For the Balelatina HOT ART FAIR 2008, Michael Scoggins is presenting a new series of his signature drawings on large blue-lined spiral bound notebook paper. Scoggins uses simple materials used in childhood such as graphite, crayon, and marker to illustrate more complex issues concerning American politics as well as the artist’s own personal and emotional life. This Savannah College of Art and Design alumnus (and[…..]
Showing at The Foundation Centre of Photography in Poland in June, Alison Brady will exhibit her latest series of large scale photographs. Brady’s photographs invite the viewer into an uncomfortable event or situation. The subject (be it Brady’s friends or strangers) are captured in precarious, oftentimes intimate and exaggerated, moments in time. Identity, body and trauma are central themes in Brady’s photographs. Her strong lighting,[…..]
A museum retrospective for the late Allan Kaprow almost seems paradoxical. While Kaprow wasn’t an anti-establishment artist, he certainly functioned outside of institutional constraints. Nonetheless, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art has taken on Kaprow‘s spontaneous aesthetic, hosting a flexible off-site exhibition that reinvents Kaprow’s Happenings of the 1970s and 1980s. Artists throughout Los Angeles are restaging Kaprow’s collaborative performances for this sporadic exhibition[…..]
Artist Luis Gispert: All images courtesy Redux Contemporary Art Center Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston, SC is opening a new exhibition today titled The Constructed Image, curated by DailyServing.com Founder and Editor, Seth Curcio. The show features five contemporary photographers whose work challenges the very nature of truth as documented by the photograph. Through a variety of techniques, including digital and traditional photographic manipulation,[…..]
Currently on view at Bellwether in New York City is a self-titled solo exhibition by the photographer, Anne Hardy. The British born photographer constructs elaborate sets inside her London studio and shoots them in a medium-format camera with a wide-angle lens. Hardy’s installation process can take months to execute. She begins with simple objects and ideas, instigating and encouraging her process to take over the[…..]
All images Evan Holloway Project Series 35, 2008, Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer Polka dots aren’t typically transcendental. They aren’t autonomous and they aren’t monumental. Yet in Evan Holloway‘s current exhibition, Project Series 35 at the Pomona College Museum of Art, polka dots take on some serious questions. Read below for the full article by Catherine Wagley.
The Museum of Modern Art‘s current exhibition is a chromatic extravaganza. Color Chart includes an impressive span of artists, from ready-made deity Marcel Duchamp to young digital artist Cory Arcangel. Ann Temkin, who was appointed Department of Painting and Sculpture Curator at MoMA in 2003, is a curator with a penchant for early appropriation artists and seductive, culturally resonant mark-making. Temkin organized Color Chart, trying[…..]
