The work of Taylor McKimens is included in the new exhibition “Mail Order Monsters,” on view this month at Deitch Projects in New York City. McKimens creates an array of comics, zines, paintings, and site specific cut-out installations. The artist has stated being interested in “everyday things that are loaded somehow,” portraying the tragic and the humorous with equal strength. Many of the artist’s sculptures[…..]
Oakland-based artist Chris Duncan recently opened an exhibition with the Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco titled “The Beginning. The Middle. The End.” The artist has been interested in exploring concepts related to process, transformation, and reduction. Duncan is known for his work involving intricate string sculptures, and has now begun to literally explore the threads that tie nature, science, and the sprit into life.[…..]
GEISAI Artists at Giant Robot is an exhibition presented by Scion, Giant Robot, and Kaikai Kiki which features work by aspiring artists in Japan. The show which opens next week at GR2 was developed and organized by internationally renowned artist and curator Takashi Murakami and Eric Nakamura, publisher of Giant Robot Magazine. The two hand picked the artists to have their work presented in Los[…..]
California-based artist, Aaron Noble, creates seemingly abstract compositions from imagery associated with commercial comic books. While the artist’s work is deeply rooted in superhero-based images, he manages to extract any form of narrative, leaving the viewer to decode the mass of ambiguous information as a unique form. Noble has new work on view in his first solo show with Pavel Zoubok Gallery in NYC, entitled[…..]
The large scale photographs of Martin Schoeller have developed as one of the most distinctive photographic styles today. The artist produces large format color portrait photographs that are often presented as 4 foot high, tightly cropped images that contain no direct outside point of reference. The artist began his inventory of celebrity images in 1993 when he came to the U.S to work with Annie[…..]
Artist Jim Lee infuses his works with a unique humor that is presented as an abstract solution existing cleverly between sculpture and painting. Lee pays close attention to the formal elements of texture, color and form. While many of his works seem to be deeply rooted in Modernism, Lee actually draws much of his inspiration from industrial and consumer goods, often using related materials in[…..]
Opening today in Beverley Hills is the first exhibition by artist Tom Sachs presented by the Gagosian Gallery. Sachs, a previous DailyServing feature, has gained international acclaim for his technically meticulous sculptures of manufactured objects and structures. The artist crafts his sculptures with very basic materials often associated with model making such as foam core, chip-board and hot-glue. Over the last decade, Sachs has been[…..]
