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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

Art: Redefining Identity




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How do we draw the line between good and bad; who we are, where we want to be…then reflect, create, and disperse our work? Meet Jeffrey Gibson, a Native American artist who’s continually tackling the conflict of design within the confines of cultural identity vs. an unbridled love for modern art. Is he obligated by his roots to pursue the former and deny the right to appropriate the latter? The process has been a path of self discovery and acceptance, and his latest exhibition succeeds in uncovering a unique voice, melding two loves.

National Academy Museum: 1083 Fifth Ave, New York, New York 10128

 

June 7, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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This week’s picks seek to connect the dots of the universe in manners large and small.

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1. Making the real and the imagery pop at La Louver
2. Negar Ahkami’s paintings celebrate Persian art’s connectivity and its contributions to global visual culture at Leila Heller Gallery
3. Marianne Van Lent’s “Cosmologies” is an investigation and a reaction to our fragile position in the universe at The Painting Center
4. Aubrey Williams’s Shostakovich series was created in response to close listening, over a long period, to the symphonies and string quartets, of one of the greatest composers of the mid-twentieth century at Hales Gallery
5. Julian Hoeber continues his investigation of intuitive processes within geometrical compositional systems at Blum & Poe
6. Ian Kimmerly’s softly blurred photorealistic figures slip between abstract gestures while gleaming, thickly impastoed streaks of paint are counterbalanced by bright, geometric pops of color at Dolby Chadwick Gallery

 

June 4, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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Meditating on life and its duality in this week’s gallery picks.

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1. See You On The Other Side, features black and white works on paper in 2501’s predominately abstract monochromatic painting style, in addition to ceramic sculptures, liquid drawings on plastic and two new videos at Soze Gallery
2. Lari Pittman’s multilayered depictions of images and signs meditates on the overwhelming richness and sadness of everyday life at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
3. Juan Uslé finds inspiration for his work in the opposing centers of his life: the chaotic streets of New York, and the bucolic countryside of northern Spain at La Louver
4. Six artists’ abstracted imagery examines “Floaters”, aka the spots, webs, fragments, or threads that float slowly before the observer’s eyes at Bravin Lee
5. Parra’s “Il senso di colpa” takes its title from concerns the judgment we give ourselves in every shade of our life: work, everyday relationships at Galleria Patricia Armocida
6. Olympia Zagnoli’s Mr. and Mrs. Horizontal Vertical at Michel Lagarde

May 28, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

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