Bay Area artist Tauba Auerbach is currently exhibiting new text-based works at the Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco. Auerbach investigates semantic systems, playfully combining letters to create new meanings, while challenging the limitations of typography and language. Employing elements of hard-edged abstraction, the artist is able to use her experiences as a sign painter to explore the function of lettering and text in society,[…..]
The sculptures and installations of Belgian artist Fred Eerdekens explore light and language through manipulated materials. The artist investigates connections between images and language as he transforms constructed objects into words. The artist projects light onto carefully organized objects to create small phrases within the shadow. Eerdekens uses a variety of materials to achieve this, including artificial trees, plants, piles of clothing and household goods[…..]
Japanese artist Mariko Mori creates a variety of sculpture and photographic work that explores ideas and symbols related to the self and the connection with others. The artist’s work addresses the issues of Eastern and Western individualism within a unified society and the notion of a collective consciousness. Mori uses images and characters to serve as a model for transcending the boundaries of nation, culture[…..]
Video, photography and sculptural installations are only a few of the vehicles that carry the ideas of Los Angeles-based artist Skylar Haskard. In a recent exhibition with the Anna Helwing Gallery in Los Angeles, the artist presented Octagonal Erection, a structure that revolves around other works and acts as a set for a multi-channel video. Some elements of the video depict the artist as an[…..]
Currently on view at Ace Gallery in Los Angeles is “VOOM Portraits” by artist Robert Wilson (Feb. 24-April 30). Wilson creates work that is rooted in theater and, as of recently, has been displayed through video on plasma screen televisions. Wilson has captured the images of many famous actors such as Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and William L. Pope, who is in the image above.[…..]
Currently on view at the Mary Boone Gallery in both the Fifth Avenue and Chelsea locations as well as with Team Gallery in New York are works by premiere French conceptual artist Pierre Bismuth titled “One Size Fits All.” The artist is known for his deconstruction of cultural products and reconstitution of material in which his subjects undergo to reveal the structures of mass media[…..]
“Secrets and Cymbals, Smoke and Scissors (My Friend Dash’s Wall in the Future)” is work by conceptual artist Dan Colen that is a life-size recreation of the interior wall of a friend. In Colen’s version, each element attached to the wall — every sticker, newspaper, photo and hand-written note — has been illusionistically painted by the artist. Colen extends this process of painting into other[…..]
