‘Open 4 Business’ by Samuel François &
‘Memento Mori’ by Hell’ O Monsters

Opening 08.03.2012 at 6PM

ALICE Gallery
4 rue du pays de Liège
1000 Brussels Belgium

http://alicebxl.com/
http://hellomonsters.wordpress.com/
http://www.samuelfrancois.com/

60 copies limited edition.

Size: 60cm/ 80cm   (23.6 in/ 31.5 in).

Four colors .

Paper Velin BFK rives 300 gr.

Price: 130 EUR ( + 9 EUR of shipping expenses)
           180 $       ( + 13 $ of shipping expenses)

Buy contacting: thehellomonsters@gmail.com

“Those ropes” 1-6, 120cm /80cm, indian ink and watercolor on paper,2011.

August 10—27, 2011
Opening Reception:
Wednesday, August 10, 6—8pm

NEW YORK, NY (July 11, 2011) — Jonathan LeVine Gallery is pleased to announce its 2011 Annual Summer Invitational, a group exhibition featuring works by twelve emerging artists including: ABOVE, Ashley Wood, Daniel Martin Diaz, Dick Chicken, Edwin Ushiro, Eric Fortune, Hello Monsters, Jennifer Delilah, Melissa Haslam, Meryl Smith, Nicoletta Ceccoli and Yuko Shimizu.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
The artist known as ABOVE was born in 1981 in California. In 1995, at the age of fifteen, he became involved with graffiti, tagging the word ABOVE on freight trains. In 2001, at the age of 19, he moved to Paris, France and began painting his trademark arrow icon. He returned to California in 2003 and has traveled the globe extensively in the years since, placing his work in Ilocations in over 90 cities in 50 different countries, worldwide.

Born in 1971, Ashley Wood is an Australian-based painter, award-winning illustrator and celebrated comic book artist. He is scheduled for a solo exhibition at Jonathan LeVine Gallery in the Fall of 2012.

Born in 1967 in Tucson, Arizona, Daniel Martin Diaz is a self-taught artist. With Mexican-American parents, his traditional Catholic upbringing influences much of the gothic-inspired aesthetic prevalent throughout his body of work—which has been exhibited in galleries and museums, worldwide.

Dick Chicken is a Brooklyn-based street artist whose graphic approach is offensive to some while wickedly humorous to others. His work satirically mocks consumer culture and corporate farming practices of the food industry through appropriated imagery and branded packaging motifs.

Edwin Ushiro was born in 1977 on the Hawaiian island of Maui and is currently based in Los Angeles. He received a BFA in Illustration from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He achieves an ethereal quality of light in his imagery, painted on tiled sheets of vinyl paper and mounted onto clear lucite. His subject matter is rich in narrative, combining obake tales of his Japanese heritage with folklore of his native Hawaii.

Eric Fortune is an artist and award-winning illustrator based in Columbus, Ohio. He received a BFA with Honors from Columbus College of Art and Design. With fine details and smooth textures, his emotive works on paper portray stylized, isolated figures set in surreal, atmospheric backgrounds.

Hello Monsters is a Belgian collective formed by Jérôme Meynen, François Dieltiens and Antoine Detaille. The artists blend their individual styles to create an imaginary universe occupied by human-animal-monster hybrid figures. The resulting graphic imagery is layered in caustic social commentary.

Jennifer Delilah is a Brooklyn-based painter. She attended the Kansas City Art Institute and in 1991, she received a BFA from The Art Institute in San Francisco. She describes her figurative work as carrying themes of wealth, perversity, excess, debauchery and unfettered desires.

Melissa Haslam is based in Melbourne, Australia. She studied Visual Arts at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). Her paintings express an interest in the nature of social role-playing, particularly in fashion. Her portraits of young women dressed in costumes resembling stuffed toy animals are inspired by a Japanese fashion subculture known as Kigurumi or cosplay.

Meryl Smith is a New York-based artist. She has collaborated with artists such as Neckface, and made the sculptures in Spike Jones’ short film I’m Here, which were later installed in Opening Ceremony’s retail window display. She was photographed in her home with her eccentric collection of objects by Tod Selby for his blog and book The Selby. Her thought-provoking sculptures and two-dimensional works reflect a macabre sense of humor and intense interest in wildlife.

Based in San Marino, Italy, Nicoletta Ceccoli is an award-winning illustrator of over 30 children’s books. Her whimsically allegorical paintings portray doll-like female figures interacting with birds, insects, lizards and other wild creatures in a dark and dream-like fantasy world.

Yuko Shimizu is a Japanese-born artist and acclaimed illustrator. She has lived in New York since 1999, and received an MFA in illustration from School of Visual Arts (SVA) in 2003. Her series of monochromatic ink drawings evoke Japanese manga and narrative comic traditions on an epic scale.

ABOUT JONATHAN LEVINE GALLERY
Jonathan LeVine Gallery exhibits a genre of work influenced by illustration, comic book art, graffiti, street art and pop culture imagery. We represent a mix of emerging and mid-career artists with an emphasis on cultivating new talent and creating an environment where artists can further develop their work. Since 2005, the first year established in New York, Jonathan LeVine Gallery has remained focused on maintaining its mission of community and commitment to providing our artists with a nurturing arena for experimentation and discussion. The gallery is located at 529 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11am to 6pm. For further information, please visit: www.jonathanlevinegallery.com, call: 212.243.3822, or email: info@jonathanlevinegallery.com.

260cm/180cm, 2011

Indian ink and ecoline on paper.

JAS Gallery
17 rue des Saints-Pères
75006 Paris
Tel: +33609178108
La galerie est ouverte du mardi au samedi de 14h à 19h
www.jas-gallery.com

Contacts presse : Sylvia Beder Communication Culture
Romane Dargent
Tél. +33 (0)1 43 20 51 07
communication@sylviabeder.com
www.sylviabeder.com

50cm x 70cm, paper collage and ink.

Exhibition view “CHAOSMOS” MAAC. Brussels 2010.