19 January – 25 February 2012

STEVENSON is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Viviane Sassen, her second at the gallery following Moshi in 2010. The show brings together photographs from her recent Parasomnia series and some from her previous series, Flamboya.

Sassen spent her childhood years in East Africa. She describes that, on her family’s return to the Netherlands, she felt like a foreigner in her homeland but knew that she had also been an outsider in Africa. Parasomnia animates these feelings of dislocation between home and away, night and day, life and dreams. The series comprises photographs taken in West and East Africa over the past two years, as well as a few taken in Europe, which frame her enigmatic and often haunting narratives.

As a New York Times critic recently noted (in a review of the Museum of Modern Art’s New Photography exhibition), Sassen’s images ‘convey how strangely vivid and tantalizingly sad the world can seem to a mind and eye divested of the usual filters of perception’. Her photographs constantly disrupt our usual perceptions because some are carefully constructed while others are incidental scenes she encounters on her travels, leaving us unsure which are her imaginary fictions and which scenes from life. Her distinct visual language is articulated by a deep awareness of the formalist concerns of painting, sculpture and photography, as well as an acute sense of colour and the optical resonances of pattern and design.

The exhibition is accompanied by her latest book, titled Parasomnia (published by Prestel, 2011, and featuring a short story by Moses Isegawa). This book follows Flamboya (first published by Contrasto in 2008) which has been widely acclaimed.

Sassen was born in 1972 in Amsterdam, where she now lives. She first studied fashion design, followed by photography at the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU) and Ateliers Arnhem. Her work was first published in avant-garde fashion magazines and is regularly commissioned by prominent designers. She was awarded the Dutch art prize, the Prix de Rome, in 2007, and in 2011 won the International Center of Photography in New York’s Infinity Award for Applied/Fashion/Advertising Photography. She is one of six artists selected for the 2011 New Photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Solo exhibitions have taken place at FORMA in Milan (2009) and FOAM in Amsterdam (2008), among other venues. Recent group shows include No Fashion, Please! Photography between gender and lifestyle at the Vienna Kunsthalle (2011); Figure and Ground: Dynamic Landscape at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto as part of the Contact Photography Festival (2011); and the 2010 Brighton Photo Biennale, curated by Martin Parr.

Photography by Simon Tanguay

Under The Influence sponsored the Kamasutralego exhibition @ The Nice Institution 06.16.2011 presented by TILGOLD+PVONK

Sunny Suits
The Wild Heart

April 2nd – May 14th 2011

Daniel Reich Gallery
537 A West 23rd st NYC

George Shaw’s paintings are of Tile Hill, the postwar council estate outside Coventry, England where he grew up and has been painting for 15 years. Click Here

The New Museum presents “The Last Newspaper,” a major exhibition inspired by the ways artists approach the news and respond to the stories and images that command the headlines. The exhibition animates the Museum with signature artworks and a constant flow of information-gathering and processing undertaken by organizations and artist groups that have been invited to inhabit offices within the museum’s galleries. Partner organizations uses on-site offices to present their research, engage in rapid prototyping, and stage public dialogues, opening up the galleries as spaces of intellectual production as well as display. For visitors, “The Last Newspaper” is a unique site of dialogue, participation, and critical thinking, posing new possibilities for a contemporary art museum experience. The exhibition is co-curated by Richard Flood, Chief Curator of the New Museum, and Benjamin Godsill, Curatorial Associate.

October 6, 2010 – January 9, 2011

© Eggleston Artist Trust. All rights reserved.

William Eggleston is widely recognized as a master of color photography, a poet of the mundane, and proponent of the democratic treatment of his subjects. His inventive use of color and spontaneous compositions profoundly influenced the generation of photographers that followed him, as well as critics, curators, and writers concerned with photographs.

This exhibition includes more than two hundred photographs, the artist’s little-known video work Stranded in Canton, his early black-and-white photographs of the sixties, and the vivid dye-transfer work of the early seventies, as seen in the Museum of Modern Art’s landmark catalogue of 1976, William Eggleston’s Guide. Highlights from the last twenty years includes selections from the Graceland series and The Democratic Forest, Eggleston’s great, dense anthology of the quotidian. The exhibition includes a special selection of recent work taken in Los Angeles. LACMA’s curator of the exhibition is Edward Robinson, Wallis Annenberg Photography department.

William Eggleston: Democratic Camera was organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in association with Haus der Kunst, Munich. The Los Angeles presentation was made possible by LACMA’s Wallis Annenberg Director’s Endowment Fund, The Jonathan Sobel & Marcia Dunn Foundation, the Eggleston Artistic Trust and Cheim & Read.

