James Clarkson Work from A Printed Sun as a Yellow Spot at Rod Barton Gallery. “Exploring the relationships between art and the history of design, James Clarkson’s practice investigates how a formal language can be devised from combining found objects, painting and sculpture. The materials Clarkson uses in his works are typically selected for the […]
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Tanja Lazetic
Thursday, 7 June 2012
Tanja Lazetic Work from Nine Swimming Pools behind Broken Glass. “I found some photos of bathers in swimming pools in some old Yugoslavian tourist brochures. They were taken at more or less the same time American artist Edward Ruscha took his photographs of swimming pools for his book Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass […]
Marie Quéau
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Marie Quéau Work from Gojira. “Gojira is a portrait of the island of Izu Oshima, home of Godzilla, a préhistoric lizard born out of the two atomic bombs that were dropped on Japan in 1945.My work adopts the same attitude as the monster, a fictional creation based on history. This work revolves around symbolism and […]
Timur Si-Qin
Monday, 16 January 2012
Timur Si-Qin Work from Legend at Fluxia. “For the project presented at Fluxia, Si-Qin activates the narrative potential surrounding the gallery by traveling to Oria, the hometown of Valentina, one of the gallerists. There he meets her father, Ennio, a medieval reenactment hobbyist, and proceeds to shoot a video of the gallerists (Valentina and Angelica) […]
Theo Michael
Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Theo Michael Work from Scholars in Space (and Smoke from the edge of the Known). “Michael works with the idea of time like a builder and destroyer of space: while in the present we erect thoughtful monuments for posterity, the future condemns them to destruction and the void. His work, seemingly playful, uses pieces of […]
New Media Lecture Series – Jason Huff
Sunday, 20 November 2011
Jason Huff was born in Atlanta, GA in 1981. He recently received his MFA in Digital+Media from the Rhode Island School of Design. His work was recently exhibited at the MFA Thesis Exhibition at the Rhode Island Convention Center. Current and upcoming shows include Pixilerations in Providence, RI and BYOB in Cincinnati, OH. His project […]
Lynda Benglis
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Lynda Benglis Work from Primary Structures. There is a fascinating analogy regarding this work, and a compelling argument about the traditional roots of internet art over at Bad at Sports. “Over the past forty years, Lynda Benglis has developed a distinctive and influential sculptural language. Benglis rose to prominence during the 1960s and ’70s, a […]
Tatiana Grigorenko
Saturday, 8 January 2011
Tatiana Grigorenko Work from The Disappeared. “an anti-portrait of a missing protagonist. inspired by soviet-era images that were manipulated to make individuals ‘disappear’ from history. the project is an exploration of memory, presence, invisibility and historical revision. blowing up my family’s snapshots to the point that their grain structure started to fall apart, i meticulously removed […]
Lello / Arnell
Sunday, 19 September 2010
Lello / Arnell Work from Vice Admiral Francis Drake’s Expedition to the South Pacific Aimed at the Disruption of Spanish Exploration and Conquest, which I believe is a subset of Rediscovery. “A series of three photographies using the «adventures» of the explorer / pirate Francis Drake in the 16th century as a point of departure. A […]
Anthony Auerbach
Thursday, 10 June 2010
Anthony Auerbach Work from The State of New York. “The State of New York is an aerial survey of the whole State of New York from an altitude of seven feet. The survey records the surface of a giant copy of the Texaco road map which was inlaid in the terrazzo floor of the New […]