San Francisco’s Shooting Gallery SF hosts new works from Skinner beginning on August 6, 2011. The self-taught artist will exhibit figurative mixed-media pieces that focus on his own personal vision and scope of understanding. Previously, his material has been quite dark, settling on investigations of fear and destruction.

The Fragile Art of Existence will run through August 27, 2011.

Shooting Gallery
839 Larkin St,
San Francisco, CA

Last week at NYEHAUS, an ambitious concept show launched featuring work by Alex Olson, Steve Olson, Yaniv Evan, Bob Recine, Curtis Kulig, and Phil Frost. Their collective brand of lawless art is fueled by counter and subcultural connections (skate, surf, etc.) branded against the swell of the corporate tide. Father and son, Alex and Steve Olson both blend skate and punk with their choice of media – Alex working in photo collage and his father presenting his trademark text work. The duo are complimented by Bob Recine’s fascinating mixture of popular culture media and real human hair. His are assemblages that prompt questions about fashion and self. Yaniv Evan provides vintage styled hand-painted signs and a magnificent motorcycle. Curtis Kulig, famed for his LOVE ME sculpture, adds his peculiar twist, and finally Phil Frost’s fantastic patterned work rounds out the firm.

Originally envisioned as a solo showing for Steve Olson, the artist has instead smartly curated a group show that offers distinct takes on art with the same aim. Not to be missed.

Olson, Olson, Recine and Associates runs through July 29, 2011.

NYEHAUS
358 W. 20th Street, #2
New York, NY 10011

Dante Ross has produced an interview video with Steve Olson exclusively for Curated. Like the photography, the video was shot and edited by the talented Alexander Richter. The interview, and a complete look at the exhibition, after the jump.

On May 21, 2011, Carmichael Gallery opens Breach of Privacy, a group exhibition featuring works by Yasmine Chatila, Hilo Chen, Adam Krueger, Alyssa Monks and Jaclyn Santos. These five New York- based artists span a disparate range of media, but combine to represent compelling explorations of voyeurism.

The exhibition closes on June 11, 2011.

Carmichael Gallery
5795 Washington Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232

Works by all featured artists and their bios appear after the jump.

Ian Gamache is an artist living in Canada. His work is rooted in the traditional mark making disciplines (painting and drawing), but he also incorporates photography, collage, onsite projects, performance and installation.

New mixed media works are available from Nowhere Limited.

As noted last week, New York’s Pelavin Gallery hosts Timothy Paul Meyers fascinating reconstruction of the life of unknown egg farmer Myron B. Johnson in The Ontario Ration. Through mixed media and sculptural installations, Meyers has created a fanciful history of the man – rooted in reality – that incorporates everything from ledgers to taxedermy animals.

On view through February 19, 2011.

Pelavin Gallery
13 Jay street
New York NY 10013

Photography by Jacob Breinholt for Curated.

Timothy Paul Meyers: The Ontario Ration opens on January 6, 2011 at New York’s Pelavin Gallery.

Using a found business ledger, circa 1899-1929, of a relatively unknown egg farmer as the foundation of this exhibition, Myers attempts to portray the imaginary life-story of the ledgers’ creator, Myron B. Johnson. Myers uses the title page of Johnson’s ledger, which begins with the heading: The Ontario Ration, as inspiration for the title of his exhibition—the actual title page is also used as the center point of the exhibition in a piece also titled The Ontario Ration.  Surrounding this piece, Myers creates fantastical allusions to the farmer’s cultural and historical anthropology through mixed media collages and sculptural pieces.

It’s a bloody interesting premise and the exhibition is full of promise.

Pelavin Gallery
13 Jay street
New York NY 10013

Running from December 9, 2010 to January 9, 2011, Melt Down features large scale installation from Andrew Schoultz. Schoultz’s art is essentially about everyday life in America – he filters in bits and bobs from popular culture, including 1990s clipart, in his collage – pulled from a personal archive of ephemera. His narratives are sometimes political, but often simply fun. The exhibition will be hosted by Incase at Project Space.

Project Space
603 North La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles CA 90036

On view through January 2, 2011 Decadence Now! Visions of Excess brings work by Jan Van Oost, Alexander Kosolapov, Richard Stipl, and Geza Szollosi to Prague. The group show has a simple theme – big over the top art. Hosted by Galerie Rudolfinum, the exhibition has some great shock value too… for example Stipl turns Hitler into a bear skin rug.

Not for everyone. Certainly not of good taste. But, in the end an exhibition that when viewed with tongue-in-cheek has enough to amuse. (Have to love the flip of classic Taschen series titles).

More works from Decadence Now!, from Animal, after the jump.

1708 Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming 13th Annual SECAC and MACAA Juried Exhibition curated by Joe Seipel, Vice President for Academic Services at Savannah College of Art and Design.

The exhibition features a variety of mediums and is presented in conjunction with Curiouser, the 2010 Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) and Mid-America College Art Association (MACAA) meeting, hosted by Virginia Commonwealth University. For more information about Curiouser, please visit: www.curiouser.vcu.edu.

The exhibitions runs through November 13, 2010.

1708 Gallery
319 West Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23220

More images and a full list of exhibited artists after the jump.

Located in Green Bay, Wisconsin, the Neville Public Museum is dedicated to the preservation of objects of significance to Northeastern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Additionally, the NPM celebrates local contemporary artists. Their 66th Art Annual is on view until November 8, 2010. A juried exhibition – this year handled by Lisa Englander – the show features artists from across the region and practicing a wide rang of media.

The Art Annual was established in 1942 by then Director of the Neville Public Museum Earl G. Wright. It has run annually (with few exceptions) ever since.

A small selection of included works comes after the jump.