GERING & LOPEZ GALLERY is pleased to present Corrosions of Conformity, a solo exhibition of work by New York-based artist Michael Bevilacqua. Bevilacqua’s practice of recycling materials he has used or images he has seen is evident in the exhibition, as key motifs frequently resurface throughout his work. The same icon takes on new meaning in different settings, corroding the original message. His work is abstract, but routed firmly in experience.

This is Bevilacqua’s first solo exhibition at Gering & López Gallery. Corrosions of Conformity until February 21, 2009.

Opening today at Fuse Gallery in New York is Anthony Lister’s newest show. The self-taught Australian artist displays quick and dirty pieces, enough to capture the street to gallery aesthetic in easy to swallow terms. (via SlamxHype).

Fuse Gallery is located at 93 2nd Avenue, New York, New York. Hours are Wednesday through Saturday from 3pm to 8py lim.

More images of Lister’s work on view after the jump.

Taking over the 5 floors of the Behind the Shutters Gallery at Cordy House, Mutate Britain is a multi-media media barrage from Mutant Waste. They’ve hit Glastonbury and Burning Man before, and this newest installation will remain on view for 5 weeks. Look for painting, sculpture, performance and more. (via the art collectors).

Cordy House, 87-95 Curtain Road, London, EC2

Selections from Mutate Britain follow the jump.

House Industries “Letters and Ligatures” has just opened at LA’s Subliminal Gallery. The show celebrates the Delaware firms interest in and dedication to fonts and typography. Thanks to Andy Cruz, over at House, we’ve got a few images to share from the show for those that won’t get out to LA. If you think you might, the show stands until December 5.

A few preview shots from “Letters and Ligatures” after the jump.

Now open at The Threadless Gallery space in Chicago (located at 3011 North Broadway), an exhibition of the work of MWM Design. MWM (Matt. W. Moore), has completed projects in a variety of media for the show. Included is hand painted work, spray painted canvases and textiles. In total, the exhibition celebrates three distinct series, each representing a distinct medium. On view until December 3.

Selections from MWM Design follow.

Open now, and running until the 1st of March, 2009 The Young Brand is a comprehensive study of youth culture in Switzerland. As one might imagine, with the nature of media there is considerable global implications to this enterprise. Thanks to LaMJC we’ve got some views of the exhibition. And, if their view is of any worth to you, The Young Brand has been described as an “exemplary” endeavor. The associated catalog is edited by Marc-Oliver Gonseth, Yann Laville and Mayor Gregory.

More photographs from the Museum of Ethnography of Neuchatel after the jump.

LA-based SUBLIMINAL PROJECTS opens Letters and Ligatures on Saturday, November 8. The exhibition delves into the alphabetical world of the Delaware-based House Industries. The irreverently relevant type foundry proudly showcases a collection of prints, patterns, installations, and sculptures based on their recent typographical explorations. The exhibition will remain on view until December 5, 2008.

For Letters and Ligatures, House Industries conveys a single, yet complex philosophy: visual nomenclature fuels language, facilitates communication, and forms the basis of a civilized society. The written language strings together letters, words, and sentences, conveying the innermost thoughts and ideas that human beings communicate to the outside world. It is tied to our primitive nature, governing our individual choices and observations, our collective socio-anthropologic history.

House Industries understands that each design requires a commitment of time, energy, and creativity. With each project, the bond between artist and font is deepened. The two work closely together, first coming to an understanding of the project’s origins and meaning, then translating that abstraction into something that compliments but does not distract from the main idea. In essence, House Industries’ Letters and Ligatures aims to invite us to share in that close bond and is proof of House’s instrumental role as innovators and directors in the multifaceted communications of our society.

The ESPO installation at Colette is a two part-er. On site “A True Provider is Good to Find” presents paintings from ESPO’s “Using Other Peoples Electricity to Light Your House” series. These, in essence, are portraits capturing the everyday. No celebrity. No flash in the pants hot art style. ESPO’s intent is simple, to use art to bring attention to things worth knowing.

This idea is central to the second part, L’attraction de la Boue. Here, ESPO and Matt Goias engage in a public art project leading to world aids day, December 1. Following their 2006 project protecting the prostitutes of Canal Street, the duo hit Paris, again using the rain coat as a metaphor for who in society needs the most and should be provided shelter (both physically and emotionally). Goias has created commemorative hotel keys for the project, and the tie in back to the on site, is that these will be sold in limited signed numbers at Colette starting December 1.

Images of the work of both ESPO and Goias after the jump.

In 2005, Peter Saville began to play with the notion that in the current climate of mass culture, display meant as much to the idea of art as the object of art. His response to this has been to create a series of card board plinths, available to the public, so the everyday punter can choose what they believe is art. “Accessories to An Artwork,” Saville’s newest exhibition at Paul Stolper Gallery in London takes this premise. Saville picks the objects to sit on his plinths, including work by Hans Ulrich and Jarvis Cocker. Not necessarily the most inspired activity of Saville’s career.

Wallpaper* visited the show, what follows are examples of the basic look and feel of “Accessories to An Artwork”

Berlin-based Ruby Anemic likes to play with contradictions. His sources of inspiration come from 50s Design classics, modern graphic landscapes, porn toys and omnipresent symbols of pop iconography. There’s no field of contemporary culture Ruby does not use for his own purpose. The artist’s work, personal experiments with a variety of media and materials, is an assembly that displays an aesthetic conflict. The content of his work therefore moves between antithetical extremes: on one hand there are silent and conceptual works such as “Neutral Phase”, where a seemingly chaotic linear landscape creates movement in which a viewer can lose himself, and on the other hand there is meaninglessness, carried almost too far, where everyday objects are super sized into nonsensical monuments and a Roy Lichtenstein becomes a monolithic screen for the projection of the artistic ego. Ruby Anemic is very aware of the fundamental dichotomy behind his work and he skillfully brings this into play. Sometimes this is with irony, sometimes with subtle social criticism.

Pool Gallery is presenting the artists second solo show, “Choking Under Pressure,” from October 30 to December 10, 2008. Pool Gallery Ucholskystr.38 10117 Berlin, Germany.

Further examples of Ruby Anemic’s work after the jump.