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SF///JUST OPENED///SYLVIA JI’S UNDEAD BEAUTY PAGEANT AT WHITE WALLS GALLERY…

June 16th, 2008

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Necromantic jail bait never looked better…

One of our favorite young decorative/figurative painters SYLVIA JI has just debuted another collection of her iconic undead beauty queens at San Francisco hotspot gallery WHITE WALLS with portraits of enough hot zombie babes to raise a graveyard of dead sailors. The 26-year-old fogtown native has been on a hot streak the past few years steadily growing a large fan base by showing consistently high-quality work in key galleries coast-to-coast and stirring the loins of a nation of necromantic admirers in the process. Of course, if we had a few extra hundred grand lying around we’d start a strip club/art gallery in Vegas populated with Sylvia’s portraits and a slew of living babes outfitted in Ms. Ji’s trademark dia de los muertos makeup and not much else. Sylvia, if you somehow manage to make that vision a reality, we want 10% and our own private champagne room. HAVE A LOOK: Read the rest of this entry »

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LA///SYLIVA JI’S LOVELY LADIES OF THE UNDEAD…

February 29th, 2008

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LA-based painter SYLVIA JI’s morbidly beautiful women are as alluring as they are complex, and when a new army of them went on display at Culver City’s COREY HELFORD GALLERY late last week, they were greeted by a throng of adoring fans who fell hard for their noir charms. Titled “Por Vida“ the new show of acrylic on wood paintings, many of them large-scale, further explores 26-year-old Ji’s fascination with love, death, and fleeting beauty, all colored with heavy doses of symbolic imagery for good measure. A veritable who’s-who of the LA art scene turned out to support our girl who sold the gig out in no time at all. HAVE A LOOK: Read the rest of this entry »

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MOCA’S “COLLECTION: THE FIRST THIRTY YEARS” PROVES THE MUSEUM SHOULD BE AROUND FOR 30 MORE

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Despite MOCA’s financial woes of late and near collapse last year amid the chaos of the economic holocaust, the veritable Southland institution seems on to a bright future now, having secured ST buddy JEFFREY DEITCH as its new director (starting June 1) and financial security (for the moment). If ever there was a time to celebrate, it is now. HAVE A LOOK:

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FEATURE///IN THE STUDIO WITH SHEPARD FAIREY AS HE PREPARES FOR DEITCH GALLERY’S CLOSING SHOW

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By now it’s no secret that JEFFREY DEITCH is closing shop in downtown NYC to head West for the sunnier confines of the MoCA Director’s office, starting June 1st. That leaves SHEPARD FAIREY’s upcoming portrait show as the farewell exhibition at one of the city’s most legendary and influential commercial art institutions in the city’s history.

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UKRAINE///FIRST LOOK: DAMIEN HIRST’S “REQUIEM” CAREER RETROSPECTIVE AT THE PINCHUK ART CENTER

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Last weekend saw the DAMIEN HIRST’s first grand spectacle of 2009 when his daunting career retrospective “Requiem” opened at the PINCHUK ART CENTER in the unlikely city of Kiev, Ukraine. Not exactly known as an epicenter of fine art (unless you count the Ukrainian girls, that is), resident steel billionaire and obsessed Hirst collector VICTOR PINCHUK aims to change that by launching the epic visual spectacle that includes over 100 works (a vast amount of which came from Pinchuk’s private collection) by the British artist from 1998 – 2008 in his own privately funded art palace that holds the title as the largest private museum in the former Soviet Union. The fact that this grandiose show of power comes at a time when…

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NEWS///RIP///IN LOVING MEMORY OF PHOTOGRAPHER SHAWN MORTENSEN 1966—2009

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It is truly with a heavy heart that we must break the news that one of Supertouch’s dear friends, photographer SHAWN MORTENSEN, passed away last nite. A kinetic force of optimism and seemingly limitless positive energy, Shawn’s hearty career as a photojournalist and artist took him around the world several times over, unselfishly spreading his endless supply of good vibes as he went. Particularly renowned for his portraits of musicians, artists, and entertainers, Shawn photographed a stunning array of pop culture demigods in his 20+ year career including…

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BEVERLY HILLS///JOHN WATERS BRINGS “REAR PROJECTION” TO HOLLYWOOD

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As a director of some of the most acclaimed highbrow B-movies of all time, Supertouch amigo JOHN WATERS needs no further introduction. Quietly working the night shift as a fine artist for years now, the Baltimore-bound obsessive’s hard work has finally landed him a spot in the most hallowed hall of the modern art world, namely, the GAGOSIAN GALLERY, where the artist’s solo “Rear Projection” show opened to a throng of Hollywood players, weirdos, fanboys and girls, and well-wishing lookie-loos on Saturday nite. Comprised largely of C-prints of photos Waters has taken of TV screens bearing his favorite stills from movies of all kinds, the works pulse with the raw humor and dry wit that is Waters’ hallmark…

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