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Primary Atmospheres: Works from California 1960-1970
(04 February 2010) - If you happen to be in New York City this weekend, consider yourself lucky and make a bee line to Chelsea for the closing day of "Primary Atmospheres" at David Zwirner Gallery. The group exhibition presents a survey of minimalist work created in and around Los Angeles in the 1960s from artists Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, Laddie John Dill, Robert Irwin, Craig Kaufman, John...
(04 February 2010) - If you happen to be in New York City this weekend, consider yourself lucky and make a bee line to Chelsea for the closing day of "Primary Atmospheres" at David Zwirner Gallery. The group exhibition presents a survey of minimalist work created in and around Los Angeles in the 1960s from artists Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, Laddie John Dill, Robert Irwin, Craig Kaufman, John...
The Impossible Lamp
(04 February 2010) - From designer Jeeves Basu, who recently pushed the boundaries of furniture and disbelief with his Rat Table, the London-based creative tinkerer is now using wax to paradoxically make a melted wax lampshade that's un-meltable. Created by melting a candle over a glass shade, the Impossible Lamp stretches wax art into function without losing the strange, ephemeral quality of this material. Using a liquid-cooled LED...
(04 February 2010) - From designer Jeeves Basu, who recently pushed the boundaries of furniture and disbelief with his Rat Table, the London-based creative tinkerer is now using wax to paradoxically make a melted wax lampshade that's un-meltable. Created by melting a candle over a glass shade, the Impossible Lamp stretches wax art into function without losing the strange, ephemeral quality of this material. Using a liquid-cooled LED...
Art 4 Haiti Charity
(28 January 2010) - by Fiona Killackey Known for her delicate and detailed illustrations, New Zealand-based artist Sarah Lanarch recently created Art 4 Haiti, a charity in which artists lend their talents to raise awareness and funds for the crisis in Haiti. Feeling first hand the effects of the crisis (Lanarch lost her brother-in-law and two nieces in the quake), and feeling useless so far away geographically, the artist...
(28 January 2010) - by Fiona Killackey Known for her delicate and detailed illustrations, New Zealand-based artist Sarah Lanarch recently created Art 4 Haiti, a charity in which artists lend their talents to raise awareness and funds for the crisis in Haiti. Feeling first hand the effects of the crisis (Lanarch lost her brother-in-law and two nieces in the quake), and feeling useless so far away geographically, the artist...
Denim Exhibit
(26 January 2010) - From coal mines to fashion, the upcoming show "Denim" explores another side of the enduring textile through the works of various of-the-moment artists. Curated by David Rimanelli—art critic who writes for magazines including ArtForum, Vogue Paris and Interview—the exhibition takes a deeper look at the ever-appealing fabric, positioning its role throughout recent cultural history. Seen through Rimanelli's eyes, denim not only changed the shape...
(26 January 2010) - From coal mines to fashion, the upcoming show "Denim" explores another side of the enduring textile through the works of various of-the-moment artists. Curated by David Rimanelli—art critic who writes for magazines including ArtForum, Vogue Paris and Interview—the exhibition takes a deeper look at the ever-appealing fabric, positioning its role throughout recent cultural history. Seen through Rimanelli's eyes, denim not only changed the shape...
Katherine Morling's Sculptural Ceramics
(22 January 2010) - by Richard Prime Working out of one of South London's hidden creative hubs, the mystical New Cross and Deptford, Katharine Morling creates whimsical and often outlandish sculpture from porcelain and ceramics. A world away from the often stuffy stigma of the form, her work attracts a solid base of admirers on the strength of her imagination alone. Lately the designer has moved her collection...
(22 January 2010) - by Richard Prime Working out of one of South London's hidden creative hubs, the mystical New Cross and Deptford, Katharine Morling creates whimsical and often outlandish sculpture from porcelain and ceramics. A world away from the often stuffy stigma of the form, her work attracts a solid base of admirers on the strength of her imagination alone. Lately the designer has moved her collection...
