http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog Illiterate Magazine Daily Blog Feed en http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/420 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/420 Fri, 30 Jul 10 07:50:16 -0700
Tonight, Friday, July 30 at 6PM Illiterate celebrates the culmination of Ravi Zupa's solo exhibition, "The Pyre" with the release of a collaborative book by the same name. Containing an epic poem written by Tim Holland, aka Sole, founder of Anticon records and leader of Sole and The Sky Rider Band, and illustrations by Zupa, "The Pyre" evaluates a world set in flames. At 8PM Tim Holland performs "The Pyre" in it's entirety as a spoken word piece followed by projections of video's directed by Ravi Zupa for Sole and the Skyrider Band.   ]]> http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/418 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/418 Thu, 29 Jul 10 11:05:40 -0700
Camille Vivier is a french filmmaker and photographer who studied Fine Art in Paris and at Central St Matrin’s in London. Her photography has been featured in magazines such as Purple, Dazed and Confused, i-D...     Vivier constructs a reality that seems to be hidden behind a dark veil of mystery. It is as if the viewer gets a sneek peek into one of Vivier’s dreams. In an interview by Purple gallery, Vivier said, “I’m borrowing from the imagery of the unconscious and dreams, from the art of vanitas, from magic, mythology, from an inner experience having to do with the bizarre, with fear, with the irrational, with love, while ]]> http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/417 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/417 Mon, 26 Jul 10 19:32:02 -0700
Ruskin's is a technique which is unusual and mysterious. The photographer takes black and white photo's which he then hand paints. It is a process that he says is difficult to portray with color film. The outcome is otherworldly. I think that one reason I am drawn to this work, as well as this type of work is because it is mysterious and romantic. I find myself longing to be transported to this fairy land of disorienting color and fairy like landscape. It is a form of escapism I suppose, perhaps much like the travel photo's which were taken in the beginnings of photography. Imagine that you have never left your hometown because transportation systems hadn't advanced to that point yet. Y]]> http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/416 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/416 Thu, 22 Jul 10 12:27:25 -0700
In addition to his work as a painter and sculptor Ravi Zupa is also a filmmaker directing music videos for acclaimed musical acts such as Why?, Sole, cLOUDDEAD, Themselves and  Ghengis Tron. Join Illiterate for a screening and discussion of a selection of Zupa’s music videos, kicking off the beginning of the Underground Music Showcase in Denver.   The screening begins at 8PM FREE!]]> http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/415 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/415 Sun, 18 Jul 10 16:00:24 -0700
Broadcast has released a new album along with a set of new videos in collaboration with graphic designer Julian House, the co-creator of the experimental record lable Ghost Box and also the man behind the experimental music project called The Focus Group.  Julian House has worked with artists such as Stereolab and Primal Scream, designing cover art and directing music videos. The first collaborative album between Broadcast and Julian House is called Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age. This album is true Psych-pop at its best, with ethereal vocals, Ghost Box inspired “vintage electronics, haunted television sountracks,” and killer visuals. ]]> http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/414 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/414 Thu, 15 Jul 10 10:57:02 -0700
  Alvin Gregorio is a “homesick gypsy” who also happens to be an Assistant Professor of Painting at the University of Colorado at Boulder.  His work seems to have popped straight out of a children’s TV show. The characters in his paintings remind me of human-faced Teletubbies on acid, surrounded by freaky Barney-like animals floating in a spraypaint dreamspace. Children with numb expressions in furry animal costumes exist in worlds of acid-bright color, tiny helicopters, and furbie owls. His canvases are full of geometric shapes , child-like markings, stencils, intricate patterning, life and color from top to bottom... His work is not only]]> http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/413 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/413 Wed, 14 Jul 10 17:23:13 -0700
In honor of Ravi Zupa's solo exhibition at Illiterate during the hottest month of the year, this Pick the Flick's theme is BURNING. Vote here by leaving a comment with the you'd like us to screen or leave a comment on the event's Facebook page.This Month's contendersRaising Arizona (picked by challenger, Scout Finch, Manager of the Mayan Theater)       vsStreets on Fire (picked by last month's champ, David Coccagna) ]]> http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/412 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/412 Wed, 14 Jul 10 15:50:51 -0700
