Tiki Oasis '11

"Burros, Black Velvets and Other Delights"

group art show at Tiki Oasis 11  

to benefit WiLDCOAST

Fri. Aug. 19th  through Sun. Aug. 21st, 11 am - 4 pm     

Reception for the artists: Saturday Aug. 20th, 1 pm

Lahaina Room in The Crown Plaza Hotel  

as part of Tiki Oasis 11

August 18-21, 2010
San Diego, CA

www.tikioasis.com

 

Show preview available after August 1

  

Inspired by toreadors and jai alai, street tacos and warm summer nights on sandy beaches, "Burros, Black Velvets, & Other Delights" conjures up visions of tequila fueled visits to Tijuana when Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass were king. Contributing artists were asked to submit an original black velvet painting or modify a random Tijuana style Burro or Piggy Bank sent to the artist by show curators Baby Doe and Reesenik

All proceeds from "Burros,   Black Velvets, & Other Delights" will benefit WiLDCOAST, founded in 2000 to protect and conserve some of the most ecologically important coastal wildlands, lagoons, and marine ecosystems that remain in California and throughout Baja California. WiLDCOAST has successfully conserved more than 1.8 million acres of coastal wildlands and wildlife habitats. WiLDCOAST works with local communities in San Diego to protect and restore their beaches and open spaces through hands-on restoration projects, cleanups, environmental education and community involvement.

 

        

 Tiki Oasis is proud to feature the top tiki artists  

paying homage to Tijuana's past including: 

  

Atomikitty 

 Babalu
 BigToe
 Bowana
 Cass McClure (aka junkhauler)
 Crazy Al Evans
 Danny Gallardo
 Dave Lozeau
 Dave Warshaw
 Dawn Frasier Sophista-tiki
 Derek Yaniger

 Doug DoOr
 Doug Horne
 Eric October
 Erin Joy
 Jason Rodgers
 Jason Sallin
 Jennifer Kenworth "Juanita"
 John Mulder
 Joshua Ellingson
 Ken Ruzic/Little Lost Tiki
 Maya Rodgers
 Michael Fleming (aka Tweedlebop)
 MP
 Pizz
 Reesenik
 Thor
 Tiki King
 Tiki Tony
 Wendy Cevola

images: 

"Mai Tai" Piggy bank by Derek Yaniger

Piggy Bank by Doug DoOr   

Burro by Babalu  

For more information - please contact Lee Joseph at  

leejemail@gmail.com or 818-848-2698 (p), 818-415-5543 (f)

Jessicka Addams, Walt Hall, Derek Harrison, Rodolfo Loaiza, Miso, Click Mort, Jasmine Worth

