Alongside his innumerable award-winning music videos and commercials, and film, director Samuel Bayer has  produced still photographs, evolving a style of gritty rawness, culminating in his new work, a large-scale series of black and white photographic nude portraits, being exhibited for the first time at Ace Gallery Beverly Hills. The show opens  Sunday March 3, 2013 and runs through April 27, 2013. The models are women Bayer has worked with and known over the past decade,  who in front…

Widely regarded for its influential voice in the emerging art market, SCOPE New York 2013 features 55 international galleries, including Québec Savoir Faire  which offers a glimpse at current trends in contemporary art practices from Québec, organized by the Contemporary Art Galleries Association (AGAC) and supported by Délégation Général New York. Hailing from four continents and eighteen countries, SCOPE exhibitors represent the best and brightest contemporary work from emerging and mid-career artists, and include CARTWHEEL local  faves, Thinkspace, Fabien Castanier, and…

Opening March 7, The Armory Show--devoted to showcasing the most important artworks of the 20th and 21st centuries--brings a astounding selection of the world's leading galleries with an exceptional program of arts events and exhibitions throughout New York during the celebrated Armory Arts Week, with ten other art fairs, including SCOPE and Fountain also taking place that week. This year marks the centennial of the fair’s namesake, the Armory Show of 1913, which is credited with the introduction of European…

  VOLTA NY is an invitational show of emerging solo artists’ projects and the American incarnation of the successful young fair founded in Basel in 2005.  This year,  the invitational fair inaugurates its new location, 82MERCER in SoHo, was showcasing 95 international galleries, spanning 6 continents and spotlighting artists from 38 nations. CARTWHEEL featured artist Greg Haberny is among the artists included. A platform for challenging, often complementary, sometimes competing ideas about contemporary art, the strictly solo format is what…

Artist Michael Torquato deNicola explores the intersection of surfing and art in the heart of Dogtown USA at FAB Studio, in association with DTC and Streetcraft LA.  Explains Torquato: By now, most people are aware of ‘Dogtown’  and know of it’s influences through the surf and skate cultures by way of numerous images, articles and films such as Stacy Peralta’s Dogtown and Z-Boys and the Lords of Dogtown, etc. About a year ago I was commissioned to create a mural…

It's fitting that Fountain hits New York with a VIP opening March 8 at the site of the original Armory Show a century ago where Marchel Duchamp  first exhibited his work in New York, leaving lasting legacy that challenged people’s preconceived notions of what art can be. One hundred years later, Fountain Art Fair is challenging people’s preconceived notions of what an art fair can be. With over 60 galleries international featuring avant garde galleries and projects, Fountain is a…

Venice's fresh-to-edgy C.A.V.E Gallery opens a four person show with self-taught artist and habitual doodler Craww whose work is populated with skulls, crows and melancholic, big-handed girls; the Muneera Gerald's inky, moody portraits of modern malaise. Young Chun's colorful and dystopian portraits of disturbingly pretty (and pretty disturbed!) young women are fueled by his experienced as a minister's son in South Korea, and his years spent working in hospitals in the LA area, faced with life and death situations. Rounding out the…

  Once again The Hive Gallery present a synapse-stimulating opening with three featured artists (Jenna Gibson, Zara Kand, and Chi Kei "Sam" Ho) and installation (this time by Ashford Harrison), and continues  this man vs robot-themed group show, "Blood and Oil" with 40 artists going mano a man, tackling the theme of  mechanical mayhem makers, armed only with a brush and palette, refereed, uh curated, by Orange County curatorial group White Matter. Throw in tarot readings!  Facepainting! Three DJs!  The…