Scion Installiation
October 14, 2005
Andy Howell, Crash, David Choe, Daze, Eklips, Eye One, Fuze Green, How, Kenny Scharf, Kenton Parker, Keo, Krush, Mear, Michael Delahaut, Nosm, Retna, Revok, Revolt, Saber, Sever, Stay High 149, Swank, Tim McCormick, and more.
Building on the phenomenal success of the first tour, INSTALLATION 2004/2005 will expand into new cities, cultivating new artists from around the country. While the last year’s art was painted directly onto Scion xA sculptures and xB vehicles, this year’s art will be done on three by eight foot canvases. Widely recognized artists like Kenny Scharf, Mear, Andy Howell, Crash, Revok, Saber, David Choe, Revolt, Stay High 149 and more have already contributed their talent, and other artists will be painting live at Scion sponsored events throughout the year, expanding the collection as it travels across the country. Once again the aim of Scion’s INSTALLATION will be to foreground the artists and promote the integrity of the art. To do so, Scion will bring INSTALLATION 2004/2005 to new galleries and even museums, beginning with the Roq LaRue Gallery in Seattle in August 2004, eventually culminating in an eBay auction with proceeds benefiting non-profit youth organizations.
Shelf Life – James Hopkins
October 14, 2005
London-based James Hopkins takes everyday objects and makes them do tricks in his current exhibition From This End to That. Web Head is a spider web sliced out of an umbrella, Spirit Level Vodka is a group of eight bottles perched precariously on a shelf set at an angle, the contents level, Upper Limit is a stepladder that stands on two legs. Shelf Life is a set of bog standard pine bookshelves housing an assortment of the usual: LPs, a clock, a guitar, a globe, boxes. But Hopkins has cut them and put them together in the form of a skull, reminding us that these consumer goods, our material possessions, will some day lose all importance.
Project Fox
October 6, 2005
Hotel Fox invited 21 artists to re-design a total of 61 rooms. Furniture, carpets, wallpaper – the artists were given free reign to do whatever they want. Redevelopment of the property started in January 2005 and is finished now (actually in April, I can’t believe it floated under the radar this long).
“61 rooms, 21 artist, 1,000 ideas”
Each room is an individual piece of art. From whacky comical styles to strict graphic design. From fantastic street art and Japanese Manga to simply spaced out fantasies. You will find flowers, fairytales, friendly monsters, dreaming creatures, secrets vaults and… and… and…
I especially like the friendswithyou rooms.
Under Project Fox, there’s Club Fox and Studio Fox which can both be found on the main site.
