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Trend: Ironic & Iconic Fruit




Ironic and Iconic Fruit

We can’t seem to shake our love affair with the 80’s. From 3D geometrics that still appear flat to cartoon fruit and colorful irony, designers are all about clever shapes and nostalgic throwbacks. This mix is a nice balance of kitsch and sophistication through fashion, art and home wears ranging from the United States, Paris and Tel Aviv.

1. Plant Ceramics by Universal Isaac 2. Delicate Watermelon Scarf by Antonin + Margaux 3. Hilarious Portrait Series of Iconic Leaders by Amit Shimoni 4. Fruit Scarf by Marie Bretin 5. Abstract Mineral Shapes by Supreme Bon Ton

 

July 16, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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This week’s artists present impressive installations that utilize traditional techniques with a twist.

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1.Dissection aims to be an in-depth reflection on the urban space, taking as starting point several of the structural elements that compose it. at EDP Foundation
2. Zezão’s latest show contains large-scale assemblages composed of materials that evoke his experience of São Paulo’s streets: scraps of wood furniture and building materials, bits of street signs and advertisements, and various found objects at Zipper Galeria
3. Ngatai Taepa’s current practice includes installation works which look at contemporary issues within New Zealand society, as well as paintings that are fueled by a childhood fascination with kowhaiwhai at Page Blackie Gallery
4. Val Britton transforms this gallery’s space with a massive installation of her hand cut assorted papers in her thematic series of cartography inspired landscapes at Gallery Wendi Norris
5. Openness and Clarity seeks to examine the pivotal role that Color Field painters and their direct predecessors played in the evolution of abstract art, while also proving the work’s persisting ability to captivate the contemporary eye at Honor Fraser
6. Drawing upon early forms of technology, A Handweaver’s Pattern Book unfolds throughout the gallery in a sweeping installation of new drawings that operate in the intersection of the handmade and manufactured textiles at Clifton Benevento

 

July 15, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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In this week’s gallery picks, the artists explore fragmentations of reality and of the self.

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1.Peter Regli presents a stylized landscape with carefully composed arrangements of marble sculptures depicting ancient statues, such as Hayagriva, the horse-headed avatar of Vishnu; religious idols, such as the Buddha; popular figurines such as the Japanese maneki-neko fortune cat; and household items, such as a child’s piggy bank—familiar images rendered unfamiliar by material reconstitution at Karma
2. In I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn…, four artists navigate altering realities at Lombard Freid
3. Michiel Voet and Karim Ramtani’s artistic reconstruction of an invisible life at Nieuw Dakota
4. These paintings explore the experience of living in a society that fragments our identities. By layering multiple images onto a single plane, Kaitlyn Stubbs seeks not to abstract reality, but to create a more whole representation of it at The One Well
5. Michelle Jezierski’s newest paintings emphasize the creation of new spatial dimensions through contrasting different layers of imagery at Feinberg Projects
6. Franklin Evans’ practice is a network, in constant flux, in absorption of adjacent content, in defocused experience of the contemporary, in rhizomic replication, and in reference to itself.  at Ameringer McEnery Yohe

July 8, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

Expressive Movement Through Line




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As designers, strategists, merchandisers and buyers, we see inspiration all the time. If you’re anything like me, you have magazine tears all over your office and home – tacked to moodboards and stacked in piles on your kitchen table. We collect, hoard, and piece together stories, waiting for the final puzzle piece to transition an idea into action. Most of the time, an idea’s come to fruition after a folder’s been filled with random (yet not-so-random), disparate imagery.

Today’s pieces, which are void of color (specifically red, white and blue), come from a Saint Laurent ad, a dress pattern from Tel Aviv, and an illustration I found on Pinterest. The movement through line is interesting- specifically through the varied application: beading, shapes and storytelling. The vibe is timeless and a reminder of what’s current in both high and mass production.

 

July 7, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

Turquoise: Grids & Movement




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Summer’s on the mind, particularly leading into July 4th, and many of you are on vacation, attempting to peel yourself from work and the daily grind. If you have a creative eye, though, you’re still finding inspiration, only this week it’s literal, as opposed to online. Be it shadows and shells at the beach, lines and sand textures on the boardwalk or wavy grids in and around the pool. I’m in Fire Island this week, working in the morning and cooking/beaching/biking in evening and thought a turq story would be relevant- particularly one that incorporates water and movement. These pieces transition from art and technique to photography and social media. It’s interesting to see the overlap between the imagery, style and form.

1. Art by Kathy Leeloo 2. Archival Pigment Print (artist unknown) 3. Pool photo from SwissMiss’s instagram feed 4|5|6: Artwork made with paste and paper by Ellen Golla

 

July 2, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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We’re celebrating the Fourth of July by looking at America through time and space in this week’s gallery picks.

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1. . As children, Damian Stamer and his identical twin brother would explore the woods around his home. Within his work are the memories and images of ruined buildings from a time and way of life in the South that was and is coming to an end at Zane Bennett Gallery
2. Rhode Island-based Steven Coyle’s new beach series at Paul Thiebaud Gallery
3. No doubt we are living in the future, but is it the place we imagined ourselves growing up into when we were young? at Gauntlet Gallery
4. Bill Owens’s Suburbia (1973) is a series of strange and compelling photographs that reveal the complexities of the American middle-class landscape.at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
5.Having spent a great deal of time in the Southwestern United States, John Oteri is inspired by those areas and uses them as backdrops for the majority of his work. at Joe Wade Fine Art
6. Robert Weingarten describes Pentimento, his recent body of work, as “a re-affirmation of the power of photographic memory.” Beginning with historic photographs that document major events of the last hundred years, Weingarten re-visits the original locations of these pictures and then makes photographs of the site as it exists today at Craig Krull Gallery

 

July 1, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

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