Karina Skvirsky Aguilera Work from Folds in the Photograph at DPM Gallery. “We can understand the work of Karina Skvirsky Aguilera as the mechanism through which she seeks to continuously discover the profiles of her own identity, within the complex plot of ethnicity, gender, customs and family mythology woven around her experiences within the dissimilar […]
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Marine Hugonnier
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Marine Huggonier Work from “Art for Modern Architecture” “In Hugonnier’s Art for Modern Architecture series, the text of each newspaper page is kept intact while Hugonnier’s own silkscreened color blocks replace the photographs. Hugonnier selects newspaper front pages from significant moments in history—from the fall of communism to the end of the Vietnam War or […]
Alexi Shulgin
Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Alexi Shulgin Work from Form Art. “In 1997, he released his first interactive work, Form Art, in which only minimum factors are programmed in the form of HTML. Shulgin describes this page as a “formalistic” aesthetical art site”. Navigating this site requires aimless click-throughs of blank boxes and links, which lead the viewer through countless […]
Cheryl Donegan
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Cheryl Donegan Work from her oeuvre. “Painting is the touchstone for Cheryl Donegan’s aesthetic, though she seldom produces work that resembles painting in any conventional sense. Indeed, her preferred media are video, performance, and installation, and her recurrent points of reference film, MTV video, modern decor, and the mass media. By such means, she addresses […]
jodi.org
Thursday, 12 May 2011
jodi.org Work from globalmove.us. The following are just screen grabs, take the time and visit the site, it is well worth it. “Icons dominate the modern maps completely and with the comic style Google simplifications of symbols our ives have become very ordinary. There are currently some 166 Google standard symbols available in Google Earth […]
William Anastasi
Friday, 15 April 2011
William Anastasi Work from his oeuvre. “William Anastasi is one of the founders of both Conceptual and Minimal Art — relevant works were made before the movements were named. These works, starting in 1961, include Relief and Microphone, among the earliest examples of Conceptual Art. Between 1963 and 1966, we have Sink — a clear demonstration of entropy […]
Peter Fischli and David Weiss
Saturday, 6 November 2010
Peter Fischli and David Weiss Work from Equilibres. “The Equilibres photographs are images of household objects and studio detritus arranged to form tenuously-balanced assemblages, and it is from this moment of passing equilibrium that the series takes its name. The group includes both color and black & white photographs and takes as its subtitle the phrase, […]
Agnes Denes
Thursday, 4 November 2010
Agnes Denes Work from her oeuvre. “One of the early pioneers of both the environmental art movement and Conceptual art, Agnes Denes brings her wide ranging interests in the physical and social sciences, mathematics, philosophy, linguistics, poetry and music to her delicate drawings, books and monumental artworks. In 1982, she carried out what has become one […]
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
Monday, 18 October 2010
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries Work from their oeuvre. Check here, here, here and here. “YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES (YHCHI) is a two-artist collective based in Seoul, South Korea. Using Flash animation techniques, they create fast-moving, text-based artworks that are synchronized with original scores. Using a seemingly simple format—texts on monochromatic backgrounds—YHCHI weaves complex and evocative […]
Phillipe Halsman
Sunday, 18 July 2010
Phillipe Halsman Work from Jump. “Jump was born in 1952, Halsman said, after an arduous session photographing the Ford automobile family to celebrate the company’s 50th anniversary. As he relaxed with a drink offered by Mrs. Edsel Ford, the photographer was shocked to hear himself asking one of the grandest of Grosse Pointe’s grande dames […]