To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open Book, currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Pacific Design Center, surveys artists books from the 20th Century to the present. The exhibition’s title comes from a book by artist Raymond Pettibon and an impressive span of artists are included, among them are illusionist and perceptual artist Olafur Eliasson, parodic sculptor Lara Schnitger, Belgian artist and musician[…..]
Lawrimore Project in Seattle is currently presenting a group show titled Patch Dynamics – Six New Invasions to the Field. The exhibition, which is jointly curated by Scott Lawrimore and Yoko Ott, has its concept rooted in the patch, a fundamental characteristic of landscape ecology theory. The pioneers of landscape ecology theory define patch as “a component within a landscape that differs in appearance or[…..]
On view until January 4th is LUCKY NUMBER SEVEN, the 2008 Biennial at SITE in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Curated by Lance Fung, the previous director of the Holly Solomon Gallery and current owner of The Lance Fung Gallery, SITE’s current exhibition brings a diverse and global roster of 25 artists from 16 counties, creating 18 different projects. The exhibition layout and architecture was designed[…..]
In the Surrealist game Exquisite Corpse, a paper is folded lengthwise into sections. The first player begins the drawing, extending the lines of the image just beyond the fold in the paper. The second player continues where the first left off, and so on until the paper is filled. The final result is akin to Frankenstein’s monster, a creation defined by the sum of its[…..]
James Cohan Gallery in New York is currently showing the recent work of Trenton Doyle Hancock in the exhibition Fear. The exhibition includes paintings, wall drawings, and a new portfolio of twenty mixed-media prints, entitled Fix, which the artist completed at the Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions at Rutgers University. Fear explores the battle between good and evil as it unfolds in the private symbolic[…..]
Currently on view at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles is a solo exhibition of new work by LA artist Jason Houchen, entitled Fallen Trees Spread No Seeds. Houchen’s past life in Missouri solicits his Americana aesthetic, to which he adds a healthy dose of Los Angeles irony and tongue-in-cheek imagery. The painstakingly delicate woodburnings – manifested on either sculpted and carved moose[…..]
During the week of the Art Basel, both day and night are filled with art in Miami Beach. On Friday evening, DailyServing.com attended Installation 5 at the Raleigh Hotel, a new exhibition highlighting the art of the self portrait put on by Scion and co-hosted by Beautiful/Decay Magazine. The exhibition, which featured over 30 artists, explored the idea of portraiture through the two dimensional mediums[…..]
