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The String and the Mirror at Lisa Cooley Gallery
Tuesday, 27 August 2013 09:01In the past half hour, chances are you’ve noticed something about sound—friends interrupting each other, cell reception breaking up, a noise you thought came from your home that in fact came from the apartment below. There are a lot of strange things happening in our sonic universes. But what happens when you render sound tangible? […]
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Matt Gonzalez at Meridian Gallery, San Francisco
Thursday, 11 July 2013 09:00As part of a two-person exhibition at Meridian Gallery with collagist Dennis Parlante entitled “Regarding Configurations”, Matt Gonzalez has created works with both paper and found, wood objects. On view, congested layers of materials visually intersperse in both color and medium. Intricate layering of paper shapes rise up to form an actual shallow space that […]
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Ingesting the Light: James Turrell at Pace Gallery
Thursday, 4 July 2013 09:00James Turrell, long known for his work with light and space, has devoted more than four decades to creating a naked-eye observatory out of the cone of an extinct Paleolithic Era volcano located in Arizona’s Painted Desert. Roden Crater and Autonomous Structures opened at Pace Gallery last March in anticipation of the light artist’s exhibitions […]
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DARU-Jung Hyang Kim: Aesthetic Nuances of the Circle by Soojung Hyun
Friday, 14 June 2013 17:55While the writer Richard Sennett presumes that contemporary art has been endeavoring to exclude the human hand in art, this notion appears in opposition to the work of artist DARU-Jung Hyang Kim. In examining her work, one may find a very different direction. Kim’s works possess a vibrant delivery of the brush that engages bold […]
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In Conversation: Caitlin Diaz talks to Nucleo
Wednesday, 12 June 2013 19:14Caitlin Diaz: Where and when was Nucleo brought into existence? Nucleo: Nucleo was born 15 years ago, in Turin, as a collective from a heterogeneous group of people: photographers, artists, architects, industrial designers and graphic designers. Nucleo is now a design studio based in Torino, Italy. The collective is active in contemporary art, design and […]
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In Conversation: Julie Peppito Interviewed by Leah Oates
Tuesday, 11 June 2013 16:38Leah Oates: How did you become an artist and what is your family background? Julie Peppito: When I was in the second grade I drew a picture of a turkey and it won first prize in a statewide elementary school competition in Oklahoma. My mom put me in art classes. In my free time I […]
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John Stezaker at Petzel Gallery
Tuesday, 11 June 2013 01:58John Stezaker graces Petzel Gallery for the third time, presenting his latest exhibit—John Stezaker: Nude and Landscape. Stezaker, a native of the United Kingdom, uses the photographic image as a platform to challenge our understanding and the limitations of the photographic medium. Subtly combining a variety of vintage images Stezaker elegantly creates a space that […]
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In Conversation: Leah Oates talks to Carol Salmanson
Thursday, 6 June 2013 09:48Leah Oates: How did you become an artist and what is your family background? Carol Salmanson: I come from a family with a humble background and ambitious parents, who had no interest in the arts. I was passionate about both visual art and ballet, but my mother actively discouraged me until I was in high […]
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Bushwick Open Studios: You can’t see it all.
Wednesday, 5 June 2013 20:31If you want to get inside the brain of an artist, take a look at where they work, live, eat sleep, and dream. To see all of that at once, take a look at their studio. You had the perfect chance this past weekend. Across the city people geared up for Bushwick Open Studios. Artists […]
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Close to the Tower of Silence: Shirin Neshat by Nina Zivancevic
Wednesday, 5 June 2013 09:22Shirin Neshat, originally from Iran, is a woman artist of an international repute. She always challenges the notion of femininity in her video work, her films, and her installations. Many things have already been written about her much awarded film Women without Men in which we see women, with or without men, who question all forms […]