Gregory Crewdson Untitled 2006 Archival pigment print
58 1/2 x 89 1/2 in. (148.6 x 227.3 cm) (incl. frame)
© the artistFrom 23 April - 24 May 2008

Preview Tuesday 22 April 2008, 6-8pm

White Cube Mason's Yard is pleased to announce an exhibition of new photographs by Gregory Crewdson. In this latest body of work, shot over the past three years, the artist continues to explore the lush and ragged edges of small-town America. While much of his earlier work focused on character and drama, Crewdson now shows a greater awareness of atmosphere and setting. 

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19 april to 18 may private view: friday 18 april 6pm till 8.30pm following their huge success as part of the cor da rua show last year, celebrated brazilian street artists speto and daniel melim arrive back on our shores for a joint show at ocontemporary  the frequent services from london victoria and london bridge take only 50 minutes to brighton and ocontemporary is only 1 minute from the station so its easy to come just for the evening, or you can take the ramada hotel on the seafront up on their 25% discount offer for anyone coming to see the show - call 01273 225519 and quote ocontemporary to book

WE LIKE WHAT YOU EATWEDNESDAY 16TH APR - SATURDAY 17TH MAY 2008

PRIVATE VIEW - Thursday 17th Apr 

WE LIKE WHAT YOU EAT is a micro survey exhibition investigating a specific set of tendencies in the practice of a selected group of North American contemporary video artists.The appropriation of pre-existing mainstream entertainment media is the dominant refrain in the work of the artists featured in this exhibition. The internet, in particular video streaming websites such as YouTube, as well as television programs, advertisements, music videos and cinema serve Paul B. Davis, the duo Javier Morales + John Michael Boling and Eric Fensler with an abundant territory from which they draw both their inspiration and subject matter.

In terms of exposure, the art gallery has been matched and perhaps even surpassed in importance by the website itself as an artistic platform for the included artists. In exact accordance with this relocation, there is no singular or predictable audience for their work and that of its ilk; from high school computer geeks to international curators - the fascinated take no dogmatic form.Immediate, humorous, inventive and, above all, relevant - the artists in WE LIKE WHAT YOU EAT stand as the selected representatives of a much larger movement which, while having an international span, nonetheless maintains its spiritual centre in the United States of America……….

Paul B. Davis [BEIGE] is a DJ, educator and data artist as well as being a founder member, alongside Cory Archangel, of the programming ensemble BEIGE. He had his first solo show at SEVENTEEN in 2007 and will present a solo booth at the SEVENTEEN stand at the NEXT Art Fair in Chicago, April 2008. He presents one of his trademark YouTube hacks - glitchy, pixilated visual mash-up's constructed via the manipulation of the compositional data contained within a number of standard video clips taken from the websiteJavier Morales + John Michael Boling first collaborated together as fellow students at the University of Georgia. Their collective oeuvre is here represented by two key video collaborations, The Church of The Future (2006) and Body Magic (2006); both television re-edit works that are mystical, musical and indeterminately potent.

Together Morales and Boling run the website 53 o's (http://www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com/channel53/) and program the video blog Channel 53. Eric Fensler's diverse creative output is beyond singular classification - comprising television re-edits, cartoon re-cuts/re-voicings, Polaroid photography, music videos and network television screen writing. For the exhibition he presents a number of video works including the much lauded GI JOE PSA series - manipulated versions of the public service announcements that accompanied the end of each episode of the cult toy franchise's popular children's television cartoon. A series of evening screenings of related video material from each of the artists will accompany this exhibition. Please contact the gallery for more information regarding these events and the exhibition in general ……….WE LIKE WHAT YOU EAT is the inaugural exhibition at SEVENTEEN's new basement exhibition space - curated by Paul Pieroni.

In late May SEVENTEEN will follow this exhibition with the first major survey of the British Scratch Video phenomenon (1983/6). SCRATCH! will run from the 28/05/08 to the 25/06/08. 

Saturday, March 15, 2008 8:00pm - 10:00pm http://colemanprojects.org.uk

A film screening event at Coleman Project Space featuring Luke Fowler, Marko Maetamm, Saleh Addonia, Dave Lewis, Christoph Steger
Awareness of identity and belonging have become one of the major debates within documentary television, politics and printed media in contemporary Britain. This programme of films does not operate in the same mode as purely documentary formats, nor do they pander to debates within British politics around otherness, integration and inclusion. What at first seems compartmentalised, under inspection becomes far more complex.
Is it the domestic, which often causes difficulties? Certainly it’s the particulars that matter most when speaking of fitting in. Both the maker and the subjects within these films are questioning what belonging means.

Theirs is an indirect approach to belonging. This is achieved through positioning the viewer in a difficult relationship to filmic content, funerary rituals, familicide and histories of ecology and madness.

