Aria Tari will be releasing an EP of all the new stuff they’ve been working on. The V Bar will be hosting the party on Friday, August 29th, at 9pm. Expect drink specials, and body shots off of Walker’s skinny little rocker butt. Look for Melancholy Eyes, and a live show soon.

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Artist/Illustrator Michael Sanderson just went live with his new site. Check it out and let him know what you think. If you like his work, he’ll have several new pieces in the upcoming show ‘ASSEMBLAGE ‘ at Edifice Gallery.

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From Seattle’s The Stranger

Barack Obama is visual culture’s number-one subject right now. Combining fine art, street art, and folk art- YouTube seems as good a folk medium as any-the output is unprecedented: There has never been this much art made about a presidential candidate.

This topic came up in a conversation yesterday between myself and a friend. From the Obey ‘Progress’ image that I saw wheatpasted to buildings in Los Angeles, to the Ron English image that currently graces the cover of the Newspeak . Neither of us know how to feel about it, but acknowledged the movement as being very curious. I’m not sure which artist’s see this as an opportunity to capitalize upon current events, and which artist’s are in it for social change. Or maybe ‘Bama, being the good looking guy that he is, simply has a face that begs to be iterated as fine art.

I’m curious to see what others think.

Edifice Gallery presents ASSEMBLAGE, a group show featuring new artwork by:

CHRIS BURKE
GARRETT DAWSON
HOLLY HINKLE
MAX KAUFFMAN
BRIAN MARCAIS
CHARLES MORGENSTERN
LAUREN POTEREIKO
CHRIS PRICE
MICHAEL SANDERSON
TYLAN TROYER
LORENZO WHITE

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Edifice Gallery Presents From Within
Featuring art by:
Richard Arnot
Sara Gallagher
Jason W. Herzog
Chris Price
Soda
Michael Sebastian
Tylan Troyer

Opening reception August 1st, 6-11pm.

found on newspeakblog.com.

From his site…

‘’BUDDY WAKEFIELD is the two-time Individual World Poetry Slam Champion featured on NPR, the BBC, HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, and signed to Strange Famous Records. In 2004 he won the Individual World Poetry Slam Finals thanks to the support of anthropologist and producer Norman Lear then successfully defended that [arbitrary] title at the International Poetry Festival in Rotterdam, Netherlands against the national champions of seven European countries with works translated into Dutch.

In 2005 he won the Individual World Poetry Slam Championship again and has gone on to share the stage with nearly every notable performance poet in the world in hundreds of venues internationally from The Fillmore in San Francisco and Scotland’s Oran Moore to San Quentin State Penitentiary, House of Blues New Orleans and CBGB.'’

That being said, he will be reading at Edifice Gallery on July 17th, 2008. WORD!!

Check out the following video of some of his reading, or visit buddywakefield.com, or look him up on youtube, or fucking google him.

Here are some new designs that we’ve been working on here at the gallery. You can also find them online at EdificeClothing.com

Resles by Sewn, Colorado Springs, CO

Hack Design by Hack, Denver, CO

Cricket King by Jason W. Herzog , Colorado Springs, CO

and the *funnest of all, FUNLAND! by Michael Sebastian , Colorado Springs, CO.

(*Disclaimer, not everyone is happy in Funland, but they are all having fun.)

We’ve been busy in the dark room and on the carousel printing some new shirts for the gallery, and for our clothing website edificeclothing.com

Here are some images of the new goods. Click on them for an awesome lightbox enlarging experience

Powerlines by killtheliterate and Jason W. Herzog

Pearls by Jason W. Herzog

Facing the Thousand by Jason W. Herzog

Saecula by Jason W. Herzog

And the new Aria Taria Shirt by Jeff Cloutier

All shirts are available at Edifice Gallery, or EdificeClothing.com

It’s officially hit the stands. One of the bestest covers ever, IMO. Plus it’s The Sex Issue, and it has a whole page of dirty haikus like:

take off your panties.
What? You wear none?! You bad girl!
get down on all fours.

and

not yet don’t cum yet
just hold on for a minute
I’m cumming with you

and here’s the revised cover

I usually visit many favorite websites, like woostercollective.com for daily jolts of creativity.

I found this video to be inspiring. Now it’s your turn to post something inspiring-

I just got an email from Rafa Jenn announcing the release of a new giclee print made specifically for the FASHIONISTA show on June 6th. This will be available at the show opening for $80, and will be strictly limited to 12 signed and numbered 30×10in prints.

Email gallery@edificeclothing.com to arrange a preorder.