Pattern Pulp

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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This week’s gallery picks look at life through the lens of pattern and textiles.

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1. A wide-ranging look at textiles from pre-Columbian weavings to modern fiber art, Navajo blankets to an examination of clothing in art and photography at Denver Art Museum
2. Alicia McCarthy’s vivid works weave together color, pattern and occasional lyrical or understatedly profound phrases at Jack Hanley Gallery
3. Taking cues from the post-industrial landscape, provisional models and makeshift networks, Thomas Berding explores how the planned and built environment and the traffic of more spontaneous gestures and improvisational DIY aesthetics inform each other at The Painting Center
4. Toy Box consists of 16 paintings that place childhood icons into compositions of reverence and majesty at Shooting Gallery
5. PRISM/LIVIN/ROOM is a fabric installation that breeches the public/private conversation by creating a physical duality between a living room and a fabric art installation at Allegra LaViola
6. Josh Faught’s work demonstrates the ability of fiber to be the source of both personal comfort and political agitation at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

 

May 21, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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Telling stories and examining history with this week’s gallery picks

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1. Emily Spivack’s Sentimental Value connects the age-old desire to tell stories through special objects at Philadelphia Art Alliance
2. Under street influence, HUSH paints the imagery of “Unseen” as an inward vision, revealing layers of urban histories and figurative dimensions at Cory Helford Gallery
3. Carmel Seymour’s “Romance Hero” explores the notion that actions change emotions at Helen GoryHelen Gory
4. Ronny Quevedo de-constructs the spaces in which sports are played at Carol Jazzar
5.”The Gesture and the Sign” features recent works by a range of international artists that take their cue from pictorial aspects of lyrical abstraction at White Cube
6. The artists involved in “Wilder Than a Postcard” have been asked to produce up to three works each based on the traditional postcard format at Breeze Block Gallery

 

May 14, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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This week’s gallery picks shine for the way they defy convention and delve into experimentation.

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1. The latest collaborative project between New York artist Peter Halley and Italian architect and designer Alessandro Mendini at Mary Boone Gallery
2. Yoshitomo Nara fuses Japanese visual traditions and Western Modernism with elements of popular culture ranging from manga to American pop and punk music at Pace Gallery
3. Behind Closed Doors takes Pete Hawkin’s process of painting on found materials forward another step: it features miniature modern fables on antique doors at The Outsiders
4. Simon Hantaï’s expansive explosions of color and inventive geometry in his unique textile art at Paul Kasmin Gallery
5. Undoing media-specific boundaries, Jonathan VanDyke re-orients modernist conventions, conflating painting with fiber arts, fashion, dance, textile design, and photography at Scaramouche
6. Joe Lloyd’s latest paintings are observational records of his environment: geometric forms imposed on natural topography at Western Project

 

May 7, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

Around the Globe: Weaving Landscapes




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Afghani rug makers are known for weaving patterns that parallel the stories of their lives, often representing the war torn land which they are surrounded. Intrigued by this ancient  practice and rich storytelling tradition, photographic artist, David Thomas Smith decided to use a similar technique when examining how global landscapes have been affected by the activities of humanity.

Smith’s imagery is a composite of thousands of thumbnails extracted as screen grabs from Google Maps, reconstructed piece by piece using Photoshop. The results are compelling and similar to that of an ancient rug, reminding us that our landscape is a product of creation, reflecting on our society and culture, an art of sorts on it’s own. Click here for event info.

The Copper House Gallery: St Kevin’s Cottages, Synge Street, Dublin 8

 

May 2, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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Patterns in life and art reign supreme in this week’s choice gallery picks.

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1. The active moment versus painting’s innate stillness is a central concern of Barnaby Furnas’ work at Victoria Miro
2. Barry McGee’s gallery-based art explores the contradiction central to his daily life—reconciling graffiti with an artistic practice at ICA Boston
3. Jovi Schnell’s pop-inspired lexicon of organic and mechanistic hybrids has expanded to include a combination of chance operations and pre-determined restraints via Gregory Lind Gallery
4. Sherry Karver’s work speaks directly to, and plays with, our uniquely post-post-modern alienation, an alienation born of just the right amount of too much information at Kim Foster Gallery
5. Howard Hodgkin disregards the classical polarities of abstraction and representation, past and present, canvas and frame at Gagosian
6. Rhys James says “there is something dark and wild and crazy about flowers, yet in wallpaper designs they are controlled in a pattern and prettified. In our culture women are also prettified – she is part of the floral background, part of the furniture in a way. She has become just another decorative interior thing.” at Kings Place

 

April 30, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

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