The mural above, Luxurious Dreamscape Bubblebath, was created by artists David Ullock and Douglas Nhung for Vancouver Mural Fest in 2017. The festival will return in August 2019.
This photo was taken in Vancouver, Canada, while visiting The Polygon Gallery, located in Lower Lonsdale. The colored lights seen on the right side of this image are a section of Kevin Schmidt’s Reckless, created for the gallery. The blinking lights wrap around the entire building and are timed to a soundtrack composed by Schmidt.
Too Much Seaweed, 2016
This is the final weekend of two excellent exhibitions on the Lower East Side in New York. The first is Aidas Bareikis’ Barrel of Fortune at Canada gallery.
From the press release-
In Barrel of Fortune, his first solo exhibition at CANADA, Bareikis distills his enduring vision into bundled masses. He stacks and wraps cultural objects in fabric and string, building altar-like assemblages shrouded by paint and recognizable trash. The sculptures are propped up by found furniture, wood or aluminum, and exposed to forces like time, gravity, or the elements. Rendered in deep reds, acidic oranges and vintage blues, each work operates like a junkyard relic: a curious portal into another era slowly merging with the local flora. It’s here where Bareikis navigates, somewhere between scientific method and pure psychic automatism, covering his tracks in a role equal parts wandering scientist and mad poet.
And at McKenzie Fine Art, Reed Danziger’s new paintings are dense with small details and geometric patterns which combine to form a beautiful and energetic organized chaos.
Detail from A Rearrangement, 2016 (image via 1st Dibs)