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Exploring the ephemeral with unique takes on traditional crafts and techniques .

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1. Victoria Reichelt’s paintings and Carly Fischer’s sculptures explore a common vocabulary around the precarious medium of paper at This is No Fantasy
2. Yusuke Asai paints with dirt, an ephemeral, living medium at Rice Gallery
3. The sculptures in Théâtre de la Mémoire are reminiscent of meticulously detailed dollhouses. Giai-Miniet views his boxes as a metaphor for the human condition, which is comprised of biological functions, as well as a desire to achieve intellectual and spiritual enlightenment. at Jonathan Levine Gallery
4. Celebrating 5 years of We Make Carpets’ ability to turn most anything into a stunning carpet at MU
5. Multi-generational in scope, Thread Linesbrings together those pioneers who—challenging entrenched modernist hierarchies—first unraveled the distinction between textile and art with a new wave of contemporary practitioners who have inherited and expanded upon their groundbreaking gestures at The Drawing Center
6. Cynthia Ona Innis explores environmental transitions and shifting terrains above and below the surface, from the geysers of Iceland to the fault lines of the Eastern Sierras through the manipulation and layering of textiles at Traywick Contemporary

October 14, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

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This week’s choice gallery picks look at human nature and the divine with a playful hand.

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1. Sarah Coleman’s most recent work addresses Illusion while delving into society’s obsession with screen time and mobile devices. With layers of mirrors and glass, she creates three dimensional paintings that use the mirror’s reflection to mimic an internal, back-lit, light source – the screen at George Billis Gallery
2. Merrill Steiger’s compound pictures celebrate our spirituality and our urge to give that spirituality a concrete form, paying homage to their process with her meta-pictures at Walter Wickiser Gallery
3. Dylan Egon’s American Holy Relics at Jonathan Levine Gallery
4. Michael Kagan paints man-made objects and machinery – a rocket, a racecar, a spacesuit, the cockpit of a space shuttle – in this exploration of humankind’s ability to achieve something outside of their physical means at Joshua Liner Gallery
5. An exhibit of photographs, paintings, and mixed media, capturing the modern and classic world of games, including card games, board games, video games,  mind games, erotic games at bG Gallery
6. Dan Hernandez’s ”Genesis 2014” references not only the biblical Book of Genesis, but also the video game console Sega Genesis that was a defining moment in pop culture, especially for those in the artist’s generation at Kim Foster Gallery

April 1, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

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This week’s artists examine the nature of duality with their work.

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1. In the sensitive, finely balanced, and often transparent application of delicate colors arises the impression of an exciting connection between the constructed and the freem between chance and control, calculation and spontaneity – a dialogue between fizex order and dynamism at 333 Montezuma Arts
2. Paul Fägerskiöld’s work assumes painting as a language and then works within it to develop meaning, to explore form and to provide poetics. For his first solo exhibition in the United States, Paul will articulate two clear faculties of painting, its semiotic voice and its aesthetic voice, via two distinct series at PRISM
3. Julie Cockburn transforms second-hand objects and vintage photographs into meticulously constructed, psychologically charged artworks, by using a mix of embroidery and collage techniques at Yossi Milo Gallery
4. Christopher Astley and Saira McLaren’s work is more than meets the eye at Sargent’s Daughters
5.Constructing entire worlds of colorful, larger than life, composite creatures and hybrids, Nosego and Curiot explore the symbolic possibilities of juxtaposition; working with the known of the every day and transforming it constantly through free association at thinkspace gallery
6. AJ. Fosik explores the idea that humanity faces an inherent struggle between its dualistic nature—a physical self and a symbolic self. Works in the show are greatly inspired by The Denial of Death, a 1973 Pulitzer Prize-winning work of psychology and philosophy by Ernest Becker at Jonathan LeVine Gallery

December 10, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

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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

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This week’s choice gallery picks burst with color and eye-catching detail as the artists investigate the varied dimensions in which we experience our lives.

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1. Tai Smith explores the obsolete at Helen Gory
2. Christopher Taggart’s composites of the dissected and recombined at Eli Ridgway
3, Tauba Auerbach explores the possibility of a fourth color receptor at Wiels
4. Lucy McLauchlan mixes psychedelia and primitivism to create monumental and provocative works at Triumph Gallery
5. Olek crochets her eventful year at Jonathan Levine Gallery
6. Sylvie Fleury’s It Might As Well Rain Until September presents a survey of the artist’s work made over the past two decades, alongside new site-specific pieces at Salon 94

 

March 19, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

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