For the first time in Australia the phenomenal and notorious D*Face will premiere a solo exhibition at Metro Gallery. Often cited as a challenger to Banksy’s crown as the King of Street Art, and as one of the most exciting and prolific contemporary urban artists of his generation, this exhibition will be the only chance to see D*Face in Australia this year.
D*Face will be showing at Metro Gallery from 2nd November – 12 November, 2011.

D*Face “Cheat Death- Charlie Sheen”
2nd November – 12 November, 2011
Metro Gallery
1214 High Street,
Armadale,
Victoria 3143
Phone: 03 9500 8511

New York based painter Lori Blados is currently exhibiting at the Diane Birdsall Gallery.

Lori Blados’ new work, illustrated on board and in acrylic, is a brightly rendered and playful meditation on environments both real and imagined. Birds twitter about as they peek inside their birdhouses–simple, triangular shaped structures reminiscent of something a child might draw. It is in her quirky style that Blados plays with the concepts of reality and fantasy. The birds are peering into a world that is curiously human, curiously askew. The objects of our everyday become spectacles.

diane birdsall gallery

September 30-October 28, 2011
16 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT 06371
860-434-3209

Images courtesy of the Diane Birdsall Gallery.

More looks after the jump.

EVOL recently shared photos of a couple of new works. One of them in Brandenburg (above), as well as a piece in Moscow. More looks after the jump.

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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

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.

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.

Metro Gallery in Victoria Australia will be opening a Michael Peck exhibit “The Landing” on November 14th. Peck’s work mixes a monochromatic photographic style of painting with subject matter reminiscent of 50’s style propaganda.

Themes of isolation and displacement have continually reoccurred in my paintings over time. I’m always seeking to create a tension in the work; the suspense in the feeling that something is just about to happen, as if the landscape could suddenly swallow everything and everyone up. I think art is a good place to be able to engage with our anxieties. We live in a social, political and environmental climate that is pretty hostile, yet we do our best to mask our fears. I think that art provides a context where people’s fears can be corroborated; it helps us to know that others share the same concerns and helps us feel less alone. Ironically there is an abstract comfort in recognition of this shared isolation.

Metro Gallery

“The Landing”

November 14th- December 3, 2011

1214 High Street,
Armadale,
Victoria 3143
Phone: 03 9500 8511

More looks after the jump.