Simmons & Burke
Simmons & Burke's newest works at Kohn throb with internal contradiction. Each of the eight huge prints dazzles and daunts. The artists, based in L.A., make their elaborate digital collages with surgical precision and sophistication, but the visual impact of what results has the blunt force of a hammer.
Read MoreOn Wednesday, October 28, 2015, LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) will host All Souls Eve: an immersive, macabre evening of dinner, cocktails, dancing, and live performances, capped off by silent and live auctions presented exclusively by Artsy. Artist Sue de Beer will be creating portraits on site, and honorees include Chef Craig Thornton aka Wolvesmouth. The gala will take place at the historic Ebell of Los Angeles.
Read MoreArtCrush 2015
July 29 - July 31, 2015
ArtCrush is Aspen’s premier summer event benefiting the Aspen Art Museum. This year’s event features the 2015 Aspen Award for Art presentation to renowned contemporary artist Lorna Simpson, a remarkable wine tasting, seated dinner, and both a live and silent auction of major works of contemporary art.
Thank you! to the all the artists that participated and supporters of Cry Me A River!
Simmons & Burke, Zoe Crosher, Jen DeNike, Todd Gray, Tanya Haden, Janet Levy, Rachael Neubauer, Ariana Papademetropoulos, Alia Penner, Fay Ray, Jim Shaw, Penny Slinger, Lola Rose Thompson
Special Thanks to: The Masons from Etoile Polarie #1 who lent a hand and gave their support. ANR Transport LLC, Carol Martori and Yogi Proctor, Thomas and Tanya Black, Ian Adams, Shelly Halcomb, Dorian Bennett, Charles Whited, Jr, Todd Erlandson and Sherry Hoffman, Laura Whitcomb, Mary Jo Thatcher, Marc Loeliger and Ilinca Manaila,Miraya Surya, Aaron R Collier, Chris McLellan, Christopher J. Alfieri, April Siese, Nina Schwanse, Eve Melvan, Blum & Poe, Michael Kohn Gallery, John d' Aaddario, Franklin Sirmans
Read MoreSimmons & Burke, Zoe Crosher, Jen DeNike, Todd Gray, Tanya Haden, Janet Levy, Rachael Neubauer,
Ariana Papademetropoulos, Alia Penner, Fay Ray, Jim Shaw, Penny Slinger, Lola Rose Thompson
Etoile Polaire Lodge #1
1433 N. Rampart St., New Orleans LA 70116
October 25, 2014 - January 25, 2015
Preview: October 23, 2014
Opening reception: November 14, 2014 6-9pm
Simmons and Burke have mashed and montaged digital data for a half-dozen years, working like naturalists to comb the web for denatured specimens of media and pop culture. The prosaic glut of data at their (and our) disposal is both their subject and their raw material. They are maximalists, collecting, cataloguing and combining culled imagery in prints of dazzling slickness.
Read MoreMysticism isn’t new to art, having prompted (among other things) the emergence of pure abstraction into the Modernist lexicon more than a century ago. At Michael Kohn Gallery, a group exhibition of about 30 paintings, sculptures, video, prints and mixed media works from the past 50 years by 14 artists shows that it’s alive and well today — albeit with a suitably altered consciousness.
Read MoreThe annual Armory Show in New York City is part museum, part gallery. With traditional and unconventional art on display from all over the world, it is a magnet for art lovers and art collectors. WSJ's Kelsey Hubbard was given a tour of the many unique works on site, from audio collages to video projections.
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