NARRATVE ART EXHIBITION: July 15 through September 5, 2010 PRESS RELEASE
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MURPHY DESIGN PRESENTS: SURVEY SELECT
Monday, July 12th, 2010ALBUM // V1 GALLERY
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
V1 GALLERY PROUDLY PRESENTS
ALBUM – A GROUP EXHIBITION BY
Wes Lang, Jonathan Meese, Andreas Golder, John Copeland, Shephard Fairey, Anika Lori, Todd James, Barry McGee, Andrew Schoultz, Kasper Sonne, Billy Grant, Laura Grant, Joe Grillo, Neil Farber, Michael Dumontier, Ron English, HuskMitNavn, Misaki Kawai, Jakob Boeskov, Geoff Mcfetridge, Ashley Macomber, Ryan Schneider, Shane Bradford, Devin Flynn, Devendra Banhart, Clayton Brothers, Thomas Øvlisen, Joe Bradley, Eddie Martinez, Katherine Bernhardt, Edward Fella, Ivan Andersen, Mark Mulroney, James Jarvis, Cody Hudson, Claus Carstensen, Hillary Pecis, André, Zven Balslev, Carl Krull, Russell Nachman, Justin B Williams, Able Brown, Michael Rytz.
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday JUNE 4. TIME: 17 – 22.
EXHIBTION PERIOD: JUNE 5. – JULY 3. 2010.
The album cover is an awe-inspiring canvas. It transcends and challenges formal notions of art and the barriers often built between image and sound. Suspended between art and function it deconstructs the notion of what a frame is – or can be.
Covers can create ideas and screw (up) expectations. They attract, repulse, reach out and slap you in the face. They rest on thrones and crawl in the gutter. Sometimes the images stand at odds with the music they contain – other times cardboard and vinyl melt into equilibrium. They transform a collection of sounds into a gallery of visual experiments, timeless classics and stand out works of art.
And last but not least album covers are the first things that greet you when you hold a new record in your hand and the last thing you see when you slip the vinyl back into darkness. It covers up meaning and opens up to other dimensions. The album cover has even survived its own physical death and re-emerged in the digital sphere, freed from any other function than being part of music.
For all these reasons and more V1 Gallery salutes the artistic album cover in all its glory. The gallery has invited a long list of artists with a special connection to music and has asked them to create an album cover. Minimalism, fuck fingers, rock’n’roll, grand emotions, fantasies, clowns, satan, fruits, guitars, karate heroes in black, white and colours blend on these newly created covers with playful stories of the past projected into the future.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU
(Left) Happy World (Right) D.O.A. WAR on 45 / Edwin Starr – WAR – (What is it Good For?)
APOCALYPSE WOW!
Sunday, May 30th, 2010
APOCALYPSE WOW MACRO ROME
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
INCOGNITO SMMoA
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
COLLECTION 3 EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
Monday, April 26th, 2010
Fondation pour l’art contemporain, Château d’Arenthon, Alex, France. March 3 – May 30, 2010
www.fondation-salomon.com
COLLECTION 3
Monday, March 8th, 2010EXHIBITION: Group Show
CLAYTON BROTHERS // Fondation pour l’art contemporain, Château d’Arenthon, Alex, France.
March 3 – May 30, 2010
[Click here to see our piece in the show]
SAATCHI GALLERY LONDON
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
NEVER A DULL MOMENT
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
CLAYTON BROTHERS [Group Exhibition]
Never a Dull Moment
A group show of painting and photography - Curated by iO Wright
Opening: Saturday, February 6th 2010 from 7-11pm
Show Runs Through: February 27th 2010
White Walls is proud to present Never a Dull Moment, a group show curated by iO Wright. Never a Dull Moment will transform the gallery into a cohesive environment that embraces all mediums of creativity from sixteen artists. Please join us for the opening reception on Saturday, February 6th, 2010, from 7-11pm. Never a Dull Moment features Anthony Lister, Alessandro Zuek Simonetti, Jaybo Monk, Angela Boatwright, Augustine Kofie, Dave Potes, Jonathan Darby, Ray Potes, Remi Rough, iO Wright, Erik Otto, Cheryl Dunn, Armsrock, Dave Schubert, Sam Ash and Clayton Brothers. iO Wright has chosen these artists for their “get your hands dirty” and “donʼt worry just do” mentality. Without considering outside forces, they are urged to continuously create and express themselves. With shared roots in graffiti art, this group has a flare for action, immediacy, and unpredictability. Never a Dull Moment exposes viewers to the creative mindʼs raw inner workings and draws distinct parallels between everyday immediate expression and fine art.
Never a Dull Moment will be a transformation of the gallery space into a chaotic, organic environment close to the heart of the artistic process. Film, sculpture, installation, and large-scale wheat paste can be expected from this multi media, multi talented group of artists. Embracing the connection between photography and fine art, Never a Dull Moment will meld the two together just as they are in everyday life. Several artists including Jaybo Monk, Remi Rough, Erik Otto, Augustine Kofie and Jonathan Darby plan to create a site-specific installation to accompany their works in the gallery. The installation will no doubt be interactive and multi sensory, with few white walls in sight.
iO Wright is a photography based artist, writer, and curator. Along with cofounding the street art quarterly, Overspray Magazine, iO curated Climb in the Back Window at Shadowʼs Space Gallery in Philadelphia in 2009. Keeping close tabs on urban art, she has also interviewed such influential artists as Shepard Fairey and Erik Foss. This exhibition is curated by iO Wright and sponsored by White Walls, Hamburger Eyes, and New Order Magazine.
