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How to Celebrate ‘Celebrating Life!’
May 15th, 2013
Time again to honor Las Vegas’ creative seniors as the annual Celebrating Life! exhibit returns to the Charleston Heights Arts Center, featuring the work of Las Vegas’ 50-and-older visual artists. Read more »
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New Sin City Gallery Exhibit is Strong and Sexy
Artist JK Russ’ video celebrates female empowerment
May 15th, 2013
“There are lots of amazing women here doing amazing things and they don’t get held back as much as in other places,” says JK Russ, a contributor to Sin City Gallery’s current Behind Closed Doors exhibit. “That’s why women have a domination in my work. It’s my acknowledgment and appreciation of what I see women doing here in Las Vegas.” Read more »
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Robert Beckmann Has Found Creation in Our Desert Destruction
The artist stages an explosive retrospective at Vast Space Projects.
May 7th, 2013
Here’s what 71-year-old artist Robert Beckmann told the next generation of Las Vegas artists at a dinner party: “Do what you don’t know how to do as long as you can. Then finally do what you know how to do just to resolve the damn thing.” Read more »
Virtual Gallery Hop: May Edition
Get an advance look at art that will be featured during this month's Preview Thursday and First Friday art walk
May 2nd, 2013
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After 25 Years, Contemporary Arts Center Gets New Directors and Newfound Maturity
May 1st, 2013
Walking into Contemporary Arts Center in January, you would have seen something unforgettable: a 42-foot-long inflatable nude self-sculpture with Sharpie-scribbled body hair and eyeglasses. The giant air-puffed nylon doll was part of New York artist Benjamin Entner’s Ego Sum, a show that referenced historical statuary and asked viewers to reconsider three-dimensional representation. ... With, you know, balloon figures of a naked dude in tube socks. Ego Sum was thoughtful, compelling and made people smile. It symbolizes CAC at its most successful. Read more »
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Two Exhibits Revel in Pathetic Portraiture
April 9th, 2013
In the mid-19th century, photography studios flourished. For a price, stylists, props and rented clothing allowed people to look wealthy—even if they were, in fact, poor. Thus, portraiture was an aspirational industry. Read more »
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Virtual Gallery Hop: April Edition
April 4th, 2013
Welcome to Vegas Seven’s version of Preview Thursday, an interactive portal displaying some of the art that will be featured during Downtown's First Friday art walk and the real-life Preview Thursday. Read more »
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Curating Hell
David Pagel chooses eight artists to create an 'Inferno' for today
April 2nd, 2013
According to the esteemed David Pagel, the point of curating an art show is to help viewers make connections between work that they wouldn’t otherwise see. Or as the Los Angeles Times art critic, professor and curator says, “Everything gets put in its little sewing cabinet of categories, and I like to scramble those.” His current show, 10th Circle, at Vast Space Projects is an example of such a scrambling. Read more »
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Art (Un)installation
Jennifer Kleven opens up about closing her Downtown gallery
March 26th, 2013
For the past two years and four months, Kleven Contemporary hosted many of the best contemporary art exhibits in Las Vegas. The micro gallery, housed in Emergency Arts, drew emerging artists who worked in a diversity of media and styles, from Andrew Sea James’ photography of quirky Valley landscapes to a paper installation by Andreana Donahue to Kyla Hansen’s appropriately titled sculpture show The End and Shit, a post-apocalyptic reliquary of the Southwest. Read more »
Video: Framing the Apocalypse, One Snapshot at a Time
March 21st, 2013
Fluttering into Vegas Seven’s virtual inbox this week comes a project from local photographer and videographer Eric Ita: a nightmarish post-apocalyptic scene, rendered in vivid fire-and-flesh tones, complete with gun-toting soldiers and fleeing citizens. Read more »
