Beam Me Up Matt Leines, Jo Jackson, Chris Johanson, Eddie Ruscha, Christian DeFilippo, Devendra Banhart @ New Image on 1005 N Fairfax Musical Performance by Kyle Field OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, AUG. 16, 2003 7-10 PM

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Beam Me Up will feature drawings,wall paintings,collaborations,sculptures paintings on wood and paper by six innovative artists.

East Coast artist Matt Leines returns to New Image Art.Leines’ recent paintings and sculpture are based on his continuous saga of tigers,cult like alien dudes,ant eaters and maze like domains. Leines work is reminiscent of outsider-folk art,tossed with coptic,celtic ,haitian,african and Art Brut like elements Leines’ sculpture of a cult-alien has a three dimensional head made of boxes and an custom made outfit right out of Jones Town. Leines has created his own unique world and the saga shall continue. Articles on Leines’ art have appeared in Vice and Loyal Magazines.

Recently married, San Francisco artists Chris Johanson and Jo Jackson will be showing collaborative works both humorous and politically focused. Chris Johanson has shown is such establishments as the Hammer Museum,Los Angeles,Dietch Projects, and the Whitney Museum 2002 Biennial, New York City.

Jo Jackson makes paintings ,videos and sculptural installations about liquid symbology,the USA and the world. Jo has shown at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,The Luggage Store, San Francisco and recently at the Eclipse Gallery Basil,Switzerland.

Musician -artist,Los Angeles based Eddie Ruscha will be showing his intricately detailed dream like drawing and techna-color small sculptures.

Devendra Banhart’s drawings are whimsical often repetitious and reminiscent of African tribal sculptures.They were recently featured in Loyal magazine. Banhart is also a musician and currently on tour.

Christian DeFilippo will exhibit large figurative paintings of animals. It is his first time showing at New Image Art.

August 16, 2003 - September 10, 2003 Opening reception: Saturday, August 16, 2003 7-10 PM

 

Skate Culture The Art of Skateboarding Curated by Marsea Goldberg, Brenda LaBier and Rich Jacobs Contemporary Art Center of Virginia 2200 Parks Avenue, Virginia Beach, VA 23451 (757) 425 - 0000 OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2003

Featured Artists: J. Grant Brittain Miki Vuckovich Shepard Fairey Garry Davis Neil Blender Todd Swank Jo Jackson Cheryl Dunn Jim Houser Rebecca Westcott Ed Templeton Deanna Templeton Chris Yormick Thomas Campbell Chris Lindig Chris Johanson Mark Gonzales Tony Cox Mike O'Meally Andy Jenkins Adam Wallacavage Dalek Bigfoot O Tobin Yelland Attiba Jefferson Rich Jacobs Ben Woodward Désirée Astorga Evan Hecox

Chris Yormick Big Foot   Dalek Chris Johanson & Jo Jackson Chris Johanson & Jo Jackson   Chris Johanson & Jo Jackson   Chris Johanson & Jo Jackson Chris Lindig   Rebecca Westcott   Rebecca Westcott Rebecca Westcott   Mike O'Meally   Todd Swank Rich Jacobs   Ed Templeton   Jim Houser Thomas Campbell   Tobin Yelland     Rich Jacobs & Zines   Zines   Cheryl Dunn     Evan Hecox

Skate Culture: The Art of Skateboarding is providing insight into the creative art works of skateboarding subculture. The time frame of our focus beins in the early 1980s and continues to the present day. Skate Culture sheds light on a huge amount of raw, passionate, yet innocent artistic energy practiced with little or no expectation of financial reward.

For the past several years, skateboarding, like never before in its fifty-year history, has grown exponentially. Skate Culture explores how skate art (of the past two decades in particular) has thus influenced mainstream culture in myriad ways - from street. Skate Culture also gives a nod to the wealth of pure creativity that has been floating up from the streets and into the galleries recently. Many skaters of the late 1970s, '80s and '90s forged a partnership that is still influencing a new generation of young artists like Barry McGee (Twist), Chris Johanson, Evan Hecox, Rich Jacobs and many more.

Most of the artists involved in Skate Culture share a common string: a need to exist creatively ina world full of "business as usual". The do-it-yourself approach and non-team effort of many skateboarders made it possible for this spontaneous explosion to thrive in times and bland environments. These individuals took the initiative to make it all happen for themselves simply because they wanted to-and had to-have fun and express themselves.

Several of the featured artists such as Neil Blender, Garry Davis, Todd Swank and Andy Jenkins self-published photocopied 'zines in the 1980s full of skateboarding, art, music, reviews, interviews, etc. Painting, taking photos, playing music working by day at major skate magazines to survive and support their personal artistic endeavors. Fun and self-expression was (and still is) the order of the day. Skate Culture offers a brief overview of yet another pocket in the vast universe of artistic creation and proves that youth is not always wasted on the young.

July 18 - October 12, 2003 Opening reception: Friday July 18, 2003