Dan Miller and Creative Growth
Creative Growth Art Center serves adult artists with developmental, mental and physical disabilities, providing a stimulating environment for artistic instruction, gallery promotion and personal expression. Artwork fostered in this unique environment is included in prominent collections and museums worldwide.
all images from various sources
A visual history of skateboarding in New York City:
Full Bleed is a photography book coming out through Vice that has photos of skating in New York City from the last 30+ years. It was put together by Ivory Serra, Alex Corporan, and Andre Razo, with images from over 50 photographers. Patrick O’Dell is one of those photographers, and since he is the host of this show, we put the camera on him, as well as a few other people Jon Mehring and Tobin Yelland, and came up with this episode. We also got a chance to talk with Peter Bici. Beside being featured in several photos in the book, he is also good friends with a majority of the other skaters in there as well.
2010 Annual Art Auction Saturday, August 14, 2010 @ Anderson Ranch Arts Center. Works by International, National & Roaring Fork Valley Artists. Benefitting the educational programs of Anderson Ranch Arts Center.
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Thanks Julia
Fine Art photographer Jessica Hilltout travelled to the mysterious African island of Madagascar. The stunning results can be seen in her latest body of work, IMPERFECTION. Here are a few to check out.
Part of 2 of a dawn patrol outting to mysto mexican left point break. Israel Preciado stating his ideas most unmistakably. all photos by Quality Peoples.
Did you notice the errant striation in some of the photos? That’s what happens when a Greenough 9.5″ 4A fin meets the acrylic front port of a water housing.
Swell
art 1950-2010
Curated by Tim Nye and Jacqueline Miro. This survey of art inspired by surf and beach culture will open to the public on July 1st at the three locations in Chelsea and will include work by most members of the group of Venice Beach artists known as Light and Space and Finish Fetish.
The show historically contextualizes beach culture and its poetic and freeing nature on the Beat Generation, Assemblage, Light and Space, Finish Fetish, and early Pop Art. From this group of California artists, works by Wallace Berman, George Herms, Bruce Conner, Llyn Foulkes, Ed Kienholz, Billy Al Bengston, Tony Berlant, Ed Ruscha, Laddie John Dill, Dewain Valentine, Peter Alexander, John McCracken, Larry Bell, Craig Kauffman, and Helen Pashgian will be on view.
One of the main axes of the show is the obvious yet sensual relationship between Shapers and the Finish Fetish movement of the 60′s. As the show focuses on two cities, L.A. and New York, it attempts to place the Ocean and its proximity to both cities as an antidote to a cacophony of quantities, speed and competing images. It also addresses how later generations of artists have looked back at assemblage, ephemera and graffiti as a way to either incorporate or reject the piercing presence of branding, advertisement, and information technology.
SWELL is a state of mind, but it is also our way of understanding distant forces, the beyond.
a selection of personal work from John Clang
