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1010 gets Life is Beautiful street art up and running

6/20/2015

1010 in downtown Las Vegas. June 19, 2015 I Photo: PaintThisDesert

He goes by the name 1010. The Polish born artist, now based in Hamburg, Germany, is the first muralist to make a mark for the 2015 Life is Beautiful season. 1010's color forms shape an abyss, given realistic depth with a paint drop shadow, giving the viewer a way to peer through a wall in an illusion of a deep portal.

While his works are usually painted on flat surfaces, 1010 attacked these angled modernist walls at 211 North 8th Street this week.

1010 is the moniker given to him by a photographer when the artist was observed marking his work with 1’s and O’s, a reference to binary codes, said the artist in an interview earlier this year. He's in town after completing massive ground art through Galerie Itinerrance on the Paris Ring Road. Life is Beautiful murals are curated by Just Kids' Charlotte Dutoit.

1010 in downtown Las Vegas at the 211 I Photo: PaintThisDesert

1010 just completed this piece at Galerie Itinerrance on the Paris Ring Road I Image © Galerie Itinerrance

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College of Southern Nevada Call for Exhibition

6/19/2015

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Field Notes: The College of Southern Nevada call for exhibition proposals, for the Fine Arts Gallery 2016 - 2017 exhibition season, is welcoming solo and group shows in all media and genre. The gallery committee is made of fine art faculty members will select exhibitions from submitted portfolios, which are due September 15, 2015. Details and contact information at College of Southern Nevada - Call for Exhibits 2016 - 2017 I Facebook.

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Scenes from an opening

6/19/2015

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Meeting and greeting in front of Daniel Habegger's "Clearance" (completed 2014) during the opening of "Recent Acquisitions" at the Marjorie Barrick Museum, June 19, 2015. The exhibition of acquired works, many gifted, were selected to testify on the range of contemporary art practices in the region.

Justin Favela's "Estradas" (2010) at the entrance of the opening night micro-buffet. The collection is growing so quickly it is hoped the next gift is storage, quipped Jeffrey Koep, dean of UNLV's College of Fine Arts, during opening night welcome.

Above: Brian Porray's "=/'\OSCILL4TOR/'\=". (2012). RIght: Gallery goers behind a side view of the neon lit 43 in Javier Sanchez' "Ayotzi" (2015).

Joining the space in the Barrick are works from The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection that were gifted to UNLV.

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Summer Barrick Bash: Vogel 50x50 and Acquisitions

6/17/2015

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Neil Jenney The Collector (1999) Xerox on paper and graphite mounted on board.
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection. Courtesy UNLV Galleries at Marjorie Barrick Museum.

A reception on Friday will introduce results of impassioned collecting at the UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum. From The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection are contemporary works from the estate of New York postal clerk, Herbert Vogel, and his librarian wife, Dorothy. With modest means they amassed some 4,000 works then developed a program, the Vogel 50x50, to gift 50 works to an institution in each state. UNLV is the guardian for Nevada. From the NYTimes:

But the art was what came to matter most, and the Vogel collection grew into a guidepost for an often austere school of art that followed Abstract Expressionism’s long reign: Minimal Art, which often examined monochromatic surfaces and essential forms. It was nowhere near as popular as Pop Art, which drew its colorful imagery from consumer products and arose around the same time.

Some of those 50 pieces will be sharing opening night time with UNLV’s own "Recent Acquisitions," an exhibition of newly acquired works that show a range of contemporary art practices, and many by artists who have ties to the region. From UNLV:

We welcome the following artists to the Barrick and LVAM Collections: Rita Abbey, Jason Adkins, Phil Argent, Robert Beckmann, Erik Beehn, Mark Brandvik, Thomas Burke, Patricia Burns, Carole Caroompas, Kevin Chupik, Sam Davis, Jack Endewelt, Justin Favela, Sush Machida Gaikotsu, Daniel Habegger, Shawn Hummel, Angela Kallus, Danielle Kelly, Wendy Kveck, Brian Porray, Michael Reafsnyder, Javier Sanchez, David Sanchez-Burr, Marshall Scheuttle, Nicolas Shake, Brent Sommerhauser, Erin Stellmon, Rachel Stiff, John Stoelting , Marty Walsh, Yek, Brian Zimmerman."

