New York artist Rachel Beach combines elements of painting and sculpture in her crafted wood veneer and oil painted objects. Her forms waver between two and three dimensions, creating spatial and perceptual tension. The painted areas are an illusion of volume rendered on the flat surface of the object. Beach uses the process of marquetry, the craft of covering a structure with pieces of veneer[…..]
Aicon Gallery in London recently opened Space Invader, a group exhibition featuring the work of Vibha Galhotra, Mayyur Gupta, Dan Holdsworth, Caroline McCarthy, Alan Michael, Muzzumil Ruheel and Sanatan Saha. Space Invader explores how our personal space becomes crowded and confused due to our ever-expanding cultural requirements. In all facets of life, we are met with a barrage of activity, which can come in the[…..]
James Cohan Gallery has announced two shows taking place in the New York area featuring the work of acclaimed British-born Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE. Shonibare’s artistic practice explores the construction of cultural identities by examining issues of class, race, and colonialism. He is known for his use of brightly colored wax-resist textiles, often seen clothing headless mannequins in tableaux-style installations, as in How To[…..]
Image courtesy of the artist and Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, NY Rosemarie Fiore is drawing with fireworks, low explosive pyrotechnic devices such as color smoke bombs, jumping jacks, monster balls, and ground blooms, to name a few. The artist recently exhibited several of these large scale works on paper in a solo show at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art in New York. The artist’s[…..]
David Spriggs‘ atmospheric installations, such as Axis of Power, above, inhabit both the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional realm, challenging the viewer’s concept of space. The piece, which was commissioned and produced by this year’s Sharjah Biennial, is “like a scientific specimen, the power of nature appears to have been captured, isolated, and objectified within the confines of the room’s architectural space,” as captioned at the[…..]
Shinique Smith, Courtesy of the artist and Yvon Lambert Paris, New York Yvon Lambert in New York is currently showing recent work by American multimedia artist Shinique Smith alongside a show of Michael Brown’s melted record albums cast into common domestic objects, such as chairs, mops, and buckets. Smith’s exhibition, Ten Times Myself, includes painting, assemblage, and sculpture. Smith is interested in discarded objects and[…..]
Courtesy Nicelle Beauchene Gallery Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in New York City’s Lower East side opened Ruby Sky Stiler’s first solo exhibition, High and Low Relief, on Saturday, May 9th. For the show, the artist has transformed the gallery into an attic space by shortening the headspace and installing distressed (and creaky) wooden floor boards. This altered space houses four of Stiler’s recent sculptures: An Earlier[…..]
