NEW WEBSITE AND BLOG

We now have a NEW website and blog !!!
This blog will stay up but will not be active so please start going to our new site to to read our blogs.
See you on the other side.

GLASSTIRE MENTION

Glasstire mentions our forthcoming show by Michael Craig-Martin.

MICHAEL ROOKS NAMED CURATOR OF THE HIGH

Michael Rooks has been named curator of modern and contemporary art at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. He takes over from Jeffrey Grove who is now the senior curator of contemporary art at the DMA.

LA MOCA HIRES JEFFREY DEITCH AS DIRECTOR

Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art has confirmed that it has hired the commercial art dealer Jeffrey Deitch as its new director.
Deitch will take over from Jeremy Strick who left to become the director of the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas.
Deitch opened his gallery, Deitch Projects in 1996 and has had many cool exhibitions and worked with many artists.
Tyler Green conducts an interview with Mr. Deitch and talks about his future plans for the museum.
Deitch Projects will close by June 1st.

RYAN MOSLEY @ ALISON JACQUES

Young Brit artist Ryan Mosley presents his first exhibition at Alison Jacques Gallery, London.
The show opens on January 12th and will run through February 13th.

Already acknowledged as one of the most distinctive of the ʻNewspeakʼ painters, British artist Ryan Mosley presents his first exhibition at Alison Jacques Gallery. Admired for what Art Review has described as ʻhyperfigurative psychocubismʼ, and an approach to painting which is at once both historical and fantastical, Mosleyʼs work simultaneously acknowledges a profound debt to the received genres and traditions of art history and an exuberant willingness to subordinate such categories to a uniquely personal painterly vision.

This exhibition develops Mosleyʼs ongoing fascination with the aesthetics and motifs of various chapters in the canon of art history, whilst being faithful to a visual vocabulary entirely of his own making. The Renaissance collages of Arcimboldo and Hogarthʼs morality tales, Degasʼs dancers and Gauguinʼs exotic landscapes, Ensorʼs carnivalesque and the coarse ebullience of Guston are among the differing images and cultural episodes from which Mosley draws inspiration and to which he pays homage. Yet these subversive stylistic echoes of past
masters, which are very often blended on the same canvas into dynamic art historical conversations, are not deployed simply to offer an idiosyncratic gloss on eras and artists which intrigue Mosley. Rather, they provide tools and contexts in which he can dramatise ad absurdum his interests in form and the fluid diffusion of narrative, and construct otherworldly scenarios and characters which are every bit as amusing, menacing, likeable and bewildering as the world we inhabit.

DALLAS CONTEMPORARY DELAYS OPENING

Please ignore our last post because we have just received a call that the Dallas Contemporary has had to postpone their show for tomorrow night due to the lack of an occupancy certificate. It will be rescheduled for a future date. So sorry James Gilbert....we love you!!

JAMES GILBERT TO OPEN NEW DALLAS CONTEMPORARY

The Dallas Contemporary announces their inaugural exhibition at their new location at 161 Glass Street.
L.A. artist James Gilbert will mount a scaled-down version of a tri-part detached Boeing 747. The fuselage will be large enough for viewers to pass through. It sounds very exciting.

The show opens tomorrow night (Friday 8th) from 7:30 onwards.

James will be in attendance so please come along and support the new Dallas Contemporary.

2010

We're back and ready for action in 2010. Look out for our new website coming any day now and soon our new location.