Clockwork for Oracles: Willy Bo Richardson Richard Levy Gallery August 7 – September 4, 2015 Artist reception: Saturday August 29, 6 – 8pm
Richard Levy gallery will exhibit the new series “Clockwork for Oracles” at the Seattle Art Fair, as well as the Richard Levy project room in Albuquerque. Also in the gallery: Altered States, an exhibition of selected editions by Gerhard Richter;and artist collective assume vivid astro focus (avaf).
Clockwork for Oracles is a series of paintings by Willy Bo Richardson that reaches for freshness. He states, “The paintings are made quickly and with as little editing and deliberation as possible. This doesn’t mean I’m not making esthetic and empirical decisions. It simply means I’m aspiring to the essence”.
Richard Levy Gallery Tuesday –Saturday, 11:00 am – 4:00 pm 514 Central Avenue SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102 505.766.9888, info@levygallery.com
Aftershock opens at James Kelly Contemporary on Friday, Aug. 7, creates his works in full awareness of the properties, history, and legacy of iron, his chosen medium. A public reception in honor of the opening of a new show by the sculptor Tom Joyce. Show will run from August 7th through October 3rd.
Aftershock: New work by Tom Joyce Friday, August 7, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm James Kelly Contemporary 1611 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe NM 87501
Jason Middlebrook imbues natural forms and found objects with references to the foremost abstractionists of the 20th century. He is best known for the carved and hewn tree trunks he uses as canvases for geometric composition —a jarring yet elegant juxtaposition of natural unpredictability with rigidly calculated forms.
The exhibition, which opens August 7, is a group show of ceramics and other media featuring work by Jeff Irwin, Adelaide Paul, Beth Cavener, Undine Brod, Michelle Erickson, Alessandro Gallo, John Byrd, Jeremy Brooks, Jan Huling, Wookjae Maeng, and Kate MacDowell. It is curated by Mark Del Vecchio and Garth Clark.
On view, beginning August 7th, at Peter Projects will be a selection of Leonardo Drew’s new prints. The forms within Drew’s compositions provide an experience of various textures and luminosities, enhancing and acknowledging the medium’s materiality, reminiscent of sculptural and painterly aesthetics.
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Join us for a conversation between Ellen Berkovitch of Adobeairstream.com and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (Nadya) and Maria Alyokhina (Masha), two founding members of the Moscow-based activist collective Pussy Riot.
Pussy Riot’s appearance in Santa Fe is a collaboration between SITE Santa Fe and the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. The arrival of Nadya and Masha kicks of the beginning of SITE’s 20th Anniversary — celebrating 20 years as a vital platform for creative expression, innovation and inspiration through the art of today. This conversation is also part of Santa Fe University of Art and Design’s Artists for Positive Social Change.
Your ticket purchase is a vote of support for creative freedom and enables SITE to continue to produce outstanding public programs that spark dialogue about the role of art in today’s society.
Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist punk-performance collective of approximately 10 women, known for staging provocative guerrilla-style public performances often with political themes. The group is instantly recognizable by their trademark brightly colored balaclavas, tights and short skirts.
Pussy Riot was founded in 2011 in reaction to the announcement that Vladimir Putin would run again in presidential elections, despite having served two consecutive terms from 2000 to 2008. Pussy Riot’s initial actions took the form of miniature flash mob protests in places like the Moscow Metro, where the group performed short and fast politically charged punk songs, harshly critical of the Putin government, specifically its restrictive stance on women’s issues. The group continued to use public performance and confrontation with authorities to bring attention to political repression, judicial and church corruption, LGBT issues, and women’s rights.
Pussy Riot gained international notoriety on March 3, 2012 after the arrest of 3 of their core members, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutselvich. The three were arrested for “Hooliganism motivated by religious hatred & hostility” after a performance in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior church in Moscow, which the group saw as a symbol of the corrupt collusion between the Russian state and church.
