by ArtJetSet
Cecily Brown large abstracted paintings are an explosion of sensual vibrancy and movement. Yes, they are abstracted, yet there are elements of figures and body parts that seem to uncover themselves just below the surface.
Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Cecily Brown, Gagosian New York
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Public Art Fund, in collaboration with the City of New York commissioned Waterfalls, a major new work of public art by internationally acclaimed artist Olafur Eliasson. The exhibition of four man-made waterfalls of monumental scale are on view until October 13 at four sites on the shores of the New York waterfront.
Categories: Public Art • Tags: Olafur Eliasson, Waterfalls
by ArtJetSet
Rashawn Griffin at Smith Stewart Gallery New York based artist Rashawn Griffin senstive poetic installation is comprised of collaged drawings and wall framings. He stretched denims and fabrics around entire portions of the walls in the gallery to frame the architecture as a component of this intimate work. The drawings are collaged and sketched, and the walls extend out in dialogue with the framed pieces.
Categories: New York - Lower East Side • Tags: Rashawn Griffin, Smith Stewart
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The PowerPlant summer show titled Not Quite How I Remembered It, was a humorous show with depth. Featuring various artists and media, from sculpture to video, the two I liked the most were Sharon Hayes and Dario Ribleto. Hayes slide projector on the wall flashing photos of her holding picket signs amidst great crowds of people. The slogans were not so much protesting, but rather ubiquitus statements. Ribelto hung from the ceiling a mobile of little airplanes made from candy […]
Categories: Toronto • Tags: Dario Ribleto, Power Plant Toronto, Sharon Hayes
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Damien Hirst’s Beautiful Inside My Head Forever Sotheby’s Auction in London garnered quite a buzz, since it is the first time an artist is selling work directly from his studio through an auction house. Of the 223 lots, the sale totalled £111,464,800.00 far beyond the $115million estimation.
Categories: Auction • Tags: Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, Damien Hirst, Sotheby’s Auction
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The Dia:Beacon is home to large scale works that dont move very easily, and are housed permantly on the gorgeous facility an hour up the Hudson River, north of Manhattan.The heat generated by the sun shining through the industrial windows, onto Richard Serra’s Torqued Ellipses, is a warmth like no other. You feel it as you spiral through the interior of these monumental sculptures.Sol Lewit’s massive geometric arthmetic wall drawings are mesmerizing. Though concieved by Lewit, the works are in […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Dia:Beacon, Richard Serra, Sol Lewit, Zoe Leonard
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In Paul McCarthy’s Central Symmetrical Rotation on realized as an installation at the Whitney, uses architecture to create perceptual disorientation in the viewer through spinning mirrors, rotating walls, projections, and altered space. In Bang Bang Room (1992), the space almost seems to come alive as the walls of a free-standing domestic room move slowly in and out, the doors in each wall wildly slamming open and shut. The violent thundering echo of the slamming doors harmonized by the disjunction of […]
Categories: New York • Tags: Bang Bang Room, Paul McCarthy, Spinning Room, Whitney
by ArtJetSet
ArtJetSet is in New York Their is lots to see on this side of the Atlantic. For some interactive web resources of finding your way through the hundreds of New York galleries….. http://www.nyartbeat.com/ – breaking it down, street by street, neighbourhood, theme, you name it artbeat has the way to get there. http://www.galleryguide.com/ – maps and details
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