Tag Archive "sculpture"
A studio visit with Alexis Granwell
—Multi-media works and some complicated printmaking are under discussion as Andrea visits an artist’s studio.–the artblog editors———————–>Sometimes a single artwork is compelling enough that I want to know more about its maker. At a two-person exhibition at Tiger Strikes Asteroid late last year, I was intrigued by a very large, subtly-layered work on paper that featured an outlined image of a yurt. I could find no clues as to how it was made. When the artist, Alexis Granwell, said it was a print created with multiple intaglio processes, I was startled. Intaglio usually leaves not only a plate mark, but ... More » »
Barbara Bullock – Chasing after Spirits with paint, paper and shadows at Seraphin Gallery
In Chasing after Spirits, Barbara Bullock’s latest works at Seraphin Gallery, vestigial memories, oral tradition, characters, and abstractions do indeed chase each other through the artist’s fevered narratives. These huge structures, three-dimensional paintings spanning several different series of works, are close to the imagery one might experience as part of a vision quest. Profoundly cohesive, each work forms its own narrative world, but also flows effortlessly into sync with the others in the room. With African culture and ancestry as her primary point of departure, the milieu consists of luminous, hothouse colors, prints teased into infinite abstraction, and curvilinear floral, ... More » »
Celestine Wilson Hughes talks about becoming an artist – an artblog radio podcast
Celestine Wilson Hughes began to feel like a real artist about the time she got a band saw and started cutting wood in the backyard for painting projects. Before that she considered herself a vendor of jewelry and hand-painted t-shirts. Customers told her she was an artist and she began to adopt that mantle. Wilson Hughes, who is self-taught, makes large totemic sculptures out of colored glass shards. Her works are celebrations of community, the garden and especially of women’s undervalued inner strength and women’s bodies. Hughes just got a studio outside her house when she started a residency at ... More » »
Catalog Reviews – Alina Szapocznikow, Made in L.A., Now Dig This!
Elena Filipovic, Joanna Mytkowska, et al. Alina Szapocznikow; Sculpture undone (Museum of Modern Art, New York and Mercatorfonds, Brussels: 2011) ISBN 978-0-87070-824-4 This catalog accompanies the first substantial exhibition of the Polish sculptor, Alina Szapocznikow (1926-1973) to be seen outside Poland, and is a thorough and considered introduction to her work. The exhibition was organized jointly by WEILS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, and the Museum of Modern Art, NY (MOMA), where it is currently on view. I saw the exhibition in Los Angeles this winter. It is a stunner, and a reminder that the dominant theme in the history of ... More » »
Anna Hepler’s inflatable sculpture assembly line at DCCC in Marple
Visual artist Anna Hepler just completed her collaborative art-making venture at Delaware County Community College (DCCC). Known for her large-scale inflatable sculptures out of sheet plastic and colored tape, Hepler took up shop at the school in order to build some of these blow-up forms in and around the school’s main Marple campus. The mix of 70s era architecture and more contemporary buildings is further stirred up by the addition of massive geometric forms strewn in their midst that allows students and faculty alike to flex many of their creative muscles. Jaime Treadwell, assistant professor of art at DCCC, initially ... More » »
Talking to inanimate objects – Sara Gersbach and her cake at Delaware County
Inanimate objects are so great! They take all the abuse we heap on them, the kicking, screaming, banging, throwing, breaking. And they don’t complain, don’t call you on how ridiculous you are being in your anger. Sara Gersbach takes this to a new level in her Argument with a Baked Cake. She riles against the carb-filled wonder that she made. She hates it, she loves it. It is her mother, it is her daughter, it is her. What a psychology case study is a cake. Who knew? Sara’s piece, which has a lovely angry audio component is one of the ... More » »
Abstraction at the Guggenheim and Jayson Musson at Salon 94
Art of Another Kind; International Abstraction and the Guggenheim 1949-1960 (through Sept. 12, 2012) is a collection of paintings and mostly modestly-sized sculpture by 70 artists from Europe, the U.S. and Japan; despite the title, Latin American artists are ignored. The works were acquired by James Johnson Sweeney, then director and curator of the Guggenheim Museum, in the decade preceding the opening of the Frank Lloyd Wright museum building. Sweeney stated that he was determined to acquire work by ‘tastebreakers,’ the people who break open and enlarge our artistic frontiers. The period following WWII was rich in experimental art, encompassing ... More » »
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 » »
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