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Colin and SAS Christian at Opera Gallery London

SAS & Colin Christian - Inner Space

Sas and Colin Christian are an edgy pair. This husband and wife duo has a new show on display at the Opera Gallery in London called Inner Space.

Colin Christian’s silicone sculptural works are influenced by old sci-fi movies, pinup girl/supermodels, Anime, ambient electronic music and H.P. Lovecraft. He is not looking to create every imperfection and flaw, but to take the exaggerations and perfections of cartoons and turn them into a realistic 3D form. Colin creates their fashion according to a flashy neo-punk dress code, always suggesting their dominatrix spirit.

Colin’s wife Sas is a self-taught oil painter. When Sas went to museums and art galleries she was really impressed with the works of the “masters,” yet she was never inspired by one person in particular. The artists she most admired were Bouguereau, Tamara De Lempicka, and Mark Ryden. Like her husband, Sas is also inspired by the world of Anime and Japanese pop culture. Working in oil and acrylic on linen or board, she expresses her doubts, desires, and hopes as well as those of her generation through a gallery of feminine portraits with ever changing moods, but an unchanging aesthetic model of round heads and hypertrophied eyes.

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See my coverage on Juxtapoz
Full set of pics from the opening here

Sas and Colin Christian’s Inner Space is now on display at London’s Opera Gallery.

More info on Sas and Colin at www.hotboxdesigns.com

Ian Francis Exodus Show

 

Having exhibited widely throughout the US since 2007,  EXODUS  is Ian Francis’ first European solo show at Lazarides Gallery, London. 

The show features a series of intimate sketches and 15 canvases by this Bristol based painter. Using a combination of oil, acrylic and ink in his large-scale paintings, Francis brings his illusory vision to the Rathbone gallery.

www.Lazinc.com

Lazarides Rathbone, 11 Rathbone Place, W1T 1HR

25th March 2010 – 6th May 2010

 

More pictures HERE

Jaybo Solo Show “In the Back of Real (Never Hide the Madness)”

StolenSpace Gallery is featuring the much anticipated show of new works from artist Jaybo,  titled “In the back of Real (Never hide the Madness)”.

Originally from France, Jaybo aka Monk settled in Berlin-Kreuzberg at the beginning of the 1980’s, where he busied himself as a graffiti writer, street actor and hip-hop musician. 

 

Jaybo with graffiti writer Remi/Rough

 

Jaybo / “In the Back of Real (Never Hide the Madness)”

StolenSpace Gallery, 91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL
www.StolenSpace.com

More photos HERE

 

Matt Small & Zac Walsh Show – This is us

Signal Gallery is bringing together Matt Small and Zac Walsh for the show called “This is us” from 12th March to 1st April 2010.

Matt and Zac have studied together at the Royal College Of Art, but artistically their paths have moved in different directions.

Using a unique marbleized technique, Matt’s works range from portraits of young people that he previously photographed on the street to distinctive cityscapes.

Zac’s work is more oriented towards photorealism, mixing figurative paintings with asbtract and geometrical backgrounds.

“This is us” 12 March – 1 April 2010
 Signal Gallery 96a Curtain Road London EC2A 3AA

 www.signalgallery.com
info@signalgallery.com

More pictures HERE

Banksy – Exit through the Gift Shop Film

Ahead of Banksy’s UK nationwide film release on 5th March 2010, a pop-up cinema is showing ‘Exit Through the Gift Shop’.

Lambeth Palace is situated in Leake Street, under Waterloo train station and features infamous Banksy installations and animatronics.  The same tunnel hosted the Banksy Cans Festival in 2008.

Exit through the Gift Shop is a documentary  of how an eccentric French shopkeeper, Thierry Guetta, turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner with spectacular results. The film contains exclusive footage of Banksy, Shephard Fairey, Invader and many of the world’s most infamous graffiti artists at work, on walls and in interview.

Banksy himself describes the film as “the story of how one man set out to film the un-filmable. And failed”.

Thierry Guetta aka MBW at the Cans Festival 2008

All pictures by Butterfly

www.banksy.co.uk/cinema.html

www.banksyfilm.com