Scion Presents its National Art Tour In Miami
This year each artist was asked to create his or her literal, or non-literal interpretation of the theme ‘Self-Portraits’. Video art will be included for the first time in the tour’s five-year history, alongside painting and photography.
Artists on the tour will include: AJ Fosik (3-D painting), Alex Hornest (painting), Andrew Schoultz (painting), Andy Howell (painting), Angela Boatwright (photography),Asylm (painting), Blek le Rat (painting), Christina M. Felice (photography), Codak (painting), David Choe (video art), Edwin Ushiro (painting), El Yem (video art), Eriberto Oriol (photography), Eye One (photography), Francesco LoCastro (painting), French (painting), Geoff Oki (video art), Ian Lynam (video art), J. Shea (painting), Jamel Shabazz (photography), Jeff Soto (painting), Kelsey Brookes (painting), Kofie (painting), Lisa Alisa (painting), Logan Hicks (photography), Mark Mothersbaugh (rug), Nicholas Harper (painting), Patrick Martinez (painting), Peter Beste (photography), RETNA (painting), Rick Rodney (photography), Rob Abeyta Jr. (painting), Ron English (painting), Saber (photography), Sage Vaughn (painting), Skypage (painting), Stormie Mills (painting), Tessar Lo (painting), Too Tall Jahmal (photography), Usugrow (painting), Will Barras (painting), Yoskay Yamamoto (painting) and more. As the tour travels, more artists will be added to the roster.
The Miami show will took place December 4-7, 2008 during the prestigious Art Basel. Art Basel, the largest art event in North America, gathers galleries, art collectors, artists, dealers, curators, critics and art enthusiasts from around the world. All Scion Installation artists will have the opportunity to attend Art Basel and take advantage of its offerings.
The final tour stop will be at Scion’s own 4,200 square foot Installation L.A. gallery space where all artwork will be auctioned off to the public, and 100 percent of the proceeds will go toward art-related charities and non-profits. Last year’s Installation 4 tour raised over $50,000 on behalf of Art From Scrap, an organization encouraging creative expression in the arts and promoting a greater understanding of environmental issues. Over the last four years Scion’s Installation tour has raised more than $190,000 for art-related non-profit organizations.
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Scion Presents Installation 5: Self Portraits
Scion will launch the fifth installment of its Installation Art Tour. The program is designed to give exposure to both established and emerging artists. Installation 5: Self Portraits highlights a diverse array of artists from around the world and will visit nine cities including Miami, New York, Portland, Minneapolis, San Jose, and Los Angeles. For the first time, the tour will pass through the Detroit, Phoenix and Washington D.C. markets.
This year each artist was asked to create his or her literal, or non-literal interpretation of the theme ‘Self-Portraits’. Video art will be included for the first time in the tour’s five-year history, alongside painting and photography. Artists on the tour will include: AJ Fosik (3-D painting), Alex Hornest (painting), Andrew Schoultz (painting), Andy Howell (painting), Angela Boatwright (photography),Asylm (painting), Blek le Rat (painting), Christina M. Felice (photography), Codak (painting), David Choe (video art), Edwin Ushiro (painting), El Yem (video art), Eriberto Oriol (photography), Eye One (photography), Francesco LoCastro (painting), French (painting), Geoff Oki (video art), Ian Lynam (video art), J. Shea (painting), Jamel Shabazz (photography), Jeff Soto (painting), Kelsey Brookes (painting), Kofie (painting),Lisa Alisa (painting), Logan Hicks (photography), Mark Mothersbaugh (rug),Nicholas Harper (painting), Patrick Martinez (painting), Peter Beste (photography), RETNA (painting), Rick Rodney (photography), Rob Abeyta Jr.(painting), Ron English (painting), Saber (photography), Sage Vaughn (painting), Skypage (painting), Stormie Mills (painting), Tessar Lo (painting),Too Tall Jahmal (photography), Usugrow (painting), Will Barras (painting),Yoskay Yamamoto (painting) and more. As the tour travels, more artists will be added to the roster.
The Miami show will take place December 4-7, 2008 during the prestigious Art Basel. Art Basel, the largest art event in North America, gathers galleries, art collectors,artists, dealers, curators, critics and art enthusiasts from around the world. All Scion Installation artists will have the opportunity to attend Art Basel and take advantage of its offerings.
