AO Art Observed™

Mariko Munro, Karen Kilimnik, and Kirsten Dunst, photo courtesy of 303 Gallery, shot by Billy Ferrel/Patrick McMullan

Last night, 303 Gallery threw a Summer Celebration to mark their expansion into their new space. The event celebrated the gallery’s 25th anniversary at it’s brand new 5,000-square-foot Chelsea location on 21st Street in New York City. The party hosted a performance by indie rock band, The Virgins, and a set by DJ Thurston Moore. Mary Heilmann selected David Lynch’s Lost Highway and Richard Sarafian’s Vanishing Point to be projected on the gallery walls. The start studded guest list included actress Kirsten Dunst, artist Karen Kilimnik, artist Dan Graham, artist Aaron Young, just to name a few. Also spotted on the scene: Designer/model Agyness Deyn, designer Cynthia Rowley, Genevieve Jones, Joe Zee from Elle, Rogan Gregory, Serge Becker, model Jessica Stam, Anna Sui, Byrdie Bell, Bill Powers, Cecilia Dean from Visionaire, Fashion Desiger Elise Overland, Poppy de Villeneuve, Doreen Remen from Art Production Fund, Julie Gilhart from Barney’s New York, Bowery Hotel owner Sean McPherson, collectors Baby Jane Holzer, Matt Aberle, David Hoberman, curators Francesco Bonami, Richard Flood, Barbara London, galleriests Andrew Kreps and Anton Kerns, stylist Natasha Royt, Meredith Darrow, Jason Wu, Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, Anthony Haden-Guest, musician Lissy Trullie, curator Shamim Momin, Knight Landesman from Art Forum, and Amanda Sharpe from Frieze.

Art, Music, and Heat: Shvitzing at the 303 Gallery Opening [Refinery 29]
Of Nubiles and Noblemen [Style]
Summer Celebration at 303 Gallery [Art Fag City]
303 Gallery Website [303 Gallery]
303 Gallery Summer Kick Off [Fashion Week Daily]
Tonight at 303 Gallery [Suprememanagment]
Full Steam Ahead [Vogue Scene]
Additional photos courtesy Billy Farrell and Patrick McMullan via 303 Gallery [303 Gallery]

more photos of the event after the jump…

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“Pretty Ugly” at Gavin Brown Enterprise via Art Observed

Art Observed was on site at the opening of “Pretty Ugly” on Thursday, July 10th. The show took place at two neighboring galleries on Greenwich St. in New York: Gavin Brown’s Enterpise and Maccarone.
The show was curated by Alison Gingeras, of the Pinault collection, and featured work from more than 75 artists, including John Currin, Louise Bourgeois, the Chapman Brothers, Paul McCarthy, Takashi Murakami, Alice Neel, Hermann Nitsch, Andy Warhol, Francis Picabia, and Rob Pruitt, just to name a few.

Pretty Ugly: Press Release [Gavin Brown's Enterprise]
Pretty Ugly, Maccarone [Maccarone Gallery]
A Pretty Ugly New York Art Eclipse [Flash Art]
This Week in Art Openings: Totally Rad, Pretty Ugly, and The Shallow Curator [Papermag]
Pretty Ugly [Artlog]

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“Too Far Too Close”, Os Gemeos at Deitch Gallery via Art Observed

On June 28th, the doors opened at 18 Wooster St in New York to reveal the fantastical world of Os Gemeos. The twin brothers that make up Os Gemeos, Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo, are having their second show at Deitch, called “Too Far Too Close”. The artist duo, from Sao Paulo, Brazil, has successfully altered the space into a colorful world filled with chimerical portraits, music, and scenes straight from the intimate minds of Os Gemeos.

Sharing a brain: Os Gemeos [GQ]
Os Gemeos: Too Far Too Close [Deitch]
Os Gemeos’s Homepage [Lost Art]
Bomb - It: International Graffiti Documentary [Bomb-It]
Os Gemeos “Too Far Too Close” [NYArtbeat]

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