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Monday, June 18th, 2012

The Blink/Steady Bike Light

Today we present a simple, yet really useful new product – the Blink/Steady Bike Light. Machined from solid aluminum, the Blink/Steady bike light turns on automatically and shuts off when you’re not riding. There’s no need to remove it when you…

John Mattos Star Wars Historical Paintings

It’s not uncommon for contemporary artists to make a clin d’oeil at already established artwork in history. This “renewal” of artwork is seen through John Mattos’ latest piece featuring C3PO imitating Marcel Duchamps’ Nude Descending a staircase. He’s also taken…

Justin West “Atomic Visions” at Tria Gallery

Justin “Jay” West is part of a group show called “Atomic Visions” on view now at Tria Gallery in New York City. It opened last week on the 1st of December and will run through January 7th, 2012. Check out…

Recap | Lori Blados @ Diane Birdsall Gallery

New York based painter Lori Blados is currently exhibiting at the Diane Birdsall Gallery. Lori Blados’ new work, illustrated on board and in acrylic, is a brightly rendered and playful meditation on environments both real and imagined. Birds twitter about…

Preview | Micheal Peck at Metro Gallery

Metro Gallery in Victoria Australia will be opening a Michael Peck exhibit “The Landing” on November 14th. Peck’s work mixes a monochromatic photographic style of painting with subject matter reminiscent of 50′s style propaganda. Themes of isolation and displacement have…

Paintings by Casey Weldon

Casey Weldon contributed to a show “Dig for Fire” in LA this month. The show exhibits art inspired by the band The Pixies. Her contribution turned us onto her art. She uses a realistic style with muted color to create…

Recap | Lisa Yuskavage exhibit at David Zwirner NYC

Lisa Yuskavage opened her third solo show at David Zwirner Gallery last night. Zwirner notes: Over the past two decades, Yuskavage has developed her own genre of the female nude: lavish, erotic, cartoonish, vulgar, angelic young women cast within fantastical…

New Paintings by James Herbert at English Kills Gallery

James Herbert’s exhibit at English Kills gallery presents a series of large scale, representational works derived from explicitly pornographic photos sourced from internet searches on the artist’s Blackberry. From the gallery: In terms of imagery, Herbert’s artistic practice explores the…

Andreas Englund | Large Scale Portraits of Elderly Superhero

Andreas Englund has created a series of large scale portraits imagining the daily ins and out of a superhero who is past his prime. Englund depicts the superhero’s facial expressions and mannerisms in a quasi photo realistic way that almost…

Preview | Kirsty Whiten’s “Feral Family” at Stolenspace Gallery

Stolenspace Gallery presents “Feral Family” by Kirsty Whiten. A new series of large-scale paintings from Kirsty Whiten, depicting moments of family intimacy set in a psychedelic forest. Bare essential scenes with infants, beautiful and frightening in one breath, see us…

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Monday, June 18th, 2012

The Blink/Steady Bike Light

Friday, March 9th, 2012

John Mattos Star Wars Historical Paintings

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Justin West “Atomic Visions” at Tria Gallery

Monday, October 17th, 2011

Recap | Lori Blados @ Diane Birdsall Gallery

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

Preview | Micheal Peck at Metro Gallery

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

Paintings by Casey Weldon

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

Recap | Lisa Yuskavage exhibit at David Zwirner NYC

Monday, September 5th, 2011

New Paintings by James Herbert at English Kills Gallery

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

Andreas Englund | Large Scale Portraits of Elderly Superhero

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

Preview | Kirsty Whiten’s “Feral Family” at Stolenspace Gallery