New Painting for "LAX/LHR", Group Exhibition in London
"The Flying Dutchman", oil on wood, 12 x 12 inches, 2015
LAX/LHR
Opening Reception on Thursday, September 3rd 6-10pm
StolenSpace, 17 Osborn Street, London, England E1 6TD
LAX/LHR - Group Exhibition in London
New Painting for "Invisible College" at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art
"Night School", oil on paper on wood, 24 x 18 inches, 2015
July 11 - September 27
Fort Wayne Museum of Art
311 E Main Street
Fort Wayne, Indiana
46802
www.fwmoa.org
(260) 422-6467
"Invisible College" at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art
Co-curated by Andrew Hosner, Shawn Hosner & Josef Zimmerman
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana
July 11th – September 27th, 2015
(Fort Wayne, IN) – Opening July 11th, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art will host Invisible College, a group exhibition co-curated by Andrew and Shawn Hosner of Los Angeles’ Thinkspace Gallery, and Josef Zimmerman of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. On view until September 27th, the exhibition will feature new and representative works by 46 artists belonging to the New Contemporary movement. Dedicated to the energy and strength of its growing visibility and recognition, Invisible College explores the aesthetics of a movement that has devised its own course; one that has been largely defined outside of institutional contexts.
Invisible College will include works by Adam Caldwell, Adrian Falkner, Alex Yanes, Allison Sommers, Amanda Joseph, Andrew Hem, Anthony Clarkson, Brian M. Viveros, Christine Wu, Cryptik, Curiot, Daniel Dienelt, David Cooley, Drew Leshko, Ekundayo, Erik Jones, Ernest Zacharevic, Gaia, Jacub Gagnon, James Marshall (Dalek), Jeff Ramirez, Jeremy Fish, Joel Daniel Phillips, Jolene Lai, Kay Gregg, Keita Morimoto, Kevin Peterson, Know Hope, Kwon Kyungyup, Luke Chueh, Matt Small, Meggs, Natalia Fabia, Nosego, Ravi Zupa, Sandra Chevrier, Scott Radke, Seth Armstrong, Stephanie Buer, Tony Philippou, Troy Lovegates, Yoskay Yamamoto and Yosuke Ueno. Included in Invisible College are special mural installations by Andrew Schoultz, Cyrcle, Mark Dean Veca and Troy Lovegates. The exhibition will also include a featured installation by Brett Amory.
Fort Wayne Museum of Art
311 E Main Street
Fort Wayne, Indiana
46802
www.fwmoa.org
(260) 422-6467
About the Fort Wayne Museum of Art
Beginning with art classes in 1888 given by J. Ottis Adams and later William Forsyth, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art has evolved into a center for the visual arts community in Northeast Indiana. Regularly exhibiting regional and nationally acclaimed artists, the FWMoA also boasts an extensive permanent collection of American Art as well as prints and drawings from artists such as Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol. The Museum is committed to the collection, preservation, presentation and interpretation of American and related art to engage broad and diverse audiences throughout the community and region, and add value to their lives. The Fort Wayne Museum of Art is a funded partner of Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne.
www.fwmoa.org
Upcoming Group Show in Detroit, Michigan
'LAX / DTW' - Thinkspace Invades Detroit
Taking place at: Inner State Gallery 1410 Gratiot Avenue Detroit, Michigan 48207
www.innerstategallery.com
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 6th 7-10PM On view: June 6th through July 4th, 2015
Featuring 16×20 inch works from over 50 artists spanning the globe including featured artists: Stephanie Buer and Liz Brizzi Los Angeles based gallery Thinkspace has teamed up with Inner State Gallery in Detroit, Michigan to present 'LAX / DTW'. This special exhibition has been curated by Thinkspace and serves as an amazing introduction to the burgeoning New Contemporary movement for art lovers in the Midwest. With roots firmly planted in illustration, pop culture imagery, comics, street art and graffiti, put quite simply the New Contemporary Art Movement is art for the people. Featuring new works from over 80 artists from around the world, 'LAX / DTW' will kick off with an opening reception on Saturday, June 6th with two of the owners of Thinkspace on hand.
Decade 1 - Upcoming Group Show in Tampa, FL
RedLetter1 will be celebrating their ten year anniversary and showcasing new works from artists that have exhibited there over the last decade.
RedLetter1
(813)241-2435
217 S Cedar Ave Tampa Fl 33606
Tues-Sat 10am-5pm
Small Works Invitational - Upcoming Group Show in Tuscon, AZ
Reception 6 june 2015 6:00 - 9:00 pm
On view june 1st to september 25th 2015
Baker Hesseldenz Studio and Gallery
100 East 6th Street, Tuscon, AZ
Opening Night Photos From "The Air Is Thick"
Thanks to everyone who made it out on Saturday. Great turnout. Great party. I had an absolute blast. Photos courtesy of Graham & Graham Photography.
The Air Is Thick - Show photos
Some photos of the show at Thinkspace Gallery all hung and installed, courtesy of Graham & Graham photography.
Upcoming Solo Exhibit: March 28 - April 18
Press Release:
Seth Armstrong - The Air is Thick March 28, 2015 - April 18, 2015
Thinkspace (Los Angeles) - is pleased to present The Air is Thick featuring new works by Los Angeles based artist Seth Armstrong. Armstrong’s paintings self-consciously capture a sense of looking, arresting moments with cinematic detail and voyeuristic curiosity. Varying in scale, the paintings offer views that are alternately intimate and vast, moving expertly between the monumental and the minute. Laden with detail and suggestion, each piece offers a moment in the trajectory of a larger narrative, and the viewer is compelled to realign the fractures of these inconclusive moments. Hanging the works on suggestion rather than on the overt, Armstrong builds tension and excitement in every painting with the possibility and expectation of action. Surfeited with this palpable sense of permanent anticipation and arrest, the air is indeed thick enough to cut.
Originally from Los Angeles, Armstrong studied painting in Northern Holland and completed a BFA at San Francisco’s California College of the Arts. His deft handling of oil paint clearly demonstrates a facility inspired by traditional painting techniques, and a material aptitude for the dense capture of light and color. The intense realism of his style is often tempered by a looser, more painterly approach, and by a stylized handling of light and dimension. With viscous luminosity and substantive flesh, qualities achieved with a seamlessly clean application, his works feel heavy with tactility and dense with tangible space and body. Armstrong’s use of stark saturated contrasts is offset by a tendency towards stylized hyper-color, creating both depth and edge that exceeds the muted tones of the real. These contrasts achieve a sense of brooding visual tension that manages to evoke both nostalgia and strangeness simultaneously.
In The Air is Thick, Armstrong continues to explore themes that have consistently fascinated his output: the intrigue of illicit looking, and the fine line between intimacy and trespass. Just as cinema manages to satisfy our innate love of voyeuristic access, so too do the paintings offer us views onto private lives that both frustrate and satisfy. The suggestion of constant narrative pervades even the stillest and least active views, as Armstrong reminds us of the secret recesses behind all closed doors and all quiet faces.