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Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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This week’s gallery picks exude a playfulness, but is there more to them than that?

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1.The Art of Video Games explores the forty-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking visual effects and the creative use of new technologies at Pheonix Art Museum

2. Douglas Coupland’s new exhibition explores the rise of a parallel cultural system in the Middle East as well as the sense of atemporality that has become the defining sensation of the second decade of the 21st Century at Daniel Faria Gallery

3.Thomas Kapsalis’s combinations of colors and shapes are masterfully composed, but there is more in Kapsalis’s work than geometric abstraction at Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art

4. R. Nelson Parrish visually distills the iconic elements of surf, sun, and highway of Southern California through glass-like resin, wall mounted objects at Edward Cella

5. Katharina Grosse explores how painting can appear in space – in the realm of sculpture and architecture – by giving color monumental and palpable form at Nasher Sculpture Center

6. Paul Wackers’s deceptively playful works contain the humour of play between representation and abstraction, all in relation to the small things that fill our intimate spaces at Narwhal Projects

 

June 18, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

Friday Quick Links




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1. Stunning fallen tree bench by Benjamin Graindorge via Colossal
2. Jennifer Sanchez’s vibrant pattern work via Patternbank
3. Changing Patterns with Finnish label Samuji via Miss Moss
4. Ekaterina Panikanova’s beautiful installations from old books via Honestly WTF
5. Love these illustrations of Portugal by André da Loba via The Fox is Black
6. Zoe Mowat’s jewelry stand is almost too interesting to use via Present & Correct
7. Give your plants an extra dose of personality with these DIYs via design*sponge
8. Interview with painter Emily Ferretti via The Design Files
9. Rainbow storage units with “hidden” drawers via design-milk
10. Sandra Chevrier’s mixed media heroines display strength & softness via Trendland
11. Bruno Levy’s striking digital scans of aluminum wrap via Bruno Levy
12. Son of a Sailor Supply’s accessories and handmade keepsakes are both beautiful and functional via Design Crush

Contributed by Emily Gup

June 14, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

Trend: The Slow Movement




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We’re all about instant ease nowadays. Tech startups continue to tackle the middleman, delivering our hopes, desires and basics to our doorsteps- whether we’re trying to eat heathy, rent a car, buy art, answer a question, or share news for all to see. As technology progresses and life speeds up, the in-between noise is evaporating. Today’s feature is all about taking a step back.

Fascinated with modern day media-merging and appropriation, artist Gerard Richter manipulates his abstract paintings into prints, books, and other transformations. His latest works focus on the past, crafting time-consuming tapestries on a mechanical jacquard loom, translating paint into wool.

With a similar slow-movement intent to her work, Aurélie Mathigot creates embroidered photographs, representative of landscapes during each season. Also interested with the facets of reproduction, Mathigot uses crochet and embroidery, intrigued by slower methods of creation. Accordingly, we love the way she’s brought this concept to the commercial realm, making a linen alternative to the ubiquitous plastic bag, embroidering each one, creating unique works of art. They’re currently on display and for sale at Merci Merci in Paris.

 

June 13, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

Trend: Tangram Sculptures




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Every few weeks, we’re churning out tangram posts. It’s longevity mirrors that of the skull trend, as they’ve been around for years and aren’t disappearing anytime soon. Today’s feature highlights the 3D connectivity that occurs when you bring these triangles to life. I snapped the the top photo while at Anthropologie last week. The notebook’s a nice translation of the aesthetic and palette, by Papier Tigre, and the model’s wearing a rather intricate and impressive design by Sandra Backlund. Just below, we’re sharing a very special project by the folks at Pattern Makers. The art represents an info graphic about the frequency of blood groups in Singapore’s donor population. Amazing.

 

June 12, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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Exploring the art of perception with this week’s gallery picks.

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1. Dan Fischer graphite drawings are meticulous transformations of photographs of artists or their signature works of art at Derek Keller
2. Andrew Falkowski presents graphic paintings replete with cross cultural references that pose questions about the state of things and ask “what goes from here?” at Rosamund Felson
3. Samantha Bittman and Gabriel Pionkowski’s range of hand-woven textile paintings, deconstructed canvases, and embroidered work, the artists explore perception, form, and new perspectives in abstraction at Thomas Robertello
4. Patricia Gaeta’s recent work was inspired by architecture, particularly the empty, dilapidated buildings near Gaeta’s hometown of Niagra Falls, New York at Masters Pelavin
5. Karla Wozniak’s oil paintings and works on paper are based on places she visits around the United States, and in particular these new works are inspired by east Tennessee, where Wozniak has lived since 2011 at Gregory Lind Gallery
6. Rob Reger’s art aesthetic is a multi-media mix of surrealism, DIY punk, and pop sensibility resulting in what he calls “elegant absurdity” at 111 Minna Gallery

 

June 11, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

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