Arthouse of Austin TX presents Corner Store by Okay Mountain in the IMPULSE section of this year’s PULSE Miami Contemporary Art Fair. Commissioned by Arthouse specifically for PULSE, the installation is elaborately researched and accurately realized. Corner Store envelops the visitor within the environment of a gas station or convenience store typical to Texas and the Southern United States. All elements of Corner Store‘s retail[…..]
Bari Ziperstein assembles all manner of figurines, furniture and various other found objects to create elegant yet convoluted documentations of time and place. Setting up antique store-like vignettes, her site specific installations of ceramic and mixed-media sculpture pieces seem at once all too common (owing to the banality of the original parts they are made up of) and wildly whimsical. Recently, Ziperstein’s work was on[…..]
Folksy, but refined, Timothy Karpinski‘s work is most aptly defined as lovely. Currently on view in the solo exhibition, My Heart Never Sleeps, at Thinkspace Gallery in Los Angeles, the Portland-based artist’s work draws upon a romantic and almost childlike fixation with the quiet and beautiful moments of life and love. Hand cut paper, acrylic paint and graphite make up collages of such harmonious scenes […..]
On view until January 3, 2010 the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis presents its most ambitious group show since its grand opening six years ago. Curated by Anthony Huberman, For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there starts with the premise that art is not a code that needs cracking. Celebrating the experience of not-knowing and unlearning,[…..]
The Great American Novel, Moby Dick, takes on new life at the exhibition of the same name currently showing at California College of the Arts’s Wattis Institute. The exhibition loosely traces the narrative of the epic (and episodic) tale with each of the three galleries dedicated to the story’s protagonists, Ishmeal, Ahab, and of course, the White Whale, Moby Dick. Thirty-three artists ranging from the[…..]
Art in Storefronts is a pilot program initiated by the office of Mayor Gavin Newsom and implemented by the San Francisco Arts Commission and Triple Base Gallery to reclaim abandoned storefront spaces in the San Francisco neighborhoods of Mission, Bayview, Market and Tenderloin. Rounding up participating artists by sending out a call for proposals, those selected were then assigned an address where they were allowed[…..]
The Institute for Contemporary Art/ Boston (ICA) is currently showing artist Krzysztof Wodiczko‘s latest work, …OUT OF HERE: The Veterans Project. This installation is comprised of light projection and sound and runs on a 7 minute loop – occupying three gallery walls. The work envelopes the viewer in darkness, which is only broken by the sequence of windows projected near the ceiling. Sound is by[…..]
