Seattle’s Crawl Space has welcomed artist Derek Larson as this year’s Studio Intensive Residency Artist. Larson has created a new exhibition titled Liquid Crystal, which will be on view through July 12th. The Seattle-born, Vermont-based artist was locked in to the Crawl Space for a week-long residency to produce an entirely new body of work. However, Larson had some help as he welcomed participants to[…..]
James Cohan Gallery has announced two shows taking place in the New York area featuring the work of acclaimed British-born Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE. Shonibare’s artistic practice explores the construction of cultural identities by examining issues of class, race, and colonialism. He is known for his use of brightly colored wax-resist textiles, often seen clothing headless mannequins in tableaux-style installations, as in How To[…..]
David Spriggs‘ atmospheric installations, such as Axis of Power, above, inhabit both the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional realm, challenging the viewer’s concept of space. The piece, which was commissioned and produced by this year’s Sharjah Biennial, is “like a scientific specimen, the power of nature appears to have been captured, isolated, and objectified within the confines of the room’s architectural space,” as captioned at the[…..]
Christian Maychack has returned to Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York City this month to present a new group of sculptures in an exhibition titled Host. The Brooklyn-based artist has created seven unassuming new works, all of which rely on the organic structure of tree limbs and branches as a central form to expand upon. In a departure from previous works, which typically feature manipulated[…..]
Shinique Smith, Courtesy of the artist and Yvon Lambert Paris, New York Yvon Lambert in New York is currently showing recent work by American multimedia artist Shinique Smith alongside a show of Michael Brown’s melted record albums cast into common domestic objects, such as chairs, mops, and buckets. Smith’s exhibition, Ten Times Myself, includes painting, assemblage, and sculpture. Smith is interested in discarded objects and[…..]
The Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, recently held an exhibition showcasing photographs and sculpture by filmmaker John Waters. Entitled, Rear Projection, the name is derived from the term as used to describe a special film effect in which a background is projected onto a screen behind actors in the studio. This now dated method began in the 1930s, showing characters driving in cars and scenes[…..]
On view at David Patton Gallery in Los Angeles until May 30, is Jeff Jamieson’s latest exhibition, Sculpture. This marks the second solo show at the gallery for the San Luis Obispo based artist. Both Jamieson’s history and the history of sculpture are visually present in the works, reminding the viewer of the importance of the past. Opposing forces are at work, the artist juxtaposes[…..]
