The Cut, an exhibition of artwork by artist and musician Antony, is now showing at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. gallery in New York City. Antony, whose full name is Antony Hegarty, is lead singer for the band Antony and the Johnsons.
According to the gallery:
The initial inspiration that provided the framework for the exhibition was a poem written by the artist entitled The Cut, which describes the source of creation as a slit in the sky. The marks that the artist makes on the surface of his artwork can at once be understood as scars as well as applications that have the ability to heal the surface of the paper, fabric, or canvas. A delicate line can be juxtaposed with a harsh application of paint or a torn edge.
The Cut opened May 31 and continues through July 12, 2013. Contact the gallery for more information.
Coral, by Antony
In 2010 Antony and the Johnsons released a special edition of their album Swanlights which included the CD inside a 144-page art book containing paintings, collages, photography and writing by Antony.
Raw Instinct, an exhibition of artwork by Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood is currently showing at Castle Fine Art on Bruton Street in London. The exhibition consists of 100 works of original art, including portraits of Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts and Keith Richards, as well as a self-portrait. Ronnie wood says he has been painting since he was three. He painted throughout his childhood and his paintings were shown on the British children’s television show Sketch Club with Adrian Hill. Wood went on to study art Ealing College of Art in London.
The exhibition opened April 13, 2013 and continues through August 31, 2013.
In the video below Ronnie Wood talks about being an artist as a child, and what it is like being an artist and a musician. He talks about how much he loves art. He says it is like losing an old friend when he sells a paining.
Mentoring Courtney Love: David LaChapelle and Courtney Love is now on exhibit at The Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, Connecticut. Courtney Love is a singer-songwriter known primarily as vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989. Love was also married to Kurt Cobain, of the band Nirvana. Love’s first show of her visual art was in 2012 with the exhibition “And She’s Not Even Pretty” at Fred Torres Collaborations in New York City. Courtney Love has been drawing all of her life and she briefly enrolled at the San Francisco Art Institute. Love credits artist and photographer David LaChapelle with mentoring her as a visual artist.
According to the Museum:
Love’s work, featured in this exhibition, are all works on paper. They are executed in a combination of pastel, watercolor, graphite, colored pencil, charcoal, acrylic, and marker. The works on view are all portraits, including some self-portraits, and this is where we see the relationship between her work and that of her mentor David LaChapelle. While LaChapelle’s photographic portraits are slick and hyper-real, Love’s portraits are sketch-like and spontaneous. Her images are raw and full of emotion, and they bear a resemblance to her music. There is a consistency in vision between her music and her visual art that suggests an authenticity of expression.
The exhibition opened April 13, 2013 and continues through August 10, 2013.
The Video below is from Courtney Love’s previous exhibition, “And She’s Not Even Pretty.”
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Irving Blum and Peggy Moffitt, 1964, Photograph by Dennis Hopper
Gagosian Gallery in New York City is currently showing photographs from The Lost Album of the late actor/director Dennis Hopper. The Lost Album comprises over 400 black and white photographs taken between 1961 and 1967. Hopper’s first wife Brooke Hayward gave him a Nikon camera for his birthday in 1961.
According to the gallery:
The Lost Album reveals casual portraits of artistic luminaries (Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg), leading actors (Jane Fonda, Paul Newman, John Wayne), and mythic musicians (James Brown, The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane), as well as stirring images of the Civil Rights Movement. There are also hippie gatherings, the Apollo 11 lunar landing, Mexican bullfights, and catchy advertisements for popular cars, soft drinks, and newspapers.
The Lost Album exhibition opened May 7, 2013 and continues through June 22, 2013. Contact Gagosian Gallery for additional information.
Most people know Jemima Kirke as an actress in the hit HBO series Girls. However, she was an artist first. Kirke received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008. In an interview last year, she told Vice.com:
Acting is secondary—I don’t feel like it’s going to stick around because it’s not something I want to do forever. My art has always been my top priority and I have far more experience in that field than I do in film. It’s hard to explain without sounding like a dick. I’m not that person. I’m really grateful for such enjoyable work, I just don’t feel as though I have any clout as an actor. I haven’t earned it, and I don’t intend to.
Jemima Kirke has had several exhibitions of her artwork, including a 2011 exhibition at Skylight Projects Gallery, and she participated in a 2012 exhbition at Half Gallery, both in New York City. Most recently, Gothamist reports that one of her paintings was available for sale for $8,000 at The Hole in New York City.
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