Tuesday, November 26, 2013 at 5:00AM Danielle Dean was one of my favorite studio visits this year. She makes drawings and performance/video art.
Video still from "Are you working?" HD video, 30 min. 2010
Excerpt from Are you working? Various colored forms are caressed, rubbed and pushed together by hands with red nail polish.
danielledean.info
Monday, November 25, 2013 at 5:00AM Love this site specific installation by LA based artist Sean Shim-Boyle..if in town its a must see!
From the press release:
"Installing 100 beams to the existing architecture alludes, in part, to the forests of his childhood home in British Columbia. By lowering the existing rafters, this transformation compresses the space. The intervention alters the sensory relationship the viewer may have to the building. Towards the rear of the space is a set of automatic sliding glass doors, a variety commonly used in commercial premises. Placed in too-close proximity to one another, the sensors designed to open and close the doors are compromised, leaving the doors locked in endless standoff. The arrested movement of the doors creates an apparent passageway that is neither accessible nor secure."
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: Nov 2 - Dec 21, 2013 at LA><ART
Sunday, November 24, 2013 at 5:00AM My latest obsession is with Brooklyn based shooter Andre Wagner.
"Brooklyn based, originally from Omaha, Nebraska. I received my BFA in Social Work and Digital Media in 2010 and now focus my passion on portrait and street documentary photography. My work is a juxtaposition of finding ways to preserve the sensitive moments of life that take me back to my social work roots, while capturing the richness of the human experience.
My photos are poetic and show images of human beings in a vulnerable yet strong way. The love I have for film is not solely based on the tangible textures and grains, but in the reality of shooting individuals who have different backgrounds, and expressions and using a medium of photography that is just as unpredictable as people are."
abstractelements.com
Saturday, November 23, 2013 at 5:00AM LAKWENA makes her Miami debut at Art Basel! She is working on a huge wall mural as we speak in the Wynwood Arts District. Jeffrey Deitch curated the group exhibition of women street arists. We hope you can join us in Miami to see Lakwena's amazing wall and new works in the pop up gallery!
December 3 - 8, 2013 in the Wynwood Arts District.
The logo for the Women on the Walls group show, designed by Lakwena
PAPILLION ART
Excerpt rom the press release:
Wynwood Walls presents a new outdoor mural project and a gallery exhibition celebrating the contributions of outstanding women artists who are part of the history and the new energy of street art. Women on the Walls will incorporate nine new wall murals and the gallery exhibition showcase the work of essential innovators like Lady Pink and Claw Money, and artists who are redefining street art today from a woman’s perspective like Maya Hayuk and Sheryo.
Five artists have been selected to create new wall murals in the Wynwood Walls compound. These are Aiko, from Japan, Fafi from Paris, Miss Van, from France, Maya Hayuk from New York, and the legendary Lady Pink. Aiko, who was part of the first year's mural project, is known for her sensual Japanese Pop imagery. Fafi and Miss Van are among the most influential street artists in Europe, creating pop figuration from a woman's perspective. Maya Hayuk's unique geometric style work is currently featured at the entrance of the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Lady Pink was the most influential woman artist in the early history of New York graffiti. She was one of the stars of the 1983 film Wild Style that helped spread the imagery of New York Wild Style graffiti around the world.
Faith 47 from South Africa, Kashink from Paris, Lakwena from London and Sheryo from Singapore, have been commissioned by Goldman Properties to create new wall murals in the Wynwood neighborhood adjacent to the Wynwood Walls compound. These influential artists represent the international reach of the street art movement. Faith 47 recently completed a socially engaging project in Cape Town and Johannesburg using quotes from the Freedom Charter. In contrast to other women street artists, Kashink only paints men, usually four eyed fat and hairy gangster like figures. Lakwena, trained as a sign painter, creates dazzling compositions fusing words and geometric shapes.
