Bejing-based Yue Minjun is one of the most important artists of the Chinese avant garde. Part of the Chinese avant garde movement, Cynical Realism, Yue Minjun’s work is characterized by a signature laughing figure which serves as a portrait of the artist. Upon greater inspection the smiling faces contain fear, animosity, and a sense of discomfort that is a product of facing reality in contemporary[…..]
Artist Mark Mulroney opened his third exhibition with Mixed Greens in New York City this weekend, titled Follow the Nosebleeds. For this exhibition the artist uses a variety of media such as drawing, paintings, sound and sculpture to examine stories of traditional American life. Seeming disconnected memories of the artist synthesis into a variety of irreverent religious imagery and references of contemporary american culture. The[…..]
Los Angeles-based artist Tomory Dodge creates paintings that contain formal abstraction and representation within the same ground of the work. Dodge renders landscape environments that are fragmented and intentionally distilled. Often the disarray in his work is a reference to disaster and chaos as a potential force for transcendence. Dodge is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts and Rhode Island School of[…..]
In the Spring of last year, The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) partnered with conceptual artist Carl Pope to create a city-wide public art project titled “The Mind of Cleveland.” In the vain of previous projects which attempt to instigate positive social change, Pope conducted several public meetings with the residents of Cleveland[…..]
In his first solo exhibition in the U.S, Danish artist Peter Callesen presents Folded Thoughts featuring new paper-cutout sculptures and vitrines. The works, which are on view at Peter Rubenstein Gallery in New York, transform a simple two-dimensional white sheet of paper into a fantastical three-dimensional object. The objects on view reference fairy tales and children games, including images of castles, ruins, religious figures, skeletons,[…..]
Currently on view at Zach Feuer Gallery in Manhattan is an exhibition featuring recent work by the Swedish-born, Berlin-based artist Nathalie Djurberg. Using a variety of media including stop motion animation, installation, sculpture and drawing, the artist constructs dark narratives that investigate human behavior through nightmares and fears. Without much restraint, these narratives open a dialogue addressing violence, dominance, gluttony, racism and sex. In her[…..]
Lawrimore Project in Seattle is currently presenting a group show titled Patch Dynamics – Six New Invasions to the Field. The exhibition, which is jointly curated by Scott Lawrimore and Yoko Ott, has its concept rooted in the patch, a fundamental characteristic of landscape ecology theory. The pioneers of landscape ecology theory define patch as “a component within a landscape that differs in appearance or[…..]
