Kevin Sudeith, the founder of warrug.com, is having his first solo show in New York City at 308at156 Project Artspace . The show will feature his petroglyph work including marble carvings, impressions of petroglphs, large scale photography, and video. Photos of petroglyphs in the wilderness will be paired with impressions of petroglyphs, so the relationship between the prints and the remote stone carvings is visually clear.

Modern Petroglyphs
Where:
308at156 Project Artspace
156 Fifth Avenue, Suite 308 (at 20th Street)
New York City, NY 10010
When:
Opening May 16, 7-9pm
May 16 through June 14 (by appointment only)

Contact- 800-781-0153
Gallery Tumblr
Petroglyphist web site
Facebook Event

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This is a link to the Textile Museum of Canada’s War Rug Database. I use this excellent resource often, but it’s very hard to find on from the museums home page. There is a link in an earlier blog post, but this post will hopefully make finding these rugs simpler.

The rug above remains one of my favorites, and perhaps the most important war rug in the show organized by Max Allen.

UPDATED November 2021: Link to database updated, but new link produces sub-optimal collection printing few photos and important rugs not visible.

Sharing photos seems to be impossible now, but
here is a good Rustam rug with pictures, including very hi-res. Salt bag without photos.

A bunch of new rugs are posted and available through the links at the top of the home page. Most notably, a selection of Red Rugs. Red Rugs, once plentiful are now rare.
Other highlights are:

Carolina Miranda has published a story on WNYC’s fine arts blog, Gallerina. It’s the first arts coverage of Kevin’s petroglyphs.
Hidden City: Unearthing Kevin Sudeith’s Urban Petroglyphs

In March Veronica Peek of Melbourne, Australia wrote warrug.com to inform us that the image in rug above (and others like it) is the Malabar Mosque, also known as the Blue Mosque, on Victoria Street in Singapore. It appears the image is not the Flinder’s Street Train Station in Melbourne, AU as Max Allen suggested, nor the Sultan Hussein Shrine as I suggested. Yesterday, RN wrote with the same assertion.

My primary goal in founding warrug.com was to create exactly this sort of dialogue. So, although I stand corrected, I appreciate the dialogue tremendously. Please keep the corrections coming…

A selection of rugs from the Textile Museum in Canada is on display at Penn Museum. More info and lots of interesting videos here.

Today there is a story in The Daily about Kevin Sudeith’s Berkeley Petroglyph. Below is a static link, but iPad users can see more dynamic content by downloading The Daily iPad app.

Yesterday’s Sunday edition of Contra Costa Times and the West County Times featured on the Local News front page a story about Kevin Sudeith’s petroglyph in North Berkely, which opens this weekend April 30 and May 1.

“The contrast of the super-old with the contemporary was just awesome to me,” Sudeith said.
After getting bachelor’s and master’s degrees in art, he taught himself to grind, chisel and paint the rock he’s working on, and he invented his own technique.
“I like making a durable document of art and documenting our contemporary technology,” Sudeith said.

What: Contemporary petroglyphs (rock carvings)
Who: New York artist Kevin Sudeith
When: Saturday April 30 and Sunday May 1, from 10:00am to 8:00pm
Where: 1959 San Antonio Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94707