LOOK INTO MY OWL

Laurie Lipton is passionate about drawing. She combines charcoal and graphite on the same surface. The forms utilize the complete spectrum of contrast, light to dark, achieving a surreal quality. Lipton claims influence in Goya clearly indicated in the drawing above. “Love Bite” is the artist’s take on the painting “Saturn Devouring His Son” completed by Francisco de Goya in 1824. Both pieces deal with time, a statement on age and the refusal of being supplanted.
Head over to the website of Laurie Lipton. There are many originals available as well as limited digital prints and lithographs. Her show “The Sleep of Reason” at Strychnin Gallery in Berlin opens this Friday.

Laurie Lipton
The Sleep of Reason
opens 20 June 2008
Strychnin Gallery
Berlin

Little Cakes Little Gallery has put together the show “Bed & Breakfast” with individual works and collaborations from Evah Fan and Brendan Monroe. The theme of the show is gardening and growing food. The couple will be on hand at the gallery this Friday from 1-6 PM.
The gallery reminds us that they don’t make cakes, they just enjoy eating them. Little Cakes has an interesting history with some excellent goals. Check out their mission statement.

Evah Fan and Brendan Monroe
Bed & Breakfast
6-29 June 2008
Little Cakes Little Gallery
NYC

So this guy rents a helicopter to make a drawing. Sweet. More of Adel Abdessemed’s work can be found at David Zwimer.

Kottie Paloma has a thoughtful show going up Thursday April 24. The opening party is from 6-9PM. At the Fecal Face Dot Gallery in San Francisco.

From the gallery:

“The Daily Strangers series is based on the idea of seeing the same person on a daily basis without ever getting to know that person. They are just a face in ones life. An interesting individual kept at a safe distance. To get to know these particular strangers could possibly ruin whatever fantasy one has made up in their head about these people.”

More than 250 5 x 7″ graphite portraits will be on display. What would your wall of strangers look like?

Alexandre Orion is an artist working out of São Paulo, Brazil. His latest intervention was to clean grime from a local traffic tunnel. He scraped and cleansed the tunnel into a large mural of skulls. An anti-pollution statement that was both relevent and beautiful.

The local police were baffled. They wished to charge the artist, however selective cleaning is not a crime. Instead the city opted to clean the portion of the tunnel on which the artist had left his mark. Orion was not to be thwarted that easily as he immediately began work on the other side of the tunnel. The city then responded by removing all grime from the tunnel and subsequently every tunnel in São Paulo.