Tag Archive "sculpture"

Books for Holiday Gifts 2011 (part 2)

Suzanne Glover Lindsay, Daphne S. Barbour and Shelley G. Sturman, et al Edgar Degas Sculpture (Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalog) (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2010)   ISBN 978-0691148977 This sumptuous and scholarly book will be welcomed by everyone interested in Degas’ work or in nineteenth-century sculpture, as well as by artists interested in bronze casting.  It is highly unusual for collection catalogs to be of interest, other than to researchers; however, the National Gallery of Art owns 52 of the 69 original works in wax, clay and plaster that survived from Degas’ studio, as well ... More » »

What’s new in Madrid? Betsabee Romero at Centro Mexico Madrid

By Brittany Papale Amidst the “The Golden Triangle” of museums in Madrid — the Prado, Reina Sofia, and Thyssen-Bornemisza — a new gallery has popped up with interesting aims. Centro Mexico Madrid opened on September 15, 2011, hoping not only to create an exhibition space for Mexican artists but also to become a headquarters for celebrating Mexican art, culture, and traditions.

Matt Savitsky – our next podcast coming up on artblog radio

Matt Savitsky is a young artist who makes forlorn sculptural installations — mostly autobiographical — and sometimes performs in the character of Minty. Minty played a puppy in a window at Bodega last summer, a memorable performance full of come-hither looks, floppy hair falling over the eyes and my dog Spot black and white makeup on his face. Savitsky graduated with a BFA from Cooper Union in 2005 and he just left the East Coast for San Diego where he’s beginning an MFA program focused on interdisciplinary arts. Matt is a Pennsylvania native and openly gay. And while he only ... More » »

New podcast – Jordan Griska talks about sculpture, community and eBay

Jordan Griska grew up in Narberth in a household with a mom and dad who are physicians, and in fact Jordan was pre-med in college for a while until he changed his mind, switched to art, and transferred to Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Griska makes sculptures and installations from found parts and re-used materials. He has accordian-pleated a real gasoline pump (he bought it online) transforming it into a small, R2D2-like version of a functioning pump. Now, he is working on a big commission for a large temporary sculptural for Lenfest Plaza, the new public space at Broad ... More » »

Tyler Kline – from skateboarding to art with viscera, a new podcast

Locks Gallery sponsors this episode. Tyler Kline grew up in the small town of Stone Mountain, GA, a once-magical place with lakes and a pine forest and flowering magnolias and weeping willows. Tyler felt the heavy hand of history in the south growing up, and he also felt the terror of the Atlanta child murderer in the neighborhood. The artist, who grew up skateboarding and hiking the woods, graduated this Spring with an MFA from PAFA. His work has been shown locally at Little Berlin, where he is a member, at Rebekah Templeton and Vox Populi, and before that, at ... More » »

Tyler Kline – next up on artblog radio

Tyler Kline’s art is influenced by mythology, by community and by his childhood in the small town of Stone Mountain, GA, which was a pretty magical place to grow up in, with lakes and a pine forest and lots of heavy flowering magnolias and droopy weeping willows. A bit Southern Gothic to hear the young artist talk about it. Tyler graduated from PAFA with an MFA this spring. His work has been shown locally at Little Berlin, where he is a member, and at Rebekah Templeton and Vox Populi. He has made installations using sheets of aluminum foil and string; ... More » »

Jerry Mischak at Meltem Birey Gallery

Spring has filled the Meltem Birey Gallery in the form of Jerry Mischak’s brightly colored, playful sculptures. Imaginary Solutions, which runs through May 3, uses a combination of consumer materials and urban debris, including small pieces of electronics.

Exhibitions Currently in in D.C.

I was in D.C. once again for Arts Advocacy Day and, unfortunately for those of us in the arts business, it was the least pressing issue on the hill. I saw some very good exhibitions during my time there, however. In the tower of the National Gallery of Art‘s East Building, is a small exhibition of Nam June Paik’s work – and it should be smaller still, because One Candle, Candle Projection (1988–2000) is worth the ascent all by itself, even if the climb has to be done entirely by foot (although there is an elevator; a very slow one).

Weekly Update – James Hyde’s word play at Jolie Laide

“OR” talks with “OK” as “OH” hangs back in the corner. “Capital B,” the tall, gangly guy, is telling jokes while the host, “Big A,” though looped and upside down, makes everyone feel at home. What is this, a cocktail party?

Picasso, Music and Negative Space; the Guitars at MoMA

Picasso Guitars 1912-1914, on view at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) through June 6, 2011, is an intense and thrilling experience for anyone concerned with art and visual thinking in the early 20th Century. What it reveals, at least to someone who has worked and thought in three dimensions, are Picasso’s first, profound experiments with one of the key concepts of Twentieth Century plastic arts: negative space. Moreover, the exhibition indicates that like abstraction, for which music was both inspiration and justification, Picasso’s interest in negative space grew out of thinking about music; not musical form and language, but ... More » »