PIXNIT - Graffiti/Street Art Spore Campaign - Solo Show October 27th - December 1

SOLO SHOW...FIRST LOS ANGELES SPORE CAMPAIGN AND GALLERY EXHIBIT

RECEPTION AND VIEWING
OCTOBER 27TH
6PM TO 10PM

PIXNIT page

PIXNIT news
Basel Switzerland
Boston Globe
Boston Magazine Artists Superheroes Project (PIXNIT as BatGirl)

Pixnit was in Europe for most of the Spring and Summer, pollinating building exteriors and public places and things with ornamental "Spores".

Using a combination of large hand-cut stencils and stickers, PIXNIT made marks in Amsterdam, London, Paris and Basel. Upon returning to Boston, a feverish production ensued to create new work for this solo show.


Street art in all shapes and forms and by many different artists is an integral part of the art scene here in Los Angeles.
We are super pleased about hosting this emerging street artist here and promoting this new, fresh approach to an already vital and important part of the art landscape.
(No pun intended!!)




Here are a few examples of how this genre is heavy hitting the scene. It only further validates the perfect timing of this show and the exciting energy surrounding the genre.

Berry McGee at Roberts and Tilton
Buffmonster at Corey Helford
Shepard Fairey at Merry Karnowsky
(sorry, the last 2 galleries do not have installation images of the shows on their sites...~sigh~)

Gallery Revisited

Michael C. Hsiung and Ashley Goldberg, August 4th - September 1

Prints and Silk Screens we all Scream for ... oops.

Several people have asked me about prints....prints prints prints....alls I hear about is prints!!

Prints are great for acquiring images by your favorite artist while still being excited that you can collect more or eat something other than the ubiquitous Top Ramen for the next week.
(Now, that is assuming that people can't afford to buy art or that they have plebeian culinary palettes...and that is not true - so I don't want to lump all of you together.)

But more importantly -- the point of duplication is recognition.
Hmm, I think I just made that up....and what I am trying to say is no different than what I have been saying the last 3+ years of having the gallery:

The more art out there by a particular artist, the more he/she will get known. Prints are a way to facilitate the career of an artist and cultivate the next generation of collectors.

Always one to encourage collecting original work, but one who understands frugality, I have to support prints out of objectivity.
But don't be disappointed because your one favorite image is $235 and there are no $45 ones being made. Go on a payment plan. You will be so glad 10 years from now when you want to buy a house and need to make some cash at auction.

In fact, here are some astounding recent art sales from London.

For all others there is Gallery Revisited.

To purchase email Leora: ***backroom at galleryrevisited.com***

Cole Gerst
"Hawk"(blue) $85. 18 x 24


Cole Gerst "owl" $85. 18x24


***backroom at galleryrevisited.com***

Have a wonderful weekend!
Love, Leora Lutz. Gallery Revisited

Michael C. Hsiung and Cole Gerst June 23rd - July 28th

For Immediate Release – Los Angeles, June 8th, 2007
RECEPTION FOR THE ARTISTS: Saturday June 23rd, 2007 6pm – 10pm
show ends: July 28th.

Gallery Revisited, as in the last 4 years, is open for art in the summer.
This summer we are featuring the work of Michael C. Hsiung
for 2 consecutive back-to-back 2-person shows:
June 23rd with Cole Gerst and August 4th with Ashley Goldberg.
There will be different work by Michael C. Hsiung for each show.


Michael C. Hsiung – new drawings
“Depiction of the Quasi - Mythical Lands and of its Inhabitants and their interactions most carefully drawn, featuring various diverse animals, uncommon mermen and bearded men within extremely peculiar wonders of nature priorly known neither to man or woman”
Cole Gerst – new silk screens
“Burden”

Michael C. Hsiung is known for his black and white ink drawings depicting oddly realistic tales. Protagonists include Mermen in precarious and questionable situations, Victorian athletes and fancy men with their dead or tended-to prey and hobbies, or the struggles and plights of imaginary and real animals. Antagonists include any combination of these mentioned. Hsiung’s drawings portray scenarios that are relatable in a most perplexing and somewhat Un-Politically correct way – yet somehow so right. His remarkably dry sense of humor compliments his work, making it magnetic and infectious.