thewynwoodwalls.com
Friday, November 22, 2013 at 5:00AM Andy Robert:
2010 drawing of a farmer in Rwanda“Conceptually, I’m interested in narrative structures, chance, and notions of gaming as system; particularly for the ability to influence, alter, and frame perceptions --ways of viewing, experiencing and engaging with art and the world. Drawing from the Constructivists’ notion of gestalt --to alter and shift the perception of space through the use of everyday materials in art, and postmodern sensibilities; my practice, multi-disciplinary and predominately research based, incorporating both text and image, and invested in arts’ critical capacity. Acknowledging the body as a point, not alone or at center but social --of many points orbiting, pushing and pulling, conversing and relaying, I seek to question our boundaries, our space/time and our humanity as either a common, mutable and/or a fabrication.
And in working in the assemblage tradition and critically with archives, its’ interesting what happens to things when they come in to proximity and/or collide.”
http://andyrobert.com
The Bindery Projects: “4 Fragments," Minneapolis, Minnesota
Thursday, November 21, 2013 at 5:00AM Meeting Nzuji for the first time is quite the fun experience. She is warm, very friendly and is eager & excited to speak about her work. I caught up with her at her show at LA Artcore Brewery where she has a few paintings and a video installation on view now. But I fell in love with her work at the Made in LA show at the Hammer last year.
Nzuji is from Angola and is a painter, sculptor and composer. She recently won the commission of doing a permanent public art install at the soon to open Bundy train stop on the Expo metro line!
Her installation of piano cities at the Hammer Museum
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 5:00AM Andrea's artist statement:
My work examines cultures created under the influence of colonial and post-colonial regimes and their relationship to The Land. I mine foodstuffs, recipes and archival materials such as photographs and tourist publications, in order to reconstruct and create a new series of narratives, which I juxtapose against the stories told by the colony to sell romantic notions about nature and labor.
Through sculpture and painting I use food items and recipes to explore migration patterns, both voluntary and involuntary, and how cultures have been created through the influence of multiple mother cultures and the conditions of The Land. By manipulating photographs and tourism imagery, I investigate how The Land has been sold through picturesque fantasy and fantastic copy.
I ask the viewer to question the “real,” the seen and unseen in order to navigate these conflicting narratives.
http://andreachungart.com
Bato Disik, 2012 made of sugar
Sink & Swim, 2013 made of sugar and wire
From "Thongs: experience the luxury included" series 2010
Come back to Jamaica, video animation 2009
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 5:00AM LA based artist Zeal Harris has some very interesting series in the works, the most exciting of all is a graphic novel she recently started!
Zeal's artist statement:
When we humans experience aesthetic pleasure, we experience joy, and joy is the ecstasy of living. When humans do an activity that creates aesthetic pleasure, I understand this process and its outcomes to be art. My art is making painting, cooking, growing plants, nurturing relationships, and exchanging jokes and stories with people that I adore. This artistic statement begins in an autobiographical and self-ethnographical kind of way. I find it extremely difficult to separate my life from my art. In fact, as evidenced by my paintings, my life is my art.
http://www.zealsart.com
The series below is titled "Nice Legs"
Monday, November 18, 2013 at 5:00AM Derek Fordjour is a first generation Ghanian American who grew up in Memphis. He now lives and works in Harlem and is creating some very interesting works.
Artist Bio:
Derek Fordjour is an artist working in variety of media, primarily drawing, painting and printmaking. He studied at Pratt Institute and the Art Student’s League in New York City. He is a graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta Georgia, earned a Master’s Degree in Art Education from Harvard University and is currently pursuing an MFA in painting at Hunter College. His work is in several collections throughout the US.
http://derekfordjour.com/
Sunday, November 17, 2013 at 5:00AM My latest online obsession is Vogue fashion writer Chioma Nnadi's new column where she blogs about her love for fashion and her curiosity of where fashion intersects with art, music and film. Her first post about the fashion label Etudes has us feeling blue!
Left to right: Etudes shirt, pants and hat. Commissioned artwork by Pia Howell for the collection.