Transmediale Festival Berlin
(20 January 2010) - by Youyoung Lee Now in its tenth year, Berlin’s Transmediale Festival gears up for the new decade with a future-perfect program. Exploring the intersection of contemporary art and digital culture, the festival features works that shape the way people think about and experience technological and scientific developments. With exhibitions, conferences, films, competitions and live performances there is a lot to see. Below a short list...
(20 January 2010) - by Youyoung Lee Now in its tenth year, Berlin’s Transmediale Festival gears up for the new decade with a future-perfect program. Exploring the intersection of contemporary art and digital culture, the festival features works that shape the way people think about and experience technological and scientific developments. With exhibitions, conferences, films, competitions and live performances there is a lot to see. Below a short list...
Buy What You Love
(15 January 2010) - A collaborative visual arts fundraiser, Buy What You Love supplies over 200 artists from around the world with the materials to create an original work over the course of one day. Limited to 8.5 x 11 inches in size, each of the works will exhibit at NYC's Jack Shainman Gallery and then sold with proceeds supporting the Rema Hort Mann Foundation. Joining the cause...
(15 January 2010) - A collaborative visual arts fundraiser, Buy What You Love supplies over 200 artists from around the world with the materials to create an original work over the course of one day. Limited to 8.5 x 11 inches in size, each of the works will exhibit at NYC's Jack Shainman Gallery and then sold with proceeds supporting the Rema Hort Mann Foundation. Joining the cause...
Steffen Dam: Specimen Panel
(14 January 2010) - by Julie Wolfson The glowing Specimen Panel series created by Danish toolmaker Steffen Dam evokes a feeling of mystery with glass structures housing gorgeously creepy floating ocean creatures, plant life and magnified cells. Drawing on inspirations from geology, astronomy and mechanical constructions, Dam claims that he's not "a true scholar." Tending to forget the actual facts, Dam visualizes the images from memory, transforming them into...
(14 January 2010) - by Julie Wolfson The glowing Specimen Panel series created by Danish toolmaker Steffen Dam evokes a feeling of mystery with glass structures housing gorgeously creepy floating ocean creatures, plant life and magnified cells. Drawing on inspirations from geology, astronomy and mechanical constructions, Dam claims that he's not "a true scholar." Tending to forget the actual facts, Dam visualizes the images from memory, transforming them into...
Gelitin: Palais Meyer Kainer
(11 January 2010) - Transforming a gallery with a staircase made out of found scrap lumber, tree branches and reclaimed tables and chairs, Austrian art collective Gelitin's latest stunt continues their interactive work exploring materiality, DIY aesthetics and their own brand of decadent foolishness. While the title of the piece ironically refers to the gallery's location at Vienna's Palais Eschenbach, the work itself looks like the maniacally inspired...
(11 January 2010) - Transforming a gallery with a staircase made out of found scrap lumber, tree branches and reclaimed tables and chairs, Austrian art collective Gelitin's latest stunt continues their interactive work exploring materiality, DIY aesthetics and their own brand of decadent foolishness. While the title of the piece ironically refers to the gallery's location at Vienna's Palais Eschenbach, the work itself looks like the maniacally inspired...
Link About It: This Week's Picks
(09 January 2010) - 1. Jacques Magazine Video: JamieIn addition to their highbrow smut on paper, the new publication Jacques also brings their aesthetic to the screen with videos like this black-and-white short featuring a beautiful topless woman starting her day. via Street Boners and TV Carnage 2. Kwakwaka'wakw ArtThe work of a native tribe from Vancouver, the bold graphic elegance of these images depicting sacred creatures fits...
(09 January 2010) - 1. Jacques Magazine Video: JamieIn addition to their highbrow smut on paper, the new publication Jacques also brings their aesthetic to the screen with videos like this black-and-white short featuring a beautiful topless woman starting her day. via Street Boners and TV Carnage 2. Kwakwaka'wakw ArtThe work of a native tribe from Vancouver, the bold graphic elegance of these images depicting sacred creatures fits...
