In perusing Pulse LA, Keisuke Shirota’s work was something that stood out to us at Galerie Stefan Roepke. Check out the set after the jump.

Photography: Matt Schow for Curated

Among the various pieces that Christina Ray was showing at Pulse L.A., our favorites were a couple of pieces by Swoon. Since viewing her TED talk, the Brooklynite can basically do no wrong in our book. More looks after the jump.

Photography: Matt Schow for Curated

Katherine Kuharic opened “Pound of Flesh” last night at P.P.O.W.. With the name of the exhibit deriving from Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, it is easy to see where Kuharic drew her inspiration for this series. The notion of “lawful, but not reasonable” is overtly demonstrated in this set of work. View the rest of the works from the exhibit after the jump.

“Pound of Flesh”
October 13-November 12, 2011
P.P.O.W.
535 West 22nd Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10011
Tel 212-647-1044

Photography: Jacob Breinholt for Curated

Nothing like gorgeous design that serves a utilitarian purpose. Kristýna Pojerová of the Czech republic came up with, and executed the idea for a hanging lamp that doubles as a greenhouse,  in an attempt to create a more aesthetic method for growing herb gardens indoors. More looks after the jump.

We are super excited about this one. Josh Keyes will be exhibiting new work at the Jonathan Levine Gallery on October 22nd. The title of the show is “Migration.”

Josh Keyes | “Migration”
October 22-November 19, 2011
Jonathan LeVine Gallery
529 West 20th Street, 9th floor
New York, NY 10011
212-243-3822

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More looks after the jump.

On the heels of publishing Tools of Criminal Mischief, Roger Gastman is releasing a three part poster series entitled “The Cans.”

“The Cans” is a three-print series created as companion pieces to Roger Gastman’s limited-edition book, The Tools of Criminal Mischief.

The 24-by-36-inch prints feature vintage spraypaint cans from Gastman’s collection, which was recently featured in MOCA’s Art in the Streets exhibition.

Gastman carefully selected the cans for each print, which includes coveted brands such as Krylon, Rustoleum and Red Devil as well as off-brands with colors such as Silver-Skate Aluminum and Baa Baa Black.

More looks after the jump.

Check out this new mural in Apellou Greece, by SER. More looks after the jump.

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In addition to being strikingly beautiful, Kate MacDowell’s work is subversively thought provoking. In her artist’s statement MacDowell writes:

n my work this romantic ideal of union with the natural world conflicts with our contemporary impact on the environment.  These pieces are in part responses to environmental stressors including climate change, toxic pollution, and gm crops.  They also borrow from myth, art history, figures of speech and other cultural touchstones.  In some pieces aspects of the human figure stand-in for ourselves and act out sometimes harrowing, sometimes humorous transformations which illustrate our current relationship with the natural world.  In others, animals take on anthropomorphic qualities when they are given safety equipment to attempt to protect them from man-made environmental threats.  In each case the union between man and nature is shown to be one of friction and discomfort with the disturbing implication that we too are vulnerable to being victimized by our destructive practices

More Looks after the Jump.

As a part of his Post no Bills event in Venice CA, recently, Ron English paid a visit to a local Ralph’s supermarket with some custom cereal boxes pictured above.  The caption for this photo on English’s site reads, “Find a box, send it to Ron and he’ll sign it.”

Sometimes, an art show’s theme is not a gimmick, but a real story about the lives of its artists. In “You Are Here: Washington D.C.,” a show opening at Dorian Grey Gallery in New York’s East Village, the theme is strictly geographical, and the story is about a first-time curator from D.C. who gathered some of her most talented friends and members of the art community together for a monthlong show in New York. For some of the artists, this is the first time a New York audience will see their work, and for the one-year-old gallery, this show is the first that expands beyond the East Village and New York.

“You Are Here” will run October 15 – November 13. Artists showing include Trevor Young, Alexa Meada, Ryan Florig, Adrian Parsons, Marissa Long, Billy Colbert, Lily DeSaussure and Joey Manlapaz.

We caught up with the curator, Danielle Vu, and the gallery owner, Luis Accorsi to discuss the show, New York and art in general.

Dorian Grey Gallery
437 E 9th St.
New York NY 10009

Images and interview after the jump.