The final tour stop will be at Scion’s own 4,200 square foot Installation L.A. gallery space where all artwork will be auctioned off to the public, and 100 percent of the proceeds will go toward art-related charities and non-profits. Last year’s Installation4 tour raised over $50,000 on behalf of Art From Scrap, an organization encouraging creative expression in the arts and promoting a greater understanding of environmental issues. Over the last four years Scion’s Installation tour has raised more than $190,000 for art-related non-profit organizations.
Launched in 2003, Scion Installation is a revolutionary art tour affirming the brand’s ongoing commitment to support independent artistic expression and featuring work from an unprecedented collective of contemporary artists, designers and photographers. Previous participants include: Andre from Paris, Gary Baseman,Freddi C, Mr. Cartoon, Crash, David Ellis, Daze, Blaine Fontana, Sam Flores, Futura,Mike Giant, James Jean, Caia Koopman, Krush, Mel Kadel, Mear One, Travis Millard,Andy Mueller, Andrew Pommier, Ricky Powell, Rammellzee, Rostarr, Kenny Scharf, Wearesupervision, Chris Yormick and many others.
For more information on the tour, the artists, the artwork and details from past tours please visit: http://www.scion.com/installation
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Tokyo Nonsense
Scion Installation L.A. is pleased to present Tokyo Nonsense, a group exhibition featuring new work by 11 young Japanese artists who live and work in Tokyo.
The exhibition will include works by Ichiro Endo, Taro Izumi, Ai Kato (akaai madonna), Sachiko Kazama, Iichiro Tanaka, and the six-member artist group, Chim?Pom.
The opening reception takes place October 4, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM and will run through October 25 at the Scion Installation L.A. Gallery, 3521 Helms Ave. (at National), Culver City, CA 90232.There will be live performances by Ai Kato (ai madonna) and Ichiro Endo and a live DJ set by DIGIKI (Tokyo Fun Party). All artists will be in attendance at the exhibition’s opening reception.
The title, Tokyo Nonsense, not only refers to the city itself but also references the word “nonsense” in the context of Japanese popular culture, connoting so-called “modern decadence”and the rebellious, anti-establishment spirit of the 1960s student protest movement. The work of these 11 young artists reflects both Tokyo’s frenetic energy and the banal realities of everyday city life. The exhibition will consist of more radical forms of expression such as performance,video, and installation art in addition to more traditional mediums such as drawing, painting, and woodblock printing.
Within the Japanese vernacular the word “nonsense” has assumed various meanings throughout modern history, often associated with radical expression that challenged the dominant discourse of the moment. In the early 1930s, “nonsense” was included in the phrase ero-guro-nansensu,which the Japanese mass media used to label decadent and salacious popular culture (literature,film, theater) that was viewed as a threat to traditional family values. Then in the late 1960s,“nonsense” became the rally cry for the disaffected Japanese students who protested to express their frustration with the current political and social situation at home and abroad. The rebellious spirit evoked by the word “nonsense” in Japan continues today, reincarnated and rearticulated by this group of young artists working in Tokyo. Their work simultaneously reflects the precedent set by the “nonsense” of the 1930s—labeled as absurd and meaningless by the dominant discourse—while dismissing the dominant discourse itself as pure “nonsense,” reminiscent of the protest tactics employed in the 1960s.
In order to articulate this duality, many of the featured artists have chosen to work outside the traditional gallery/museum system by turning to radical forms of expression such as performance,video, and installation art. The six-member artist group Chim?Pom creates video and sculpture that capture an irreverent, raw energy that was born on the streets and back alleys of Tokyo.While their performances evoke vulgar adolescent pranks, the growing social consciousness in their work is evidenced by their recent project disarming minefields in Cambodia. Kazama Sachiko is best known for her black-and-white woodblock prints that parody Japanese history,politics, and social issues with a healthy sense of irony and sarcasm. The work of Izumi Tarotakes its form as video, installation, and drawing characterized by the use of found objects and a low-tech, do-it-yourself aesthetic. In his humorous yet ultimately defeatist works, the artist quietly vents his feelings of frustration through futile games and nonsensical play. The performances and mural paintings of Endo Ichiro rely on the artist’s body to communicate his intense optimism and spirited calls for change. Utilizing the energetic motto “GO FOR FUTURE!,” Endo’s work explores the future’s endless creative possibilities through the limited means of the present. Kato Ai (akaai madonna) has amassed a cult following through her live painting performances in Akihabara,where the she paints directly onto the side of her parked van. The means of executing her girlie,anime-inspired paintings share the vitality of a street performer, while creatively circumventing the traditional gallery system by exhibiting her works directly to the public. Lastly Tanaka Iichiro creates humorous, understated works in a variety of media that seemingly deny having any serious meaning. These deceptively simple works skillfully “turn meaning on its head,” blurring the line between the absurd and the profound.
