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VINZ interventions in Brooklyn

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While in town for the opening reception of Hybrid Thinking, our current group exhibition curated by Marc + Sara Schiller of Wooster Collective, which features his work, Valencia-based artist VINZ created some interventions in Williamsburg, Brooklyn…

"Skipping the Rules" on North 5th Street and Wythe Avenue

"Just the Two of Us" on North 15th Street and Wythe Avenue

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"To Serve and Protect" on Ten Eyke Street and Waterbury Street

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"Without Their Suit They are Naked" at Metropolitan Avenue

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Book release : DELUSIONAL

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DELUSIONAL: The Story of the Jonathan LeVine Gallery will be released March 1, 2012.

The gallery will host a NY launch and book signing on:
SATURDAY, MARCH 10TH, from 3—5pm

A number of artists featured in the book will be in attendance.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase.
To purchase a copy online, please click HERE.
This event is free and open to the public.

(Details on an LA launch/signing event to be announced soon)…

ABOUT DELUSIONAL
With a foreword by Carlo McCormick, and text written by Caleb Neelon, the 252-page hardcover book features quotes by dozens of artists and other important figures in the scene, telling LeVine’s story of from early years as an independent curator to present-day gallerist.

For further info, please visit:
www.gingkopress.com/07-art/delusional.html

For updates, please like/follow:
www.facebook.com/DelusionalTheBook

From the publisher, Gingko Press:
Widely revered as the “artists’ gallerist,” Jonathan LeVine has nourished a much needed alternative viewpoint within the stilted New York art market. In the pages of Delusional, readers will discover the fascinating backstory that brought this punk kid from Trenton, NJ, to the hallowed gallery walls of Chelsea. LeVine began his career in the arts publishing a fanzine in the 1980s and then curating shows at diverse venues in the 90s. By the turn of the millennium, LeVine had opened up Tin Man Alley, his own gallery located in New Hope, and then Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jonathan LeVine Gallery was officially launched in New York City in 2005. Since then, LeVine has brought his considerable talents to bear, focusing on work influenced by illustration, comic books, graffiti, street art and pop culture imagery.

LeVine’s featured artists tend to share a strong figurative and narrative inclination and include: Doze Green, Shepard Fairey, Audrey Kawasaki, Gary Baseman, Camille Rose Garcia, Tara McPherson, Josh Agle (aka Shag) and a long list of many other talented, esteemed artists.

Lavish illustrations throughout complete the package.
252 pages, Hardcover, 8.5 x 10.5 inches
325 color illustrations, English
ISBN: 978-1-58423-458-6 
$34.95


Olek appeal

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Polish-born, NY-based crochet artist Olek is currently involved in an unfortunate legal battle in the UK. In order to help raise funds for legal defense, the artist has released the following appeal (which we wish to verify is NOT fraudulent or in any way a scam):

http://olekappeal.com

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STATEMENT : 
“Olek recently arrived in London in order to fulfill a variety of professional engagements; the first of which was to donate a piece of art work to a charitable organization. On October 6th after donating a piece of her art to the charity at a show in London, Olek was involved in an incident with a drunk and aggressive male who behaved reprehensibly.

The incident happened extremely quickly and not knowing anyone in London or able to access her cell phone for numbers she was swept up into the legal system and treated very poorly. This has resulted in very serious charges being leveled against her which she strenuously denies. She has not even had the chance to state her case before a Court and she must await a statutory timetable before she can present her case properly.

She has now been fortunate enough to be referred on to an appropriate lawyer to defend her against these entirely false allegations, but effective legal representation in cases like this comes at a cost. Today, she needs your help to assist her to get through this terrible and unfair ordeal. At the moment she is facing serious charges with a risk of custody if she is not represented properly and able to expose the untruths and falsehoods in the allegations made against her.”

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As advised by Olek’s attorney, we are not at liberty to disclose any further information at this time or discuss specific details pertaining to the charges, so as not to jeopardize the artist’s case, before her hearing. 

Many thanks for your concern and consideration and a very special thank you to everyone who has already made contributions to the cause, Olek sincerely appreciates your support.

WK’s RIOT series in Paris

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Inspired by the NYC "OCCUPY" movement and protests occuring all around the world, WK recently placed his "RIOT" series of images throughout the streets of Paris, in areas like Bastille Station. These masked figures grimace through imagined police barricades. In the artist’s words : The movement of ‘occupiers’ has evolved into an organized force, armed with loudspeakers. No more polite silence. They raise their voices, volumes above indifference. Gas masks at hand, in preparation for what lies ahead...