Jonathan Bouknight is captivated by the duality of one’s psychological and physical presence and how this duality defines one’s personal reality. His evocative photographs, drawings, and sculptures depict this aspect of the human condition. Referencing mythology, history, pop culture, and science, Bouknight explores his own sexuality and attempts to understand how the corporeal and cerebral influence one another, and how these entities are shaped by[…..]
Opening last night at LAXART in Los Angeles is a new exhibition titled RANK by LA-based artist Kori Newkirk. The artist has produced a series of diverse art works that is centered on ideas and practices connected to ‘political theater.’ A podium with highly reflective microphones resting upon it serves as a device to create dialogue in the realms of sculpture, the spectacle, and our[…..]
Michael T. Rea crafts large scale wooden sculptures of various objects used in space, war, under the water, or to make music. Constantly incorporating ideas from motion pictures, television, time travel, and music, Rea likes to add a sense of humor to his craft as well. The artist told fecalface.com in a recent interview that his current interests included MIA, Soft Pretzels, Lost, thongs, Folkert[…..]
Ceramic artist, Vipoo Srivilasa‘s latest exhibition, Roop-Rote-Ruang is currently on display at Gallery 4A: Asia-Australia Arts Centre. Translating as Taste-Touch-Tell, the exhibition coincides with several dinner parties the artist will host within private Sydney residencies throughout the exhibition’s duration. Srivilasa created ceramic dinner sets especially for this project, which the guests will eat from. He will prepare a four course meal and get the audience[…..]
Using everyday utilitarian materials such as Styrofoam cups, hot glue, straws and scotch tape, artist Tara Donovan creates sculptures that suggest molecular forms, clouds or even abstract landscapes. Donovan uses the innate transparent properties found in the materials, coupled with light, to articulate the space and structure of her sculptures. Donovan’s work also suggests a dependence on the environment it occupies, which affects qualities such[…..]
This Saturday, May 31st, The Happy Lion in Los Angeles will have an opening reception for their next exhibition, Los Angeles-based artist Rachelle Rojany‘s Body of Work. Rojany has shown her work in several group exhibitions across the U.S. and in Europe. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and has studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Academy of Fine Arts in[…..]
Currently on view at the Nathan Larramendy Gallery is the solo exhibition Pedestal featuring new paintings and sculpture by artist Amir H. Fallah. Continuing the use of imagery such as terrariums, botanicals and Persian miniature painting, Fallah’s work explores his experience of adolescent development when his interests were being formed and new paths were constantly discovered. Fallah has become known for his large scale fort[…..]
