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Using Color, Art & Energy to Heal




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A month ago, we had a talk about slow movement as a trend– both in the art and consumerist worlds. Today, we’re continuing the conversation of gradual processes in regard to healing with the Brooklyn-based artist, Caroline Hwang. Her works were recently on display at the Beginnings Gallery in Greenpoint and beautifully illustrate physical and emotional systems through chromotherapy. Hwang’s shared the process behind her natural dye process- from the initial sketches to the final product, revealing color, calm and balance through geometry, quilting, rug-hooking and natural dyes. For an in-depth understanding of her theory on radiant energy, click here.

 

July 12, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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This week’s gallery picks explore the weight of the environment through color, texture and theme. Enjoy and explore!

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1. The effect of the weather on Mel Kadel’s work at Merry Karnowsky Gallery
2. Murielle White’s paintings delve into different worlds inspired by a range of cultural experiences at McMurtrey Gallery
3. Wavepacks by Ara Peterson presents eight new wall-relief sculptures that explore the hollow, arched forms of naturalistic wave-shapes at Ratio 3
4. Zach Harris’s work emphasizes that form is not merely an abstract visual language, but rather a connection between the physical world and the otherworldly realms that surround it and course through its center. David Kordansky Gallery
5. Cedric Michael Cox’s paintings and drawings express his experience of living in the inner city, with themes ranging from mythical literature to the relationship between the physical body, musical allegories and above all, the urban landscape at Five Myles
6. Exploring Ibrahim El-Salahi’s international career as a significant figure in African and Arab Modernism at Tate Modern

July 9, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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This week, we’re celebrating America and it’s diversity through art.

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1. Jen Stark’s brightly colored paper art reminds us a little of fireworks at Cooper Cole
2. Work from 36 contemporary Native American artists, who reflect on the diversity in tribal affiliation, geographic location, gender and age, and share an intricate vision of life lived in different worlds, from the long traditions of their specific tribes to the politics and pop of the world at large at 516 Arts
3. Tanja Rector’s art reflects upon her impressions while along roads through the southwestern states at Launch LA
4. Ales “BASK” Hostomsky’s “Übermensch” will showcase works depicting children painted as superheroes on found and weathered surfaces that exhibit an energetic urban art aesthetic at 1 AM Gallery
5. Deeply engaged with the unique setting of the Bay Area, artist Richard Diebenkorn profoundly influenced postwar American art during his years spent working in Berkeley, from 1953 to 1966 at de Young
6. Brett Amory’s work in Twenty-Four in New York portrays abstracted studies of urban life through fragmented cityscapes and anonymous, isolated figures at Jonathan Levine Gallery

 

July 2, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

Art: Organized Chaos at Home




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Would you be inclined to pick up a marker if you had this poster on your wall? I came across this playful piece at Merci Merci in Paris last month. It’s organized chaos at it’s best, and entitled Coloriage Geant. This roll of paper is a playful gift for any kid at heart.

 

July 1, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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Worlds and stories collide in this week’s choice gallery picks.

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1. Rebound: Dissections and Excavations in Book Art brings together the work of five mixed-media artists from around the world who, using books as a point of departure, sculpt, scrape, bend, and carve to create astonishing compositions at Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
2. Using riotous color and a phantasmagoria of form, Ryan Mosley’s large-scale paintings are fantastic spaces where the history of art, the South Seas, and even the Wild, Wild West cohabitate at Tierney Gardarin
3. In Looking and Listening, Andreas Schulze presents two ceramic sculptures alongside a selection of paintings, depicting landscapes inspired by the artist’s recent expedition to the island of Sicily at Sprüth Magers London
4.Working with concepts of size, scale and gesture, Paul Lange coaxes botanical specimens to display some whimsically anthropomorphic characteristic that evokes a feminine persona at Hagedorn Foundation Gallery
5. Aida Pinhas’ fashion and textiles series infused with the signs of the zodiac at FIT
6. Piotr Janas’ paintings evoke an imagined world that spans the realms of nightmare and dream, interior and exterior, carnal and cerebral at Bortolami Gallery

 

June 25, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

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

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