Currently on view at Redux Contemporary Art Center is Inside the Fence, a new site-specific installation by Canadian-born artist Lynn Richardson. The installation is saturated with imagery that suggests architectural development within a working landscape. Large construction blockades hover gracefully above the gallery floor, striped barriers adorn the walls and caution lights seem to illuminate the space. The installation is also activated by the viewer[…..]
John Groo courtesy Real Art Ways Currently on view at Real Art Ways in Hartford, Connecticut is a site specific installation by New York-based Chris Kaczmarek. Kaczmarek’s installation seems to tap into the artery of the Bush-era Red/Orange/Yellow zone thinking, wherein one was (is?) perpetually made aware of the changing safety of the current situation, as well as drawing on the theme of citizen surveillance[…..]
Denver-based sound artist Jim Green currently has a solo presentation in the Project Gallery at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, CO. Thematically, the new work on view, titled Unplugged, investigates the discomfort we feel in public spaces when confronted with private issues, and the practiced reactions we impel when met with such taboo circumstances. Okay, Unplugged is essentially about the sound farts make.[…..]
Bay Area collaborative artists Brody Reiman and Charlie Castaneda are currently exhibiting a new installation at Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco. The exhibition titled places we have never been, features a collection of found landscape paintings, some of which date back to the nineteenth century and range in artistic skill level and period. The paintings are supported within the framework of a larger installation[…..]
Melbourne, Australia-based Skye Kennewell‘s architectural installations examine the tenuous elements of constructed security, in both the physical and emotional realms. The spaces that she creates incorporate rigid building materials as well as technical drawings, and when on view playfully engage with lighting, adding elaborate shadows to the overall spectacle. Kennewell’s interests lie in “issues of isolation, high-density urban living, public fear and the illusion of[…..]
The Frith Street Gallery in London is currently showing the Raqs Media Collective exhibition, Escapement. The word ‘escapement’ refers to the mechanism of a clock that controls the counting of time. This appropriately titled new multimedia installation, like other work by the prolific Raqs Media Collective, engages with issues of globalization. As new technologies bring us closer together than ever before, circumventing the once isolating[…..]
Eric Yahnker recently opened a solo show at Seattle’s Ambach and Rice Gallery. Though his ouevre spans a motley crew of materials and techniques, his modus operandi tends to favor elaborately laborious processes that can be best described as artistic one-liners. This surprising element of going above and beyond to create such elaborate jokes lend the works a two-sided element of both hilarity and seriousness,[…..]
