Triphop's Universe: January 2008

iCandy @ Cypress College Art Gallery

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Last night was the grand opening of the new Cypress College Art Gallery space. It is about two-and-a-half times bigger than the old space they had in the art department. The inaugural show, iCandy, is a survey of contemporary abstract painting. It has a pretty good line up, with Tim Bavington, Brian Boyer, Ali Smith, David Ryan, Joan Khan, Patrick Wilson, along with several artists totally nineteen.

They also now have a project space, which currently exhibits the photographs and artist's books by Paulette Myers-Rich.

iCandy

Project Space

Some Paintings @ Track 16

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I went to Track 16 in the Bergamot Station Saturday night for the Doug Harvey curated L.A. Weekly Annual Biennial. I did not know this, but apparently it was the place to be for the Los Angeles art scenesters. The galleries were so crowded I could not get individual shots of the paintings. Here are some images. Check out the flickr set for the complete coverage.

Max King Cap at @Space Contemporary

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Quickly ran down to @Space in Santa Ana Friday night for the Max King Cap reception. Max is an artist who recently moved to Southern California. He's currently based in Pomona.

Giant Robot Biennial

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Went down to the Giant Robot Biennial this weekend at the Japanese American National Museum. I have been a fan of Giant Robot since I cannot remember when. This exhibition is their celebration for hitting 50 issues. It covers some of the artists they have written about and supported over the years. I met one of the co-founder of Giant Robot, Eric Nakamura, for the first time at the San Diego Comic Con a couple of years ago. He was a completely down to earth kind of person who seems to did not let the success of Giant Robot get to his head. I saw him again this weekend at JAMN helping out Saelee Oh in a children's workshop. Though they are now "the Man," there is no question they remember where they came from. I do have to say that there is as much a "Giant Robot look" as there is a "Juxtapoz look." But I will forgive them for that since they do support the artists that they really like.

Souther Salazar

APAK

Masakatsu Sashie

Adrian Tomine

Pryor Praczukowski

Gary Baseman

Eishi Takaoka

Saelee Oh

Giant Robot Biennial flickr set

Yves Behar Talks About The $100 Laptop

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I love everything about the One Laptop Per Child XO Laptop. I wish that I have one to play with. I did a post about its interface last month. Here's a video of its designer, Yves Behar, talking about the $100 Laptop.

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Sustainable Fashion: Covet

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The Covet collection is renowned for acheiving fusion and balance between true fashion and the world in which we live. This is accomplished by using natural fibers while remaining dedicated to the details and styling of a contemporary fashion collection. Comfortable, distinctive and avant garde, naturally!

Some of the natural fibers prevalent in the collection include: organic cotton yarns, soybean -- which enhances the comfort, luster, moisture-permeability, dry and drape properties of cotton and bamboo with its unusual ability to breathe and remain cool to the touch. All of the fabrics and yarns used allow for reduced wasted resources.

Covet

Recent Acquisitions

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Bob Pece

Juan Thorpe

Skyler

This past Christmas I treated myself to a couple of art purchases. I had to keep the pieces small since I have limited wall space to showcase them. The biggest piece was probably the Skyler siIkscreen, which are about 20" X 24" without framing. I think I may have been involved as a graphic artist for a bit too long. My taste are starting to veer toward a certain look and style. Well, hopefully not. But to my credit, I did also purchased a couple of Joel Heflin collages, both of which are awaiting framing. Images of those are to come.

Scott Waterman

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Scott Waterman

China Tracy

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The Guangzhou artist Cao Fei is one of several seminal young practitioners emerging out of China in recent years. She is probably best known for her video and photographic series Cosplayers, featuring disaffected Chinese teens dressed in the costumes of their favorite video game and anime characters.

For the 52nd annual Venice Biennale, Cao took on the life of a virtual avatar in Second Life named China Tracy, exploring its alternate world and building her own environment in SL for the exhibition.

In First Life, Cao installed an inflatable white dome in the back garden of the Arsenale. On the walls were video projections of machinima created from SL, while in the side rooms, visitors were able to listen to sounds from the virtual environment. In addition, Macbook stations were set up where users can actually enter SL to visit the "China Tracy Pavillion" in cyberspace.

i.Mirror

part I

part II

Masquerade

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we make money not art did a nice post recently on guerrilla knitting, so I thought I would post some examples of graffiti knitting from the Masquerade flickr pool.