Federico Solmi: From the Uterus to the Grave with No Happy Ending
(08 January 2010) - Combining luridly hand-drawn animations, paintings, mechanical sculptures and more, 2009 Guggenheim Video Art Fellow Federico Solmi continues to explore his controversial interests in sociopolitical affairs—last year his native Italy charged him with obscenity, blasphemy and offense to religion—in his second solo exhibition "From Uterus to Grave With No Happy Ending," which opens tomorrow at NYC's LMAK gallery. The entrance to the show, marked with...
(08 January 2010) - Combining luridly hand-drawn animations, paintings, mechanical sculptures and more, 2009 Guggenheim Video Art Fellow Federico Solmi continues to explore his controversial interests in sociopolitical affairs—last year his native Italy charged him with obscenity, blasphemy and offense to religion—in his second solo exhibition "From Uterus to Grave With No Happy Ending," which opens tomorrow at NYC's LMAK gallery. The entrance to the show, marked with...
Scott Daniel Ellison: The Birthday Party
(06 January 2010) - Scott Daniel Ellison's latest solo show—his second in NYC—expands on his fascination with ragged animal life, horror film characters and the artists' recurrent fears, all in his trademark faux-naïve style. The Beacon, NY-based photographer and painter sticks to the latter medium in "The Birthday Party," a series of small, acrylic images that he could have as easily taken from "Friday the 13th" as from...
(06 January 2010) - Scott Daniel Ellison's latest solo show—his second in NYC—expands on his fascination with ragged animal life, horror film characters and the artists' recurrent fears, all in his trademark faux-naïve style. The Beacon, NY-based photographer and painter sticks to the latter medium in "The Birthday Party," a series of small, acrylic images that he could have as easily taken from "Friday the 13th" as from...
Belly Love
(05 January 2010) - With a shape inspired by coral and covered in glowing tentacles that move, Florence Jaffrain's "Belly Love" looks more like a prop from Burning Man than a piece of furniture. Prioritizing a more sensual experience, the Paris-based designer lined the womb-like structure with a new photo-luminescent textile comprised of thousands of tiny soft bristles with essential oil-diffusing microcapsules. The fabric cover "breathes" as well,...
(05 January 2010) - With a shape inspired by coral and covered in glowing tentacles that move, Florence Jaffrain's "Belly Love" looks more like a prop from Burning Man than a piece of furniture. Prioritizing a more sensual experience, the Paris-based designer lined the womb-like structure with a new photo-luminescent textile comprised of thousands of tiny soft bristles with essential oil-diffusing microcapsules. The fabric cover "breathes" as well,...
Six Outdoor Installations
(21 December 2009) - by Youyoung Lee With parks interspersed throughout the city and no shortage of local talent, Berlin makes the perfect playground for curious outdoor installations. Currently situated in a small park in Friedrichshain, a peculiar anthropomorphic tree most recently piqued our curiosity. Constructed from plain cardboard and tape, two human-like arms attached in a heroic bicep curl appear surprisingly life-like with their perfect proportions. The tree...
(21 December 2009) - by Youyoung Lee With parks interspersed throughout the city and no shortage of local talent, Berlin makes the perfect playground for curious outdoor installations. Currently situated in a small park in Friedrichshain, a peculiar anthropomorphic tree most recently piqued our curiosity. Constructed from plain cardboard and tape, two human-like arms attached in a heroic bicep curl appear surprisingly life-like with their perfect proportions. The tree...
Davide Tranchina: Big Bang
(21 December 2009) - by Paolo Ferrarini of Future Concept Lab In his latest solo exhibition Italian photographer Davide Tranchina presents a cycle of new works that experiments with a different side of photography. Placing everyday objects on photographic paper, Tranchina scans and enlarges the negative shadows to create his large-scale black-and-white images. While previous projects like “Safari Metropolitano” and “Natura Morta” aimed to find reproductions of animals and...
(21 December 2009) - by Paolo Ferrarini of Future Concept Lab In his latest solo exhibition Italian photographer Davide Tranchina presents a cycle of new works that experiments with a different side of photography. Placing everyday objects on photographic paper, Tranchina scans and enlarges the negative shadows to create his large-scale black-and-white images. While previous projects like “Safari Metropolitano” and “Natura Morta” aimed to find reproductions of animals and...
