Currently on view at Platform Gallery in Seattle’s Pioneer Square is the exhibition A Peculiar Brightness in the Sky, new works by artists Patte Loper. The artist uses historical accounts of discover in Antarctica as a framework for her drawings in her second solo exhibition with Platform. Impromptu huts and primitive exploration equipment are used to convey a sense of desperation along side a emotional[…..]
New York-based Artist Adam Cvijanovic is currently exhibiting new work in Colossal Spectacle, his latest of four solo exhibitions with Bellwether Gallery in New York City. The exhibition contains several landscape paintings that are rendered with latex paint on Tyvek, as well as a massive painting installation which surrounds the viewer with a scene from Intolerance, a D.W. Griffith film from 1916. The epic film[…..]
The art of Kelley Walker is rooted in the idea of social, physical and historical disaster and distress. The artist often appropriates iconic images from the media, including photos of ’60s race riots, plane and car wrecks and modern advertising and magazine covers. All of the images are disrupted by the artist’s use of violently splattered and abstracted patterns, usually scanned and printed from commercial[…..]
What Do You See is an appropriately titled exhibition of photographs depicting the human body by Hong Kong born author, activist and artist Irene Kai. Now on view at Found Gallery in Los Angeles, the artist’s work explores multiple aspects of the human body, which challenge the viewer’s perception and ideas of sexuality. The artist achieves this through her series of ambiguous though sexually suggestive[…..]
Clayton Brothers, Rob and Christian, take root in the artists’ immediate environment, referencing local business, neighborhood characters, overheard conversations and local signs that exist outside of the artists’ California-based studio. Dense with information, these fractured narratives come to life through a unique collaborative process. The brothers rarely work on the same canvas at one time or even discuss the work while it’s being created; instead[…..]
Currently on view at the Cerasoli Gallery in Culver City, California is a double solo exhibition featuring Mario Wagner‘s Lost Art of Murder in Gallery One and Marco Cibola‘s A New Division in Gallery Two. Mario Wagner is a German artist and illustrator who is exhibiting a series of paper-collage canvases that employ traditional methods of collage and consequentially reference modernist qualities, yet they also[…..]
German artist Hans-Christian Schink’s photography is primarily focused on sparse landscapes and highways. His stoic images feature structures and land that are symbolic of the solidarity found in large urban environments. Often focusing on his native land, the artist has photographed the autobahn, train systems and constant construction in the former East Germany. New works depict a similar landscape but now contain mysterious floating bars[…..]
