Serena Toxicat will have pieces in Constantly.Consuming.Culture-The Art Show.

Toxicat is a singer, musician, dancer, writer, translator, actor, model, a domestic violence counselor, an NLP life coach priestess in the Fellowship of Isis, a psychic reader, an energy healer and, as you might expect, an artist.

She lives and works and is from San Francisco working on her own recording projects, Protea and Starchasm (with Mitsuo Unno). She has been published in various anthologies, magazines and has written a novella, plays and poems in English and French.

But the important part for our purposes are her paintings. CCE (Cute Cat Emergency) , pictured above will be part of the show. The below painting will not be as Toxicat is participating in Manulfest at the same time as the Constantly.Consuming.Culture-The Art Show.

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Peter Gronquist's One in a Million runs from June 6 to July 6, 2013 at ArtNowNY (548 West 28th Street 2nd Fl. NYC). There will be an opening reception with the artist from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, June 6th.

The exhibit features the artist's fantastic, satirical sculptures as well as paintings. Some of his sculptures, like the one pictured, show one of the artists "signatures"--taxidermy sculptures. He puts the agressive next to the innocent in a parody of modern American culture.

Gronquist lives and works in Portland, Oregon. He attended the School of Visual Art in NYC and has a BA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute.  

You can find out more about the artist at www.petergronquist.com.

ArtNowNY shows work by established and emerging artists in a variety of styles and backgrounds. For more in the gallery head to www.artnowny.com.

John Airo, artist denizen of the great city of Chicago, has generously agreed to be part of Constantly.Consuming.Culture--The Art Show. Please help out by pledging to the art show KICKSTARTER.

Airo hates the whole bio thing. So we’ll just state the obvious; he is an artist. Specifically he is a multi-media artist based in Chicago. He does everything from comics to large scale public art.  Chicago isn’t just Airo’s home but the source of his inspiration (as you will notice from his work below). His work often uses the city as subject both literally and figuratively; the city’s skyline and found objects are both used.b Pieces from Airo’s Chicago Flags series are below.

Airo’s work can be seen at a number of Chicago’s drinking and music establishments. There is a diversity in his work but also common threads that pull disparate pieces together. Airo's work channels Chicago and mixes bright and dark--a dark sensibility with often vibrant colors.

You can find out and see more at www.johnairo.com.

The yearly Guerilla Truck Show takes place from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 11, 2013. One of the trucks this year will include Ellen Greene's Tattoo Truck. This truck will have the look of a vintage tattoo parlor using Greene's Tattoo gloves and Tattoo Flash.

The truck show began as a corollary to Neocon, the world's largers international trade fair. The truck fair started with 13 trucks and now hosts over 60 at Morlen Sinoway Atelier, 1052 West Fulton Market (at Aberdeen) in Chicago.

 This is the ninth annual Guerilla Truck Show.

Contemporary Ibiza is a new art show gathering contemorary, cutting-edge art from around the world. It takes place July 18 to 21, 2013. The show has a number of things going for it--40 elite galleries from around the world and it is held in Ibiza. The Spanish island is synonymous with a good time. The show will be held at the Ibiza Marina nearby all the island's popular attactions--from beaches to casinos.

To find out more head to http://contemporary-show.com.

Elyse Martin ‘s art will be part of Constantly.Consuming.Culture—The Art Show.  Martin is from Chicago and has been a teacher in the city since 1973. Her students have won the premiere student cover art competition sponsored by the Chicago Bulls Development Foundation for seven consecutive years. She attended Pratt Institute and Washington University (St. Louis).

The work is personal and inspired by those close to her—using paint, encaustic and photo transfer.

She teaches at the Jordan Community School in Chicago (named after the Jordan family, not Michael specifically). Martin has even done an encaustic piece for Michael’s mother, Deloris.

“Mrs. Jordan was involved in the school since its inception 20 years ago so I have known her that long.  Last year I had a student art show at the Black Cloud Gallery,” says Martin. “All donation names were put in a hat.  The one that got picked received an encaustic painting made from their photo.  Mrs. Jordan wanted one as well. I did a painting for her from an old photo. “

Martin as graciously agreed to do the same for mapanare.us.  As a new reward for our Kickstarter Martin will create a 12"x 12", 9" x 12" or 12"x 16" encaustic painting of a photo provided by YOU (just like she did for Michael’s mom).  Usually this would cost $500.

To see Martin’s encaustic pieces go HERE.

Expo Chicago, The International Exposition of Contemporary and Modern Art, announced the list of participating galleries today. The exposition takes place September 19 through 22, 2013 at Navy Pier's Festival Hall. The first year of the event was last year. The list of galleries is below. This includes 120 galleries from 34 different cities and 15 countries.

The Expo will also feature Exposure--a section for galleries that have been in business seven years or less. For many this is their first time at an international art fair. Some are galleries we write about with some frequency, Chicago's Andrew Rafacz for instance.

Studio Gang Architects will design the second edition of Expo Chicago, as they did the first. Sponsors of the event include: Lagunitas Brewing Company, Metropolis Coffee, Roche Bobois, Ruinart Champagne, AXA Art Insurance, The Conservation Center and Room & Board.

Expo Chicago is the art event to NOT miss in Chicago. As you will note from the list of galleries below some of the best of the best from around the world will be in attendance. The atmosphere is encouraging to the serious collector and those who just want to look.

Art Basel Hong Kong (the first edition)  takes place May 23-26. The show will, aside from exhibitors, feature Basel's Talks programs. This will include a panel discussion with top curators, gallerists, collectors, artists and critics. These will be from Asia but also around the world.

Participants include: Chow Chun Fai, Arin Dwihartanto, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Ou Ning, Pak Sheung Chuen, Wang Xingwei, Adrian Wong, Zhang Enli and Zhang Xiaogang.

There will also be an artistparade on May 23 opening Art Basel's Hong Kong debut.

For more information head HERE.

The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago has a limited edition photo porfolio sale to benefit the museum's exhibitions and programming. The pieces, curated by Susanne Ghez, are 30 + 3AP, with all images matted on 24 x 28 inch archival board.

For more information, visit our the society's website,

The portfolio includes images by:

-Darren Almond
-Lothar Baumgarten
-Jean-Marc Bustamante
-Willie Doherty
-Stan Douglas
-Fischli/Weiss
-Rodney Graham
-Arturo Herrera
-Zoe Leonard
-Laura Letinsky
-Thomas Struth
-Jeff Wall

Mikey Peterson is a visual artist, writer, musician and art-educator based in Chicago. He will also be part of Constantly.Consuming.Culture-The Art Show in Chicago this fall.  Remember to go check out the KICKSTARTER TO FUND THIS SHOW!

Peterson's work has been shown at the StreeTVideoart exhibition in Paris, the Video Art And Experimental Film Festival at Tribeca in NYC, the Lucca Film Festival in Italy, the Performance Intermedia and DokumentART Fest in Poland, at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum and at the Chicago Cultural Center and at many other venues.

To see some of Peterson's work head HERE or HERE.

Or find out more about his videos, music and more at mikeypeterson.com