The San Francisco-based directing duo, Encyclopedia Pictura, has recently completed a nine month video and animations project that was shot at Deitch Studios on the bank of the East River in Long Island City. The members of Encyclopedia Pictura, Isaiah Saxon and Sean Hellfritsch, worked with musical artist Bjork to produce her latest video project, Wanderlust, created in 3D. The video, which contains large scale[…..]
Roni Horn is currently exhibiting her photographic series of taxidermied Icelandic wildfowl at Hauser and Wirth Colnaghi in London. The artist attended the Rhode Island School of Design and received her M.F.A. from Yale University School of Art in 1978. After completing graduate school, Horn journeyed to Iceland to explore the geological activity that takes place in a location virtually untouched by globalization forces. She[…..]
Photographer, video and installation artist Sue de Beer creates work that references experiences related to high school and adolescents. de Beer’s work centers on haunting narratives that resonate with the tragic emotional state of a post-Columbine youth, often focusing on the engagement of first time activities such as sexual experience and drug use. The artist is a graduate of both Parsons School of Design (1995),[…..]
Currently on view at Sprueth and Magers in Cologne, Germany are the photographs of German artist Nina Pohl. Testing the physical boundaries of truth within the photographic image, Pohl creates dynamically constructed photos which challenge the authenticity usually associated with photography. Painting is a core component in the artist’s practice and is used as tool to further call into question the concept of reality in[…..]
UK born sculptor David Spriggs creates work which explores both the deconstruction and systematic ordering of forms in space. Spriggs creates his dynamic work by layering sheets of transparent film which contain drawings and paintings that are specifically spaced apart to appear to be three dimensional in form. The combination of layers allows the viewer to walk around the work to see it fully in[…..]
Pakistani artist Bani Abidi will be exhibiting a collection of video and photographic works with Green Cardamon for her first UK solo exhibition. Standing Still Standing Still Standing… will feature the artist’s documentary style short films and photographs that examine the collective political culture held in Pakistan, but only to serve as a universal metaphor for oppression and political dominance. For the exhibition, two new[…..]
Opening this weekend at Freight and Volume in New York City will be “I and Thou,” new paintings by Israeli-born artist Ophrah Shemesh. This will be the artist’s debut exhibition with the gallery, and her third in NYC. Her work confronts and explores the psychology of the gaze, objectifying women by placing them in vulnerable and seductive situations. Shemesh is aware that she is working[…..]
