Archives for posts tagged ‘materials’

David Douard

David Douard Work from Permanent Hymns at Galerie Chantal Crousel. “Language is the very basis of David Douard’s work. The texts and poems he collects on the Internet are manipulated, transformed in order to become a vital flow, feeding into his sculptures. Through language as an ingredient, David Douard redefines space as hybrid and collective […]

Anthea Hamilton

Anthea Hamilton Work from The Prude. “… For the prude, modesty becomes extreme. The prude will not permit themselves, or others, sensuous enjoyment in life. Hamilton’s interest in the literary figure of “the prude” in part, references Cecil Vyse — the aloof character of E.M Forster’s A Room with a View (1908). Perceiving himself a […]

Anne de Vries

Anne de Vries Work from his oeuvre. “Anne de Vries is a Dutch artist working on the border of digital photography and other media, such as video and sculpture since 2003. De Vries is interested in how our understanding of reality is influenced by new media. He reconnects paradoxical elements, including different types of materials, […]

Gabriele Beveridge

Gabriele Beveridge Work from By mistake or design “Gabriele Beveridge (b.1985) is a London-based artist who creates two-dimensional and three-dimensional collages and installations using sun-faded images and a variety of natural and man-made objects. Through framing, balancing and propping, these disparate elements are brought into precisely constructed but open-ended dialogues. Materials such as sand, copper and […]

Gedi Sibony

Gedi Sibony Work from his oeuvre. “With his sensitive handling of hollow-core doors and commercial carpet, Gedi Sibony is one of several young Biennial artists doing exciting things with sculpture. “I have a family history with these materials; my father was a contractor,” says the 32-year-old New Yorker. His playful transformations of crude elements—like foam […]

Laine Godsey

Laine Godsey Work from Pruning Tips. “The pleasure in Godsey’s work lies in the sensation of losing my sense of the outer boundary of my body in relation to the figures she creates. It is like viewing my pink, internal ductwork in a sun-lit, public space. As I write this, I am embarrassed that I […]

Phillip Maisel

Phillip Maisel Work from Stack I & Stack II “Phillip Maisel’s photographs of the materials, walls and floors of his work space muddies the distinction between architectural image and the ways in which out of habit we perceive and label photographic space. In Maisel’s work, the distance drops out between viewer and judge, for he […]

Ryan Estep

Ryan Estep Work from his oeuvre. “Rooted in the latent content of materials, my current body of work examines the phenomena of touch and it’s diverse relationship between labor and value. Between the affect of construction work and art handling my practice explores various modes of touch through objects and audience. Materials such as heat […]

Hugo Scibetta

Hugo Scibetta Work from Draped at Domain Gallery “Hugo Scibetta’s work reinterpret and reconstruct the information and images ingested through the prism of the screen. From these attempts derive various forms, which are an experiment of composition and confrontation between volatile datas and tangible materials. The “Draped” series is an evolving and ongoing project. It is […]

Chris Wiley

Chris Wiley Work from his oeuvre. “When looking at Chris Wiley’s photographs, two main things come to mind. One is you feel like you’re walking along at a particularly quite time of day in a suburban/urban area, noticing all the odd, mundane, but strangely beautiful detritus around the streets. Second is the Japanese concept of […]