Jeffrey Vallance

Jeffrey Vallance has attained something akin to cult status. His work covers a wide range of media and is based on consumer and popular culture, and is ironically critical without being didactic. Vallance never makes fun of his subjects, but rather uses what is around him-- be it a store bought chicken, the work of Thomas Kinkade or President Richard Nixon-- to explore how context can shape meaning.

10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

LONDON.- Ramin Bahrani, Susan Hiller, Amar Kanwar, Bridget Riley and Wolfgang Tillmans are all part of the international line-up of highly respected

"What is amazing about the fair is that until the galleries come in and install their stands, I have no clue what it’s going to be..."

Art bicycles circle around Regent's Park in London, Bridget Riley and Wolfgang Tillmans discuss their works, the popular American band Hercules

Frieze Week is upon us! Europe's largest contemporary art fair has staked its tent in Regent’s Park, bringing with it an estimated $375 million

There’s been plenty of hoopla about former President George W. Bush’s earnest foray into political portraits, but Jeffrey Vallance’s bright and kitsch

LONDON.- Ramin Bahrani, Susan Hiller, Amar Kanwar, Bridget Riley and Wolfgang Tillmans are all part of the international line-up of highly respected

"What is amazing about the fair is that until the galleries come in and install their stands, I have no clue what it’s going to be..."

Art bicycles circle around Regent's Park in London, Bridget Riley and Wolfgang Tillmans discuss their works, the popular American band Hercules

Frieze Week is upon us! Europe's largest contemporary art fair has staked its tent in Regent’s Park, bringing with it an estimated $375 million

Situated between the Santa Susana, Verdugo, and Santa Monica Mountains, the San Fernando Valley encompasses the northwest section of Los Angeles.

Jeffrey Vallance is many things. He is a prankster. He is someone examining cultural anthropology in relation what lies deep within the kitsch

The Andy Warhol Museum announces its latest special exhibition, The Word of God: Jeffrey Vallance.

I woke up Wednesday morning to news of fracas at the opera. The La Scala opera house in Milan had just hosted its annual gala

This “10th Anniversary Exhibition” features 42 works by 35 local, national and international artists, shown at the Grand Central Art Center over the

1945: Neapolitan immigrant Simon Rodia is midway through building the biggest, weirdest and least commercially viable sculpture in Los Angeles

A verbal tussle between the ghosts of Leonardo da Vinci and Vincent van Gogh has become a talking point among contemporary art fans.

Who fancies a chat with Leonardo da Vinci, Jackson Pollock, Frida Kahlo, Marcel Duchamp, and Vincent van Gogh? London’s Frieze Art Fair is playing host

When London's biggest contemporary art show, the Frieze Art Fair, opens next week, a group of psychics will be on hand to help visitors conjure advice from late greats like Vincent van Gogh.

'Don't be modest," says a character in Mark Lee Luther's 1924 novel, "The Boosters." "It doesn't pay. We're all boosters in Los Angeles."

What’s in store this year for Frieze Projects? To name a few, the fair's ticket tent will be styled like a mobile phone concept store, spirit mediums will channel the spirits of a number of dead artists, outdoor ashtrays will transform into elegant sculptures, and artist-designed donation boxes will be spread out across the grounds.

“We probably went to the same art parties,” says artist Jeffrey Vallance to artist Thomas Kinkade in a video from eight years ago. The two sit together

When does an art fair resemble the throbbing pink of a mobile phone concept store? When it is Frieze