Bigert & Bergström: Tomorrow's Weather
(17 December 2009) - A double helix sculpture in Denmark comprised of over 60 molecular globes, Tomorrow's Weather beautifully reimagines traditional weather balls—also known as weather beacons. While the devices usually sit on top of buildings or attach to towers, Tomorrow's Weather cleverly uses current technology to forecast upcoming elements (just like a weather ball), visualizing the data on the side of the building (owned by media company...
(17 December 2009) - A double helix sculpture in Denmark comprised of over 60 molecular globes, Tomorrow's Weather beautifully reimagines traditional weather balls—also known as weather beacons. While the devices usually sit on top of buildings or attach to towers, Tomorrow's Weather cleverly uses current technology to forecast upcoming elements (just like a weather ball), visualizing the data on the side of the building (owned by media company...
Highlights from Miami's Art Week 2009
(14 December 2009) - Hitting the beach earlier this month to check out the festivities surrounding Art Basel Miami Beach, we of course met an overwhelming array of inspiring artists and designers who filled us in on the backstories behind their work. Below, we've gathered up a cursory survey of our favorites, but keep an eye out for upcoming longer profiles of artists such as Brian Dettmer, Kate Clark,...
(14 December 2009) - Hitting the beach earlier this month to check out the festivities surrounding Art Basel Miami Beach, we of course met an overwhelming array of inspiring artists and designers who filled us in on the backstories behind their work. Below, we've gathered up a cursory survey of our favorites, but keep an eye out for upcoming longer profiles of artists such as Brian Dettmer, Kate Clark,...
Brian Ulrich: Ghosts of Shopping Past
(11 December 2009) - In a timely if sobering reminder of the ever changing retail landscape around us, The Morning News recently posted "The Ghosts of Shopping Past," an online gallery of photographs by Chicago-based lensman Brian Ulrich, whose Copia project we covered in 2008. A collection of exterior and interior retail wastelands, the images starkly implicate our collective failure to not only repurpose the abandoned spaces but...
(11 December 2009) - In a timely if sobering reminder of the ever changing retail landscape around us, The Morning News recently posted "The Ghosts of Shopping Past," an online gallery of photographs by Chicago-based lensman Brian Ulrich, whose Copia project we covered in 2008. A collection of exterior and interior retail wastelands, the images starkly implicate our collective failure to not only repurpose the abandoned spaces but...
Jeremy Dean: Futurama
(10 December 2009) - Known during the Great Depression as "Hoover Wagons," artist Jeremy Dean's new series "Futurama" draws on the historical phenomenon of horse-pulled cars, repeating this lamentable bit of history with his own hybrid auto carts fashioned from the back ends of gas-guzzling Hummers and Escalades. At the recent Scope Miami art fair Dean showed life-like models—tricked out with quintessential details like functioning drop-down TVs and...
(10 December 2009) - Known during the Great Depression as "Hoover Wagons," artist Jeremy Dean's new series "Futurama" draws on the historical phenomenon of horse-pulled cars, repeating this lamentable bit of history with his own hybrid auto carts fashioned from the back ends of gas-guzzling Hummers and Escalades. At the recent Scope Miami art fair Dean showed life-like models—tricked out with quintessential details like functioning drop-down TVs and...
Artist Jason Yarmosky
(07 December 2009) - Direct and intensely intimate, Jason Yarmosky's figurative paintings are emotional studies of his subjects. On the heels of "Orpheus", a painting we took a look at here earlier this year and that Yarmosky recently showed at the 25th annual "New Directions" exhibition at The Barrett Art Center in Upstate NY, Yarmosky moved into a new studio on the Lower East Side. He invited me...
(07 December 2009) - Direct and intensely intimate, Jason Yarmosky's figurative paintings are emotional studies of his subjects. On the heels of "Orpheus", a painting we took a look at here earlier this year and that Yarmosky recently showed at the 25th annual "New Directions" exhibition at The Barrett Art Center in Upstate NY, Yarmosky moved into a new studio on the Lower East Side. He invited me...