Jessicka Addams, Walt Hall, Derek Harrison, Rodolfo Loaiza, Miso,   Click Mort, Jasmine Worth August 5 - 28 Opening Reception: Friday, August 5, 8-11 pm Also showing: Lou Beach, Alpha Lubicz and Sam Lubicz "Gene Pool" La Luz de Jesus Gallery 4633 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90027 323-666-7667 www.laluzdejesus.com  info@laluzdejesus.com Jessicka Addams "Little Grey Secrets"    "Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret." - Ralph Waldo Emerson What do you say to yourself when no one else is listening? No, not the good things that may be little white lies you fool yourself into believing.  The bad things. The ones that would scare others, the ones that are soft and rotted, the ones you poke at until they burst. Those are your little grey secrets: half truths you repeat over and over, that are intended to remind you of your shortcomings...and sometimes, of your complete and utter failure. With Little Grey Secrets, Jessicka Addams pokes at her characters' soft spots until they bleed.  They're unraveling, damaged: masks askew, nooses tightening, strings dangling. Their world is not black or white, only grey - a color that has no opposite. They have no clear moral value. They're stripped naked, but don't get Freudian - the naked truth has nothing to do with grey secrets. Armed with a glue gun and a dream, Florida-born, Los Angeles-based artist Jessicka Addams (also known as Jessicka) is also the founding member and singer of such seminal indie rock bands as Jack Off Jill and scarling. As a child, Jessicka was obsessed with masks because they represented a place to hide and an opportunity for those who gazed upon them to seek out what lay beneath. As an adult, she uses masks as a symbol to show the myriad of ways we hide behind our own faces in order to protect our true selves daily.  Jessika Addams Show preview forthcoming   Walt Hall "Neu"   Much like Barry McGee, to whom he is often compared, Walt Hall is deeply rooted in the street art medium of wheat pasting. As one half of the art partnership Lost Cause Society, Hall has become something of a staple in the downtown Los Angeles art scene. His style is neither strictly graffiti nor classical, making his mixed media and found material paintings an entirely new milieu. His pieces explore a theme of isolation within groups utilizing a set of characters that has evolved with his local fame. Walt has been an annual attraction in the Everything But the Kitschen Sync group show, but this is his first featured exhibition at La Luz de Jesus. Walt Hall "Neu" show preview    Derek Harrison "Warmth"   Derek Harrison first caught our attention in this year's annual Everything But the Kitschen Sync show with his distinct, painterly portraits of strong and vulnerable women. His friendship and work/study with fellow La Luz de Jesus alumni Shawn Barber has further enriched his  talents in the areas of foundation painting and composition. His unique blend of  technique and nostalgic eroticism combine to produce a stunning collection of femme fatales (and the objects of their mystique) captured ever more in moments of great candor. Derek Harrison "Warmth" show preview     Click Mort "Res Ipsa Loquitur, Baby!"  Click Mort is much more than a great collagist. His unique recombinations of nostalgic pop-sculpture show his lifetime fascination for oddity as well as his meticulous craftsmanship, and it's perhaps no surprise to learn that Click served a brief stint playing guitar for The Cramps earlier in his career. His exquisite alterations of antique Rockwell, Hummel, and other miniature gift statuettes require a jeweler's precision in the extensive cutting, scultping, sanding, and painting involved in creating these pop-culture chimeras. Like his contemporary Ron English, Click Mort's unique methodology is a prime example of art that transcends its origins, elevating kitsch and improving the source pieces, which are works of art in themselves. Click Mort "Res Ipsa Loquitur, Baby!" show preview      José Rodolfo Loaiza Ontiveros "Disenchanted"   José Rodolfo Loaiza Ontiveros' four jury selected paintings from the Everything But the Kitschen Sync group show this past March were among the first pieces to sell, and additional paintings from this young Mexican artist were requested to such a degree that we had to build a database to keep track of them.   His latest project, Disenchanted, seeks to demystify the modern fairytale. Rodolfo juxtaposes representations of animation's yesteryear with unexpected, almost antithetical situations. While his subjects (in another context) might embody the quintessential happy ending, Rodolfo reminds is that as individuals we are neither wholly immune nor entirely susceptible to viscera. We absorb a narrative that is neither truth nor lie, allowing elements of fantasy to become our reality, and so it should come as no surprise to discover elements of reality intruding on our richest fantasies. Even material that is created as an escape from waking life can be impacted by the real world, changing the original aesthetic completely.   During this visual journey, Loaiza attaches a human reality as embodied by perversion, voyeurism and addiction, evolving into the more complicated topics of homosexuality, rape and even faith. This art is intended to make the viewer question his or her own stance on the issues, while addressing the obvious omission of such discussion in the cartoon medium that provides the vehicle for the concept. This exhibition is half tribute and half social criticism. It's a re-contextualized artistic proposal on the strength of time-honored iconoclasm and the weakness of haphazard ideology. José Rodolfo Loaiza Ontiveros "Disenchanted" show preview  Miso "An Introduction to Pathology"  Karen Hsiao has two completely different artistic identities. As Miso, she has populated an entire universe of fantastic creatures and landscapes, which she has sold successfully via Jonathan Levine and Corey Helford Galleries. For this exhibition she has developed a coroner's curiosity for the anatomical understructures of her ordinarily cuddly creations, and in no uncertain terms this is a darker, more scientific approach. Devoid of even a single sculptural work, An Introduction to Pathology continues the autopsy of "cute" begun with this past March's Everything But the Kischen Sync show. Each antique-framed oil painting comes with its own magnifying glass, which elicits exquisite detail while assigning a medical examiner's view. Here Miso has literally dissected her own art and revealed the living, breathing sentiment at its core -perhaps leaving viewers with the discomforting thought that art may only be as immortal as the artist allows. But how exhilarating that the dark underbelly is every bit as enchanting as the glossy, fluffy surface... Miso "An Introduction to Pathology" show preview      Jasmine Worth "Together Forever"  Jasmine Worth's latest collection is titled Together Forever. In this series she's focused on the obvious (and sometimes not so obvious) interconnectedness of people; the ways our associations shape our lives, whether beneficial or parasitic, enriching and fulfilling or codependent and detrimental. In many ways we are the sum of those we encounter. Sometimes these encounters lead to lifelong bonds, and sometimes the briefest connection can have surprisingly lasting effects. It is these interconnected relationships and intertwining of lives that pair the focus in Together Forever -works exploring the ways in which others shape who we are. Jasmine Worth crafts scenes from fairytales gone awry-swirling seamlessly between the sweet and surreal, inevitably dipping into the valley of the morbid. She studied formally at Watts Atelier as well as Studio 2nd Street in Encinitas, CA, and earned her BFA from the Laguna College of Art and Design. While she possesses the credentials, the product of her toils clearly pours from the cobwebbed corners of her mind, not the classroom. Her paintings-a cabaret of vibrant hues-are a blend of soft textures and colorful characters, juxtaposed against gloomy themes. Created in her home of San Diego, Jasmine combines dark influences and subtle-yet-serious undertones with raw artistic talent and a rarely seen creativity. Her work exudes a strong bearing of individuality, manifested through characters that speak almost vocally and give a new element of depth to an otherwise two dimensional medium. Each scene tells a story and every story is as diverse in emotion as it is in appearance. Jasmine Worth "Together Forever" show preview ###  La Luz de Jesus Gallery 2011  July Mark Todd "Force Field"   Van Saro, Simon Sotelo, Andy Steele, Hui Tan   August Lou Beach, Alpha & Sam Lubicz "Gene Pool" Jessicka Addams, Walt Hall, Derek Harrison, Rodolfo Loaiza, Miso, Click Mort, Jasmine Worth "Sketch Theater Vol 1" book signing  September Rob Reger Lauren Gardiner  Dr. Paul Koudounaris' "Empire of Death" book release party  October "La Luz de Jesus 25" Part One Beyond Eden Multi Gallery Event at LAMAG     November "La Luz de Jesus 25" Part Two" December Robert Burden: "Toy Box" New Works by Daniel Martin Diaz       Publicity contact for more info - interviews - images: Lee Joseph Publicity for the Visual Arts (o) 818-848-2698 - (c) 818-415-5543 leejemail@gmail.com - www.leejosephpublicity.com

