Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere has been working with wool blankets that cover and protect — as the material for her sculptures and installations. Recently she has created a series of horses by covering casts of horse bodies with fabrics. Each figure is malformed and fragmentary, often lacking the fundamental elements of a muzzle, ears or hooves. Bruyckere has been featured with Saatchi Gallery, but[…..]
In his first gallery exhibition since 1992, Jonathan Borofsky will present “Human Structures” opening on November 2nd at Deitch Projects in NYC. This exhibition will feature works that the artist has created over the past seven years. The dominant work in the exhibit is a sculpture composed of 366 life sized steel genderless figures all interlocking together to form a modular 44′ x 11′ x[…..]
Hanneke Beaumont was born in Maastricht, The Netherlands, in 1947. Now living and working in Belgium, Beaumont creates life size figurative scuptures that deal with the human psyche with figures and are lying prone, sitting in, or standing up in desolated postures. Beaumont started her artistic studies in 1977 at the Academie de Braine l’Alleud, then at La Cambre & in Anderlecht. Her work is[…..]
Best known for her works involving meticulous cutting and layering of hundreds of pieces of white paper, Noriko Ambe creates sculptural landscapes that evoke a subtle feeling of loss and detachment. Pierogi presented the first New York, one-person exhibition of Ambe’s work, mapping the mysterious land between physical and emotional geography. Ambe’s second solo exhibition in New York was with the Josee Bienvenu Gallery, named[…..]
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[…..]
John Espinosa is a Los Angeles based artist who creates taxidermy installations of animals with laser beams emitting from their eyes. Espinosa is a recent graduate in sculpture from Yale School of Art. He is featured on the artist collective site sevenseven, and was also a part of the successful University of Chicago group show All the Pretty Corpses. The artist has recently exhibited with[…..]
Japanese installation artist Miwa Koizumi creates conceptual work ranging from plastic bottles manipulated to resemble sea creatures, to food based art that test the boundaries of your senses. Koizumi studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and at Tama Art University, Tokyo. The artist has also exhibited widely in the US including non-profits like Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston SC, and like[…..]
