Over the weekend the Jonathan Levine Gallery opened two solo shows, the one that really caught my attention was the new “Art Army Royalty” by Mike Leavitt. Each one of these figures is based on a member of the art world that could easily be considered royalty, even though I gnash my teeth when thinking of a few of these artists placed in the same perch as the others. Each figure is made with polymer clay and is sat upon a custom made display that also has a metal name tag. I love how each artist is designed in a way that brings their own art into the presentation; this is most prominent with Ai WeiWei, Barbara Kruger, Gerhard Richter, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, and Damien Hirst. Head on over and took a look at the entire show, each one of these figures is outstanding.
Prints: “Bunny Girl” by Tara McPherson @ 1xrun
1xrun has just released a new limited edition print that is sure to go fast. “Bunny Girl” by Tara McPherson was first seen at the artists solo show “Bunny in the Moon” that took place at the Jonathan Levine Gallery back in October 2010. The print is 22″ x 15.5″, signed and numbered in a max edition of 75. Head on over before it’s too late.
Prints: “Snow Bride” by Tara McPherson
Tara McPherson has just released her first canvas giclee print to her Cotton Candy Machine shop. The “Snow Bride” was first seen in Tara’s solo show “Bunny in the Moon” that took place last October at the Jonathan Levine Gallery. The print is 23″ x 11.5″ pre-stretched canvas print, coated with gloss UV varnish, signed and numbered in an edition of 100. The print will not be shipped until the beginning of June, however you can pre-order the print now.
Van Arno – “The Minstrel Cycle” @ Jonathan Levine Gallery
On April 16th, the Jonathan Levine Gallery opened a new solo show from Los Angeles artist Van Arno. This is the artist’s first solo show at the gallery, and features some of his biggest paintings yet. The exhibition is entitled “The Minstrel Cycle” and the show title “references minstrelsy, a controversial form of entertainment from the 1800s, in which performers in blackface lampooned African-American culture through comic-musical variety acts loaded with racial stereotypes.” There are seven paintings in this show, and continue Van Arno’s always exciting, dynamically posed mythical and historical figurative paintings. In the artist’s words: “I attempt to paint the archetypical moment of clarity and passion. Imagery must be made exciting and alive. Rules of lighting, anatomy, gravity and physics must be bent or broken to make the picture LOUD. That is the ultimate goal of my work.” Van Arno’s paintings are consistently filled with some of the most intense colors, layouts, and contorted and stylized figures around. Along with images of the paintings, the gallery also has some shots that show the paintings hung, giving online viewers an idea of scale.
Check it out: Van Arno @ Jonathan Levine Gallery
New prints by Andy Kehoe
Andy Kehoe’s latest solo show “Strange Wanderings” will is still on view at the Jonathan Levine Gallery, and will be up until April 2nd. It’s an amazing show, and luckily for all the fans out there Andy has made a few of the paintings from this show into prints available from his Etsy shop. The prints are mid size and range in editions from 30-50. Thanks for the heads up from Omgposters.com
Tara McPherson & Xioqing Ding @ Jonathan Levine Gallery
This past Saturday, October 23rd, the highly anticipated solo show from Tara McPherson opened at the Jonathan Levine Gallery. The show entitled “Bunny in the Moon” and is filled with work inspired from mythology found from cultures around the world. This is quite a large amount of work created for this show, not only oil paintings but drawings, and even some fabric flowers. Right next door in second part of the gallery was “At the End of the Rainbow” by Xioqing Ding, this is her debut exhibition in New York. She has a very classical style to her work, and you can even see some references to classical paintings and allegories, such as the three graces and Venus. Both shows are now up on the galleries site, and are a must see.
“The Seeker” print by Jeff Soto
Jonathan Levine Gallery has just released a new print for pre-order by Jeff Soto. “The Seeker” was first seen in Soto’s solo exhibition “Lifecycle”, that took place at the gallery this past summer. The print is and offset lithograph, 23.5″ x 36″ on 80# Patina Matte paper, signed and numbered in an edition of 450 for $75 each.
Get it here: Jonathan Levine Gallery
“Migawari” print by Audrey Kawasaki
Coming this Saturday, September 4th, is a new limited edition print by Audrey Kawasaki. This one is not time limited, so your going to have to fight for it if your looking to pick this one up. “Migawari”, which means To give or sacrifice oneself, was first shown at Audrey’s solo show at the Jonathan Levine Gallery this past January. The print is 19″ x 15″ on a 20″ x 16″ sheet of paper, signed and numbered in an edition of 200, and comes with a certificate of authenticity. You can also order the print framed for bit more. The print goes on sale Saturday the 4th at 1pm Pacific time.
New prints by James Jean
James Jean’s solo show at the Jonathan Levin Gallery is now over. Except for a couple of limited edition prints, the show is all sold out.
Over on Process Recess James has added a bunch of new prints based on the works in the show. “Vanity” and “Maze” have been there for a bit, but the four portraits are new. The “hare” print (shown) that was given away for free, is now in the shop but doesn’t have the show name and info on it. Each print is 17″ x 22″, Giclee on Ultrasmooth Fine Art Paper. All of the prints found in the shop are open-edition, so be careful when your looking for prints on Ebay. I have seen a few of these prints sell for four times the price because the buyer didn’t know any better.
“Hare”, James Jean Show Poster
James Jean has a solo show coming up at the Jonathan Levine Gallery this coming January. The show is going to be amazing and I can’t wait to see what he has in store for us all. The Levine Gallery always has the images from the show up super fast, and the site is a joy to browse around in.
It looks like James has put up a downloadable version of the show poster up on his site. You can print it out pretty big, I got mine to around 10″ x 12″ and it looks fantastic, I have some Rives BFK to print this onto as well. Grab some nice paper and go to town, he said you can “Feel free to download, distribute, print out, and share with friends, family, and uninitiates.” Thank to Hi-Fructose to this news.
Head on over to grab the print: Process Recess
