Erik Mark Sandberg "Girl with Sweater", 20'' x 16'', oil, glitter, resin, silk-screen on panel, 2008

Andrea Offermann for creative face Magazine

On the occasion of ILLUSTRATIVE 09 in Berlin the artist, designer and publicist Andrea Offermann interviewed Erik Mark Sandberg for creative face Magazine:

creative face: You grew up in Minnesota then moved to California and in your recent show at Johanssen Gallery in Berlin you are challenging the narrow window of accepted beauty standards in society. How did living so close to the Hollywood dream factory shape you and your understanding of culture?

Erik Mark Sandberg: I spent most of my early years growing up in a conservative mid western suburb, where it was flannel shirts and traditional values. It was later in my life that I moved to Los Angeles - the land of everything else.

Kill Pixie "Supreme Beings" / Courtesy MERRY KARNOWSKY GALLERY Berlin

One year after the successful group-show Kill Pixie: Super Systems & Travis Louie: Inhuman Oddities MERRY KARNOWSKY GALLERY Berlin presents until December 19, 2009 the solo-exhibition Supreme Beings by Kill Pixie. Three of his works will also be included in the Apocolypse Wow! exhibition at the MACRO Roma which will open there on November 7th.

Kill Pixie (AKA Mark Whalen), who currently lives and paints in Los Angeles, California, began as a graffiti artist on the streets of his native Sydney, Australia. Once he transitioned to fine art, his medium of choice became ink and acrylic on paper mounted to wood, coated in shiny resin. In his latest body of work, Kill Pixie’s masked humanoid characters inhabit celestial pools and spas in a futuristic bathhouse where gravity loses all meaning.

Tilo Uischner: FACADE, intarsia and acrylic paint on wood panel / Courtesy MERRY KARNOWSKY GALLERY, Berlin

Tom Felber für creative face Magazin

In dem dritten und letzten Teil der Ausstellung Sister Cities - Los Angeles/Berlin zeigt die Merry Karnowsky Gallery in Berlin bis zum 17. Oktober neue Werke des Künstlers Tilo Uischner. Der in Berlin lebende und arbeitende Künstler ist zum ersten mal bei Merry Karnowsky Gallery zu sehen.

Tilo Uischners Portraits zeigen schöne und sinnliche junge Männer, zarte kleine Mädchen und alte Männer, aus deren Gesicht ein ganzes Leben spricht. Die meisterhaften Werke kombinieren die alte Kunst des Intarsierens mit der zeitgenössischen Acrylmalerei auf Holz.

Todd Schorr: An Ape Allegory, 2008 / Courtesy MERRY KARNOWSKY GALLERY Los Angeles

Die Merry Karnowsky Gallery in Berlin präsentiert bis zum 17. Oktober 2009 die Gruppenausstellung Sister Cities. Gezeigt werden Malereien und Zeichnungen der amerikanischen Künstler Eric Beltz, The Clayton Brothers, Camille Rose Garcia, Travis Lampe, Travis Louie, Cleon Peterson, Kathy Staico Schorr, Todd Schorr und Edward Walton Wilcox sowie die österreichische Künstlerin Mercedes Helnwein und der australische Künstler Anthony Lister.

1997 eröffnete Merry Karnowsky in Los Angeles, der Schwesterstadt von Berlin, ihre erste Galerie. In Berlin

MERRY KARNOWSKY GALLERY Berlin

One year MERRY KARNOWSKY GALLERY in Berlin - a good reason for the exciting group show Hard Left 2 with artists from the gallery’s program. Founded in 1997, MERRY KARNOWSKY GALLERY Los Angeles has quickly become one of the hot spot galleries in L.A. Focusing on 'low-brow', street and graffiti art, Karnowsky showed significant artists of the emerging underground movement from the beginning, among them Mark Ryden, Camille Rose Garcia, Todd Schorr and Shepard Fairey. In 2008 MERRY KARNOWSKY GALLERY Los Angeles decided to offer more international exposure to its' artists and opened its second location in Berlin.