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Aakash Nihalani: New Website and Album Design

Aakash Nihalani is always busy! He just relaunched his website (updated with images of many of his outdoor, indoor and digital projects from the past few years) and has designed an album cover for the band Das Racist. I’m not much of a fan of contemporary indie music so I don’t know what Das Racist’s songs are like, but I do appreciate good album layout when I see it. It’s also nice to know that there are bands out there who respect Aakash’s work without feeling the need to make an embarrassingly bad copycat version of it to promote one of their shitty new songs.

– Elisa

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Re-Creation II at Ogilvy & Mather New York

Last week, Carmichael Gallery took over the Ogilvy & Mather offices in New York for Re-creation II, a show with installations and/or paintings from Will Barras, Simon Birch, Boxi, Ethos, Mark Jenkins, Labrona, Aakash Nihalani, Nina Pandolfo and WK Interact. The show will be on until the end of July, so there’s plenty of time to stop by if you’re in New York.

Ethos
Will Barras

All these Aakash Nihalani artworks look great next to each other:

Aakash Nihalani
Labrona
Boxi

My favorite part of Re-Creation II has to be all of the things that WK Interact did:

WK Interact
WK Interact

Lots more photos of the show on Carmichael Gallery’s flickr…

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Re-Creation II, the Carmichaels go to NYC

If you follow Elisa Carmichael on twitter, you may have noticed that she’s been dropping some hints recently about a big secret show that they’ve been planning. Well here it is: Re-Creation II features artwork from Will Barras, Simon Birch, Boxi, Ethos, Mark Jenkins, Labrona, Aakash Nihalani, Nina Pandolfo and WK Interact. I know Seth and Elisa have been working like crazy to pull this all together, and it sounds like it’s going to be amazing. They’ve flown some of their favorite artists to New York to work on installations in the space, and with the show running for so many months, plenty of people will have a chance to see what’s created.

In collaboration with Carmichael Gallery, Ogilvy & Mather New York will host Re-Creation II, a global exploration of emerging art, from March 5th through July 2010.

The exhibit will be held at the new Ogilvy & Mather headquarters on New York City’s West Side at 636 11th Avenue. Re-Creation II will showcase some of the most important emerging contemporary artists from around the world.

Large-scale murals, installations and original canvas, sculpture and mixed media works will be on display from Will Barras, Simon Birch, Boxi, Ethos, Mark Jenkins, Labrona, Aakash Nihalani, Nina Pandolfo and WK Interact. Many of these artists, who are based in the UK, Hong Kong, Germany, Brazil, the US and Canada, have never shown in New York before, and have never shown together.

Ogilvy & Mather will transform five floors and the lobby space of its new headquarters in The Chocolate Factory into a museum-quality exhibition space. As viewers ascend each floor, they can experience the upward momentum of the artwork. Re-Creation II is the second exhibit to be hosted by Ogilvy & Mather in its new space.  It follows the inaugural Re-Creation exhibit, which featured the work of 12 emerging artists who use recycled materials to create unique forms of art. That exhibit will also be viewable through the end of March.

The opening reception of the exhibit will be held on Friday, March 5 with several of the artists in attendance at Ogilvy & Mather. The exhibition will run through July 31, 2010. Opening on March 5th in the middle of the Armory Art Fair week, the exhibition will run through the end of July 2010.

Doors are open to the viewing public, by appointment only, Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm by contacting Jun Lee at jun.lee@ogilvy.com.

On a side note, this is the 1000th post on Vandalog. Almost a year and a half in, we’ve averaged over 2 posts per day, posting almost every single day.

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Aakash Nihalani x Sean John

When a ground-breaking artist collaborates with a cool brand, the result is often amazing. That was the case when Aakash Nihalani teamed up with Sean John. It’s not necessary to add but it should be noted that Diddy, the clothing brand’s creator, is one of the world’s most influential urban taste makers, and Aakash just significantly upped the coolness factor of the clothes. Check out the results below.

Keep in mind that Aakash left for Miami literally the day after his solo exhibit On & Off (Often On) opened at Carmichael Gallery in LA to get working on this- this guy is on a roll.

More info on the new Sean John Miami shop here. All images courtesy of Aakash Nihalani.

