Microcosm @ Lo-Fi
The Opening Hours has some preview images: http://theopeninghours.com.au/2010/12/01/microcosm-sneak-peek/
The Final Show Ever @ Monster Children Gallery
SYDNEY’S ICONIC MONSTER CHILDREN GALLERY TO WIND UP OPERATIONS IN DECEMBER 2010
LARGER NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS TO FOLLOW
FINAL SHOW TO INCLUDE ONE OF THE MOST IMPRESSIVE COLLECTIONS OF CONTEMPORARY ART AUSTRALIA HAS EVER SEEN WITH NOTHING OVER $500
THURSDAY 9TH DECEMBER
Sydney’s iconic and internationally respected Monster Children gallery will hold its final exhibition in December of this year.
After five years of operation and over forty individual and group exhibitions, Monster Children directors, Chris Searl and Campbell Milligan, will close the doors of the gallery after the demand for proposed international and domestic creative projects and collaborations becomes a reality.
“The time has come to spread the brand to a much wider audience,” said co-director and creative director of Monster Children, Campbell Milligan. “At present we are only showing to the audience of Sydney and our goal has always been to showcase the artwork and creativity associated with our culture to the wider Australian population,” he said.
“We have many projects in the pipe-line that will see Monster Children and our contemporaries artworks seen by a wider audience and we are very excited about this new phase of Monster Children gallery. Although it might not be in Sydney, Monster Children gallery will take some shape or form in other urban centres,” he added.
Co-director and photographic editor of Monster Children, Chris Searl, said he is proud of what the Monster Children gallery has achieved over the past five years. “Thomas Campbell, Alex Kopps, Kill Pixie, Neck Face, Steven Powers, Zawada, Lister, Evan Hecox, Daniel Johnston, Ed Templeton, Jose Parla… the list goes on that has shown at the gallery. Our intention was always to bring this brand of art to Australia when no one else was doing it and with this in mind, we have achieved our goal.”
With the U.S launch of the magazine in March of 2010 (the first independent Australian magazine to launch in America), Monster Children has seen the brand grow rapidly and is now in a position to execute more creative endeavours.
Monster Children would like to thank all those individuals and companies who have both been patrons and sponsors of the gallery over the years.
The final show at the Darlinghurst location opens on the 9th of December from 6 pm. With artwork from the likes of Barry McGee, Ed Templeton and Mark Gonzales, this show is sure to be one of the best Australia has seen in 2010.
Address:
20 Burton St, Darlinghurst
Sydney NSW.
(Source: monsterchildren.com)
Posted December 1, 2010 at 7:19pm in Sydney opening Kill Pixie thomas campbell jason lee gonz evan hecox an anthony lister
Don’t Push Mong @ China Heights
The exhibition will house works by Luke Brown, Andy Murphy, Rome Torti, Nate Gamble, Jack Tarlinton, Beastman, Marcello Guardigli, E.L.K, and Steve Gourlay.
With each artist working in their ideal medium, the show will combine illustration, photography, screen prints, skateboard deck stencils and UV cured prints, and 3D illustrations. Plus a Verb display by Alice Edy, Kronk, Bruce Mackay, Wesley Van Eeden, Jordan Metcalf, Black Koki, Bison & Theory One.
Linked directly by a simple connection to the lifestyle and aesthetics of skateboarding, all of the artists recollect a youth generated movement through their applied mediums.
OPENS FRI 7-10PM, DECEMBER 3CONT’D DAILY 12-5PM, UNTIL SUN DECEMBER 5CHINA HEIGHTS GALLERYLEVEL 3, 16-28 FOSTER ST, SURRY HILLSwww.chinaheights.com
Posted October 22, 2010 at 8:24am in Sydney cara stricker lo-fi collective opening burning man festival photography
Gavin Rea “Sidewalk Runway” @ blank_space
Sidewalk / Runway - by Gavin Rea
A collection of photography works from New York City
Saturday 23rd - Friday 29th October
This exhibition is a collection of NYC street photography mixed with backstage imagery from New York Fashion Week, by renowned Australian Fashion photographer Gavin Rea.
It includes both traditional photographic prints and digital 3D images.
“Gavin’s early inspiration came via the rich natural locations and the extraordinary light of Australia, however in more recent times he has further developed his emotive style on the buzzing streets of NYC, where he captures the pulse of the restless City as well as all the sizzle of the notorious New York Fashion scene.”
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11am-6pm Friday - Tuesday
374 Crown St Surry Hills Sydney NSW 2010
Petro - “Too Big To Be Human” @ CHINA HEIGHTS
China Heights is proud to present ‘Too Big To Be Human’, an exhibition by PETRO.
PETRO has been an active graffiti writer since the early 1980’s, heavily influenced by British electric boogaloo graffiti nostalgia and all that is off-key. Throughout this time, he has developed an unmistakable style and a solid reputation within this anonymous subculture.
For this exhibition PETRO has combined the traditions of graffiti lettering, the galactic funk, wonky pattern repetition, primitive drawings of fantasy characters and an unhealthy obsession with Ralph Lauren. As well as art concepts including installation and performance, and his detailed pieces, entitled ‘Life of a Pencil’.
Despite the epic transition and employment of new forms, concepts and expression, PETRO stays true to his approach. Bringing personality to letter form and bending the laws of the alphabet, along with painting all over the world and remaining unidentified have elevated PETRO into a faceless yet prolific spotlight.
OPENS FRI 6-9PM, 22 OCTOBER
CONT’D DAILY 12-5PM UNTIL OCTOBER 24
CHINA HEIGHTS GALLERY
LEVEL 3, 16-28 FOSTER ST, SURRY HILLS
Too Big To Be Human After Party:
FRIDAY 22 OCTOBER, 9.30PM
CHING-A-LINGS, 133 OXFORD ST, DARLINGHURST
