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Preview: Sign Your Life Away.

I swung by Guerrero Gallery tonight last night to get a sneak peek of 'Sign Your Life Away', the upcoming show featuring Steve Powers, Jeff Canham and New Bohemia Signs. All contemporary sign painters and artists in their own right, it's going to be a good looking show. Here's a little teaser for you. 

Also, on a side note, this weekend is killing it for shows. Hopefully I'll get to most of them and have pics next week. Fingers crossed. Some of the shows along with Sign Your Life Away are Fecal Face - Mel Kadel and Travis Millard, Fifty24SF - Swampdonkey, White Walls - Adam Caldwell and Jonathan Darby, The Shooting Gallery - Aaron Nagel, Marx & Zavattero - Sea Change: The 10th Anniversary Exhibition.

New Bohemia Signs (top and above)

Jeff Canham

Andres hanging signs.

New Bohemia Signs

Steve Powers in progress.

Install Shots: Monica Canilao What's Lost is Safe.

Monica Canilao arrived in Milwaukee on Sunday to start her install for her upcoming show What's Lost is Safe at Sky High Gallery. ML4U's bff Faythe Levine shares a bunch of pictures she took on day one and two of the install. Along with what looks to be like a super, extensive installation there will also be original work and prints available. You can see more of the install on the gallery's blog or Faythe's flickr page.

A little blurb from Faythe on Sky High's blog:

"Working on a week long installation like this is such an amazing experience. There are so many variables to consider and as the curator having trust in your artist is a part of the process. Personally, Monica is the perfect person for me to work with on an unplanned install since I believe her work is consistently beautiful down to the most minor detail."

Sky High Gallery presents - “What's Lost Is Safe” solo exhibition by Monica Canilao, curated by Faythe Levine. Opening reception: Friday May 6th 6-10pm {Artist will be in attendance} through July 31, 2011.

 

Emily Glaubinger at Nooworks, part 2.

I stopped by Nooworks yesterday and got some great pics of Emily Glaubinger in action as she gets ready for her show that opens tomorrow night. She was crazy busy! In the window, on the wall and hanging her stuff! It was great to watch her in action. It was hard to not be inspired by her posi and happy energy as she got to it. The girl is a powerhouse...oh yeah and she makes jewelry! (I've posted before on her rad wood earrings.) At the moment that part of her renaissance is on hold...but if you are in SF her jewels will be along side her new work and her collaborative textiles with Nooworks at the boutique through Novemeber. Emily will be showing her latest work, digital drawings that took upwards of 20 hours to complete. They look so tough. The images are a psychedelic, color explosion of friends and self portraits.

Here are a bunch of pics I grabbed while I was there. Everything from her window and wall mural, to her jewels to her screenprinted goods she and Jen from Nooworks made together.

Here is my post on her sneak peek.

KRETS at Needles + Pens.

I'm helping out over at Needles + Pens today. Anna and Cindy of KRETS are here installing their group show KNOCK KNOCK. They are working super hard, making sure everything looks perfect. It's coming together for sure and they most definitely are knock knock knocking it out of the park with this line up!

FEATURING WORKS BY: AJ Fosik, Chris Johanson, Danilo Stankovic, Holly Stevenson, James Benjamin Franklin, Jeff Olsson, Jennifer Muskopf, Johanna Jackson, Keith Shore, Kim Hiorthøy, Malin Gabriella Nordin, Matthew Feyld, Megan Whitmarsh, Misaki Kawai, Peter Larsson, Phil Elverum, Ragnar Persson, Shoboshobo, & a mural by Richard Colman .

K N O C K K N O C K a group exhibition curated by Malmö, Sweden’s  K R E T S. Opening Reception Saturday October 9, 6:00-9:30 pm at Needles + Pens. Refreshments and music by Death Cheetah.

Here are some crappy Iphone pics. But they'll give you a nice little taste of what's in store. I'll be at the opening and share more on Monday.

Misaki Kawai, love her zines and it's rad to see her sense of humor in 3d.

The ladies working it out & making it happen.

Richard Colman's mural mid-progress. I may have to buy this wall.

Speaking of buying...what I wouldn't do to take this Chris Johanson piece home with me. If wishes were horses...

Gah! These deer by Jennifer Muskopf are killing me.

A wee little AJ Fosik never hurt anyone.

Rebekah Bogard CRUSH.

Whenever an artist transforms a gallery it's always an exciting endeavor. In Rebekah Bogard's latest show/installation, CRUSH, the gallery has been filled with water giving the illusion that the gallery is bottomless. Gargoyle like beings sit above on the rafters, watching or guarding the isolated couple as they float a top the water chamber.

CRUSH was four years n the making! It's great to see such an intense installation look so effortless and gorgeous. You can see the entire installation from beginning to end on Rebekah's FB photo album. And the final project here.

CRUSH runs through September 23, 2010 at Casper College Goodstein Art Gallery Casper, WY. Closing Reception & Lecture: Sept 23, Noon.