Curating this exhibition is Gabriel Ritter, an independent curator specializing in contemporary Japanese art. His curatorial projects include Out of the Ordinary: New Video from Japan at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2007) and Rinko Kawauchi: AILA at the UC Riverside Museum of Photography (2005). He has also contributed catalogue essays to the latest monographs of the artists Makoto Aida and Koki Tanaka.
The new Scion Installation Gallery hosts art shows and art-related events for cutting-edge artists from across the globe. Due to success and growth, the Scion Installation L.A. Gallery recently moved from its Washington Boulevard location to Helms and National near the Hayden Tract area. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM and by appointment - 310.815.8840. For more information,visit www.scion.com/space.
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Scion Art of Music Opening Photos
Scion’s “The Art of Music” exhibition opened this past weekend, featuring work from Ed Banger Records’ So-Me, one half of electro group Cut Copy, and numerous other artists and graphic designers entrenched in music, art & lifestyle culture.
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Scion Presents The Art of Music
In conjunction with French collective ill-Studio, Scion presents The Art of Music at its 4,500 square foot Installation L.A. Gallery. This exhibition celebrates the intertwining of art and music, and their mutually nurturing relationship. Music and art have become directly linked by their similar creative approach, especially as they evolve and complement each other through records, posters and flyers.
Scion Presents The Art of Music
Art can give music a visual dimension in the same way music can illustrate art. Both are connected by a common global image and culture. The Art of Music brings together fifteen international artists to exhibit their visual interpretation of music.
Every music style has its own visual identity that manifests in accompanying artwork and can elevate a great record or band to iconic status. From psychedelic rock to rave and death metal, punk or hip hop, music has brought many talented artists to the limelight. In the same manner, many artists, such as Peter Saville, Pushead and Raymond Pettibon, provided music artists and record labels another dimension, bringing them to their now legendary status. Nowadays, record covers, concert posters and party flyers are viewed as a modern canvas by artists, enabling them to express their work in a medium that travels from hand to hand and outside of the traditional art world. This group show celebrates this “art of music,” taking it temporarily from the people’s hands and exhibiting it in a gallery space.
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The artists involved are: Australia’s Josh Petherick who has worked with Vans California, Tokion Products, Arkitip and more; LA’s Steven Harrington who enjoys The Moody Blues and has collaborated with Kid Robot and Element skateboards; Swiss studio //DIY who have worked with Apple, Etnies, Nike and other major international brands and also have their own streetwear label +41; Australian studio Alter, a duo of which one member is part of electro band Cut Copy and also crafts the visual identity of the label Modular (which includes The Presets and The Avalanches); another Australian duo P.A.M. loves to push the boundaries of art/culture/fashion; New Yorker Ryan Waller, labeled one of 34 “Young Guns” under the age of 30 by The Art Directors Club and one of “20 under 30” by Print (magazine); Parisian So Me, the art director of Ed Banger records who boast Justice, Uffie, DJ Mehdi, Mr Oizo and more; Sanghon Kim whose extreme versatility has been commissioned by the likes of Lacoste, Hermes, Tate Modern, Air and more; the UK’s extreme-art collective La Boca who once balanced on a scaffolding platform in the middle of the countryside in order to photograph 3,000 spoons; German duo Smal & Paze; Artus de Leavilleon who draws heavily on 80s skateboard and punk-rock culture;Swedish Museum Studio; the Brixton-residing, death metal-listening French; and lastly Stefan Marx who keeps busy on the European scene and runs his own clothing brand.
Josh Petherick © All rights reserved.
The opening reception takes place September 6, 7:00 P.M. – 10:00 P.M. at the Scion Installation L.A. Gallery, 3521 Helms Ave. (at National), Culver City, CA 90232. The show will run until September 27. Dedicated to fostering independent artistic expression, the Scion Installation L.A. Gallery is a space that allows artists to explore their creative visions. The Scion Installation Gallery hosts art shows and art-related events for cutting-edge artists from across the globe. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM and by appointment - 310.815.8840.
For more information, visit www.scion.com/space.