On the 16th of October, Anonymous GalleryNY kicked off “Contain” a 4 day exhibition featuring four 20ft x 8ft shipping containers placed curb side out front of two major NY art institutions.
Four artists, Monica Canilao, Maya Hayuk, Greg LamarcheLister and created installations within each for the temporary street side exhibition organized by Anonymous in order to strengthen the dialogue between the institutions, the public, and the city, symbolizing the development of the four artists from street / public art backgrounds into the contemporary, in the process blurring the lines between street and contemporary art world.
The Contain public installations also served as promotions for the inaugural group show, opening tonight at Anonymous gallery, and featuring the four artists, where the ideas of Contain will be used to test how public art / street art translates within a gallery environment, as artist will explore the 6 definitions of the work “contain”.
A dope show, with an incredible group of artists. For more info check anonymousgallery.com.
Images from Greg (S.P ONE) Lamarche’s container installation, exhibited at the Chelsea location (22nd street near 11th avenue).
And a 2 colored stencil layered screen print titled “OWN WORST ENEMY RETURNS”.
We’ve also managed get our hands on a limited run of insanely fresh statuettes, created specifically as installations for the show. Each one is hand painted and totally unique, numbered and signed. They come in
LIFELOUNGE PROUDLY PRESENTS
SOME TYPE OF WONDERFUL
A GLOBAL TYPOGRAPHIC INITATIVE
Lifelounge has hand-selected 12 talented artists, designers and typographers from around the world to collaborate on a unique typographic project entitled, Some Type Of Wonderful. Coming from a variety of backgrounds in everything from traditional fine art to graffiti, graphic design, illustration and typography, each artist has been given a design brief relating to a designated month of the year.
The artists:
ALEX TROCHUT (SPAIN)
MERIJN HOS (THE NETHERLANDS)
JESSE HORA (USA)
SI SCOTT (UK)
HELLOVON (UK)
MERDA (AUSTRALIA)
TIMBA SMITS (AUSTRALIA)
PUZLE (AUSTRALIA)
JUSTIN LEE WILLIAMS (AUSTRALIA)
NIELS SHOE MEULMAN (THE NETHERLANDS)
STEVE “ESPO” POWERS (USA)
LUKE LUCAS (AUSTRALIA)
McCulloch Gallery
8 Rankins Lane, Melbourne
Off Little Bourke Street, between Queen & Elizabeth Streets
You’re probably wondering what the hell has been going on in the NiceProduce camp for the past few week. If you haven’t, which is more than likely the case, then you will hear what I have to say anyway.
NiceProduce is going to Europe.
We’ve been working our guts out on NiceProduce V2, and I can tell you that it’s going to kick ass. It’s like, HAL meets a blind kid, and the kid doesn’t know how amazing HAL is, because he thinks HAL is just an ordinary person with a vocalizer like Stephen Hawkins, and little does he know that HAL is really a super smart chess playing mother fucking computer made in the 70’s.
That’s the new NiceProduce. Smarter than you think, more superior than you need, and hell does it make our life easy. Like Alex said, it’s a super smart content management system that took months to build but only 2 people in the world will use it.
That’s how we roll.
In the mean time, I’m packing my shit and moving to Sweden. NiceProduce is stretching it’s reach to Europe, where I’ll be setting up camp and bringing you the best Europe has to offer.
More to come soon. Oh, and if you haven’t gotten your NoComply invites yet… just come to the second opening. 😉
The last few of months Reka has been working hard on his new solo
exhibition ‘Against the Grain’. His focus for this collection has been
more personal and self reflective, exploring themes such as life, death,
self and fate. Against the Grain opens at Wasteland Gallery in Perth on the
22nd of October. Running until 5th of November.
check out www.rekaone.com for more details
On the 16th of October, Anonymous Gallery NY kicked off “Contain” a 4 day exhibition featuring four 20ft x 8ft shipping containers placed curb side out front of two major NY art institutions.
