Lori Nix Cool Hunting Video"

I'm beginning to think all artist need a video as promotion.

Lori Nix, from cool hunting.

Another video of Nick at work.

Stencils are no laughing matter. Nick is an exacto master.

Nick Walker has arrived...finally

A year ago I started working with Bristol, UK based street artist Nick Walker. Nick is an original. He helped shape the Bristol street artist (some say graffiti) movement some 20 years ago that gave rise to Banksy. Long overlooked, not really into commercial gallery whatevers, Nick just hung out in his studio cutting stencils and making work. He produced limited edition prints and canvas editions. He occasionally ventured out onto the streets of Bristol and applied his vision to a wall, or a door, or whatever he thought needed a bit of color.

Well, Nick has arrived, finally, and recognition is around him.


Last week, Nick sold out his first solo show in Los Angeles. Then one of his amazing Moona Lisa canvas paintings sold for $90,000 at an auction in London. Demand for his work shot out across the pond. RSG has been getting countless requests for the edition "Can't Be Too Careful" and the paintings in stock sold first thing.

We here at RSG wish Nick the best on his success and the art world finally paying some attention. Nick is priceless and a true original who cares more about the work than most baggy pant, aerosol wielding kids that write their names everywhere.

Cara Ober

Well, by now you have all seen, heard, or witnessed the ongoing debate concerning Cara's work being appropriated by another Baltimore based artist. It made the front page of the Baltimore Sun and was commented on in the Washington Post.
So, it seems fitting as Cara's represented gallery in DC to make a statement...so here it is.

There is only one Cara Ober and she is an original.
Her vocabulary has been in the making for (withheld by threat) years
and it will still be refined and expanded in the many years ahead
long after this is all forgotten.
That vocabulary is hers and her authenticity rests
within the narratives she constructs.

We hope you will join us for her first solo exhibition at RSG on March 8th. Please make sure you are on the mailing list to receive upcoming announcements!

website updating

Please excuse the website as it is being updates and cleaned up some.
Still rough around the edges, feel free to drop a note to tell us any glitches or typos.

New Artists: In Sook Kim

A friend of mine in New Mexico turned me on to In Sook Kim, a Korean photographer who is doing wild things with, umm, lets say, the old notion of the "Peep Show".

Be looking out for this one.



In Sook Kim
Saturday Night

ya can't see the detail, but there is a lot of naughty things going on in these cellular rooms.

Kim is represented by Richard Levy Gallery

Insanity in Miami

What a week Miami was.
Aqua Wynwood was amazing. The building was subdivided into what seemed like little galleries, perfect walls, concrete walls and little newts scurrying around the floor and walls. This was the best kept secret fair that was supposed to not be a secret.

Julia's work flew off the wall. As expected, she drew a great response. Nathan Baker, who's amazing "detergent" and "Ashes" greeted people as they entered the "back" area stopped traffic. Margot Quan Knight, Lori Nix and Etsuko Ichikawa all showed well. Cara Ober was gobbled up by a Swiss collector.




RSG introduced two new artists at the fair. Shen Wei, from NY captures people in intimate settings, people he hardly knows, granted closeness and trust in his handling of a private moment. What emerges is a quiet nobility, a voyeuristic pleasure into the lives of strangers. The subjects may not be the most attractive people to photograph, but they are real. Real to Wei, real to themselves and in relation, real to us.
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Ryoko Suzuki, towered over the aisle with a seductive "you should be ashamed of yourself" attitude in her #5 Anikora-Seifuku image. Standing 7.5' tall, placed on the edge of the booth, it dominated the corner. Jane Corkin from Toronto went mad with excitement. She brought several people back to see it and then asked if she could have an exhibition of Ryoko's series in her Toronto Gallery. Ryoko, rocks. If you have not seen the work, click on her link.


Visiting Miami were Nathan Baker, Lawrence Gipe, Shen Wei and Etsuko Ichikawa. Much appreciation to my drop dead beautiful art fair assistant, Cheri' Landry who put up with my shit for 6 days without bitch slapping me (except when I let a collector walk on a $15,000 sale cause I didn't give him a big discount). Money ain't everything sweety!

Cheri rocks, and she somehow kept the booth stocked with a steady stream of single young males (oh how exciting...not). Can it boys..she has a boyfriend, who cutely leaves singing messages on her voicemail.




Oh, we had celeb sightings too. Steve Martin came to the booth and looked over Lu Zhang. Mandy Moore supposedly came by, still don't know who she is. And a guy who looked like Michael Stipe, straw hat, white shirt gave Nathan Baker's work a hard look.

High points to the week...
Seeing old friends from LA day's long since passed. Watching naked men taunt security guards in the Raleigh pool. Waiting 30 minutes for Larry Gipe to bring us a glass of $20 wine, also at the Raleigh. Running into an old art fair friend and getting a mad crush on her. Bear hugging Bennett Roberts. Having Caprice Horn scowl at me. Meeting a million collectors. Meeting a million curators. Meeting a million single young guys who were hovering around my assistant.
Resisting buying a Joel Peter Witkin, and buying Lawrence Gipe instead. Discovering Cuban coffee. That stuff is like moonshine.

Now, on to NY.