Wendy Kveck Sister (2014) Detail: Oil, acrylic paint pen on canvas over panel. Courtesy UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum and Wendy Kveck.

The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
Opens June 19. Reception from 6 to 8 p.m.
Runs Through September 19.

Recent Acquisitions
Opens June 19. Reception from 6 to 8 p.m.
Runs Through September 19.

UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum
4505 S Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154

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LinK TO INK: SUMMER ART WAITS FOR NO ONE EDITION

6/14/2015

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Eric Burwell’s "Progressive Failure" Brett Wesley Gallery says the state of painting, considered dead by critics, creates a rough path for art students, and how painting isn't advancing are the fails, writes Dawn-Michelle Baude at Las Vegas Weekly. “But never mind all that. Although Burwell is short of the 10,000-hour mastery mark, the seven medium- to large-format canvases on display reveal the guy can paint.”

Kristen Peterson on the "intrigue" of Las Vegan Austine Wood Comarow’s light art and Zak Ostrowski’s sculptural benches at the Spring Mountains Visitor Gateway. I Las Vegas Weekly

"Canvases ooze. Organic shapes emerge. Pristine innards reveal themselves. Combinations of faux fur, burlap, branches and metal seem ritualistic. Trapped, crowded, free or organized, the arrangements are familiar and unfamiliar, an alien world resembling our own. Paintings of surrealist dripping eyes peer out of the wall works. On large canvases they loom." - Kristen Petersen on Kim Johnson "Wunder Kammer" at Winchester Center I Las Vegas Weekly

Preview work from Reno artists that will be seen at Burning Man. "Here are some of the 100 percent local, home-grown projects." Reno Gazette

Leonardo DiCaprio will purchase " Solar Reserve" (Tonopah, Nevada) (2014) by John Gerrard then donate it to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Art Newspaper

ELSEWHERE

Yoko Ono's first permanent public art installation in the United States,“Sky Landing,” will be in the Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. It opens June 2016. Specifics were not revealed. Chicago Tribune

“There can be discussions or fights. Each of us is trying to catch the true capacity of the other. It sometimes seems like a waste of time, but that’s not the case at all." - Public artist and sculptor Jaume Plensa working with fabricators. Forecast Public Art.

Richard Shiff explains why critics have failed painting. "Few of us today balk at the juxtaposition of hand-drawing and digital printing. Each can be manipulated to resemble the other—or not. It remains an artist’s choice, refined or sometimes reversed in response to immediate sensation. Critics, with their comprehensive concepts, shield themselves from such experiential disorder." The Art Newspaper

NEXT BIG THING

Russia: There’s no phrase for “contemporary art” but that hasn’t stopped Moscow from finding a way in. Wall Street Journal + New York Times

Vietnam: Vietnamese contemporary artist are emerging from censorship and embargos. NPR

Africa: "In some ways, Africa is the new China when it comes to art," he added. "We are investing time, money and people to maintain our presence in this market." - Giles Peppiatt, Haveeru Online

STREET ART

20 murals converted into animated GIFs by A.L. Crego. ArchDaily

A Paris bridge uses street art to replace Love Locks. Hyperallergic

Growing street art scene in Tel Aviv comes out of shares the young residents' views on love, war, housing policies and hard earned angst. Papermag

In Portugal, older residents have something to say. Senior citizens taking part in street art movement. Don’t mess with 65-year-old Lata. Telegraph

Junk Dada moved one step further. Portugal–based Artur Bordalo uses tires and appliances to create large-scale images into structural urban wall paper. Slate

QUOTABLE

“Contemporary art’s job is to wreck what came before.” - John Waters speaking at the Rhode Island School of Design’s commencement.

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