Jenkins Johnson Gallery is presenting a trio of thought-provoking artists in Evolving Visions. Ben Aronson, Scott Fraser, and Julian Opie fuse their visions of the world through contemporary landscapes, still life, and portraiture.

Ben Aronson’s realism is in his work as he creates city landscapes that depict everything from drizzly sidewalks to glimmering window screens on cars. His colour palette and brush technique skills leave a quality that can be confused with photography. Aronson, a member of the National Academy, has been represented by Jenkins Johnson since 2001 and his awards include National Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006, the Pleissner Memorial Award for Painting at the National Academy of Design in 1992.

Scott Fraser is one of America’s leading modern realist still life painters who has had his work featured in major exhibitions including at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the De Young Museum in San Francisco; the Denver Art Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa.

Julian Opie is one of the UK’s finest artists who uses his skill to illustrate, sketch, paint or incorporate graphics through computer software. His work is shown in The Tate Gallery, London, and the Museum of Modern Art. His work has been radically sold in the past through means such as catalogues and he is a sole representative of Western Art.

Images are courtesy of the artist and Jenkins Johnson Gallery.  Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am- 6pm.

Rosewood Bermuda have partnered with a former editor of Elle Décor and Town and Country, Sarah Bray-West, designing a biodegradable sun hat: with 20 percent of the proceeds going to plant an indigenous tree, the Juniper Tree.

The Juniper Initiative is named after the Bermuda native trees’ namesake and this nature was largely decimated during the island’s colonial period, to aid the formation of ships and early houses.

Rosewood runs this project in correlation with Bermuda National Trust, to restore an environmental stewardship program that restores heritage sites and museums across the island.

For every $200 spent a tree will be donated to this project. The hat that is part of a commitment to stop non-essential waste is available if you visit https://sarahbraybermuda.com/products/vintage-juniper-ribbon-benefitting-bermuda-national-trust

Seoulbox have defined how to get to know more about Korean culture. The legendary company started by Suji Sohn and Raj Sathi is what you can portray as a real-life experience, boxed in a cultural case. The collection gives you over 18 treats along with a magazine and K-Pop and K-Beauty take homes. Shipped directly from Korea this magnitude of goodies gives a perfect insight into what a Korean loves. Three types of box are available including the Signature box, which changes monthly, The V box with the same but designed for Halal and Vegetarian consumers and Life Box, sharing Korean merchandise. Get to know the site and enlist on this Korean experience.

A resident of Seattle, he started life in Lancashire. Michael Kenna is a unique photographer, who has his own dark room where he develops his work with old-school techniques after sitting through a vision of still life in a manifesto of different countries.

Having first visited Japan in 1987, Kenna has brought to life a combination of nature and man-made Japanese sights.

His work has led to being a part of over 500 exhibitions worldwide and his diary is full with events to partake in throughout his calendar.

Sometimes using twelve hour takes of his recorded phenomena, Kenna has had many a trip to Japan to depict its timeless ancestry of nature. He waits by night and by early light, he is a nocturnal mastermind of his own work.

Vancouver Art Gallery

Running through the progression of design from street style to haute couture, there is a labyrinth of mysticality of how the concept of design is rendered. Vancouver Art Gallery is showing over 50 international and national designers breaking the codes of fashion design envisioning the future.

This explorative mantra is fielding three different patterns: Material Futures, exploring technological and scientific innovations, Aesthetic Prophesies, the fusion of cultural traditions, and Responsible Visions, the importance of sustainable discourse in fashion culture.

“Fashion Fictions is a timely and urgent exploration of the intersection of design, art and personal agency, in the tradition of numerous Vancouver Art Gallery exhibitions that broaden the public’s understanding of visual culture,” states Vancouver Art Gallery CEO & Director, Anthony Kiendl.

The exhibition is accompanied by a coffee table book of fashion and is available to see at Vancouver Art Gallery until 9^th October 2023. Tickets are on sale now.

FEATURED DESIGNERS AND ARTISTS

1017 ALYX 9SM, Barry Ace, adidas, Anta, Jason Baerg, Himikalas Pamela Baker, Balenciaga, Balmain, Catherine Blackburn, Comme des Garçons, Crocs, DRKSHDW, Orlando Dugi, Eytys, Ying Gao, Taskin Goec, Goomheo, Craig Green, Grounds, Infinited Fiber Company, Iris van Herpen, Shaya Ishaq, Jontay Kahm, Ronald van der Kemp, Helen Kirkum, Julia Koerner, Li-Ning, Chet Lo, Maison Margiela, Material Matters, Alexander McQueen, Issey Miyake, Moncler, Caroline Monnet, Tony Murray, nat-2™, New Balance, Nike, Off-White, Jamie Okuma, Wendy Owusu, Neri Oxman, Celeste Pedri-Spade, Mimi Plange, POST ARCHIVE FACTION (PAF), Alice Potts, Pyer Moss, Stina Randestad, Christopher Raxxy, Reebok, RTFKT, SCRY, Marine Serre, Alexandra Șipa, Skawennati, SOTA, Adrian Stimson, Studio PMS, Modern Synthesis, Maiko Takeda, The Fabricant, threeASFOUR, Angus Tsui, Undercover, Valentino Garavani, Vetements, Junya Watanabe, Anouk Wipprecht, Robert Wun, Scarlett Yang, Yimeng Yu, YUIMA NAKAZATO, among others.

