Justin “Jay” West is part of a group show called “Atomic Visions” on view now at Tria Gallery in New York City. It opened last week on the 1st of December and will run through January 7th, 2012.

Check out past works and a preview of the new work after the fold.

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.

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.

Casey Weldon contributed to a show “Dig for Fire” in LA this month. The show exhibits art inspired by the band The Pixies. Her contribution turned us onto her art. She uses a realistic style with muted color to create a sort of bizzaro version of things. More looks at her recent work after the jump.

Lisa Yuskavage opened her third solo show at David Zwirner Gallery last night.

Zwirner notes: Over the past two decades, Yuskavage has developed her own genre of the female nude: lavish, erotic, cartoonish, vulgar, angelic young women cast within fantastical landscapes or dramatically lit interiors. They appear to occupy their own realm while narcissistically contemplating themselves and their bodies. Rich, atmospheric skies frequently augment the psychologically-charged mood, further adding to the impression of theatricality and creative possibility.

For this exhibition, Yuskavage takes her complex narratives to a larger scale, whose sheer vastness adds a cinematic component to the works. More so than previously, this new body of work appears to merge the genres of landscape, still life, and portrait painting. Despite their immediacy, the plots reveal themselves slowly over time. Her compositions are equally prolonged: the terrains are more spacious and more intricately articulated than in previous works, which heightens a sense of realism while at the same time dismantling easy construction of meaning.

David Zwirner Gallery
519 West 19th Street
New York, NY
Sept. 27- Nov. 5, 2011

James Herbert’s exhibit at English Kills gallery presents a series of large scale, representational works derived from explicitly pornographic photos sourced from internet searches on the artist’s Blackberry. From the gallery:

In terms of imagery, Herbert’s artistic practice explores the nature of pleasure and the sentimental side of the sexual act in large scale representational paintings derived from explicitly pornographic source material. From this screen-sized reference that offers little detail, Herbert extrapolates the figures, adapting them to a 9’x10’ canvas in compositions reminiscent of a film still.

The exhibit will open September 10 and run through October 16.

English Kills Gallery
114 Forrest St. #1 Brooklyn, NY 11206
Bushwick, Brooklyn

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Andreas Englund has created a series of large scale portraits imagining the daily ins and out of a superhero who is past his prime. Englund depicts the superhero’s facial expressions and mannerisms in a quasi photo realistic way that almost makes the scenarios believable.

View the rest of the set after the jump.

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Stolenspace Gallery presents “Feral Family” by Kirsty Whiten.

A new series of large-scale paintings from Kirsty Whiten, depicting moments of family intimacy set in a psychedelic forest. Bare essential scenes with infants, beautiful and frightening in one breath, see us stripped of clothes and technology, bringing to mind apocalypse and the great ape ancestors.

The exhibit opens September 2, 2011 and runs through October 2, 2011.

STOLENSPACE GALLERY
Dray Walk, The Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane
London E1 6QL
United Kingdom

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A solo exhibition from Japanese artisti Yoskay Yamamoto will open September 10 and show through October 1 at LebBasse Projects. From the gallery:

The show continues from where Yamamoto left off in 2010 by exhibiting both painting and sculptural work. While the show doesnʼt focus on a specific theme, it continues the intimate statements of self- expression that began in his last series of exhibitions. The freedom in the new work allows Yamamoto to create a deeper variety in both emotion and expression than his previous few shows.

The title of the exhibit, Picking Up Where We Left Off, references the time Yamamoto was able to spend with his family earlier this year – it had been more than eight years since he had seen his brother. Yamamoto was relieved that they were all able to reconnect as if no time had passed. This reconnection with family has inspired Yamamotoʼs new paintings and sculptural works.

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The Diane Birdsall Gallery presents new works by Francis Ashworth, Karen Schiff and Camomile Hixon. On display now is Francis Ashworth’s Exploring Printmaking with Akua Waterbase (above), in which the the horizon and the sky meet with sweeping brush strokes and ink. Karen’s Schiff’s minimalist Lad Line Drawings are a minimalist call to examine the parts rather than the whole. And beginning August 2, Manhattan-based artist Camomile Hixon will show her pop culture-influenced works using glitter and paint on canvas.

Diane Birdsall Gallery
16 Lyme Street
Old Lyme CT 06371

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