Kehinde Wiley: Equestrian Portrait of King Philip II
(04 December 2009) - by Ariston Anderson This year's Art Basel Miami Beach features myriad homages to the deceased King of Pop, including works by David LaChappelle, Jeff Sonhouse and Jonathan Monk. By far, the most powerful piece on display is a semi-commissioned work by renowned Brooklyn artist Kehinde Wiley at Deitch's booth. The massive Rubens-inspired oil, called "Equestrian Portrait of King Philip II," swaps out the Spanish monarch's...
(04 December 2009) - by Ariston Anderson This year's Art Basel Miami Beach features myriad homages to the deceased King of Pop, including works by David LaChappelle, Jeff Sonhouse and Jonathan Monk. By far, the most powerful piece on display is a semi-commissioned work by renowned Brooklyn artist Kehinde Wiley at Deitch's booth. The massive Rubens-inspired oil, called "Equestrian Portrait of King Philip II," swaps out the Spanish monarch's...
Alex Steinweiss, Inventor of the Modern Album Cover
(02 December 2009) - How did some album art become so iconic that it's inseparable from the music? Mention Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, for example, and it usually conjures images of the iconic triangle prism on the cover. (Click below images for detail.) Without Alex Steinweiss, Columbia Records' first art director in 1940, the pop culture phenomenon known as the album cover may not have...
(02 December 2009) - How did some album art become so iconic that it's inseparable from the music? Mention Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, for example, and it usually conjures images of the iconic triangle prism on the cover. (Click below images for detail.) Without Alex Steinweiss, Columbia Records' first art director in 1940, the pop culture phenomenon known as the album cover may not have...
In Every Tree
(01 December 2009) - by Richard Prime Working between the boundaries of art and design under the label In Every Tree, Swedish designers Maria Larsson and Maria Olevik focus on sculptural bone china objects, as well as light in its spatial context. The designers investigate the use of modern technology and the role it plays in transforming physical objects into immaterial articles, creating all of their beautifully captivating work...
(01 December 2009) - by Richard Prime Working between the boundaries of art and design under the label In Every Tree, Swedish designers Maria Larsson and Maria Olevik focus on sculptural bone china objects, as well as light in its spatial context. The designers investigate the use of modern technology and the role it plays in transforming physical objects into immaterial articles, creating all of their beautifully captivating work...
Committee: Plastic Relics
(30 November 2009) - by Richard Prime Deptford, London-based Committee, one of the firms most cleverly adopting cradle-to-cradle design practices, recently launched a new conceptual series called Plastic Relics, a project exploring the links between traditional crafts and new design approaches. Using 3D scanning and CAD design expertise, Committee designers customize vessels to fit lids sourced from 21st century plastic ephemera, like a telephone receiver and a Dyson...
(30 November 2009) - by Richard Prime Deptford, London-based Committee, one of the firms most cleverly adopting cradle-to-cradle design practices, recently launched a new conceptual series called Plastic Relics, a project exploring the links between traditional crafts and new design approaches. Using 3D scanning and CAD design expertise, Committee designers customize vessels to fit lids sourced from 21st century plastic ephemera, like a telephone receiver and a Dyson...
Eric Haze: New Abstracts and Icons
(24 November 2009) - by Tamara Warren Eric Haze operates at the intersection of art and design, exploring how the application of lines and shapes communicates and influences culture. "New Abstracts and Icons," which opened last week, represents the evolution of the New York artist and designer's work on canvas, in sculptural form and in drawings. With a meticulous attention to detail and steady hand, the show makes...
(24 November 2009) - by Tamara Warren Eric Haze operates at the intersection of art and design, exploring how the application of lines and shapes communicates and influences culture. "New Abstracts and Icons," which opened last week, represents the evolution of the New York artist and designer's work on canvas, in sculptural form and in drawings. With a meticulous attention to detail and steady hand, the show makes...
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