Our latest installment for RAD NAPA, a collaborative project with Thinkspace where the Napa Valley Vine Trail and Napa Valley Wine Train meet for a two-mile-long outdoor art gallery, is brought to the Napa Valley from Oakland artist Hueman.
Below are photos of the mural in progress and video shot by Birdman Photos.
The murals and installations for Vitality and Verve III: Transforming the Urban Landscape at the Long Beach Museum of art have been underway for a week now and the artists’ various visions continue to come to fruition.
Below are a few shots of Juan Travieso’s bold mural as a work in progress at the Long Beach Museum of Art.
Juan Travieso (born Havana, Cuba 1987), is an artist based in Miami and New York. His work explores notions of impermanence and decay through a combined language of pop, realism, and abstraction. Figures, be them humans or animals, are broken up into spaces and forms much like 3d models, speaking to both their temporality and transition into the digital age. What once was abstractions interacting with disappearing animals, are now figures of disappearing and transforming ideologies and culture. Travieso is a dynamic maker, he approaches painting with great appetite and produces a feast for the eyes and mind.
Join us Friday, June 29th for the opening night gala, After Dark.
Tickets available now for only $15 at: www.lbma.org/after-dark-2018
“Vitality and Verve III” is the third iteration of the collaborative series curated by Thinkspace Projects with the support of POW! WOW! Long Beach for the Long Beach Museum of Art, and will be featuring ephemeral murals and installations from Bordalo II, CASE, Evoca, Sergio Garcia, Herakut, Hush,
Jaune, Leon Keer, Koz Dos, Spenser Little, Fintan Magee, Dennis McNett, Drew Merritt, Michael Reeder, RISK, SEEN, Amy Sol, Super A, Juan Travieso, Dan Witz and Lauren YS
The Long Beach Museum of Art presents:
‘VITALITY AND VERVE III’
Curated by Thinkspace with support from POW! WOW! Long Beach
On View June 30, 2018 thru September 9, 2018 at:
Long Beach Museum of Art
2300 East Ocean Boulevard
Long Beach, CA. 90803
Friday, June 29 opening night gala tickets available now for only $15 at:
www.lbma.org/after-dark-2018
Dennise McNett is reimagining the south-west in his installation for the Long Beach Museum of Art for Vitality and Verve III. Below include a few shots of the dreamy install as a work in progress.
Dennis McNett became obsessed with printmaking in art school and never looked back, as a printmaker and printmaking educator, the graphic quality of woodcuts was a natural fit. The tactile nature of the medium requires an amount of energy that lends itself to McNett’s graphic drawings and animal imagery. A love of storytelling and mythology is alive in the works of Dennis McNett as he is able to capture the movements and interactions of his compositions to grab the viewer with an urgency of predator or prey.
Join us Friday, June 29th for the opening night gala, After Dark.
Tickets available now for only $15 at: www.lbma.org/after-dark-2018
“Vitality and Verve III” is the third iteration of the collaborative series curated by Thinkspace Projects with the support of POW! WOW! Long Beach for the Long Beach Museum of Art, and will be featuring ephemeral murals and installations from Bordalo II, CASE, Evoca, Sergio Garcia, Herakut, Hush,
Jaune, Leon Keer, Koz Dos, Spenser Little, Fintan Magee, Dennis McNett, Drew Merritt, Michael Reeder, RISK, SEEN, Amy Sol, Super A, Juan Travieso, Dan Witz and Lauren YS
The Long Beach Museum of Art presents:
‘VITALITY AND VERVE III’
Curated by Thinkspace with support from POW! WOW! Long Beach
On View June 30, 2018 thru September 9, 2018 at:
Long Beach Museum of Art
2300 East Ocean Boulevard
Long Beach, CA. 90803
Friday, June 29 opening night gala tickets available now for only $15 at:
www.lbma.org/after-dark-2018
HERAKUT is bringing their unique style to the walls of the Long Beach Museum of art, as they’ve been developing a new piece for ‘Vitality and Verve III’ this week at the Long Beach Museum of Art. Below include a few shots of the piece as a work in progress.
The duo, Herakut, HERA (Jasmin Siddiqui) and AKUT (Falk Lehmann) have been collaborating and working together for nearly 15 years. They are perfectly balanced, blending their own clearly defined and individual styles into a beautiful visual melody. Herakut is a yin and yang forces that have come together and become one of the most influential duos in the street art scene today. Inspired by quotes, lyrics, and various narratives found within the world, they develop pieces with the main objective of communicating a message, and will use whatever medium they can to translate their thoughts, as the purpose of their art is to communicate.
Join us Friday, June 29th for the opening night gala, After Dark.
