“Sleepwalkers” is the first U.S. large-scale public project by renowned video artist Doug Aitkin. Creative Time and The Museum of Modern Art have commissioned the artist to create a multi-screen video installation that will be projected on seven facades of the MoMA on 53rd and 54th Streets. This project will premiere on January 16, and will continue through February 12, each evening from 5pm to[…..]
Dutch Artist Folkert De Jong creates life size plus figurative sculptures out of styro and polyurethane foams. These sculptures possess a deviant mentality offering the viewer both humor and horror. De Jong’s narrative objects and scenes reference social boundaries and investigate elements of humanity in a modern world. The artist attended the Academy for Visual Arts and a two year residency Rijksacademy for Visual Arts,[…..]
“Godspipes” is a new exhibition of sculptural works created over the last decade by L.A. based artist Peter Shelton. The exhibition opened earlier this year at L.A. Louver and contained one hundred and eighty-eight vessel type forms that reference both the human body and simple mechanical structures. Shelton is a graduate of UCLA (1979), and throughout his career the artist has continued to allude to[…..]
The seductive paintings and photographs of Marilyn Minter border both photorealism and abstraction. Her work pieces together commercial depictions of femininity which juxtapose glamour and nausea. The enamel on metal paintings and large format c-prints include references from many major movements both artistically and socially, like early Surrealist photography, post-Warhol pop, advertising and pornography. Minter currently has a solo show at Salon 94 in New[…..]
English artist Simon Henwood has worked through a wide range of artistic media including painting, film, 3D animation, the production of two magazines, and a over a dozen children’s publications. Through this experimentation his work has remained centered on adolescent childhood. Henwood recently created a music video for musician and fine artist Devendra Banhart, and is developing a new animated TV series titled ‘Johnny Pumpkin‘.[…..]
Chinese artist Wei Dong continues the tradition of the Chinese landscape through oil painting, but interrupts the conventional imagery by using women draped in sexuality in the foreground. This imagery is a metaphor for how “sex, violence, and popular culture dominate traditional morals.” After abandoning ink on paper as his primary medium, Wei Dong found oil painting to facilitate his imagery more clearly. Wei Dong[…..]
This month at James Harris Gallery in Seattle, artist Roy McMakin is exhibiting new photographs titled “Actual”. This is an appropriate title considering that each object in the exhibition has been photographed, sometimes over 100 times, and then digitally collaged together to offer a true to life scale and perspective. This show is an extension of a body of work that deals with the domestic[…..]