Yago Hortal: Works on Canvas

 

YAGO HORTAL: WORKS ON CANVAS AT ROOSTER GALLERY, 190 ORCHARD STREET, LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC   OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 6-8PM EXHIBITING FROM AUGUST 4 – 28   The exhibition at Rooster Gallery is comprised of canvases portraying Hortal’s exploration of the abstract. His works are characterized by plastically shapeless blobs of bright paint that mingle fluidly with one other, thus creating a psychedelic effect. In their violent yet harmonious twists and swirls, Hortal’s canvases resemble a Glenn McKay liquid light show or an acid-induced reverie. Sometimes vertiginously fast, other times smoothly slow, Hortal’s canvases seem to have a dual existence. But maybe it’s all in our mind and in the way we relate to the works. They change from day to day, reflecting our intimate connection with time. What sometimes appears to the viewer as a chaotic space can also, in a strange relationship between eye and psyche, appear perfectly ordered. We should not be surprised. Emil Cioran said, “Chaos is being yourself,” but ultimately by being yourself you realize how imperfectly everything is ordered. Yago Hortal was born in Barcelona, Spain (1983). He lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Yago graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona in 2006, having already studied the 4th Course at the University of Seville in 2004/2005. In 2007 he won the art prize “Premi a la Pintura Jove de la Sala Parés,” sponsored by the Fundació Banc Sabadell.   For additional information please visit: www.roostergallery.com

Sponsored by Esporão Wines www.esporao.com

 

 