Tickets available now for only $15 at: www.lbma.org/after-dark-2018
“Vitality and Verve III” is the third iteration of the collaborative series curated by Thinkspace Projects with the support of POW! WOW! Long Beach for the Long Beach Museum of Art, and will be featuring ephemeral murals and installations from Bordalo II, CASE, Evoca, Sergio Garcia, Herakut, Hush,
Jaune, Leon Keer, Koz Dos, Spenser Little, Fintan Magee, Dennis McNett, Drew Merritt, Michael Reeder, RISK, SEEN, Amy Sol, Super A, Juan Travieso, Dan Witz and Lauren YS
The Long Beach Museum of Art presents:
‘VITALITY AND VERVE III’
Curated by Thinkspace with support from POW! WOW! Long Beach
On View June 30, 2018 thru September 9, 2018 at:
Long Beach Museum of Art
2300 East Ocean Boulevard
Long Beach, CA. 90803
Friday, June 29 opening night gala tickets available now for only $15 at:
www.lbma.org/after-dark-2018
FLOURISH group show
Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Arizona
May 12 – August 12, 2017
Opening Reception with the Artists:
Friday, May 12, 2017
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Opening at Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum on May 12, 2017, is Flourish, a group exhibition featuring works by artists belonging to the New Contemporary Art Movement. Curated by Los Angeles’ Thinkspace Gallery, one of the Movement’s most active proponents, the exhibition showcases new and relevant talent by some of its most compelling artists. Working in a variety of stylistic veins, New Contemporary Art includes everything from Pop Surrealism, Muralism, Installation and Street Art, to Graffiti, Hyperrealism, Illustration, and Portraiture. Though seemingly disparate, these genres are all linked by a vibrant community, multiple stylistic allegiances, and a return to the expressive possibilities of figurative and representational content, driven by a more populist sensibility. The Movement is loosely defined by its shared interest in the social rather than the abstract or conceptual.
Largely self-supported and community-driven since the 90s, the New Contemporary Art Movement has been steadily gaining in international recognition over the past decade and is now widely recognized as both the largest and longest running art movement in history. Inclusive and diverse, several styles, media, and exhibition platforms fall within the Movement’s now widely cast net. The potential of representation inspires these artists to draw from popular and counter-cultural sources like music, illustration, comics, design, tattoo culture, skate culture and the like, looking to the outside world rather than to the more self-referential gestures that typify that of fine art.
Flourish features a project room installation by Felipe Pantone, and site-specific murals by Esao Andrews and Nosego. The group exhibition includes works by 1010, Aaron Nagel, Alex Garant, Alexis, Diaz, Allison Sommers, Amy Sol, Bec Winnel, Benjamin Garcia, Cinta Vidal, Craig ‘Skibs’ Barker, Curiot, Daniel Bilodeau, David Cooley, David Rice, Derek Gores, Dulk, Erik Siador, Ernest Zacharevic, Fernando Chamarelli, Frank Gonzales, Ian Francis, Icy and Sot, James Bullough, Joel Daniel Phillips, Jolene Lai, Juan Travieso, Kelly Vivanco, Kevin Peterson, Lauren Brevner, Linnea Strid, Liz Brizzi, Marco Mazzoni, Martin Whatson, Mary Iverson, Meggs, Michael Reeder, Molly Gruninger, Rodrigo Luff, Sarah Joncas, Sepe, Sergio Garcia, Stephanie Buer, Telmo Miel, Tran Nguyen, Wiley Wallace, and Yosuke Ueno.
A continuation of Thinkspace’s recent guest forays into institutional spaces, Flourish brings New Contemporary Art to a museological context. By mobilizing alternative platforms like social media for the dissemination of work, the gallery, and its artists, have an exponential public following in the context of group shows, especially when placed within an institutional space. This mutually beneficial exposure helps to increase the visibility of a Movement that has thrived and grown largely outside of institutional aegises.
According to Andrew Hosner, Curator and Co-owner of Thinkspace Gallery, “That is our plan with these collaborative shows, to continue to knock on the door of the establishment until more listen, more take notice, more start to add these artists to their permanent collections and start to give this movement the attention it has earned and deserves.”
Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum
One East Main Street
Mesa, Arizona 85201
www.mesaartscenter.com
480.644.6560
About the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum
Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum is the exciting visual art exhibition space at Mesa Arts Center. In five stunning galleries, MCA Museum showcases curated and juried exhibitions of contemporary art by emerging and internationally recognized artists. MCA Museum also offers lectures by significant artists and arts professionals, art workshops and a volunteer Docent program.
About Thinkspace Gallery
Founded in 2005, Thinkspace Gallery was established with a commitment to the promotion and dissemination of young and emerging art. The Culver City gallery is a catalyst for the emerging art scene in Los Angeles and beyond and is dedicated to the exposure of its artists and the support of their tenets. This young movement straddled between street art, graphic art, design and popular culture, is subject to steadily increasing international exposure and interest, and is in need of institutional advocates. Thinkspace is positioned to create opportunities and act as a visible platform for the New Contemporary movement, and its aim as a gallery is to establish both a curatorial forum and a collector base for its output. As an institution, Thinkspace is committed to the vision, risk and the exceptional talents that wield it. From the streets to the gallery, from the “margins” to the white cube, Thinkspace is re-envisioning what it means to be “institutional.” As a haven for talent, and a venue founded with passion, conviction, and community, the gallery’s mandate is rooted in belief and support.
http://thinkspacegallery.com