– Elisa

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Mark Jenkins and Aakash Nihalani

Aakash Nihalani

Aakash Nihalani and Mark Jenkins’ solo shows at the Carmichael Gallery opened last week. Both Mark and Aakash have really pushed forward with these shows. Aakash was able to show that he doesn’t just a one-trick-pony and that he is more than just his tape pieces, and Mark continues to amuse and amaze me with his new sculptures.

Aakash Nihalani
Mark Jenkins
Mark Jenkins
Mark Jenkins

Photos from the Carmichael Gallery flickr

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Aakash Nihalani Video

Babelgum just released a short video shot by Radar Twenty-One about Aakash Nihalani. I like to watch videos in which artists step back and talk about their work and as much of this footage, which follows Aakash through New York and films him at work on the street, is interspersed with his thoughtful commentary, I enjoyed this one.

Aakash is in LA right now prepping for his upcoming show here at Carmichael Gallery – it’s going to be a fun week leading up to the opening!

– Elisa

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Aakash Nihalani at Carmichael Gallery

Aakash Nihalani’s solo show, On & Off (Often On), is opening in a few weeks at the Carmichael Gallery in LA. I’m a fan of his public work and indoor installations, and I’m really curious what sort of pieces could be for sale and what the metal sculptural pieces will be like.

In January 2010, Carmichael Gallery presents On & Off (Often On), the first West Coast solo exhibition of Aakash Nihalani. In addition to a characteristically arresting site-specific installation comprised of brightly colored tape, Nihalani introduces a new artistic direction by using metal and plastic to create sculptural objects.

There will be an opening reception for On & Off (Often On) on Thursday, January 21 with Nihalani in attendance. The exhibition will run through February 18, 2010.

Aakash Nihalani is fast becoming recognized as one of the US’s most striking emerging installation artists. Celebrated for his ephemeral modifications of the urban landscape, the young Brooklyn-based tape specialist wields an abstract narrative of isometric shapes and flamboyant hues grounded in quiet irony and idiosyncratic precision. The fluidity of his simple, colorful style, which employs familiar shapes to produce unexpected visuals, initiates an inviting, living dialogue that traverses the chaos of city streets, the white walls of the gallery and the constancy of home.

Nihalani has built a global fan base by selectively placing his artwork on sidewalks and public spaces around New York. His squares, rectangles and cubes, which are constructed from strips of instantly identifiable fluorescent tape, give three-dimensional qualities and a new, often humorous, perspective to the windows, doorways, cement pavement, floor tiles, chain-link fences, bricks, building contours and

subway spaces within which they are embedded. Nihalani completes all public art pieces on site with little to no advanced planning. His style readily adapts to the interior gallery space and into individual works of art, thereby escaping its customarily fleeting existence while continuing to fuse his aesthetic and conceptual objectives.

Nihalani has fashioned a visual language all his own. The neon in his work highlights details that might otherwise go unnoticed, while his minimalist patterns form self-contained pockets which encourage examination both within the isolated space and of the world at large. His work often engages the public by creating three-dimensional environments that can be physically entered, transforming passersby or gallery visitors into participants and offering them a momentary escape from daily life.

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The Art Street Journal Issue 6 – January

The first issue of The Art Street Journal 2010 is out! Inside, amongst other things, you’ll find reviews on some of the best shows from December (like Grifters at Lazarides) and previews of some of the ones we’re most excited about in January (like A Cry For Help at Thinkspace). There are a lot of interviews in this issue, too – Martha Cooper, Mark Jenkins (who’s showing here at Carmichael Gallery with Aakash Nihalani in January) Stephan Doitschinoff and Zezao.

This month’s Unurth page is very cool (I love that this page enables us to fit so many different artists into the paper – it really is hard to include everything you want to cover in sixteen pages and Sebastian does a fantastic job of highlighting the best on the street), plus we’ve finally started the tasj bookshelf page. Each month, this page will feature a selection of the best publications out there (RJ’s The Thousands: Painting Outside, Breaking In makes it in first time, of course, as does Issue 10 of Very Nearly Almost).

As always, tasj is free and we’ll deliver it anywhere in the world. You can get it here.

– Elisa

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SCOPE: Judith Supine and Aakash Nihalani

Some really cool installations here at SCOPE! Here are a few:

Judith Supine

Judith Supine. While the 3D effect doesn’t really carry through in this photo, this piece is really eye-catching (as all his work is) in person.

Aakash Nihalani

Aakash Nihalani. Aakash isn’t quite finished yet, so I’ll post another photo when he is. It’s so much fun to watch him work!

Aakash Nihalani

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