The opening reception of Never a Dull Moment at White Walls Gallery will be
held on Saturday, February 6th, 2010 from 7-11pm. The exhibit will be on display through February 27th, 2010 and is open to the public.
White Walls 835 Larkin Street San Francisco, CA 94109 (T) 415 931-1500
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STAGES MIAMI 2009
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010CLAYTON BROTHERS [Group Exhibition]
EXHIBITION: December 3 – 6, 2009
Stages unites the world of art, philanthropy, and sport by bringing together some of the most renowned figures in art to produce work inspired by Lance and his fight against cancer. All work is available for purchase with proceeds directly benefiting the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Join the fight. LIVESTRONG.
Lance Armstrong Founder and Chairman, Lance Armstrong Foundation
ARTISTS IN THE EXHIBITION INCLUDE:
Cai Guo-Qiang, Clayton Brothers, Rosson Crow, Jules de Balincourt, Dzine, Shepard Fairey, Futura, Tomoo Gokita, Andreas Gursky, KAWS, Geoff McFetridge, Yoshitomo Nara, Catherine Opie, Os Gemeos, Erik Parker, José Parlá, Raymond Pettibon, Lari Pittman, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Tom Sachs, Kenny Scharf, Eric White, Christopher Wool, Dustin Yellin, Aaron Young
CURIOSITY FOREVER
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010CLAYTON BROTHERS [Group Exhibition]
V1 GALLERY PRESENTS
To The Road Less Travelled – Wishing You Love and Happiness and Curiosity Forever
Opening day: Friday January 15. 2010. From 17.00 – 22.00
Exhibition period: January 16. – February 13. 2010.
The title of the exhibition is lifted from a hand written inscription in an edition of Jack Kerouac’s ‘On The Road’. The full inscription reads like this:
“Laurabelle and Nicolas – to the road less travelled – wishing you love and happiness and curiosity forever- with love, Annie xx”
Jesper Elg: “I actually never saw the inscription myself. It is sealed in paint forever in one of Shane Bradford’s dipped book works. I guess this fact made me even more intrigued and curious about the work. And that feeling is exactly what this exhibition celebrates; curiosity forever. Curiosity as a question mark when too many people agree or disagree. Curiosity as in turning your GPS off and letting gut and chance roam. Curiosity as to what art is or could be. Curiosity as to exploring limits and boundaries. Curiosity as in transgressing limits and boundaries. Curiosity as in meeting the world again. Curiosity as to what will happen when I stick my finger in there. Curiosity as to what are being built in there. All the questions you are not supposed to ask, but hopefully do.”
This makes perfect sense. Curiosity is a key component of life in all its grit and glory. Closely related to courage, stupidity, lust and intelligence it is dangerous and vital, wise and senseless. It can push you into darkness and turn on the light. It can send you down dodgy paths and make you take wrong turns. But it also paves the way for triumph. It can create and destroy. It makes heroes and losers. And can lead to both magnificent mistakes and great thoughts. It made Odysseus stray, but perhaps it also led him back on track. Scientists, artists and prying people in general keep venturing into the unknown instead of resting on given truths that promises them a comfortable life in this life and the supposed next. Paradise was lost. But Freedom was given.
The exhibition features works from 25 very diverse international artists working in different media spanning from painting, mixed media and drawing over sculpture to video. Some are old friends of V1: the prolific Rory MacBeth, the fluorescent rebels Dearraindrop, the influential Clayton Brothers, the Icelandic Brahman Johannes Hinriksson, the devilishly detailed Troels Carlsen and the artistic sniper Jakob Boeskov. And others are new friends: the deliciously quirky Michael Dumontier, the visual wordsmith Lora Fosberg and Mike Mills whose monocle we love to see the world through. Some have kept us curious for years; others have just caught our attention. But all works are projections of our wish to know, see and hear more – and our hope to feel lost and found at the same time.
We can’t think of a more appropriate way of opening the doors to a new decade, than by celebrating curiosity in contemporary art. Jump into the reverse boat and dance around the colorful totems. Marvel at constructions we will never be able to find harmony in and sympathize with the dog whose position some of us envy and other of us fear. Leave the brush hanging and let the fat man find his own – and others – death. Bike next to the exotic beauty in familiar settings and read all the lost signals.
We hope you are curious.
V1 Gallery
A group exhibition featuring: HuskMitNavn (DK), Søren Behncke (DK), Pica Pica (BE), Jesper Dalgaard (DK) Andrew Sendor (US), Benji Whalen (US), Michael Dumontier (CAN), Asger Carlsen (DK), Shane Bradford (UK), Mike Mills (US), Troels Carlsen (DK), Jes Brinch (DK), DearRainDrop (US), Graham Hudson (UK), Misha Hollenbach (AUS), Neil Farber (US), Michael Rytz (DK), Mads Lynnerup (DK), Lora Fosberg (US), Rory McBeth (UK), Clayton Brothers (US), Michael Swaney (CAN), Brian Montuori (US), Johannes Hinriksson (IS), Michelle Blade (US) and Jakob Boeskov (DK/IS).
Further information: +45 3331 0321 / elg@v1gallery.com
V1 Gallery / Flaesketorvet 69 / 1711 Copenhagen V / Denmark / www.v1gallery.com
Opening hours: Wednesday-Friday: 12-18. Saturday: 12-16 or by appointment.
