las Munecas [Storm Gallery]
when: Opening night Monday 2 August 7 – 10:30pm.
cost: Free.
where: Storm Gallery, 65-67 Foveaux Street, Surry Hills.
From Storm:
In 2007 photographer David Maurice Smith’s exploratory travels of Mexico City led him to a secret landscape of rural canals and jungled canopy where a dark world awaited: the Isla de las Munecas, the Island of the Dolls.
Legend states that many years ago a peasant farmer named Don Julian sought to appease the spirit of a young girl that tragically drowned in the dark waters of a nearby canal by presenting the spirit with an offering… a child’s doll.
The appeasement worked, however the spirits appetite for dolls grew and Julian became forced to scour the countryside for more and more offerings. He became obsessed with the collection of the figures, dedicating all of his limited resources to growing the bizarre collection until his death.
As a disturbing testament to both the spirit of a young girl and the commitment of a god fearing man, a morbid yet beautiful monument of literally thousands of dolls in various states of decay and infestation remain.