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Our artists examine the art of disguise in this week’s gallery picks.
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1. Inspired by the medieval trial of Joan of Arc, the treason of anti-Nazi activist Sophie Scholl, and the contemporary punk prayer of Pussy Riot, Maureen Selwood’s Sounding the Note of A grapples with the uncompromising feminine. Selwood extols the power of sensuality and thought to transcend violence at Rosamund Felsen Gallery
2. Edgar “Saner” Flores’ Fragments of the Soul explores what we have left behind in life and exposes the small, secret parts to our souls at Philly Magic Gardens
3. While the new body of work in Mona/Marcel/Marge draws a clear line to Martha Wilson’s work from the 70’s through today, her work and attitude has evolved from what Wilson describes as “the concerns of a young woman to the concerns of an old lady,” and sees her turning an eye to the way in which the public gaze projects social values onto women as they grow older at P.P.O.W
4. Disguise features works by twelve contemporary artists from Africa and of African descent who explore the impulse of disguise with optical illusions, street actions, computer magic, and virtual reality. Together these works will engage visitors’ imaginations as they consider the art of masking as a transformative process – one that is informed by a multiplicity of influences, from historical African masquerade traditions to contemporary global culture and digital media at Fowler Museum
5. Erik Olsen’s Düsseldorfer portraits of his classmates in Peter Doig’s class at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf at Bravin Lee
6. Through the Yoon Ji Seon’s violent destruction and radical reconstruction of her image,Rag Face confronts controversial issues such as the status of women in Korean culture and the increasing popularity of cosmetic surgery among its youth. In response to a society of growing sameness and emphasis on idealized beauty, Yoon actively takes command of her self-image, presenting herself as both powerful yet silent, concealed yet exaggerated, beautiful yet grotesqueat Yossi Milo Gallery.
What makes a good editorial illustration? Like a book cover, I believe it’s one that immediately draws you in, conveys a complicated message, and feels simple in execution. Achieving this balance is a tough task, as there’s a true art form to showing and not necessarily telling. Editors, art directors and graphic designers grapple with this visual see-saw every day.
If you read the New York Times, Bloomberg Business Week, The New Yorker or The Washington Post, you may be familiar w the bold clever illustrations of Maxwell Holyoke-Hirsch.
Maxwell’s designs incorporate pattern through simple line and texture, often supporting a singular theme and color way within his layout. His work translates complicated topics, allowing the article and accompanying content to shine – which is no easy feat. Click here to page through his portfolio – as you scroll through, you’ll appreciate the edited minimalism that allows his work resonate so clearly.
1. Make pumpkin lanterns via Design Love Fest
2. Emotions by color via design-milk
3. Jaco Putker’s wonderfully weird scenes via The Jealous Curator
4. Dreamy paintings by Gigi Mills via Miss Moss
5. Interview with illustrator Adriana Picker via The Design Files
6. Fostering craft and creativity in Granby via Sight Unseen
7. Deborah Oropallo dresses famous subjects in Halloween costumes via Hi-Fructose
8. Not your everyday milk packaging via Present & Correct
9. Nicholas Chistiakov explores deconstructivism via Trendland
10. Surreal landscapes artwork by Jati Putra Pratama via iGNANT
11. Andrew Steinbrecher’s colorful quilts via Design Crush
12. Why carve when you can cross-stitch via design*sponge
Contributed by Emily Gup
The art and artists that came before them are paramount to the resulting vibrant works in this week’s gallery picks.
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1. Rebecca Kane’s work is a symphony of vibrant color and texture that explores ethereality of light and its balance with the structure of canvas. The work invites the viewers into a fantasy of prismatic color where walls are transformed into melting landscapes of the figments of imagination at Dacia Gallery
2. The high velocity color and fractured narratives explored in Danny Rolph’s recent paintings show an uncompromising commitment to explore the compositional potential on all the canvases and triplewall plastic that he works upon at 532 Gallery
3. Through the layering of abstract forms and her renowned use of color, Beatriz Milhazes creates compositions which are evocative of a multi-part musical score, where the sounds of each different instrument collide and coalesce with one another into a single harmonious whole. at James Cohan
4. Rachel Rossin introduces her virtual reality experience alongside the oil paintings they inspire and are inspired by. Upheaving traditional notions of portraiture, landscape and still life, the paintings both inform and reflect the technological installation, an inversion of the most sacred of standards— age-old techniques with the flare of advance guard contemporaneity at Zieher Smith & Horton
5. Tomory Dodge has a long running interest in the notion of the elemental; that some deeper reality lies below the surface of things. The paintings in this show all began with some sort of geometry: a random masonry of colored shapes, or a regular grid. These patterns would then be obscured with layers of painting and scraping, revealing and concealing the matrix beneath until a kind of “phantom figuration” emerges, familiar but un-nameable at Acme Los Angeles
6. Emily Noelle Lambert makes intuitive, vibrant paintings and sculptures that draw from diverse art historical movements, cultures, and styles. The title of the exhibition, Idée Fixe, is a synonym for “fetish,” an object imbued with special power. It is a French phrase defined as a desire, obsession or fixation of the mind, and is a starting point for how Lambert considers this new body of work at Denny Gallery
1. Stephen Shore’s beautiful photographs via Honestly WTF
2. Kimi Encarnacion’s brilliantly colorful home via A Beautiful Mess
3. Adorable DIY ring holders via Lindsey Crafter
4. Love these letter rings via Miss Moss
5. Hope Gangloff’s expressive and visually striking portraits via Hi Fructose
6. Nice mini documentary on Geoff McFetridge via Trendland
7. How about a googly eye manicure for Halloween? via design*sponge
8. Digging Henning Lederer’s animated, iconic book covers via Present & Correct
9. DIY toilet paper roll candy garland via The House that Lars Built
10. Visiting with textile and surface designer Cassie Byrnes via The Design Files
11. Jennifer Angus makes wallpaper out of bugs via The Jealous Curator
12. Rebecca Atwood’s new collection of wallpapers via Poppytalk
Contributed by Emily Gup