Alexander Slonevsky, Director            Andre Escarameia, Director

212.230.1370                                                    646.637.2097

alex@roostergallery.com                                andre@roostergallery.com

 

Pastorals and Portraits

“Pastorals and Portraits”
Duo Exhibition with Kevin Menck and Ken Pledger

On Display from August 4 – August 31, 2011

M Gallery of Fine Art is pleased to present a duo exhibition featuring
the work of Ken Pledger and Kevin Menck. The show, entitled “Pastorals
and Portraits,” will hang from August 4 - August 31st. The opening
reception will be held on Friday, August 5th , in tandem with the
First Friday Art Walk.

Born and raised in Wadsworth, Ohio, Ken Pledger began studying with
Jack Richard in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. He then studied with Robert
Brackman for two summers before moving to Colorado. With age and
experience has come a much looser approach to the application of
paint, the “painterly approach” in essence. His latest body of work,
which will appear in “Pastorals and Portraits,” will consist of over a
dozen portraits and landscapes, and represents a move towards that
painterly approach. The painting he is most proud of in the collection
is “Janelle” for its “handling of paint and feeling of light.”

Kevin Menck was born and raised in middle Tennessee. In 2002, Kevin
met local painter Jason Saunders, who was instrumental to his artistic
development. Saunders introduced Menck to landscape painting and also
instilled the importance of painting "en plein aire." “Pastorals and
Portraits” will feature 15 landscapes by Menck, 98% of which were
painted “en plein aire.” The paintings Menck are the most proud of are
those that represent a challenge. On one occasion, he was asked to
point out just such a painting at an opening. At first glance, the
painting appeared to be simple but to Menck it was a masterpiece.

“Close values, waning moody light, a certain feel that was very
difficult to achieve. But after the dust settled I had nailed the look
and feel of the landscape at that moment. Those are the ones I am most
proud of. Those paintings that make you feel like you have pushed
through to another level in your development,” says Menck.

Both Kevin Menck and Ken Pledger have a background in illustration.
Pledger received his degree in Illustration from Cooper School of Art.
Menck graduated from The Harris School of Art and worked as a
self-employed illustrator for 15 years.  "Illustration for me was a
huge asset, specifically for my understanding of drawing and the
fundamentals,” explains Menck. “When I started this, I could draw if
nothing else, and when I see students and artists struggle with it I
take it for granted that that was something I had when I stepped into
this and it is the foundation to all of this. “

Both Menck and Pledger have a great love of the outdoors. Pledger
moved to Colorado in 1980, where he took workshops with several
artists such as Jim Wilcox, Howard Carr, Richard Schmid, and Len
Chmiel. “To paint a good landscape, I always try and remember what it
was that I Iiked about a particular scene. The wind blowing over the
tops of the trees, a sunset, a feeling of calm. The ability to paint
emotion seems almost unattainable,” says Pledger. While in Colorado,
Pledger spent much of the time in the mountains. Of his experience of
the Colorado landscape, Pledger says: “I lived in Colorado for a very
long time, and know the mountains well. The mountains are like nowhere
else except maybe the ocean, and if one can have both that would be
great.” Pledger now lives in Nebraska with his wife Robyn, but hopes
to return to Colorado with its majestic scenery.

Kevin Menck is an avid outdoorsman whose greatest inspiration is the
local landscape. Of his source of inspiration Menck says, “It's being
outside, afield, and walking and looking and listening. [It’s]
watching the sunset and sunrise, standing in a snowstorm, looking at a
fresh cut hay field from thousands of different angles. It inspires
me, and even with the creative energy and excitement ,it generates in
me. There are just not enough hours in a day to see and paint it all.”
When Kevin is not outdoors, he spends his time with his wife, Karyn,
and their two daughters, Mary Kathryn and Sarah Beth. He and his
family live in Nashville, Tennessee.

This is the first duo show for both Menck and Pledger. Both are
excited to see how their paintings will compliment each other and for
the potential new perspective on their work.

All visitors are welcome!
General Information: M Gallery of Fine Art SE, LLC 11 Broad Street,
Charleston, SC 29401.  Website: www.mgalleryoffineart.com.
843.727.4500.