Matt W. Moore’s latest show, Crystals & Lasers, opened last Friday at Paris’ SINCE.upian Gallery. We already mentioned the mural he painted across the street from the gallery, and just yesterday, Matt updated his Flickr with images from opening night. Here they are.

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Opening alongside Josh Keyes’ exhibit at the Jonathan Levine Gallery, which we reported on last week, was Doze Green’s show, featuring a selection of new works by the legendary street artist.

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Last Friday saw the opening of Todd James’ aka REAS solo exhibit, Make My Burden Lighter at Gering & López Gallery.  Thanks to Arrested Motion, we have some flicks from opening night.

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Josh Keyes opened his newest solo show Saturday night at the Jonathan Levine Gallery. Entitled Fragment, the exhibit continues to expand upon his signature aesthetic.

Rendered in clean, controlled and finely detailed realism, the paintings in Fragment feature various wildlife species isolated within habitats that foreshadow a theoretically dystopian fate. These fragmented landscapes are surrounded by a sea of empty white space, representing the universal unknown in an allegorical interpretation of the effect of contemporary civilization’s disconnect from nature.

The show runs until February 13th.

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Opening at David B. Smith Gallery on January 15th is a group show featuring new works by many artists including Gregory Euclide. The Minnesota-based artist’s attraction to landscapes becomes immediately clear when viewing his work, which blends traditional 2D landscape art with 3D giving it a whole new perspective, and depth. Instead of just looking at it, the works often mimic what you might actually see or feel were you looking at a particular landscape with your own eyes. Brilliant stuff indeed.

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The culmination of a trilogy that began with Polyester and The Big Valley, Alex Prager’s Week-End began as organically as her other series. Inspired by the high drama of classic movies—which, despite their theatricality, touch upon genuine emotions of alienation, fear, anger, longing, and lust—Prager’s images seem at first to be all exquisite surface. However the girls of this series— named “Barbara”, “Jane”, “Lois” and other such conventional and slightly old-fashioned monikers— conceal pain beneath their lipstick-lined smiles and dead eyes. Prager’s work exudes an underlying sense of the eerie monotony and unease that can permeate beneath the surface of beauty and the promise of happiness. Week-End runs from January 30th through March 6th, 2010 at Hollywood’s M+B.

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Part of the ‘China – Contemporary Revival’ exhibition currently at the Palazzo Reale in Milan is Yue Minjun’s Contemporary Terracotta Warriors. Most known for his oil paintings depicting himself in various settings, frozen in wide-toothed laughter. These simplified, ironic human figures with their disproportional large faces, open mouths and closed eyes have become his signature throughout his work. The Chinese artist has also worked with Kaws in the past on a rendition of the Companion figure. The exhibit runs until February 7th, 2010.

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Artist, Christopher Wool and writer/musician, Richard Hell display their latest works at New York’s Luhring Augustine. The joint venture focuses on their mutual interest in experiences associated with reading. The two created images using a selection of word pairings that are both conceptually estranged yet subliminally connected. The result is something that can either be disassembled to discover the two hidden words, or just appreciated for its visual presence created by them. The works can also be purchased as a book through the Luhring Augustine website.

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After three years, Ben Frost makes his return to the gallery circuit with a new exhibit at Sydney’s Boutwell Draper Gallery. Entitled Lost in the Supermarket (a reference to Clash’s song of the same name), the exhibit “remarks on the over stimulation, confusion and daily hypnosis we are trapped by, as we struggle to stand still on a buzzing psychedelic landscape of brands, identities and social demands”. The show runs from November 26th until December 19th.

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Mostly known for his huge glossy sculptures, Pop artist Jeff Koons has revealed a set of new large-sized canvasses as part of his ‘New Paintings’ exhibit, which opened last Saturday at Los Angeles’ Gagosian Gallery.

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