The VIEWS: Frames and Shutters - July 30 - August 5

the slant from Worldwide Jul 31st, 2012 (Steven Vasquez Lopez, Flat on Top, installation, 2012, acrylic on panel, 40 x 45 in. ArtSlant Showcase Juried Winner.) Peeking through windows, passing through doors... ...we see ourselves, find ourselves. Each portal is a voyage, a lens, a transformation. Scott Hug's constellation of artists makes us trip through queer corridors, walls and rooms shouting out to us; while The Dragon is the Frame celebrates the life and work of Mark Aguhar, and mourns their passage from this world. Daniel Richter's paintings are windows into a colorful desolate sublime inhabited by solitary figures. Jesse Fleming's work can be viewed only by peering into a window, while other works invite the viewer to look out of them. Photographs can frame multiple identities, as in the work of Cindy Sherman, and countless others who followed her; whilephoto albums frame, compose, and complicate memory. And, as withRaghu Rai's photographs of India, that click of the shutter can, in the capture of isolated moments, define entire cities, or an entire nation. In the RACKROOM Peeking into "the Chamber" with ob, one of Takashi Murakami's newest protégés. GEOSLANT Around the World In Puerto Rico, Nicole Rodriguez profiles the passion and conviction of gallerist Francisco "Tito" Rovira Rullán. In the SHOWCASE Our Round #5 artists are lining up.  Get your work in now (here's how).

INTERVIEW WITH OB Berlin, July 2012: There is a scene in the Ridley Scott’s movie Alien (1979) where Executive Officer Kane (played by John Hurt) is lowered into a derelict ship and discoverers a chamber filled with hundreds... [more]

THE BUZZ from other SLANT cities Los Angeles Heather Brown, Jesse Fleming New York Derrick Adams, LaToya Ruby Frazier , more... London Patrick Cole, Rhys Coren , more... Amsterdam Erik Kessels, Muzi Quawson Paris Daniel Richter Chicago Mark Aguhar, Claire Arctander , more... San Francisco Cindy Sherman, Michael Delucia, Liam Everett, Evan Bissell, Ana Teresa Fernandez , more... India Raghu Rai Miami Andrew Brischler China guest