Currently on view at the Budapest Mucsarnok Kunsthalle is a retrospective for the German photographer, Thomas Ruff. The artist uses a wide range of imagery to explore several major developments in the art of photography, including digital image making and manipulation. Each photo is presented in a large scale format and slightly out of focus. Ruff was educated in Dusseldorf in the early 80’s ,[…..]
Seattle-based painter, Grant Barnhart, recently shifted the focus of his paintings to directly confront certain iconic American imagery such as cowboys, football players, cheerleaders, and showgirls in an attempt to build a vocabulary that is positioned neatly between satire and homage. In a time where it is increasingly easy to portray American life and culture in a generally pessimistic light, Barnhart takes on the challenge[…..]
On view until January 4th is LUCKY NUMBER SEVEN, the 2008 Biennial at SITE in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Curated by Lance Fung, the previous director of the Holly Solomon Gallery and current owner of The Lance Fung Gallery, SITE’s current exhibition brings a diverse and global roster of 25 artists from 16 counties, creating 18 different projects. The exhibition layout and architecture was designed[…..]
Artist Drew Daly activates and draws attention to common domestic objects by meticulously altering the item’s surface quality and form. Daly is interested in fragmenting the familiar ready-made object to stimulate memory, recognition and consideration of the mundane. The artist also uses trace materials from the altered ready-made objects, collecting and reconstructing the residue of erosion, and tracing an object’s relation to the space around[…..]
While in Miami earlier this month, DailyServing.com was fortunate enough to visit with artist TV Moore. Perhaps best known for his multi-media video installations, Moore was exhibiting APOCATOPIA (vol. 1) with Baer Ridgway Exhibitions at the Pulse Miami Art Fair. Moore splits his time between Sydney, Australia and Los Angeles, producing films, videos, and theatrical performances. Much of the artist’s work makes use of fragmented[…..]
Artist Holli Schorno creates collage works on paper using book clippings to construct hypothetical landscapes. The works are created out of biology and chemistry textbooks, old maps and encyclopedias, and other grade school note and work books. Despite the initial appearance of digital production, there isn’t anything digital about her work. The artist often selects her materials based on the content that appears on the[…..]
Rashid Johnson at the NADA ART FAIR – Miami 2008 from DailyServing.com on Vimeo. Last weekend in Miami, DailyServing.com had the opportunity to speak with artist Rashid Johnson about his work on display with the Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in the Nada Art Fair. Johnson has received much critical acclaim for his poetically potent works, which directly confront ideas of race, identity and culturally coded artifacts[…..]
