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Maser’s “Orbiting the Periphery” at Lazarides Rathbone.

Opening this Friday, April 8th, 2016 at Lazarides Rathbone in London is Irish artist Maser’s very highly anticipated solo exhibition of completely brand new work entitled “Orbiting the Periphery.”

“Orbiting the Periphery” finds the artist combining his expansive knowledge of both the graffiti world as well as his formal art education to create a stunning array of paintings that explore the duality of the physical and the psychological basing this body of work on philosopher Thales of Miletus’s theory that physical health is essential to psychological health.  With this in mind, Maser’s minimalist style of geometric neon shapes becomes an wonderfully expressive visualization of equilibrium in the mind and body.  

“Orbiting the Periphery” is on display until the 5th of May, 2016.  If you’re in the area do not miss this show.

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Hayley Eichenbaum’s “The Mother Road.”

I am completely astounded and entranced by Hayley Eichenbaum’s photography series “The Mother Road” which chronicles scenes of the Contemporary American West.  The colors and compositions are second to none which lead to some sort of corneal nirvana.

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Recent Paintings by Jon Todd.

Collected in this post are recent paintings by Canadian artist Jon Todd (Previously on Supersonic).  The above top three paintings are currently on view in the group show, “Rally” at Yves Laroche Gallery in Toronto that is on display until November 23rd, 2015.  The show also features work from artists such as ROA, Gary Taxali, Miss Van and many more.

I’ve always been a fan of Jon’s work, the chaotic synapses of paint on the boards seem to electrify the senses to a place of heightened awareness.  These exhilarating experiences are not without consequence, however, as the myths and folklore that inspire Todd’s work wrap their cobwebs of spectacle into your sanity - as good art should - making you question reality and well being.

You can see many more of Jon’s most recent pieces below:

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Are you kidding me with this casting?

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Welcome to America. 

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(Photos: Top: A view of Horsebarn Hill Road near the site where Bruce Alan Ursin attempted to abduct and rape a young woman in 2012 on the University of Connecticut Campus in Storrs, Connecticut. Photo  by M. Scott Brauer for The Chronicle)

Bottom left: After Jeanne Clery was murdered in her dorm room at Lehigh U. in 1986, her mother, Connie (pictured), and father, Howard, pressed for laws to force colleges to release campus-crime statistics. They created the Clery Center for Security on Campus, in Wayne, Pa., where Jeanne’s portrait hangs. Photo by Mark Makela for The Chronicle)

25 Years Later, Has Clery Made Campuses Safer?

Excerpt from the article by Lee Gardner

The young woman started to obey, but the man had forgotten to unlock the passenger-side door. She screamed and ran toward a university employee nearby. The masked driver sped away.

The incident, in 2012, could have ended as a terrifying mystery, with an unknown attacker on the loose. But within a few hours of the attempted kidnapping, Bruce Alan Ursin was in custody. Police found a .45-caliber handgun in his truck, along with a duffel bag containing gloves, duct tape, rope, and Vaseline. He was sentenced to eight years in prison.

Barbara R. O’Connor, director of public safety and chief of police at the university (pictured above in lower right), says she believes that Mr. Ursin would have been caught eventually. But he was taken off the street within hours thanks to the federal campus-crime-reporting law known as the Clery Act, which requires that Connecticut—and colleges across the country—be prepared to notify students and faculty and staff members of emergencies and security threats.

That is just the kind of fundamental improvement advocates of the law had hoped would follow from its passage 25 years ago. Since then the Clery Act has made students safer—at least in some ways.

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Sweet Briar College to Close

Tuesday’s announcement that Sweet Briar College will close later this year despite still having $84-million in its endowment comes as a grim reality check for small liberal-arts colleges that have been facing enrollment and financial challenges in recent years—and particularly for the dwindling number of small women’s colleges.

Catch up on the news on our site.

(Photos by (clockwise from top): Alexa Welch Edlund, Richmond Times-Dispatch,  AP Images; Charles Ommanney, Getty Images; Sweet Briar College)

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Yeah.

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Tell me a story.

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2005 was not a great year.

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Happy Birthday to Vassily Vassilyevich Kandinsky, the Russian artist credited with painting the first purely abstract works. Kandinsky’s creation of abstract work followed a long period of development and maturation of intense thought based on his artistic experiences. He called this devotion to inner beauty, fervor of spirit, and spiritual desire inner necessity; it was a central aspect of his art. ”Circles in a Circle”, 1923, Vassily Kandinsky.

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Don't let nobody take care your business better than you do.

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Xana Kudrjavcev-DeMilner, Drawings.

Some very beautiful abstract works by Xana Kudrjavcev-DeMilner, who seems to have quite the relationship with and, most likely, within color.  You can see more below.

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