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DALeast: Powder of Light @ Jonathan Levine Gallery

December 17, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

DALeast (featured) was born in 1984 in China and is currently based in Cape Town, South Africa. He studied sculpture at the Institute of Fine Arts and began making art in public spaces in 2004. His murals can be found in cities around the world.

His latest exhibition “Powder of Light currently on at Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York, combines acrylic, ink and spray paint on a background texture of tea-stained canvas. DALeast paints animal figures in his signature style using a swirling vortex of organic black lines with white highlights. He creates a ribbon-like effect to form sinuous creatures that vibrate with kinetic energy. Horses, eagles, camels and rams leap off the picture plane, their shadows trailing behind them. Some appear to unravel while others merge together or attack one other. The artist draws inspiration from dichotomies such as the material and spiritual world, human emotion and animal nature.”

Powder of Light runs through December 29, 2012. To see more, visit Jonathan Levine Gallery, or DALEast.com.



Filed Under: ART, Exhibitions, Mixed Media, Painting Tagged With: DALEast, Jonathan Levine Gallery, Powder of Light

Jeremy Geddes: exhale @ Jonathan Levine Gallery

October 24, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

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Melbourne, Australia based artist Jeremy Geddes, opened his first solo exhibition in the United States at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York last weekend.

“exhale is a series of 17 paintings rendered in meticulous detail, an arduous process that combines scrupulous observation, fine brushwork and delicate layers of glaze. Geddes’ work generates a tension between man-made environments in flux and the fragility of living bodies.

Many of the works in the exhibition depict figures suspended in desolate urban landscapes or fractured environments that are in the process of falling apart. These complex works are contrasted by a series of five paintings titled Misèrere (Italian for have mercy), each features a single subject isolated in a solid black plane—alternating birds and a failing Apollo Command Service Module. This series is accompanied by four paintings with solitary human figures, titled Misère (French for poverty or destitution).

Although there are recurring motifs in the paintings, Geddes prefers to leave his subject matter open to interpretation rather than attach a specific narrative to his work, thus allowing individual viewers to connect disparate elements into a structure that resonates with them personally.” (from Jonathan Levine Gallery)

exhale runs through November 17, 2012.  For more information visit Jonathan Levine Gallery or JeremyGeddesArt.com.

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Filed Under: ART, Painting Tagged With: Australian Art, exhale, Jeremy Geddes, Jonathan Levine Gallery

Hybrid Thinking @ Jonathan Levine Gallery

February 2, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

A selection of work from Jonathan Levine Gallery’s exhibition “Hybrid Thinking”. Curated by Wooster Collective’s Marc + Sara Schiller, the show show features work by: Dal, from Beijing, China (now based in Cape Town, South Africa); Herakut, a duo based in Frankfurt, Germany; Hyuro, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, currently based in Valencia, Spain; Roa, based in Belgium; Sit, from the Netherlands; and Vinz, born and based in Valencia, Spain.

“With a wide array of discipline, medium, style and cultural influence, work by the six artists in this exhibition is thematically cohesive in its related subject matter—through figurative pairings of human and animal elements, the artists explore concepts of instinct, identity and metamorphoses. In the curators’ words: “Hybrid Thinking refers to the current zeitgeist of our time: disparate cultures coming together to create something completely new. Though from distinctly different cultural backgrounds, these artists share an understanding of our cities, of the human condition and our complex relationship with nature.”

“Hybrid Thinking” runs through February 11, 2012. To see more, visit JonathanLevineGallery.com.



Filed Under: ART, Collage, Digital, Drawing, Mixed Media, Street Art Tagged With: DAL, Herakut, Hybrid Thinking, Hyuro, Jonathan Levine Gallery, ROA, SIT, Vinz

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