Tickets are on sale to see Harry Styles  not in performance but through the eyes of the world-renowned artist David Hockney. Styles was one of the subjects to sit for Hockney ahead of the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery which is set between two dates from 2^nd November 2023 to 21^st January 2024.

Thirty-three new portraits were created between 2021 and 2022 at Hockney’s Normandy Studio. These will be accompanied by other works featured in a 2020 exhibition making up to 160 works featured from loans of collections from across the globe.

Rendered in pastel, pencil, ink and watercolour the portraits were created using a straight-to canvas technique and were completed in two to three sittings. Life drawings come back after a period of landscapes set around Normandy. The artist is returning with a chorus of talent.

Tickets are currently on sale at www.npg.org.uk

Oslo based designer Armando E. Santos is a textile artist in design who covers museums and art galleries just as much as catwalks. Santos works with various pleating techniques in his work and started out his lines by recycling old jeans and denim garments which he cuts into strips and artfully pleats into dresses, tops, skirts and bags. After working with denim he has moved on to other materials and techniques, always with a focus on small detail.

He is holding his third exhibition this year at Galleri Format, a renowned art gallery in Bergen. It must then be fair to say that he has made quite an extraordinary impression on the textile art and fashion world of Norway.

For more details of the exhibition contact +47 55 30 48 90.

According to village press reports in the UK, one of the main international entities in the luxury goods sector, announced they have signed a long term partnership agreement for the development of the prêt-à-porter womenswear collections under the Cacharel brand. Massimo Ferretti, Chairman of the AEFFE Group, who already manufacture and distribute for brands including Alberta Ferretti, and Jean Paul Gaultier said ” I am convinced that thanks to this partnership between Cacharel, with its history full of successes and renewed in its creative identity, and the AEFFE Group, known for its know-how, for its focus on high quality production and excellent customer service, we will be able to make the most of the Cacharel project “.

This article was given by Village Press

Artist Robert Clarke exhibition, THE A-Z OF DOGS is on at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery in London from 1st -21st April. The collection features a series of portrait paintings of British dog breeds, each representing a letter of the alphabet, which will be followed up in New York City with a “toy” American feel showing Boston Terriers to doll sized Chihuahuas.

The Central Saint Martins trained artist is synonymous with his observations of nature, which first showcased at the Paul Smith flagship store in Sloane Square, which led to a complete series of bird paintings being put on exhibition at the Zetter Space

This collection was designed by commissioning 26 different dogs to take part in different sittings, while the artist captured the subjects characteristics in a “a voyage of canine discovery”.

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Since opening on March 28, 2008 in lively Cheongdam-dong, 10 corso como Seoul has become an enigmatic emporium of cultural cool and sophisticated style. The space provides the virtual narrative of a magazine layout, allowing shoppers to promenade through fashion, art, design, and literature, snapping up Kelly bags, Galliano frocks, and poetry along the way.

The fashion boutique, bookstore, design studio, and Italian garden restaurant feature a top-floor gallery space for temporary photography and couture and vintage clothing exhibitions. The stunning three-level design features 10 corso como’s trademark circle motif, resin floors, and eye-popping art by American artist Kris Ruhs. 10 corso como founder and former Italian Elle editor-in-chief Carla Sozzani chose Seoul as the concept store’s first international location because of the city’s unique dynamism and her admiration for partner Samsung Group’s philosophy and attitude towards culture and art.

Image Credits: Vanni Burkhart

Elizabeth Arnau is joining the red carpet at Cannes for the last day of the fashion week, which coincided with the world famous film festival. The Spanish designer, who has already shown in the Haute Couture Fashion Week New York and China Fashion Week in Beijing, began her line in 2005, in New York city. Arnau has two lines, the ‘Red Carpet Collection’ with evening dresses, gowns and bridal, along with ‘Teens & Chic‘, a diffusion line.

Running from May 12th-20th, the fashion event founded by Richard Nilsson, has seen an extravagant mix combining LA film star glamour with French chic fresh from the Cote D’Azur, joining a hint of Bollywood essence as Indian designer Shaahid Amir made his debut at the world’s most glamorous fashion sequel. Arnau is showing on the last day of the fashion week, at Villa Oxygene and The Playboy Mansion, Cannes.

The spring/summer collection of Monte-Carlo society atelier, Elizabeth Wessel, is titled ‘La Mer Du Nord’ and is all about the Riviera Woman . Inspired by memories of long walks on the immense Northern Beaches with hair flying in the wind, arms outstretched, twirling, shouting her joy, it resembles a boundless sense of freedom.

With silhouettes cleverly architected for absolute elegance, with plenty of evening dresses for glamorous nights on the Cote D‘Azur, daywear comes in silk satin bodice, Long knitted boatmen cardigans, marine style sailor trousers, knot draped skirts; made from linens, cotton quilts, silks, cashmere, the colours follow those in nature and range from deep-sea-blue to blue-cloud-grey, lilac thistles, duck green, white cream and bee yellow and black.

Wessel, who trained at the Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture Parisienne, began her career as a designer at Torrente in Paris and received the ‘Gala de la Presse’ on her debut show for her first sole boutique in Paris in 1974.

Since moving to Monte-Carlo in 1980, she has become one of the Riviera’s leading designers. The collection “The North Sea” represents fond memories of freedom,carefree, unobtrusive, and a tribute to her elegance.