Champan brothers






Jake & Dinos did draw on 20 pund @ White Cube stand yesterday at Frieze…
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Bridge Art Fair


Thomas Allen, Jackpot, 2006
Please join us this year at the Bridge Art Fair London.

Bridge Art Fair

Known for spectacular shows of new emerging and new contemporary art in Chicago and Miami, Bridge will host its first-ever art fair in London at the luxurious Trafalgar Hotel in Trafalgar Square, concurrent with the spectacularly popular Frieze Art Fair. Bridge will take over the entire 120-room hotel, with an estimated 70-90 international exhibitors transforming the Trafalgar into a contemporary art center.
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Bridge Art Fair London

Foley Gallery will be participating in the Bridge Art Fair this year at the Trafalgar Hotel in Trafalgar Square London, England. We encourage you to visit us in room 424 from Thursday, October 11 through Sunday, October 14.

The Trafalgar Hotel
2 Spring Gardens, Trafalgar Square
London SW1A 2TS

AMIR ZAKI

AMIR ZAKI

OCTOBER 19 – NOVEMBER 24, 2007

New York (October 5, 2007) – Based in Los Angeles, artist Amir Zaki pushes the boundaries of the real and the imagined with his depictions of urban California landscapes and architecture. In his new series of photographs ?•, Zaki continues to explore themes of ambiguity and anonymity by displacing but personifying unique architectural structures as subjects. While remaining committed to the depiction of the mundane and pedestrian, Zaki’s ? • is subversive and unnatural, pushing the limits of photographic realism and transforming architecture into relics of an ineffectual world.

Seen in and around Southern California, Zaki’s buildings are mundane constructions transformed from their natural settings through the photographic lens to emphasize their dynamic volumes and sculptural masses in space. Using historicized formats seen in photographic typologies and documentary projects, Zaki challenges this stylistic vocabulary and ‘authentic’ perspective by framing portrait-like images of these buildings that foreground their unique surroundings. Camouflaged into their monolithic facades are obscure, non-descript signage that mysteriously inform yet further alienate the constructions from the familiar. Common churches, shopping malls, gas stations and fast food joints are ultimately rendered functionally ambiguous; their adorning symbols create conflicting connotations that instigate questions as to the true nature of architectural function and symbolic purpose.

Accompanying the photographs are several wall sculptures cut with precision from a thick and dense polyurethane substrate. Here, Zaki has sourced and enlarged obscure, enigmatic symbols that reference and often mimic the adornments seen within some of the photographs. Finished with high gloss colors graphed directly from the buildings on which similar symbols appear and mounted in the exhibition space, these composites are exalted from the mundane into highly considered objects.

Concurrently on view at Perry Rubenstein Gallery 534 West 24 Street is an exhibition by Brooklyn based sculptor Diana Al-Hadid.

Perry Rubenstein

Claire Pestaille


Rokeby is pleased to be announce the second of Claire Pestaille’s solo exhibitions at the gallery.
Pestaille seeks intimacy and understanding, of both the history of painting and its subjects. Through strategies of appropriation, that mix contemporary and historical references from both art and literature, the artist maintains a synthesis of past and present which celebrates an aesthetics beyond the ordinary and the magic of fantasy.

Rokeby Gallery

BIANCA CASADY


BIANCA CASADY
LIL GIRL SLIM “COSMIC WILLINGNESS” PIPE DREAMZ A REVELATION
and the Death of Mad Vicky Lopez

DEITCH