The performance consisted of a ‘punk prayer’, a song called “Holy Shit” which called for the Virgin Mary to overthrow Putin and criticized the corruption on the Orthodox Church, which the group sees as a propaganda instrument of Putin’s regime, citing frequent pro-Putin statements made by Russian Orthodox bishop, Patriarch Kirill, including “It is unchristian to demonstrate,” and “Putin has been placed at the head of the government by God”.
Once in custody, the three women were denied bail and held until their trial began in late July of that year. On August 17, 2012 the trio were convicted of “Hooliganism motivated by religious hatred,” and each was sentenced to two years in jail. While Yakaterina had her sentence suspended, both Nadezhda and Maria served their terms in Russian prison. Throughout the trial and their incarceration, the women attracted vocal international support from musicians, celebrities and politicians.
Since then, the group has become even more outspoken in their criticism of the Putin government and continues to perform, provoke and raise awareness around the world in spite of continual intimidation from the Russian government and media.
Ray with one of this new works in 2013. Photo: Facebook
Rex Ray, the San Francisco-based fine artist and graphic designer known for large-scale, brightly colored, 1960s-inspired, often psychedelic paintings, has succumbed today after a long battle with cancer. Ray, who’d been active on Facebook up until the last week of his illness, entered hospice care over the weekend and posted — or had help posting — one final message to friends this morning, saying, “I’ve left the building. xo.”
SFist confirmed the death with Ray’s gallery, Gallery 16 in SoMa, which submits their own obit that you can read in part below.
Ray had shown work at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, University Art Museum in Berkeley, San Jose Museum of Modern Art, The Crocker Museum in Sacramento, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, and Cheryl Haines Gallery. In 2013, he was commissioned to do a mural for the barricade covering the construction of the new Levi’s flagship store on Market Street.
In addition to his paintings, Ray was well known to local concert-goers for having designed over 100 concert posters for Bill Graham Presents, including for shows by The Rolling Stones, Patti Smith, REM, Bjork, U2, and Radiohead, a couple of which you can see below. He had also done graphic work for Apple, Dreamworks, Sony Music, Warner Brothers, City Lights Publishers, and Matador Records, as well as package designs for Diamanda Galás, Matmos, and Deee-Lite.
Writing for ArtSlant last year on the occasion of a solo show at Gallery 16, Kara Q. Smith wrote, “[These latest works] reflect a zenith of Ray’s prolific body of work, beaming proudly forward, as the artist himself battles illness. Prednisporata represents Ray’s unrelenting need to create beauty, to create that which will never fade, even as his health flickers and dims.”
From Gallery 16’s obituary, in part:
Celebrated artist and graphic designer Rex Ray died on February 9, 2015 in San Francisco, California after a prolonged struggle with cancer. A major cultural force in the art, literary, and activist communities in the Bay Area, he was recognized for his collage pop aesthetic.
Born Michael Patterson in Germany on a United States army base in 1956, he grew up in Colorado Springs and studied fine art at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. In 1981 he moved to San Francisco, completed his BFA at San Francisco Art Institute, where he entered graduate studies. During an era of anti-beauty aesthetics, Rex Ray committed himself to a lifelong practice embedded in beauty.
His career took off with ubiquitous digital designs produced as guerrilla marketing for nightclubs and rock ’n’ roll shows. He created the first t-shirts and posters for the San Francisco chapter of the protest group Act Up. An innovator in graphic arts, he was one of the first to embrace Mac-based technology combining color xerox, photo souvenirs, and typefaces of his own design…
In the early 90s, rebelling against his own highly successful computer graphics business, he returned to his studio practice generating a prolific body of work. His collage and painting of the last twenty years is marked by the use of parabolic forms, double images, and seemingly infinite repetition of eye-popping compositions. In Rex Ray: Art + Design (Chronicle Books, 2007) acclaimed novelist and cultural critic Douglas Coupland writes “Rex’s art correlates closely to that of other artists who seemingly cross over from design or pop art graphics, such as Takashi Murakami or Ryan McGinness.”
… Rex Ray is survived by his sister, Jean Cathey, and his brother, Kevin Patterson; Tim Gleason, Amy Scholder, Cydney Payton, Gent Sturgeon, and an enormous community of beloved friends.
