High Fructose Corn Syrup

Artist Christopher Chiappa lines gallery walls with garbage bags, dresses upside-down, and covers a basketball with corn

NYC-based artist Christopher Chiappa’s first solo show in eight years, “High Fructose Corn Syrup,” boldly explores themes of cultural degradation, anxiety and industrialized sweeteners. Now on view at NYC’s Kate Werble Gallery through 10 April 2010, the show includes a variety of media, including photography, sculpture and video to describe a personal narrative on the loss of innocence. Chiappa notes, “It’s sort of all a …

Lost in the Discovery of What Shapes the Mind

Brooklyn-based artist Mike Perry's imaginative prints, sculpture, and other art objects in a new solo show

Longtime CH fave, artist and designer Mike Perry’s new installation of prints, sculpture, and other objects opens at his Alma Mater, the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, on 25 March 2010. Including over 30 prints, a log sculpture with a small galaxy spilling from it, a mobile hanging down from the gallery’s lofted ceiling, and many other surprises “inspired by memory, place, and the …

Barnstormers Group Exhibition

A massive group show celebrating the members of one of street art's most enduring collectives

As collectives go, the loosely-organized, street art-focused Barnstormers stand out as much for a global scope—they count chapters in New York and Tokyo—as for a growing roster that reads like a who’s who of the genre. The group exhibit opening this Thursday, 18 March 2010 at Joshua Liner Gallery will feature the work of some 35 of these all-stars in a show that highlights each …