“In my work, I illustrate my own imaginative world, a place where creatures of fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and lullabies, which are a part of our childhood and adult culture, interact - be it warring or not. …These themes are often combined with humor commonly used by those in dysfunctional relationships.” – Michael C. Hsiung

This year, in addition to preparing for his show, Michael has done numerous commissions for swag and t-shirts for Jupiterdesigns at the How Conference in Atlanta. He is also busy with band CD covers as well as posters for such artists as Division Day and Great Northern. Dr. Martin’s will be launching an artist shoe line called Defy, which will feature original work by Michael. The show will have some 2 dozen original works and several limited edition silk screens accompanied by installation ephemera.



Cole Gerst depicts wild animals, nature habitats and urban electrical iconography in this new body of work called “Burden”. Gerst begins with drawings and paintings which are then translated into limited edition silk screen works on paper. Cohesive layers of simple silhouettes are laid in a collage manner, creating an iconographic. Inspired by folk and outsider art from his native Atlanta, Gerst’s work is raw, spontaneous and unadulterated. All are dreamy and insightful with beautifully chosen color that mirrors his influences while being current and at once timeless. These new silk screens present a cohesive direction that allows each piece to stand alone and also relate to the next. More than a dozen short-run new works will be showcased.

Cole Gerst is the founder and the artistic director of "option-g". Cole Gerst has been broadening his audience for the last 10+ years via his signature manner on numerous music posters for popular bands such as Beck, Stereolab, The Shins, Modest Mouse as well as close-to-home Silver Lake posters; Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs for Spaceland, Sunset Junction and an Elliot Smith tribute. He is contributing cartoonist and illustrator for LA Weekly and has an apparel line under the marker “option-g”.

Revisited artist in art Basel, Switzerland

Gallery Revisited is pleased to congratulate our artist, PIXNIT for her opportunity to install a 29 foot mural at SCOPE Basel!!



I will be in Basel to rendezvous with PIXNIT and show our support and enthusiasm for her work.

I arrive on June 10th -- late at night...then wake up to a whirlwind of fairs, visiting with Pix, flyering her mural and making lots of new contacts for the gallery.

I leave on the 14th and go back in time to arrive in Los Angeles again, also on the 14th....

PIXNIT will be showing with us this Fall 2007.

LA Times Review of RETHINKING

Gallery Revisited is pleased to announce a recent review of David E. Stone's current solo exhibition RETHINKING (what has already been committed to memory).

"Static (Horizontal)" before live installation during opening reception.

"Static (Horizontal)" completed during opening reception.

We would like to extend our thanks to Holly Myers, for writing such a concise and glowing account of David's history as an artist here in Los Angeles, as well as the relevance of this show.

Review:
LA Times, May 25th, 2007 Around the Galleries by Holly Myers
(second segment)"David E. Stone, Artwork in an echo chamber"...

It can be difficult to get a handle on what David E. Stone is up to from news releases, announcements or other documentation because his projects — conceptual in nature and thus difficult to capture in a jpeg — tend to involve a rather baffling number of parts.

His first project in Los Angeles, launched immediately upon his arrival from Sacramento in 2004, consisted of 12 consecutive one-month exhibitions and a dizzying proliferation of multiples, including two series available by monthly subscription (in editions of 12 and 365, respectively); a series of 365 prints, each in an edition of two, auctioned one per day throughout the year on EBay; and a variety of wallet-sized trading cards, available both signed and unsigned, in limited and unlimited editions.

Got that?

His current exhibition at Gallery Revisited has had two parts. The first was up for three days before the opening and didn't involve any artwork, just printed signs describing the works in his last exhibition at the gallery, in September.

The second, installed over the course of the opening, includes a dozen of his own works plus works by three other artists (despite its purporting to be a solo show): Richard Haley, Stephen Kaltenbach and Cathy Stone.

