• Catching Up with Augor, Interim in Three Rounds

    Date posted: January 26, 2010 Author: jolanta

    Catching Up with Augor

    What’s Los Angeles based graffiti artist Augor been up to lately? A whole lot. After hanging with him in Miami last month during Art Basel, our suspicions that this young, rebellious artist would start to make a real name for himself in the world of street and graphic art have started to come to fruition. (Juxtapoz, January 22, 2010) 

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    Group Show in Spotlight

    Femme: A Group Show @ Karen Lynne Gallery West, Beverly Hills, CA

    Participating artists: Michel Pellus, Belarmino Miranda, Enric Aromi, Benito Cerna, Sarah Clemens, Margaret Korona, Danielle Anjou, Oleg Neishtadt, Nicolas Uribe

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    Catching Up with Augor

    What’s Los Angeles based graffiti artist Augor been up to lately? A whole lot. After hanging with him in Miami last month during Art Basel, our suspicions that this young, rebellious artist would start to make a real name for himself in the world of street and graphic art have started to come to fruition. (Juxtapoz, January 22, 2010)

    Interim in Three Rounds

    This last exhibition of three is concerned with dislocation. We are not only talking about the dislocation of the artwork itself, pulled from a greater group of likewise works and orphaned from its reference points; but artworks that have recorded a certain unspecific time and place. (Artdaily, January 22, 2010)

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    Masha Sumtsova: So, who are you and what do you do?
    Jordan Seiler: Good question. My name is Jordan Seiler. I am an artist/activist that reclaims public advertising space for open public communications, be it art or any sort of messages that the public sees fit.

    Shades of Shadows

    There are millions of people in New York City, and each has their own agenda. People from stateside and abroad. We really are a melting pot here. It’s so fast-paced—tons and tons of energy from all over. Hoards of people interacting from different places ranging from East New York in Brooklyn to the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

    Marks of Beauty

    Ever since I was little, I have been looking intently at paintings, as well as drawing portraits of myself. My love of art in general, and of painting in particular, has been very strong since my earliest childhood.

    The Beauty That Lies Beneath

    French artist François Geffray is no stranger to new challenges. With an extensive array of mediums from digital art to painting, his body of work is vast and varied. It was with this continual sense of pushing himself in new directions that he was drawn to the NY Arts Venice Pavilion, where his works are currently on display.

    Window-dressing Art

    Today we face a functional cultural industry whose substance is widely corrupted by greed of gain. The immense budgets film and music productions, and their interconnection with merchandising such as computer games and coffee cups, and media presence can hardly be opposed by freelance artists working on their own.

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    Recommended Web Site of the Week

    Tales of The Unexpected – The IMA blog is a space to discuss art made in unofficial and unannounced sites as part of more Cornwall: a programme of artist-led events during Summer 2007. http://www.talesoftheunexpected.blogspot.com/

    Art Fair and Biennial Reminders from Art Fairs International

    FADA Los Angeles Art Show, January 20-24, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
    Art Los Angeles Contemporary, January 28-31, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
    Arte Fiera, January 29-30, Bologna, Italy
    CIRCA Puerto Rico, January 29-February 1, Puerto Rico

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