Exhibition-related programs are supported in part by a generous gift from the Photographic Arts Council and by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund.

William Eggleston: Democratic Camera—Photographs and Video, 1961–2008
October 31, 2010–January 16, 2011

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
12-8 M/T/Th – Closed Wednesday – 12-9 F – 11-8 S/S
5905 Wilshire Blvd – Los Angeles California 90036

JaguarShoes are pleased to present Deity, the first solo exhibition by the London-based illustrator Daniel David Freeman.

Inspired by an eclectic mix of culturally specific and cult references such as action heroes, comics, colourful B-movie posters and dancehall album artwork, DDF works in felt-tip pen and pencil to create his own comics, self-published zines, editorial illustrations, commissioned posters and clothing artwork.

Deity, an imaginary Afro hair care brand conceived and existing in DDF’s head, is an installation of both drawings and adapted ready-mades inspired by traditional hand-painted African barber shop signs and the message of faith and happiness that both these and early House music (another one of DDF’s influences) are founded on.

Deity dictates a positive propaganda and a belief in the ‘Good Life!’

Daniel David Freeman graduated from Camberwell College of Art in 2008. Throughout the three years of his BA Illustration course he was a part of the Crystal Vision collective, exhibiting with its other members at the ICA and Jaguar Shoes. Since graduating DDF has exhibited in a group show at Chapter One together with Marcus Oakley, Jiro Bevis and Colin Henderson amongst others and a 2-man show at Old Shoreditch with Paddy Jones. He has also produced commissioned work for clients like Vice Magazine, Dazed and Confused and Adidas.

P.V : Thursday 20th May – 7pm onwards.
The Old Shoreditch Station,
1 Kingsland Road E2 8AA
Drinks provided by Russian Standard Vodka.

Exhibition runs until June 20th.

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www.danieldavidfreeman.com

Trailer of the new documentary Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child.

Directed by Tamra Davis, the documentary features never-before seen footage of the prolific artist painting, talking about his art, and existing in the two years prior to his death in 1988.

The OST features music from Mike D and Ad Rock.

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child was released on Feb 21st.

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1984. Acrylic, serigraphie & crayons. size 2,33m X 1,95m. National Museum of Art, Osaka

View more of Basquiat’s work by clicking HERE

Easter is well known in Detroit. The lanky visual artist and musician has been a frequent contributor to the punk scene since the mid – 90′s, performing in bands such as The Piranhas, Odd clouds and currently Druid Perfume and Danjee Flesh Nation. Known for Combative performances that channel Iggy and the Stooges, Elvis and 19th Century carnival barkers, Easter is also a prolific visual artist whose drawings may be less heralded, but are just as rich.

(Glen Morren) 

Interview, illustrations & photography, find out more about Jimbo Easter’s work in The Detroit issue.

myspace.com/jimboeaster

Daniel David Freeman is an Illustrator who has worked for clients including Dazed and Confused, Platform, Under the influence & Vice. He has exhibited at Jaguar Shoes, The Old Shoreditch Station and the I.C.A.

For more information and commisions email danieldavidfreeman@gmail.com

Jimbo

MARK BORTHWICK at the Half Gallery
If We’re Pioneers
September 25-October 19, 2009

Westphalie Verlag

Dash Snow died on the evening of July 13, 2009 at Lafayette House, a hotel in lower Manhattan. His grandmother Christophe de Menil was quoted as saying that he died of a drug overdose. Other sources indicated that the cause of his death is still under investigation.

Genesis 5250, encased tar, camphophenique, transparent vinyl, pine, 10″ x 15″ x 2″ 2006.
© Daniel Adam Turner

Daniel Turner lives and work in Brooklyn, NY. His work is a composition between everyday objects, fire and abstract painting.

Currently on display at the Haunch of Venison in London’s Burlington Gardens are three works by the seminal video artist Bill Viola: The Innocents (2007), Isolde’s Ascension (2005), and Poem A (2005). His work uses sound and image as a means of exploring the phenomenological and spiritual world. By pushing the limits of sense perception- stimulating, suspending, prolonging, enhancing, and sustaining experiences- Viola using his medium as a means of elucidating greater human truths. In his 35 years of work, he has done much to develop the technological, conceptual, and historical scope of his discipline, of which the proposed works are a small but formative glance.

Also at the Haunch of Venison is the second retrospective installment of work by the acclaimed British artist Keith Coventry, which includes an wide-ranging and impressive body of work dating from 2002-present.

Beautiful stills by Spanish photographer Salva Lopez.