In this time lapse video, Karl Addison paints on the walls of an old beer factory in Berlin. (via Notcot).

Runnymede Gallery, located along the banks of the Thames in Old Windsor, has a series of exciting exhibitions this month. One artist currently on view is Patrick Palmer. They describe him beautifully, “Patrick captures the female form in drawing and painting, with a slant towards impressionism.” I’ve covered Palmer’s work before and continue to be impressed by his growth as a painter. He’s got three new oils at Runnymede, an example is above.

Also on view through September 6, 2010, are exhibitions of work by Erica Renelt, Leigh Glover, Anne Emmett, Ilona Shipp, Deirdre Morrison, and Nick Moran.

Work by Renelt and Morrison after the jump.

Signal Gallery presents ‘Beyond Punk’ featuring the artwork of punk musicians, artists associated with punk bands and artistic friends of punk. The legendary bassist from The Adverts, Gaye Advert, curates the exhibition, which will gather together a fantastic collection of ‘hell raising’ talent.

The lineup includes – Adam Ant (Adam & the Ants), Charlie Harper (UK Subs), Chris Brief (The Briefs), Dale Grimshaw, Dee Generate (Eater), Gaye Black (Adverts), Gee Vaucher (Crass), Jamie Reid (Sex Pistols), Knox (Vibrators), Nick Taggart (Zkrr Zkretna), Philip Barker (Buzzcocks), Poly Styrene (X Ray Spex), Shanne Bradley (Nipple Erectors), Shepard Fairey, Steve Ignorant (Crass) and Youth (Killing Joke).

Opening on August 12, 2010, ‘Beyond Punk’ will rage through August 21, 2010.

Signal Gallery, 96a Curtain Road, London.

Full preview after the jump.

Gavin Morrison and Kendra Johnson have recently opened IFF Galerie in Marseille. The inaugural exhibition, Le Deuil, opened on July 10 and continues through August 15, 2010.

About the exhibition -

IFF’s first exhibition in Marseille will be a group show of work related, in differing ways, to the idea of mourning. The ritualization of emotion and the pervading presence of an absent person, object or idea is captivated in a diversity of signs and gestures. Mourning does not only follow death, a sense of mourning haunts our everyday life and relationships. The knowledge that death will come to everyone tinges our interactions with a dark pallor. The exhibition develops ideas of this aspect of mourning as well as relating to that which has already gone. The work in the exhibition is at times literal but elsewhere a more lyrical association with mourning exists. In these times of ideological change mourning of the past exists as a constant presence.

Installation views from Le Deuil follow after the jump.

Arrested Motion has posted teasers of Sarah Joncas‘ upcoming show at ThinkSpace, “Siren.” The Canadian artist, who studies at the Ontario College of Art & Design, paints with an eye towards both high and low culture points of connection. Her narratives stem from deep observation of comics, literature, and film. To be base, they also revel in attractive female subjects.

“Siren” opens on September 3, 2010, at ThinkSpace (6009 Washington BLVD, Culver City, CA).

The show flier and more studio images after the jump.

Educated at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and based in Philadelphia, PJ Smalley explores digital experiences and art history in his paintings. This Summer, Smalley has unveiled four new works – Young Love,” “The Static Age,” “A Cyber Stalk to Remember,” and “Space Invaders”- all part of the “Personal Shrines, Redefined” series. Each of the portraits is influenced by Facebook.

Smalley’s work will make up a portion of a group showing this September at Philadelphia’s Stupid Easy.

View the remainder of “Personal Shrines, Redefined” after the jump.

Now on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Catherine Opie: Figure and Landscape.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art features recent work by the internationally renowned and LA-based photographer Catherine Opie. The show’s primary focus is high-school football, a subject that allowed Opie to explore issues of masculinity, community, and national identity. Over the last three years, Opie photographed football games and players in seven states across America. Atmospheric cues locate each regional site, while gestures and gazes reveal the adolescent players’ disparate psychologies. Looking past the clichés associated with football, Opie perceives diversity in the individuals and communities that celebrate the game. Shown in conjunction with LACMA’s exhibition Manly Pursuits: The Sporting Images of Thomas Eakins, Opie’s work similarly addresses and overturns conventions of idealism and realism.

The exhibition runs to October 17, 2010.

Learn about Manly Pursuits after the jump.

Actualized, and it feels so good is Canadian painter Andre Ethier’s second solo exhibition at Honor Fraser. The artist explores narrative with a haunting hybrid of styles – there are elements of portraiture, still life, folk, and sci-fi in the muddle – attempting to dig into his own subconscious. For the new body of work, on view through September 4, 2010, Ethier believes he’s tapped his own adolescent thoughts. If so, the ideas and themes are as varied as his stylistic influences, and taken all together it makes for fascinating viewing.

Honor Fraser, 2622 S. La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA.

Above – a detail of one of several paintings titled Untitled. A selection of other paintings follow.

Joe Sorren, an Arizona-based veteran of contemporary painting and sculpture, is gearing up for his first major museum retrospective. Set to open in November at Cal State Fullerton’s Grand Central Art Center, the exhibition will include 10 new works alongside some of his most notable past works. Sorren’s contemporaries include Todd Schorr and The Clayton Brothers, members of California’s pop infused art scene.

The exhibition will move to Sorren’s home state of Arizona (specifically the Coconiq Cultural Center in Flagstaff) in Spring.

When She was a Camera is shown above. More of Sorren’s work after the jump.

Now open at Joshua Liner Gallery, Sylvia Ji’s Las Adelitas mixes contemporary portraiture with tradional Mexican imagery.

Like the exhibition title suggests, Ji’s fifteen, acrylic-on-panel portraits depict fierce and feminine soldaderas, the spiritual sisters of women who assisted and fought alongside troops in the Mexican Revolution and were immortalized in folksong with the corrido “La Adelita.” Though not referencing soldiers, per se, Ji’s figures are warriors of sexual and moral ambiguity. With haunting and alluring beauty, they brim over melodramatically with a mix of sexual provocation and danger, as well as the threat of decay implicit in their skeletal markings. The artist has said that her paintings are symbolic reflections of herself or people she knows, but they are also totem images for a kind of universal revolutionary attitude of any age, gender, or cause.

Las Adelitas runs to August 7, 2010.

Joshua Liner Gallery, 548 W. 28th Street, New York, NY.

Selected works after the jump.