The first US west coast solo exhibition of new works by Brooklyn based artist Dan Witz – Dark Doings Exhibition @ Carmichael Gallery from November 5 to December 3, 2009

Created both for the street and gallery, the subtle, haunting images of human and animal faces trapped behind dirty glass windows are inspired by a recent visit earlier in the year to the red light district of Amsterdam.

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Tom Sachs Cameras Exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is offering a snapshot of Tom Sachs’s work that focuses exclusively on cameras, opened on June 21st and ending on September 16th [London] – The exhibition includes the earliest existing work by the artist, a clay replica of a Nikon SLR camera that Sachs made when he was eight years old as a gift to his father. This contrasts with his recent elegy to the now-defunct Polaroid Corporation: a fully functional “instant” camera that has been cobbled together out of (among other things) a Hasselblad and Canon digital camera, a tiny HP inkjet printer, and a battery from a Makita cordless drill and more…

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