Toronto-based artist Susy Oliveira creates sculptures, paintings and installations that examine human’s preoccupation with controlling and re-producing elements of nature through artificial fabrication. Often using digital images that attempt to capture or reproduce elements of nature, the artist repurposes the images to give new life and form to artificial versions of natural and organic material. As humans continue to manipulate and impose unnatural systems onto[…..]
New York-based photographer Louise Lawler is currently presenting images in a new Rubell Family Collection exhibition, Beg, Borrow and Steal. The exhbition brings together an impressive all star collection of works by John Baldessari, George Condo, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Sterling Ruby, and Cindy Sherman. Lawler has become known for her body of work, which has been developing since the 1980’s, that examines the life[…..]
For her debut solo exhibition in New York City, Korean artist Sook Kim is presenting fourteen new photographs, which include her famed Saturday Night series, at Gana Art on West 25th St. in NYC. The exhibition, titled Inside Out, features images of buildings in both Germany and New York that have a transparent facade revealing the activity of the inhabitants within the structure. Formally, the[…..]
The anonymous street art / urban interventionist CutUp Collective is based in East London, but have been subverting advertising on the streets of cities world wide. The main focus of the group is to disrupt the everyday experience of passerbys and to promote discussion through altering preexisting urban structures, namely billboards. They have been achieving this by ripping down existing advertising and “cutting-up” the images[…..]
On view this weekend at Five Thirty Three Gallery in Los Angeles is a new two-day video and performance exhibition titled Videos Collide in Real 3D Space! The exhibition, which is co-curated and organized by Beautiful/Decay print and web designer Fei Liu and artist Megan Daalder, will feature real-time software performance by Jeremy Bailey, a score of a projector by Wojciech Kosma, synchronized live animations[…..]
Western Exhibitions in Chicago is currently presenting The Power of Selection (Part I), the first in a series of three exhibitions organized by Chicago-based artist and independent curator Ryan Travis Christian. The exhibition, which features works by Alika Cooper, Mike Rea, Allison Schulnik, Marissa Textor, and Eric Yahnker, loosely explores the idea of contemporary figuration. Works in the exhibition range from a massive anthropomorphic wooden[…..]
Send Me Through is the title of a new exhibition of paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Ryan Schneider. The body of work is presented as the third solo exhibition for the artist at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art in New York City. Send Me Through continues the artist’s exploration into notions of the self, human experience and pursuit of a fundamental truth in life. Existential in[…..]