The conceptual basis for all this rigmarole is quite clever, fortunately, and does ultimately reward the attention it demands. The show's title, "Rethinking (what has already been committed to memory)," is a play on the name of the gallery, as was the first half's "revisiting" of previous works. The show's invitation depicts a photograph of the word "rethinking" handwritten and erased multiple times. The three guest artists all revisit some previous work of Stone's, and Cathy Stone's drawing mimics the invite, using only the word "remember."

The works themselves echo the works in the previous show on a formal level as well. A close-up photograph of contact lenses, for instance, hangs on a wall that previously held works involving record albums; a low black platform loaded with thumbtacks and paper clips appears in a spot that previously held a similar platform with a few hundred puzzle pieces.

The works also echo one another. The tacks and paper clips, for instance, are a three-dimensional approximation of the two-dimensional work that hangs just above: a photograph of television static.

Disentangling these threads can be entertaining, but what holds the show together is the quiet formal elegance of the pieces themselves: the contact lenses with their soft lavender glow, the glint of the paper clips below the snow of the static, and a photograph of matchbooks stacked on a reflective surface (the reflection being a "revisited" version of the image?), to name a few.

Italian Blog Interviews our artists

Michael Hsiung has another interview! This time in an Italian Blog written by Claudio Parentela.
There is however, a little boo-boo. Michael's show is in June 2007, not June 2008. I hope he is not
getting too ahead of himself, although I would love to keep showing him!

Now, twice in two weeks I got email links from the artists about these interviews, and I finally emailed Claudio, because out of pure coincidence, he is interviewing a lot of artists who I show here.

Claudio has another blog - the same one that interviewed David Trulli and Lisa Money Penny (we have work by both of them in our Salon) a little while ago.


Most recently he posted an interview by another Gallery Revisited artist, Ya Ya Chou. Ya Ya says, "I am a small dot on the planet." Read more.

Michael Hsiung is interviewed

Michael Hsiung has an interview on OurArtSite.

I just spent some time with Michael last night. We are brainstorming some exciting ideas for his show; June 23 - July 28.

It's a multi-faceted show; famous Michael Hsiung drawings with related installation.
In addition, the launch of an artist book with his friend, Kathleen Brzezinski - Kathleen is writing, while Michael does drawings to coincide...together we shall see tales unravel of a most curious and humorous kind.

This is a 2 person show in the Main Gallery with Cole Gerst of option-g fame. Cole is working on all new silkscreens in limited editions of 50 or 100.


Together the show seems to be evolving around some common imagery - animals, man vs. technology, man vs. nature....we shall see as time goes by, how the creative juices will flow.

more PIXNIT news

PIXNIT - the Gallery Revisited favorite street artist extraordinairess has some recent news.

Pixnit is a contributor to a new Artist Book called 99 Silhouettes
It is put out by
Debut Publications in the UK. Order yours on line today!!

BigRed and Shiny has a piece she wrote "Theatre of the Absurd" - about the Boston street art epidemic and stir.

PIXNIT will be collaborating with Indie Fashion Designer, Megyn Florence. She will be incorporating Spores onto pieces of the 2007 new line, to preview in Paris, like right now.

Saatchi Revisited, Friends

I posted on the Saatchi site.

Should be interesting to see if anything comes of it...they seem to be really going full force with the site, although I do agree that the participants should be juried or invited a little bit more carefully.
I was looking at one of the "galleries", and it is one man's work - most likely a vanity gallery. That should really go under the artists listing page.
And he should not be calling it a gallery - he should call it a studio or exclusive or so-and-so fine art -- something. Even if it has a store front. Just not "gallery".

Also, Friends, be our friend on Myspace. It's awesome and totally a pop culture weirdy thing. But if it is ok with ArtReview, then it is ok with Gallery Revisited.
Be our Friend!!

new show Feb 3 - March 17

Gallery Revisited is pleased to announce our first show of the new year.

Reception Saturday February 3, 2007. 6pm – 10pm
Collector and Media Preview Days Thursday Feb. 1 & Friday Feb. 2, 12pm – 6pm
Show ends March 17th, 2007.
Collector and Media preview days are Thu. Feb. 1st and Fri. Feb. 2nd.

Elana Kundell and Jessica Robbins will be showing all new work - paintings.

