The Happy Lion is currently presenting The World’s Largest Cardboard Sign and Other New Works, a solo show of language-related works, including sculpture, neon and installation, by New York-based artist Alejandro Diaz. The centerpiece of the exhibition, The World’s Largest Cardboard Sign, 2009, is 10 feet tall, 12 feet wide, and weighs 200 pounds. Diaz elevates the self-referential sign to art object through the use[…..]
Tyson Skross was born in 1978 in Illinois, and spent his childhood in Texas and Geneva, Switzerland. In Geneva, the western European landscape and geography had a profound impact on him and led him to question notions of reality and place. Situated between Lake Geneva and the Swiss Alps, Skross witnessed many natural phenomena, which he refers to as “glitches.” These glitches alter[…..]
Roxy Paine‘s Maelstrom is a massive stainless steel sculpture that stretches from one end of the Metropolitan Museum of Art‘s Cantor Roof Garden to the other, rising 29 feet overhead. Weighing more than 7 tons, the tree-like sculpture is 130 feet long and 45 feet wide, making it Paine’s largest and most ambitious work to date. The arboreal structure is composed of 10,000 pieces of[…..]
Puerto Rico-based artist Jason Mena appropriates popular marketing tools, such as billboard and aerial advertising, to influence the way we perceive our surroundings. Mena uses these communication platforms to promote new ideas and provoke critical thought by inserting carefully chosen text where a company’s logo or catch phrase is typically seen. In doing this, the artist draws our attention to our passive consumption of visual[…..]
Deitch Projects in New York City is currently showing Tauba Auerbach‘s Here and Now/And Nowhere, an exhibition which explores the collision of two conflicting states. The title (purposely composed as an anagram) reflects the artist’s fascination with the origins of language, both verbal language and the symbols used in written language. The multimedia show includes paintings, photographic works, sculpture, and a musical instrument, all investigating[…..]
On September 1st, from 5-10pm, the San Francisco Art Institute will hold The First Annual First Show, curated by Nicholas Miller, Karl Nelson, Casey Gray, and Romy Mariano. The show, which will take place throughout the outdoor spaces of the Institute, including the courtyard, quad, and amphitheater, will feature paintings, sculptures, photography, film, video, performance, installation, and live music. The purpose of the show is[…..]
English Kills Art Gallery in Brooklyn is presenting a show of Don Pablo Pedro‘s scroll paintings, powerful compositions depicting scenes of deranged sexuality, mutation, and pain. The painted muslin scrolls, with titles such as Eve Rips Her Face Off, Jesus’s Vagina and Shit, and Boy and His Heads, feature figures with anatomical abnormalities, extra orifices, and sexual oddities. These characters are situated in a blank[…..]
