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Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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Looking art in the face with this week’s choice gallery picks!

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1. Addressing the human condition and its collective social existence through a series of unique works and a site-specific installation, Know Hope’s exhibition questions the ubiquitous notion of the “abstract and the very real”, the weight and burden of which though universally apparent is often unidentifiable to most at Lazarides
2. Adam Feibelman’s works are meditations on what we ask of others, what we ask of our surroundings, and how these questions guide not only our ever-changing city sculpture, but also our relationships to each other. The process of making these works echos this sentiment, where each cut is a decision based on utility at Guerroro Gallery
3.Alvaro Ilizarbe depicts landscape imagery on topographical tectonic plate shaped panels. The amorphous sculptural wall structures lead through a passageway of patterned wallpapers portraying the elements in the earth’s stratum at Martha Otero
4. Gabi Trinkaus and the Things to Come at Claire Oliver
5. John Van Hamersveld has been producing images that have defined the visual representation of surf and rock ‘n’ roll culture for over 50 years at .T.F.R. Gallery
6. Entropy is ASKEW ONE’s first international solo exhibition. Through this new body of work Entropy further refines Askew’s unique method of portraiture where the medium and portrait’s subject become a metaphor for a much bigger conversation.at Inner State Gallery

August 27, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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Taking traditions from the past and reinterpreting them through art and the modern eye.

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1. Five decades of Sam Francis’s abstract expressionism at Pasadena Museum of California Art
2. Maya Hayuk’s paintings and massively scaled murals recall views of outer space, traditional Ukrainian crafts, airbrushed manicures, and mandalas at Hammer Projects
3. Keiko Sadakane’s new series, Geometric Painting after Piero della Francesca, is a vividly-colored group of 8 paintings that translates the underlying geometries of Piero’s painting into the language of 21st-century abstraction at at Gerbert Contemporary
4. Nick Cave: Sojourn will feature approximately 40 new artworks including more than 20 new Soundsuits. Cave’s multi-sensory, immersive installation will transport visitors to a magical world of color, texture, sound, and movement at Denver Art Museum
5. The space will host weekly rotations of what Fritz Haeg refers to as “Domestic Integrities”—activities and items based on or made with materials gathered from their environment, from pickled vegetables and baked bread to herbal arrangements and homemade remedies at Walker Art
6. W O V E N celebrates the limitless artistic expressions of an ancient technique applied to materials new and old, unexpected and comforting. Ranging from works including common weaving materials like cotton and wool to the more exploratory – bullet-riddled steel, wire, tennis balls – the artists in this exhibition engage in an energetic dialogue between contemporary visual culture and the traditions of the textile industry at Woodstock Guild

August 20, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

Functional Creativity with MWM Studio




Matt W Moore’s a master at his craft and today we’re sharing one of our favorite MWM projects: DIY Ceramic Tile Sets. This collaboration with Core Deco’s an interesting example of functional creativity.

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Walking us through the creative process, Moore invites us into his studio, sharing the mechanics behind the work. We particularly love this, as it lives beyond the customer purchase- once you buy a set, you become the designer, organizing, collaging and assembling the patterns to suit your particular taste. What do you think?

August 15, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

Beautifying Barriers & Bike Paths




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If you bike around Manhattan and Brooklyn, there’s a good chance you’ve noticed (and instagramed) the varied and artistic barriers along the highways. There’s a crafty set of birds, flowers and contrasting geometrics to compliment every stretch of the road. My husband, Justin, and I did a quick ride from Williamsburg to Fort Greene over the weekend and took an ad hock video of our findings:

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For more insight into the Barrier Beautification Project, here’s an interesting link about the latest Rockaway initiative. Unfortunately the date’s past for artwork submissions, but have a read, perhaps you can jump on the next round.

 

August 14, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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This week we’re pondering perception through light and reinterpreted details in our gallery picks.

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1.Cathy Cunningham-Little’s light sculptures investigate the phenomena of perception at Redbud Gallery
2. Aaron Karp’s style utilizes fractured fields of color and space, creating an unusual illusion of movement at New Concept Gallery
3. Marijn van Kreij uses Pierre Bonnard’s works as a jumping off point and reinterprets their details into something different by way of repetition at Andor
4. “Reverse Garden” subverts preconceptions of what paintings of gardens should look like and encourages us to reconsider the environment beyond the gallery walls at Heide Museum of Art
5. Examining Paul Klee’s Preciosities and Rarities at Zentrum Paul Klee Bern
6. Morgan Sims makes paintings and neon sculptures which playfully manipulate color and light at bert green fine art

 

August 13, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

Trends in Overlapping Textile Mediums




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As artists, we’re often thrown for a loop and inspired to create our own interpretations from normal everyday oddities. On Pattern Pulp, we celebrate the thinkers and makers who combine, reference and refresh traditional mediums. Let’s have a look at a few works that straddle varying mediums and are tied together through vibrant, modular, unexpected overlap:

1. Maryanne Moodie and her woven tapestries. Like other instagrammers on the hunt for fresh work-in-progress, House of Maryanne‘s feed is a fabulous one, sharing asymmetrical tapestries, DIY classes and vintage clothing.

2. Louisa Crompton and her knitted textiles. Each design has a tetris vibe that celebrates modular graphics as 3D knits.

3. Robert Otto Epstein‘s vibrant colors, patterns and pain-staking details are digital, pixelated and asymmetrical.

4. Gerard Richter’s Tapestries, which we covered a few months back, where he converts paintings to woven works, breaking down each stroke into thread. In a similar but also radically different fashion, we mention Philip Stearns, who’s known for his blankets and tapestries inspired from lovely patterns formed from digital glitches.

The basic idea: “Transcode glitches in the cold, hard logic of digital circuits into soft, warm textiles.” When you think about the three, we have utilitarian textile patterns transformed into art, art transformed into tapestries and a fleeting digital moment captured forever in utilitarian tactile objects. What do you think of this trend?

 

August 9, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

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