Press Release:

Jessica Robbins “Covering Up the Divide”
Elana Kundell “Dissolution”


Both artists work in methodical ways using multiple layering, but with differing execution and concept. Robbins works with pattern layering using chosen shapes with a level of fluidity from piece to piece that becomes the method. Kundell works from a visceral place, layering in a free-form manner, but methodical nonetheless – the meanings becoming the method.

Jessica Robbins works patterns upon patterns within multiple layers of enamel, acrylic, varnish and fine line painting on panel. Concise yet full abstract plains bring to mind exotic textures and fabrics within a conceptual context. This new body of work entitled, “Close the Divide” begins with a main element that is accompanied by companion shapes tightly cohabitating to create a codependence and cohesive single unit over the entire surface. The body of work is created in succession, with each piece flowing into the other yet standing alone via the complex process of repetition and editing. Her work is a strong indicator of new directions in abstract paintings.

Jessica Robbins received her BFA in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1999. Since then she has been exhibiting in Los Angeles and nationwide group shows as well as a 2-person show with Gallery Revisited in 2004 and a 3-person show in 2005. She studied textile design at FIDM 2004/05 to enhance her process through exposure to alternate teaching ideology. Her work can be found in several private collections as well as an impressive commission history.

Elana Kundell creates imaginary abstracted environments of visceral layers in oil on canvas and panel. The surfaces are developed instinctually, using knives, brush work, even fingers to form dense and sheer, intersecting plains. Intuitively, the work is developed based upon Kundell’s memories, which over time and through other experiences become edited in the mind, translating into a vague and augmented zone between reality and feelings. The new body of work, aptly titled, “Dissolution”, embodies all definitions of the word itself, enabling the viewer to find their own imaginary landscape or feelings. The work is subtle yet stated and displays insight that sets her work apart from other abstract painters of a similar genre.


Elana Kundell received her BA in painting and printmaking from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2000. During her time at UCSC, she studied in at the University of Bologna and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna, Italy. She has been the recipient of several grants and awards for artist in residence programs. Her work has exhibited extensively in Northern California, taken to Seoul, Korea and more recently she has been showing in Los Angeles. Her work can be found in numerous private collections as well as the University Collection in Bologna, Italy.

PIXNIT Boston Update

There has been a scary sounding backlash to the Pixnit article in the Boston Globe on January 3.

Boston is a very conservative town - like forget about B.H. or Pasadena or even Simi which all have their varying levels of old money, conservatism and nationalism....but I digress.

We're talking one of the nation's oldest cities with long-founded traditions and lots and lots of old money.
The Ether Monument. (This is so weird.)
Plus it is tiny compared to LA. Means all statistics become limited. All options become more likely. Such as a tagger getting arrested.
This released 5 days after the Pixnit article. Inside information has revealed that the bail for Tel's buddy was set at 50,000. Also, their apartment was searched illegaly and they were brutalized.

Well, the city had to do something after the Boston Globe article came out and was greeted with threats to the artist personally and many angry small-business advocates.
Again, I don't think the street art world is ready for a scapegoat or a martyr. Or should I say, the public will not be ready for this.
Flood gates are cracking....

Revisited Graffiti Artist in the news

Please read the article that has just come out today in the Boston Globe.

PIXNIT will be showing with us in Ocotber /November 2007.

Herbert Palmer has passed away

Herbert Palmer has passed away....one of the blue chip greats is gone.

I met him at the Getty early last year and he was the sweetest man. His wife was so cute when I told her I had a gallery.
"So does my husband - it's such a noble thing."
"Oh, why thank you! Who is your husband?"
"Here he is," she gestured.
"Hello, I'm Herbert Palmer. Nice to meet you...." and so it went.

Happy Birthday Gallery Revisited

Gallery Revisited is officially 3!!(Some people call this the anniversary.)

We opened our doors in November 2003 with 2 back to back Inaugural Shows - with 11 artists in each show, 2 weeks apart.

Thanks to everyone who has made the gallery such a wonderful place and an important part in the lives of so many.

clink!
Leora Lutz
owner - head curator