By Claire Voon December 2, 2015 MIAMI BEACH — Perhaps it’s because we’re near the tropics or in palm tree central, but whatever the reason, the galleries participating in this year’s Pulse Miami Beach fair are showing a generous selection of botany-focused works. As I moved from booth to booth, colorful abstract and geometric paintings […]
I was joking with a friend about cognitive development, noting I now share a common feature with babies, when the object of interest is removed it’s as though it never existed – I rather like this liberation. Upon launch of this website I mentioned my plans to re-open PSG in space contiguous with Spun Smoke, […]
PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY takes great pleasure in announcing an important commission for Markus Linnenbrink. In February 2016, a seven by ninety foot poured resin painting will be installed in the Concourse Lobby of 75 Rockefeller Plaza in New York. Located on 51st Street between 5th & 6th Avenue is the limestone clad Rockefeller […]
THE MOJO AT MOFO: ARTWORK MAKES MAGIC AT GENSLER’S MORRISON & FOERSTER Peter Webster | September 29, 2014 PROJECT NAME: Morrison & Foerster Office LOCATION: New York FIRM: Gensler SQ. FT.216,000 SQF Many separate worlds, self-obsessed and frequently combative, compose the city of New York. But three powerful spheres of influence—corporate law, commercial real estate, and contemporary […]
Jefferson Pinder’s ‘Onyx Odyssey’ traces black men throughout American history A new exhibition at HPAC encompasses sculpture, neon, and video. By Kate Sierzputowski Dark Matter, 2015, performance video, dimensions variable Assimilated, 2009, mercury, neon and charcoal, 72 x 44 inches Courtesy the artist Jefferson Pinder: “Onyx Odyssey” 11/8-1/24/2016 Hyde Park Art Center 5020 S. […]
NOV 11, 2015 HPAC exhibition explores African American identity By SAM RAPPAPORT Staff Writer Take one step into the Hyde Park Art Center gallery room that now houses Jefferson Pinder’s latest exhibition, “Onyx Odyssey,” and you’ll find yourself standing below dozens of charred, wooden billy clubs suspended in mid-air. Walk two steps to your left […]
Gail Wight: Windswept November 3, 2015 From our partners at Art Practical, today we bring you Gail Wight’s meditation on wind. Wight writes: “I began to understand that the color and texture, the hue and saturation of the sky—or of the ocean swell, the arching trees, the rippling seaweed—are constructed largely by the presence, or […]
7.2 / Art, Science, and Wonder Windswept By Gail Wight October 29, 2015 On my bookshelf is a dog-eared and ragged copy of Josef Albers’ Interaction of Color, the “revised pocket edition” from Yale University Press. I picked up this small paperback at a second-hand store in Boston in 1986. It came with a tiny packet of colored […]
Friday, October 9, 2015 HELEN O’LEARY Short Shift, 2015 Egg tempera, oil emulsion, on constructed wood 17 x 12 x 5″ “Delicate Negotiations” Helen O’Leary at Lesley Heller Workspace (through October 18) The notion that there are numerous layers of meaning beyond what we initially see is nothing new. Whether it is literature, music, choreography or visual arts, […]
Helen O’Leary, professor of art, has been selected as an artist-in-residence for the inaugural year of a new program at the Joan Mitchell Foundation’s Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans. O’Leary is one of twenty artists who will spend a residency of one to five months at the Center’s new campus this fall, engaged in […]