Chiharu Shiota Work from Inside/Outside, Lebensspuren (Traces of Life) and Trauma / Alltag. Reviews of all sorts can be found here. Goff + Rosenthal has a great collection of her work as well. Spend some time on her site, there is tons of great work there. I saw the Lebensspuren installation last fall in Berlin, […]
Archives for posts tagged ‘conceptual’
Daniel Eatock
Monday, 6 April 2009
Daniel Eatock Work from Quarter Mile Groove (video), Closed Loops, and Best Before October 26, 2008. Eatock’s site is a massive database of work that should be perused at leisure. ____________________ Quarter Mile Groove “The recording translates the length of its vinyl groove into audio allowing listeners to experience the 1/4 mile length of […]
Scarlett Hooft Graafland
Thursday, 2 April 2009
Scarlett Hooft Graafland Work from the pieces, Polar Bear, The Journey, Salt, and Lemonade Igloo (in order). “Using naïve and childlike colour palettes her photographs draw on the language of the surreal showing familiar objects out of context (a llama wearing balloons, top hats flying through the desert and a pair of naked legs entwined […]
Kevin Van Aelst
Wednesday, 1 April 2009
Kevin Van Aelst This work reminds me of the Isabella Krieg show I saw last week, check out her work too. “Subjects of my color photographs include every day foods and objects: bread, doughnuts, crackers, candy, floor tile, sweaters, and lint. These simple materials are arranged into shapes and patterns inspired by formulas found in […]
Helmut Smits
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
Helmut Smits Work from: Dead Pixel in Google Earth, Parking for White Cars Only, FLAMMA and Skirting Board Sunset. I urge you to check out his entire public works section, all of the pieces are smart and compelling. “I believe that every situation, thought or object carries a good work of art in itself. I […]
Jason DeMarte
Sunday, 29 March 2009
Jason DeMarte Work from the series Utopic and Commercial Appeal. DeMarte’s use of the dyptich is really stunning. Shown in order. “Utopic investigates how the artificial nature of our modern day interpretation of the natural world compares to the way we approach our immediate consumer world. I am interested in modes of representing the natural […]
Penelope Umbrico
Saturday, 28 March 2009
Penelope Umbrico Work from the series TVs, Office / Still Lives (as Photocopies), and Mirrors. Umbrico is a photographer/curator of sorts who sources home improvement catalogues/websites as fodder for cultural/conceptual commentary. Her website is full of great projects, that only afraction of are represented here. Some others that I didn’t have the space to publish […]
Industry of the Ordinary
Wednesday, 25 March 2009
Industry of the Ordinary Work from the projects Industry of the Ordinary is the collaborative performance art/sculpture team of Adam Brooks and Mathew Wilson. Their manifesto is: “Through sculpture, text, photography, video, sound and performance Industry of the Ordinary are dedicated to an exploration and celebration of the customary, the everyday, and the usual. Their […]
Nikki S. Lee
Monday, 23 March 2009
Nikki S. Lee Work from the series Parts. As promised, more work that deals with the medium of photography and photographic seeing. Statement courtesy of the Numark Gallerey, where you can see more of Lee’s works. “In Parts, the artist departs from the snapshot depictions of cultural identity for which she has become internationally known […]
Brad Farwell
Sunday, 22 March 2009
Brad Farwell Work from the series Lottery. I also reccommend An African Mask Looks at Sites of American Blackness and Fourth, the Tourists. Farwell’s Lottery work reminds me of Nikki S. Lee, who I guess I will have to post tomorrow, because it is awesome. “Large, vision-filling photographs, minutely detailed, with rectangles of metallic silver […]