  I came across this recent exhibition in L.A. of Paul Fusco, who was present on the RFK's funeral train in the summer of 1968. Just like any good photographer would, he documented the journey from NYC to Arlington, near D.C. I find the perspective interesting, a ride along a funeral prosession for a president who never was...            ]]> http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/411 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/411 Wed, 07 Jul 10 01:56:58 -0700
On Thursday night, July 8, Illiterate is proud to present Cory McAbee's follow-up to his gritty, interstellar western musical, American Astronaut. Shown in six consecutive episodes, STINGRAY SAM hurtles across the galaxy as a dangerous mission reunites Stingray Sam with his long lost accomplice, The Quasar Kid. Follow these two space-convicts as they earn their freedom in exchange for the rescue of a young girl who is being held captive by the genetically designed figurehead of a very wealthy planet.     $5 admission]]> http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/410 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/410 Tue, 06 Jul 10 18:50:48 -0700
  Firstly, an item which requires addressing: Phaintor (f-ai-nt-tor);  is a new term I'm inventing here in my blog. It means an artist who embodies both a painter, and a photographer. It has been before 1860 since photographers have been fighting against painters for validation in their art making abilities. Today it seems that photographers have become a permanent fixture within the realm of Art with a capital A, and even esteemed colleagues to painters. The photo-realists are surely a result of this union between the two mediums, who are the children of the painters, who have finally accepted their mother and birthed them. I suppose that the digital arts, which I imagine t]]> http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/409 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/409 Tue, 06 Jul 10 02:23:57 -0700
If, like me, you're a sucker for stop motion animation, street art, slightly skewed theories of evolution and apocalyptic premonitions,  the mere mention of a new street animation by Blu invokes your salivary glands. And, like a well trained dog, you stop whatever you're doing and sit to watch minutes of film that take months for the artist to create. Blu's newest release holds true to the artist's evolving aesthetic of outdoor illustrations. In true Blu fashion, Big Bang Big Boom starts small and quickly expands.  Like Muto before it, outdoor illustrations multiply, converge, grow and devour each other, stumbling forward towards oblivion. This time however, Blu takes on the challe]]> http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/408 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/408 Thu, 01 Jul 10 12:48:27 -0700
The following blog was written by Design Student Drea Dee, Who I met at the Emily Griffith Opportunity School. Check out her BLOG : EYES ARE MOSAICS  - Baily Rose  When you think of New York City- many things may come to mind- fashion, glamour,soirées,culture, Andy Warhol- but another thing comes to my mind as well- well not so much a thing as it is a person- more likely a living breathing Jem-esque statuette named Darian Darling. Expert Make-Up artist, style icon, blogger, and celebrity confidant hanging with the likes of everyone from Amanda Lepore to Lady GaGa. Don’t you wish you were that lucky? Darian Darling's style is impeccable, being glamorous]]> http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/407 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/407 Tue, 29 Jun 10 14:42:00 -0700
PRESENTS "The Pyre" New Works by Ravi Zupa JULY 2 - JULY 30, 2010 Opening Reception FRIDAY JULY 2, 6PM   82 S. Broadway Denver, CO 80209 click for directions     To schedule a private showing call Illiterate at (303) 993-4474 or email us at admin@illiteratemedia.com ABOUT THE EXHIBIT Temperatures rise at Illiterate as Ravi Zupa engulfs the gallery with his searingly sharp representations of the past and present. Historical styles are collected and rearranged as the kindling for drawings, paintings and sculptures that blaze with the intensity of a modern man’s angst as he attempts to place his own contemporary struggles amongst turmoils in]]> http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/406 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/406 Wed, 23 Jun 10 15:55:08 -0700
Each month on the last Thursday of the month, Illiterate invites it's exhibiting artist(s) to present a film in relation to their artwork in the gallery. On Thursday June 24 at 8PM, artist Jason Appleton presents Battle in Heaven, a sexually charged story of intrigue and salvation set in modern Mexcio, directed and written by Carlos Reygadain.]]> http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/405 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/405 Tue, 22 Jun 10 17:12:55 -0700
Belonging to that defiantly playful school of the unschooled, the work of Boulder, Colorado based artist Pattie Lee Becker displays a child's unhindered imagination and hand. Repetition turns simple shapes into intricate patterns, and mundane objects into fantastic messes, like a pile of colorful ropes grown to the proportion of a spaghetti mountain. However this Rhode Island School of Design and Columbia trained artist shows no impetuous aversion to skill and craft as she brings her bright fantasies into the tangible realm as sculptures connected through the same fanciful perpsective of awe where the ordinary and out of this world become extraordinary objects in the here and now.   A]]>