Luke Fowler
Bogman Palmjaguar
30 mins

Marko Maetamm
Family
5 mins

Saleh Addonia
One Early Morning
7 mins

Dave Lewis
Anywhere but Here
11 mins

Christoph Steger
Mother, 2006
6:33 mins

Curators:
Frances Coleman, Bill Howard (The Projection Gallery), Ben Scott
Coleman Project Space
94 Webster Road
London, United Kingdom

Wednesday March 12th

Limoncello, Vanessa Billy, Flexible Values, 6.30-8.30pm, info: www.limoncellogallery.co.uk
Rachmaninoffs, The Work Ahead of Us, film by Joe Walsh, every day from today until 16th March, 12 - 6pm, info: www.rachmaninoffs.com
PEER, Milly Thompson (ex BANK member), Late Entry, 6-8pm, info: www.peeruk.org
The Approach E2, Sam Windett, Bon Tracker, 6-8.30pm, info: www.theapproach.co.uk
Stephen Friedman, Rivane Neuenschwander, 6-8pm, info: www.stephenfriedman.com
The Great Slowdown, group show at George Vasey's house, 17 McCullum Road, E3, 07847139460
 
Thursday March 13th

Nog, Marcus Oakley book launch, The Idea of Something, 6pm, info: www.noggallery.com
Centre For Recent Drawing, Victoria Adam and Prem Sahib, Drawing Under Construction, 6-8pm, info: www.c4rd.org.uk
Studio 1.1, John Tiney, Travelling Our Way, 6-9pm, info: www.studio1-1.co.uk
Paradise Row, Barry Reigate, Happiness, 7-9pm, info: www.paradiserow.com
T1+2, Godfried Donkor, The State of the Union, 7-9pm, info: www.t12artspace.com
Montague Arms, Second Thursday (!), Lee JJ Campbell, Frog Morris,etc etc, check out: www.frogmorris.net
176, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard host screening night, artists films and shorts along with their own work for Nick Cave, info: www.projectspace176.com
 
Friday March 14th

Elevator Gallery, Zero de Conduite, 7pm onwards, art, perfdormance, sonic stuff, bands etc etc, drinking…7pm onwards, www.elevatorgallery.co.uk
Parade, Eddie Peake, LADIES, 7-9pm, info: www.paradespace.com
If you happen to be in Brighton…
Permanent Gallery, Capital Stupid, Neasden Control Centre,6-9pm, info: www.permanentgallery.com
If you happen to be in Manchester…
The Manchester Museum, Alchemy Night. Jordan Baseman, Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan, Ilana Halperin, Jamie Shovlin, info: www.alchemy.manchester.museum
and if you happen to be in Leicester…
The City Gallery, Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, S Mark Gubb, 6-8pm, info: http://www.leicester.gov.uk/your-council–services/lc/leicester-city-museums/city-gallery/exhibitions
 
Sunday March 16th

Gasworks, film screenings to accompany Matthew Darbyshire's Blades House, 4-6pm, info: www.gasworks.org.uk
 
Tuesday March 18th

Rod Barton Invites, Daniel Pasteiner, Paintings of Colour,7-9pm, info: www.rodbarton.com
Art and War II, Cecilia Wee's series on Resonance, Part 3, 13.30-14.00, this one: propaganda, info: www.resonancefm.com
 
Thursday March 20th

Nettie Horn, No Letters, group show Ian Breakwell, Leigh Clarke, Lucy Harrison, Dick Jewell, Conor Kelly, Bob and Roberta Smith, Peter Suchin, 6-9pm, info: www.nettiehorn.com
and if you happen to be in Belfast…
Belfast Exposed Photography, Anthony Luvera, Assisted Self-Portraits, 7-9pm, info: www.belfastexposed.org
 
Friday March 21st
Transition, Oh Vienna, Zoe Mendelson and Joel Timlin, 6-9pm, info: www.transitiongallery.co.uk
 
Tuesday 25th March

Art and War II, Cecilia Wee's series on Resonance, Part 4, 13.30-14.00, this one: War Memorials, info: www.resonancefm.com
Serpentine Gallery Sweatshops (at Goethe Institute), On Fictions: Constructing Belief and Claiming the World. With: Deborah Levy, writer, working across fiction, performance and visual culture; Rosalind Nashashibi, artist; and Irit Rogoff, theorist and Professor of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths. 7– 9 pm, info:  www.serpentinegallery.org
If you happen to be in New York…
Associates in New York, at Phillips de Pury, 6-8pm, info: www.phillipsdepury.com
 
Thursday March 27th
Vegas, Against nature, group show, curated by Ken Pratt, 6-9pm, info: www.vegasgallery.co.uk
 
