Where: 111 Minna Gallery
Event Date: June 3, 2016
Location: 111 Minna, San Francisco, CA
Exhibit Dates: June 3 - July 30
For more details: https://www.facebook.com/events/572634649577322/
Invitation to Nothingness | Scooter LaForge Solo Show and
Lacrimosa | Dariusz Labuzek Solo Show
Opening Reception Friday, JUNE 3rd 5pm-Late
w/ DJ Miss Iggy & Drink Specials All Night
Scooter LaForge is a full-time artist living in New York City. Last year, he was featured in shows at the Leslie-Lohman Museum in New York, the Friedrichshof Museum in Vienna, and the Spiritmuseum/Absolut Art Collection in Sweden.
The artist has recently collaborated with Belgian fashion designer Walter Van Bierendonck, supplying 20 paintings as images to be incorporated into the fabric of his men’s wear line. He worked in conjunction with Norwegian painter Bjarne Melgaard in the creation of sculptures for an exhibit. LaForge was chosen to be a keynote speaker at the Montreal Fashion & Design Festival, and presented a solo show at the Galerie MX in the same city.
Last fall, LaForge was commissioned to create garments for Madonna’s performance of her single “Bitch I’m Madonna” on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus, Rihanna and Debbie Harry have all worn items from his clothing line.
In 2015, he was the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation award. Commenting on his exploration of context, Forbes magazine wrote he has found “a new art medium in clothing.”
Artforum, Vogue, Vogue Italia, Vogue Ukraine, V Magazine, T Magazine, W Magazine, Billboard and Spirit & Flesh all featured LaForge’s art during 2015.
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Dariusz Labuzek’s primitive style paintings are inherently figurative, yet their naive imagery is predominantly design orientated, has an illustrative quality that is founded on an abstract painterly aesthetic. This juxtaposition of abstraction and design is what makes his pictures so compelling, his figures created as vessels to be filled by textures, colors, and ideas, beautiful compositions that conspire to feed our desire for aesthetically beautiful objects.
Dariusz was born in Poland and studied architecture at Cracow’s Institute of Technology and film and theater at Humboldt State University in California. In 2015, he was honored to be featured by Saatchi Art in their “Invest in Art” series, which introduces the public to exceptional emerging artists from around the world.