JJ Peet's first NYC solo show

JJ Peet, The TV Show
On Stellar Rays
133 Orchard Street
April 5 - May 10, 2009

Anne Wehr reviews the show for Frieze:

Few exhibitions reward careful scrutiny and repeat visits as much as JJ PEET’s ‘The TV Show’ at On Stellar Rays does, where the dozen sculptures that occupy the main gallery are just the tip of the iceberg. His smallish assemblages of found items and repurposed materials resemble an apocalyptic strain of folk art, and are constructed in a provisional manner, stacked or held together with rubber bands or caulking as if to assure maximum flexibility for future disassembly and reuse. Many bear anthropomorphic touches, like Luxury Leader Voodoo Doll (2009), a meager little character with a crudely drawn pair of glasses for a face and a withered carrot for a body, attached with a black shoestring to a scrap of wood.

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Shepard Fairey's First Museum Survey

Los Angeles-based street artist Shepard Fairey has his first museum survey at the The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, opening February 6, 2009. The exhibition, Shepard Fairey: Supply & Demand, traces the artist's career over the past 20 years and includes over 200 works. The exhibition includes his screen-prints of political revolutionaries and rock-stars, as well as new public art commissions that will be placed around Boston.

The artist has recently gained recognition with his iconic red, white, and blue Obama poster, his feature in GQ Magazine naming him as one of the "Men of the Year" and his cover art for TIME Magazine's Person of the Year Issue.