Archives for posts tagged ‘rocks’

Rick Silva and Nicolas Sassoon

Rick Silva and Nicolas Sassoon Work from CORES. It is well worth seeing the videos (that I could not embed without issue) and reading the essay for each fragment. “Here, on the lithosphere, where the earth meets the sky, there exists a long history of how rocks and stones can be seen as images and […]

Naoya Hatakeyama

Naoya Hatakeyama Work from BLAST. “Do not be afraid, yet do not make light of nature. Always keep the gods in mind with prayer… Imagine a huge piece of rock, like a mountain, that you wanted to take a part of home. How would you do it? If you had a hammer, like a geologist, […]

Justin Plakas

Justin Plakas Work from Waiting Room. “I had spent a lot of time in the waiting room of the Shock Trauma Unit at the University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore and then even more time within the trauma unit itself. My father had been in a really horrible car accident and for months all my […]

Sarah Sze

Sarah Sze Work from her ongoing exhibition at Victoria Miro. “Sarah Sze’s exhibition at Victoria Miro spans all three spaces. This is the artist’s third solo show with the gallery and her first presentation in Europe since representing the United States at the 2013 Venice Biennale. In the Wharf Road galleries the exhibition comprises three […]

Ramon Todo

Ramon Todo Work from his oeuvre. “Using stones and bricks with history and culture of the land, he creats the sculpture of the stones put in polished glasses.” – Art Front Gallery

Allora & Calzadilla

Allora & Calzadilla Work from Fault Lines @ Fondazione Nicola Trussardi. “Allora & Calzadilla have developed an experimental and interdisciplinary body of work, linking different elements and languages—such as sculpture, photography, performance, music, sound, and video—which are combined to explore the psychological, political, and social geography of contemporary globalized culture. Their practice investigates pivotal concepts […]

Delaney Allen

Delaney Allen Work from A Personal Nature. “Flickering like lusty visions of dreamscape temptation, the teasing glimpses of Delaney Allen’s hyper-saturated world are tempered by a mercuric foundation in a Darwinian timeline. In A Personal Nature, a frothy wonderland of glitz remains heavy in the mind of the viewer like a drug induced trance, toxic but […]

Joel Dean

Joel Dean Work from The Mutant and the Melody at Jancar Jones. The show takes its structure from the dichotomy of an ancient form of cultural inheritance, the fable. It includes two pieces that remain in flux for the full duration of the exhibition. Like the driving forces in the narrative of a fable, the […]

Lee Ufan

Lee Ufan Work from his oeuvre. “Marking Infinity presents the work of artist-philosopher Lee Ufan, charting his creation of a visual, conceptual, and theoretical terrain that has radically expanded the possibilities for painting and sculpture since the 1960s. Lee is acclaimed for an innovative body of work that revolves around the notion of encounter—seeing the […]

Rachel Harrison

Rachel Harrison Work from her oeuvre. “Rachel Harrison (born 1966, New York) is a sculptor based in New York. Harrison’s work has been seen in many exhibitions including: ‘Posh Floored as Ali G Tackles Beck’ at Arndt & Partner [1] in Berlin, ‘Should home windows or shutters be required to withstand a direct hit from an […]