Tuesday April 1st

Art and War II, Cecilia Wee's series on Resonance, Part 5, 13.30-14.00, this one: War Gaming, info: www.resonancefm.com
 
Wednesday April 2nd
Lisson, Lee Ufan, 6-8pm, info: www.lissongallery.com
 
Thursday April 3rd
Lounge, James Brooks, Translations, 6-9pm, info: www.lounge-gallery.com
VINEspace, Simon Morse, Reckoners/Reckoning, 6.30-9pm, info: www.vinespace.net

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FRIDAY MARCH 14TH - 8PM

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Fad favourite SAUL ZANOLARI has been showing work in Beijing at the
F2 Gallery -  See some photo's of the exhibition below  

http://saulzanolari.blogspot.com/

The exhibition continues until March 31st.

www.f2gallery.com
www.sauzanolari.com

'Associates in New York', curated by Paola Clerico, will be a group show of twelve solo shows of new work by the twelve Associates artists. It marks the first time that all of the Associates have exhibited together after the close of the gallery.

The artists are: Ben Cain, Stella Capes, Alice Channer, Lucy Clout, Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth, Sean Edwards, Josephine Flynn, Tom Gidley, Matthew Harrison, Adria Julia, Matthew Smith and Adam Thomas.

Please join us at the opening if you are in New York, 25 March, 6-8pm

 
For more information please contact Phillips or Rebecca May Marston at rebecca@associatesgallery.co.uk. Associates was a non-profit gallery initiated by artist Ryan Gander. A one-year project of twelve solo exhibitions by artists who largely had not previously had a solo show in London, Associates offered the artists 100% of their sales profits.

Art Sheffield 08: Yes, No & Other Options takes place from 16 February - 30 March 2008 in venues across the city including Bloc, End Gallery, Millennium Galleries, S1 Artspace, Site Gallery, Yorkshire ArtSpace, the Winter Gardens and the public realm.

Ever feel like you're always being asked to work more / do more / perform to a higher level?

This city-wide exhibition addresses the fact that in a post-industrial condition, one particularly pertinent to Sheffield, we have entered into a service culture where we no longer just work, we perform in a perpetual modeof "I Can". (Even advertising tells us that "Life gets more exciting when you say yes"). Art Sheffield 08 suggests that as well as yes and no, there may be other options.

For more details, see the Art Sheffield 08 website.

I live in LA.  Or close enough.  I live on CalArts campus, 30 miles north of LA.  I am a Brit abroad.  My first Thanksgiving in this country, I got invited along to a vegetarian dinner complete with salmon and tofurkey.  Least said about the latter, the better.  But said dinner was in New York.  I fought the ridiculous queues, added security measures and general mayhem that is travel on Thanksgiving for a 5 day break from school (most welcome, learning is hard!  I haven't done it in so long!).  My host generously gave me some time and space to chill out whilst giving me the opportunity to pound the NY pavements in search of clothing bargains and as much art as I could take - he's an artist - but I can take a lot of art - I out arted him!  The day before I left we visited the shows at the Guggenheim, the new photo acquisitions at MOMA, Kara Walker and Danny Lyon at the Whitney and Robert Capa at the International Center of Photography.  I really liked a lot of what I saw, in particular the Kara Walker exhibition was a amazing.  Walker punches, hard.  I think her work is very interesting, because in the material she works with, the punch is justified, useful even, necessary.  And I like the time period she has chosen to explore - pre-Civil War - pre-segregation, tracing the roots of the jazz style, the look, design and feel.  There's a lot I can say about the work, but I need to think more about it too, it takes some thinking about.  But Google her, the work is truly amazing.  

However, Richard Prince is who I really got my head around.  I half remember seeing a very, large photo of a cowboy on a horse, rearing up, on a restaurant wall, somewhere amongst the galleries in the West End.  And I also half remember his joke paintings.  I never quite squared the 2 projects in my head or figured out if they were the same person or how they fitted together.  Then, recently, we discussed his work in class.  His chauvinistic tendencies were apparent to me, but little else.  My expectations were pretty low before I saw the show, although I heard from other people that it was really interesting.  Seeing the work, I got it.  The one liners in the painting repeat, and bleed into one another, and seeing them en mass, a bad comic's gag routine becomes apparent.  His promo photos, that he signed himself as if they were signed by the celebrity, alongside his piece, 'Spiritual America' - a highly provocative photograph of a prepubescent Brooke Shields, question the legitimacy of representation and in my mind, connected the dots between Prince, Ricky Gervais and Chris Morris.  I have to concede Prince's mastery of his material.  He clusters his photographs into 'Gangs', rotates them, adds comic strip images on top of them and adds text to them in a style that makes it look easy.  From my own practice, I know that stuff is hard!  He resolves his work in really smart ways.  He makes it look effortless!