Zhu Ming is a performance and conceptual artist whose work is time based and usually involves physical extremities. Often performing inside of a custom made balloon, the artist will undergo certain actions that reference both his Chinese heritage and the futility of communication. In the 1990s Ming joined other artists to form Beijing East Village; this area was often considered the most experimental of the[…..]
Roxy Paine’s inventions range from elaborate contraptions to deceptively simple forms. Often employing technical proficiency, trompe l’oeil, and ambiguity, Paine investigates the nature of reality and artificiality. The artist was born in 1966 in New York, where he currently lives and works. He attended the Pratt Institute and recently had solo shows at James Cohan Gallery, New York; Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin; and Musee d’Art[…..]
Homostatic Feedback or Natural Body Water is the title of a new piece by Tavares Strachan. In this work the artist collected his own urine, which he then transformed into purified drinking water using a fabricated distillation system. The work will be on exhibit this month at Pierogi in Brooklyn along side three other major works. The Ronald Feldman Gallery has also sponsored projects by[…..]
Sam Durant is an artist interested in weaving together ideas of art history, pop culture, and social protest to build the vocabulary of his art. Recently featured in Vitamin D, a new survey of drawings published by Phaidon Books, Durant quotes Lenny Bruce, saying, “Humor is pain plus time” to describe the fundamentals of his work. Based in L.A., Durant was recently review in Artforum[…..]
Compound is a new installation using a low-tech arrangement of lights, lenses and ordinary objects, by Brooklyn based artist Liza McConnell. The installation is part of a two person exhibition on view this month at SmackMellon in NYC. These sculptures disregard digital technology and new media in favor of principles similar to that of a camera obscura and are projected in real-time via small apertures[…..]
Reentry: New York City is a part of new public art project on view at the new media center Eyebeam in NYC. Artist in Residence Bill Dolson creates synthetic meteor shower studies that merges iconic night cityscapes with HD computer simulations in a series of C-prints for a daring new public art project. Dodson has been working with NASA and others to make this project[…..]
Tattfoo Tan is a NYC based art who creates painting, live drawing, and even baked bread sculptures as a way of exploring his roots as a Southeast Asian descendent. Tan, 30, is one of very few Malaysian artists in New York, and as of now the only one with his own public exhibition space, simply called the Tattfoo Temple Gallery located in the artist’s spacious[…..]
